Real Words Without Definition
This one is a judgement call.
A name rather than a word. People, places, peoples, languages, gods and characters.
Names of peoples are the biggest group. abipon is an Argentine people, abdali an Afghan tribe, abarambo a Congolese one. There are literary names too. abhorson is Shakespeare's executioner and arthemis is an old spelling of Artemis.
Dictionaries of this age printed names in a separate section at the back, so a definition lookup never finds them.
1,723 words · sorted A to Z · each with a line on why it is here
Matches the word itself, not the note beside it. Case does not matter.
| Word, sorted Z to A | What it names |
|---|---|
| odwyer | O'Dwyer, Irish surname |
| oenotrian | of Oenotria, ancient southern Italy |
| ohare | O'Hare, Irish surname |
| oleron | Oleron, French island (Laws of Oleron) |
| olonetsian | of Olonets, a Russian region |
| olonetsish | the Olonets dialect of Karelian |
| olynthiac | of Olynthus; a speech of Demosthenes |
| ommiades | the Ommiads, the Umayyad caliphs |
| onmun | the Korean vernacular alphabet |
| ontaric | of Ontario (a geological series) |
| oppian | Oppian, Greco-Roman poet; also the Lex Oppia |
| orchamus | Orchamus, Persian king in Ovid's myth |
| orejon | Spanish "big-ear", an Inca noble / Amazonian people |
| oresteia | the Oresteia, Aeschylus's tragic trilogy |
| oriskanian | of the Oriskany Devonian beds, New York |
| orleanist | supporter of the House of Orleans |
| ornithogaea | Ornithogaea, the New Zealand zoogeographic realm |
| oronoco | Oronoco, a Virginia tobacco (from the Orinoco) |
| oronoko | Oronoko, a variety of Virginia tobacco |
| oronooko | Oronooko, spelling of the tobacco name |
| orpheum | Orpheum, a common theatre or music-hall name |
| ortheris | Ortheris, Kipling's soldier in Soldiers Three |
| oschophoria | Oschophoria, Athenian vine-branch festival |
| osmanie | Osmanieh, Ottoman order of merit |
| osnappar | Osnappar, the Assyrian king Asnapper of Ezra |
| ossetine | Ossete, people and language of Ossetia |
| ostmannic | of the Ostmen, Norse settlers in Ireland |
| othinism | the worship of Othin (Odin) |
| othmany | of Othman (Osman); Ottoman |
| otomitlan | the Otomi people of Mexico |
| ottomanean | of the Ottomans |
| ottweilian | geologic stage named for Ottweiler, Germany |
| otuquian | Otuquian, a Bolivian language family |
| otyak | Siberian people, var. of Ostyak |
| ovangangela | Bantu people of Angola (Nganguela) |
| owlspiegle | Owlspiegle, anglicized Till Eulenspiegel |
| ozias | Ozias, Greek form of King Uzziah |
| paccioli | Luca Paccioli (Pacioli), Italian mathematician |
| pacolet | Pacolet, dwarf with a magic horse in romance |
| padraic | Padraic, Irish form of Patrick |
| padraig | Padraig, Irish form of Patrick |
| pahareen | Pahari hill people of northern India |
| paiconeca | Paiconeca, an indigenous people of Bolivia |
| pailolo | Pailolo Channel, Hawaii |
| pakawa | Pakawa, an indigenous people of Texas |
| palaeogaea | Palaeogaea, the Old World faunal realm |
| palaite | Palaite, Anatolian people and language |
| palatinian | native of the Palatinate, Germany |
| palgat | Palghat, town and pass in Kerala, India |
| palliyan | Palliyan, a hill people of South India |
| pameroon | Pomeroon, river and district in Guyana |
| panatrope | Panatrope, an early electric phonograph |
| panayan | of Panay island, Philippines |
| panayano | Spanish form, a native of Panay |
| pandosto | Pandosto, Robert Greene's prose romance |
| pangerang | Pangerang, an Aboriginal people of Australia |
| panhellenios | Panhellenios, epithet of Zeus |
| panion | Panion, ancient town in Thrace |
| panionia | Panionia, festival of the Ionian league |
| paniquitan | Paniquita, an indigenous people of Colombia |
| pantagruel | Pantagruel, Rabelais's giant |
| pantagruelion | Pantagruelion, Rabelais's plant, hemp |
| panurge | Panurge, Rabelais's character |
| papinachois | Papinachois, Algonquian people of Quebec |
| paraiyan | Tamil caste, source of the word pariah |
| parandrus | legendary beast of medieval bestiaries |
| parcheesi | board-game brand, from Indian pachisi |
| pareoean | 19th-c ethnological division of mankind |
| parseval | Parseval, German airship and its designer |
| partheniae | Spartan Partheniae, founders of Tarentum |
| parthenopaeus | one of the Seven against Thebes |
| patarin | member of the medieval Milanese Patarine sect |
| patavian | of Patavium (Padua), Paduan |
| payaguan | Payaguá, a Paraguayan indigenous people |
| pechili | Pechili (Zhili), Chinese province and gulf |
| pelargikon | Pelargikon, wall of the Athenian Acropolis |
| pelasgikon | Pelasgikon, the Pelasgic wall at Athens |
| pelides | Pelides, son of Peleus, Achilles |
| pelopea | Pelopea, daughter of Thyestes in Greek myth |
| pelopidae | the Pelopidae, descendants of Pelops |
| penelophon | Penelophon, the beggar-maid of the Cophetua ballad |
| pephredo | Pephredo, one of the Graeae |
| percivale | Percivale, knight of the Round Table |
| pergamenian | of Pergamum, ancient city of Asia Minor |
| pergamic | of Pergamum |
| pericu | Pericú, indigenous people of Baja California |
| perigord | Périgord, French region famed for truffles |
| permiak | Permyak, Finno-Ugric people of Russia |
| perrinist | member of Ami Perrin's Genevan faction |
| phaedo | Plato's dialogue, and Phaedo of Elis |
| phaet | Phact, the star alpha Columbae |
| phiroze | Parsi male given name, Firoze |
| phoenicean | Phoenician, of Phoenicia |
| phthartolatrae | 6th-century Monophysite sect |
| physiologus | the medieval bestiary Physiologus |
| piaroan | Piaroa people and language of Venezuela |
| piarroan | Piaroa people of the Orinoco |
| pierette | Pierrette, female Pierrot of pantomime |
| pinaleno | Pinaleno, an Apache division of Arizona |
| pincian | the Pincian hill of Rome |
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