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 |
|---|---|
| pinoleum | Pinoleum, trade name for pine-strip blinds |
| pishquow | Pisquow, a Salishan people of Washington |
| pisistratean | of Pisistratus, tyrant of Athens |
| pisistratidae | the Pisistratidae, Athenian ruling house |
| pitahauirata | one of the four Pawnee bands |
| pitocin | Pitocin, trade name for oxytocin |
| pitressin | Pitressin, trade name for vasopressin |
| plasmochin | Plasmochin, trade name of the antimalarial pamaquine |
| plasmoquin | Plasmoquin, trade name of the antimalarial pamaquine |
| pliofilm | Pliofilm, Goodyear trademark rubber film |
| ploesti | Ploiesti, Romanian oil city |
| plotcock | Scots name for the Devil |
| plumbicon | Philips trademark television camera tube |
| plyscore | Plyscore, trade name for plywood sheathing |
| pneumatomachian | member of a 4th-c. sect denying the Spirit's godhead |
| pneumatomachist | member of the Pneumatomachian sect |
| pobedy | Pik Pobedy, peak in the Tien Shan |
| poictesme | Poictesme, imaginary land in Cabell's novels |
| poikile | the Stoa Poikile, Painted Porch at Athens |
| poiseuille | J. L. M. Poiseuille, French physicist; flow unit |
| pokom | Pokom, a Maya people of Guatemala |
| polab | Polab, Slavic people of the lower Elbe |
| polabish | Polabish, the extinct Polabian language |
| poldoody | Poldoody, Irish oyster from Co. Clare |
| polychronicon | Higden's medieval universal chronicle |
| polycletan | of Polycletus, Greek sculptor |
| pomard | Pommard, Burgundy commune and its wine |
| pommery | Pommery, French champagne house and mustard |
| pondomisi | South African Xhosa-speaking people |
| pontac | Pontac, a grape and the wine made from it |
| popoloco | Popoloca, a Mexican indigenous people and language |
| poppean | of Poppaea Sabina, wife of Nero |
| porphyrean | of Porphyry, the Neoplatonist philosopher |
| porphyrianist | a follower of the philosopher Porphyry |
| porphyrion | Porphyrion, a giant of Greek mythology |
| pradeep | Indian given name, Sanskrit "lamp" |
| praenestine | of Praeneste, ancient town of Latium |
| praenestinian | of Praeneste, ancient town of Latium |
| praesian | of ancient Praesos in Crete |
| pravin | Indian given name, Sanskrit "skilled" |
| praxean | relating to Praxeas, 2nd-century heretic |
| praxeanist | a follower of Praxeas |
| praxithea | Praxithea, figure of Greek myth |
| premonstratensis | Latin name of the Premonstratensian order |
| primianist | member of the Donatist sect of Primianus |
| princeite | follower of H. J. Prince, an Agapemonite |
| priscianist | a follower of Priscian, a grammarian |
| proculian | Roman jurist of the school of Proculus |
| prostigmin | trade name of the drug neostigmine |
| psammead | sand-fairy in E. Nesbit's Five Children and It |
| puchanahua | Panoan indigenous people of Peru |
| puinavi | Puinave people of Colombia and Venezuela |
| puinavian | of the Puinave people and language |
| puinavis | the Puinave people, plural |
| pulahanes | Pulahan insurgents of the Philippines |
| pulajan | Pulahan, Philippine religious insurgent |
| pulaya | Pulaya caste of Kerala |
| pulayan | Pulayan caste of Kerala |
| pulian | Pulayan caste of southern India |
| pulijan | Puliyan hill people of southern India |
| puntlatsh | Pentlatch, a Salishan people of British Columbia |
| pupuluca | Popoluca people of southern Mexico |
| puquinan | of the Puquina people and language of Peru |
| purrah | West African secret society, the Poro |
| puruha | Puruha indigenous people of Ecuador |
| pylades | Pylades, companion of Orestes in Greek myth |
| pythios | Pythios, an epithet of Apollo |
| quashey | Quashee, West Indian generic name |
| quiangan | Kiangan, an Ifugao people of Luzon |
| quintillian | Quintilian, Roman rhetorician |
| quintius | Quinctius, a Roman gens name |
| quiteve | title of a southeast African ruler |
| qung | Qung, the !Kung people of southern Africa |
| ragusye | Ragusa (Dubrovnik), old spelling |
| rajbansi | Rajbanshi, a people of Bengal and Nepal |
| ramadoss | Ramadoss, an Indian surname |
| ramanan | Ramanan, an Indian personal name |
| rambure | Rambure, a French apple variety |
| ramillies | Ramillies wig or hat, named from the battle |
| ramneek | Ramneek, an Indian given name |
| ramoosii | Ramoosi, a Maratha caste of watchmen |
| ramstead | Ramsted weed, toadflax named for Ramsted |
| ranjit | Ranjit, an Indian given name |
| ranstead | Ranstead weed, toadflax named for Ranstead |
| raphaelite | a follower of the painter Raphael |
| rasselas | Rasselas, Johnson's prince of Abyssinia |
| rathnakumar | Rathnakumar, an Indian personal name |
| regifuge | the Regifugium, Roman festival of the flight of the kings |
| reheboth | Rehoboth, the biblical place name |
| rehobothan | of Rehoboth, the biblical site or the Namibian town |
| reichsland | the Reichsland, imperial Alsace-Lorraine |
| reichslander | a native of the Reichsland, Alsace-Lorraine |
| rekhti | Egyptian, the two Rekhti, Isis and Nephthys |
| rephael | Rephael, Hebrew form of the angel name Raphael |
| reuchlinism | Johann Reuchlin's system of Greek pronunciation |
| revalenta | Revalenta, a Victorian lentil-flour invalid food |
| rhatikon | Rhätikon, an Alpine mountain range |
| rheingold | Das Rheingold, Wagner's opera and the Rhine gold |
| rhemist | a Rheims translator of the Douay New Testament |
| rhenea | Rhenea, the Greek island beside Delos |
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