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 |
|---|---|
| shukulumbwe | Shukulumbwe, an Ila people of Zambia |
| shulamite | the Shulamite of the Song of Solomon |
| sicarian | of the Sicarii, first-century Jewish assassins |
| siegurd | Sigurd, the Norse hero |
| silkalene | trade name for a soft glazed cotton fabric |
| silkolene | trade name for a soft cotton fabric |
| sinaite | a native or inhabitant of Sinai |
| sinawa | Sinawava, the Paiute coyote deity |
| singfo | the Singpho (Kachin) people of Assam |
| sinian | Sinian, of China; a Chinese geological system |
| sinkiuse | Salishan people of the Columbia in Washington |
| sintsink | Sintsink, a Wappinger band of New York |
| sionite | a dweller in Zion, a Zionite |
| sirione | Siriono, an indigenous people of Bolivia |
| sirmian | of Syrmia (Sirmium), in Serbia |
| siryan | the Zyrian (Komi) people of Russia |
| sisyphides | a descendant of Sisyphus |
| sitkan | of Sitka, Alaska |
| siusi | Siusi, an Arawakan people of the Rio Negro |
| sixtowns | the Sixtowns division of the Choctaw |
| sixtus | Sixtus, a papal name |
| skimos | Skimos, a clipped form of Eskimos |
| skittagetan | Powell's name for the Haida language family |
| skopets | member of the Russian Skoptsy sect |
| skraelling | Norse name for the natives of Greenland |
| slartibartfast | character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| slavian | of the Slavs, Slavonian |
| slovintzi | the Slovincians, a Slavic people of Pomerania |
| smalcaldian | of Schmalkalden and its Lutheran league |
| smalcaldic | of the Schmalkaldic League |
| smintheus | Smintheus, epithet of Apollo as mouse-god |
| sminthian | of Apollo Smintheus |
| smyrnaite | a native of Smyrna |
| snarleyow | Snarleyyow, the dog in Marryat's novel |
| snarleyyow | Snarleyyow, Marryat's dog fiend |
| snonowas | Salishan people of Vancouver Island |
| snoquamish | Salishan people of Washington state |
| socorrito | Spanish given name, a diminutive of Socorro |
| soffarid | Saffarid, of the Persian dynasty |
| sofoklis | Sofoklis, the Greek form of Sophocles |
| sofronia | female given name; the heroine in Tasso |
| sogdianese | Sogdian, of ancient Sogdiana |
| sogdianian | Sogdian, of ancient Sogdiana |
| sogdoite | a native of Sogdiana |
| soiesette | trade name of a mercerized cotton fabric |
| sokoki | Abenaki people of the upper Connecticut valley |
| sokulk | Sahaptin people named by Lewis and Clark |
| solymaean | of the Solymi, or of Solyma, Jerusalem |
| somaschian | member of the Somaschi, a clerical order |
| songoi | Songhai, a West African people |
| sonovox | trade name of a device that gives speech to sounds |
| sordello | Sordello, the Provençal troubadour of Dante and Browning |
| soteres | Greek Soteres, the Saviour gods; plural of Soter |
| sotik | Sotik, a district and Kipsigis group in Kenya |
| southronie | Scots name for England, the land of the Southrons |
| sparnacian | early Eocene stage, named for Epernay (Sparnacum) |
| spitzenberg | American apple variety (Esopus Spitzenburg) |
| splacknuck | Swift's Brobdingnagian animal in Gulliver's Travels |
| spodes | Spode porcelain, in the plural |
| squaxon | Squaxin, a Coast Salish people of Washington |
| srikanth | Indian personal name |
| srivatsan | South Indian personal name |
| stahlhelmist | member of the German Stahlhelm veterans' league |
| stampian | Stampian, an Oligocene stage named from Etampes |
| stanislaw | Polish male given name, Stanislaw |
| stercorist | member of the medieval Stercoranist sect |
| stoneite | Stoneite, a follower of Barton W. Stone |
| stonesfield | Stonesfield, Oxfordshire village of Stonesfield slate |
| stormberg | Stormberg, South African range and its beds |
| strandlooper | Strandlooper, a coast dwelling South African people |
| stratofreighter | Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter transport |
| stratojet | Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber |
| stratovision | Stratovision, the Westinghouse airborne TV relay |
| streltzi | the Streltsy, the old Russian musketeer corps |
| stymphalid | one of the Stymphalian birds of Greek myth |
| suanitian | of the Suani, a Caucasian people |
| sudburian | of Sudbury, Ontario, in geology |
| suiogoth | a Suio-Goth, that is a Swede |
| suiogothic | Swedish, of the Suio-Goths and their old language |
| sulaba | Solubba, a nomad people of the Arabian desert |
| sulaib | Sulaib (Solubba), Arabian nomad people |
| sulbasutra | Sulbasutra, Sanskrit texts of ritual geometry |
| sulvasutra | Sulvasutra, Sanskrit texts of ritual geometry |
| sumass | Sumas, a Salish people and river of the Northwest |
| sumdum | Sumdum, a bay and glacier in southeastern Alaska |
| sumitro | Indonesian personal name |
| sundanesian | of the Sundanese of western Java |
| sundaresan | Sundaresan, a South Indian personal name |
| sunniah | a Sunni Muslim, older spelling |
| susanchite | biblical people of Susa (Ezra 4:9) |
| suttapitaka | Pali, the Sutta Pitaka of the Buddhist canon |
| svanish | Svan, a Caucasian people and language |
| swahilese | the Swahili people or language |
| swartzbois | Swartboois, a Nama clan of South West Africa |
| swedru | Swedru, a town in Ghana |
| sylphon | Sylphon, trade name for a metallic bellows |
| sylvius | Sylvius, the anatomist of the Sylvian fissure |
| synarquism | Sinarquism, the Mexican Sinarquista movement |
| synousiacs | Synousiasts, a Monophysite sect |
| synusiast | member of the Synousiast sect |
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