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 |
|---|---|
| syrianic | of Syria or the Syriac language |
| syrmian | of Syrmia, region on the Danube |
| taculli | Takulli (Carrier) people of British Columbia |
| tadousac | Tadoussac, Quebec |
| tagaur | Tagauri, an Ossetian tribal group |
| takhtadjy | Tahtaci, Anatolian Turkish woodcutter people |
| talishi | Talysh, Iranian people of the Caspian |
| taltarum | Taltarum's Case, English law of common recovery |
| taluhet | Taluhet, a Puelche division of Argentina |
| talyshin | of the Talysh people of the Caspian |
| tamanac | Tamanac, Carib people of Venezuela |
| tamanaca | Tamanaca, Carib people of the Orinoco |
| tamaulipecan | language group of Tamaulipas, Mexico |
| tambaroora | Tambaroora, NSW goldfield; also a betting pool |
| tamoyo | Tamoio, a Tupi people of Brazil |
| tanagraean | of Tanagra, Boeotian town |
| tantawy | Tantawi, Arabic name meaning of Tanta, Egypt |
| tanyoan | Tanoan, the Pueblo language family |
| tapacura | South American indigenous group or river |
| tapajo | Tapajo, Amazonian people of the Tapajos |
| tapijulapane | of Tapijulapa, Zoque town in Tabasco, Mexico |
| tapuyan | of the Tapuya of Brazil |
| tapuyo | Tapuyo, Brazilian indigenous people |
| taracahitian | Uto-Aztecan language subgroup |
| tarasc | Tarasco, indigenous people of Michoacan |
| tarpeia | Tarpeia, Roman legend of the Tarpeian Rock |
| tarraba | Terraba, people and river of Costa Rica |
| tarrateen | Tarratine, colonial name for the Abenaki |
| tarratine | Tarratine, Abenaki people of Maine |
| taruma | Taruma, an indigenous people of Guiana |
| tarumari | indigenous group name, cf. Taruma of Guiana |
| tasian | Tasian, the predynastic Egyptian culture of Deir Tasa |
| tatian | of Tatian, the 2nd-century Syrian apologist |
| tatianist | a follower of Tatian, an Encratite |
| tatinek | an Alaskan native group name |
| tatsanottine | Tatsanottine, the Yellowknife Athapascans |
| tauchnitz | Tauchnitz, the Leipzig reprint publisher |
| tauridian | of Taurida, the Crimean province |
| tcawi | Tcawi, the Chaui band of the Pawnee |
| tcherkess | Cherkess, the Circassians |
| tchetchentsish | the Chechen language |
| tchetnitsi | Serbian chetniks, irregular fighters |
| tecali | Tecali, the Mexican town that names onyx marble |
| tecpanec | Tepanec, a Nahua people of the Valley of Mexico |
| tecuna | Tikuna, a people of the upper Amazon |
| tedescan | German, from Italian tedesco |
| tegean | of Tegea, the Arcadian city |
| teguima | Teguima, the Opata people of Sonora |
| tehuantepecan | of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico |
| tehueco | Tehueco, a Cahita people of Sinaloa |
| tehuelchean | Tehuelche, a Patagonian people and language family |
| tehuelet | a Patagonian group name, cf. Tehuelche |
| tekintsi | Tekintsy, the Russian name for the Teke Turkmen |
| tekkintzi | Teke Turkmen, another transliteration of Tekintsy |
| telchinic | of the Telchines, the mythical smiths of Rhodes |
| telembi | Telembi, a river and people of Colombia |
| tempyo | Tempyo, the 8th-century Japanese art era |
| tenai | an Alaskan Athapascan group name, cf. Tena |
| tenaktak | Tenaktak, a Kwakiutl tribe of British Columbia |
| tepehuane | indigenous people of northern Mexico (Tepehuan) |
| tequistlateca | indigenous people of Oaxaca, Mexico |
| tequistlatecan | the Tequistlatec language and people |
| tereu | Latin vocative of Tereus, used as the nightingale's cry |
| terraba | indigenous people and river of Costa Rica (Terraba) |
| tetrabiblos | Ptolemy's four-book treatise on astrology |
| teutonia | Teutonia, the land of the Teutons, Germany |
| texaco | the American oil company Texaco |
| texcocan | of Texcoco, the Aztec city in Mexico |
| tezcucan | of Tezcuco (Texcoco), Mexico |
| thaliard | Thaliard, a character in Shakespeare's Pericles |
| thalthan | Athapaskan people of British Columbia (Tahltan) |
| thamudean | of the Thamud, an ancient Arabian people |
| thamudene | of the Thamud, an ancient Arabian people |
| thamus | Thamus, the Egyptian king in Plato's Phaedrus |
| theodosianus | Latin Theodosianus, as in the Theodosian Code |
| theraean | of Thera, the Aegean island of Santorini |
| thericlean | Thericlean, of the Greek potter Thericles and his cups |
| thilanottine | a Dene (Chipewyan) people of northern Canada |
| thondracians | the Tondrakians, a medieval Armenian sect |
| thondraki | the Tondraki, the Armenian Tondrakian sect |
| thondrakians | the Tondrakians, a medieval Armenian sect |
| thraso | Thraso, the braggart soldier in Terence, source of thrasonical |
| thruthvang | Thrudvang, Thor's realm in Norse myth |
| tiahuanacan | of Tiahuanaco, the Andean culture |
| tiatinagua | Tiatinagua, a people of Peru and Bolivia |
| tibert | Tibert, the cat in Reynard the Fox |
| ticul | Ticul, a town in Yucatan |
| ticunan | of the Ticuna people of the Amazon |
| tiefenthal | Tiefenthal, a German place name and surname |
| tigrean | of Tigre or Tigray in Ethiopia |
| tigua | Tigua, a Pueblo people |
| tigurine | of Zurich, Latin Tigurum |
| timani | Timani or Temne, a people of Sierra Leone |
| timias | Timias, the squire in Spenser's Faerie Queene |
| timotean | Timotean, a Venezuelan language family |
| timothean | of Timothy, or of his followers |
| timuquan | Timucuan, a people of Florida |
| timuquanan | Timucuanan, a Florida language family |
| tinbergen | Tinbergen, a Dutch surname |
| tinguian | Tinguian, a people of Luzon |
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