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 |
|---|---|
| tinwald | Tynwald, the Manx assembly |
| tionontates | Tionontates, the Tobacco Nation of Hurons |
| tionontati | Tionontati, the Petun or Tobacco Hurons |
| tiou | Tiou, a tribe of the lower Mississippi |
| tirhutia | of Tirhut in Bihar, India |
| tirribi | Tirribi, an indigenous people of Costa Rica |
| tithonus | Tithonus, consort of Eos in Greek myth |
| titmarsh | Titmarsh, Thackeray's pen name |
| titmarshian | of Thackeray writing as M. A. Titmarsh |
| titurel | Titurel, the Grail king in Parzival |
| tiwaz | Tiwaz, a Germanic god and rune name |
| tlapallan | Tlapallan, the legendary Toltec land |
| tlascalan | Tlaxcalan, indigenous people of Tlaxcala, Mexico |
| tohome | Tohome, an indigenous people near Mobile Bay |
| tongrian | Oligocene stage named from Tongres, Belgium |
| tonikan | Tonikan (Tunican), a lower Mississippi language family |
| topatopa | Topatopa, a mountain range in Ventura County, California |
| topinish | Toppenish, a Yakama band and place in Washington |
| torgot | Torgut, a Kalmyk Mongol people |
| transteverine | of Trastevere, the quarter across the Tiber in Rome |
| trichi | Trichy, Trichinopoly in south India, and its cheroots |
| trichinopoli | Trichinopoly, Indian city noted for its cheroots |
| trinorantum | Trinovantum, legendary name of London |
| trinovant | one of the Trinovantes, a British tribe |
| tristam | personal name, variant of Tristram |
| tritopatores | Greek ancestral deities of Athens |
| troiades | the Trojan women (Gr. Troiades) |
| troynovant | Troynovant, legendary New Troy, London |
| tscherkess | German form of Circassian, a Caucasus people |
| tsoneca | the Tsoneca or Tehuelche of Patagonia |
| tsonecan | of the Tsoneca people of Patagonia |
| tucuna | Amazonian people of Brazil and Peru (Ticuna) |
| tuedian | of the river Tweed (Latin Tueda) |
| tunican | Tunica people and language of the lower Mississippi |
| tupinaqui | Brazilian indigenous people (Tupiniquim) |
| turcian | relating to the Turks |
| tursenoi | Greek name for the Etruscans |
| tursha | Egyptian name for one of the Sea Peoples |
| turveydrop | Mr Turveydrop, model of deportment in Bleak House |
| tuyuneiri | Peruvian indigenous people (Toyeri) |
| tweedledee | character of Byrom's epigram and Carroll |
| tweedledum | character of Byrom's epigram and Carroll |
| tyburnian | of Tyburnia, the London district by Tyburn |
| tyrsenoi | Greek name for the Etruscans |
| uaupe | Amazonian river and people (Uaupes) |
| ubbenite | follower of Ubbo Philips, Anabaptist sect |
| ucal | biblical name at Proverbs 30:1 |
| uller | Uller, the Norse god Ullr |
| umaua | indigenous people of the northwest Amazon |
| vandiemenian | of Van Diemen's Land, Tasmania |
| varanger | a Varanger, Norse Varangian of the Byzantine guard |
| varangi | Varangi, the Varangians in Byzantine Greek |
| vauxhallian | of Vauxhall Gardens, London |
| veduis | Veduis, a form of Vediovis, Roman god |
| vejoces | Vejoces, a form of Vejovis, Roman god |
| venetes | the Veneti, an ancient Gaulish people |
| ventersdorp | Ventersdorp, South African town and rock series |
| versatec | Versatec, maker of electrostatic plotters and printers |
| viddhal | Vitthal or Vithoba, a Hindu deity of Pandharpur |
| vidhyanath | Vidyanath, a Sanskrit personal name |
| vingolf | Norse myth, Vingolf, the hall of the goddesses |
| vistulian | of the Vistula; the last glacial stage in Poland |
| vitagraph | Vitagraph, an early American film company and projector |
| vitaphone | Vitaphone, the sound-on-disc film system |
| vithayasai | Vithayasai, a Thai personal name |
| vyase | Vyasa, the sage credited with the Mahabharata |
| wabunga | East African people, Bantu wa- + Bunga |
| wacago | East African people, Bantu wa- + Cago |
| wafd | Wafd, the Egyptian nationalist party |
| waggumbura | Wakkumbura, an Aboriginal people of Queensland |
| wahahe | Wahehe, a people of Tanganyika |
| wahcondas | Wahconda (Wakanda), Siouan Great Spirit, plural |
| wahima | Wahima (Bahima), a people of Uganda |
| wahlund | Wahlund, Swedish geneticist of the Wahlund effect |
| waicuri | Waicuri (Guaycura), people of Baja California |
| waicurian | of the Waicuri, a Baja California language group |
| wakandas | Wakanda, the Siouan Great Spirit, plural |
| walkerite | Walkerite, a follower of John Walker |
| wambuba | Wambuba, a people of the Ituri, Congo |
| wambugu | Wambugu, a people of East Africa |
| wambutti | Wambutti (Mbuti), pygmy people of the Congo |
| wandorobo | Wandorobo (Dorobo), hunting people of Kenya |
| wanyasa | Wanyasa, the Nyasa people of East Africa |
| wasagara | Wasagara (Sagara), a people of Tanganyika |
| wasango | Wasango (Sango), a people of East Africa |
| wasegua | Wasegua (Zigua), a people of Tanganyika |
| wasoga | Wasoga (Basoga), a people of Uganda |
| wavira | Wavira (Vira), a people of the eastern Congo |
| weissnichtwo | Carlyle's imaginary city, German "know-not-where" |
| werchowinci | Werchowinci, Carpathian highlanders of Galicia |
| whitefeet | the Whitefeet, an Irish agrarian secret society |
| winnecowet | an Algonquian place name in New England |
| witbooi | a Nama people of Namibia, after Hendrik Witbooi |
| wiyat | Wiyot, a California people and language |
| wogul | Vogul (Mansi), a Uralic people of Siberia |
| wogulian | of the Vogul (Mansi) people of Siberia |
| woolworth | F. W. Woolworth, the chain store |
| woulfe | Peter Woulfe, chemist; the Woulfe bottle |
| wyclifian | of John Wyclif, English reformer |
| wyclifism | the doctrines of John Wyclif |
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