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 |
|---|---|
| xicak | the Jicaque people of Honduras |
| xipe | Xipe Totec, Aztec deity |
| xiraxara | a South American indigenous people |
| yajnavalkya | Yajnavalkya, Vedic sage |
| ygerne | Ygerne, mother of King Arthur in legend |
| ypurinan | the Ipurina people of Brazil |
| yunca | the Yunca people of coastal Peru |
| yuncan | of the Yunca of Peru |
| yurucare | the Yuracare people of Bolivia |
| zabaean | Sabaean, of Saba in southern Arabia |
| zaklohpakap | a Mayan people of Guatemala |
| zanzalian | a Syrian Jacobite, from Jacob Zanzalus |
| zaparo | the Zaparo people of Ecuador and Peru |
| zelanian | Zelanian, of New Zealand as a faunal region |
| zendician | of the Zendiks, Persian dualist heretics |
| zendikite | a Zendik, Persian heretic (Arabic zindiq) |
| zenelophon | Zenelophon, beggar maid in Love's Labour's Lost |
| zephiran | Zephiran, brand of benzalkonium antiseptic |
| zinzar | Zinzar, a Balkan Aromanian (Vlach) |
| zmudz | Zmudz, Samogitia in Lithuania, and its horse breed |
| zohak | Zahhak, tyrant king of Persian legend |
| zonta | Zonta International, women's service club |
| zoroastra | Zoroaster, Persian prophet, in a Latinized form |
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