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 |
|---|---|
| arioian | of the Tahitian Arioi society |
| aristeas | Aristeas, Greek author/legendary poet |
| arivaipa | Aravaipa, Apache band of Arizona |
| arkab | Arkab, star in Sagittarius |
| armorician | of Armorica, Brittany |
| armouchiquois | Almouchiquois, Algonquian people of Maine |
| arnusian | of the river Arno (L. Arnus) |
| arosaguntacook | Abenaki people of the Androscoggin |
| arruague | Arawak people (Spanish spelling) |
| arthemis | Artemis, Greek goddess (old spelling) |
| aruac | Arawak people (variant spelling) |
| ascabart | Ascapart, giant in the Bevis romance |
| ascitan | Ascitae, an early Christian sect |
| ashangos | Ashango, a people of Gabon |
| ashluslay | Chaco people of Paraguay (Nivaclé) |
| ashochimi | Wappo people of California |
| asiatican | an Asiatic, native of Asia |
| askapart | Ascapart, giant of the Bevis romance |
| aspasia | Aspasia, consort of Pericles |
| aspatia | Aspatia, character in The Maid's Tragedy |
| assamites | Assamites, natives of Assam |
| assidaean | Assidean, member of the ancient Hasidim |
| astakiwi | Achomawi band of northern California |
| astartian | Astartian, a Jurassic geological stage |
| asuri | Asuri, Munda people/language of India |
| atacamenan | of the Atacameño people of Chile |
| ataigal | Atayal, indigenous people of Taiwan |
| ataiyal | Atayal people of Taiwan |
| atalantis | Atalantis, Manley's scandal chronicle |
| atestine | Atestine, of ancient Ateste (Este) |
| athamantid | Greek myth, descendant of Athamas |
| atheriogaea | Atheriogaea, a zoogeographic realm |
| atlantides | Greek myth, daughters of Atlas |
| atorai | Atorai, indigenous people of Guyana |
| atridean | of the Atridae, house of Atreus |
| attacapan | Atakapa people of Louisiana |
| atuami | Atuami, an Achomawi band of California |
| aucan | Auca (Araucanian) people of Chile |
| aucaner | an Aucan, Araucanian |
| aucanian | Araucanian people/language of Chile |
| audaean | Audian, follower of Audius |
| aueto | Aweti, indigenous people of Brazil |
| austafrican | of southern Africa (biogeographic) |
| australic | of Australia or Australasia |
| austrogaea | Austrogaea, southern zoogeographic realm |
| autunian | Autunian, Permian stage named for Autun, France |
| avaradrano | Avaradrano, district and people of Madagascar |
| avichi | Avichi, the lowest Buddhist hell |
| avilion | Avilion, variant of Avalon |
| avshar | Afshar, Turkic tribe and its rugs |
| awaitlala | Awaitlala, a Kwakiutl group |
| aymoro | Aimoré, a Brazilian indigenous people |
| ayubite | Ayyubid, of Saladin's dynasty |
| azha | Azha, a star in Eridanus |
| azilian | Azilian, prehistoric culture of Mas d'Azil |
| babajaga | Baba Yaga, witch of Slavic folklore |
| babylonite | Babylonite, an inhabitant of Babylon |
| bacchides | Bacchides, Seleucid general and Plautus play |
| badarian | Badarian, predynastic Egyptian culture |
| badaxe | Bad Axe, Michigan town and river |
| baetzner | German surname used eponymously |
| bafyot | Bafiote, a people of Loango, Congo |
| bahmani | Bahmani, Deccan sultanate dynasty |
| bahmanid | Bahmanid, of the Bahmani dynasty |
| bahuma | Bantu people of Uganda (Bahima) |
| bakalei | Bakalai people of Gabon |
| bakunda | Bakunda people of Cameroon |
| bakutu | Bakutu people of the Congo |
| bakwiri | Bakweri people of Cameroon |
| balkis | Balkis, Arabic name for the Queen of Sheba |
| ballhausplatz | Vienna square, Austrian foreign office |
| ballplatz | Vienna, the Austrian foreign office |
| balmarcodes | Baal Marcod, Syrian deity |
| balmawhapple | laird in Scott's "Waverley" |
| balnibarbi | land in "Gulliver's Travels" |
| balunda | Lunda people of central Africa |
| bambuk | gold-bearing region of West Africa |
| bambute | Bambuti pygmies of the Congo |
| bandarlog | Bandar-log, monkey folk in Kipling |
| banderlog | variant of Bandar-log (Kipling) |
| banyai | Banyai people of Zimbabwe |
| banyoro | Banyoro people of Uganda |
| banyuls | Banyuls, French town and its wine |
| baramika | Arabic, the Barmecide family |
| barkinji | Barkindji people of New South Wales |
| baronga | Ronga people of Mozambique |
| barouni | Barouni, a variety of olive |
| bartholomean | relating to St. Bartholomew |
| basilidan | Basilidian, follower of Basilides |
| basoko | Basoko people of the Congo |
| basongo | Basongo people of the Congo |
| bassarid | a Bassarid, bacchante of Dionysus |
| batete | Batete people of west central Africa |
| batoka | Batoka people and plateau of Zambia |
| batussi | Batutsi (Tutsi) people of Rwanda |
| baubo | Baubo, figure of Greek myth |
| bavius | Bavius, Roman poetaster |
| bayano | Bayano, river and region of Panama |
| beauclerc | epithet of Henry I of England |
| beauclerk | English surname/epithet Beauclerk |
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