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 |
|---|---|
| bechtler | Bechtler, US private gold coiner |
| bedawee | Beja (Bedawi) people and language of Sudan |
| bedivere | Sir Bedivere, Arthurian knight |
| beekmantown | Beekmantown, NY; Ordovician limestone |
| beheira | Beheira, province of Lower Egypt |
| belaites | Belaites, biblical clan of Bela |
| beltine | Beltane, Celtic May Day festival |
| belucki | Baluchi people and language |
| beriber | variant of Berber, North African people |
| beribers | Berbers, plural of Beriber |
| berossos | Berossus, Babylonian priest-historian |
| betoya | Betoya, South American indigenous people |
| betoyan | Betoyan language family of South America |
| bhagavat | Hindu epithet, "the Blessed One" |
| bhagavata | Vaishnava devotee; Bhagavata Purana |
| bhotia | Bhotia, Himalayan Tibetan people |
| bhotiya | Bhotiya, variant of Bhotia people |
| bhowani | Bhowani, the Hindu goddess Bhavani |
| bialystoker | of Białystok, Poland |
| bielorouss | Byelorussian (Fr. Bielorusse) |
| bigbury | Bigbury, place in Devon, England |
| bikram | Indian personal name; Bikram era |
| bilkis | Bilqis, queen of Sheba |
| bimbisara | Bimbisara, king of Magadha |
| bismanol | trade name, bismuth-manganese magnet alloy |
| bismark | Bismarck (statesman; herring, pastry) |
| bitulithic | trade name, bituminous paving material |
| bjorne | Scandinavian personal name Bjorne |
| blankite | trade name, a hydrosulfite bleach |
| bohora | Bohra, Indian Muslim trading community |
| bolderian | Bolderian, Belgian Miocene stage |
| boodh | Buddha (older spelling Boodh) |
| borana | Oromo people of Ethiopia and Kenya |
| boreiad | Greek myth, a descendant of Boreas |
| borussian | Prussian (from Latin Borussia) |
| boxiana | Boxiana, Egan's collected boxing lore |
| brahmanaspati | Vedic deity Brahmanaspati (Brihaspati) |
| britany | Brittany, older spelling |
| bronteana | Bronteana, writings about the Brontes |
| brunistic | of the Brunists, followers of Bruno |
| bubastid | of Bubastis, Egyptian city of Bast |
| bubastite | of Bubastis; the Bubastite dynasty |
| bucentur | Bucentaur, the Venetian state barge |
| buchanite | member of the Buchanites, Scottish sect |
| buddah | older transliteration of Buddha |
| buddh | Buddha (as in Buddh Gaya) |
| budukha | Budukh, Caucasian people and language |
| buninahua | Panoan people of Peru |
| busaos | Busao, Philippine (Bagobo) evil spirits |
| buyides | the Buyids, a Persian dynasty |
| cabiria | of the Cabiri, Greek mystery deities |
| cacan | Cacan, extinct Diaguita language of Argentina |
| cadiueio | Cadiueio, Guaycuruan people of Brazil |
| cadwal | Cadwal, name in Shakespeare's Cymbeline |
| caenogaea | Caenogaea, a zoogeographic realm |
| cagayans | people of Cagayan, Philippines |
| caitanyas | Caitanyas, Bengali Vaishnava sect |
| cakavci | Cakavci, speakers of Croatian Chakavian |
| calchaqui | Calchaqui, people of NW Argentina |
| calcomp | CalComp, plotter manufacturer |
| calebite | Calebite, of the biblical clan of Caleb |
| calebites | Calebites, descendants of Caleb |
| calgon | Calgon, water-softener trade name |
| calixtus | Calixtus, papal name and theologian |
| callynteria | Callynteria, Athenian temple-cleansing feast |
| camaldolite | member of the Camaldolese order |
| camaldule | Camaldule, a Camaldolese monk |
| camball | Camball, character in Chaucer and Spenser |
| cambalo | Cambalo, Chaucer's Squire's Tale character |
| cambeva | Cambeva, Amazonian people (Omagua) |
| cambuscan | Cambuscan, king in Chaucer's Squire's Tale |
| cambyuskan | Cambyuskan, Chaucer's Cambuscan |
| camellus | Camellus, Latinized name of botanist Kamel |
| campanini | Campanini, Italian surname |
| campignian | Campignian, Neolithic stage from Campigny |
| canacee | Canacee, Chaucer's Squire's Tale princess |
| canamary | Canamary, Amazonian people of Brazil |
| canariote | a native of the Canary Islands |
| canchi | Canchi, Andean people of Peru |
| canichanan | Canichana, people and language of Bolivia |
| cappadochio | a Cappadocian |
| carajas | Karaja, Brazilian indigenous people |
| carara | Carrara, Italian marble town |
| carbonnieux | Chateau Carbonnieux, Bordeaux wine |
| caribi | variant of Carib |
| caribisi | Carib people of Guiana |
| caripuna | Brazilian indigenous people |
| cariri | Brazilian people and language |
| caririan | of the Cariri people |
| casamarca | Andean place name, cf. Cajamarca |
| cashmirian | Kashmirian, of Kashmir |
| cassiepeia | Cassiopeia, the constellation |
| castalides | the Castalian Muses |
| catalanganes | Catalangan people of Luzon |
| catalaunian | of the Catalaunian Fields in Gaul |
| catalin | Catalin, cast phenolic resin brand |
| catamarcan | of Catamarca, Argentina |
| catamarenan | of Catamarca, Argentina |
| cataphrygian | Cataphrygian, a Montanist sectary |
| catharan | member of the Cathari, medieval sect |
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