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 |
|---|---|
| catoquina | Catuquina, Amazonian people and language |
| caudebeck | Caudebec, French town; a hat made there |
| cayubaban | of the Cayubaba people of Bolivia |
| cayugan | of the Cayuga, an Iroquois people |
| cecrops | Cecrops, legendary first king of Athens |
| celanese | Celanese, trademark for cellulose acetate fabric |
| celebe | Celebes, the island of Sulawesi |
| celtillyrians | the Celto-Illyrian peoples of the Balkans |
| cerdonian | follower of Cerdo, a Gnostic sect |
| cerenkov | Cherenkov, Russian physicist, as in Cerenkov radiation |
| cervantic | of Cervantes, Cervantine |
| cerynean | of Ceryneia, Greece (the Cerynean hind) |
| cevennian | of the Cevennes mountains, France |
| cevenol | Cevenol, of the Cevennes |
| cevenole | Cevenole, feminine of Cevenol |
| cezannesque | in the manner of the painter Cezanne |
| chachapuya | Chachapoya, a people of northern Peru |
| chahars | Chahar, a Mongol people of Inner Mongolia |
| chalcidian | of Chalcis in ancient Euboea |
| chalcioecus | epithet of Athena, 'of the brazen house' |
| chaldese | Chaldean, of ancient Chaldea |
| chalkotheke | Chalkotheke, bronze-store on the Athenian Acropolis |
| chalukyan | of the Chalukya dynasty of India |
| chamian | of the Cham people of Indochina |
| champlainic | of Lake Champlain / the Champlain epoch |
| chanabal | Chanabal (Tojolabal), a Mayan people and language |
| chandi | Chandi, a form of the Hindu goddess Durga |
| chandui | Chanduy, coastal district of Ecuador |
| chanduy | Chanduy, coastal district of Ecuador |
| changar | Changar, a wandering tribe of the Punjab |
| changoan | of the Chango people of coastal Chile |
| changuina | Changuina, an indigenous people of Panama |
| changuinan | Changuinan, a language family of Panama |
| chaoua | Chaouia, a Berber people of Algeria |
| chapanec | Chiapanec, an indigenous people of Chiapas |
| charicleia | Charicleia, heroine of Heliodorus' Aethiopica |
| charontas | Charontas, modern Greek personification of death |
| charruan | of the Charrua people of Uruguay |
| charvet | Charvet, a French silk shirting fabric |
| chatillon | Chatillon, a French place and family name |
| chaui | Chaui, the Grand Pawnee band |
| chaumontel | Chaumontel, a French winter pear |
| chavantean | of the Chavante (Xavante) people of Brazil |
| chazy | Chazy, NY; an Ordovician limestone formation |
| chechehet | Chechehet, a Patagonian people |
| chemakuan | Chimakuan, a language family of Washington state |
| chemonite | trademark, copper-arsenite wood preservative |
| cheremiss | Finno-Ugric people of Russia, the Mari |
| cheremissian | of the Cheremis (Mari) people or language |
| cherenkov | Russian physicist; Cherenkov radiation |
| chernomorish | Russian, of the Black Sea (Chernomor) |
| cheskey | US slang name for a Czech |
| chiapanec | indigenous people of Chiapas, Mexico |
| chiapanecan | the Chiapanec language group |
| chichimec | indigenous people of northern Mexico |
| chichimecan | of the Chichimec people or language |
| chimakuan | language family of western Washington |
| chimalakwe | a Californian indigenous people |
| chimalapa | a district and people of Oaxaca, Mexico |
| chimane | Chimane (Tsimane), a Bolivian people |
| chimarikan | Chimarikan, a Californian language family |
| chimu | pre-Incan culture of coastal Peru |
| chinchasuyu | Chinchaysuyu, northern quarter of Inca empire |
| chinhwan | a plains aboriginal group of Formosa |
| chiquitan | Chiquitano, a Bolivian people and language |
| chiriana | Chiriana (Shiriana), a Yanomami group |
| chisedec | Biblical name, short for Melchisedec |
| chocoan | of the Choco region and people of Colombia |
| cholonan | Cholonan, a Peruvian people and language |
| cholones | the Cholon people of Peru |
| chontalan | of the Chontal peoples of Mexico |
| chowanoc | Algonquian people of North Carolina |
| christiad | the Christiad, epic poem on Christ |
| christofer | personal name, spelling of Christopher |
| chrobat | Chrobat, early Croat (White Croat) |
| chudic | of the Chuds, a Finnic people |
| chuje | Chuj, Mayan people of Guatemala |
| chumawi | Achomawi division of northern California |
| chumpivilca | Quechua people of Chumbivilcas, Peru |
| churoya | South American indigenous people |
| churoyan | of the Churoya people |
| chuumnapm | Sahaptin band name |
| chuzwi | Native American group name |
| chwana | Chwana, the Tswana people and language |
| cibolan | of Cibola, the Zuni region of New Mexico |
| cicone | one of the Cicones, Thracian people in Homer |
| citicorp | Citicorp, US banking corporation |
| citua | Citua, Inca purification festival |
| clackama | Oregon river and Chinookan people (Clackamas) |
| claromontane | of Clermont; the Codex Claromontanus |
| clayoquot | Nuu-chah-nulth people and sound, B.C. |
| clemclemalats | Cowichan (Salish) band of Vancouver Island |
| clunisian | of Cluny, Cluniac |
| clunist | a monk of Cluny, a Cluniac |
| cnidian | of Cnidus, ancient Greek city |
| cobleskill | Cobleskill, New York, and its limestone |
| cocanucos | Cocanuco people of Colombia |
| cofane | Cofan people of Ecuador and Colombia |
| comanic | of the Comans (Cumans), a Turkic people |
| conchobor | Conchobar, legendary Irish king |
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