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 |
|---|---|
| conchubar | Conchubar, Irish king, var. of Conchobar |
| conchucu | Conchucos, Peruvian region and people |
| concorrezanes | Cathar sect of Concorezzo, Italy |
| congeree | Congaree, S. Carolina river and people |
| congoleum | Congoleum, brand of floor covering |
| conrail | Conrail, US freight railroad |
| copehan | Californian Indian linguistic family |
| corabeca | South American Indian people |
| corabecan | of the Corabeca people |
| coraveca | South American Indian people (Corabeca) |
| cordigeri | Latin name of the Cordeliers, Franciscan friars |
| corflambo | giant in Spenser's Faerie Queene |
| coropo | Brazilian Indian people |
| coruminacan | South American Indian people |
| corycian | of the Corycian cave and its nymphs |
| cosmati | Italian family of medieval marble workers |
| cossaean | Cossaean, ancient people of Persia (Kassites) |
| covarecan | of the Covareca people of Bolivia |
| covarecas | Covareca, a Bolivian indigenous people |
| coyotero | Coyotero, a band of Western Apache |
| creedmore | Creedmoor, New York rifle range |
| cresphontes | Cresphontes, Heraclid king of Messenia |
| cristineaux | Cristineaux, French name for the Cree |
| crouchmas | Crouchmas, old feast of the Holy Cross |
| croyden | Croydon, English town (variant spelling) |
| cuailnge | Cooley, Irish place of the Táin |
| cuchulainn | Cú Chulainn, Irish mythic hero |
| cunan | of the Cuna (Kuna) of Panama |
| curavecan | Bolivian indigenous people and language |
| curiatii | the Curiatii, Roman legendary family |
| curucaneca | Bolivian indigenous people |
| curucanecan | of the Curucaneca of Bolivia |
| curuminaca | Bolivian indigenous people |
| curuminacan | of the Curuminaca of Bolivia |
| cyclop | singular of Cyclops, one-eyed giant |
| cydon | Cydon, ancient Cretan city and people |
| cyrillian | of Cyril of Alexandria |
| cyrillianism | the theology of Cyril of Alexandria |
| czigany | Hungarian name for the Gypsies, cigany |
| dafla | people of Arunachal Pradesh, the Nyishi |
| daimiel | town in Ciudad Real, Spain |
| dalarnian | of Dalarna, Sweden |
| dallis | A. T. Dallis, of Dallis grass |
| damayanti | heroine of the Mahabharata |
| danaidean | of the Danaides of Greek myth |
| danli | Danli, a town in Honduras |
| dardanium | Latin, of Dardania in the Troad |
| darsonval | d'Arsonval, French physicist |
| dartagnan | d'Artagnan, Dumas's musketeer |
| darvon | Darvon, brand of propoxyphene |
| daschagga | the Chagga people of Kilimanjaro |
| datsun | Datsun, Japanese motor-car marque |
| datsuns | Datsun cars, plural of the marque |
| davidist | follower of David Joris, a 16th-century sect |
| dayakker | member of the Dayak people of Borneo |
| deditician | Roman law, one of the dediticii |
| deiphobus | Trojan prince, son of Priam |
| delphinius | Delphinius, epithet of Apollo |
| demaree | Demaree, beekeeping swarm-control method |
| demodocus | blind bard of the Odyssey |
| demophon | Demophon, son of Theseus in Greek myth |
| demophoon | Demophoon, son of Celeus in Greek myth |
| dendrogaea | Dendrogaea, zoogeographic region of tropical America |
| depardieu | French surname (the actor Gerard Depardieu) |
| dhanuk | Indian caste of bowmen |
| dhanvantari | Hindu god of medicine |
| dheneb | old spelling of the star Deneb |
| dhundia | Indian Jain sect, the Dhundhia |
| diabolonian | Bunyan's Holy War, follower of Diabolus |
| diaguite | Diaguita, Andean indigenous people |
| diancecht | Dian Cecht, Irish god of healing |
| diccon | pet form of Richard; stock rustic character |
| dictronics | trade name, electronic-dictionary firm |
| dieyerie | Dieri, an Australian Aboriginal people |
| difda | Difda, the star Beta Ceti |
| diipolia | Diipolia, Athenian festival of Zeus Polieus |
| dilantin | Dilantin, trade name for phenytoin |
| dimna | Dimnah, the jackal in Kalilah and Dimnah |
| dinarzade | Dinarzade, sister of Scheherazade |
| dindymene | Dindymene, epithet of Cybele |
| dindymus | Mt. Dindymus, sacred to Cybele |
| dioscurian | of the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux |
| diotrephes | Diotrephes, a man named in 3 John |
| dipylon | the Dipylon, double gate of ancient Athens |
| dircaean | of Dirce, Theban spring; epithet of Pindar |
| dirian | Dirian, indigenous people of Nicaragua |
| djagatay | Chagatai, Turkic language and people |
| dobzhansky | Theodosius Dobzhansky, geneticist |
| dolcinist | follower of Fra Dolcino, medieval sect |
| dolisie | Dolisie, town in the Congo |
| domitian | Domitian, Roman emperor |
| donsky | Donskoy, of the river Don, Russia |
| dorask | Dorasque, indigenous people of Panama |
| doraskean | Doraskean, language stock of Panama |
| dosadh | Dosadh, a low caste of Bihar, India |
| dositheans | Samaritan sect following Dositheus |
| draconid | Draconid, meteor radiating from Draco |
| drusean | of the Druses (Druze) of Syria and Lebanon |
| dryope | Dryope, nymph of Greek myth |
| dryopians | Dryopians, an ancient Greek people |
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