Real Words Without Definition
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A real English word, still in use, rare enough to slip through the lookup, and not covered by any of the other reasons.
aeric means of the air. arnee is the Indian wild buffalo. balmony is the turtlehead plant. adiation is the legal acceptance of an inheritance.
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73 words · sorted A to Z · each with a line on why it is here
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| Word, sorted Z to A | What it means |
|---|---|
| abaissed | heraldry, borne lower than usual position |
| adiation | law, acceptance of an inheritance |
| admi | North African gazelle (Gazella cuvieri) |
| adrue | root of Cyperus articulatus, an antiemetic |
| aeric | pertaining to the air |
| agialid | the tree Balanites aegyptiaca |
| agrom | Indian disease of cracked, fissured tongue |
| akund | silky floss of Calotropis (akund floss) |
| albardine | esparto-like grass Lygeum spartum |
| alfonsin | the beryx fish, alfonsino |
| alongships | nautical, lengthwise of a ship |
| amplitudinous | of great amplitude or extent |
| androlepsy | Greek-law reprisal by seizing citizens |
| arnee | the Indian wild buffalo |
| auturgy | action performed by oneself, self-agency |
| axseed | crown vetch, Coronilla varia |
| axweed | crown vetch, Coronilla varia |
| axwort | crown vetch, Coronilla varia |
| backwort | comfrey, Symphytum officinale |
| balmony | turtlehead, Chelone glabra |
| beaugregory | Caribbean damselfish, Stegastes leucostictus |
| belleric | belleric myrobalan, Terminalia bellirica |
| boltant | heraldry, of a hare, springing forward |
| bonavist | the hyacinth bean, Dolichos lablab |
| bonitarian | Roman law, of beneficial ownership |
| botrylle | a compound ascidian of the genus Botryllus |
| cherubfish | a small angelfish, Centropyge argi |
| cheveret | a small writing table with a shelf |
| chrysal | archery, a compression crease across a bow |
| cliffsman | a man who climbs cliffs for birds or eggs |
| cubbyu | Atlantic drum fish, the high-hat |
| didric | the didric cuckoo, an African bird |
| draegerman | Canadian, mine-rescue worker (Draeger apparatus) |
| dripolator | a drip coffee pot; drip + percolator |
| dwayberry | the deadly nightshade, Atropa belladonna |
| ecch | informal interjection expressing disgust |
| entryman | US land law, one who files a land entry |
| eumoirous | happy as a result of being good |
| gilguy | nautical, a steadying rope; a gadget |
| gollywobbler | nautical, large fore-and-aft sail of a schooner |
| gradative | proceeding by steps or degrees |
| gymnogene | the African harrier-hawk |
| henad | Neoplatonic philosophy, a unit or unity |
| homiliary | a book or collection of homilies |
| latterkin | glazier's pointed hardwood tool for lead cames |
| laylight | glazed panel set flush in a ceiling |
| limniad | a nymph of lakes and marshes |
| pressel | hanging push-button switch (British) |
| prickant | heraldry, borne with ears pricked up |
| printmake | to make prints; back-formation from printmaking |
| pucellas | glassblower's shaping tongs |
| raffee | nautical, a light sail set above a square sail |
| riddel | a curtain at the side of an altar |
| roodle | US poker slang, a round played for raised stakes |
| runtee | a flat shell disk bead of North American Indians |
| salmwood | the timber tree Cordia alliodora |
| scintle | brickmaking, to stack bricks openly for drying |
| scopic | relating to sight or viewing |
| slath | basketry, the crossed sticks at a basket's base |
| spitsticker | an engraver's tool with an oval-section blade |
| steenth | a sixteenth, clipped from sixteenth |
| strockle | glassmaking, a shovel for charging the furnace |
| suterberry | West Indian toothache tree, a Zanthoxylum |
| synaxary | Orthodox book of saints' lives read at services |
| tangleberry | the dangleberry, Gaylussacia frondosa |
| tangleroot | Aplectrum hyemale, the adam-and-eve orchid |
| tapeman | surveying, the assistant who handles the tape |
| tautegory | Coleridge's term, saying the same thing, not allegory |
| treebine | a climbing vine of the genus Cissus |
| turbitteen | a breed of fancy pigeon |
| umbilroot | US plant name for the showy lady's slipper orchid |
| winemake | to make wine, back-formation from winemaking |
| yakattalo | a hybrid of yak and cattalo |
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