Error Words
We're sure about this one.
A hyphenated word run together into one string.
This is the biggest single error in the list, more than twice the size of typos. knockemdown is knock-em-down, allround is all-round, filmmake is film-make.
Nobody who wrote the dictionary got these wrong. The hyphen was removed when the word list was cut down to letters only.
4,861 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 | With the hyphen back |
|---|---|
| crooknecked | crook-necked |
| crooknosed | crook-nosed |
| crookshouldered | crook-shouldered |
| crooksided | crook-sided |
| crooksterned | crook-sterned |
| crooktoothed | crook-toothed |
| crophead | crop-head, one with cropped hair |
| cropman | crop-man |
| cropplecrown | cropple-crown, a tufted fowl |
| cropweed | crop-weed, the knapweed |
| crossbolted | cross-bolted |
| crossfertilizable | cross-fertilizable |
| crossfired | cross-fired |
| crossfiring | cross-firing |
| crossflower | cross-flower, the milkwort |
| crossfoot | cross-foot, to add across |
| crosshackle | cross-hackle |
| crosshand | cross-hand |
| crosshatcher | cross-hatcher |
| crosslap | cross-lap joint |
| crosspath | cross-path |
| crosstail | cross-tail, a machine part |
| crosstied | cross-tied |
| crosstoes | cross-toes |
| crossweb | cross-web |
| crossweed | cross-weed |
| crotchwood | crotch-wood, veneer from a tree fork |
| crowbell | crow-bell, a bluebell or daffodil |
| crowboot | crow-boot |
| crowdweed | crowd-weed, a plant name |
| crowfooted | crow-footed |
| crowhopper | crow-hopper, a bucking horse |
| crowncapping | crown-capping |
| crownwort | crown-wort |
| crowstick | crow-stick |
| crudwort | crud-wort, the butterwort |
| crunchweed | crunch-weed, the charlock |
| crystallike | crystal-like |
| cubehead | cube-head |
| cuckoomaid | cuckoo-maid (lords-and-ladies) |
| cuckoomaiden | cuckoo-maiden (lords-and-ladies) |
| cuckoomate | cuckoo-mate (lords-and-ladies) |
| culverfoot | culver-foot (dove's-foot cranesbill) |
| curbline | curb-line |
| curemaster | cure-master, overseer of curing |
| curlylocks | curly-locks |
| currantworm | currant-worm, currant sawfly larva |
| curryfavel | curry-favel, to flatter; a flatterer |
| cushewbird | cushew-bird, razor-billed curassow |
| cushioncraft | cushion-craft, air-cushion vehicle |
| cushionflower | cushion-flower |
| cutheal | cut-heal, a wound-healing plant |
| cuttail | cut-tail, animal with a docked tail |
| cyclesmith | cycle-smith, bicycle repairer |
| cylindroogival | cylindro-ogival |
| cypressroot | cypress-root |
| daddynut | daddy-nut |
| daggerbush | dagger-bush |
| daggletail | daggle-tail, a draggle-tailed person |
| daggletailed | daggle-tailed |
| damboard | dam-board, a draught-board |
| dampcourse | damp-course |
| daneball | dane-ball, a local plant name |
| daneflower | dane-flower, the pasqueflower |
| dareall | dare-all, one who dares anything |
| darkheartedness | dark-heartedness |
| dashplate | dash-plate |
| dashwheel | dash-wheel, a washing cylinder |
| dayberry | day-berry |
| daybill | day-bill |
| dayblush | day-blush, the flush of dawn |
| daydrudge | day-drudge, a day laborer |
| daygoing | day-going |
| daynet | day-net, net for taking larks by day |
| dayshine | day-shine, daylight |
| daystreak | day-streak, the first streak of dawn |
| daytide | day-tide, daytime |
| daywrit | day-writ |
| deadflat | dead-flat, the midship section |
| deadhand | dead-hand, mortmain |
| deadpay | dead-pay, pay drawn for nonexistent men |
| deadtongue | dead-tongue, water dropwort |
| deadwort | dead-wort, a plant name |
| deafmuteness | deaf-muteness |
| deathcup | death-cup, Amanita phalloides |
| deathcups | death-cups |
| deathroot | death-root, Trillium erectum |
| deathshot | death-shot |
| deathweed | death-weed |
| deathworm | death-worm |
| decisionmake | decision-make |
| deckedout | decked-out |
| deckpipe | deck-pipe (naut.) |
| deckswabber | deck-swabber |
| deepfreezed | deep-freezed |
| deepfreezing | deep-freezing |
| deepfroze | deep-froze |
| deepfrozen | deep-frozen |
| deepgoing | deep-going |
| deepmouthed | deep-mouthed |
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