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 |
|---|---|
| honeymoonstruck | honeymoon-struck |
| honeymouthed | honey-mouthed |
| honeypod | honey-pod, the mesquite pod |
| honeysweet | honey-sweet |
| honorsman | honors-man, one taking university honors |
| honorworthy | honor-worthy |
| hoodcap | hood-cap, the hooded seal |
| hoodsheaf | hood-sheaf, the covering sheaf of a stook |
| hoodshy | hood-shy, of a horse fearing the hood |
| hoodshyness | hood-shyness |
| hoofworm | hoof-worm |
| hookcheck | hook-check, a stick check in hockey |
| hookerman | hooker-man, crewman of a hooker boat |
| hookheal | hook-heal, the plant self-heal |
| hookland | hook-land, land tilled every year |
| hooksmith | hook-smith, a maker of hooks |
| hookswinging | hook-swinging, the Hindu suspension rite |
| hookweed | hook-weed |
| hooperman | hooper-man, a barrel hooper |
| hoopman | hoop-man, a maker of hoops |
| hoopmen | hoop-men, plural of hoop-man |
| hoopwood | hoop-wood, wood used for barrel hoops |
| hopoff | hop-off, the point of takeoff |
| hoppercar | hopper-car |
| hopperman | hopper-man, one tending a mill hopper |
| hopthumb | hop-thumb, a dwarf (hop-o'-my-thumb) |
| hornfair | horn-fair, the old Charlton horn fair |
| hornmouth | horn-mouth, a whelk-like mollusk |
| hornplant | horn-plant |
| hornslate | horn-slate, a hornstone-bearing slate |
| hornstay | horn-stay |
| hornthumb | horn-thumb, a horn thumbstall |
| horntip | horn-tip |
| hornwood | horn-wood, horn-mad, furiously angry |
| horsebane | horse-bane, the water dropwort |
| horsebush | horse-bush |
| horsedrawing | horse-drawing, haulage by horses |
| horsefettler | horse-fettler, a pit horse-keeper |
| horsefight | horse-fight |
| horseflower | horse-flower |
| horseheel | horse-heel |
| horsekeeping | horse-keeping |
| horselock | horse-lock, a fetter for a horse |
| horsepipe | horse-pipe |
| horsetongue | horse-tongue, the plant Ruscus |
| horsetown | horse-town |
| horsetree | horse-tree |
| hosecock | hose-cock, a faucet for a hose |
| hostlerwife | hostler-wife, a female innkeeper |
| hotbrained | hot-brained |
| hothearted | hot-hearted |
| hotheartedly | hot-heartedly |
| hotheartedness | hot-heartedness |
| hotmouthed | hot-mouthed |
| houghband | hough-band, a band for hobbling cattle |
| houghsinew | hough-sinew, the hamstring |
| houndman | hound-man, a keeper of hounds |
| houndsbane | hound's-bane, a plant repellent to dogs |
| houseball | house-ball |
| housebug | house-bug |
| housefast | house-fast, kept indoors |
| housemating | house-mating, mating birds indoors |
| housepaint | house-paint |
| houseridden | house-ridden, confined to the house |
| humanitymonger | humanity-monger |
| humblemouthed | humble-mouthed |
| humeroabdominal | humero-abdominal |
| humerodigital | humero-digital |
| humidityproof | humidity-proof |
| humorproof | humor-proof |
| hundredpenny | hundred-penny, an old tax paid to the hundred |
| hundredwork | hundred-work, service due to the hundred |
| hungerproof | hunger-proof |
| hungerroot | hunger-root |
| hurdleman | hurdle-man, a maker of hurdles |
| hurryproof | hurry-proof |
| husbandfield | husband-field, land held by a husbandman |
| hushcloth | hush-cloth, a cloth to deaden sound |
| huskershredder | husker-shredder, a corn machine |
| huskroot | husk-root |
| huskwort | husk-wort, a plant name |
| hustlecap | hustle-cap, an old game of shaking coins in a cap |
| huthold | hut-hold, a household living in a hut |
| hutholder | hut-holder |
| hyenadog | hyena-dog |
| hymnwise | hymn-wise |
| illdisposedness | ill-disposedness |
| illguide | ill-guide (Scots, to mistreat) |
| illguided | ill-guided |
| illguiding | ill-guiding |
| illhumor | ill-humor |
| illhumored | ill-humored |
| illmanneredness | ill-manneredness |
| illnature | ill-nature |
| illtempered | ill-tempered |
| illtreatment | ill-treatment |
| industrochemical | industro-chemical |
| ingotman | ingot-man |
| ingotmen | ingot-men |
| inkroot | ink-root (marsh rosemary) |
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