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 |
|---|---|
| turbantop | turban-top, a helvella fungus |
| turboblower | turbo-blower |
| turbodynamo | turbo-dynamo |
| turboexciter | turbo-exciter |
| turfski | turf-ski |
| turfskiing | turf-skiing |
| turfskis | turf-skis |
| turkeyback | turkey-back |
| turngate | turn-gate, a turnstile |
| turnmeter | turn-meter |
| turnpin | turn-pin, a plumber's tool |
| turnplow | turn-plow |
| turntale | turn-tale, a tell-tale or turncoat |
| turnway | turn-way |
| turnwrist | turn-wrist, of a reversible plough |
| turrethead | turret-head |
| turtlebloom | turtle-bloom, a plant name |
| turtlepeg | turtle-peg, a harpoon for turtles |
| turtlestone | turtle-stone, a septarium |
| tuttiman | tutti-man, a Hocktide custom officer |
| tuttyman | tutty-man, variant of tutti-man |
| twigwithy | twig-withy, a withe of twigs |
| twinebush | twine-bush |
| twinighter | twi-nighter, a baseball doubleheader |
| twinighters | twi-nighters |
| twisthand | twist-hand, a lace-machine operator |
| twitchfire | twitch-fire, burning of twitch grass |
| twitlark | twit-lark, a pipit |
| twitterboned | twitter-boned, of a horse with a twitter-bone |
| twixtbrain | twixt-brain, the diencephalon |
| twohandedness | two-handedness |
| twolegged | two-legged |
| tyrantcraft | tyrant-craft |
| uncoguidism | unco-guidism, Scots self-righteous piety |
| underspurleather | under-spur-leather, an underling |
| undervaluinglike | undervaluing-like |
| uninterferedwith | uninterfered-with |
| unlawlearned | un-law-learned, not learned in the law |
| unselfassured | unself-assured |
| unselfconfident | unself-confident |
| unselfreliant | unself-reliant |
| urnflower | urn-flower |
| urnmaker | urn-maker |
| usurerlike | usurer-like |
| vacanthearted | vacant-hearted |
| vacantheartedness | vacant-heartedness |
| vampireproof | vampire-proof |
| vampproof | vamp-proof |
| vandalroot | vandal-root, an old name for valerian |
| vatmaking | vat-making |
| vegetoalkali | vegeto-alkali, a plant alkali |
| vegetoalkaline | vegeto-alkaline |
| vegetoalkaloid | vegeto-alkaloid |
| vegetobituminous | vegeto-bituminous |
| vegetocarbonaceous | vegeto-carbonaceous |
| vegetomineral | vegeto-mineral |
| velvetmaker | velvet-maker |
| velvetmaking | velvet-making |
| velvetwork | velvet-work |
| venomproof | venom-proof |
| ventpiece | vent-piece |
| venushair | Venus-hair, the maidenhair fern |
| vialmaker | vial-maker |
| vialmaking | vial-making |
| vicargeneral | vicar-general |
| vigesimoquarto | vigesimo-quarto, the 24mo book size |
| vilehearted | vile-hearted |
| villainproof | villain-proof |
| violmaker | viol-maker |
| virtueproof | virtue-proof |
| viseman | vise-man, a bench workman who works at a vise |
| visionmonger | vision-monger |
| vizardmonger | vizard-monger, a dealer in masks |
| viziercraft | vizier-craft |
| voltaelectricity | volta-electricity |
| voltaelectrometer | volta-electrometer |
| voltaelectrometric | volta-electrometric |
| wadmaker | wad-maker |
| wadmaking | wad-making |
| wafermaker | wafer-maker |
| wafermaking | wafer-making |
| waferwoman | wafer-woman, a woman who sells wafers |
| waferwork | wafer-work |
| wagbeard | wag-beard, one who wags his beard, a chatterer |
| waggonsmith | waggon-smith |
| waggonwayman | waggon-wayman, a man employed on a waggonway |
| wagwit | wag-wit, a would-be wit |
| wahwah | wah-wah, the muted trumpet effect |
| waistcoathole | waistcoat-hole |
| waitewoman | waite-woman, a female attendant |
| waitsmen | waits-men, the town musicians called waits |
| walepiece | wale-piece, a timber in shipbuilding |
| walkside | walk-side, the side of a walk |
| walksman | walks-man, a workman in a ropewalk |
| walksmen | walks-men, plural of walksman |
| wandflower | wand-flower, Dierama or Sparaxis |
| wandsman | wands-man, one who carries a wand, a verger |
| wanthill | want-hill, dialect want (a mole), a molehill |
| warbite | war-bite, a wound got in war |
| warday | war-day, a day of war |
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