Error Words
We're sure about this one.
Two words closed up into one.
acappella is a cappella. grandtotal is grand total. hotzone is hot zone. A lot of them are Latin, because dictionaries of this age carried plenty of it, so adarbitrium is ad arbitrium.
When we cannot tell whether the original used a space or a hyphen, we call it a hyphen.
151 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 space back |
|---|---|
| abbotnullius | abbot nullius |
| acappella | a cappella |
| acetiam | ac etiam (law Latin writ clause) |
| adarbitrium | ad arbitrium |
| airplot | air plot (navigational plot) |
| alsmekill | als mekill (Scots, as much) |
| aquaregia | aqua regia |
| artgum | art gum (kneaded eraser) |
| aufait | au fait |
| balladeroyal | ballade royal |
| bassirilievi | bassi rilievi (Italian bas-reliefs) |
| belesprit | bel esprit |
| bigbloom | big bloom |
| bigmitt | big mitt (confidence game) |
| bigthatch | big thatch |
| blackarm | black arm (bacterial disease of cotton) |
| bladygrass | blady grass (Imperata cylindrica) |
| canreply | can reply |
| characterstring | character string |
| cheezit | cheese it (slang, run away) |
| cherryblossom | cherry blossom |
| chilipepper | chili pepper |
| christianiadeal | Christiania deal, Norwegian timber plank |
| coldturkey | cold turkey |
| corblimy | cor blimey |
| corvillosum | cor villosum, Latin shaggy heart |
| creamsacs | cream sacs, a Castilleja plant |
| crosscrosslet | cross crosslet (heraldry) |
| crotonbug | croton bug, the German cockroach |
| curryfavour | curry favour |
| degratia | de gratia (L., by favour) |
| dentalman | dental man, a dental practitioner |
| dentalmen | dental men, dental practitioners |
| diipenates | Dii Penates, Roman household gods |
| diminishingturns | diminishing turns |
| diparentum | di parentum, Roman ancestral gods |
| directcarving | direct carving (sculpture without a model) |
| directdiscourse | direct discourse |
| directexamination | direct examination |
| dirtfarmer | dirt farmer |
| dispersedye | disperse dye |
| duraspinalis | dura spinalis, the spinal dura mater |
| enbloc | en bloc |
| engarde | en garde |
| enmass | en masse |
| exadverso | ex adverso (Latin, opposite, over against) |
| exdelicto | ex delicto (Latin, arising from a wrong) |
| exdie | ex die (Latin, from the day) |
| factoryship | factory ship |
| fiatconfirmatio | fiat confirmatio (Latin law formula) |
| flowcontrol | flow control |
| foodservices | food services |
| foremasthand | foremast hand, a common sailor |
| forwardsearch | forward search |
| freespace | free space |
| genetmoil | genet moil, an old cider apple |
| grandtotal | grand total |
| gypsyhead | gypsy head, the drum of a winch |
| hansomcab | hansom cab |
| homolegalis | homo legalis, Latin "the lawful man" |
| hotzone | hot zone |
| hydroxybutyricacid | hydroxybutyric acid |
| idest | id est (Latin, "that is") |
| innomine | in nomine (Latin; Tudor musical form) |
| inputfile | input file |
| inreality | in reality |
| intransitu | in transitu |
| ioparameters | I/O parameters |
| italianiron | Italian iron (a goffering iron) |
| joblots | job lots |
| junglegym | jungle gym |
| junkdealer | junk dealer |
| kinchinmort | kinchin mort, cant for a young girl |
| ladypalms | lady palms, the palm genus Rhapis |
| laserdisk | laser disk |
| laserdisks | laser disks |
| lastjob | last job |
| lastspring | last spring |
| lightningbug | lightning bug, the firefly |
| limboinfantum | limbo infantum, the limbo of infants |
| linetest | line test, a test of a telegraph or phone line |
| literaehumaniores | literae humaniores, the Oxford classics course |
| llanberisslate | Llanberis slate |
| loonybin | loony bin |
| lowmen | low men, loaded dice |
| mackaybean | Mackay bean, seed of Entada scandens |
| mafey | ma fey, obsolete oath 'by my faith' |
| maidenhairtree | maidenhair tree, the ginkgo |
| mailpouch | mail pouch |
| mantlerock | mantle rock, geological regolith |
| medenagan | meden agan, Greek "nothing in excess" |
| messkit | mess kit |
| mezzavoce | mezza voce |
| mistcoat | mist coat, a thinned first coat |
| mughopine | mugho pine |
| nazdrowie | na zdrowie (Polish toast, to your health) |
| newground | new ground, newly cleared land |
| nihilobstat | nihil obstat (Latin, nothing hinders) |
| nondetinet | non detinet, legal plea in detinue |
| oneanother | one another |
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