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This one is a judgement call.
We could not work out what the word is, so we said so.
Everyone working through the list is told the same thing. A confident wrong answer is worse than admitting we do not know, and the note should still record the best guess we have. abbogada might be an Abyssinian judge's title. aliet might be an old name for a hawk.
It runs at about 4% of everything we have looked at.
When even the guess runs out and the note just says unidentified, the answer comes back red instead of yellow.
2,280 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 | Our best guess |
|---|---|
| holleke | obscure, possibly a Dutch or Flemish diminutive |
| holliper | obscure, possibly dialect |
| holodedron | possibly holohedron or holodendron |
| hoodle | possibly a dialect form of huddle |
| hoolakin | possibly a dialect term; no clear base |
| hootay | possibly a dialect exclamation like hoot-toot |
| hooye | possibly an old spelling of the cry hooey |
| hopcrease | perhaps hop-crease, a hop-garden term |
| horla | possibly the Horla, Maupassant's invisible being |
| horral | possibly a dialect or surname-derived form |
| hotta | possibly a dialect spelling or a surname |
| hottery | perhaps Scots hotter + -y, a jumble |
| houvari | possibly a foreign place or plant name |
| howsour | possibly an obsolete form of howsoever |
| hubb | possibly an old spelling of hub |
| huccatoon | possibly an obsolete trade name for a fabric |
| humbo | possibly a clipped or dialect form of humbug |
| hunchet | possibly hunch + -et, a small hunch |
| hunfysh | possibly an obsolete spelling of a fish name |
| hunnican | possibly an ethnic or dialect adjective |
| hurf | too short to place; possibly dialect |
| hurlpit | perhaps hurl-pit, a pit for tipping refuse |
| hurrer | perhaps hurr + -er, one who makes a rolling sound |
| hushel | possibly a dialect form of hustle or housel |
| huskened | possibly a dialect past participle, made husky |
| huttoning | possibly Huttonian geology or a misprint for buttoning |
| huzzard | possibly a dialect form of buzzard |
| hylasmus | Greek hyle "matter"; term not identifiable |
| hypenantron | Greek-derived term; referent not identifiable |
| hypogeugea | Greek term garbled in OCR, unrecovered |
| hypophare | perhaps hypophore or hypophora, OCR debris |
| hyporight | perhaps hypo- + right; unattested |
| hypsophoeia | perhaps garbled hypsophobia, fear of heights |
| ichulle | perhaps a vernacular plant name |
| icod | perhaps Icod, a town on Tenerife |
| idcue | perhaps "ID cue", a broadcast station cue |
| ideta | perhaps a surname or OCR debris |
| ifint | perhaps a dialect contraction "if in't" |
| ifreal | perhaps a variant of ifrit/afreet |
| ifree | perhaps a dialect or OCR form |
| ijore | perhaps an African ethnic or place name |
| ikary | no recoverable form; perhaps OCR debris |
| illamon | perhaps a vernacular plant or fish name |
| illeck | perhaps a dialect form of elect |
| imanlaut | perhaps German "im Anlaut", initially |
| imban | perhaps obs., to place under a ban |
| imbolish | perhaps obs. variant of embellish |
| imbrier | perhaps a French or dialect term |
| immember | perhaps im- + member, to make a member |
| immind | perhaps obs., to bring to mind |
| imolinda | perhaps a proper name |
| impapase | perhaps an OCR garble of a chemical term |
| imperperia | perhaps a Latin or Byzantine coin term |
| imvia | perhaps Latin "in via" |
| inamia | perhaps a genus name or OCR garble |
| inbits | perhaps "in bits" or an obscure dialect noun |
| incoup | perhaps Scots coup, to tip or fall in |
| incrotchet | perhaps in- + crotchet, to hook in |
| indiary | perhaps a garble of incendiary |
| infallid | perhaps obs. infallible or a garble of invalid |
| infitter | perhaps infit + -er, one who fits in |
| inherle | obscure obsolete verb, perhaps to entangle |
| inket | possibly inked or an ink-related term |
| inkra | possibly an African plant or food term |
| inmore | possibly obs. comparative "further in" |
| innet | possibly dial. "in it" or a fragment |
| inone | possibly ionone, or "in one" run together |
| inrighted | possibly in- + righted, set right within |
| insea | possibly in- + sea, or a fragment |
| inseer | possibly in- + seer, one who looks within |
| inshoe | possibly in-shoe (farriery) or var. of inshore |
| inspinne | possibly obs. inspin, to spin in |
| intenancy | possibly intendancy, or in- + tenancy |
| interacra | possibly anatomical, between the extremities |
| interall | possibly obs. form of interval or entrail |
| intragantes | possibly garbled Latin plural; unidentified |
| inweed | possibly in- + weed, or OCR of inweave |
| irred | possibly ME i-red, advised, or a truncation |
| irredential | perhaps error for irredentist/irredenta |
| irrhation | perhaps irroration, a bedewing |
| ischar | perhaps eschar, a slough or scab |
| isodef | perhaps a line of equal deflection |
| issanguila | perhaps an African plant or people name |
| isthmiate | perhaps isthmiast, Isthmian-games competitor |
| itineritious | perhaps for itinerarious, of a journey |
| itineritis | perhaps itinerate-family debris, not a true -itis |
| itoubou | perhaps an African tree or people name |
| iwaiwa | perhaps Guyanese fern name, iwa-iwa |
| izing | perhaps dialectal icing, or izing-glass |
| jabia | perhaps a Spanish-American fish or plant name |
| jabul | perhaps a foreign object-name, cf. jabules |
| jacate | perhaps Mex. Spanish zacate, grass |
| jacatoo | perhaps a bird name, cf. cockatoo |
| jacolatt | possibly a Century bird or fabric name |
| jamboy | perhaps an Anglo-Indian term |
| jangar | perhaps an Indian raft or a Mongol epic name |
| jarbot | perhaps a variant of jerboa |
| jardini | perhaps a species epithet honoring Jardine |
| javahai | apparently a foreign plant or place name |
| jayant | perhaps an Indian plant or personal name |
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