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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 |
|---|---|
| miswern | poss. ME mis- + wern (to refuse), or misween |
| modiation | perhaps measurement by the modius |
| modili | perhaps plural of modillion/modulus |
| moeck | possibly a slip for mock |
| mohineyam | possibly an Indian vernacular plant or dance name |
| mollichop | perhaps dialect, an untidy mess |
| mollisiose | perhaps relating to the fungus genus Mollisia |
| molocker | possibly dialectal; cf. moloker |
| moloker | possibly dialectal; cf. molocker |
| molrooken | possibly a dialect word |
| monase | possibly an enzyme or preparation name |
| mongler | perhaps a form of mingler or mangler |
| monocleide | perhaps relating to the liverwort genus Monoclea |
| monocratis | perhaps a Latin genitive of a monocrat- form |
| monophoic | perhaps monophonic or a single-light coinage |
| monsia | possibly a genus or place name |
| montabyn | possibly a fabric or place name |
| moolet | possibly a diminutive of mool |
| moorup | possibly a vernacular name of foreign origin |
| moosewob | possibly dialect, a web or tangle |
| morattoria | possibly a fabric or place name |
| mordisheen | possibly a vernacular disease or plant name |
| morepeon | perhaps a variant of morepork, the New Zealand owl |
| morganic | perhaps relating to Morgan, or a form of organic |
| moriglio | possibly an Italian bird or fish name |
| mornette | possibly a French diminutive term of art |
| morphgan | app. OCR debris of a morph- word |
| mortersheen | app. a name for a livestock disease |
| morvin | app. a proper name or trade name |
| mosgu | unrecognized short form, perh. a foreign word |
| mosting | app. dialectal verbal noun, sense unclear |
| moulrush | app. a dialect plant name |
| mousee | noun with pl. mousees; sense unclear |
| mousoni | app. a Latin genitive epithet (after Mousson) |
| mozemize | app. an -ize verb, base unidentified |
| mucago | app. NL. mucago, mucilaginous matter |
| mudee | short foreign or Anglo-Indian term, sense unclear |
| mukri | app. an ethnic or Indic term, sense unclear |
| mullenize | app. an -ize verb from Mullen/mullein |
| multitarian | app. pertaining to a multitude |
| mungofa | app. an African plant or animal name |
| murarium | app. L. murarium, something pertaining to a wall |
| murchy | app. a dialect or Anglo-Indian word |
| murlack | app. Scots, cf. murlin, a basket |
| murlock | app. Scots dialect, cf. murlack |
| murraro | app. a foreign breed or plant name |
| mushla | app. a foreign term, sense unclear |
| musie | app. dial., perh. a little mouse |
| musily | adverb of an unidentified base (musy?) |
| mussably | adverb of an unidentified base |
| muthmassel | app. German, cf. mutmassen to conjecture |
| muyusa | app. a South American plant name |
| nachtmml | likely garbled nachtmaal, Lord's Supper |
| naren | unidentified; poss. a foreign borrowing |
| naresh | poss. Hindi naresh, king, lord of men |
| natureliked | poss. naturelike + -ed, nature-formed |
| neakes | perhaps a dialect plural; base unidentified |
| neavil | perhaps a dialect word; unidentified |
| neback | perhaps nebek, the Christ's-thorn (Zizyphus) |
| neckenger | perhaps neckinger, a neckerchief or noose |
| nectron | opaque; perhaps a slip for nekton or neutron |
| neoneds | opaque; perhaps plural of a coined neoned |
| nephionic | perhaps craniometric nephion + -ic |
| nepquite | perhaps the nickel mineral nepouite |
| nervid | opaque; perhaps a slip for nereid or nerved |
| netheist | perhaps obsolete nethest, lowest, nethermost |
| neurope | opaque; perhaps neuropore or neuropter |
| newfish | perhaps 'new fish', a newcomer or fresh catch |
| nickery | perhaps trickery, from nick, to cheat |
| nidudi | opaque; perhaps OCR debris or a foreign name |
| nieveta | opaque; perhaps a Spanish plant or place name |
| nignye | opaque; perhaps OCR of a dialect word |
| nikeno | opaque; perhaps a proper name |
| nilous | perhaps 'of the Nile', Nilotic |
| nineted | perhaps a slip for ninety or ninetieth |
| ninut | possibly a place or ethnic name |
| niris | possibly a proper name; base unidentified |
| niyanda | possibly an African or Indic term |
| noncostraight | perhaps garbled nonconstraint; base unidentified |
| nonentresse | possibly law, non-entry / OF entresse |
| nonnant | garbled non- entry; perhaps nonant, a ninth part |
| norelin | perhaps a nor- chemical derivative |
| norkyn | perhaps a Middle English diminutive |
| nosarian | perhaps one who says no; or noso- (disease) related |
| nosine | perhaps a chemical base in -ine |
| noterse | perhaps "not terse" run together or OCR debris |
| npeel | possibly a computing identifier or OCR debris |
| nrarucu | possibly OCR of pirarucu, the Amazon fish |
| numac | possibly OCR of sumac |
| nunce | possibly an obsolete form of nonce |
| nunni | possibly a variant of nunny |
| nunting | possibly dialectal, sense not recoverable |
| nymil | possibly a synthetic-fibre trade name |
| occitone | possibly a musical instrument name |
| ochozoma | possibly a Greek zomos, broth, compound |
| oesogi | possibly OCR debris of oesophagi |
| okthabah | apparently an Arabic transliteration |
| okuari | perhaps ouakari, a S. American monkey |
| oleana | probably a proper name |
| oltonde | obscure; possibly an Old French term |
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