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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 |
|---|---|
| quickside | perhaps quick-side, or a slip for quickset |
| quienal | unrecoverable, perhaps a place name |
| quileces | perhaps a Spanish name or plant name |
| quileses | perhaps a Spanish name or plant name |
| quilez | probably a Spanish proper name |
| quinanarii | perhaps Latin quinarii, Roman coins |
| quircal | unrecoverable, perhaps OCR debris |
| rabal | perhaps Spanish rabal, a suburb |
| rablin | perhaps a variant of rabbin |
| rackapee | unrecoverable, perhaps a local name |
| racoyian | unrecoverable, perhaps a tribal name |
| radeur | perhaps French raideur, stiffness |
| ramack | unrecoverable, perhaps a proper name |
| rambarre | perhaps French rambarde, a ship's rail |
| ramta | possibly Hindi ramta, wandering |
| ramverse | no confident reading, perhaps ram-verse |
| rancer | possibly a misprint for lancer or rancor |
| ranere | no confident reading, perhaps a Middle English form |
| ranses | perhaps rances, props or bars, or ranees |
| rantock | no confident reading, perhaps a Scots word |
| rapaceus | Latin rapaceus, turnip-like, or a slip for rapacious |
| rapeye | no confident reading, perhaps a Middle English form |
| raptril | no reading found, apparently scan debris |
| rathed | perhaps rathe (early) used as a verb |
| ratheter | debris near rathe and rathest, no confident reading |
| rattaree | no reading found, perhaps a dialect or place name |
| rattleran | no reading found, apparently a rattle compound |
| rechal | no clear reading, perhaps a slip for rectal |
| reckla | possibly rekla, a light Indian bullock cart |
| redcoll | possibly redpoll, the bird, misprinted |
| redshire | perhaps red-shire; or a slip for redshirt |
| redue | perhaps re- + due, or an old spelling of redew |
| reetam | perhaps retem, the desert broom shrub |
| regald | perhaps an old form of regal, or a slip for regaled |
| regracy | perhaps a slip for regnancy or regency |
| relessa | perhaps law French, a form of reless, to release |
| relide | perhaps an old spelling of relied |
| remblere | perhaps French remblai, embankment fill; unplaced |
| remica | perhaps tied to remicate, L. remicare, to quiver |
| remorid | perhaps OCR debris near remord, to feel remorse |
| rendlewood | perhaps a dialect or place-name compound in -wood |
| repkie | perhaps a trade or dialect term, no sense traced |
| resgat | perhaps Portuguese resgate, ransom; no sense traced |
| rettorn | perhaps a scan of retorn, torn again |
| revay | perhaps Middle English revay, to hunt by a river |
| rhibia | perhaps a genus name, or a misprint of tibia |
| rhila | perhaps Rhila (Rila), the Bulgarian mountain range |
| rhodesoid | perhaps an -oid form of Rhodeus or Rhodea |
| rhoding | perhaps roding, the woodcock's evening flight |
| rhytta | perhaps rhyta, plural of rhyton, with t doubled |
| ribbidge | perhaps dialect; cf. rubbidge for rubbish |
| riddam | perhaps a dialect form of rhythm |
| ridiest | perhaps ridgiest, or the superlative of an unattested ridy |
| rignum | perhaps a misprint of lignum |
| rillow | perhaps billow, or a derivative of rill |
| ringite | perhaps a mineral or rock name in -ite |
| rissel | perhaps a dialect word; cf. rissle |
| ritalynne | perhaps the personal name Rita Lynne |
| roadite | perhaps a mineral or rock name in -ite |
| robhah | perhaps a Semitic term, or OCR debris |
| rociest | perhaps rockiest, or the superlative of an unattested rocy |
| roeneng | perhaps a Malay name in Dutch spelling (oe = u) |
| rollejee | perhaps a vernacular name in Dutch spelling |
| rollix | perhaps a variant of rollick |
| romyko | unrecoverable, perhaps a foreign proper name |
| roncho | perhaps Spanish ronco, a grunt fish |
| rootwalt | perhaps root-walt, overturned by the roots |
| roritorious | perhaps dew-bearing, from Latin ros, roris |
| rosaruby | apparently a rose or apple variety name |
| rotavist | perhaps rota + -vist, one who keeps a rota |
| rottock | apparently dialect, a lump or clod |
| roubouh | apparently an eastern loanword, unidentified |
| roughet | perhaps a fish name, unidentified |
| rounspik | apparently an obsolete plant or cant word |
| routhercock | perhaps a weathercock or rudder-cock |
| rovetto | apparently an Italian name or term |
| rowlet | perhaps roulette, a small wheel |
| royou | apparently a foreign plant or fibre name |
| rucksey | apparently dialect, unidentified |
| rudous | perhaps rough, from Latin rudis |
| rummes | perhaps an obsolete plural, rooms or rums |
| runsy | apparently dialect, unidentified |
| rupitic | perhaps relating to rupia, a skin eruption |
| russene | apparently a mineral or chemical name |
| russine | apparently a mineral or chemical name |
| sabalote | apparently a Philippine plant or fish name |
| saccoon | apparently a plant or animal name, unidentified |
| sacope | apparently a plant name, unidentified |
| sacry | perhaps obsolete, sacred or a sacring |
| saddirham | apparently an Arabic or Persian term |
| saebeins | apparently a Germanic or Gothic form |
| saeume | perhaps German Saume with umlaut, hems or seams |
| safini | apparently a foreign name, unidentified |
| sageer | perhaps sager, or a foreign name |
| saggon | apparently dialect or an old spelling, unidentified |
| saify | apparently a foreign name, unidentified |
| sakeber | perhaps a form of saker, the falcon |
| sakulya | apparently a foreign word, unidentified |
| salaceta | apparently a plant name, unidentified |
| salele | apparently a foreign name, unidentified |
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