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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 |
|---|---|
| anonad | poss. Philippine tree name |
| anounou | poss. Pacific or Philippine plant name |
| anseis | poss. plural of anse, a handle |
| antadiform | poss. garbled anatomical adjective |
| anterin | poss. OCR of anterior |
| anteva | poss. truncated Sanskrit antevasin |
| anticularia | possibly a Latin genus or entry-line remnant |
| antimesia | possibly antimensia, pl. of antimension |
| antinoness | perh. a -ness noun from an anti- adjective |
| antiodont | perh. dental, opposing tooth; or cut antiodontalgic |
| antsigne | perhaps an obsolete form of ensign |
| apatan | perhaps the Apa Tani people of NE India |
| aposoro | possibly a plant or place name |
| aptiana | perhaps a genus or an -ana collection name |
| arbalo | possibly a Spanish-American tree name |
| arbota | possibly a genus name |
| archenia | possibly a genus, or misprint for achenia |
| archidome | possibly a crystallographic dome form |
| archipin | possibly a resin or chemical constituent |
| arcturia | possibly a genus name |
| ardish | possibly an Eastern coin or measure |
| arfillite | possibly a mineral name, cf. argillite |
| argaile | possibly a form of argol, crude tartar |
| argosine | possibly a proprietary chemical preparation |
| arloup | possibly an Old French borrowing |
| arrame | perhaps an obsolete verb, to array/arrange |
| arrimby | possibly a dialect or place-derived term |
| arulo | possibly a foreign plant or fish name |
| ascaron | perhaps a remedy or compound for ascarids |
| ascence | perhaps an obsolete form of ascent/ascension |
| asharasi | possibly an ethnic or place name |
| asimen | perhaps for Asimina (pawpaw) or a proper name |
| askoye | possibly a dialect or foreign term |
| asop | perhaps "a-sop" or old spelling of Aesop |
| aspiquee | possibly a French-derived heraldic/cookery term |
| assary | perhaps obsolete form of assarius, a Roman coin |
| assinuate | perhaps an obsolete form of "insinuate" |
| assoria | perhaps a Latin plural or a place name |
| assurate | perhaps an obsolete verb, to assure or swear |
| astromeda | perhaps OCR of Andromeda |
| atalan | perhaps an ethnonym; unidentified |
| ateba | unidentified, perhaps a place or plant name |
| atrible | unidentified, possibly OCR corruption |
| attaleh | prob. vernacular name of an Attalea palm |
| attunely | perhaps attuned + -ly, or OCR error |
| auntsary | perhaps a dialect form of ancestry |
| auresca | unidentified, perhaps OCR debris |
| autota | possibly a truncated taxonomic name |
| avikom | appears to be an ethnonym or place name |
| avilaria | possibly a genus or place name |
| awane | perhaps an obsolete adverb, gone or away |
| awheft | perhaps a- + wheft, a flag signal |
| awrist | perhaps a- + wrist, on the wrist |
| awunctive | OCR garble, perhaps adjunctive |
| baahling | perhaps baa + -ling, a bleating lamb |
| babloh | perhaps a variant of babul, the acacia |
| baburd | possibly OCR debris or a foreign plant name |
| bachichi | possibly a foreign fish or plant name |
| baclin | unrecoverable, possibly OCR debris |
| baculere | perhaps an obsolete form of bachelere |
| baculiticone | possibly petrologic or fossil term debris |
| bahoe | possibly a place or plant name |
| bajury | perhaps Indian millet (bajra) |
| balaic | perhaps adj. of the Bala geological series |
| balatte | perhaps a variant of balata |
| baleise | perhaps balise, a sea beacon |
| ballised | perhaps balised, marked with beacons |
| baltetei | possibly Latin entry-line debris (balteus) |
| balwarra | possibly a Himalayan sheep breed |
| bandhor | possibly a variant of bandore |
| barandos | possibly a Spanish or Philippine term |
| barih | possibly an Indian caste name |
| barwal | possibly a Himalayan sheep breed |
| basitting | possibly basseting, outcrop of strata |
| baskonize | coined verb, sense undetermined |
| basnat | possibly a variant of basinet |
| basos | possibly a Greek stem or truncation |
| basote | sense undetermined |
| basurale | possibly Spanish basural, refuse heap |
| bathool | sense undetermined |
| bawra | possibly Hindi bawra, crazy |
| bayal | sense undetermined |
| beala | perhaps an Irish place-element beal- |
| beauetry | perhaps obs. "beautry", beauty |
| bebilya | perhaps a Philippine vernacular term |
| becoresh | garbled be- verb |
| bedlar | perhaps Scots bedral, a beadle |
| bedur | truncated be- word |
| beelol | OCR garble of a be- word |
| bejeled | form of an unattested verb "bejel" |
| bejeling | form of an unattested verb "bejel" |
| bejelled | form of an unattested verb "bejel" |
| bejelling | form of an unattested verb "bejel" |
| beltie | perhaps a belted (Galloway) beast |
| belverdian | perhaps "Belvederian", of the Belvedere |
| bencite | perhaps a mineral name in -ite |
| bentstar | possibly "bent-star", sense unclear |
| berairou | possibly a foreign animal or plant name |
| bergalith | possibly a mineral or trade name in -lith |
| bersil | possibly a variant of Scots bensil |
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