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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 |
|---|---|
| staynil | perhaps stay-nail, a nail securing a stay |
| stechling | perhaps German Stichling, the stickleback |
| stentrel | perhaps Scots, related to stent, an assessment |
| stold | perhaps a dialect past tense of steal, or a slip for stole |
| stonewally | perhaps stonewall + -y, or a dialect bird name |
| stooded | perhaps dialect, stuck fast or studded |
| storay | perhaps storax misread, or a form of storey |
| stradico | perhaps Italian, cf. stradiot, a Balkan horseman |
| strail | perhaps ME strail, a coverlet, from Latin stragula |
| stralet | perhaps sterlet, the small sturgeon |
| stranner | perhaps dialect for strainer or stranger |
| stratlin | perhaps a garbling of straggling or strackling |
| stretman | perhaps an old form of steersman or streetman |
| stretmen | plural of stretman, itself unplaced |
| stringene | perhaps a chemical in -ene, or a slip for stringent |
| strippler | perhaps one who stripples, strips gradually |
| stromed | perhaps dialect strome, to stride about, + -ed |
| stromming | perhaps dialect strome + -ing, or Swedish stromming, herring |
| stroth | perhaps dialect, marshy ground, cf. strother |
| stucking | perhaps dialect, cf. stuckling, a pasty |
| stuffender | perhaps stuff-ender, a finisher of woollen stuff |
| stumor | an -or spelling of an unplaced word, cf. stumour |
| stumour | an -our spelling of an unplaced word, cf. stumor |
| stupex | perhaps a trade name or a garbled stupe |
| sturoch | perhaps a Scots fish name |
| submissit | perhaps Latin submisit or a mangled submissive |
| substantiallying | substantially with a stray -ing; perhaps substantializing |
| subtectacle | perhaps a shelter, from Latin tectum, a roof |
| subvirate | perhaps sub- + Latin vir, less than fully virile |
| sucivilized | perhaps a mangled semicivilized or uncivilized |
| suckabob | looks like an English dialect compound, gloss unrecovered |
| suerre | perhaps a Middle English spelling of sewer, a table server |
| suffront | perhaps suf- (sub-) + front, to face from below |
| sulea | perhaps a genus or place name; sense undetermined |
| suncherchor | mangled sun- compound; target undetermined |
| sundik | perhaps Arabic zindiq, a freethinker or heretic |
| superial | possibly superficial with -fic- lost in the scan |
| supermuscan | no attested base anywhere; perhaps super- + Musca, above the flies |
| supernuity | perhaps a misprint of superannuity, or of supernity, being supernal |
| superquadrupetal | no base quadrupetal exists; perhaps a misprint of superquadrupedal |
| surhai | possibly Hindi surahi, a long-necked water jar |
| suriga | no confident reading; perhaps a place or plant name |
| surique | possibly a chemical adjective, as in surique acid |
| surphul | possibly an Indian vernacular plant name |
| suwandi | possibly an Indonesian or Sinhalese proper name |
| sweath | possibly a misprint of swath or sheath |
| swirrer | perhaps an agent noun of dialectal swirr, to whirl |
| symplocium | possibly a botanical term from Greek symploke, interweaving |
| synarses | possibly a misprint of synapses |
| syndoc | possibly a misprint of syndic |
| syringium | probably a genus name from Greek syrinx, pipe |
| systilius | possibly Latin systylos, close column spacing |
| tabbarea | possibly a fabric name, cf. tabbaret |
| tabira | probably a place or people name |
| taghlik | possibly Turkic daglik, hill country |
| tahgook | probably an indigenous name, sense unrecovered |
| talcher | possibly Talcher in India, or a talc worker |
| tallaism | an -ism from a name, sense unrecovered |
| tallote | possibly a variant of tallow or a plant name |
| tallywalka | probably an Australian place name |
| talthib | probably a transliterated foreign term |
| taluche | possibly a South American people or place |
| tamzine | possibly a fabric name, cf. tamine |
| tancel | possibly a dialect form, sense unrecovered |
| tanchoir | possibly a tanner's implement, French -oir |
| tangilin | possibly Malay tenggiling, the pangolin |
| tanzine | possibly a fabric or chemical name |
| taoiya | probably a transliterated foreign name |
| taramembe | probably a Brazilian name, sense unrecovered |
| taraph | possibly Arabic taraf, sense unrecovered |
| taratah | possibly a Maori plant name, cf. tarata |
| tarau | possibly Maori tarau, trousers |
| tarkeean | probably an ethnonym, sense unrecovered |
| tarlies | probably a dialect plural, sense unrecovered |
| tarmined | probably an archaic participle, sense unrecovered |
| tarmosined | probably an archaic participle, sense unrecovered |
| tashie | perhaps Scots tassie, a small cup |
| tassago | perhaps a form of tasajo, dried beef |
| tassard | perhaps tassart, a West Indian name for the cero |
| tassellus | Latin-looking; perhaps medieval Latin for a small tassel |
| tassoo | perhaps a form of tassa, an Indian kettledrum |
| taulch | no clear reading; perhaps a dialect form |
| taulia | no clear reading; perhaps a place or plant name |
| tavell | perhaps a weaver's reel, from French tavelle |
| tawkin | no clear reading; perhaps a dialect spelling |
| taxir | no clear reading; perhaps taxer |
| tayir | no clear reading; perhaps a transliterated foreign word |
| taysaam | perhaps an ethnic or place name |
| tcheckup | a tch- transliteration; source unclear |
| tchincou | a French-style transliteration; source unclear |
| teanal | perhaps a misprint for tenail, a fortification work |
| teatman | either teat-man, a milker, or a stray t in teaman |
| tecassir | no confident reading; perhaps an Arabic drug name |
| tecon | no clear reading; perhaps a Nahuatl-derived term |
| tecuma | perhaps the tucuma palm or an Amazonian group name |
| teenet | perhaps built on teen, grief; no confident reading |
| teetsook | perhaps a native North American name |
| teety | perhaps a dialect pet form, cf. titty |
| tekedye | no confident reading; perhaps a name or a dye |
| teleblem | Greek tele- plus -blem, a throw or covering; sense unclear |
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