Other
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 |
|---|---|
| tellieses | perhaps a double plural of tellies; no clear source |
| telligraph | perhaps a misprint for telegraph |
| temporator | a Latin-style agent noun; perhaps one who temporizes |
| tengere | possibly Latin tangere (to touch) or a proper name |
| tennu | short, unplaceable; perhaps a foreign proper name |
| terminine | perhaps termin- + -ine, of Terminus or boundaries |
| tervee | unplaceable; perhaps a trade or dialect term |
| tesarovitch | perhaps a spelling of tsarevitch, the czar's son |
| tescaria | perhaps from Latin tesca, waste ground |
| tessarace | perhaps a coinage on tessera, four |
| tesserants | perhaps tesserant + -s, of tesserae |
| tetragrid | perhaps tetragonid, a four-part form |
| tetrifol | perhaps a chemical name; possibly four-leaved |
| tetrous | perhaps from Latin taeter, foul; cf. tetricous |
| teviss | unplaceable; perhaps a fabric or trade name |
| tharginyah | unplaceable; looks like an Australian Aboriginal word |
| theasum | unplaceable; perhaps built on Thea, the tea genus |
| theet | short and unplaceable; perhaps a dialect form |
| theezan | perhaps the Muslim call to prayer, the ezan |
| theyaou | looks like a foreign plant or place name, source unclear |
| thomasa | perhaps the plant genus Thomasia, or Thomas plus entry debris |
| thrail | perhaps dialectal thrall, or a part of a flail |
| thram | a short dialect word, perhaps thrum or a form of thrammle |
| thuan | possibly a foreign proper name |
| thuoc | short foreign term, unplaced |
| thurgi | unplaced, perhaps a Latin plural |
| thurmus | unplaced, perhaps a Latin term |
| thworl | unplaced, perhaps a variant of whorl |
| tibey | possibly a West Indian plant name |
| tidiose | unplaced, perhaps a chemical in -ose |
| tietick | unplaced, perhaps a dialect bird name |
| tigrone | unplaced, perhaps a chemical in -one |
| tillotter | unplaced, perhaps an agent noun from till |
| tilpah | unplaced foreign term |
| timarri | unplaced foreign term |
| tinamine | unplaced, perhaps a chemical in -ine |
| tinety | unplaced, perhaps dialectal |
| tinsy | unplaced, perhaps dialectal |
| tintarron | unplaced foreign term |
| tintie | unplaced, perhaps Scots |
| tipree | unplaced foreign or dialect term |
| tiresol | unplaced, perhaps a chemical preparation |
| tishiya | unplaced foreign term |
| tonyhoop | perhaps a dialect compound in hoop; base unidentified |
| topau | possibly a tribal or local name |
| topechee | looks like an American Indian or local name |
| tored | perhaps a dialect past tense; base unidentified |
| torolillo | looks like a Spanish American plant name |
| tortays | possibly an old plural spelling; target uncertain |
| toufic | looks like a personal or place name |
| tournel | perhaps a form of tournelle, a little tower |
| tourt | possibly French tourte, a pie or the passenger pigeon |
| towcock | perhaps a dialect compound of tow |
| trachile | perhaps a variant of trachyline |
| traclia | looks like OCR debris for a genus name |
| trafflike | perhaps traffic-like with letters lost |
| trancoidal | perhaps a misprint for trochoidal |
| tranky | perhaps dialectal, of uncertain sense |
| travated | perhaps caught by the legs, from Spanish trabar |
| tregadyne | perhaps a Cornish tre- name or glossary debris |
| tregerg | perhaps OCR debris of a Middle English word |
| triace | perhaps a three-rayed sponge spicule, cf. triact |
| triarctic | perhaps triarchic, or of three arctic regions |
| triddler | perhaps dialectal, cf. tiddler |
| tridii | perhaps a Latin plural or entry-line debris |
| tridra | perhaps scanning debris of a Greek plural |
| trillil | perhaps a trilling sound word or dialect form of trill |
| trimacer | possibly a misprint for grimacer |
| trimscript | perhaps a garbled transcript, or a dialect word |
| trimscripts | plural of trimscript, itself unplaced |
| tripsill | perhaps trip-sill, a sill in hydraulic work |
| triquet | perhaps a triangular figure, cf. triquetra |
| troched | perhaps formed on troche, or Scots troch, a trough |
| trochiluli | perhaps a plural of trochilulus, a small trochilus |
| trochius | perhaps trochilus with the l lost |
| troppaia | perhaps Greek tropaia, a shifting wind |
| trostera | perhaps a genus name; unidentified |
| troupand | perhaps an old form of truant |
| trowane | perhaps a Middle English form of truant |
| truddo | unidentified, perhaps dialectal |
| truller | perhaps a plasterer, from L. trulla, a trowel |
| trypiate | unidentified, perhaps a chemical term |
| tuarn | unidentified, perhaps a misprint of tuart |
| tubba | perhaps the Tubu people or a dialect form of tub |
| tubbal | perhaps tubal, of a tube, with doubled b |
| tubbeck | unidentified, perhaps Anglo-Indian |
| tubboe | unidentified |
| tuckner | perhaps a slip for tucker, a fuller of cloth |
| tucky | perhaps dialectal; no confident target |
| tuinga | no identifiable base; possibly a Pacific term |
| tuliac | no identifiable base |
| tumain | perhaps the Burmese tamein, a woman's wrap skirt |
| tumli | no identifiable base |
| tunca | no identifiable base |
| tundagslatta | looks Scandinavian; no identifiable base |
| tungah | perhaps an Anglo-Indian term; no clear target |
| turkeer | no confident target; perhaps a misprint |
| turnpoke | perhaps turn-poke, or a slip for turnpike |
| turrion | perhaps a tower or turret (Latin turris) |
| turtosa | no identifiable base |
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