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 |
|---|---|
| tutler | perhaps one who tootles; no confident target |
| tutly | no identifiable base |
| twaddy | perhaps twaddly, given to twaddle |
| twale | perhaps Scots twal, twelve, or a twilled cloth |
| twazzy | perhaps dialectal, peevish |
| tweeg | no identifiable base |
| twinkledum | perhaps a jocular coinage after tweedledum |
| twint | perhaps a dialect form of twinkle or blink |
| twistened | perhaps a dialectal twisten + -ed |
| twisterer | perhaps twister with a doubled -er |
| twyver | no identifiable base |
| tydden | no identifiable base |
| tyleberry | no identifiable base; perhaps a plant name |
| tylocin | perhaps a drug or chemical name on tylo- |
| tymbalon | perhaps the cimbalom, or a timbal drum |
| typarchical | perhaps relating to a typarch, a chief of printing |
| typhia | perhaps the wasp genus Tiphia, or a typhus term |
| typhonia | perhaps a temple of Typhon, or the moth genus Typhonia |
| tyrr | perhaps the Norse god Tyr |
| tyum | no identifiable base |
| tzaam | perhaps the Mongolian tsam masked dance |
| udish | no confident target; perhaps a slip for dish |
| ugarono | no identifiable base |
| unness | best guess, a noun on the prefix un-, the quality of being un- |
| unterred | perhaps un- + terred, from obsolete terre, to provoke |
| utees | perhaps a plural of utee, not identifiable |
| valouwe | unidentified, looks like an old Dutch or Middle English form |
| vamfont | perhaps an armour term beside vambrace, not identifiable |
| vammazsa | unidentified, apparently a foreign loan |
| vandelas | perhaps candelas misprinted, or a surname |
| varing | perhaps varying, or a Varing (Varangian) |
| varkas | perhaps a plural of varka, not identifiable |
| varmannie | perhaps a Scots diminutive, not identifiable |
| vassos | perhaps bassos or lassos misread |
| vefry | perhaps belfry or verry misprinted |
| velunge | unidentified, not recoverable from the spelling |
| velyarde | perhaps an old spelling of a -yard compound |
| vencola | unidentified, perhaps a plant or place name |
| venkisen | unidentified, apparently a foreign loan |
| venlin | perhaps a chemical principle in -in, unidentified |
| vermetio | possibly for vermetid, a worm-shell mollusk |
| verty | perhaps vert (forest greenery) + -y |
| vervenia | perhaps a Latinized form of vervain or verbena |
| vesiculus | probably Latin vesicula, a small bladder, in a masculine form |
| videruff | opaque; perhaps a mangled German Widerruf, revocation |
| vidry | perhaps bidri, the Indian inlaid metalware |
| villache | opaque; possibly a term from Villach in Carinthia |
| violal | perhaps a violet-scented aldehyde, or an adjective of viol |
| violand | opaque; no recoverable base |
| vipolitic | opaque; no recoverable base |
| virginitis | perhaps a nonce formation, virgin + -itis |
| viriliously | perhaps an adverb of a rare virilious, or for virilely |
| viritrate | opaque; no recoverable base |
| vistlik | opaque; perhaps Dutch or Afrikaans |
| vitita | opaque; no recoverable base |
| vollenge | opaque; no recoverable base |
| volpane | opaque; perhaps from Italian volpe, fox |
| vucom | opaque; apparently a countable device or trade name |
| vulturn | perhaps the Australian brush-turkey, or Latin Vulturnus |
| wabby | perhaps dialectal for flabby or unsteady |
| wagoness | perhaps wagonless, or a misprint of wagoners |
| waivatua | perhaps a Pacific (Maori or Fijian) name |
| wakiki | perhaps a native shell bead money |
| wakikis | plural of wakiki, perhaps a shell bead money |
| walahee | perhaps Arabic wallahi, "by God" |
| waltrot | perhaps a variant of waltron, the walrus |
| waneatta | perhaps a place or tribal name |
| wansith | perhaps wan- (privative) + sith (time), a mishap |
| wantroke | perhaps wan- (privative) + troke (dealing) |
| warkamoowee | perhaps an Australian Aboriginal name |
| warracoori | perhaps an Australian Aboriginal name |
| warrok | perhaps warlock in the sense of a fastening pin |
| wasel | perhaps an old spelling of weasel or wassail |
| wassie | perhaps a Scots diminutive |
| watala | perhaps an East African (wa-) people name |
| waubeen | perhaps Scots or an Algonquian word |
| wauner | perhaps Scots for wonder, or a minced oath |
| waviata | perhaps a tribal or place name |
| weaser | perhaps a dialect bird name or a form of wheezer |
| weatings | perhaps wheatings, the middlings of wheat |
| weeda | perhaps a native plant or bird name |
| weilang | perhaps a Chinese name (Wei Lang) |
| werewall | perhaps were-wall, a wall of defence (OE wer) |
| weroole | perhaps an Australian bird name (cf. weero) |
| whallock | perhaps dialect, a heavy blow or to beat |
| whand | perhaps a dialect form of wand |
| whart | possibly a dialect form of wart or thwart |
| whatchy | possibly dialectal; sense not recoverable |
| wheem | possibly Scots; sense uncertain |
| whesten | possibly a misprint for wheaten or a form of whet |
| whikerby | paired with wickerby; sense uncertain |
| whill | possibly a dialect form of whirl or will |
| whilter | paired with whulter, a dialect word; sense uncertain |
| whinnel | possibly dialectal; compare winnel, a dry stalk |
| whipking | possibly whipping, or a whip-king compound |
| whippa | possibly a dialect form of whipper |
| whippeter | possibly whippet + -er; sense uncertain |
| whirrick | possibly dialectal, to squeal or neigh |
| whitin | possibly dialectal whiting, or the surname Whitin |
| whorry | possibly dialectal wherry or worry |
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