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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 |
|---|---|
| citrocola | likely a citrus spray-oil trade name |
| citronalis | perhaps a citronella-derived compound |
| civite | perhaps a mineral name in -ite |
| cladine | perhaps an -ine compound from Cladonia lichen |
| clairce | perhaps a spelling of clarsach (Gaelic harp) |
| clamaroo | perhaps a jocular formation on clamor |
| clavuvi | perhaps clavuli, small club-shaped bodies |
| clerete | perhaps an obsolete form of claret |
| clernly | OCR damage, perhaps cleanly or clerkly |
| cloine | perhaps OCR of clione, the pteropod genus |
| cloky | perhaps Scots clockie, broody (of a hen) |
| closkey | perhaps a dialect word or a surname |
| closky | variant of closkey; sense unclear |
| cobberer | perhaps cobber + -er, one who cobs ore |
| cobbin | perhaps a dialect diminutive of cob |
| coberger | perhaps a variant of coburgher |
| codol | perhaps a proprietary chemical or drug name |
| codpitchings | perhaps cod-pitchings, refuse of cod-curing |
| coillen | perhaps Gaelic-derived, a wood or hazel copse |
| coiture | perhaps an obsolete form of coition |
| colane | perhaps cholane, a hydrocarbon |
| colberter | perhaps a maker of Colbertine lace |
| colchicia | perhaps Latin plural of colchicium, meadow saffron |
| colchyte | perhaps a Greek-derived mineral or medical term |
| colcine | perhaps a cola alkaloid, or OCR of calcine |
| coldong | perhaps a foreign plant or place name |
| colletside | perhaps collet-side, a lathe or watchmaking term |
| colnaria | perhaps a Latin taxon or legal term |
| colobin | perhaps a term from Gr. kolobos, docked |
| colola | perhaps a local plant or fish name |
| colpheg | perhaps OCR debris of a Greek-derived word |
| comamie | perhaps a foreign plant name or OCR debris |
| comiakin | perhaps an Eskimo boat or garment term |
| comitje | perhaps Dutch comite, a committee |
| commassee | possibly OCR of commassate/commassation |
| comonte | opaque, possibly OCR debris or a place name |
| comorado | possibly OCR of colorado or camarado |
| compester | possibly obsolete verb, to manure or encumber |
| comvia | opaque Latin-looking string, possibly convia |
| conbinas | opaque, possibly OCR of combines |
| confact | possibly OCR of confect, or con- + fact |
| conglution | possibly OCR of conglutination |
| conjective | possibly OCR of conjunctive or connective |
| conscive | possibly OCR of conceive or Latin conscire |
| contraprovectant | possibly contra- + provectant, counter-carrying |
| contreface | possibly Old French contreface, to counterfeit |
| coosify | perhaps dialect, to make cosy |
| copsole | possibly a trade term; unplaced |
| copularium | Latin-form coinage on copula; sense unplaced |
| corach | possibly Gaelic-derived; unplaced |
| corance | possibly an old form of currant; unplaced |
| corchat | unplaced; perhaps a fabric or plant name |
| corcopali | possibly a plant name; unplaced |
| coriaus | possibly OCR of a Latin plural; unplaced |
| cortaro | possibly a Spanish-American plant or place name |
| corynteria | likely a Latin genus name; unidentified |
| cosshen | possibly a form of coshering, Irish exaction |
| coteen | possibly cot + Irish dim. -een, a small cot |
| cotrine | unplaced; possibly a chemical or dialect term |
| coursy | possibly dialectal adj. from course |
| courtby | possibly court-by(-law) or OCR of courtly |
| covido | unplaced; possibly a Spanish loan |
| cowgram | possibly OCR of cow-grass, a clover |
| cowthwort | apparently a plant name in -wort |
| crabut | unplaced; possibly OCR of a crossbow term |
| craccus | Latinate; possibly tied to Cracca, the vetches |
| crannel | possibly dial., a diminutive of cranny |
| crannia | possibly OCR of Crania, a brachiopod genus |
| cransier | obscure; possibly a trade or heraldic term |
| crapwa | possibly a phonetic rendering of French crapaud |
| creddock | obscure; possibly a dialect or surname form |
| creirgist | possibly a Welsh term for a reliquary |
| cremule | obscure; no recoverable sense |
| creply | possibly a mangled creepily or cripply |
| cretoria | possibly a Latin entry-line or place name |
| crig | obscure short form; no recoverable sense |
| criminol | possibly a coined chemical or drug name |
| crimmy | obscure; possibly a dialect adjective |
| crink | possibly a dialect bend or twist |
| crisle | obscure; no recoverable sense |
| crispine | possibly an alkaloid name or a form of crispin |
| cristy | possibly a personal name or dialect form |
| croape | possibly an old spelling of crope (crept) |
| crocko | possibly slang formed on crock |
| croighle | possibly a Gaelic or Scots dialect word |
| crommel | obscure; possibly a dialect or place term |
| cropshin | possibly an old name for a spent shad |
| crossopt | possibly truncated crossopterygian |
| crouperbush | possibly a wheelwright's or farrier's term |
| crowshay | possibly a surname or dialect plant name |
| croyl | obscure; no recoverable sense |
| cruety | possibly an old spelling of cruelty |
| cryal | possibly an old name for the heron |
| crystic | perhaps crystalline; or a slip for cystic |
| cubangle | perhaps cube angle, a crystal form |
| cubla | perhaps a variant of kibla |
| cullas | perhaps plural of an obscure culla |
| cumflutter | perhaps dialect, a state of agitation |
| cunenei | perhaps of the Cunene, Angola |
| cunili | perhaps a Latin genitive of Cunila |
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