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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 |
|---|---|
| curdoo | perhaps Cornish curdow, itinerant tailor |
| cursal | perhaps cursus + -al, of a course |
| curvle | perhaps a small curve, or a slip for curdle |
| cusie | perhaps a variant of cushie |
| cuvy | perhaps a dialect form of covey |
| cybernion | perhaps a coinage in cybernetics |
| cycliae | perhaps a Latin plural of a cycl- term |
| cyclode | perhaps a curve; cf. cycloid |
| cyke | perhaps a spelling of cyc or of syke |
| cytolist | perhaps cytologist; unplaceable cyto- form |
| dahlsten | possibly a Scandinavian surname |
| daisee | possibly dasheen or a variant of daisy |
| dallack | possibly a dialect variant of dallop |
| damine | possibly a chemical amine derivative |
| dampang | possibly a foreign tree or plant name |
| danoranja | possibly a Spanish-derived plant name |
| dansy | possibly a dialect word or a slip for daisy |
| danuri | possibly a foreign plant or place name |
| dashee | possibly dasheen, taro, or West African dash |
| daterman | possibly an OCR misreading of waterman |
| daukin | possibly dialectal dawkin, a simpleton |
| dawut | possibly a variant of dawt or a personal name |
| decast | perhaps de- + cast, or truncated decastyle |
| decipolar | perhaps deci- + polar, or decapolar |
| decumary | perhaps from Decumaria, or from decuman |
| deecodder | apparently a garbled form of decoder |
| deeny | perhaps a dialect diminutive or a surname |
| degorder | perhaps a garble of degorger |
| dehache | perhaps Fr. dehache; not identified |
| deicate | possibly a slip for dedicate or delicate |
| deisin | perhaps deasil (sunwise) or seisin |
| delaw | not identified; perhaps de- + law |
| delawn | not identified; perhaps de- + lawn |
| dellaring | apparently a garble of declaring or cellaring |
| deloo | not identified; perhaps a proper name |
| demiscible | perhaps de- + miscible, or a slip for departible/demissible |
| democraw | perhaps a jocular or dialect form of Democrat |
| demoid | perhaps demo- + -oid, deme-like; or OCR of dermoid |
| demonastery | perhaps de- + monastery, or a demon + monastery blend |
| dendrodra | possibly OCR of a genus such as Dendrodoa or Dendrodoris |
| dentical | perhaps an obs. adj. "of the teeth", or a slip for denticle |
| denticate | perhaps obs., to furnish with teeth, indent |
| depeter | perhaps de- + Peter, to free from papal authority |
| deploitation | perhaps for exploitation, or F. deploiement |
| depreter | perhaps OCR of deprecator or depreciator |
| deripia | possibly a genus or Latin entry-line debris |
| dermutation | perhaps for permutation, or a skin-change coinage |
| desonation | perhaps a misprint of desolation or detonation |
| deunam | possibly Latin entry debris |
| deuterosy | perhaps Greek deuterosis, a repetition |
| developoid | perhaps a misprint of developed |
| dewer | perhaps Dewer, the Dartmoor huntsman |
| diablene | possibly a chemical or trade name |
| diagonic | perhaps diagonal or a misprint of diatonic |
| dialiness | perhaps dailiness or a misprint |
| dialonian | perhaps an adjective from a proper name |
| diatonous | perh. var. of diatomous (min., one cleavage) |
| dibatis | perh. a genus name (cf. Batis) |
| didymia | Gk. didymos "twin"; a taxon or teratological term |
| digmeat | perh. dog-meat (OCR) or "dig meat" |
| dihelios | Gk. di- + helios; perh. "sunlit on both sides" |
| dihely | Gk. helios compound; cf. dihelios |
| dilemite | perh. a mineral name; cf. dolomite |
| dilker | perh. dialectal; or OCR of dicker/milker |
| dimoric | perh. OCR of dimeric or dimorphic |
| dinder | perh. dialectal; cf. dinnle, to resound |
| diomate | opaque; perh. OCR debris |
| dionise | -ise/-ize verb pair; sense undetermined |
| dionize | -ise/-ize verb pair; sense undetermined |
| dioti | perh. pl. of diota, a two-handled jar |
| direx | possibly Latin direx(it), 'he directed' |
| dirgler | perhaps dialectal, one who dirls or vibrates |
| discriminoid | perhaps -oid on discrimen, a dividing line |
| disgig | perhaps dis- + gig, to unseat from a gig |
| dislip | perhaps OCR of dislink, or dis- + lip |
| divia | possibly divi-divi or a Latin proper name |
| doftberry | dialect berry name, first element unclear |
| doggle | possibly dialect verb or back-formation of boondoggle |
| dokmarok | apparently a foreign plant or animal name |
| dollia | possibly dolia, plural of dolium, or a genus |
| donack | possibly Irish or Scots dialect term |
| dondine | possibly French dondaine or a chemical -ine |
| doralium | apparently a New Latin term, unidentified |
| doray | possibly dore or dory, a fish name |
| dorestane | unidentified; perhaps a dial. or OCR-garbled form |
| dorine | perhaps Dor(is/ic) + -ine; unidentified |
| doruck | unidentified; perhaps a dialect form |
| dosain | unidentified; perhaps an Old French form |
| dossety | unidentified; perhaps a dialect word |
| dottler | perhaps dottle + -er, or var. of dotterel |
| doudle | perhaps dial.; cf. doodle, dawdle |
| dragade | perhaps an obs. verb, to drag or dredge |
| drias | perhaps var. of Dryas, wood-nymph or avens genus |
| drochuil | perhaps Gaelic (droch-, bad); unidentified |
| droghlin | unidentified; perhaps a dialect form |
| droitsman | perhaps an officer levying droits or dues |
| dronel | perhaps an obs. form of drone, an idler |
| dronet | perhaps an obs. form of drone, an idler |
| droud | unidentified; perhaps a dialect word |
| druith | perhaps Gaelic for druid; unidentified |
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