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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 |
|---|---|
| drysne | unidentified; perhaps OCR debris |
| dubbeh | perhaps an Arabic loanword; unidentified |
| ducklar | unidentified; perhaps a dialect bird name |
| dudler | perhaps one who dudles or idles |
| duggler | poss. dialect agent-noun; not clearly juggler |
| dujan | poss. a Malay or Philippine local term |
| dukuma | poss. an African plant or place name |
| dultie | poss. Scots dult (dolt) + -ie |
| dumpler | poss. dialect dumple + -er |
| dumsola | poss. an Anglo-Indian plant or trade term |
| dunair | poss. a place name or mineral name |
| dundavoe | poss. a Scots or Irish local term |
| dungol | poss. a chemical or plant name |
| duppa | poss. var. of duppy, W. Indian ghost |
| duraquara | poss. a Brazilian (Tupi) plant or bird name |
| durax | poss. a trade name for a hard paving stone |
| duretto | poss. an old fabric name, cf. duretty |
| durzada | poss. Anglo-Indian, cf. durzee, a tailor |
| dusenwind | poss. a German-derived name for a whirlwind |
| dyssnite | poss. a mineral name in -ite |
| effetman | unidentified man-compound, perhaps dialect |
| effetmen | plural of effetman; unidentified |
| egling | perhaps a dialect fish-name, a young perch |
| egracias | perhaps Spanish gracias; unidentified |
| ekhimi | foreign term, unidentified |
| elaeosia | an elaeo- (oil) coinage; unidentified |
| elboic | unidentified, probably OCR-corrupt |
| electrobrasser | perhaps an electric brazing apparatus |
| elemong | unidentified, perhaps a plant or resin name |
| eleuin | perhaps old spelling of eleven (u for v) |
| elkuma | unidentified, probably a proper name |
| ellerian | adjective from a name Eller; unidentified |
| ellipsone | an ellipse- term; unidentified |
| ellipsonic | adjective of ellipsone; unidentified |
| eltime | unidentified dialect compound |
| embroscopic | perhaps embryoscopic; unidentified |
| emmies | perhaps plural of emmie, a glass marble |
| empexa | perh. a genus name or Greek term |
| enaena | perh. a genus name or OCR debris |
| enalyron | perh. a botanical term from Greek |
| encastered | perh. encastelled, hoof-contracted |
| encia | perh. Spanish encía, gum of the mouth |
| endaseh | perh. a foreign term; OCR unclear |
| endothys | perh. OCR of Endothyra, a foraminifer |
| endotys | perh. OCR of Endothyra, a foraminifer |
| enfrai | perh. ME enfrai, to frighten |
| engnessang | perh. a Scandinavian land term |
| ennedra | perh. a genus name |
| enpia | OCR-damaged headword, perhaps empia or entia |
| ensient | perhaps obs. enceint, pregnant |
| ensporia | perhaps a fungal genus or pl. of ensporium |
| entea | perhaps Greek entea, arms or gear |
| enterfeat | perhaps obs. enter- (inter-) + feat |
| enteria | perhaps NL -enteria as in dysenteria |
| enterpillar | possibly OCR-mangled caterpillar |
| entresalle | perhaps French entre-salle, space between halls |
| entresse | perhaps ME entresse, interest or entry |
| entria | perhaps a genus name or OCR of entia |
| epeidia | perhaps a Greek transliteration or genus name |
| epibatus | perhaps a genus name; Gk epibates, mounter |
| epidia | perhaps pl. of epidium |
| epileny | perhaps Gk epilenios, of the wine-press |
| epithamia | perhaps mangled epithalamia |
| equipostile | perhaps equi- + L. postis, equally posted |
| ergusia | perhaps Greek ergousia, activity |
| errite | possibly ferrite with lost initial f |
| esbay | possibly OCR of essay or assay |
| eschrufe | perhaps a variant of eschaufe, to heat |
| esebrias | possibly a plant or personal name |
| eslisor | perhaps Old French eslisor, chooser |
| espeire | perhaps Old French espeir, hope |
| esphresis | perhaps a mangled Greek medical term |
| essancia | perhaps a Romance form of "essence" |
| essang | possibly a place or plant name |
| estadel | perhaps Spanish estadal, a land measure |
| estevin | possibly a proper name or plant name |
| ethmose | perhaps an -ose compound or ethmoid derivative |
| ettirone | apparently a chemical or mineral name |
| euodic | perhaps Greek euodes, sweet-smelling |
| euripupi | perhaps euripi, plural of euripus, OCR-doubled |
| eurobin | perhaps a dye of the eurhodine series |
| euvrou | perhaps Cape Dutch, cf. ou vrou, old woman |
| evea | perhaps Evea, old genus name for Hevea |
| evergreenite | perhaps a mineral or rock name in -ite |
| explida | possibly a genus name; unverified |
| eyoty | perhaps a form of eyot, a small island |
| factabling | poss. gerund of factable; sense unclear |
| fallation | perhaps a falling, or a deceiving |
| faltche | possibly a form of falchion or falx |
| famp | possibly dialect; sense unclear |
| fanneling | poss. a slip for flannelling |
| fannier | perhaps a variant of pannier |
| faretta | possibly Italian; sense unclear |
| fargite | possibly a mineral name in -ite |
| fathmur | possibly Old Norse fathmr, an embrace or fathom |
| fausant | possibly Old French; sense unclear |
| fauster | poss. a dialect form of foster or falter |
| faverel | possibly OF faverole, a bean |
| fdub | poss. computing identifier (cf. fdname) |
| fdubs | poss. plural of fdub, a computing identifier |
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