Real Words Without Definition
This one is a judgement call.
A different spelling of a word that has a standard modern form.
arround is around. foederal is federal. chorous is chorus. chosing is choosing. crimison is crimson.
Both spellings were in real use at the time. Only one of them made it into the dictionary a lookup would check.
1,577 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 | The standard spelling |
|---|---|
| lactid | lactide |
| lactosid | lactoside |
| lagend | lagan, goods sunk at sea with a buoy |
| lainer | lanier, a leather thong |
| lammergeir | lammergeier |
| lampret | lamprey, older form |
| landtrost | landdrost, a Dutch or S. African magistrate |
| lanthanid | lanthanide |
| lanthopin | lanthopine |
| larigo | latigo, the saddle cinch strap |
| larree | laree, old Persian/Indian hook-shaped silver coin |
| lasarwort | laserwort, the plant Laserpitium |
| lathie | lathi, an Indian bamboo staff |
| laurestinus | laurustinus, Viburnum tinus |
| lavroffite | lavrovite, green vanadium pyroxene |
| lazarole | azarole, fruit of Crataegus azarolus |
| leaverwood | leverwood, the American hop-hornbeam |
| lecyth | lecythus, a Greek oil flask |
| leefange | leefang, rope or bar for hauling in a jib sheet |
| lehrsman | lehrman, worker at a glass lehr |
| lemnad | limnad, a nymph of lakes and marshes |
| lencheon | luncheon |
| lenitic | lentic, of still water |
| lequear | lacquear, a paneled or coffered ceiling |
| letterin | lettrin, a large ornamental initial letter |
| ligurrition | ligurition, daintiness in eating |
| likerish | lickerish |
| lingoe | lingo, jargon (old spelling) |
| linpin | linchpin |
| lipolitic | lipolytic, fat-splitting |
| lockrum | lockram, a coarse linen |
| lookum | lucam, a warehouse hoist housing |
| maamselle | mamselle (mademoiselle) |
| macaber | macabre (danse macaber) |
| macaboy | maccaboy, a scented snuff |
| macague | macaque |
| mackinboy | mackenboy, dwarf elder |
| macrandre | macrander |
| madapolan | madapollam, an Indian cotton cloth |
| madrasseh | madrasah, Islamic school |
| magistrant | magistrand, Scots university final-year student |
| magrim | megrim, migraine |
| maharshi | maharishi, great sage |
| mahogonies | mahoganies, plural of var. spelling mahogony |
| mahogony | mahogany |
| malacaton | melocoton, a kind of peach |
| malacone | malacon, altered zircon |
| malaguetta | malagueta, grains of paradise |
| malakon | malacon, altered zircon |
| malefeazance | malfeasance |
| malpractioner | malpractitioner |
| mammilate | mammillate, nipple-shaped |
| mandamuse | mandamus used as a verb |
| manoc | manioc, cassava |
| marbelization | marbleization |
| marcgrave | margrave |
| marlet | martlet |
| marsupialise | marsupialize |
| martnet | martinet, nautical leech-line |
| mascagnine | mascagnite, native ammonium sulphate |
| maskalonge | muskellunge |
| maskanonge | muskellunge |
| massageuse | masseuse |
| mateley | mately, comradely |
| matelow | matelot, a sailor |
| matlow | matelot, a sailor |
| maudeline | maudlin; also sweet maudlin, the plant |
| mauquahog | quahog, the hard clam |
| meazle | measle, measles |
| medrinacks | medrinaque, a stiff canvas cloth |
| medrinacles | medrinaque, a stiff canvas cloth |
| megomit | megohmit |
| meguilp | megilp, a painter's oil medium |
| meiocene | Miocene |
| melamin | melamine |
| melanorrhoea | melanorrhea |
| melebiose | melibiose, a disaccharide |
| melenic | melaenic, of melaena |
| melicoton | melocoton, a large peach |
| melitemia | melitaemia |
| melithaemia | melitaemia, sugar in the blood |
| melithemia | melithaemia |
| mellilot | melilot, sweet clover |
| mellowphone | mellophone, a brass instrument |
| membrette | membretto, a small architectural member |
| menadic | maenadic, of the Maenads |
| meningorhachidian | meningorachidian |
| meningorrhoea | meningorrhea |
| mennuet | minuet |
| menthan | menthane |
| merciablely | merciably |
| mercurid | mercuride |
| meslen | maslin, mixed rye and wheat |
| mesorrhin | mesorhin |
| mesorrhinal | mesorhinal |
| mesorrhinian | mesorhinian |
| mesorrhinism | mesorhinism |
| mesorrhinium | mesorhinium |
| mexical | mescal, also spelt mexcal |
| mezzolith | mesolith, the Middle Stone Age |
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