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 |
|---|---|
| puleyn | poleyn, the knee-piece of armor |
| pungey | pungy, a Chesapeake Bay schooner |
| pungie | pungy, a Chesapeake Bay schooner |
| pupilarity | pupillarity, the state of being a ward |
| pupilate | pupillate, having a central eye-like spot |
| pushmina | pashmina, fine goat's-wool fabric |
| pylorous | pylorus |
| pyrimidin | pyrimidine |
| pyroheliometer | pyrheliometer |
| qabbalah | kabbalah |
| quartin | quartine, the fourth coat of an ovule |
| quassiin | quassin, the bitter principle of quassia |
| queechy | queachy, boggy and yielding |
| quintefoil | cinquefoil |
| quintfoil | cinquefoil |
| quodling | codling, a cooking apple |
| radsimir | radzimir, a black silk fabric |
| ralish | relish |
| rallery | raillery |
| ramilies | ramillies, the wig or cocked hat |
| rammage | ramage, wild or untamed (of a hawk) |
| rammass | ramass, to gather or heap together |
| rangler | wrangler, an older spelling |
| rantepole | rantipole, a wild romping person |
| rantoon | ratoon, a shoot from a cane stool |
| rattel | ratel, the honey badger |
| reardoss | reredos, the screen behind an altar |
| reboke | rebuke, an older spelling |
| recruitors | recruiters (recruitor for recruiter) |
| refrangent | refringent, refracting |
| regretableness | regrettableness, in the one-t spelling |
| regretably | regrettably, in the one-t spelling |
| reimburseable | reimbursable |
| reophore | rheophore, a battery lead wire |
| revelly | reveille, older spelling |
| revete | revet, to face a wall with masonry |
| revivescence | reviviscence, a return to life |
| revivescency | reviviscency, a reviving |
| riboso | rebozo, the Spanish shawl |
| riboza | rebozo |
| ricecar | ricercar, a contrapuntal instrumental piece |
| rigadon | rigadoon, a lively dance |
| roove | rove, the metal washer clenched over a rivet |
| rosety | rosetty, set with rosettes |
| rotocraft | rotorcraft |
| royalisation | royalization |
| rumage | rummage |
| ryotwary | ryotwari, an Indian land tenure |
| saccarify | saccharify |
| saccarimeter | saccharimeter |
| sallender | sellander, an eruption on a horse's hock |
| salsuginose | salsuginous, growing in salty soil |
| saltary | saltery, a place where fish are salted |
| salteretto | saltarello, a lively Italian dance |
| sambul | sumbul, the musk root of Ferula sumbul |
| samsien | samisen, the Chinese san-hsien lute |
| santar | santir, the Persian dulcimer |
| sapodillo | sapodilla |
| sarif | sharif, an Arab title of descent |
| sattie | sati (suttee), widow-burning |
| savey | savvy |
| scallage | scalage, the measuring allowance |
| scallola | scagliola, imitation marble |
| scarletina | scarlatina, scarlet fever |
| scavenage | scavage, a medieval toll on goods |
| scewing | skewing; scew is an old spelling of skew |
| schematiser | schematizer |
| schnorkle | snorkel |
| sciametry | skiametry, measurement by shadows |
| scioterical | sciotherical, of a shadow-clock or sundial |
| scirrosity | scirrhosity, hardness of a scirrhous tumor |
| scivvy | skivvy, a maid-of-all-work |
| scopolamin | scopolamine |
| scramasaxe | scramasax, a Frankish single-edged knife |
| scrimshandy | scrimshaw, scrimshander work |
| scruf | scruff |
| sculper | scauper, an engraver's gouge |
| sebasic | sebacic, as in sebacic acid |
| segathy | sagathy, a light woollen stuff |
| seggard | sagger, a fireclay case for firing pottery |
| sellenders | sallenders, an eruption on a horse's hock |
| selzogene | seltzogene, apparatus for making seltzer |
| semsen | semsem, the Arabic name for sesame |
| sendle | sendal, a fine silk fabric |
| sennite | sennit, braided cordage |
| serau | serow, the Asian goat antelope |
| seraw | serow, the Asian goat antelope |
| serpentary | serpentaria, the Virginia snakeroot |
| sertularoid | sertularioid, resembling Sertularia |
| serut | seroot, the Sudanese biting fly |
| settsman | setsman, a man who works a sett |
| sexern | sextern, a gathering of six sheets |
| shabeque | xebec, a small Mediterranean vessel |
| shabracque | shabrack, a cavalry saddlecloth |
| shado | shadow, an old spelling |
| shagbush | hagbush, an early matchlock gun |
| shaslick | shashlik |
| shellak | shellac |
| sherify | sherifi, the gold coin |
| shinaniging | shenaniganing, playing tricks |
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