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 |
|---|---|
| shohji | shoji, a Japanese paper screen |
| shreading | shredding |
| sibiric | siberic, of Siberia |
| sibyllism | sibylism |
| siderean | sidereal |
| sifac | sifaka, the Madagascar lemur |
| signeury | seigneury, a lord's domain |
| sillibib | syllabub |
| sillibouk | syllabub, in a dialect spelling |
| siluric | Silurian |
| sinistruous | sinistrous |
| sinnowed | sinewed |
| sinoidal | sinusoidal |
| sislowet | siscowet, the fat Lake Superior trout |
| sissone | sissonne, a ballet leap |
| sizal | sisal |
| sizygia | syzygia, plural of syzygy |
| sizygium | syzygium, a conjunction |
| skeane | skean, an Irish dagger |
| skeppe | skep, a basket or beehive |
| skerret | skirret, the root vegetable Sium sisarum |
| skiogram | skiagram, a shadow or X-ray picture |
| skiograph | skiagraph, an X-ray photograph |
| skippel | skipple, a Dutch dry measure |
| slopdash | slapdash |
| smellage | smallage, wild celery or lovage |
| snapy | snappy |
| sneathe | snath, the handle of a scythe |
| snibel | snibble, a small catch or bar |
| snowie | snowy, in the old -ie spelling |
| snuggerie | snuggery, a snug room or place |
| soakman | sokeman, a tenant holding land in socage |
| sodamid | sodamide, sodium amide |
| sorghe | sorgho, a sorghum; old spelling |
| souchie | souchy, as in water-souchy, a dish of stewed fish |
| spartein | sparteine, the broom alkaloid |
| spavine | spavin |
| spermidin | spermidine |
| spermotheca | spermatheca, the sperm-storing sac |
| sphaerolite | spherulite |
| sphaerolitic | spherulitic |
| sphingosin | sphingosine |
| spif | spiff, a bonus paid to a salesman |
| splendatious | splendacious |
| splinder | splinter |
| spoilate | spoliate |
| spoilated | spoliated |
| spondiac | spondaic |
| sponton | spontoon, a half-pike |
| spraggly | scraggly |
| squameous | squamous |
| squaterole | squatarola, the grey plover |
| squeegeing | squeegeeing |
| squirarchical | squirearchical |
| staffete | estafette, a mounted courier |
| stample | stemple, a crossbar in a mine shaft |
| statutary | statutory |
| steenboc | steenbok, the small African antelope |
| steenbrass | steenbras, a South African sea bream |
| steinbuck | steinbok, the small antelope |
| stenter | tenter, the frame that stretches cloth |
| sternoclidomastoid | sternocleidomastoid |
| stoechiometrically | stoichiometrically |
| stoechiometry | stoichiometry |
| stoicharion | sticharion, the tunic vestment of the Orthodox church |
| stoicheiology | stoichiology, the doctrine of elements |
| stoicheiometrically | stoichiometrically |
| straightforwards | straightforward, with adverbial -s |
| strontion | strontian, the earth strontia |
| strophaic | strophic, relating to a strophe |
| stunsle | stuns'le, the sailors' form of studding sail |
| suaharo | saguaro, the giant cactus |
| subbassa | subbass, the organ pedal stop |
| subdivecious | subdioecious, divecious being an old spelling of dioecious |
| subtlist | subtilist, a subtle reasoner |
| suburbican | suburbicarian, of the districts near Rome |
| suegee | soogee, the shipboard cleaning wash |
| suffari | safari |
| suhuaro | saguaro, by way of the spelling sahuaro |
| sulfamerazin | sulfamerazine, old chemical -in spelling |
| sulphamid | sulphamide, old chemical -id spelling |
| sulphamin | sulphamine, old chemical -in spelling |
| sulpharsenid | sulpharsenide, old chemical -id spelling |
| sulphazid | sulphazide, old chemical -id spelling |
| sulphin | sulphine, old chemical -in spelling |
| sulphoamid | sulphoamide, old chemical -id spelling |
| sulphobenzid | sulphobenzide, old chemical -id spelling |
| sulphonamid | sulphonamide, old chemical -id spelling |
| sulphoxid | sulphoxide, old chemical -id spelling |
| sulphurean | sulphureous, poetic form |
| superlapsarian | supralapsarian |
| surprizal | surprisal |
| surrah | surra, a trypanosome disease of horses |
| suterbery | suterberry, the toothache tree |
| swaggi | swaggie, an Australian swagman |
| swail | swale, a low marshy tract |
| swanmote | swainmote, a forest court |
| swimmerette | swimmeret, a crustacean pleopod |
| swimy | swimmy, dizzy or giddy |
| sybarist | sybarite, a voluptuary |
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