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 |
|---|---|
| unfeasableness | unfeasibleness |
| unfeasably | unfeasibly |
| unshewed | unshowed; shew is the old spelling of show |
| untenible | untenable |
| untenibleness | untenableness |
| untenibly | untenably |
| untractible | untractable |
| untractibleness | untractableness |
| vaguio | baguio, a Philippine typhoon |
| vairee | vairy, heraldic, charged with vair |
| vambrash | vambrace, armour for the forearm |
| vampey | vampy, like a vamp |
| vangloe | vanglo, West Indian name for sesame |
| vapourific | vaporific |
| vapourimeter | vaporimeter |
| vapourizer | vaporizer |
| vapourose | vaporose |
| velicate | vellicate, to twitch or pluck |
| vellinch | valinch, a tube for drawing liquor from a cask |
| venisection | venesection, bleeding from a vein |
| verdurer | verderer, the officer of a royal forest |
| verrell | ferrule; also verrel, virl |
| vesiculary | vesicular |
| vessicnon | vessignon, a soft swelling on a horse's hock |
| victal | victual, older spelling |
| villanously | villainously, from the older spelling villanous |
| villayet | vilayet, an Ottoman province |
| vizircraft | vizier-craft, with the vizir spelling |
| volcanizate | vulcanizate, a vulcanized rubber product |
| volvell | volvelle, a rotating paper disc in old books |
| wagh | waugh, an exclamation of disgust |
| wakari | uakari, a short-tailed South American monkey |
| wallise | valise |
| wanmol | wadmal, coarse woollen cloth |
| wapata | wapato, the edible arrowhead tuber |
| warranteed | warranted |
| warve | wharve, the whorl of a spindle |
| watapeh | watap, split spruce root used as thread |
| weezle | weasel, an old spelling |
| weftwize | weftwise, with the old -wize spelling |
| welsom | wealsome, wholesome, beneficial |
| wergil | wergild, the man-price of old law |
| wetchet | watchet, a pale blue |
| whirley | whirly |
| whitblow | whitlow |
| whorle | whorl |
| wiggism | Whiggism |
| wineyard | vineyard |
| wipstock | whipstock |
| wisking | whisking |
| wistit | wistiti, the marmoset |
| wittal | wittol, a contented cuckold |
| wittall | wittol, a contented cuckold |
| wittawer | whittawer, a dresser of white leather |
| wommerala | woomera, Australian spear-thrower |
| wonegan | wangan, a lumber camp supply chest or boat |
| woodine | woodbine, the honeysuckle |
| woodoo | voodoo |
| woodrowel | woodruff, the plant Asperula odorata |
| worrywort | worrywart |
| wortle | whirtle, a wire-drawing plate |
| wosome | woesome, full of woe |
| wraithe | wraith |
| wyling | wiling, luring; wyle for wile |
| yagourundi | jaguarundi, the American wild cat |
| yarly | yarely, readily; from yare |
| yeeuch | yeuch, an exclamation of disgust |
| yeeuck | yuck, an exclamation of disgust |
| yohourt | yoghourt, yogurt |
| yotacism | iotacism, overuse of the iota sound |
| yotacize | iotacize |
| zaminder | zamindar, an Indian landholder |
| zenzuic | zenzic, old algebra for the square of a number |
| zincenite | zinkenite, a lead-antimony sulphide mineral |
| zincid | zincide, a compound of zinc |
| zinkify | zincify, to coat or treat with zinc |
| zonaesthesia | zonesthesia, sensation of a constricting band |
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