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 |
|---|---|
| araeometer | areometer, a hydrometer |
| arbalestre | arbalest (crossbow) |
| archduxe | archduke |
| archegay | assegai (light spear) |
| archeolithic | archaeolithic (earliest stone age) |
| archilla | orchilla (archil dye lichen) |
| archivault | archivolt |
| areosystyle | araeosystyle (intercolumniation) |
| argemony | argemone (prickly poppy) |
| armseye | armscye (armhole of a garment) |
| armsize | armscye/armseye, the armhole |
| arrivist | arriviste |
| arround | around (archaic spelling) |
| arrouse | arouse (archaic spelling) |
| arrythmic | arrhythmic |
| arrythmical | arrhythmical |
| arrythmically | arrhythmically |
| arythmical | arrhythmical |
| arythmically | arrhythmically |
| ascript | adscript, written after; bound to the soil |
| aselar | ashlar (Middle English aseler) |
| aspace | apace (archaic spelling) |
| asylabia | asyllabia |
| athenor | athanor, alchemist's furnace |
| athumia | athymia, despondency |
| atresy | atresia |
| atrocoeruleus | atrocaeruleus, dark blue |
| attomy | atomy, a skeleton or mite |
| auramin | auramine |
| autarkik | autarkic |
| autarkikal | autarkical |
| autecious | autoecious |
| autecism | autoecism |
| autecy | autoecy, autoecism |
| autoecic | autoecious |
| autoecous | autoecious |
| aventayle | aventail, movable front of a helmet |
| awmbrie | ambry (aumbry), a cupboard or locker |
| ayahuca | ayahuasca |
| azedarac | azedarach, the chinaberry tree |
| azobacter | Azotobacter, nitrogen-fixing bacteria |
| babasu | babassu, a Brazilian palm |
| babbool | babul, the gum-arabic acacia |
| baboot | baboon-root, the plant Babiana |
| babroot | baboon-root, the plant Babiana |
| backadation | backwardation, a stock-exchange charge |
| backsite | backsight, a rearward sight or observation |
| baffeta | bafta, an Indian cotton cloth |
| baggyrinkle | baggywrinkle, nautical chafing gear |
| bagnette | baguette |
| bailiery | bailiary |
| bairnteem | bairnteam |
| bajarigar | budgerigar |
| bakie | baikie, a tethering stake |
| balander | bilander, a small coasting vessel |
| baldakin | baldachin |
| baldoquin | baldachin |
| balladise | balladize |
| ballaton | ballatoon |
| ballonette | ballonet, airship air compartment |
| ballywrack | ballywack |
| balonea | valonia, acorn cups used in tanning |
| banjore | banjo |
| bannack | bannock |
| bantin | banteng, wild ox of Java |
| bareka | bareca |
| barhal | bharal, Himalayan blue sheep |
| barnbrack | barmbrack, Irish currant loaf |
| baronetise | baronetize |
| barquantine | barquentine |
| barquest | barguest, a goblin |
| barvell | barvel, a fisherman's leather apron |
| bashalick | bashalic, a pasha's jurisdiction |
| bashyle | basyle, the basic radical of a salt |
| basyl | basyle, the basic radical of a salt |
| bathyl | bathyal, of the deep sea |
| bathylite | batholith |
| bathylith | batholith |
| bathylithic | batholithic |
| bathylitic | batholithic |
| batikulin | batikuling |
| batlon | batlan |
| baxtone | bakestone, a griddle |
| beanfest | beanfeast |
| becafico | beccafico |
| bedlamise | bedlamize |
| bedlamised | bedlamized |
| bedlamising | bedlamizing |
| beefin | biffin (Norfolk baked apple) |
| begass | bagasse |
| begrimmed | begrimed |
| begrimming | begriming |
| belander | bilander (small merchant vessel) |
| belection | bolection (moulding) |
| beliing | belying |
| bellyfull | bellyful |
| bellyfulls | bellyfuls |
| benevolency | benevolence |
| benshea | banshee |
| berbery | barberry |
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