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 |
|---|---|
| bernoo | burnoose |
| berreave | bereave |
| berreaved | bereaved |
| berreaves | bereaves |
| berreaving | bereaving |
| bertrum | bertram (pellitory of Spain) |
| besagne | besague, a two-edged tool |
| bettonga | bettong, a rat-kangaroo |
| bezantee | bezanty, heraldic, strewn with bezants |
| bickiron | bickern, a beaked anvil |
| bifluorid | bifluoride |
| biforin | biforine (raphide-bearing plant cell) |
| bilbi | bilby |
| bilboa | bilbo (Bilbao sword) |
| billage | bilge |
| billtong | biltong |
| bilobiate | bilobate, two-lobed |
| biochemic | biochemical |
| biophysic | biophysics |
| bipartizan | bipartisan |
| bisannual | biannual |
| biscanism | Biscayanism, a Basque idiom |
| bissellia | bisellia, Roman double seats of honor |
| bivouaced | bivouacked |
| bizel | bezel |
| bleery | bleary |
| blendor | blender |
| blennorhea | blennorrhea |
| boarcite | boracite (borate mineral) |
| bobooti | bobotie, South African baked dish |
| bobsleded | bobsledded |
| bobsleding | bobsledding |
| bocasin | bocasine, a fine buckram |
| bodken | bodkin |
| bolbanac | bolbonac, the plant honesty |
| bombazeen | bombazine |
| bombernickel | pumpernickel |
| bonnyvis | bonavist, the hyacinth bean |
| bootleger | bootlegger |
| borish | boorish |
| boulimy | bulimy, ravenous hunger |
| boultell | boltel, a rounded architectural molding |
| bourage | borage |
| boutel | boltel, a rounded molding |
| bracketted | bracketed |
| braggat | bragget, ale sweetened with honey |
| brahmany | brahminy (as in brahminy kite) |
| brambrack | barmbrack, Irish currant bread |
| brasilete | brazilette, a dyewood |
| breadstitch | bredstitch, an embroidery stitch |
| bredestitch | bredstitch, an embroidery stitch |
| bressomer | bressummer, a beam over an opening |
| browzer | browser |
| brubu | brubru, an African shrike |
| brumbee | brumby |
| brumbie | brumby |
| brummagen | Brummagem |
| brumstone | brimstone |
| brusure | brisure, heraldic mark of cadency |
| bucrane | bucranium, ox-skull ornament |
| budgerigah | budgerigar |
| budgerygah | budgerigar |
| buginvillaea | bougainvillaea |
| buhlbuhl | bulbul |
| bullose | bullous, blistered |
| bumaloe | bummalo, the Bombay duck |
| bumaree | bummaree |
| burelly | burely, heraldic barry of ten |
| burgul | burghul, bulgur wheat |
| bushbeck | bushbuck, the African antelope |
| buttonhold | buttonhole, to detain in talk |
| caball | cabal |
| cabio | cobia, the fish |
| cabret | cabrit, the pronghorn antelope |
| cadish | caddish |
| cadying | caddying |
| calabur | calabura, the Jamaica cherry tree |
| calamiferious | calamiferous, reed-bearing |
| calapitte | calapite, the coconut stone |
| calastic | chalastic, relaxing or laxative |
| calcydon | calcedony, chalcedony |
| calibrater | calibrator |
| calicate | calycate, having a calyx |
| caluptra | calyptra, a hood or veil |
| camize | camise, a loose light shirt |
| camletine | camleteen, a worsted fabric |
| cammas | camas, the quamash plant |
| campody | campoody, a Southwestern Indian camp |
| canephoroe | canephoroi, Greek basket-bearers |
| cannaled | cannelled, fluted or grooved |
| cannalling | cannelling, cutting flutes |
| canopid | canopic, of Canopus jars |
| canterelle | chanterelle, a violin's highest string |
| cantilated | cantillated, chanted |
| cantilating | cantillating, chanting |
| capoche | capuche, a hood |
| caponisation | caponization |
| caraboa | carabao, water buffalo |
| carapache | carapace |
| cardiagram | cardiogram |
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