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 |
|---|---|
| dekapode | decapod |
| demagnetisable | demagnetizable (British -ise) |
| demissory | dimissory, letters of dismissal |
| dentalisation | dentalization, phonetics |
| dentelated | dentellated, notched like teeth |
| despraise | dispraise |
| desulfurisation | desulfurization |
| deusan | deuzan, the John apple |
| dewtry | datura, the thorn-apple |
| diatesseron | diatessaron |
| diatonical | diatonic |
| dicaryon | dikaryon |
| dicaryophase | dikaryophase |
| dicaryophyte | dikaryophyte |
| dicaryotic | dikaryotic |
| dictic | deictic |
| didle | diddle |
| didler | diddler |
| diedric | dihedral |
| dietted | dieted (archaic doubled t) |
| diffranchise | disfranchise |
| dilutent | diluent |
| dinamode | dynamode (obsolete unit of work) |
| dingee | dinghy |
| dinghee | dinghy |
| dioestrous | diestrous |
| dioestrum | diestrum |
| dioptomiter | dioptometer |
| diothelism | dyothelism |
| diphysitism | dyophysitism, doctrine of Christ's two natures |
| diptyca | diptych |
| disbogue | disembogue, to pour forth at the mouth |
| dischevel | dishevel (older spelling) |
| disdein | disdain (older spelling) |
| diskophile | discophile, a collector of records |
| doaty | doty, of decaying timber |
| dogbody | dogsbody, a drudge |
| doketic | Docetic, of Docetism |
| dominial | domanial, of a domain |
| dormitary | dormitory (older spelling) |
| douricouli | douroucouli, the S. American night monkey |
| douvecot | dovecot (old spelling) |
| dowcote | dovecote (old spelling) |
| dragonade | dragonnade, persecution by quartered dragoons |
| draisene | draisine, the early velocipede or handcar |
| drakonite | draconite, gem fabled from a dragon's head |
| drogerman | dragoman, an eastern interpreter |
| drogherman | dragoman, an eastern interpreter |
| drugman | dragoman (older corrupted form) |
| dualogue | duologue, a dialogue between two persons |
| duplon | duplone, a Swiss gold coin |
| durrin | dhurrin, cyanogenetic glucoside of sorghum |
| eavedropper | eavesdropper |
| eavedropping | eavesdropping |
| eclegme | eclegma, a linctus |
| ecstrophy | exstrophy (of the bladder) |
| ectoenzym | ectoenzyme |
| ectogeneous | ectogenous, originating outside |
| edility | aedility, the office of an aedile |
| eeyuch | yuck, interjection of disgust |
| eeyuck | yuck, interjection of disgust |
| eglogue | eclogue |
| electrodialitic | electrodialytic |
| electrodialitically | electrodialytically |
| electromotiv | electromotive (simplified spelling) |
| eleoblast | elaeoblast |
| eleomargaric | elaeomargaric |
| eleometer | elaeometer, oil gravimeter |
| eloine | eloign, to remove out of jurisdiction |
| elytrorhagia | elytrorrhagia |
| emanativ | emanative (simplified spelling) |
| emboweller | emboweler |
| empall | impale (older empale) |
| empestic | empaestic (embossed work) |
| empyreum | empyrean |
| encefalon | encephalon |
| encist | encyst |
| endameba | endamoeba |
| enfoeffment | enfeoffment |
| enhemospore | enhaemospore |
| enneateric | enneaeteric |
| enocyte | oenocyte, a fat-body cell of insects |
| enormious | enormous (older spelling) |
| enstranged | estranged (obs. en- form) |
| epirogeny | epeirogeny |
| episarkine | episarcine |
| episthotonos | opisthotonos |
| epistrophy | epistrophe (rhetorical end-repetition) |
| epitaxis | epitaxy (oriented crystal growth) |
| equatoreal | equatorial |
| erichtoid | erichthoid |
| escruage | escuage (feudal scutage) |
| eserin | eserine |
| estensible | extensible |
| estoil | estoile (heraldic star) |
| etabelli | etaballi |
| etherialisation | etherealization (British -isation) |
| etherialise | etherealize |
| etherialised | etherealized |
| etherialising | etherealizing |
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