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 |
|---|---|
| gibetting | gibbeting |
| giddea | gidgee, Australian acacia |
| gidgea | gidgee, Australian acacia |
| gidyea | gidgee, Australian acacia |
| gierfalcon | gyrfalcon |
| gildsman | guildsman |
| gildsmen | guildsmen |
| ginep | genip, the Spanish lime |
| gingeley | gingelly, sesame |
| gingeli | gingelly, sesame |
| gingely | gingelly, sesame |
| ginney | ginny |
| gipseian | Gypseian, of the Gypsies |
| gipsiologist | gypsiologist, student of Gypsies |
| gipsology | gypsology, study of the Gypsies |
| gipsywort | gypsywort, Lycopus europaeus |
| giterne | gittern, a medieval lute |
| glabriety | glabreity, hairlessness |
| glamourously | glamorously |
| glassin | glassine |
| gleir | glair, white of egg |
| glendover | glendoveer, Southey's aerial spirit |
| glottid | glottis, anglicized form |
| gnapweed | knapweed |
| goldeney | goldeneye (the duck) |
| gonfalcon | gonfalon, a banner |
| gournard | gurnard (the fish) |
| gradal | gradual, the liturgical service-book |
| grailing | grayling (the fish) |
| grainery | granary |
| grandada | granddada, nursery word for grandfather |
| greyling | grayling (the fish) |
| griffado | griffade |
| griphe | griph, a riddle |
| grittie | gritty |
| gromil | gromwell (Lithospermum) |
| gromyl | gromwell (Lithospermum) |
| grooty | grouty, muddy or sulky |
| grundsil | groundsill, a foundation timber |
| grunswel | groundsel (Senecio) |
| gryph | gryphon, a griffin |
| guaiocum | guaiacum (lignum vitae) |
| guiba | guib, the harnessed antelope |
| guillochee | guilloche, ornamental interlaced engraving |
| gundelow | gundalow, a flat-bottomed scow |
| gunyeh | gunyah, an Australian bark hut |
| gurdle | girdle |
| gurgoyl | gargoyle |
| gurniad | gwyniad, a lake whitefish |
| guttee | gutty, heraldic term for drop-sprinkled |
| gynaeocracy | gynaecocracy, rule by women |
| gypsous | gypseous |
| haboub | haboob (Sudanese dust storm) |
| hachment | hatchment (heraldic panel) |
| hackamatak | hackmatack (the tamarack larch) |
| hackmack | hackmatack (the tamarack larch) |
| hagada | Haggadah (Jewish Passover narrative) |
| haggeis | haggis (old spelling) |
| haimsucken | hamesucken (Scots law offence) |
| hamesoken | hamesucken (assault in one's own house) |
| handspec | handspike (a lever) |
| harshlet | haslet, pig's fry or offal |
| hathpace | halfpace (hautpace), a stair landing |
| haubois | hautbois (the oboe; also a strawberry) |
| headle | heddle (weaving) |
| hebdomarian | hebdomadarian, monk on weekly duty |
| hebdomary | hebdomadary, weekly |
| hectocotyl | hectocotylus, cephalopod arm |
| hectocotyle | hectocotylus |
| hemagog | hemagogue |
| hemameba | hemamoeba |
| hemipod | hemipode, the button-quail |
| hemocoele | hemocoel, the blood-filled body cavity |
| herbane | variant spelling of herb-bane |
| hetaery | hetaeria, a Greek association |
| hetairy | hetaeria, a Greek association |
| heterism | hetaerism, communal or irregular mating |
| hokypoky | hokey-pokey, cheap street ice cream |
| hommack | hummock, US hommock |
| homogeneate | homogenate |
| homogeneization | homogenization |
| homogeneize | homogenize |
| homologal | homological |
| homopathy | homoeopathy |
| horation | Horatian, of the poet Horace |
| horehoond | horehound, old spelling |
| hornswaggle | hornswoggle |
| horologue | horologe, a timepiece |
| horrah | hurrah |
| horray | hurray |
| horseleach | horseleech |
| hostle | hostel, old spelling |
| housal | housel, the Eucharist |
| hubbob | hubbub |
| huloist | hyloist, a materialist |
| hydrofluorid | hydrofluoride |
| hydrorachis | hydrorrhachis |
| hydrorrhoea | hydrorrhea |
| hydrosole | hydrosol |
| hygrin | hygrine |
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