Error Words
This one is a judgement call.
A word that got cut off, or scanner output that fell apart.
Some are truncations we can name, like amenorrho for amenorrhoea and analyt for analytic. Others are just noise.
If we can name the word that was meant it goes under Typo instead. If we cannot rebuild it at all it lands here.
407 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 | Our best guess |
|---|---|
| plotx | OCR debris, unrecoverable |
| plupf | OCR debris, unrecoverable |
| pneumatoce | truncated pneumatocele |
| polladz | OCR debris, unrecoverable |
| prememoda | OCR debris, apparently truncated prememoranda |
| preser | truncation of preserve / preserved |
| procbal | OCR debris, perhaps probal (probable) |
| protectinglyrmal | protectingly plus unrecoverable -rmal tail |
| pseudobia | truncated pseudo- form, unrecoverable |
| pteroylmonogl | truncated pteroylmonoglutamic (acid) |
| pyruwl | OCR debris, perhaps pyruvyl |
| questionle | truncated questionless |
| quidae | mangled family name, perhaps Equidae |
| ranli | unrecoverable, apparently scan debris |
| readl | scan debris, apparently from read |
| rearii | unrecoverable, apparently entry-line debris |
| recusf | scan debris, apparently from recuse or recusant |
| referda | OCR debris in the refer- run, no recoverable target |
| rhachi | combining form rhachi- (spine) |
| rheo | combining form rheo- (current, flow) |
| rhombenla | truncated rhomben- compound; cf. rhombenporphyr |
| rrhiza | stray Greek combining form -rrhiza, root |
| saccha | truncated combining form sacchar- |
| sahh | unrecoverable |
| sakell | truncated Sakellaridis, the cotton name |
| scalx | OCR debris from a scal- word |
| scalz | OCR debris from a scal- word |
| scendentality | truncated transcendentality, head lost |
| sceptibly | looks like susceptibly with the head lost |
| scler | the combining form scler-, not a standalone word |
| scolb | unrecoverable, possibly a bad scan of scold |
| screar | unrecoverable, perhaps a bad scan of screak |
| scyt | truncated, perhaps scythe or Scyth |
| secretivelies | malformed plural of the adverb secretively |
| semiminess | truncated semi- word ending in -ness; base lost |
| seminess | truncated -ness form; possibly seminervousness |
| semiperoid | truncated semi- compound; target unrecoverable |
| serting | tail of inserting or deserting, prefix lost |
| sertion | tail of insertion or desertion, prefix lost |
| sertive | tail of assertive or insertive, prefix lost |
| servation | tail of conservation or preservation, prefix lost |
| sesquih | truncated sesqui- entry, e.g. sesquihydrate |
| sfree | unrecoverable, scanning debris |
| shfsep | OCR debris, unrecoverable |
| shortschat | OCR debris, unrecoverable |
| shradd | truncation of shraddha, the Hindu funeral rite |
| silico | the bare combining form silico-, not a word |
| solidillu | OCR debris; looks like solid plus a truncated label |
| solidomind | OCR debris; perhaps solid-minded |
| solidudi | OCR debris beside the entry solidum |
| sorosil | truncation of sorosilicate, which follows it in the source |
| speakablies | mechanical -ies plural of the adverb speakably |
| ssing | unrecoverable, looks like a word tail |
| ssort | unrecoverable, possibly a truncated sort label |
| sstor | unrecoverable, possibly a truncated store label |
| starw | truncated, apparently the start of starwort |
| stephe | truncated, apparently the head of stephead |
| stituted | broken off from instituted or constituted |
| stodtone | unrecoverable, looks like scanning debris |
| stomode | truncation of stomodeum, the embryonic mouth |
| stratig | truncation of stratigraphy |
| subvii | sub- plus the Roman numeral VII, entry-numbering debris |
| swleaves | OCR debris, no recoverable form |
| syddir | OCR debris, no recoverable form |
| syftn | consonant string, perhaps siftin(g); unrecoverable |
| taysmm | vowel-less debris, apparently taysaam |
| tektos | truncation, apparently the start of tektosilicate |
| tektosi | truncation of tektosilicate |
| tektosil | truncation of tektosilicate |
| telegn | truncation, apparently telegnosis or telegnostic |
| teleph | truncated, apparently telephone or telephony |
| tetraspgia | OCR debris, letters lost; perhaps tetrasporangia |
| tetrdra | OCR debris, probably tetrahedra |
| theb | truncation, probably of Theban or thebaine |
| theor | truncation of theory or theorem |
| thermodynam | truncation of thermodynamic or thermodynamics |
| thsant | OCR debris, no recoverable form |
| thund | looks like a truncated thunder |
| timbe | looks like a truncated timber |
| timetrp | garbled, no recoverable form |
| trabu | truncated, looks like trabuco cut short |
| trah | three-letter debris, unrecoverable |
| trionychoideachid | garbled fusion of trionychoidea and trionychid |
| tripl | truncation of triple or triplicate |
| tropicalih | tropicali- plus scanning debris |
| trpset | unrecoverable, vowel-less debris |
| trypa | truncated tryp- term, perhaps trypanosome |
| turgy | the suffix -turgy, as in dramaturgy |
| ualis | Latin entry-line debris, the ending -ualis |
| underli | truncated, probably underlie |
| undisfulfilled | looks like unfulfilled with a stray dis- spliced in |
| unmovablety | garbled abstract-noun ending, sitting in the source run unmovable, unmovableness, unmovability, unmovably; no one clean target |
| unscarb | truncated un-scar- entry, target unrecoverable |
| unshness | letters lost mid-word, probably unshyness or unshiness |
| urophi | truncated uro- compound, no recoverable form |
| utend | Latin gerundive stem utend-, not an English word |
| uvito | stem of uvitic and uvitonic acid, not a word |
| vica | truncation, probably of vicar |
| vvll | OCR debris, vv standing for w |
| wasn | truncation, apparently of wasn't |
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