Real Words Without Definition
This one is a judgement call.
Old English that fell out of use and got dropped from later dictionaries.
abush is an old form of ambush. absee was the alphabet. abiston was a name for asbestos. abbroachment was the offence of buying wholesale to sell on at retail.
These were normal words with normal definitions. People stopped using them and the dictionaries stopped carrying them.
2,710 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 | What it meant |
|---|---|
| stechados | old drug name for French lavender, stoechas |
| stedhorses | sted-horses, old spelling of steed-horses, stallions |
| steigh | Middle English, ascended, past tense of stie |
| stellature | late Latin stellatura, a deduction from soldiers' rations |
| steracle | obsolete form of spectacle, a show |
| stichado | old name for French lavender, stoechas |
| stickadore | corrupt old name for French lavender |
| stickadove | corrupt old name for French lavender |
| stinkibus | old slang, stale or bad liquor |
| stolist | an ancient priest who robed the sacred images |
| stonied | stunned, aphetic form of astonied |
| storiate | to adorn with figures or stories, historiate |
| stract | distraught, aphetic form of distract |
| stratonic | pertaining to an army, Greek stratos |
| stratonical | pertaining to an army, Greek stratos |
| stravagant | extravagant, aphetic form |
| strave | strove, old strong past tense of strive |
| strepitation | a rustling or clattering noise |
| strift | striving, a struggle |
| stright | old spelling of straight |
| strosser | singular of strossers, an old word for trousers |
| strouthiocamel | old name for the ostrich, Greek strouthiokamelos |
| strowd | strowed, old past tense of strow, to strew |
| strucion | Middle English name for the ostrich |
| structed | built, old past participle of struct |
| struction | a building or structure |
| structive | building up, constructive |
| stuphe | old form of stupe, a hot fomentation or vapour bath |
| sturble | to disturb, aphetic of disturble |
| subaud | to understand or supply a word not expressed |
| subdure | old form of subdue |
| subget | Middle English form of subject |
| subgit | Middle English form of subject |
| subitane | sudden, from Latin subitaneus |
| subitous | sudden or hasty, from Latin subitus |
| sublapsar | theology, a sublapsarian |
| subnex | obsolete, to subjoin or knit on beneath (L. subnectere) |
| subplant | obsolete form of supplant, to trip up (L. subplantare) |
| subputation | obsolete, reckoning; unassimilated form of supputation |
| subreptary | obsolete, got by subreption, that is by concealment |
| subrisory | obsolete, of or expressing a slight smile (L. subridere) |
| subsicive | obsolete, spare or left over, as of spare time |
| subsult | obsolete, to leap or start up (L. subsultare) |
| subsultorious | obsolete, moving by leaps or twitches |
| subtegulaneous | obsolete, under a roof, indoors (L. tegula, tile) |
| subtiliation | obsolete alchemy, the making of a thing fine or subtle |
| subversal | obsolete, overthrow or subversion |
| succent | obsolete, to sing the response (L. succinere) |
| succenturiation | obsolete, substitution of one person for another |
| succub | obsolete form of succubus, a demon |
| succudry | obsolete, arrogance or presumption, var. of surquedry |
| suckeny | obsolete, a loose frock or smock |
| suffection | obsolete, substitution, as of a suffect consul |
| suffiction | obsolete, a fumigation (L. suffire, to fumigate) |
| sufflamination | obsolete, a clogging or checking (L. sufflamen, a brake) |
| suffrain | obsolete, a chief or sovereign |
| suggil | obsolete, to beat black and blue; to defame (L. sugillare) |
| sukkenye | Middle English, a light outer gown (Chaucer) |
| sumage | toll paid for carriage by pack-horse |
| summage | toll for carriage by pack-horse, variant of sumage |
| suncke | old spelling of sunk |
| sunfoil | old name for a sun-following plant, the sunflower |
| superfluitance | a floating on the surface |
| suppost | an underling or supporter, from French suppôt |
| suppressen | archaic -en form of the verb suppress |
| surcrue | an increase or addition, from French surcroit |
| sured | obsolete verb sure, to make sure or assure |
| suresby | obsolete, a trusty person (cf. rudesby) |
| surquidy | arrogance, presumption |
| surrein | to overwork a horse by hard riding (sur-reined) |
| surrept | obsolete, snatched or taken away stealthily |
| sursise | neglect or omission, and the penalty for it |
| survise | obsolete, to look over, supervise |
| suspercollate | jocular, to hang, from Latin sus. per coll. |
| sustenant | rare, sustaining or supporting |
| susurr | rare, a whisper or murmur |
| sutorious | rare, of or like a shoemaker (Latin sutor) |
| swadder | old rogues' cant, a pedlar |
| swaddish | boorish, from swad, a country bumpkin |
| swelth | obsolete, a surging or welling flood (Spenser) |
| swimbel | obsolete, a moaning or soughing sound |
| swingeour | Middle English, a rogue or idler |
| swiver | archaic, one who swives, a fornicator |
| swoun | obsolete form of swoon |
| swure | Middle English past tense of swear, swore |
| sybotic | rare, of or relating to swineherds |
| sybotism | rare, the keeping of swine |
| sykerly | Middle English, surely, certainly |
| symbasis | rare, agreement or concurrence (Greek symbasis) |
| symmachy | rare, a fighting together, alliance in war |
| symmist | rare, a sharer in the same mysteries |
| synallactic | rare, reconciling or mediating (Greek synallaktikos) |
| syncrasy | rare, a mixture or blending of qualities |
| synodite | obsolete, a fellow traveler or companion |
| synthete | one who synthesizes, opposed to an analyst |
| systematy | systematic arrangement, classification |
| tabitude | wasting of the body, emaciation |
| tainte | old spelling of taint |
| talliar | old law, one who levies or pays tallage |
| talshide | old forest law, a billet of cleft firewood |
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