Real Words Without Definition
This one is a judgement call.
A name rather than a word. People, places, peoples, languages, gods and characters.
Names of peoples are the biggest group. abipon is an Argentine people, abdali an Afghan tribe, abarambo a Congolese one. There are literary names too. abhorson is Shakespeare's executioner and arthemis is an old spelling of Artemis.
Dictionaries of this age printed names in a separate section at the back, so a definition lookup never finds them.
1,723 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 names |
|---|---|
| dryops | Dryops, mythic ancestor of the Dryopians |
| dualmutef | Duamutef, Egyptian god, a son of Horus |
| dubhgall | Irish, "dark foreigner", the Danish vikings |
| duessa | Duessa, falsehood in Spenser's Faerie Queene |
| dulanganes | Dulangan people of Mindanao (Sp. plural) |
| dulcinist | follower of Fra Dolcino's heretical sect |
| durandarte | Durandarte, Roland's sword in Sp. romance |
| durindana | Durindana, Orlando's sword in It. romance |
| dusio | Dusius, a Gaulish demon (pl. Dusii) |
| dwamish | Duwamish, Salish people of Puget Sound |
| dwyka | Dwyka, S. African river and glacial series |
| dyakish | of the Dyaks of Borneo |
| dyaus | Dyaus, the Vedic sky god |
| eckehart | Meister Eckehart, German mystic |
| eglamore | Sir Eglamore, hero of an old romance |
| ehatisaht | Ehattesaht, a Nootka people of Vancouver I. |
| eleut | Eleuth, a western Mongol (Oirat) people |
| eleutherios | Greek epithet of Zeus, "the Liberator" |
| elianic | of Elia, pen name of Charles Lamb |
| ellasar | biblical kingdom of Genesis 14 |
| eloah | Hebrew name of God, singular of Elohim |
| emlen | Emlen, a surname |
| enajim | biblical place, Enaim (Gen. 38) |
| eogaea | zoogeographical realm of the Old World |
| eoghanacht | Eóganacht, Irish dynasty of Munster |
| epeus | Epeius, builder of the Trojan horse |
| ephraitic | of Ephraim, Israelite tribe |
| ephrathite | native of Ephrath, Bethlehemite |
| epipsychidion | Shelley's poem "Epipsychidion" |
| ergane | Ergane, epithet of Athena the worker |
| ermanaric | Ermanaric, king of the Ostrogoths |
| ermani | name element, cf. Ermanaric/Erman |
| ermanrich | Ermanrich, variant of Ermanaric |
| ersar | Ersari, Turkmen tribe and carpet type |
| ertebolle | Ertebølle, Danish Mesolithic culture |
| erythrean | of the Erythraean (Red) Sea |
| eskualdun | Basque self-name, Euskaldun |
| espriella | Espriella, Southey's fictitious Spanish author |
| essenis | the Essenes, Latin Esseni |
| essling | Essling, village near Vienna, 1809 battle |
| etchimin | Etchemin, Algonquian people of Maine |
| eteocles | Eteocles, son of Oedipus in Greek myth |
| eteocretes | Eteocretans, the aboriginal Cretans |
| eteocreton | of the Eteocretans, aboriginal Cretan |
| etheneldeli | Etheneldeli, Chipewyan "caribou-eater" band |
| ettarre | Ettarre, lady in Malory and Tennyson |
| euergetes | Euergetes "Benefactor", title of Ptolemy III |
| euhages | Euhages, priestly class among the Gauls |
| eumenidean | of the Eumenides, the Furies |
| eumolpides | Eumolpidae, priestly clan of Eleusis |
| euphues | Euphues, title hero of Lyly's romance |
| eupolidean | of Eupolis, Greek comic poet (a metre) |
| euraquilo | Euraquilo, the north-east gale of Acts 27:14 |
| eurygaea | Eurygaea, a zoogeographical realm |
| eurytus | Eurytus, king of Oechalia in Greek myth |
| euscaro | Euskara, the Basque language |
| euskaric | of Euskara, Basque |
| exucontian | Exucontian, member of an Arian sect |
| falern | Falernian wine of Campania |
| fanwe | Fanwe (Fang), a people of Gabon |
| farouk | Arabic personal name and title, al-Faruq |
| faulkland | Faulkland, a surname and stage character |
| faventine | of Faventia (Faenza), Italy |
| fellani | the Fulani people of West Africa |
| felup | Diola people of Casamance, Senegal |
| fezziwig | Dickens character in A Christmas Carol |
| fidelio | Beethoven's opera and its title character |
| fidessa | character in Spenser's Faerie Queene |
| fierabras | Saracen giant of French romance |
| fingian | Finnic, pertaining to the Finns |
| fitzclarence | surname of William IV's natural children |
| fjorgyn | Norse goddess, mother of Thor |
| flaminian | Roman, of the flamens / the Flaminian Way |
| flanderkin | a native of Flanders |
| folkvang | Norse myth, Freyja's field |
| folkvangr | Norse myth, Folkvangr, Freyja's field |
| fosite | Frisian deity Fosite (= Forseti) |
| fratricelli | Fraticelli, medieval Franciscan sect |
| frontignan | Frontignan, French town; its muscat wine |
| frothi | Frothi (Fróði), legendary Danish king |
| fulful | Fulful (Fulfulde), the Fula language |
| fulup | Fulup, a people of Senegambia |
| fusetron | Fusetron, trade name of a time-delay fuse |
| gaedelian | of the Gaels (Gaedhel), Goidelic |
| galcha | Galcha, an Iranian people of the Pamirs |
| galchic | of the Galcha people or language |
| gascoign | Gascoigne, English surname; of Gascony |
| gascoigny | Gascony, region of France |
| gassendist | follower of the philosopher Gassendi |
| gederathite | biblical, an inhabitant of Gederah |
| gederite | biblical, a native of Geder |
| gemonies | the Gemonian stairs at Rome |
| gerastian | Greek, of Gerastius, a Spartan month |
| geronomite | a Hieronymite friar, of the order of St. Jerome |
| gibelite | a Ghibelline, Italian medieval partisan |
| girtonian | student of Girton College, Cambridge |
| gitanemuck | Kitanemuk, a California people |
| gitanemuk | Kitanemuk, a California people |
| glagolic | Glagolitic, the old Slavic alphabet |
| glathsheim | Gladsheim, Odin's hall in Norse myth |
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