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 |
|---|---|
| glathsheimr | Glaðsheimr, Odin's realm |
| gomarian | Dutch Calvinist follower of Gomarus |
| gomorrean | of Gomorrah, its people |
| goneril | Goneril, daughter in Shakespeare's King Lear |
| gothonic | Gothonic, the Germanic language group |
| goyetian | Goyet cave, Belgium; a Paleolithic stage |
| graian | Graian, of the Graian Alps |
| grangousier | Grangousier, Rabelais's father of Gargantua |
| gratiano | Gratiano, character in The Merchant of Venice |
| graustark | Graustark, McCutcheon's fictional kingdom |
| grissons | Grisons, Swiss canton and its people |
| grusian | Georgian, of Grusia (Georgia) |
| grusinian | Georgian, of Grusinia (Georgia) |
| guadagnini | Guadagnini, Italian violin-making family |
| guaharibo | Guaharibo, Venezuelan indigenous people |
| guahiban | Guahiban language family of Colombia |
| guahibo | Guahibo people of the Orinoco |
| guahivo | Guahibo people (variant spelling) |
| guanare | Guanare, Venezuelan city and river |
| guaranian | of the Guarani people and language |
| guaraunan | Guaraunan (Warao) language family |
| guarauno | Guarauno (Warao) people of the Orinoco |
| guarico | Guárico, Venezuelan state and river |
| guarnerius | Guarnerius, Cremonese violin maker |
| guaruan | Guaruan, Brazilian language family |
| guastalline | of Guastalla, Italy (order of nuns) |
| guatoan | Guatoan, Brazilian language family |
| guatusan | of the Guatuso of Costa Rica |
| guatuso | Guatuso people of Costa Rica |
| guayaqui | Guayaquí, Paraguayan indigenous people |
| guaymie | Guaymí people of Panama |
| gujerat | Gujarat, Indian state (older spelling) |
| gulanganes | a people of Mindanao, Philippines |
| gurian | Gurian, of Guria in Georgia |
| guzul | Hutsul, a Carpathian highland people |
| gyges | Gyges, king of Lydia |
| gyrosyn | Gyrosyn, Sperry gyro-magnetic compass brand |
| haidee | Haidee, heroine in Byron's Don Juan |
| haimavati | Sanskrit, epithet of the goddess Parvati |
| halebi | of Aleppo; an Egyptian gypsy people |
| hambro | Hamburg, as in hambro-line (small cord) |
| hampshireman | native of Hampshire, England |
| hampshiremen | natives of Hampshire, England |
| hanefiyeh | Hanafi school of Sunni Islamic law |
| hanifite | Hanafite, follower of the Hanafi school |
| hanifiya | Hanafiyya, the Hanafi school of law |
| haraucana | Araucana, Chilean indigenous people |
| harpier | Harpier, a familiar spirit in Macbeth |
| hattemist | follower of van Hattem, Dutch sect |
| havaikian | of Havaiki, the Polynesian homeland |
| heautontimorumenos | Terence's comedy, "The Self-Tormentor" |
| heikum | Heikum, a San (Bushman) people |
| heimdal | Heimdall, Norse god |
| helderbergian | Helderberg geologic series, New York |
| heliaean | of the Heliaea, Athenian popular court |
| helladian | of Hellas, ancient Greece |
| hennebique | Hennebique, French reinforced-concrete system |
| heracleopolite | of Heracleopolis in ancient Egypt |
| heraclidae | Heraclidae, the descendants of Heracles |
| heraclitic | of Heraclitus, the Greek philosopher |
| heraclitical | of Heraclitus and his doctrine of flux |
| herculanensian | of Herculaneum, the buried Roman town |
| herculanian | of Herculaneum |
| heroides | Ovid's Heroides, verse epistles |
| herophile | Herophile, a Sibyl; follower of Herophilus |
| herophilist | adherent of Herophilus's medical school |
| hervati | Hervati, old spelling of Hrvati, the Croats |
| hesperic | of Hesperia, western |
| hexabiblos | Hexabiblos, Byzantine law code in six books |
| hexaplarian | of Origen's Hexapla |
| hickscorner | Hick Scorner, Tudor interlude and its scoffer |
| hilarymas | feast of St. Hilary, Jan 13 |
| hilarytide | Hilary term, the season of St. Hilary |
| hildebrandist | partisan of Hildebrand, Pope Gregory VII |
| hildebrandslied | Old High German epic poem |
| himawan | Sanskrit Himavan, the Himalaya |
| hippolytan | of Hippolytus or Hippolyta |
| hippomedon | Greek myth, one of the Seven against Thebes |
| hippomenes | Greek myth, the suitor of Atalanta |
| hipponous | Greek myth, the original name of Bellerophon |
| hiramite | a Freemason, follower of Hiram Abiff |
| histriomastix | Histriomastix, Prynne's anti-stage tract |
| hler | Norse myth, Hler, name of the sea-giant Aegir |
| hlorrithi | Norse myth, Hlorrithi, a name of Thor |
| hobomoco | Algonquian evil spirit, Hobomok |
| hochhuth | German surname, e.g. playwright Rolf Hochhuth |
| hoffmannist | follower of Melchior Hoffmann |
| hoffmannite | follower of Melchior Hoffmann |
| hogni | Norse legend, Hogni, the Hagen of the Nibelungs |
| homeridae | Homeridae, Greek clan of Homeric rhapsodes |
| homeridian | of the Homeridae, Homeric rhapsodes |
| hopkinsonian | of Hopkinson (the physicist John Hopkinson) |
| horim | biblical people, the Horites of Seir |
| horonite | biblical, a native of Horonaim (Sanballat the Horonite) |
| horouta | Horouta, a Maori ancestral canoe |
| huastecan | Huastecan, a Mexican people and language group |
| huavean | Huavean, a Mexican language family |
| hudibras | Hudibras, hero of Samuel Butler's satire |
| hughoc | Hughoc, a diminutive of Hugh used as a character name |
| hungaric | Hungarian, of Hungary |
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