Error Words
We're sure about this one.
A hyphenated word run together into one string.
This is the biggest single error in the list, more than twice the size of typos. knockemdown is knock-em-down, allround is all-round, filmmake is film-make.
Nobody who wrote the dictionary got these wrong. The hyphen was removed when the word list was cut down to letters only.
4,861 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 | With the hyphen back |
|---|---|
| doughmaker | dough-maker |
| doughmen | dough-men, workers who make dough |
| doveflower | dove-flower |
| dovefoot | dove-foot, the dove's-foot cranesbill |
| dovewood | dove-wood |
| downbeard | down-beard |
| downbend | down-bend |
| downdale | down-dale, down the valley |
| downfeed | down-feed |
| downgate | down-gate, the runner in a founding mould |
| downhanging | down-hanging |
| downheaded | down-headed |
| downlie | down-lie, a lying down |
| downlier | down-lier, one who lies down |
| downshare | down-share |
| downshore | down-shore, along or down the shore |
| downsinking | down-sinking |
| downsliding | down-sliding |
| downslip | down-slip |
| downthrust | down-thrust |
| downtrampling | down-trampling |
| downway | down-way, a downward path |
| downweed | down-weed, the cudweed |
| drabbletailed | drabble-tailed, bedraggled about the skirts |
| draffman | draff-man, dealer in brewer's grains |
| draffsack | draff-sack, sack of draff; a glutton |
| dragbolt | drag-bolt, a coupling bolt |
| dragsaw | drag-saw, a reciprocating log saw |
| dragsawing | drag-sawing |
| dragshoe | drag-shoe, a wheel brake shoe |
| dragstaff | drag-staff, a bar dragged to check a wagon |
| drainerman | drainer-man, workman tending sugar drainers |
| drainermen | drainer-men, plural |
| drainman | drain-man, a workman on drains |
| drainspout | drain-spout |
| drainway | drain-way |
| drakefly | drake-fly, an angler's artificial fly |
| drakestone | drake-stone, stone skipped in ducks and drakes |
| drawarm | draw-arm |
| drawbeam | draw-beam |
| drawboard | draw-board |
| drawcut | draw-cut, a cut made by drawing the tool |
| drawfile | draw-file, to file crosswise with a drawing stroke |
| drawgate | draw-gate, a sluice gate |
| drawglove | draw-glove, an old finger game |
| drawhorse | draw-horse |
| drawknot | draw-knot, a slip knot |
| drawoff | draw-off |
| drawout | draw-out |
| drawpoint | draw-point, an engraver's scriber |
| drawstop | draw-stop, an organ stop knob |
| drawtongs | draw-tongs |
| dreamlit | dream-lit |
| dreamlore | dream-lore, the lore of dreams |
| dreamtide | dream-tide, the season of dreams |
| dreamwhile | dream-while, the space of a dream |
| dressline | dress-line |
| drierman | drier-man, workman tending the driers |
| driftman | drift-man, miner working a drift |
| driftpiece | drift-piece, a shipbuilding timber |
| drillman | drill-man |
| driveboat | drive-boat |
| drivecap | drive-cap, cap on a pile being driven |
| drivescrew | drive-screw |
| drivewell | drive-well, a driven well |
| dropberry | drop-berry, the Solomon's-seal |
| dropflower | drop-flower |
| dropforge | drop-forge |
| dropforged | drop-forged |
| dropforger | drop-forger |
| dropforging | drop-forging |
| dropman | drop-man |
| dropsywort | dropsy-wort, the meadowsweet |
| dropvie | drop-vie, old card-playing term |
| drumwood | drum-wood, a West Indian tree |
| drybeard | dry-beard |
| drybrained | dry-brained, dull-witted |
| drycoal | dry-coal |
| dryerman | dryer-man, workman tending a dryer |
| dryermen | dryer-men, plural |
| dryfarm | dry-farm, to farm without irrigation |
| dryfarmer | dry-farmer |
| dryfist | dry-fist, a niggard |
| dryhouse | dry-house, a drying house |
| drylot | dry-lot, bare enclosure for feeding stock |
| drylots | dry-lots, plural |
| dryworker | dry-worker |
| duckblind | duck-blind, hunter's hide |
| duckboat | duck-boat, a duck-hunter's boat |
| duckhearted | duck-hearted, cowardly |
| duckhouse | duck-house |
| duckhunting | duck-hunting |
| duckwheat | duck-wheat, the Tartary buckwheat |
| duckwife | duck-wife, a woman who keeps ducks |
| duikerbuck | duiker-buck, male S. African antelope |
| dullbrained | dull-brained |
| dullhearted | dull-hearted |
| dullpate | dull-pate, a dullard |
| dulseman | dulse-man, gatherer or seller of dulse |
| dumbfish | dumb-fish, salted codfish |
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