Error Words
We're sure about this one.
Two words closed up into one.
acappella is a cappella. grandtotal is grand total. hotzone is hot zone. A lot of them are Latin, because dictionaries of this age carried plenty of it, so adarbitrium is ad arbitrium.
When we cannot tell whether the original used a space or a hyphen, we call it a hyphen.
151 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 space back |
|---|---|
| particlecelerator | particle accelerator, run together |
| pennysiller | penny siller (Scots, money in coin) |
| percentum | per centum |
| pereundem | per eundem (legal Latin, "by the same") |
| phenylaceticaldehyde | phenylacetic aldehyde |
| photoalbum | photo album |
| photofloodlamp | photoflood lamp |
| plaintile | plain tile, a flat roofing tile |
| platysmamyoides | platysma myoides, the neck muscle |
| polopony | polo pony |
| ponderosapine | ponderosa pine |
| portahepatis | porta hepatis |
| portiomollis | portio mollis, the auditory nerve |
| premierjus | premier jus |
| quadrienniumutile | quadriennium utile, Scots law |
| quelquechose | quelque chose, a trifle or kickshaw |
| realestate | real estate |
| restoringmoment | restoring moment |
| rinncefada | rinnce fada, the Irish long dance |
| sabanut | saba nut, the Malabar chestnut |
| sannhemp | sann hemp, the fibre plant Crotalaria juncea |
| sargassumfish | sargassum fish, Histrio histrio |
| sargassumfishes | sargassum fishes |
| schoolbutter | school butter, a beating or flogging |
| scratchman | scratch man, a competitor starting from scratch |
| semencinae | semen cinae, wormseed |
| semencontra | semen contra, wormseed |
| semperidem | semper idem, Latin, always the same |
| sonderclass | Sonder class, a class of small racing yacht |
| spiculumamoris | spiculum amoris, Latin, the snail's dart of love |
| spidermonkey | spider monkey |
| stallingken | stalling ken, cant for a receiver's house |
| standardbearer | standard bearer |
| standardbearers | standard bearers |
| stretchpants | stretch pants, close fitting elastic trousers |
| sunkland | sunk land, ground dropped by subsidence |
| tabstop | tab stop |
| tabstops | tab stops |
| taiwanhemp | Taiwan hemp |
| taropatch | taro patch |
| testmatch | test match (cricket) |
| thinkingpart | thinking part, a silent role on the stage |
| thousandweight | thousand weight, a weight of a thousand pounds |
| tomtitmouse | tom titmouse, the tomtit |
| tuquoque | tu quoque |
| typesof | types of |
| uprightman | upright man, Tudor cant for a chief rogue |
| vicarchoral | vicar choral, a cathedral singing officer |
| warpowers | war powers |
| whereis | where is |
| yethhounds | yeth hounds, Devon spectral hounds |
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