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This one is a judgement call.
We could not work out what the word is, so we said so.
Everyone working through the list is told the same thing. A confident wrong answer is worse than admitting we do not know, and the note should still record the best guess we have. abbogada might be an Abyssinian judge's title. aliet might be an old name for a hawk.
It runs at about 4% of everything we have looked at.
When even the guess runs out and the note just says unidentified, the answer comes back red instead of yellow.
2,280 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 | Our best guess |
|---|---|
| abasio | possibly abasia, inability to walk |
| abbest | possibly abbess |
| abbogada | possibly an Abyssinian judge's title |
| abdaria | possibly a place or genus name |
| abret | possibly OCR debris |
| absoil | possibly obs. var. of assoil |
| abyssa | possibly a genus or Latin abyssus form |
| acanthuthi | possibly Acanthuri, surgeonfishes |
| acarari | possibly a S. American fish or tribe |
| accomplement | possibly accouplement or accomplishment |
| accur | possibly abbreviation of accurate |
| acerli | possibly OCR debris |
| achech | possibly an Egyptian mythical creature |
| aclemon | possibly a genus name |
| acream | possibly a- + cream, covered with cream |
| acrock | possibly a- + crock, askew |
| adjiga | perhaps a foreign plant or animal name |
| admitty | perhaps admittee or obs. admittance |
| advisy | perhaps an obs. form of advice/advised |
| advitant | perhaps Latin ad vitam, or OCR error |
| aegemony | perhaps a misprint of hegemony |
| aettekees | perhaps a Dutch/S. African animal name |
| afdecho | possibly OCR debris or a Dutch term |
| affing | perhaps Scots aff (off) + -ing |
| afresca | perhaps ME afresh or Italian a fresco |
| afshah | perhaps a Persian or Turkic term |
| aggelation | perhaps aggeration, a heaping up |
| agleaf | possibly a plant name (ague-leaf?) |
| agral | perhaps "of fields" (L. ager) |
| aguirage | opaque; possibly OCR debris |
| ailweed | apparently a dialect plant name |
| ainaleh | possibly a Yiddish or Hebrew endearment |
| ajoint | perhaps an obsolete form of adjoined |
| akmudar | foreign title; pairs with akmuddar |
| akmuddar | foreign title; variant of akmudar |
| akonge | possibly an African plant name |
| akontae | possibly a Greek plural (javelins) |
| albertin | perhaps related to albertite bitumen |
| albetad | opaque; perhaps an old alchemical term |
| albiculi | possibly a Latin plural (albiculus) |
| alconde | perhaps a variant of alcaide or alcalde |
| alcotate | apparently a chemical or trade name |
| alecize | perhaps to season with alec (fish sauce) |
| alfaje | Spanish term, perhaps alfarje (panel ceiling) |
| alfarga | Spanish term, perhaps a hemp sandal |
| alichel | unidentified; possibly a Spanish-Arabic term |
| alictisal | unidentified; possibly OCR debris |
| aliet | perhaps an obsolete name for a hawk |
| aligreek | perhaps a form related to fenugreek |
| alkedavy | perhaps an old alchemical term |
| allabuta | unidentified; perhaps a foreign plant name |
| allbone | perhaps a compound all-bone |
| alleleu | possibly a form of alleluia |
| alleyite | probably a rock or mineral name |
| almida | possibly a taxonomic name |
| almistry | perhaps alchemistry |
| alophas | possibly Alopias, the thresher sharks |
| altropathy | perhaps a variant of allopathy |
| amarth | unidentified, possibly OCR debris |
| ambier | possibly amber or ambler |
| ambilian | unidentified |
| ambleocarpus | perhaps a genus; cf. amblyocarpous |
| ambolic | unidentified Greek-derived adjective |
| ambracan | perhaps relating to Ambracia |
| ambrica | perhaps an ambergris-related term |
| amgarn | possibly Welsh amgarn, a ferrule or ring |
| amiles | possibly plural of amil, Indian revenue agent |
| amizilis | possibly a Latin genus or plant name |
| amlacra | possibly plural of a Latin amlacrum |
| amli | possibly an Indian name for the tamarind |
| amouli | possibly a foreign plant or place name |
| amowt | possibly a dialect form of amount |
| ampalea | possibly ampalaya, Philippine bitter gourd |
| ampongue | possibly a Malagasy plant or resin name |
| amrelle | possibly an old form of umbrella |
| amsath | possibly Amset, Egyptian son of Horus |
| amueixa | possibly Portuguese ameixa, a plum |
| amulla | possibly a plant or vessel name |
| anabata | possibly Greek, a rider, or a genus name |
| anabia | possibly a term relating to anabiosis |
| anacara | possibly a variant of nacaire, a kettledrum |
| anachueta | possibly a South American plant or animal name |
| ananaplas | poss. vernacular plant name |
| ananaples | poss. variant of ananaplas |
| anasitch | poss. Native American loanword |
| anastomos | poss. Anastomus (stork) or anastomose |
| anatira | poss. a genus or vernacular name |
| ancerata | poss. OCR of a zoological group name |
| anchat | unplaced; poss. foreign vernacular word |
| andia | unplaced short form |
| andrite | poss. a meteorite or mineral name |
| androl | poss. a chemical or trade name in -ol |
| androseme | poss. androsaemum (tutsan) anglicized |
| angelon | poss. plant Angelonia or Gk. angelon |
| angia | poss. Gk. angeion, vessel |
| angwich | poss. dialect form of anguish |
| anlia | poss. OCR debris |
| annard | poss. dialect word or OCR debris |
| annist | poss. OCR of annalist |
| anoine | poss. OCR of a chemical name |
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