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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 |
|---|---|
| oltunna | perhaps Swedish ol-tunna, an ale cask |
| omphacy | perhaps Gk omphax, juice of unripe fruit |
| oncin | obscure; perhaps a fabric or coin name |
| onker | obscure; apparently dialectal |
| oollies | perhaps woollies with initial w lost |
| oolly | perhaps woolly with initial w lost |
| oouassa | apparently a South American local name |
| opai | perhaps a variant of opah (the fish) |
| operla | obscure; perhaps a genus name |
| ophiostaphyle | Gk ophio- + staphyle, a snake-like cluster |
| orbell | perhaps orb + -el, a small orb, or a surname |
| orchen | perhaps a dialectal form of orchard |
| oretic | perhaps orectic (appetitive), or ore-bearing |
| orians | perhaps a misprint for orisons or for Orion |
| orias | perhaps OCR debris; cf. the demon Orias |
| oriconic | perhaps geological (cf. Uriconian) or chemical |
| orkey | possibly a misprint for Orkney |
| orotinan | perhaps a mineral or chemical name |
| oscella | perhaps Latin oscilla/ocella, or a genus name |
| otxi | perh. Otshi (Twi), an Akan language name |
| oudemian | perh. an adjective from a proper name |
| oulap | unidentified; perh. a foreign term or name |
| ouroub | perh. Arabic 'urub, plural of Arab |
| overlaness | garbled over- + adjective + -ness form |
| ovey | possibly a dialect or surname form |
| pacota | probably a South American plant name |
| padige | perhaps a variant of dialect padge, the owl |
| pahachroma | perhaps a garbled Greek color or skin term |
| pakhpuluk | apparently a foreign-language object name |
| paleolate | possibly a chemical salt name |
| paletz | possibly a surname or place name |
| panctia | possibly a genus name |
| pangane | possibly an African place or people name |
| pangara | possibly a genus or place name |
| panpolism | pan- + -polism, doctrine of universal polity? |
| papaio | possibly a variant of papaya or a place name |
| papane | possibly a chemical or plant name |
| papey | possibly the Papey, a London guild of poor priests |
| papiopio | perhaps Hawaiian papio, a young jack fish |
| pappox | perhaps pappous/pappose, or a pap-box |
| paracium | perhaps a misprint of Paramecium |
| pararek | opaque, possibly a foreign term |
| parasithol | looks like a proprietary preparation name |
| parasnia | opaque, possibly a genus or OCR debris |
| parennece | opaque, perhaps Old French |
| parennir | opaque, looks like a Romance infinitive |
| paretta | perhaps an Italian diminutive or trade name |
| parfield | opaque, possibly a surname or place name |
| parisia | perhaps rhetorical parrhesia, free speech |
| parmack | opaque, possibly dialectal |
| parroque | perhaps parrock, an enclosure, or paroquet |
| parukutu | opaque, looks like a borrowed plant name |
| pasewa | opaque, paired with passewa below |
| passay | opaque, perhaps an old spelling of passe |
| passewa | opaque, paired with pasewa above |
| passir | possibly Malay pasir, sand |
| pastler | possibly a maker of pastes or pastels |
| pataque | possibly a form of patache, a small vessel |
| patroullart | possibly an old form of patroller |
| pattara | possibly an Indian trade or measure term |
| patuca | possibly the Patuca river or region name |
| paular | possibly a proper name or a slip for papular |
| paup | possibly a clipping of pauper |
| pausalion | possibly a Greek-derived term, a stopping |
| payeny | possibly a foreign trade or plant name |
| pazaree | possibly an Indian cotton cloth |
| peban | possibly a foreign place or tribe name |
| pecite | possibly a mineral name in -ite |
| pecket | possibly an old form of picket |
| pectron | possibly a chemical or instrument name |
| pedigraic | possibly a slip for pedigreic or pedigraphic |
| pediwak | possibly a Malay or Javanese term |
| peesoreh | possibly an Indian bird or cloth name |
| peggymast | possibly a nautical or dialect compound |
| peladore | possibly a fish or oyster name |
| pellate | possibly an OCR form of peltate, shield-shaped |
| pellation | possibly an OCR form of peltation |
| pellekar | possibly a Dutch or Scandinavian term |
| pellile | possibly a fabric or plant name |
| pencey | possibly a dialect form relating to pence |
| penintime | possibly an OCR form of penultime |
| penneeck | perhaps a dialect bird or fish name |
| percnosome | Gk perkno- dark + -some, a dark body |
| perdifume | possibly perfume-related OCR debris |
| periculant | from L. periculum, apparently one in peril |
| peridila | perhaps peridiola, fungal peridioles |
| perielesis | Greek-derived, apparently a winding about |
| perimartium | peri- + Gk stem, apparently an investing sheath |
| periphraxy | Greek-derived, apparently a fencing about |
| peroliary | perhaps a misprint for petiolary |
| peronnei | Latin genitive, perhaps peroneus, -ei |
| perquadrat | perhaps the phrase "per quadrat" |
| perquest | perhaps an obsolete legal inquest term |
| perreia | probably a genus name |
| perscent | perhaps per- + scent, to track by smell |
| petwood | perhaps pet-wood, a compound not identified |
| phaelite | perhaps a mineral name, cf. phacelite |
| phanic | perhaps Greek phan-, showing |
| phantic | perhaps Greek phantos, visible |
| phasemy | perhaps a term formed on Greek phasis |
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