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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 |
|---|---|
| phasiron | probably a coined technical term |
| phearse | obsolete spelling, perhaps of fierce |
| philogeant | perhaps philo- + Greek ge, earth-loving |
| phippe | possibly a surname or OCR debris |
| phorrhea | perhaps a -rrhea, discharge, coinage |
| phrampel | possibly dialectal or OCR debris |
| phrenogrady | perhaps phreno- + -grady, grade of mind |
| phyteus | possibly Greek phyteus, planter, or a genus name |
| phytostrote | perhaps phyto- + Greek strotos, plant-strewn |
| piazadora | possibly a Spanish or Philippine plant name |
| picory | possibly a variant of chicory or of pickery |
| picry | possibly picryl, the trinitrophenyl radical |
| pientao | likely a Chinese term, Wade-Giles pien-t'ao |
| pigdan | possibly a Philippine plant name |
| pilies | possibly a plural of pili or of pilie |
| pilitico | possibly a Spanish or Philippine term |
| pilkins | possibly a dialect grain-name or surname |
| pimploe | possibly Pimplea, the Muses' spring |
| pinayusa | possibly a Philippine plant name |
| pinnel | possibly dialect for gravel or a small pin |
| pinolia | possibly related to pinole, parched meal |
| pioury | possibly a Scots dialect word |
| pisistance | possibly a garbled pittance or persistence |
| pitastile | possibly a Spanish-American plant or fiber name |
| pitawas | possibly a native plant or bird name |
| pitomie | possibly an aphetic form of epitome |
| piwut | possibly a Native American tribal or place name |
| placaean | possibly an adjective from a Latin genus name |
| pleis | possibly a Middle English plural of play or plea |
| plitch | perhaps dialectal, a patch or blotch |
| plotton | perhaps a fabric or dialect term |
| plouteneion | perhaps a Greek term, of uncertain sense |
| plud | perhaps dialectal, a pool or plash |
| podanger | perhaps a dialect word or OCR corruption |
| podtia | perhaps an OCR corruption of podia |
| poetito | perhaps a diminutive, "little poet" |
| pogonite | perhaps a mineral or fossil name |
| pohna | perhaps a place or plant name |
| poister | perhaps an obsolete spelling of poster or roister |
| pokomoo | perhaps a native plant or animal name |
| pokunt | perhaps a Native American term |
| polarans | perhaps plural of an unattested polaran |
| polarid | perhaps a meteor of a polar shower |
| polaxis | perhaps "polar axis" run together |
| polymny | perhaps for Polymnia, leafcup, or the Muse Polyhymnia |
| pomane | perhaps an obsolete form of pomade or pomander |
| ponica | perhaps for Punica or a clipped japonica |
| pooa | unidentified, probably a vernacular plant or animal name |
| popleman | unidentified, perhaps a dialectal compound of pople |
| popomastic | perhaps pope + Gk -mastix, pope-lashing |
| poppin | perhaps a variant of popin, popinjay |
| porail | perhaps French portail, a church portal |
| porokoto | probably a South American vernacular fish name |
| posement | perhaps a variant of passement, lace trimming |
| posolo | unidentified, perhaps a foreign food or plant name |
| postloitic | perhaps OCR of post-oolitic (geology) |
| postvide | perhaps "post-, vide" cross-reference fused |
| potentee | perhaps heraldic potente or a slip for patentee |
| potifer | perhaps a pot- compound or a slip for rotifer |
| pottaro | perhaps the Potaro river or an OCR slip |
| poucer | perhaps dialectal, from pouce/pouse, refuse |
| pourvete | perhaps Old French, related to purvey/provision |
| pouser | perhaps dialectal agent noun from pouse |
| prand | perhaps OCR of brand or grand |
| preacness | perhaps a slip for preacidness or preachiness |
| precule | perhaps truncated preculture, or a slip for pecule |
| prenominical | perhaps prenominal, of a praenomen |
| prewelwired | perhaps pre-well-wired; base welwire unidentified |
| prewelwiring | perhaps pre-well-wiring; base welwire unidentified |
| primevarous | perhaps primevous (primeval), garbled |
| prisometer | apparently a measuring instrument; base unclear |
| proclei | perhaps NL. pl. of an unidentified procleus |
| proflated | perhaps prolated, extended |
| prolectite | perhaps a mineral or rock name in -ite |
| prolia | perhaps L. proelia, battles |
| promic | perhaps a truncated pro- compound |
| prothmia | possibly Gr. prothumia, eagerness, with vowel lost |
| protonotater | possibly a garbled protonotary (chief notary) |
| pryler | perhaps one who pries; unattested agent noun |
| psilatro | opaque; possibly garbled psilo- (bare) formation |
| psize | opaque short string; possibly a truncated abbreviation |
| psychony | perhaps psychonomy, the laws of mind |
| puddee | possibly an Anglo-Indian borrowing |
| pugenello | possibly an Italian borrowing |
| pulish | possibly a variant of palish or Polish |
| puneca | possibly a South American ethnonym |
| pureayn | garbled Middle English form |
| pyalla | possibly an Australian Aboriginal word for speech |
| pynung | possibly a Southeast Asian ethnonym |
| pyrobi | possibly a truncated pyro- compound |
| pyvuril | possibly a trade or drug name |
| qtam | likely an abbreviation with periods stripped |
| quadle | perhaps dialect quaddle, to grumble |
| quadriti | possibly Latin entry-line debris |
| quarion | perhaps an obsolete form of quarry |
| quarmen | perhaps dialect quar-men, quarrymen |
| quaskies | perhaps a plural of a local bird name |
| queeve | perhaps a dialect verb, to turn aside |
| quelt | perhaps dialect, struck or beaten |
| querendy | possibly a Spanish-derived term |
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