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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 |
|---|---|
| canduc | opaque, possibly a foreign plant name |
| cangenet | opaque, possibly an old French term |
| canhoop | opaque, perhaps a West Indian plant |
| canille | opaque, perhaps canaille or a plant name |
| canjac | opaque, possibly a foreign animal name |
| canli | possibly a Siouan or OCR form |
| canvasado | perhaps a form of camisado |
| caphite | possibly a mineral or ethnonym |
| capicha | perhaps Spanish capucha, hood |
| carayan | possibly a Philippine place or plant name |
| cardisophistical | perhaps a nonce, heart + sophistical |
| cardooer | perhaps one who works a cardoo |
| carefox | possibly a surname or OCR debris |
| cargued | possibly OCR of argued |
| caribed | unattested verb use of carib |
| caribing | unattested verb use of carib |
| cariyo | possibly a South American vernacular name |
| carmele | possibly related to Carmel or Carmelite |
| carua | possibly a South American vernacular name |
| casaun | opaque, possibly a foreign coin or measure |
| casel | possibly OCR of easel or castle |
| casha | possibly a vernacular tree name |
| cashcuttee | possibly an Anglo-Indian trade term |
| casheen | opaque, possibly a vernacular name |
| cassan | opaque, possibly a place or fabric name |
| cassy | opaque, possibly dialectal |
| castanian | perhaps of Castile or of Castanea |
| castuli | possibly a Latin plural or place name |
| cataloon | opaque, possibly a fabric name |
| cataplane | opaque, possibly a plane-surface coinage |
| cathern | perhaps a dialect form of cateran or Catherine |
| cathop | perhaps cat-hop, a term in the game of cat |
| cathro | perhaps a surname or place name |
| cathud | perhaps a Scots word for a heavy fall |
| catnache | perhaps a dialect plant or utensil name |
| caudaite | perhaps a mineral name or a slip for caudate |
| causson | perhaps a form of caisson |
| cebur | perhaps a truncated place or plant name |
| cellager | perhaps cellarer, keeper of a cellar |
| centronote | perhaps a centrally placed mark or note |
| ceromez | possibly a garbled ceromel (wax-and-honey salve) |
| chadelle | possibly an OCR loss for chandelle, a candle |
| chakobu | possibly an East Asian plant or place name |
| challote | possibly a variant of shallot |
| chalque | possibly a Spanish-American term |
| chambioa | possibly a tropical plant genus or vernacular name |
| chamoline | possibly a chemical or trade name |
| chandrakhi | Indic term, sense uncertain |
| chapah | Indic or Malay term, sense uncertain |
| chararas | possibly the plural of a foreign word charara |
| charivan | uncertain; possibly a vehicle name |
| charquid | possibly formed on charqui, dried meat |
| chawia | possibly an African place or people name |
| chebel | possibly Arabic, or a variant of chibol (onion) |
| checkle | possibly dialectal, to cackle or heckle |
| chefrinia | possibly a genus or a proper name |
| chende | perhaps a Bantu people or an obs. English form |
| chenfish | apparently a fish name, unidentified |
| chenica | perhaps an Indian measure or plant name |
| cherkesser | apparently rel. to Cherkess (Circassian) |
| chermish | perhaps rel. to chermes (kermes insect) |
| chervante | apparently an obs. word; unidentified |
| chessner | perhaps a chess player or a dialect term |
| chettik | apparently a foreign plant or trade word |
| chewbark | perhaps a chewed bark or a dialect dog name |
| cheweler | perhaps an obs. trade name; unidentified |
| chicaric | perhaps var. of chickaree, the red squirrel |
| chichili | apparently a foreign plant or animal name |
| chickell | perhaps dialect for a young chicken |
| chickstone | perhaps var. of chuckstone, a pebble game |
| chickwit | perhaps a dialect bird name from its call |
| chidra | perhaps Skt. chidra, an opening or flaw |
| chiggak | apparently a native American word; unidentified |
| chinik | perhaps an Alaskan Eskimo word or place name |
| chiniks | pl. of chinik, itself unidentified |
| chinles | perhaps pl. of Chinle, or slip for chinless |
| chinnam | perhaps var. of chunam, Indian lime plaster |
| chinoa | perhaps a variant of quinoa |
| chinwood | perhaps a dialect tree name, the yew |
| chirolas | apparently a Spanish-derived term; unidentified |
| chiule | perhaps OCR debris or a foreign plant name |
| chiveret | perhaps var. of cheveret, a small table |
| chlored | perhaps chlorinated, or slip for chlorid |
| chockler | perhaps dialect, a cobbler or one who chocks |
| choel | perhaps OCR debris or a rare loanword |
| chogak | apparently a native American word; unidentified |
| choiler | perhaps rel. to choil, a knife-blade part |
| chonchina | perhaps var. of conchinine, quinidine |
| choribi | possibly OCR of choriambi |
| chorook | probably a tribal or place name |
| choryos | Greek-looking; possibly OCR of chorios |
| chrisroot | apparently a plant name, chris-root |
| chuchona | Spanish-American plant or animal name |
| chunnia | possibly an Indian vernacular term |
| chupak | probably an indigenous name |
| chuttie | perhaps a variant of chatty, an earthen pot |
| cimline | possibly a mineral or trade name |
| cinquanter | perhaps one of fifty, from French cinquante |
| cising | perhaps gerund of cise, aphetic excise |
| cistori | possibly a Latin entry-line remnant |
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