Real Words Without Definition
This one is a judgement call.
A different spelling of a word that has a standard modern form.
arround is around. foederal is federal. chorous is chorus. chosing is choosing. crimison is crimson.
Both spellings were in real use at the time. Only one of them made it into the dictionary a lookup would check.
1,577 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 | The standard spelling |
|---|---|
| coazervation | coacervation |
| cocao | cacao |
| cockard | cockade |
| codamin | codamine |
| coelestial | celestial |
| coerceable | coercible |
| cognisability | cognizability |
| cognisableness | cognizableness |
| cohert | cohort |
| cohol | kohl, powdered antimony for the eyes |
| cohow | cahow, the Bermuda petrel |
| cokeney | cockney |
| coliander | coriander |
| collenchyme | collenchyma |
| collibert | colibert, a medieval semi-free tenant |
| collidin | collidine |
| collogen | collagen |
| colonisability | colonizability |
| columner | columnar |
| colyba | collyba, boiled wheat for memorials |
| commandrie | commandery |
| comminuate | comminute, to reduce to powder |
| comous | comose, hairy or tufted |
| comptie | coontie, the Florida arrowroot Zamia |
| concurbit | cucurbit, an alchemical vessel |
| congery | congeries, a heap or collection |
| conisance | cognisance (heraldic conusance) |
| conjon | congeon, a dwarf or changeling |
| connusable | cognizable (law, conusable) |
| conservacy | conservancy |
| contorsive | contortive |
| convertoplane | convertiplane |
| coontah | coontie, the Florida arrowroot (Zamia) |
| coopee | coupee, a dance step |
| coparcenar | coparcener, a joint heir |
| copartiment | compartment |
| corallita | coralita, the coral vine |
| coranoch | coronach, a Scots funeral dirge |
| corelate | correlate |
| corelated | correlated |
| corelates | correlates |
| corelating | correlating |
| corelatively | correlatively |
| corolitic | corollitic |
| coroll | corolla |
| coronettee | coronetty, in heraldry |
| corsak | corsac, the steppe fox |
| cosignitary | cosignatory |
| coterell | cotterel, a pot-hook or trammel |
| coulie | coolie |
| coulier | coulter, the blade of a plow |
| coupelet | couplet, older French-influenced spelling |
| courtal | curtal, a horse with a docked tail |
| covine | covin, fraudulent collusion |
| coxwain | coxswain |
| crannage | cranage, toll for use of a wharf crane |
| crannequin | cranequin, a crossbow winding gear |
| crany | cranny |
| crapon | crepon, a crinkled crepe fabric |
| crawfoot | crowfoot |
| creasol | creosol |
| creasot | creosote |
| credensive | credencive |
| credensiveness | credenciveness |
| cremorne | cremone (bolt) |
| crenele | crenel |
| crengle | cringle, a rope eye on a sail |
| creoleize | creolize |
| crimison | crimson |
| crimmer | krimmer, a Crimean lambskin fur |
| crisset | cresset, an iron fire-basket |
| crocodilean | crocodilian |
| cronie | crony |
| croset | crossette, an architectural ear |
| crosette | crossette |
| crotchy | crotchety |
| crucilly | crusilly (heraldry, strewn with crosslets) |
| crucily | crusily |
| crumster | cromster, a small Dutch warship |
| crusile | crusily (heraldry) |
| crwd | crwth, the Welsh bowed lyre |
| cubbyyew | cubbyu, the high-hat drum fish |
| cudwort | cudweed (Gnaphalium) |
| culett | culet, armor plate over the buttocks |
| cutiduris | cutidure, coronary band of the hoof |
| cymation | cymatium, a classical moulding |
| cymballed | cymbaled, doubled-l spelling |
| daekon | daikon, the Japanese radish |
| damaskine | damaskeen, to damascene metal |
| dapico | dapicho, an Orinoco caoutchouc |
| dapson | dapsone, the sulfone drug |
| darksum | darksome, gloomy |
| darnix | dornick, a coarse figured fabric |
| daubry | daubery, crude trickery or daubing |
| deadrize | deadrise, rise of a hull's floor |
| decaedron | decahedron |
| defecter | defector |
| defecters | defectors |
| definitised | definitized (British -ise) |
| definitising | definitizing (British -ise) |
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