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 |
|---|---|
| etherialization | etherealization |
| etherialize | etherealize |
| etherialized | etherealized |
| etherializing | etherealizing |
| etiquet | etiquette |
| euemerism | euhemerism |
| eulogisation | eulogization (British -isation) |
| eulogiser | eulogizer |
| eutaxie | eutaxy, good order or arrangement |
| expandibility | expandability |
| experimentor | experimenter |
| exstemporal | extemporal (extempore) |
| exstemporaneous | extemporaneous |
| exsudate | exudate |
| extempory | extempore |
| extipulate | exstipulate (botany, without stipules) |
| extoled | extolled |
| extoling | extolling |
| extradictable | extraditable |
| extypal | ectypal, taken from a model |
| eyess | eyas, a nestling hawk |
| falbelo | falbala, a flounce or furbelow |
| familistery | familistère, anglicized spelling |
| fantasmagorically | phantasmagorically |
| farcial | farcical |
| farrage | farrago, a medley |
| fastigated | fastigiate, pointed or tapering |
| favouress | favoress, British spelling |
| feckulence | feculence, dregs or foulness |
| feif | fief |
| felanders | filanders, threadworms in hawks |
| felspath | feldspar |
| felspathose | feldspathose, containing feldspar |
| fenagler | finagler |
| ferkin | firkin |
| fernambuck | pernambuco, brazilwood |
| fetichic | fetishic, of a fetish |
| fetichry | fetishry, fetish worship |
| fetise | fetish (older Portuguese-derived form) |
| feulamort | feuillemort, dead-leaf brown |
| fewnes | fewness (older single-s spelling) |
| fictil | fictile, mouldable, of pottery |
| fidley | fiddley, casing over a ship's stokehold |
| fierding | fjerding, a Scandinavian quarter measure |
| fieulamort | feuillemort, dead-leaf brown |
| filippic | philippic |
| finnick | finick, to be over-nice |
| firiness | fieriness (from the old spelling firy) |
| fixgig | fizgig, a fish spear; a flighty girl |
| flachery | flacherie, a bacterial disease of silkworms |
| flaunche | flaunch (heraldry) |
| flear | fleer, to mock |
| flebotomy | phlebotomy |
| flotsen | flotsam (old law spelling) |
| fluoridisation | fluoridization |
| foederal | federal |
| folksey | folksy |
| forbow | forebow, front of a saddle |
| forecastors | forecasters (older -or spelling) |
| forestery | forestry |
| forgetable | forgettable |
| forgiveably | forgivably (forgiveable + -ly) |
| forrel | forel, a parchment book-cover |
| forril | forel, a parchment book-cover |
| foysen | foison, abundance, plenty |
| frankforter | frankfurter (Frankfort spelling) |
| fricasseing | fricasseeing (fricassee + -ing) |
| frontspiece | frontispiece |
| frousty | frowsty, musty |
| frumety | frumenty, a wheat porridge |
| fruticeous | fruticose, shrubby |
| fughette | fughetta, a short fugue |
| fullymart | foumart, the polecat |
| furdel | fardel, a bundle |
| fusilade | fusillade |
| fustie | fusty, musty |
| fustinella | fustanella, the Greek kilt |
| futchell | futchel, a carriage timber |
| futharc | futhark, the runic alphabet |
| gadwell | gadwall, a river duck |
| galactagog | galactagogue, promoting milk flow |
| galeass | galleass, a large war-galley |
| galeche | galoche, an overshoe |
| gallywasp | galliwasp, a West Indian lizard |
| galoch | galosh, an overshoe |
| garoter | garroter |
| gasking | gasket (nautical cord) |
| gastrodisk | gastrodisc |
| gaufer | gauffer, to crimp or flute |
| gazometer | gasometer |
| gedact | gedackt, stopped organ stop |
| gemellione | gemellion, hand-washing basin |
| generater | generator |
| genethliatic | genethliac, relating to nativities |
| genethlic | genethliac, relating to birth horoscopes |
| geosid | geoside, older -id chemical spelling |
| geotaxy | geotaxis |
| gesnerad | gesneriad, plant of the Gesneriaceae |
| ghalva | halva |
| gibbals | gimbals |
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