Help with using OED Online

Latest new entries

On 11 September 2008 the New Edition was updated with revised entries in a series of discrete alphabetical ranges, as well as the addition of new entries from across the alphabet. In some ranges, not every entry was revised, as editorial effort was concentrated on the most significant groups of related words. In addition, entries for days of the week and months of the year were revised. The table below shows the ranges which were covered, together with some of the more notable entries within them. For further details see the Chief Editor's commentary on the latest revision. Below this are listed all the new words in the ranges.

Revised ranges	Major entries
angle to Anglo-Welsh	angle Anglican anglicize angling Anglo- Anglo-Saxon
art to arty-farty	art artery artful arthro- article articulate artifice artificial artillery artisan artist artistic artless
asset	asset
atom to atomy	atom atom bomb atomic atomic bomb atomize also A-bomb
bad to bad-tempered	bad badge badger bad-mouth bad news bad-tempered
big to bigwig	big bigamy big Apple big brother bigot big picture bigwig
boy to boyuna	boy boycott boyish Boyle's law boy scout
Brit to Brittonic	Brit Britain British Briton brittle also Breton
carbo to carbylamine	carbo- carbohydrate carbon carboxy- carbuncle
cell to celly	cell cellar cello cellular celluloid
chem to chemy	chemical chemist chemistry chemo- chemotherapy
cool to cooly	cool coolant cooler coolie
England to Eng. Lit.	England English
food to foody	food foodie
hot to hot-working	hot hot air hotchpotch hot dog hotel houthouse hot list
jazz to jazzy	jazz jazzbo jazzy
job to job work	job jobbing jobless jobsworth
lady to lady's tresses	lady ladybird ladylike ladyship also ladied ladies
sex to sexy	sex sexism sexist sextant sexual sexuality
space to spacy	space spacecraft spaceman spacious spacy
sport to sporty	sport sporting sportive sportsman sportswoman sporty
street to streety	street street cred streetwise
table to tabloidization	table tableau tablet tabloid
voice to voicing	voice voiced voiceless voiceover
word to wordy	word wordiness wording wordy

In addition to revised versions of Second Edition entries, these ranges contain the following new entries:

A-bomb, n.
angledog, n.
angle-park, v.
angle-parked, adj.
angle-parking, n.
angler, n.¹
Anglical, adj.
Anglicanization, n.
anglicizer, n.
anglicizing, n.
Anglo, n.³
Anglo-America, n.
Anglo-Arab, adj. and n.
Anglo-Arabian, adj. and n.
Anglocentrism, n.
Anglo-German, adj.
Anglo-Irishman, n.
Anglo-Merino, adj.
Anglo-Nubian, n. and adj.
Anglophiliac, adj. and n.
Anglophonia, n.
Anglophony, n.
Anglo-Welsh, n. and adj.
anti-arthritic, n. and adj.
Aprilish, adj.
art., n.²
Artane, n.
Artemia, n.
arte povera, n.
arter, adv., prep., and conj.
arteritic, adj.
arterize, v.
arthritically, adv.
arthrodiran, n. and adj.
arthrodire, n.
arthrogryposis, n.
arthropodan, adj.
arthropodin, n.
arthropodization, n.
arthropodology, n.
arthroscope, n.
arthroscopic, adj.
arthroscopically, adv.
arthroscopy, n.
arthrous, adj.
Arthur, n.
Arthus, n.
articulary, adj.²
artilect, n.
artily, adv.
arting, n.¹
artinite, n.
artisanate, n.
artisanry, n.
atomic-bombed, adj.
atomics, n.
badam, n.
baddy, adj.
bad-john, n.
badly behaved, adj.
benzhexol, n.
big, n.²
bigamize, v.
big-assed, adj.
big box, n.
bigeminous, adj.
bigeminy, n.
bigenous, adj.
big-eyed, adj.
Bigfoot, n.
big guy, n.
Big Knife, n.
big man, n.
big-note, v.
bigos, n.
bigram, n.
big screen, n. and adj.
big-up, n. and int.
big whoop, int. and n.
boyart, n.
boychick, n.
boykie, n.
Boylean, adj.
Boys' Club, n.
boysie, n.
Boy's Own, adj.
boysy, adj.
Britannical, adj.
britholite, n.
British Asian, adj. and n.
British Columbian, adj. and n.
Britpopper, n.
Brittenesque, adj.
brittle, n.
carbocation, n.
carbodiimide, n.
carbofuran, n.
carbohydrase, n.
carbolineum, n.
carbonating, n.
carbon-copied, adj.
carbon copy, v.
carbon date, n.
carbon-date, v.
carbon-dated, adj.
carbon dating, n.
carbonitride, n.
carbonitrile, n.
carbostyril, n.
carbowax, n.
carboxy, adj.
carboxylated, adj.
carboxymethylcellulose, n.
carbro, n.
carburizing, n.
carburizing, adj.
carby, n.
cellar, n.²
cellarful, n.
cell biology, n.
cellobiase, n.
cellobiohydrolase, n.
cellucotton, n.
cellularization, n.
cellularize, v.
cellularized, adj.
cellulipetal, adj.
cellulitic, adj.²
cellulolysis, n.
cellulolytic, adj.
chem, n.
chemicker, n.
chemigation, n.
chemin de ronde, n.
cheminformatics, n.
chemocline, n.
chemoheterotroph, n.
chemoheterotrophic, adj.
chemoheterotrophy, n.
chemolithoautotroph, n.
chemolithoautotrophic, adj.
chemolithoautotrophy, n.
chemolithotroph, n.
chemolithotrophic, adj.
chemolithotrophy, n.
chemolytical, adj.
chemometrics, n.
chemoorganotroph, n.
chemoorganotrophic, adj.
chemoorganotrophy, n.
chemoreceptive, adj.
chemoselective, adj.
chemosensitive, adj.
chemosensitivity, n.
chemosensor, n.
chemosensory, adj.
chemotactically, adv.
chemotax, v.
chemotaxonomic, adj.
chemotaxonomical, adj.
chemotaxonomically, adv.
chemotaxonomy, n.
chemotic, adj.
chemotroph, n.
chemotrophic, adj.
chemotrophy, n.
chemotropically, adv.
cool-down, n.
cool-drink, n.
C-word, n.
ductus arteriosus, n.
Eng. Lang., n.
Engle, n.
Englified, adj.
Englishified, adj.
Englishify, v.
foodery, n.
foodwise, adv.
game of life, n.
glycosidase, n.
haar, int. (and n.²)
hot, int. (and n.³)
hot-air balloon, n.
hot hand, n.
hot swap, n.
hot-swap, v.
hotte, n.²
hotting-up, n.
jasm, n.
jazzaphonic, adj.
jazzophone, n.
jobbet, n.
jobble, n.¹
Khoisan, n. and adj.
Lady Mayor, n.
pharmaceutical chemist, n.
Rubisco, n.
sevir, n.
sexavalent, adj.
sex control, n.
sexine, n.
sexploit, n.
sextile, v.
sexuale, n.
sexualized, adj.
sexvir, n.
space-bound, adj.²
spacescape, n.
spaceward, adv. and adj.
sportily, adv.
sportsplex, n.
sportswomanship, n.
street front, n. and adj.
table-boarder, n.
table mount, n.¹
tableness, n.
trihexyphenidyl, n.
Tuesnight, n.
voicebank, n.
voice-over, v.
voice-overed, adj.
voici, int.
wordable, adj.
-worder, comb. form
word-mongering, adj.

In addition to these new entries, a number of new subordinate entries were added to existing entries. These included:

(Under angle, n.²)
- angle of lead
- angle of view
- angle of the jaw
- angle-closure
- angle grinder
- angle plate
- angle post
- anglewing
(Under Anglican, adj. and n.)
- Anglican chant
- Anglican communion
(Under Anglo-Irish, n. and adj.)
- Anglo-Irish Agreement
- Anglo-Irish Treaty
(Under anglophone, n. and adj.)
- anglophonic
(Under April, n.)
- April-like
(Under April fool, n.)
- April 'foolery
(Under art, n.¹)
- art board
- art book
- art-direct
- art-directed
- art direction
- art-educated
- art gum
- art-historically
- art installation
- artmobile
- art novel
- artspeak
- art therapist
- art therapy
- art auction
- art class
- art department
- art exhibition
- art forger
- art forgery
- art-making
- art market
- art theft
- art worker
(Under arteriographic, adj.)
- arterio'graphically
(Under arteriovenous, adj.)
- arteriovenous anastomosis
(Under artery, n.)
- artery-clogging
(Under artesian, n. and adj.)
- artesian well
(Under artex, v.)
- artexed
(Under artful, adj. (and n.))
- Artful Dodger
(Under arthro-, comb. form)
- arthrogram
- arthropathic
- arthrospore
(Under arthrodial, adj.)
- arthrodial membrane
(Under arthroscopy, n.)
- arthroscopist
(Under Arthus, n.)
- Arthus-type
(Under artichoke, n.)
- artichoke bottom
- artichoke heart
- artichoke pie
(Under articled, adj.)
- articled clerk
- articled teacher
(Under artificial, adj. and n.)
- artificial air
- artificial atom
- artificial blood
- artificial chromosome
- artificial evolution
- artificial eye
- artificial gene
- artificial gravity
- artificial hour
- artificial island
- artificial reality
- artificial selection
- artificial turf
- artificial flavouring
(Under artillery, n.)
- artillery duel
- artillery horse
- artillery tractor
- artillery ground
- artillery piece
- artillery shell
- artillery unit
(Under artiodactyl, adj. and n.)
- artiodactylous
(Under artisanal, adj.)
- artisanally
(Under artist, n.)
- artist's fungus
- artist's conk
- artist's proof
(Under artistic, adj.)
- artistic direction
- artistic director
- artistic licence
- artistic temperament
- artisticness
(Under asset, n.)
- asset allocation
- asset-backed
- asset class
- asset sale
- asset-strip
- asset value
(Under Atlantic, adj. and n.)
- Atlantic halibut
(Under atom, n.)
- atom laser
- atom optics
- atom probe
(Under atomic, adj. and n.)
- atomic absorption
- atomic absorption coefficient
- atomic absorption spectroscopy
- atomic engine
- atomic fission
- atomic force microscope
- atomic hypothesis
- atomic moment
- atomic nucleus
- atomic orbital
- atomic radiation
- atomic spectrum
- atomic time
- International Atomic Time
- atomic transition
- atomic unit
(Under B, n.)
- BE
- BrE
(Under bad, adj., n.², and adv.)
- bad ball
- bad-ball hitter
- bad breath
- bad cholesterol
- bad conduct discharge
- bad hop
- bad house
- bad money
- bad quarto
- bad-mannered
- bad-sounding
(Under badge, n.)
- badge of honour
- badge of office
- badge-engineered
- badge engineering
- badge messenger
- badge holder
- badge number
- badge-wearer
(Under badger, n.²)
- badger dig
- badger digger
- badger digging
- badger hole
- badger hair
- badger skin
(Under bad-tempered, adj.)
- bad-temperedly
(Under bigamize, v.)
- bigamized
(Under big-assed, adj.)
- big-assed bird
- like a big-assed bird
(Under big, adj. and adv.)
- Big Bad Wolf
- big bluestem
- big brown bat
- big bud
- big bud hickory
- big C
- Big Country
- big dog
- big dog of the tanyard
- big hitter
- big job
- bigleaf maple
- big pay
- big-set
- big ticket
- big-ticket item
- big-breasted
- big-faced
- big-horned
(Under big brother, n.)
- Big Brother Movement
- big brotherish
(Under big-eye, adj. and n.)
- bigeye tuna
(Under Big Mac, n.)
- Big Mac index
(Under big-note, v.)
- big-noter
- big-noting
(Under boss, n.⁶)
- boss boy
(Under boy, n.¹ and int.)
- boy chap
- boy choir
- boy-cut
- boy-days
- boy genius
- boy leg
- boy racer
- boy shorts
- boy alto
- boy soprano
(Under boyish, adj.)
- boyish-looking
(Under Breton, n. and adj.)
- Breton cap
(Under Britannia, n.)
- Britannia silver
- Britannia standard
(Under British, adj. and n.)
- British Blue
- British Black English
- British colonial
- British Israelite
- British oil
- British plate
- British Shorthair
- British Sign Language
- British White
- British White cattle
- British-made
- British matronism
(Under British Empire, n.)
- British Empire Medal
(Under Briton, n. and adj.)
- Briton-like
(Under Brittany, n.)
- Brittany spaniel
(Under brittle, adj.)
- brittle asthma
- brittle bone disease
- brittlebush
(Under carbolic, adj. and n.)
- carbolically
(Under carbonaceous, adj.)
- carbonaceous chondrite
(Under carbonate, n.)
- carbonate-fluorapatite
(Under carbonatite, n.)
- carbonatitic
(Under carbon, n.)
- carbon-12
- carbon-13
- carbon bisulphide
- carbon bronze
- carbon chain
- carbon composite
- carbon credit
- carbon fixation
- carbon–14 date
- carbon–14 dating
- carbon-free
- carbon lamp
- carbon nanotube
- carbon-neutral
- carbon offset
- carbon pencil
- carbon print
- carbon sequestration
- carbon star
- carbon suboxide
- carbon tet
- carbon tissue
- carbon trading
- carbon atom
- carbon brush
- carbon electrode
- carbon filament
- carbon-based
- carbon-containing
(Under carboxy-, comb. form)
- carboxykinase
- phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase
- carboxymethylated
- carboxymethylation
- carboxy-terminal
- carboxy terminus
(Under carboxyl, n.)
- carboxyl-terminal
(Under carburize, v.)
- carburized
(Under carbylamine, n.)
- carbylamine reaction
(Under cellar, n.¹)
- cellar bar
- cellar beetle
- cellar deck
- cellar-dweller
- cellar-dwelling
- cellar master
- cellar hole
- cellar room
(Under cell, n.¹)
- cell architecture
- cell biologist
- cellblock
- cell bridge
- cell chamber
- cell column
- cell cortex
- cell counter
- cell cycle
- cell differentiation
- cell doctrine
- cell house
- cell junction
- cell lethal
- cell lethality
- cell-mediated
- cell-mediated immunity
- cell memory
- cell nest
- cell nesting
- cell process
- cell sheath
- cell theory
- cell therapy
- cell transformation
- cell tray
- cell boundary
- cell contents
- cell culture
- cell death
- cell elongation
- cell killing
- cell motility
- cell nutrient
- cell nutrition
- cell surface
- cell structure
- cell type
- cell-killing
- cell-lined
- cell-specific
- cell-less
- cell-like
(Under cellophane, n.)
- cellophane noodle
(Under cellular, adj. and n.)
- cellular automaton
- cellular concrete
- cellular immune response
- cellular immunity
- cellular logic
- cellular slime mould
- cellular theory
(Under cellulose, n.)
- cellulose gum
- cellulose triacetate
- cellulose-coated
(Under chemical, adj. and n.)
- chemical adsorption
- chemical agent
- chemical binding
- chemical biology
- chemical bomb
- chemical bond
- chemical bonding
- chemical castration
- chemical cosh
- chemical fertilizer
- chemical focus
- chemical fog
- chemical fossil
- chemical gradient
- chemical lead
- chemical marker
- chemical messenger
- chemical mixture
- chemical oxygen demand
- chemical physics
- chemical potential
- chemical pulp
- chemical ray
- chemical reaction
- chemical reagent
- chemical sense
- chemical shift
- chemical symbol
- chemical toilet
- chemical transmitter
- chemical vapour deposition
- chemical weathering
- chemical wood pulp
(Under chemico-, comb. form)
- chemico-animal
(Under chemistry, n.)
- chemistry set
(Under chemo-, comb. form)
- chemoarchitecture
- chemoattractant
- chemoattraction
- chemoattractive
- chemoimmunotherapy
- chemomechanical
- chemophobia
- chemopreventative
- chemoprophylactic
- chemoradiotherapy
- chemosphere
- chemosurgery
- chemo-statical
(Under chemometrics, n.)
- chemometric
(Under chemoselective, adj.)
- chemoselectively
(Under chemosynthetic, adj.)
- chemosynthetically
(Under chemotaxonomy, n.)
- chemotaxonomist
(Under cold, adj.)
- cold one
(Under cool, adj., adv., and int.)
- cool-brained
- cool-hearted
- cool bag
- cool-blooded
- cool box
- Cool Breeze
- cool-burning
- cool one
- cool room
- cool-touch
- cool-looking
(Under cool, n.¹)
- cool hunter
(Under cooler, n.)
- cooler bag
(Under cool-headed, adj.)
- cool-headedly
(Under coolie, n.)
- coolie orange
(Under cooling, n.)
- cooling coil
- cooling curve
- cooling fin
- cooling rack
- cooling fan
- cooling tub
- cooling water
(Under dielectric, n. and adj.)
- dielectric heating
(Under England, n.)
- England-returned
(Under Engle, n.)
- Englethede
(Under English, adj., (adv.), and n.)
- English pea
- English pease
- English plantain
- English rhubarb
- English walnut
- English wheat
- English basement
- English breakfast
- English breakfast tea
- English Civil War
- English flute
- English garden
- English Latin
- English mile
- English saddle
- English sparrow
- English-knowing
- English-educated
- English-made
- English-like
(Under external, adj. and n.)
- external combustion
(Under February, n.)
- February Revolution
(Under food, n.)
- food aid
- food allergy
- food body
- food canal
- food chemistry
- food drive
- food drop
- foodfest
- food fight
- food-grade
- food groove
- food group
- food hall
- food hygiene
- food intolerance
- food mill
- food pantry
- food pyramid
- food scare
- food science
- food scientist
- food service
- food shelf
- food stylist
- food supplement
- food taster
- food technologist
- food technology
- food vacuole
- food cart
- food guide
- food industry
- food intake
- food safety
- food inspector
- food warmer
(Under Friday, n. and adv.)
- Friday prayers
(Under gas, n.¹)
- gas constant
(Under hot-air balloon, n.)
- hot-air ballooning
- hot-air balloonist
(Under hot air, n.)
- hot-air engine
- hot air gun
(Under hot, adj. and n.¹)
- hot-arsed
- hot brush
- hot bunk
- hot bunking
- hot canary
- hot chamber
- hot comb
- hot corner
- hot curving machine
- hot date
- hot foil
- hot fusion
- hot Jupiter
- hot lake
- Hot Lips
- hot melt
- hot pool
- hot sate
- hot seller
- hot-selling
- hot-sheet
- hot shoe
- hot smoking
- hot stage
- hot streak
- hot strip mill
- hot ticket
- hot tip
- hot tray
- hot tubbing
- hot walker
- hot wing
(Under hotel, n.)
- hotel detective
(Under hot-rod, v.)
- hot-rodded
(Under hot-swap, v.)
- hot-swappable
- hot swapping
(Under Hottentot, n. and adj.)
- Hottentot bonnet
- Hottentot's poison-bush
(Under hotter, v.)
- hottering
(Under hot water, n.)
- hot water bag
- hot water cylinder
- hot water tank
(Under January, n.)
- January King
(Under jazz, n. and adj.)
- jazz chant
- jazz cigarette
- jazz critic
- jazz dancer
- jazz era
- jazz fusion
- jazz hand
- jazz tap
- jazz-like
(Under job, n.²)
- job action
- job agency
- job bank
- job fair
- job market
- job office
- job shadowing
- job ad
- job advertisement
- job applicant
- job application
- job candidate
- job holder
- job interview
(Under July, n.)
- July highflyer
(Under June, n.)
- June beetle
- green June beetle
- June butter
- June grape
- June plum
(Under lady, n.)
- lady of the evening
- Lady with the Lamp
- Lady Church
- Lady fast
- lady palm
- Lady Superior
- lady cake
- lady cracker
- lady governess
- lady's companion
- ladies' lounge
- ladies' wear
(Under road, n.)
- road bike
(Under Saturday, n. and adv.)
- Saturday soldier
(Under sexagenary, adj. and n.)
- sexagenary cycle
(Under sex, n.¹)
- Sex on the Beach
- sex aid
- sex call
- sex character
- sex characteristic
- sex doll
- sex gene
- sex gland
- sex god
- sex goddess
- sex-negative
- sex-neutral
- sex-positive
- sex ring
- sex scene
- sex trade
- sex addict
- sex addiction
- sex conflict
- sex correlation
- sex disqualification
- sex divergence
- sex educator
- sex festival
- sex guru
- sex heredity
- sex man
- sex movie
- sex pride
- sex scandal
- sex slave
- sex slavery
(Under sex control, n.)
- sex-controlled
(Under sexual, adj. and n.)
- sexual character
- sexual characteristic
- sexual assault
- sexual assault kit
- sexual excitement
- sexual experience
- sexual partner
(Under sexually, adv.)
- sexually transmitted disease
- sexually repressed
(Under space, n.¹)
- space alien
- space cake
- space case
- space debris
- space-dyed
- space elevator
- space rock
- space telescope
- space weather
(Under sport, n.¹)
- sport bag
- sport bike
- sport bra
- sport diver
- sport diving
- sport fisher
- sport fisherman
- sport horse
- sport seat
- sportspeak
- sport vehicle
- sport wheel
- sport writer
- sports agent
- sports bag
- sports bike
- sports boat
- sports bra
- sports clinic
- sports diver
- sports diving
- sports doctor
- sportsfisherman
- sportsfishing
- sports industry
- sports injury
- sports meet
- sports palace
- sportspeople
- sportsperson
- sports physician
- sports science
- sports scientist
- sports seat
- sportsspeak
- sports star
- sports suspension
- sports wheel
- sportswise
- sports announcer
- sports columnist
- sports journalism
- sports journalist
- sports reporter
- sports writing
(Under sporting, n.)
- sporting calendar
- sporting fish
- sporting shoot
(Under sportive, adj. and n.)
- sportive lemur
(Under street, n. and adj.)
- street bike
- street cop
- street dealer
- street dealing
- street food
- street gas
- street grid
- street luge
- street luger
- street person
- street room
- street savvy
- street-sweeper
- street tough
- street value
- street virus
- street woman
- street art
- street artist
- street brawl
- street entertainer
- street entertainment
- street hawker
- street language
- street mob
- street performance
- street performer
- street shoe
- street slang
- street stall
- streetwear
- street kerb
- street post
(Under Sunday, n. and adv.)
- Sunday house
- Sunday roast
- Sunday saint
- a Sunday saint and a weekday (also Monday, everyday, etc.) sinner (also devil, etc.)
(Under synthetic, adj. and n.)
- synthetic rubber
(Under table, n.)
- table damask
- table fare
- table fountain
- table licence
- table-load
- table meinie
- table set
- table sport
- table silver
- table rice
- table light
(Under tablecloth, n.)
- tableclothed
(Under tablet, n.)
- tablet computer
- tablet PC
(Under tabletop, n. and adj.)
- tabletop sale
(Under tabloid, n. and adj.)
- tabloidy
(Under taffel, n.)
- taffel board
(Under us, pron., n., and adj.)
- us–them
(Under voice, n.)
- voice of reason
- voice coach
- voice flute
- voice hatch
- voice mailbox
- voice memo
- voice onset time
- voice pattern
- voice recorder
- voice stress analyser
- voice stress analysis
- voice teacher
- voice test
- voice tube
(Under voiced, adj.)
- voicedness
(Under we, pron., n., and adj.)
- we-they
(Under woman, n.)
- woman of the bedchamber
(Under wool, n.)
- wool jobbing
(Under word, n. and int.)
- word-grubber
- word power
- word search
- word-lover
- word-loving
(Under yellow, adj. and n.)
- yellow slug

Finally, new meanings were added to the following entries:

arousal, n.
arouse, v.
basement, n.
digit, n.
goniometer, n.
goniometry, n.
scout, n.⁴

Help text index:

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z