| abristle | In predicative use: (a) presenting a rough or prickly aspect; (of a hair) standing on end; (b) bristling with. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| accelerant | A thing with an accelerating effect; an accelerator; spec. a substance that increases the rate of combustion of a fire. | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| acrawl | Of a place: crawling (with diminutive organisms, etc.: see crawl v. 5). | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| adance | Moving in a quick and lively manner. Also in extended use. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| adrip | In predicative use: dripping. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| adumbral | That provides shade. Obs. rare. | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| adust | That is in a dusty condition; covered in dust. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| aerobate | intr. To walk (as if) on the air. | 1835 | Go To Quotation |
| aflight | In predicative use: flying; in flight, airborne. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| aglimmer | In predicative use: glimmering. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| agrin | In predicative use: grinning. Chiefly in all agrin. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| agronomial | = agronomic adj. Cf. agronomical adj. | 1851 | Go To Quotation |
| ambassadrix | = ambassadress n. 1. | 1846 | Go To Quotation |
| amusee | The person amused, or for whom amusement is provided. | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
| amusingness | The quality of being amusing. | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| anachronist | One who commits or supports an anachronism; one out of harmony with his own time. | 1842 | Go To Quotation |
| angelicize | trans. To make angelic; = angelize v. Also intr., to act in an angelic manner. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| Anglophobist | = Anglophobe n. | 1854 | Go To Quotation |
| antagonism | Const. Antagonism between two things, to or against a thing; to be or act in antagonism to;… | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
| antero- | front side. | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
| anthropophagical | Relating to anthropophagy. (Also for prec.) | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| antlery | Antlers collectively. | 1849 | Go To Quotation |
| appreciator | One who appreciates or forms an adequate estimate. | 1842 | Go To Quotation |
| apprehensibility | The quality of being apprehensible. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| a-quarter | On the quarter, i.e. 45° abaft the beam. | 1849 | Go To Quotation |
| archipelagic | = archipelagian adj. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| artistically | In an artistic manner, tastefully; from an artistic point of view. | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| assification | The action of making an ass of (a person); asinine act. | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| asunderness | The state of being asunder; separateness. | 1843 | Go To Quotation |
| a-swarm | Swarming. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| attitudinizer | One who practises or depicts attitudes. (Contemptuous.) | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| au naturel | In the natural state; cooked plainly; uncooked; undressed. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| Australasiatic | Consisting of or characterized by a mixture of Australian and Asiatic elements. Also absol. (? Obs.) | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| avertress | A female who averts. | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
| a-wing | On the wing; fluttering. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| backless | Without a back, having no back. | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| bancomania | A craze for establishing banks. | 1837 | Go To Quotation |
| bashed | Having the surface beaten or smashed in. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| basiliskian | Of or pertaining to a basilisk; basiliscan. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| bathukolpian | Deep-bosomed. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| batonless | Without a baton. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| baylet | A little bay. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| beardie | Also beardie-loach. A name given, chiefly in Scotland, to a small fish, the… | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| bedevilment | Maddening confusion or disorder. | 1843 | Go To Quotation |
| begunk | trans. To delude, play a deceiving trick on, ‘take in’. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| belletristic | Of or pertaining to belles-lettres. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| benighten | trans. To benight. | 1844 | Go To Quotation |
| biddable | Ready to do what is bidden, obedient, willing, docile. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| binational | Concerning or consisting of two nations. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| birdery | A collection of birds; birds collectively. | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| bladeless | Without or lacking a blade. | 1857 | Go To Quotation |
| blazeless | Without blaze or flame. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| bloomery | A collection or place full of blooms. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| blueism | The characteristics of a ‘blue’ or ‘blue-stocking’; feminine learning or pedantry. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| bootlessness | Uselessness; unprofitableness. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| boozify | intr. To take part in a boozing party, to booze. | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| breastless | Without breasts. | 1854 | Go To Quotation |
| breathingly | In a breathing manner; with or as with life or animation; gently as a breath. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| brewership | The office or employment of a brewer. | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| brewst | A ‘browst’ or brewing. | 1854 | Go To Quotation |
| broomster | One who wields a broom; spec. in Curling, one who sweeps the ice. | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| browniness | The state of being ‘browny’ or somewhat brown. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| brum | intr. To murmur, hum. | 1844 | Go To Quotation |
| bummer | That which hums or buzzes; spec. a toy (see quot. 1821). | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| bumpiness | bumpy adj. state or condition. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| bumpologist | One who is learned in bumpology. | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| bureaucratic | Of or pertaining to bureaucracy. | 1836 | Go To Quotation |
| burgee | A small tapered flag or pennant, three-cornered (or swallow-tailed), used by… | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| busha | The manager or overseer of an estate in Jamaica. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| bush-buck | A small species of African antelope, also called the Bush-goat. | 1852 | Go To Quotation |
| busybodyism | Behaviour characteristic of a busybody; acting as a busybody, meddling. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| buttocker | A wrestler who ‘buttocks’ (buttock v. 2). | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| Byronic | Characteristic of, or after the manner of Byron or his poetry. Also absol. | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| calipeva | A fish: a mullet of the West Indies, Mugil liza, much esteemed as a delicacy. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| calotype | trans. To represent or imprint by the calotype process; to photograph. | 1853 | Go To Quotation |
| campment | Short for encampment n. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| canterer | A steed or rider that canters. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| capacitation | A rendering capable. | 1839 | Go To Quotation |
| catacombish | Savouring of the catacombs. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| cataracted | Having cataracts: poured in cataracts. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| catastrophical | Referring to, dealing with, catastrophes; also = catastrophic adj. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| celebrative | Pertaining to celebration. | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| celestialize | trans. To make celestial. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| centronote | A genus of fishes (Centronotus) having a spur-like prickle pointing forwards in the back. | 1836 | Go To Quotation |
| charlatanic | Of or belonging to a charlatan or quack. | 1843 | Go To Quotation |
| charlatanish | Savouring of a charlatan, charlatanical. | 1846 | Go To Quotation |
| cheekless | Without cheeks. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| cheeringly | In a cheering manner; so as to cheer one. | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| chermadic | | 1842 | Go To Quotation |
| chinless | Without the firmness of character held to be expressed by a prominent chin. Esp. in phr. chinless wonder. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| chip | The technical term for: A trip, a trick, a special mode of throwing one's opponent. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| chrematist | One who studies the science of wealth; a political economist. | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| circumstantiation | The action of circumstantiating. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| circumvolutory | Winding about. | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| citizenish | Of the nature of or relating to citizens. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| classifiable | Capable of being classified. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| cleverality | Cleverness. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| cockless | Without a cock or cocks. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| cockneyish | Savouring of the cockney. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| colloquiality | Colloquial quality or style; concr. a colloquial expression. | 1846 | Go To Quotation |
| colloquize | intr. To engage in colloquy. | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| commentatorial | Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a commentator or commentators. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| comminglement | A mingling, mixture. | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| communistic | Also with capital initial. = communist adj. 1 2. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| compellent | Compelling, constraining. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| conacre | trans. To sublet in conacre. | 1839 | Go To Quotation |
| concentrative | Having the attribute of concentrating; characterized by concentration. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| confective | Pertaining to the making of confections. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| consequentiality | The quality of being consequential or important; air or assumption of importance. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| contaminative | Having a contaminating property; causing contamination. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| controversialize | intr. To engage in controversy with. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| convenery | A body of persons convened together; a convention, assembly, congress. | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| convergement | The action or fact of converging; drawing together. | 1839 | Go To Quotation |
| correctorship | The office of a corrector (of the press). | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| costumier | One who makes costumes; a dealer in costumes; esp. one who sells or lets out on hire… | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| crampness | State or quality of being cramp or cramped; confinedness. | 1840 | Go To Quotation |
| crankily | In a cranky manner. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| crawful | As much as fills a bird's craw. | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| crenellation | concr. Embattled work; a battlement. | 1849 | Go To Quotation |
| crimper | A person who crimps (in various senses). | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| cringy | Servile; cringing; timid. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| crinkly | Characterized by a succession of crinkling sounds. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| crumpiness | The quality of being crumpy. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| cultivatory | Of the nature of or pertaining to cultivation. | 1854 | Go To Quotation |
| curdiness | The state or quality of being curdy. (Of fish: see curd n. 2b.) | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| curmur | To make a low murmuring or purring sound. | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| curr | A curring sound. | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| dampiness | The state of being ‘dampy’ or somewhat damp. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| dandification | The action of dandifying or fact of being dandified; concr. a dandified adornment. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| deedful | Full of deeds, active, effective. | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| deepener | One who or that which deepens. | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| demulceate | = demulce v. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| densify | trans. To make dense, condense. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| deplane | trans. To remove from an aeroplane. | 1923 | Go To Quotation |
| deplethoric | Characterized by the absence of plethora. | 1837 | Go To Quotation |
| desertedness | Deserted condition, forlorn desolation. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| desponding | The action of the verb despond v., q.v. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| despotomaniac | One who has a mania in favour of despots; attrib. having such a mania. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| determinativeness | = determinateness n. 2; determination. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| detonsure | Shaving, polling. (affected or humorous.) | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| devourment | The action of devouring or consuming. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| dewily | After the manner of dew. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| didymite | = didymist n. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| dimmer | One who or that which dims. spec. A device for reducing the brilliance of a light, esp.… | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| discursative | Passing from one object of thought to another; discursive. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| dismoded | Anglicization of démodé adj. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| dover | ‘A slumber, a slight unsettled sleep’ (Jamieson). | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| dreamery | Dream-work, ‘such stuff as dreams are made of’. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| dubitant | Doubting; having doubts. absol. One who doubts. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| duncehood | The quality, condition, or character of a dunce or dunces; mental opacity. | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| Duralumin | The proprietary name of a number of heat-treatable wrought aluminium alloys which… | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| ebriate | Intoxicated; fig. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| eburnine | Ivory-like, ivory-coloured. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| echoy | Of the nature of an echo. Also, liable to resound with an echo. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| edginess | Irritability. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| eleeson | = Kyrie eleison n. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| elenctic | Of or pertaining to refutation; concerned with refutation; that occupies himself with cross-examination. | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| elucidative | That tends to elucidate, throw light upon, make plain or intelligible. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| embryo | trans. To represent in embryo. | 1837 | Go To Quotation |
| enactory | Concerned with or relating to the enactment of law. | 1844 | Go To Quotation |
| encyclopaedic | Of, pertaining to, or resembling an encyclopædia (see encyclopaedia n. 1); that aims… | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| episuperstruction | Additional superstruction. | 1840 | Go To Quotation |
| etherealize | To give an ethereal appearance to. | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| eudemonism | That system of ethics which finds the foundation of moral obligation in the tendency of actions to produce happiness. | 1839 | Go To Quotation |
| exallotriote | Brought from a foreign country. | 1849 | Go To Quotation |
| exhumator | One who exhumes. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| expectoratory | A place for expectorating; a spitting-place. | 1836 | Go To Quotation |
| expeditionist | One who goes on an expedition; an excursionist. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| expergefacient | Awakening; of a nature to rouse or wake up. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| expiscatory | Tending to expiscate or ‘fish out’. | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| expressionable | Capable of showing expression. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| exter | trans. To dig out of the earth. | 1835 | Go To Quotation |
| eyeful | A minute quantity; a wink (of sleep). | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| fancyette | A little fancy. | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| farthingless | Without a farthing; destitute. | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| fat-head | One having a fat head; a stupid dolt. | 1835 | Go To Quotation |
| fatless | Without fat or greasy matter. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| fecundize | = fecundate v. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| femininization | = feminization n. (in various senses). | 1844 | Go To Quotation |
| ferryable | Of a water: That may be crossed in a ferry-boat. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| feudalist | A representative of the feudal system. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| fifteener | A book printed in the fifteenth century. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| fingery | Branching into fingers or finger-like divisions. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| flaff | A flutter or flapping of the wings; also, a puff, gust. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| flichter | = flicker n. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| flim | = flam n. 3. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| foggie | A kind of humble-bee; = carder n. 1b. Also foggie-bee. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| foist | A fogy. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| fondish | dial. (See quot. 1876.) | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| foofaraw | U.S. regional (west.). Fussy, vain; (also) gaudy, tawdry. Now hist. and rare. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| fripier | A dealer in old clothes. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| frostify | intr. To become frosty. Implied in ˌfrostifiˈcation n. jocular, the process of becoming frosty. ˈfrostified adj. dial., frosty. | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| garlanding | The action of garland v.; hence concr. that which forms a garland. | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| gawpus | A silly person, simpleton. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| genderless | Grammar. Without distinction or indication of gender. | 1840 | Go To Quotation |
| geyan | Tolerably; considerably. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| ghostship | The condition or quality of being a ghost. Also humorously, the personality of a ghost. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| gigglement | The action of giggling. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| gignate | trans. To produce, be the author of. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| gimcracky | Of the nature of a gimcrack. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| ginger-pop | A colloquial term for ginger-beer n. 1. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| Glenlivet | A variety of Scotch whisky. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| gliffy | = gliff n. 2. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| gloomyish | Somewhat gloomy. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| gluck | intr. To make a sound rendered by ‘gluck’. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| glutter | Splutter. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| gnosticity | Knowingness; pretensions to knowledge. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| gog | ‘The object set up as a mark in playing at Quoits, Pitch and Toss, etc.’ (Jamieson). | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| gradational | Pertaining to, or characterized by, gradation. | 1842 | Go To Quotation |
| graocracy | Government by an old woman or old women. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| grew | intr. To go coursing with greyhounds. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| grousy | Abounding in grouse. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| growlery | Growling, rumbling, or grumbling. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| handicraftship | Exercise of handicraft, workmanship. | 1835 | Go To Quotation |
| hartal | Organized shutting of shops and cessation of business, to serve, usually, as a… | 1920 | Go To Quotation |
| Hibernically | In an Irish manner; esp. in reference to speech: With something of an Irish bull, with… | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| hissiness | Hissing manner or character. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| hoaxical | Of the nature of a hoax. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| honey-lipped | = honey-mouthed adj. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| hutung | In northern Chinese cities: a narrow side-street, an alley. | 1922 | Go To Quotation |
| hypertrophic | Of the nature of, affected with, or producing hypertrophy. (Also fig.) | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| ice worm | An imaginary creature which flourishes in icy conditions; spec. (Canad.) one first reported during the Klondike gold rush. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| idealizer | A person who or thing which idealizes someone or something. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| ideogram | = ideograph n. | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
| imbibation | Erron. f. imbibition n. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| immotioned | Without motion, motionless. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| impressionability | The quality of being impressionable; susceptibility to impressions. | 1835 | Go To Quotation |
| incremation | Burning, esp. of a dead body; = cremation n. (which is now the usual word). | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| inevadible | = inevasible adj. | 1842 | Go To Quotation |
| infidelize | trans. To render infidel. | 1836 | Go To Quotation |
| inquirant | Inquiring. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| inspiratrix | A female inspirer. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| inspiriter | One who or that which inspirits. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| insularism | The quality of being insular, or of having the character which is developed by living on… | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| insusceptibility | The quality of being insusceptible; want of susceptibility. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| intemperable | Incapable of being moderated or kept within bounds. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| interjaculatory | Expressed in parenthetical ejaculations. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| interpolity | Mutual citizenship. | 1849 | Go To Quotation |
| intuitionism | The doctrine of Reid and other philosophers of the Scottish school, that in… | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| ipsographic | Self-recording. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| irreconcilability | The quality of being irreconcilable; irreconcilableness. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| irreligionism | A system of irreligion; irreligious theory. | 1843 | Go To Quotation |
| irrespectable | Not respectable. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| irrigable | Capable of being irrigated; susceptible of irrigation. | 1844 | Go To Quotation |
| ishan | A prehistoric mound in Iraq. | 1921 | Go To Quotation |
| ite | A person or thing that is or may be designated by a n. in -ite. | 1852 | Go To Quotation |
| jaggy | Having a jerking motion, jolting. | 1842 | Go To Quotation |
| jollify | trans. To make jolly or merry; to make slightly intoxicated: cf. jolly adj. 3b. | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| joulter | Clumsily stupid. | 1854 | Go To Quotation |
| jowser | variant of dowser n., one who uses the divining rod. | 1840 | Go To Quotation |
| joyancy | The quality or state of being joyant; joyousness. | 1849 | Go To Quotation |
| jumper | trans. To bore (a hole) with a jumper (see jumper n. 6a). | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| jungli | = jungly adj. 2; (see also quot. 1927). | 1920 | Go To Quotation |
| juvenilize | trans. To render juvenile; to make or keep young or youthful; to arrest the development of. Also fig. | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| katabasis | A going down; a military retreat, in allusion to that of the ten thousand Greeks under Xenophon, related by him in his Anabasis. | 1837 | Go To Quotation |
| keckle | Cackling, chattering, etc. (Cf. cackle n. 3b.) | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| kyanize | trans. To impregnate (wood) with a solution of corrosive sublimate, as a preservative against decay. | 1843 | Go To Quotation |
| laggardly | Having the character or spirit of a laggard; hesitant, slow, sluggish. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| lamanism | = lamaism n. | 1852 | Go To Quotation |
| lates | A large fish of the genus so called, esp. the Nile perch (Nile n.), Lates niloticus; = latus n. | 1920 | Go To Quotation |
| Latinization | The action of Latinizing or making Latin in form; the rendering or turning into Latin. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| lattermost | Last. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| leamer | A nut fully ripe. Chiefly in brown leamer, a nut with a brown husk. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| ledgeless | Having no ledge. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| leisureliness | The quality or condition of being leisurely. | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| leucopathy | = albinism n. Also transf. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| limbered | Having a limber. | 1920 | Go To Quotation |
| logicize | intr. To use logical argument, employ logic. | 1835 | Go To Quotation |
| loot | Goods (esp. articles of considerable value) taken from an enemy, a captured city, etc. in… | 1839 | Go To Quotation |
| lyricize | intr. To sing lyrics. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| macadamize | trans. Originally: to make or repair (a road) according to McAdam's method. In modern… | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| magazinist | A person who writes articles for magazines; = magaziner n. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| Malabarese | Of or relating to the Malabar Coast or its inhabitants. | 1922 | Go To Quotation |
| maledictory | Of the nature of or resembling a malediction. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| maltless | Lacking malt, deficient in malt. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| mamsie | A child's affectionate word (or name) for ‘Mother’. | 1857 | Go To Quotation |
| mancipular | Of or relating to a manciple. | 1843 | Go To Quotation |
| mansioned | Provided with or characterized by a mansion or mansions. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| marchesal | Belonging to a marquis or marchese. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| meanish | Somewhat mean. | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| mechanology | In the terminology of T. De Quincey: (the study of) the mechanisms of literary style. Cf. organology n. 2. Now hist. | 1840 | Go To Quotation |
| Meistersinger | A member of any of the German guilds for lyric poets and musicians which flourished in the… | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| metrographer | A reader of poetic metre; = metrician n. 2. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| met-stick | A piece of wood used for measuring the foot for shoes. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| mid-Victorian | Belonging to or characteristic of the middle of the period of Queen Victoria's reign. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| milksoppery | The characteristics or behaviour of a milksop. | 1925 | Go To Quotation |
| minimism | The condition or fact of being absorbed in minute details. rare. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| minstreless | A female minstrel. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| mirageous | Resembling a mirage. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| misappreciate | trans. (usu. in pass.). To fail to appreciate, understand, or acknowledge; to undervalue. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| misattribute | trans. To attribute (something) mistakenly (to a person). | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| missionarying | The action of engaging in missionary work. Earliest in to go (a) missionarying. Also in extended use. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| missionize | intr. To conduct or promote a mission; to serve as a missionary, do missionary work. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| Molly Maguireite | = Molly Maguire n. 1. | 1853 | Go To Quotation |
| moneyocracy | The moneyed class as a dominant political force. | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| montagne russe | A scenic switchback railway; a roller-coaster (also as the name for a particular attraction). Also fig. | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| Montenegrian | = Montenegrin n. 1. | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| moonlighted | = moonlit adj. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| morphinist | A person addicted to morphine or opium. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| mouthable | That may be spoken with good effect; suitable for oratory or recitation. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| mulled | Hornless. Cf. moiled adj. | 1835 | Go To Quotation |
| multitudinosity | Numerousness, multiplicity. | 1840 | Go To Quotation |
| museumize | trans. To preserve or display in a museum; to impart the character of a museum or museum exhibit to. | 1925 | Go To Quotation |
| myoptic | = myopic adj. Also fig. | 1849 | Go To Quotation |
| mystifying | That causes confusion or bewilderment; perplexing, bewildering; difficult to explain… | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| mythopastoral | Combining mythical and pastoral elements. | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
| nefast | Nefarious. | 1849 | Go To Quotation |
| nitty | A racket, disturbance. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| no | intr. To say no (to a person), to refuse approval. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| non-intrusionist | A person who favours non-intrusion. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| norm | That which is a model or a pattern; a type, a standard. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| nritya | A type of Indian dance through which stories, ideas, or emotions are expressed. Cf. natya n., nritta n. | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| occidentalism | Occidental quality, style, character, or spirit; Western customs, institutions, characteristics, etc. | 1839 | Go To Quotation |
| ochlophobist | A person with an irrational fear of or aversion to crowds. | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| O'Connellism | The policies and principles advocated by O'Connell; adherence to or support of these. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| octoped | An eight-footed animal or thing. Also as adj. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| odontist | J. G. Lockhart's humorous word for: a dentist. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| oenological | Of or relating to oenology. | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| offen | Off of (see off adv. 13b). | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| ogival | Having the form or outline of an ogive or pointed arch. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| old-timiness | The quality of being old-fashioned. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| on-cry | A battle cry; a slogan. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| oratiuncle | A short oration. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| ornithoscopy | Observation of birds for the purpose of divination; augury. | 1840 | Go To Quotation |
| outwandered | That has migrated or wandered outwards (in Biol. freq. used of cells). | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| overweightage | The amount by which a consignment of goods is overweight; a charge levied on this amount. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| owneress | A female owner. | 1923 | Go To Quotation |
| oxygeniferous | Containing or yielding oxygen. | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
| pagemeal | Page by page. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| palm court | A large room or patio, esp. in a hotel, decorated with palm trees. | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| pan-Arabic | = pan-Arab adj. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| parenthood | The state or condition of being a parent; fatherhood or motherhood. | 1853 | Go To Quotation |
| particule | The French preposition de, used as a prefix of nobility in personal names. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| patricianism | Patrician interests, values, or spirit; the state or condition of being a patrician. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| patricianship | The status or rank of patrician. Also (rare): patricians collectively. | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| payability | Ability or willingness to pay; (also of a debt, sum of money, etc.) the quality of having to be paid. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| Pecksniffianism | The quality of being Pecksniffian. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| pedometrist | A person who uses a pedometer. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| penny-a-liner | A person, esp. a journalist, who practises penny-a-line writing; a writer of material of low literary quality. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| penny-a-week | Of or relating to, or amounting to, the sum of one penny per week; that… | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| perenniality | The state or quality of being perennial (in various senses). Also: †something that is perennial (obs.). | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| perfectionizer | A person who makes something perfect. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| perplexment | Perplexed condition, perplexity. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| petillating | Of wine: effervescing, sparkling. | 1852 | Go To Quotation |
| phagology | The feeding habits of an animal or animals. | 1837 | Go To Quotation |
| phantasmagoriacal | Phantasmagoric. | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| phantomish | Resembling, or suggestive of, a phantom. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| philanthropize | intr. To be philanthropic; to practise philanthropy. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| phoby | With the. Hydrophobia. | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| pinkiness | A pinky colour or tinge. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| pipeclaying | The action of whitening or polishing (leather, etc.) with pipeclay. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| pip emma | Post meridiem, afternoon. Cf. p.m. n. | 1912 | Go To Quotation |
| pipsqueak | intr. To make a high-pitched sound; to speak or sing in a shrill or quiet voice. | 1922 | Go To Quotation |
| piscatorical | Of or relating to fish or fishing; piscatorial. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| placardeer | = placarder n. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| plaisanteur | A joker; a witty talker. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| ploration | Tears; weeping, lamentation. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| pluckless | Without pluck; lacking courage or spirit. Also as n. with the and pl. concord: people lacking in courage or spirit as a class. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| plunderess | A female plunderer. | 1835 | Go To Quotation |
| plush | A surplus, esp. that remaining after the rationing of grog or gravy amongst a ship's crew. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| Plutarchically | In the comparative style or manner of the Greek biographer Plutarch. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| politeful | Polite, courteous. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| pollack | intr. To fish for pollack. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| Polonial | = Polish adj. 1. | 1922 | Go To Quotation |
| polyphloisboian | That roars loudly; noisy, boisterous. | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| potato ring | A name given to an 18th- or 19th-century Irish dish ring, a hoop of silver… | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| preconform | trans. (usu. in pass.). To conform to beforehand. Also intr.: to conform in advance. Now rare. | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| preferentiate | intr. To display preference; to act preferentially. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| prejudicator | A person who prejudges others. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| Pre-Raphaelite | Any of a group of 19th-cent. British painters who attempted to produce work in… | 1850 | Go To Quotation |
| Privy Councilship | = privy counsellorship n. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| progenitorship | The fact or condition of being a progenitor; parenthood; ancestral relationship. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| prosopologist | A person who studies the face or facial features. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| psychagogically | Persuasively. | 1849 | Go To Quotation |
| Ptolemaian | = Ptolemaic adj. Cf. Ptolemean adj. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| puffatory | Of the nature of a puff (puff n. 6b); (of criticism, etc.) extravagantly or undeservedly laudatory; eulogistic. | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| pugnatic | Perh.: of or relating to the fist. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| pumpee | A person who is pumped, or subjected to pumping; one who is pumped upon. Opposed to pumper n. | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| quacker | A person who or thing which makes a quacking sound, esp. a duck. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| quietless | Devoid of quiet or peacefulness. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| quilt | trans. Chiefly regional. To beat or thrash (a person or animal). | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| quincaillerie | A hardware or ironmonger's shop, esp. a French one. | 1856 | Go To Quotation |
| quinquennarian | A five-year-old child. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| réchauffage | A reworking (of a literary text, a policy, etc.), a rehash. Also occas. as a mass noun. Cf. réchauffé n. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| rectilinearism | The tendency to be rectilinear; an instance of this; (fig.) rigidity of outlook or approach. | 1854 | Go To Quotation |
| rejectingly | In a rejecting manner; so as to reject. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| reposer | A person who sets something in a specified place or thing. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| reptilism | Reptilian nature or character; esp. underhandedness, baseness. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| respectabilize | trans. To make respectable. | 1843 | Go To Quotation |
| retinker | trans. To try to make further improvements to; to attempt to repair again, esp. in a casual or superficial way. | 1846 | Go To Quotation |
| revelment | Revelling; revelry. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| ribandry | Ribbons collectively. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| ringle | A ringing or jingling sound. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| riverhood | The state of being a river. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| rock-climbing | That climbs rocks; that engages in the sport or pastime of rock-climbing. | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| rocket-like | Characteristic of or resembling a rocket. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| romaine | Used attrib., as postmodifier, and in à la Romaine to designate Roman punch (Roman punch n. at Roman n. adj. 4). | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| roud | intr. Of a fish: to spawn. Cf. rood v. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| routinish | Of the nature of or characterized by routine; lacking variation, monotonous. Also: of a routine nature; usual, typical. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| rumly | Oddly, strangely; questionably. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| Ruskinesque | Characteristic of Ruskin or his writings. | 1854 | Go To Quotation |
| rux | A disturbance, an uproar. | 1918 | Go To Quotation |
| Salem | Occasionally (chiefly in the nineteenth century) adopted by Methodists… | 1857 | Go To Quotation |
| scabia | dial. corruption of scabious n. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| schnapps | An ardent spirit resembling Hollands gin. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| screenless | Having no screen; having had no screen used in its production; unprotected. | 1921 | Go To Quotation |
| scutter | An act of ‘scuttering’; a hasty, scrambling, noisy rush. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| sectionalize | trans. To divide into sections. | 1854 | Go To Quotation |
| selenology | The science relating to the moon; chiefly, the science of the movements and… | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| sexennarian | A six-year-old child. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| shakenly | In a shaken manner. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| sharkish | Of the nature of, resembling, or characteristic of, a shark (n.). | 1844 | Go To Quotation |
| shauchly | Infirm, rickety, shaky. Of a person: Unsteady in gait. (Cf. shackly adj.) | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| shilly-shallyer | One who shilly-shallies. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| shirk | One who shirks (work, obligations). | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| shuffly | Characterized by shuffling; inclined to shuffle. | 1926 | Go To Quotation |
| skiver | trans. To pierce or stab with or as with a skewer; to fasten with a skewer. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| skullery | A collection of skulls; a place for skulls. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| slaveage | Slaves collectively. | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| smokified | Discoloured or blackened by smoke. Also transf. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| snap | A quick or sudden closing of the jaws or teeth in biting, or of scissors in cutting; a bite… | 1495 | Go To Quotation |
| snokey | Adapted for snuffing or poking. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| snoreless | Of sleep: Unaccompanied by, free from, snoring. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| snubby | Somewhat snub; short, stumpy. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| snuggish | Somewhat snug; rather comfortable. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| sociologist | An expert in or student of sociology. | 1843 | Go To Quotation |
| sonnetic | Characterized by, composed of, sonnets. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| spinnery | A spinning factory or establishment. | 1837 | Go To Quotation |
| spitchered | Rendered inoperative, ruined. | 1920 | Go To Quotation |
| splashily | In a splashy manner. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| spooniness | Foolishness, silliness. | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| sprayey | Casting or carrying spray; of the nature of spray. | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| spread-eagle | intr. To cut spread eagles in skating. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| sprinkle | A light, tinkling sound. | 1843 | Go To Quotation |
| sproutling | A little or young sprout. Also attrib. In quots. fig. | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
| squashily | In a squashy or squelchy manner. | 1922 | Go To Quotation |
| squiret | A squirelet, squireling. | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
| stagiary | A French law student (see quot. 1836). | 1836 | Go To Quotation |
| strandless | Without a strand or beach. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| striplet | A small strip. Also attrib. | 1839 | Go To Quotation |
| sub | = sub-editor n. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| subconscious | Operating or existing (just) below the level of conscious perception or control; esp.… | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| sub-idea | A subordinate, secondary, or lesser idea; an underlying or implicit idea. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| subincandescent | Nearly incandescent; hot but not brightly luminous. | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| submontane | That exists or passes under a mountain or range of mountains. Also fig. Cf. submontaneous adj. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| subtlize | intr. To argue or reason subtly; = subtilize v. 1a(a). Obs. rare. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| suffragi | A waiter, butler or steward. | 1924 | Go To Quotation |
| suffragist | An advocate of the extension of the political franchise, esp. (after about 1885) to… | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| susurrus | A low soft sound as of whispering or muttering; a whisper; a rustling. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| sympiesometer | A form of barometer in which the column of liquid in the tube has above it a body of… | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| sympotical | = symposiac adj. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| systolated | Contracted by systole. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| tailorship | The function or performance of a tailor; tailoring. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| tautologic | = tautological adj. 1. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| technicology | = technology n. (in various senses). | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| teleologic | = teleological adj. | 1842 | Go To Quotation |
| Teutonize | trans. To make or render Teutonic or German. | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| theorician | A holder of a theory; = theorist n. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| threadless | Without a thread; having no thread; unthreaded. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| toploftical | High-flown, ‘high and mighty’, ‘highfalutin’, ‘stuck-up’; also lit. lofty, elevated. | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| touristic | Of or pertaining to tourists or touring. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| toxication | Poisoning: esp. by toxic substances produced by disease-germs. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| trackage | The action or process of tracking or towing, or fact of being tracked; towage, haulage. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| transitable | Capable of being passed across or over; affording means of transit. | 1843 | Go To Quotation |
| trans-oceanic | Existing or situated beyond the ocean; also transf. pertaining to a region beyond the ocean. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| treeful | A quantity or number that fills or crowds a tree (in quot. 1910, a Christmas tree). | 1837 | Go To Quotation |
| trenchful | As many or as much as a trench holds or will hold. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| triangulation | The tracing and measurement of a series or network of triangles in order to survey and map… | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| trottee | One who is trotted out (see trot v. 4c). | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| trustee | intr. To act as a trustee. nonce-uses. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| uncensored | (un- prefix 8.) | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| underscrub | An undergrown or insignificant person. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| understep | (under- prefix 5a(a).) | 1843 | Go To Quotation |
| unpirated | (un- prefix 8.) | 1840 | Go To Quotation |
| unsimulated | (un- prefix 8.) | 1840 | Go To Quotation |
| urbs | A city as a technical entity or in contrast to a suburb, etc. | 1837 | Go To Quotation |
| usability | The fact or quality of being usable. | 1842 | Go To Quotation |
| vaccinatory | Used for, connected with, vaccination; vaccine. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| vaguish | Somewhat vague or indefinite. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| vanishment | The act of vanishing or disappearing; the state of having vanished. | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| Vehmist | A member of the Vehmgericht. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| venigenous | Of rock-masses: Bearing or containing veins of metal or quartz. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| verdureless | Destitute of verdure; lacking vegetation; bare, bleak. (Freq. from 1850.) | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| vermilionize | trans. To vermilion. Also fig. | 1854 | Go To Quotation |
| vilipensive | Abusive. | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| viperling | A young viper. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| virescent | Greenish; turning or becoming green. Also fig. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| viridescence | The quality of being viridescent. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| warlockry | The practice of magic (by men, or male beings); wizardry. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| wavery | Characterized by wavering or fluttering; tremulous, unsteady. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| whomp | A heavy blow; also fig. | 1926 | Go To Quotation |
| whutter | The sound of the flapping of the wings of a large bird or a flight of birds. | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| wiggle-waggle | Reduplicated form combining wiggle v. and waggle v. (cf. Low German wigel-wageln… | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| wishless | Having no wishes; void of or free from desire. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| wreathlet | A small wreath. | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| yes | intr. To say ‘yes’; to assent: opp. to no v. (see after no adv.). | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| yorgan | A quilt. | 1914 | Go To Quotation |
| Yunani | Designating a Western system of medicine (opp. Ayurvedic adj.). Occas. also applied to other disciplines (see quot. 1958). | 1922 | Go To Quotation |
| zanyism | The character or style of a zany; action or language like that of a zany; fantastic folly; buffoonery. | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| zoogen | A nitrogenous substance found in the water of sulphur-springs; also called barégin n. at barége n. Derivatives or glairin n. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
