| abductee | A person who has been abducted. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| Abiponian | = Abipon n. 1. | 1786 | Go To Quotation |
| acquiescingly | In an acquiescing manner; = acquiescently adv. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| acrophonic | Relating to or based on acrophony. Also of the symbol for a numeral: based on… | 1844 | Go To Quotation |
| adynamic | Originally: resulting in or characterized by weakness or debility (cf. adynamia n.);… | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| adynamical | Med. Resulting in or characterized by weakness or debility; spec. designating fevers which… | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| aerified | That has been converted into gas or vapour; that has been aerated or infused with air. Cf. aerify v. aerification n. | 1785 | Go To Quotation |
| aeriformed | = aeriform adj. 1. | 1790 | Go To Quotation |
| agrarianism | The theory, advocacy, or practice of equal division of land; (belief in) the… | 1796 | Go To Quotation |
| Alfredian | Of, associated with, or characteristic of King Alfred the Great, his writings, or his language. | 1762 | Go To Quotation |
| algologist | An expert or specialist in algology. Cf. algaeologist n., algist n. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| all fives | humorous. on all fives: on hands, knees (or feet), and another part of the body (later… | 1793 | Go To Quotation |
| anachronically | Erroneously as to date; out of correct chronological position or order; by anachronism. | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| animability | The ability to experience sensations characteristic of life. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| apophthegmatic | Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, an apophthegm; addicted to the use of apophthegms; sententious, pithy. | 1796 | Go To Quotation |
| appreciatory | Of or befitting an appreciator; appreciative. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| astrometer | Any of various instruments for measuring parameters relating to celestial objects… | 1783 | Go To Quotation |
| attroopment | A disorderly or tumultuous troop or crowd. | 1795 | Go To Quotation |
| autobiography | An account of a person's life given by himself or herself, esp. one published in book… | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| autochthonic | Designating a theory or belief that a particular people, race, etc., are indigenous to a certain place. Cf. autochthonism n. 1. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| average | Estimated by average; i.e. by equally distributing the aggregate inequalities of a… | 1770 | Go To Quotation |
| axiomatic | Of the nature of an axiom or admitted first principle; self-evident; indisputably true. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| Bacchanalization | A turning into drunken revel. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| bastardization | The declaring or rendering bastard. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| bibliothecal | Belonging to a library. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| Brahmism | The tenets of the Indian society called Brahma Sabhā, or of the more recently founded Brahmo Somaj. Cf. Brahmoism n. | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| bronzing | The action of the verb bronze v. Also attrib., as in bronzing liquid, machine, bronzing salt, etc. | 1758 | Go To Quotation |
| brutalization | The action or process of rendering or becoming brutal, or of lowering to the level of the brutes. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| buskin | trans. To cover as with a buskin. | 1795 | Go To Quotation |
| cacophonous | Ill-sounding, having a harsh or unpleasant sound. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| canonicity | Canonicalness, canonical status, esp. the fact of being comprehended in the Canon of Scripture, or in any other sacred canon. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| capitalled | Supplied with capital (capital n. 3). Freq. with prefix. Also fig. | 1794 | Go To Quotation |
| carburetted | Chem. Combined with carbon; impregnated or charged with carbon. Now chiefly hist.… | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| castling | The action of castle v. 3. | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| certificator | The giver of a certificate; a certifier n. | 1796 | Go To Quotation |
| chieftaincy | The rank or position of chieftain; government by a chieftain; = the earlier chieftainry n. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| chrysostomic | Golden-mouthed. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| circulable | That can be circulated; capable of circulation. | 1793 | Go To Quotation |
| citizenism | The principle of citizenship; civism n. | 1796 | Go To Quotation |
| claimless | Having no claim. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| classicism | The principles of classical literature, art, architecture, etc.; adherence to… | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| climatography | A quantitative description of the climate in a particular region or country; the… | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| climatology | The branch of physical science concerned with the study of climates. Also: the… | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| coercer | One who coerces. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| commenstruate | To dissolve together. | 1770 | Go To Quotation |
| conclusum | (See second quot.) | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| consentaneity | The quality of being consentaneous. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| consonantal | Of, relating to, or of the nature of, a consonant; consisting of or characterized by consonants. | 1795 | Go To Quotation |
| cosmopolitism | = cosmopolitanism n. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| cryptarchy | Secret government; an example of this. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| crypto- | | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| cryptozoa | Biol. With capital initial. A class of organisms comprising microscopic forms; protozoa. Obs. rare. | 1794 | Go To Quotation |
| crystallography | The branch of physical science concerned with the structure and properties of… | 1784 | Go To Quotation |
| deceptiously | In a way characterized by deception; in such a way as to deceive. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| democratize | trans. To render democratic; to give a democratic character to. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| demonurgist | One who practises magic by the help of demons. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| dendrical | Of the nature of or resembling a tree; dendritic. | 1758 | Go To Quotation |
| diastematic | Characterized by intervals. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| diplomatician | = diplomatist n. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| dispiritude | Dispirited condition. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| dramatization | The action of dramatizing; conversion into drama; a dramatized version. | 1796 | Go To Quotation |
| echoer | One who echoes or repeats. | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| echoless | That has no echo; chiefly poet. or rhet. in the sense ‘silent, noiseless’. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| educationalist | An expert in the science and methods of education, an educationist; (also occas.) an advocate of education. | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
| educationist | An expert in the science and methods of education, an educationalist. | 1807 | Go To Quotation |
| effacement | The process of effacing; the fact of being effaced. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| electrology | The science of electricity. Now hist. | 1789 | Go To Quotation |
| equilibrist | One who is skilled in feats of ‘balancing’; esp. a rope-walker, acrobat. | 1760 | Go To Quotation |
| eventuality | Something that may happen; a possible event or occurrence; a contingency. | 1759 | Go To Quotation |
| expatiatory | Characterized by or indulging in expatiation. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| ferocize | trans. To make ferocious. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| fledgeless | Unfledged. | 1769 | Go To Quotation |
| flinch | The action of flinching. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| fore-world | The primeval world. | 1796 | Go To Quotation |
| geologic | Of or relating to geology; geological. Cf. geological adj. 1a. | 1791 | Go To Quotation |
| Germanesque | Having German characteristics or qualities; suggestive of Germany. | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| gesticulative | Given to, or characterized by, gesticulation. | 1795 | Go To Quotation |
| glossologist | One versed in the science of language. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| gnomologist | A gnomic writer. | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| Gongorism | An affected type of diction and style introduced into Spanish literature in the 16th… | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| grandiloquism | The practice of using grandiloquent language. | 1836 | Go To Quotation |
| grubbler | = grubber n. 1. | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| hagiography | = Hagiographa n. Obs. rare. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| hermeneutical | = hermeneutic adj. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| heroid | A poem in epistolary form, expressive of the sentiments of some hero or heroine… | 1795 | Go To Quotation |
| Hibernicism | An idiom or expression characteristic of or currently attributed to Irish speech; esp. an Irish bull (see bull n. 2). | 1758 | Go To Quotation |
| hierocracy | The rule of priests or religious dignitaries; government by priests or ecclesiastics: = hierarchy n. 2. | 1794 | Go To Quotation |
| hymner | One who hymns; a singer of hymns. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| hyphen | trans. To join by a hyphen; to write (a compound) with a hyphen. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| Icenic | = Icenian adj. 1. | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| iconoclasm | The breaking or destroying of images; esp. the destruction of images and pictures set up… | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| idealizing | That idealizes something. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| ideologist | A student of ideas, or of the mental processes involved in forming ideas; spec. an adherent… | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| ideology | (a) The study of ideas; that branch of philosophy or psychology which deals with the… | 1796 | Go To Quotation |
| illuminism | The doctrine or principles of the illuminati n., or of any sect so called; gen.… | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| improvisator | One who improvises or composes extempore: an improviser. spec. of Old English verse. | 1795 | Go To Quotation |
| incivic | Having no civic spirit or virtues. | 1795 | Go To Quotation |
| inundable | Liable to inundation. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| kerseymere | A twilled fine woollen cloth of a peculiar texture, one-third of the warp being always… | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| kinded | In comb. Of (such a) kind, as lean-kinded. | 1601 | Go To Quotation |
| lay-over | An additional cloth laid over a table-cloth. | 1777 | Go To Quotation |
| macaronically | In a macaronic manner. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| Martinism | The cabalistic and gnostic offshoot from Christian philosophy devised by Martinez… | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| materteral | Characteristic or typical of an aunt. Cf. avuncular adj. | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| mawkishly | So as to be mawkish in taste; nauseatingly. Now rare. | 1758 | Go To Quotation |
| meteorograph | An apparatus for automatically recording several different meteorological phenomena at the same time. | 1780 | Go To Quotation |
| molecular | Of or relating to a molecule or molecules; consisting of molecules (rather than atoms);… | 1770 | Go To Quotation |
| nautics | The art or science of sailing or navigation. | 1793 | Go To Quotation |
| necrologic | Of the nature of, relating to, or characterized by necrology; = necrological adj. Also in extended use. | 1796 | Go To Quotation |
| negotiable | Of a bill, draft, cheque, etc.: capable of being negotiated; transferable or assignable… | 1758 | Go To Quotation |
| neologic | = neological adj. 1 2. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| neologous | Of or relating to the coining of new words or phrases. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| new rich | With pl. concord. With the. People who have recently acquired wealth, regarded as a class. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| nubility | The quality of being nubile; suitability or capacity for marriage; sexual maturity; sexual attractiveness. | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| offuscant | A person who obfuscates or obscures; one who opposes enlightenment; an obscurantist. | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| originalist | A person who acts, thinks, or otherwise behaves in an original way. Now rare. | 1835 | Go To Quotation |
| overplot | A plot devised by the gods. Obs. nonce-use. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| parricidism | The practice of parricide. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| pasigraph | trans. To express or represent in pasigraphy. | 1796 | Go To Quotation |
| pasigraphic | Of or relating to pasigraphy. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| pasigraphy | A system of writing intended to be intelligible to speakers of any language (like the… | 1796 | Go To Quotation |
| pawnbrokery | A pawnbroker's business or premises. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| Pentalogue | A set of five rules or laws. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| perfectibilist | A person who believes in the perfectibility of something, esp. human nature; spec. a member… | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| Persianizing | That takes on or produces Persian characteristics or attributes. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| pickpocketry | The practice of picking pockets. Also in extended use. | 1756 | Go To Quotation |
| popularization | The action of popularizing or fact of being popularized (in various senses of… | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| provincialism | A word, phrase, or pronunciation characteristic of a particular province or the… | 1770 | Go To Quotation |
| psychologer | = psychologist n. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| purgate | trans. To purge, purify. | 1795 | Go To Quotation |
| quiverful | As much or as many as a quiver can hold. Usu. fig. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| rebarbarize | trans. To reduce again to barbarism. Also occas. intr. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| recivilization | The action or process of recivilizing. | 1795 | Go To Quotation |
| rediscuss | trans. To discuss again or further. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| relend | intr. To lend again or further. Also trans.: to lend (money, funds) again. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| remanufacture | The act, process, or result, of remanufacturing something. | 1796 | Go To Quotation |
| remontoire | A mechanism, typically involving a weight or spring, by which a uniform impulse is given… | 1774 | Go To Quotation |
| republicanization | The action or process of making republican in character or form. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| republicanizing | That makes a state, country, etc., more republican in character; tending to republicanize. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| restorationist | Theol. A person who believes that all human beings will ultimately be restored to a… | 1805 | Go To Quotation |
| retrocessive | Directed or moving backwards; (also) retrospective. | 1757 | Go To Quotation |
| retter | A person who rets (ret v. 1) flax, hemp, or the like. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| Riccati | attrib., in the genitive, and with of. Designating certain kinds of differential equation; spec.… | 1791 | Go To Quotation |
| Richebourg | A red wine produced from Pinot Noir grapes grown in Richebourg, a vineyard in the Burgundy region of France. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| rime riche | Rhyming in which the rhyming elements include matching consonants before the stressed… | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| Robespierrean | Of, relating to, or reminiscent of Robespierre, esp. with regard to his role in the Reign… | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| romancingly | In a romancing manner; romantically. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| Romanée | A red wine produced in the commune of Vosne-Romanée in the department of Côte d'Or… | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| romantist | = romanticist n. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| roseola | A rose-coloured macular or maculopapular rash appearing as a manifestation of… | 1807 | Go To Quotation |
| rotifer | A minute or microscopic animal of the class or phylum Rotifera; a wheel animalcule. | 1777 | Go To Quotation |
| Rusnak | Of or relating to a people native to or inhabiting a region on either side of the… | 1804 | Go To Quotation |
| Russo-Turkish | Of, relating to, or involving Russia and Turkey. | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| sensical | Sensible. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| sentimentality | The quality of being sentimental; affectation of sensibility, exaggerated insistence upon the claims of sentiment. | 1770 | Go To Quotation |
| silhouette | A portrait obtained by tracing the outline of a profile, head, or figure by means of its… | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| sippingly | By or in sips. Also transf. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| ski | One of a pair of long slender pieces of wood fastened to the foot and used as a… | 1755 | Go To Quotation |
| social revolution | Sudden change in the structure and nature of society; spec. change anticipated or… | 1795 | Go To Quotation |
| spermato- | | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| stabile | Firmly established, enduring, lasting. rare. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| statistically | According to or by means of statistics; in terms of statistics; with regard to statistical analysis. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| stylist | A writer who is skilled in or cultivates the art of literary style; a writer as characterized by his style. | 1795 | Go To Quotation |
| subteraquean | Existing or located underwater; subteraqueous. | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| supersessory | Having the quality or character of supersession; taking the place of something or someone displaced; = supersessive adj. | 1789 | Go To Quotation |
| suprasensual | = supersensual adj. 1. | 1780 | Go To Quotation |
| synchronously | At the same time; simultaneously; contemporaneously. | 1793 | Go To Quotation |
| synonymic | Of, relating to, consisting of, or exhibiting synonyms. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| tellurite | Min. Native oxide of tellurium, found in minute whitish or yellow crystals; telluric ochre. | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| tertullianade | A tirade or invective after the manner of Tertullian. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| tetrarchic | Of or pertaining to four rulers; pertaining to a tetrarch or to a tetrarchy. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| theophilanthropist | A member of a sect of Deists which appeared in France in 1796. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| theophilanthropy | The deistic system of the theophilanthropists, based on a belief in the existence of God and in the immortality of the soul. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| transmutationist | One who believes in or advocates a theory of transmutation, esp. that of the… | 1844 | Go To Quotation |
| tumulary | Pertaining to or placed over a tomb; sepulchral. | 1758 | Go To Quotation |
| unallurable | (un- prefix 7b.) | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| unamalgamated | (un- prefix 8. Cf. German unamalgamirt.) | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| unamusable | (un- prefix 7b.) | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| unannihilated | (un- prefix 8.) | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| uncramped | (un- prefix 8.) | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| under-capitalled | Not furnished with sufficient capital. | 1794 | Go To Quotation |
| understatement | (ˌunder-ˈstatement.) A statement which falls below the truth or fact. | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| undistorting | (un- prefix 10.) | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| undraped | Not furnished or covered with draperies; nude, naked. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| unglittering | (un- prefix 10.) | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| uninoculated | (un- prefix 8.) | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| unionist | An adherent of or believer in unionism as a political principle or system of… | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| universalization | The act or an instance of universalizing something; the process or result of becoming universal. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| unofficial | Of things: Not having an official character or stamp. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| un-Scottish | (un- prefix 7.) | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| urnful | The fill of an urn. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| vaporization | The action or process of converting, or of being converted, into vapour. | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| vernacularize | trans. To render or translate into the native speech of a people; to make vernacular. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| vertebrate | Of an animal: belonging to the subphylum Vertebrata; having a backbone or spinal… | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| vitalism | The doctrine or theory that the origin and phenomena of life are due to or produced by… | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| vulnerative | Causing a wound or wounds. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| wedgy | Resembling a wedge; shaped like a wedge. | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| wharfless | Having no wharf. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| wireless | Lacking or not requiring a wire or wires. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| yoaks | A hunting cry; also as v. (Cf. yoicks int.) | 1778 | Go To Quotation |
| zoonic | Applied to a supposed peculiar acid obtained from animal substances, afterwards shown to be impure acetic acid. | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
