| acculturational | = acculturative adj. | 1937 | Go To Quotation |
| acculture | trans. = acculturate v. 1. rare. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| acculturize | trans. To cause (a person or group) to adapt to or adopt a different culture, esp. that… | 1932 | Go To Quotation |
| Amerind | orig. and chiefly Cultural Anthropol. An American Indian. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| Amerindian | Of or relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| Austronesian | = Malayo-Polynesian adj. n. at Malayo- comb._form 2. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| biometric | Of or relating to biometry. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| bricoleur | A person (esp. an artist, writer, etc.) who constructs or creates something from a… | 1965 | Go To Quotation |
| briquetage | Objects fashioned of burnt clay (see also quot. 1960). | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| ethnohistory | The study of the history of races or cultures, esp. non-Western races or cultures. | 1952 | Go To Quotation |
| ethnolinguistics | The study of the relations between linguistic and cultural behaviour. | 1947 | Go To Quotation |
| guiro | A musical instrument consisting usu. of a gourd with a serrated surface, the rubbing of which produces a rasping sound. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| Hanunóo | A member of a people inhabiting southern Mindoro in the Philippines; also, the language of this people. | 1949 | Go To Quotation |
| introessive | Designating the case which expresses ‘motion into’. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| Islamicization | The process of rendering a people, group, country, etc., (more strictly) Islamic in… | 1929 | Go To Quotation |
| Islamicized | That is or has been made Islamic, or more strictly Islamic, in faith, culture, or character. | 1929 | Go To Quotation |
| katun | A period of twenty years, each with 360 days, in the calendar of the Mayan Indians. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| kyudo | The Japanese martial art of longbow archery, incorporating set rhythmic movements, and typically practised in a meditative state. | 1933 | Go To Quotation |
| Malinowskian | Of, relating to, or characteristic of Malinowski, his work (esp. intensive… | 1954 | Go To Quotation |
| Manobo | A member of a group of proto-Malay peoples of Mindanao in the Philippines. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| medi- | Forming adjectives and nouns with the sense ‘in the middle of’; = medio- comb._form 1b. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| mescalism | The practice of taking mescal or mescaline; the state of intoxication resulting from this. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| Mesvinian | Belonging to or characteristic of a culture postulated to exist in either the Eolithic or… | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| metump | Chiefly amongst North American Indians: a strap for bearing or supporting a weight; spec.… | 1752 | Go To Quotation |
| Mindel | Designating a Pleistocene glaciation in the Alps following the Günz and preceding… | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| Mindel–Riss | Designating the interglacial period between the Mindel and Riss glaciations; of or relating to this period. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| Murngin | A member of any of a group of peoples inhabiting north-east Arnhem Land in northern… | 1930 | Go To Quotation |
| Na-Dene | Designating a North American Indian language group including the Eyak, Athapaskan… | 1915 | Go To Quotation |
| Nenets | A member of a people inhabiting the far north-east of Europe and the north of Siberia. | 1937 | Go To Quotation |
| nominalized | Of a word, etc.: that has undergone nominalization. | 1915 | Go To Quotation |
| ololiuqui | A tropical American morning glory, Turbina corymbosa (family Convolvulaceae). Also… | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| onesie | In various games: one piece, a move involving one piece; the first turn or part of the… | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| orbitale | The lowest point of the inferior margin of the orbit (orbit n. 1). | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| orenda | In Iroquois belief: a spirit or power thought to exist in all things. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| palaeoanthropological | Of or relating to palaeoanthropology. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| palaeological | Of, relating to, or characterized by palaeologic modes or processes of thought. Cf. prelogical adj. n. | 1956 | Go To Quotation |
| Palauan | A native or inhabitant of the Palau Islands, now the Republic of Belau, an archipelago of the Caroline Islands of Micronesia. | 1946 | Go To Quotation |
| pan-Indianism | A policy, theory, or movement uniting all the peoples or languages of India, or examples… | 1917 | Go To Quotation |
| pascola | A traditional Yaqui dance usually performed at festivals and weddings; a performer of this dance. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| patrilateral | Of, relating to, or designating a relationship (esp. a marriage between cousins) in which… | 1943 | Go To Quotation |
| patrilineality | Patrilineal descent and kinship. | 1943 | Go To Quotation |
| Penutian | A proposed North American Indian language grouping comprising the Utian… | 1912 | Go To Quotation |
| peripherality | The fact, quality, or position of being peripheral or marginal. Chiefly in extended use. Cf. marginality n. | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
| phylogenically | As regards phylogeny; = phylogenetically adv. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| pictogram | = pictograph n. 1. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| piscicide | A substance that kills fish. | 1953 | Go To Quotation |
| plosion | The sudden release of air in the pronunciation of a plosive; an instance of this. | 1912 | Go To Quotation |
| Police Motu | A simplified form of Motu, used in Papua New Guinea as a lingua franca originally by… | 1933 | Go To Quotation |
| polytypy | The occurrence of several types within a group. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| post-pubescent | Of a young person: having (esp. recently) been through puberty. Also: of or characteristic… | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| Predmost | Of, relating to, or designating a race of Upper Palaeolithic man known from remains… | 1912 | Go To Quotation |
| prefixation | The use of prefixes in the grammar of a language; an instance of this. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| preliteracy | The state or quality of being preliterate. | 1943 | Go To Quotation |
| prenasalized | Of a consonant: pronounced with initial nasalization; characterized by prenasalization. | 1937 | Go To Quotation |
| prosthion | The most anterior or lowest point of the alveolar process of the maxilla in the median plane (between the two central incisors). | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| protohuman | Any of various fossil or hypothetical primates resembling and thought to be ancestral to humans. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| proxemic | Of or relating to proxemics. | 1963 | Go To Quotation |
| proxemics | The study or interpretation of physical proximity between people in various situations… | 1963 | Go To Quotation |
| pygmoid | Resembling a pygmy; having (some of) the characteristics of a pygmy. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| pyrrhuloxia | A large North American grosbeak, Cardinalis sinuatus (or Pyrrhuloxia sinuata), that is… | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| radiotranslucent | Transparent to X-rays; = radiolucent adj. | 1933 | Go To Quotation |
| rearticulated | Phonetics. Of a geminate or long vowel or consonant: that is realized phonetically… | 1916 | Go To Quotation |
| Riss | Designating the penultimate glaciation in the Alps, preceding the Würm and following… | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| Riss–Würm | Designating the interglacial period between the Riss and Würm glaciations; of or relating to this period. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| Rwandese | With pl. concord: Rwandans collectively. With sing. concord: a Rwandan. | 1955 | Go To Quotation |
| semon | In stratificational grammar: an element of meaning or one which combines with others to make up a sememe. | 1965 | Go To Quotation |
| sociolinguist | A student of or specialist in sociolinguistics. | 1964 | Go To Quotation |
| sophiology | (See quot. 1899.) | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| Subtiaban | The language of the Subtiaba (Subtiaba n. 1), or a group to which this has been regarded as belonging. Now rare. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| technographer | A student of technography; a person who studies the techniques of an art or technology. Cf. technography n. 1. rare. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| Yuk | A dialect of Yupik. | 1962 | Go To Quotation |
