| accidentiality | = accidentality n.; (also) an instance of this. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| acclimatizable | Capable of being acclimatized. Cf. acclimatable adj. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| acquisitiveness | The quality or condition of being acquisitive; spec. †one of the ‘faculties’ to… | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| actinote | = actinolite n. | 1804 | Go To Quotation |
| agathism | The doctrine that all things ultimately tend towards good, although the means by which… | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| allopath | A practitioner or advocate of allopathy. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| ameliorative | Tending to ameliorate; improving. | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| amenorrhœa | Absence or suppression of the menstrual discharge. | 1804 | Go To Quotation |
| amiability | The quality of being amiable (in the modern sense); amiableness. | 1807 | Go To Quotation |
| amnestied | Admitted to amnesty, having past (political) offences overlooked or forgiven. | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| amnesty | To give amnesty to, to admit to amnesty; to proclaim the overlooking of the past offences of (rebels). | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| amphigene | A synonym of leucite n., rejected by Dana. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| anacrusis | ‘A syllable at the beginning of a verse before the just rhythm’ (Kennedy). | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| analcime | A member of the zeolite group of minerals occurring in a wide variety of sedimentary rocks… | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| anamorphism | Distorted projection or perspective. | 1836 | Go To Quotation |
| anconal | Of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| animism | Philos. Any of various theories postulating that an animating principle, as distinct… | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| annonce | = announcement n. | 1807 | Go To Quotation |
| antipathic | Of or belonging to antipathy; of contrary nature or character (to); spec. in Med. having or producing the contrary symptoms. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| antistrophic | the lyrical part of Greek dramas. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| apatite | A native crystallized phosphate of lime, varying in colour from white to green… | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| aphonic | Having no sound or pronunciation, non-vocal. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| aphorismatic | = aphorismic adj. or aphoristic adj. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| aphorismical | = aphorismic adj. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| apocalyptism | = apocalypticism n. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| apophyllite | A zeolitic mineral, a hydrated silicate of lime and potash, with a trace of fluorine… | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| atlantal | Of or belonging to the atlas; also used by some for: Of or belonging to the upper part of the body. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| atmometer | An instrument for determining the amount of evaporation from a moist surface in a given time. | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| autometric | Relating to the expression of the dimensions of a figure in terms of its height. Cf. autometry n. 2. Obs. rare. | 1874 | Go To Quotation |
| azotize | To nitrogenize; hence, to deprive of oxygen, leaving nitrogen only. ˈazotized adj. nitrogenous, containing nitrogen. | 1804 | Go To Quotation |
| Bable | = Asturian n. 2. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| bayoneted | Armed or provided with a bayonet. | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| beetling | Beating with a beetle; embossing fabrics with a beetling-machine. | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| beggaring | That beggars or brings to beggary, ruinous. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| Berkeleian | A follower or disciple of Berkeley. | 1804 | Go To Quotation |
| blandly | In a bland manner; with gently flattering or soothing words or actions; mildly, gently, pleasingly. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| bombastically | In a bombastic manner, with bombastic language. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| bowstring | trans. To strangle with a bow-string. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| brassage | A mint-charge levied to cover the expense of coining money. | 1806 | Go To Quotation |
| Broad Church | A designation popularly applied to members of the Church of England who take its… | 1853 | Go To Quotation |
| buccan | trans. To expose (meat) to the action of fire and smoke upon a boucan or barbecue; to barbecue. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| cacœconomy | Bad economy, bad management. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| cacogenic | The reverse of eugenic; = dysgenic adj. | 1917 | Go To Quotation |
| cadastre | A register of property to serve as a basis of proportional taxation, a Domesday Book. | 1804 | Go To Quotation |
| Caesaro-papism | The supremacy of the civil power in the control of ecclesiastical affairs. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| cancellarian | Of, or of the nature of, a chancellor. | 1846 | Go To Quotation |
| candelabrum | An ornamental branched candlestick holding a number of candles; a chandelier. | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| capitalization | The action or process of making an industry, economy, etc., function according to capitalist principles. | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| carpology | The part of botany which is concerned with the study of fruits. | 1806 | Go To Quotation |
| causerie | Informal talk or discussion, esp. on literary topics; also, a chatty article or paragraph. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| chabazite | A colourless, or flesh-coloured, mineral occurring, widely distributed, in… | 1804 | Go To Quotation |
| charlatanism | The practice or method of a charlatan; the being a charlatan. | 1804 | Go To Quotation |
| chatelaine | A female castellan; the mistress of a castle or country house. Also, the mistress of a household. | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| classicist | An advocate or imitator of classical styles, rules, or models. In early use opposed to romanticist. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| click | Anglicized form of clique n. 1. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| clinometer | An instrument for measuring the dip of mineral strata or for determining the slope… | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| cloture | The French word for the action of closing, applied (among other things) to the closing of… | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| co-belligerent | (See quots.) | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| concentricity | The quality or state of being concentric. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| concilium | The Latin equivalent of council n., occasionally used in technical language. | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| concordatory | Of or pertaining to a concordat, esp. that between church and state in France. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| connexional | Pertaining to, or of the nature of, connection. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| consortium | Partnership, association. Now more specifically, an association of business, banking, or manufacturing organizations. | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| constructiveness | Constructive quality or capacity. (Introduced as a Phrenological term for a faculty with its appropriate ‘organ’.) | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| contra-reflexure | Curvature in an opposite direction. (Perh. an error for contrary flexure: see contrary adj. 5d.) | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| contritely | In a contrite manner, with contrition. | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| correality | The being equally real; equal or correlative reality. | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| cranio- | examination of the size and configuration of the skull; formerly applied to what is now commonly called phrenology n. | 1804 | Go To Quotation |
| craniological | = phrenological adj.: see craniology n. 1. Obs. | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| crystallographic | Of or relating to crystallography or its subject matter. | 1804 | Go To Quotation |
| Cyrenean | = Cyrenaic adj. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| dacha | In Russia, a small house or villa for summer use, in the country near a town. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| Darwinianism | Imitation of the poetic style of Erasmus Darwin (cf. Darwinism n. 1). rare. Now hist. | 1804 | Go To Quotation |
| definitude | The quality of being definite; definiteness, precision. | 1836 | Go To Quotation |
| de luxe | Luxurious, sumptuous; of a superior kind. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| depolarize | Optics. To change the direction of polarization of (a polarized ray) so that it is… | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| diarchic | = diarchal adj. | 1920 | Go To Quotation |
| dicephalous | Having two heads, two-headed. | 1808 | Go To Quotation |
| digammated | Spelt with or having the digamma. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| dirt-eating | A disorder of the nutritive functions, characterized by a morbid craving to eat earth or dirt. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| dissociative | Tending to dissociate; spec. in Chem. causing dissociation or direct decomposition. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| doctrinaire | French Hist. One of a political party which arose in France soon after 1815, ‘having… | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| egotistical | = egotistic adj. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| electromotion | Electr. The motion represented by a flow of electricity; the production of a potential difference or voltage. Now rare. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| Elohism | The worship of Elohim. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| enantiopathic | Of or pertaining to enantiopathy n.; that acts by causing effects contrary to those of the disease. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| endosmose | = endosmosis n. | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| energist | A writer who aims at ‘energy’ of style. | 1804 | Go To Quotation |
| epigrammatically | In an epigrammatic manner; with the terseness and ‘point’ befitting an epigram. | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| euchloric | = euchlorine n. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| evangelicalism | The doctrines and modes of thought peculiar to the Evangelical party; adherence to that party. | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| evviva | The cry of ‘Long live (the king)’; hence, a shout of applause. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| exhilarator | One who, or that which, exhilarates. | 1807 | Go To Quotation |
| expressionism | The methods, style, or attitude of expressionists; spec. a style of painting in which… | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| ex-vaccine | Obtained from a cow. | 1804 | Go To Quotation |
| fête | trans. To entertain (a person) at a fête; to feast; also, to give a fête in honour of, commemorate (some event, etc.) by a fête. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| foalhood | The state or time of being a foal. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| folie | Madness, insanity, mania. Chiefly in various pathological terms (see quots.). | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| gadolinic | Derived from gadolinite. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| glaciometer | A measure of glacial action. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| glance | a variety of anthracite (German glanzkohle, Dutch glanskool). | 1805 | Go To Quotation |
| gravific | That makes heavy or produces weight. | 1807 | Go To Quotation |
| Hartleian | Of or pertaining to the doctrines of David Hartley. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| hedge-school | A school held by a hedge-side or in the open air, as was once common in Ireland; hence, a poor, mean, low-class school. | 1807 | Go To Quotation |
| hedonistic | Pertaining to hedonists, or of the nature of hedonism. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| hereditism | The principle or doctrine of the hereditary transmission of characteristics, etc. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| heteropathic | Med. = allopathic adj. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| homœopath | One who practises or advocates homœopathy. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| homœopathic | Belonging to or of the nature of homœopathy; practising or advocating homœopathy. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| homœopathist | = homœopath n. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| Huttonian | Of or relating to James Hutton the geologist (1726 – 1796), who maintained against… | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| hydrocarbonous | Of the nature of a hydrocarbon. | 1804 | Go To Quotation |
| hydrocephalic | Pertaining to, or characteristic of, hydrocephalus; affected with hydrocephalus; hence transf. big-headed. | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| hypostatize | trans. To make into or treat as a substance; = hypostasize v. | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| iatro-chemical | Relating to or holding the chemical theory of medicine and physiology adopted by Paracelsus and others: = chemiatric adj. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| ice floe | A sheet or expanse of floating sea ice; = floe n. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| identifiable | Able to be identified; capable of identification. | 1804 | Go To Quotation |
| immiscibility | The quality of being immiscible; incapacity of mixing. | 1807 | Go To Quotation |
| immobilized | Rendered immobile or stationary. | 1923 | Go To Quotation |
| inapathy | The absence or opposite of apathy; feeling, sensibility. | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| infamiliarity | = unfamiliarity n. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| inhabitiveness | Phrenology. The disposition to remain always in the same abode; attachment to country and… | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| initiand | One who is about to be initiated (in quot. 1969, one who initiates). | 1915 | Go To Quotation |
| integrability | The fact or character of being integrable; capability of being integrated. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| intelligize | intr. To exercise the intelligence or intellect; to think, understand. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| intercommunicable | Capable of or suitable for intercommunication. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| intratropical | Situated or occurring within the tropics; = intertropical adj., tropical adj. n. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| introuvable | Unfindable, undiscoverable; spec. of books. Also as n. | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| irradicate | trans. To fix by the root, to enroot. | 1836 | Go To Quotation |
| lampistry | The kind of plastic art appropriate to the decoration of lamps. | 1874 | Go To Quotation |
| latitudinary | = latitudinarian adj. | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| littérateur | A literary man, a writer of literary or critical works. | 1806 | Go To Quotation |
| lotiform | Shaped like the lotus-lily. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| lues Boswelliana | A disease of admiration; a biographer's tendency to magnify his subject. | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| luminarism | The art or doctrine of the luminarists. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| luminist | = luminarist n. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| mannerism | The adoption, to a pronounced or (according to some writers) excessive degree, of… | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| Martinist | A follower of the philosophical system devised by Martinez Pasqualis and his disciples. See Martinism n. | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| matériel | The mechanical or formal part of an art; technique. rare. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| M.B. | attrib. (chiefly in M.B. waistcoat). Designating a kind of waistcoat with no opening… | 1853 | Go To Quotation |
| mediatization | In Germany under the Holy Roman Empire: the action of reducing a prince or state in… | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| mesotype | A zeolite mineral originally regarded as a single species but later resolved into… | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| mispronounced | Incorrectly pronounced. | 1844 | Go To Quotation |
| mobbed | Crowded; packed with people; filled to capacity. Also with modifying word. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| monogrammatize | intr. To use monogrammatic characters in writing. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| motleyness | The condition or quality of being motley, esp. diverseness, disparateness. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| negrophile | A (white) person who is friendly or well-disposed towards black people; a person who… | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| Neptunism | The theory that rocks such as granite and basalt were formed by crystallization from the… | 1842 | Go To Quotation |
| névé | Compacted or hardened snow, as found on the upper part of a glacier, etc.; = firn n. | 1842 | Go To Quotation |
| newfanglement | †Novelty (obs.); a novel thing. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| Niagara | Something regarded as resembling the Niagara River at the falls, or the Niagara… | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| nomenclatural | Of or relating to nomenclature; esp. of or relating to the assignment of names. Cf. nomenclatorial adj., nomenclatory adj. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| nomenclaturing | The action of naming or classifying. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| nomenclaturist | A person who devises or assigns names; = nomenclator n. 4. Also: a person who studies nomenclature. | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| non-alphabetical | = non-alphabetic adj. 1. | 1874 | Go To Quotation |
| non-ego | That which is not the ego or conscious self; the object (object n. 5), as opposed to… | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| non-Germanic | Not Germanic. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| non-happening | Non-occurrence, esp. of an event. | 1850 | Go To Quotation |
| noodledom | Also with capital initial. Foolish people collectively; a set of foolish people. Obs. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| not-self | That which is other than self; something different from the conscious self; the non-ego. | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| noumenal | Of, relating to, or consisting of a noumenon or noumena; that can only be apprehended by intellectual intuition; not phenomenal. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| objectivity | The quality or character of being objective; (in later use) esp. the ability to… | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| obscurancy | = obscurantism n. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| officeful | The whole number or quantity of people or things to be found in an office; (also) an amount which would fill an office. | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| officina gentis | The race or group of people thought to be the origin or archetype of a nation or people. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| officina militum | A country or nation seen as a producer or provider of soldiers. | 1808 | Go To Quotation |
| Olympianize | trans. To endow with the attributes of an Olympian god or goddess; to exalt to the position of an Olympian. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| opuscular | Consisting of opuscules; of the nature of an opuscule. | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| ordinally | With regard to, or at the level of, orders in a taxonomic system; according to an… | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| outcrop | A part of a rock stratum, mineral vein, soil layer, etc., which emerges at the surface… | 1805 | Go To Quotation |
| outpourer | A person who pours out something. | 1846 | Go To Quotation |
| overissue | The action or an act of issuing banknotes, shares, etc., in excess; the items so issued. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| overprotecting | = overprotective adj. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| oxidulated | Combined with a smaller proportion of oxygen than in another compound. | 1806 | Go To Quotation |
| oxidulous | = oxidulated adj. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| oxygenant | An oxidizing agent. | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| paid-up | Of a debt, insurance policy, etc.: that has been paid in full (see to pay out 3 at pay v.… | 1836 | Go To Quotation |
| palatician | A person skilled in matters of the palate. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| pan-Christian | Originally: (prob.) a Christian pantheist. Now: a supporter of Christian ecumenism. rare. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| paperasserie | Excessive bureaucratic procedure or paperwork; bureaucracy; red tape. | 1856 | Go To Quotation |
| parthenogenetic | Biol. Relating to, characterized by, or of the nature of parthenogenesis; resulting from parthenogenesis. Also fig. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| pays du tendre | The domain or subject of love; the experience of falling or being in love. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| pentimento | A sign or trace of an alteration in a literary or artistic work; (spec. in Painting)… | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| perdricide | That kills partridges, esp. for sport. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| perligenous | Producing or causing the formation of pearls. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| personifying | Characterized by personification; tending to personify. | 1804 | Go To Quotation |
| petrological | Of or relating to petrology. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| pharmaco- | a device for measuring quantities of drugs. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| phenakistoscope | A toy consisting of a disc or drum with figures representing a moving object… | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| philism | A love of or partiality for something, esp. another people, nation, etc. | 1917 | Go To Quotation |
| philopolemical | Devoted to or glorying in war or conflict; warlike; = philopolemic adj. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| phonetico- | of or belonging to hieroglyphics having a phonetic value. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| pilulist | A maker or seller of pills. | 1807 | Go To Quotation |
| Pisistratean | = Pisistratid adj. | 1846 | Go To Quotation |
| pitter | intr. To make a rapid succession of light taps, or similar slight sounds; to run with quick, light-sounding steps. Cf. patter v. | 1805 | Go To Quotation |
| planetoid | A celestial object resembling a planet; a minor planet, an asteroid. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| pluralistic | Having or involving several people. | 1854 | Go To Quotation |
| plutological | Of or relating to plutology. | 1920 | Go To Quotation |
| plutonism | Usu. with capital initial. The theory that crystalline rocks such as granite and basalt… | 1842 | Go To Quotation |
| pour rire | For the sake of amusement, as a joke; as a source of amusement or derision. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| pregustant | That tastes beforehand. | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| Progymnasium | In some European countries (chiefly parts of Germany and Switzerland): a school… | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| promachos | A person who fights before or on behalf of another; a champion. Also fig. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| pseudomorphic | Of the nature of or relating to a pseudomorph; involving or exhibiting pseudomorphism. | 1804 | Go To Quotation |
| pulsiloge | A device for measuring the pulse rate. Cf. pulse watch n. at pulse n. 2. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| ratio cognoscendi | That by reason of which knowledge of something is possible; that by reason of which something is known to exist. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| ratio essendi | That by reason of which something exists. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| realia | Real things or actual facts, esp. as distinct from theories about or reactions to… | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| real scholar | A student at a real school (see real school n.). | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| Realschule | In Germany, Austria, and other German-speaking areas: a secondary school in which… | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| recte | As a parenthetical insertion used to introduce a word or phrase as a correct version of… | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| retracing | That retraces (in various senses of retrace v.). | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| reviewless | Lacking a review (in various senses); having no review or reviews. | 1844 | Go To Quotation |
| rhabdomancer | A person who practises rhabdomancy; spec. a dowser. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| Rosicrucianize | trans. To make (something) Rosicrucian in character. | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| saltatory | = saltary n. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| sangrador | = Sangrado n. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| sarcophagous | Resembling a sarcophagus. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| scholasticized | Imbued with or influenced by scholasticism. | 1923 | Go To Quotation |
| school board | A body of people, typically elected, responsible for the provision… | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| schwärmerei | Religious zeal, fanaticism, extravagant enthusiasm for a cause or a person; an… | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| scorified | Reduced to the form of scoria. | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| semi-crystalline | Having or being a structure of crystals embedded in an amorphous groundmass; having or… | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| sensualism | Philos. The doctrine that the senses are the sole source of knowledge; sensationalism. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| sensualistic | Pertaining to sensualism in philosophy or art. | 1843 | Go To Quotation |
| siliceo- | combining form of siliceous adj., as in siliceo-calcareous, siliceo-felspathic, siliceo-fluoric. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| Sivaism | The special worship of Siva, the third deity of the Hindu triad, to whom are attributed… | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| sizeless | Devoid of magnitude. | 1874 | Go To Quotation |
| sketchy | Of writings or authors. | 1805 | Go To Quotation |
| slayable | That may be (justly) slain. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| smaragdite | A brilliant grass-green or emerald-green variety of amphibole or hornblende. | 1804 | Go To Quotation |
| solidism | The doctrine or theory which refers all diseases to the state of, or to morbid changes in, the solid parts of the body. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| stonelet | A little stone. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| stuck-up | Assuming an unjustified air of superiority, or pluming oneself unduly on real superiority; offensively pretentious. | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| studium generale | A medieval university which did not only receive scholars from its own locality… | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| subdelegado | In Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking countries: any of various officials… | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| subjectivity | The quality or condition of being based on subjective consciousness, experience, etc.; the fact of existing in the mind only. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| talkee-talkee | The name given to various English-based pidgins or creoles; esp. the lingua franca of… | 1808 | Go To Quotation |
| theolatry | The worship of a deity or deities. | 1806 | Go To Quotation |
| thermology | The science of heat; that department of physics which treats of heat; thermotics. | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
| thuggee | The system of robbery and murder practised by the Thugs. Also attrib. | 1837 | Go To Quotation |
| Tironian | Of or pertaining to Tiro, the freedman of Cicero: Tironian notes, a system of shorthand in… | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| town-made | Made or manufactured in a town; spec. in the town of the district. Also as n. | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| trachytic | Consisting, or of the nature, of trachyte; containing, or abounding in, trachyte. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| transcendentalism | Transcendental philosophy; a system of this; applied to that taught by Kant… | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| transcendentalist | An adherent of some form of transcendentalism. Also attrib. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| transcendentally | In a transcendental manner or degree; according to a transcendental system. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| tribalism | The condition of existing as a separate tribe or tribes; tribal system, organization, or relations. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| twaddling | Having the character of twaddle; empty and prosy; rubbishy. | 1804 | Go To Quotation |
| unaggressive | (un- prefix 7 5b.) | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| uncreation | The action of uncreating. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| undemonstrative | Not given to, or characterized by, outward expression (of the feelings, etc.). | 1846 | Go To Quotation |
| underlife | A life beneath the surface or on a lower level. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| uniocular | fig. Characterized by the use of one eye. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| unmelodic | (un- prefix 7.) | 1849 | Go To Quotation |
| unnavigability | (un- prefix 12 5b; cf. unnavigable adj.) | 1835 | Go To Quotation |
| unoxidized | (un- prefix 8 5b) | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| unreading | (un- prefix 10.) | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| unsacerdotal | (un- prefix 7.) | 1844 | Go To Quotation |
| unsentinelled | (un- prefix 8.) | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| unshelve | (un- prefix 5.) | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| upholstress | A female upholsterer. | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| vendetta | A family blood-feud, usually of a hereditary character, as customary among the inhabitants of Corsica and parts of Italy. | 1855 | Go To Quotation |
| versiculation | The action or practice of making versicules; the result of this. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| vexata quaestio | = vexed question n. at vexed adj. 4. | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| vin ordinaire | Simple French wine for everyday use. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| visa | = visé n. | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| water-ice | A confection of water and sugar, flavoured and frozen. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| Wernerian | Of or relating to A. G. Werner (1750 – 1817), a German mineralogist and geologist… | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| wrappage | That which wraps, enfolds, or covers; a wrap or outer covering; a wrapper of a parcel, packet, or the like. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| Yiddishist | An adherent or supporter of Yiddishism (Yiddishism n. a); spec., an advocate of the… | 1917 | Go To Quotation |
| zirconic | Of, pertaining to, or like zircon; containing zirconia or zirconium. zirconic acid… | 1804 | Go To Quotation |
