| ad eundem | To the same degree, rank, or status at another university or institution; by virtue… | 1711 | Go To Quotation |
| admiraling | The action of admiral v.; the activities of an admiral. | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
| agnostic | A person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of immaterial things, especially… | 1869 | Go To Quotation |
| agnosticism | The doctrine or tenets of agnostics with regard to the existence of anything beyond… | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| agrément | In pl. Agreeable qualities, circumstances, etc.; = agreement n. 7. Now rare. | 1711 | Go To Quotation |
| alarmism | A persistent tendency to exaggerate potential dangers, esp. in political, social… | 1858 | Go To Quotation |
| alertness | The quality or condition of being alert; quickness in attention, action, or intellect; vigilance; liveliness. | 1714 | Go To Quotation |
| alimentation | In France and French-speaking countries: a grocery shop. Elsewhere: a shop specializing… | 1958 | Go To Quotation |
| anglicization | The action or process of making something or someone English (or British) in… | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| Asquithian | Pertaining to, resembling, or supporting Asquith as leader of the Liberal party or… | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| atrabiliousness | The quality of being atrabilious. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| babysitting | That babysits (in various senses). | 1958 | Go To Quotation |
| backveld | In S. Africa, the primitive or unprogressive rural districts lying away from the towns. Also attrib. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| beadiness | The quality of being beady. | 1873 | Go To Quotation |
| beerishly | In beerish or beery fashion. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| bonelessness | Boneless condition. Also transf. and fig. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| bonhomous | Full of bonhomie or good-fellowship. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| borrowee | One from whom something is borrowed. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| brain wave | (a) A (supposed) telepathic wave emanating from the brain (cf. brain vibration n. (a) at brain… | 1869 | Go To Quotation |
| bricksetter | = bricklayer n. (In midlands and north.) | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| cache-sexe | A covering for the genitals. | 1926 | Go To Quotation |
| calculiform | Pebble-shaped. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| campy | = camp adj. n. | 1959 | Go To Quotation |
| cellarless | That has no cellar or cellars; esp. that is without a wine cellar. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| chattee | The person to whom one chats. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| chippiness | State of being chippy, or ‘dry as a chip’; shortness of temper. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| ciré | Having a smooth polished surface. Also short for ciré silk, etc. | 1921 | Go To Quotation |
| clyse | = clow n. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| companionability | Companionableness. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| companionment | The action of companioning; accompaniment. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| Congressist | The member of a congress (annual or periodic). | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| consensus | Physiol. General agreement or concord of different parts or organs of the body in effecting… | 1854 | Go To Quotation |
| criminaldom | Criminal society, the underworld; criminals collectively. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| crookish | Pertaining to or characteristic of a crook (crook n. 13) or crooked behaviour, dealings, etc. | 1927 | Go To Quotation |
| delimitative | Having the function of delimitation. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| denazify | trans. To (attempt to) detach (Nazis, or their adherents) from Nazi allegiance, or connection; also transf. | 1944 | Go To Quotation |
| disqualification | That which disqualifies or prevents from being qualified; a ground or cause of incapacitation. | 1714 | Go To Quotation |
| dithyrambist | A composer or utterer of dithyrambs. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| domaine-bottled | = estate-bottled adj. at estate n. 2). So domaine-bottling. | 1960 | Go To Quotation |
| doryphore | A person who draws attention to the minor errors made by others, esp. in a pestering manner; a pedantic gadfly. | 1952 | Go To Quotation |
| drillable | Capable of being drilled. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| dusting | That dusts: see dust v. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| dynamiteur | = dynamiter n. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| emender | One who emends. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| employé | One who is employed. (In French use chiefly applied to clerks; in English use gen. to… | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| Europeanizing | That Europeanizes (in various senses of the verb). | 1852 | Go To Quotation |
| euthanatize | trans. To subject to ‘euthanasia’. | 1873 | Go To Quotation |
| faddism | Fondness for fads; a disposition to pursue fads. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| fantasize | intr. = fantasy v. 1c. | 1926 | Go To Quotation |
| Fenianism | The principles, purposes and methods of the Fenians. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| film noir | A cinematographic film of a gloomy or fatalistic character. | 1958 | Go To Quotation |
| fingering | That fingers (an instrument); also, addicted to ‘fingering’ or petty manipulation. | 1712 | Go To Quotation |
| Georgiana | The poetry published in the anthologies Georgian Poetry (see Georgian adj. 2b). nonce-use. | 1962 | Go To Quotation |
| governessy | Having the characteristics of a governess. | 1872 | Go To Quotation |
| hinterland | The district behind that lying along the coast (or along the shore of a river);… | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| humilific | Humiliating, self-depreciating, that humiliates or tends to humble; also as n., a humble expression. (Opp. to honorific.) | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| implementation | The action of implementing; fulfilment. | 1926 | Go To Quotation |
| indexation | An adjustment in rates of payment in money (e.g. wage-rates, bond prices, etc.) to… | 1960 | Go To Quotation |
| ingerence | Bearing in upon; intrusion; interference. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| institutionalism | The system of institutions; spec., (a) the principles of institutional religion; (b) the… | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| internment | The action of ‘interning’; confinement within the limits of a country or place. | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| irreceptivity | The quality of being irreceptive; incapacity to receive; unreceptiveness. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| Japanolatry | Excessive devotion to or worship of Japanese art and customs. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| lemurine | = lemuroid adj. n. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| lopping | Of the sea: Rising and falling in short waves. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| Lowry | Used attrib. or absol. to designate a figure, scene (esp. an urban industrial… | 1945 | Go To Quotation |
| Macaulayan | Relating to or modelled on Macaulay's method or style. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| Macaulayish | = Macaulayan adj. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| magazinism | The profession of writing for magazines. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| maxi- | Forming nouns denoting things which are very long or large of their kind. Freq.… | 1961 | Go To Quotation |
| McLuhanite | Of, relating to, or characteristic of McLuhan or McLuhanism. | 1967 | Go To Quotation |
| megadollar | Hugely expensive; extremely rich or profitable. | 1963 | Go To Quotation |
| megalopsychic | Magnanimous. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| mickey-taking | The action or process of ‘taking the mickey’; mocking, teasing, satirizing. | 1967 | Go To Quotation |
| minimized | Made as small as possible; reduced to a minimum. | 1844 | Go To Quotation |
| muzz | intr. To study hard or intently; to pore over. Now rare. | 1744 | Go To Quotation |
| mythoclastic | That destroys or discredits a myth or myths; devoted to the destruction of myths. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| nagger | A person who nags; something which nags at or bothers one continuously. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| Nederlands | The Dutch language of the Netherlands. | 1926 | Go To Quotation |
| negrophobe | A (white) person with an intense dislike or hatred of black people. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| neo-Catholicism | A new, modern, or revived form of Catholicism. | 1851 | Go To Quotation |
| nitpicking | Pedantic; fault-finding; pernickety, fussy. | 1948 | Go To Quotation |
| noctuary | An account of what happens during a particular night or particular nights. | 1714 | Go To Quotation |
| non-enforcement | Lack of enforcement of a law, threat, etc.; unwillingness or failure to enforce a rule or law. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| non-national | That is not national; that consists of or represents more than one nation; that is not a citizen of a (usually specified) state. | 1852 | Go To Quotation |
| nutating | Undergoing or exhibiting nutation (in various senses). | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| officialism | The mode of action seen as characteristic of officials; perfunctory and literal discharge… | 1849 | Go To Quotation |
| Old Testamentism | The religious doctrine of the Old Testament; excessive or inappropriate adherence to such doctrine. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| omnilateral | Facing or directed all ways; representing all points of view; having all or very many aspects or components. | 1852 | Go To Quotation |
| onomatous | = onymous adj. | 1869 | Go To Quotation |
| outarm | trans. To possess a more powerful weapon than; to exceed in possession or acquisition of… | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| out-loud | Aloud, audible. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| overexpression | The excessive or exaggerated expression of feelings, an opinion, etc. | 1869 | Go To Quotation |
| over-informed | That has been over-informed; esp. having too much knowledge of a particular subject… | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| Palmerstonian | Of, relating to, or suggestive of Lord Palmerston or the forceful diplomacy associated with him. | 1846 | Go To Quotation |
| panning | Of a camera, etc.: that pans (pan v.); making use of panning (esp. as panning shot). | 1937 | Go To Quotation |
| para | A paratrooper; (Brit.) spec. a member of the Parachute Regiment. | 1958 | Go To Quotation |
| patriarchically | = patriarchally adv. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| perorational | Of, relating to a peroration; characteristic or suggestive of a peroration. | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
| Peter-Pannery | Immaturity, childishness; behaviour characteristic of a Peter Pan. | 1960 | Go To Quotation |
| philobiblic | = philobiblian adj. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| phoneticization | Phonetic spelling or representation; an instance of this. Also: (greater) correlation of symbol and sound in a writing system. | 1915 | Go To Quotation |
| pit yacker | A coal miner. | 1961 | Go To Quotation |
| populational | Of, relating to, or based on population. | 1855 | Go To Quotation |
| portmantologism | A portmanteau word (see portmanteau n. 2a). | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| prestigey | = prestigious adj. 2. | 1963 | Go To Quotation |
| prodnose | An inquisitive or nosy person. Also: spec. a detective. | 1965 | Go To Quotation |
| Protestantization | The action or fact of making Protestant; conversion to Protestantism. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| ramillies | Obs. a method of cocking, or turning up the brim, of a hat. | 1711 | Go To Quotation |
| resistentialism | The theory that inanimate objects are hostile to humans; hostility manifested by inanimate objects. | 1948 | Go To Quotation |
| resistentialist | Of a person: that advocates or believes in resistentialism (resistentialism n.); (of an inanimate object) hostile to humans. | 1948 | Go To Quotation |
| revisee | A person whose work is subjected to revision. Usu. contrasted with reviser. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| roofscaping | The creation of a planned roofscape; the landscaping of rooftops. | 1962 | Go To Quotation |
| routously | In a disorderly or tumultuous manner; (later also) in such a manner as to form a rout (rout n. 4). | 1615 | Go To Quotation |
| Ruskinese | Language or literary style characteristic of Ruskin. | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| saunter | A sauntering manner of walking; a leisurely, careless gait. | 1712 | Go To Quotation |
| screamy | Given to screaming; having a screaming voice or sound; fig. characterized by… | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| scrumble | trans. To produce a smeary or grainy effect on (paint). | 1921 | Go To Quotation |
| sinify | trans. To sinicize. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| smudginess | The state, character, or quality of being smudgy. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| snippetiness | The state or condition of being snippety; scrappiness. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| snippety | Of the nature of, suggestive of, a snippet or snippets; composed of snippets or scraps. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| snozzle | intr. = snuzzle v. 1. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| Spartacus | Used attrib. in Spartacus group, Spartacus league, the Spartacists. | 1918 | Go To Quotation |
| speculativism | Excessive exercise of, or leaning towards, speculation. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| spluttery | Suggestive of spluttering. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| sprawlingly | In a sprawling manner. | 1921 | Go To Quotation |
| startle | An experience of being startled; a start or shock of surprise or alarm. Also (predicatively), something that startles. | 1714 | Go To Quotation |
| Suaeda | A plant of the genus Suæda (N.O. Chenopodiaceæ), which comprises herbaceous or… | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| superpersonality | A superpersonal being; an extraordinary or superior personality. Also: the quality, character, or fact of being superpersonal. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| trashed | Bungled, spoiled; ill-treated or injured; run-down. Freq. with advbs. | 1926 | Go To Quotation |
| tropicana | With pl. and occas. sing. concord. Things associated with or characteristic of tropical regions; objects from the tropics. | 1960 | Go To Quotation |
| Tsinandali | A dry white wine produced in the Tsinandali district of the Republic of Georgia. | 1961 | Go To Quotation |
| Tsongdu | The Tibetan National Council or Assembly. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| unco-ordinated | (un- prefix 8.) | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| unformulated | (un- prefix 8.) | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| unsectarianism | (un- prefix 12; cf. unsectarian adj. n.) | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| unshocked | (un- prefix 8.) | 1712 | Go To Quotation |
| unthink | Passive acceptance; failure to use logical reasoning. | 1958 | Go To Quotation |
| upmanship | = one-upmanship n. | 1962 | Go To Quotation |
| vacillator | One who vacillates or wavers. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| vaudouism | = voodooism n. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| Wilsonian | Relating to or characteristic of Wilson or his policies, style of government, etc. Also as n., a follower of Wilson. | 1963 | Go To Quotation |
