| accentually | In an accentual manner; with syllables given accent or stress; with regard to accent or stress. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| accombination | An act of combining together. | 1846 | Go To Quotation |
| Ainu | A member of (the people descended from) an aboriginal people of northern Japan… | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| Alemannish | = Alemannic adj. 1. hist. | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| amalgamating | Combining different elements into one, uniting. | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| Amharic | Of or pertaining to Amhara, its people, or its language; the language itself, the principal language of modern Ethiopia. | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| amphigouri | A burlesque writing filled with nonsense; a composition without sense, as a Latin ‘nonsense-verse’. | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| anapaganize | To make pagan or heathen again. | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| Anglo-Saxonism | A word, phrase, or idiom of Old English origin; (hence) an Anglicism. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| anteprandial | Before-dinner. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| anthropophagism | The practice of eating human flesh; cannibalism. | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| anthropophagistic | Of or belonging to anthropophagists. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| Arabicism | An Arabic idiom or peculiarity of language. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| back-settler | One who lives in the back settlements of a colony or new country; a settler in the back-woods. | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| banditry | The practices of bandits. | 1922 | Go To Quotation |
| batrachoid | Resembling a frog, frog-like. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| besoothment | The fact of soothing; its means or resulting state. | 1850 | Go To Quotation |
| betrayal | A treacherous giving up to an enemy. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| brogued | Wearing, or fitted with, brogues. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| bullfinch | A kind of hedge (see quot.). | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| bush-rope | A name given to certain climbing shrubs in tropical forests, esp. to species of Cissus or Wild Vine. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| caenozoic | Geol. Another form of Cainozoic adj. | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| calendarer | One who calendars (esp. documents). | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| camp-meeting | A religious meeting held in the open air or in a tent (chiefly among Methodists in… | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| Capharnaism | The doctrine of the Capernaites. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| chondrostean | n. A member of this sub-order. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| chrestomathic | Devoted to the learning of useful matters. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| cigaresque | Having a cigar (or cigars) as a prominent feature. | 1839 | Go To Quotation |
| circumjacence | The fact or condition of being circumjacent. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| concessionist | One who advocates concession. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| confabular | Of or pertaining to confabulation; conversational. | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| conflagratory | Pertaining or tending to conflagration; inflammatory. | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| constitutionalism | A constitutional system of government. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| copperer | One who coppers, or works in copper. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| cosmogonical | Dealing or concerned with cosmogony; cosmogonic. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| decipherment | The action of deciphering; esp. interpretation of hieroglyphics or of obscure inscriptions. | 1844 | Go To Quotation |
| deckie | A deck-hand; = decker n. 3a. | 1913 | Go To Quotation |
| demoralization | The action of demoralizing; the state or fact of being demoralized. | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| demotic | Of or belonging to the people: spec. the distinctive epithet of the popular form of… | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| denudement | = Denudation, denuded condition. | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| diabolocracy | Government by the devil. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| diorthotic | Of or pertaining to recension of a literary work (see diorthosis n. b). | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| dirigibility | The quality of being dirigible; controllability. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| disannexation | The action of disannexing; separation (of something annexed). | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| discernant | One who discerns or discriminates. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| divinatorial | Conjectural. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| divisionary | = divisional adj. | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| dynamometer | A name of instruments of various kinds for measuring the amount of energy exerted by an… | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| editrix | = editress n. | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| eelhood | The rank or condition of a full-grown eel. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| electrotyped | Produced or copied by electrotyping. Also occas. fig. | 1844 | Go To Quotation |
| emotionalism | Emotional character or behaviour; esp. the tendency to indulge in or yield to emotion. | 1846 | Go To Quotation |
| enchorial | In general sense (somewhat rare.) | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| equivorous | Feeding on horseflesh. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| Erinnic | Characteristic of a Fury. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| eugenically | In regard to eugenics; from a eugenic point of view. | 1912 | Go To Quotation |
| Euripidean | Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Euripides, the Athenian tragic poet, or his works, style, etc. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| Exilarch | One of a line of Jewish princes or rulers in Babylon who exercised authority over… | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| foretimed | Assigned to a too early time or date; antedated. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| Frenchness | The quality or state of being French, or of displaying French characteristics. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| fusillade | trans. To assault (a place), to shoot down (persons) by a simultaneous discharge of firearms. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| fussify | intr. To make a fuss, to go about fussily. | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
| gastronomist | = gastronomer n. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| glaistig | A supposed she-devil or hag in the shape of a goat; also, a beautiful female fairy, usu. seen at the bank of a stream. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| glossarian | = glossarist n. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| gougee | A victim of gouging. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| gouger | One who cheats, a swindler. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| grandiloquacity | A piece of grandiloquence. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| grossen | trans. To render gross or coarse. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| hagiographic | Pertaining to the writing of saints' lives. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| hierophobia | Fear or horror of sacred things or persons. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| horseness | The abstract quality of a horse (tr. Greek ἱππότης). | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| husbanding | That husbands; sparing, economical, parsimonious. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| ideographic | Of the nature of an ideograph; representing an idea conceptually, rather than by a word… | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| ideologizing | Speculation, abstract theorizing. Cf. ideologize v. 1. Obs. rare. | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| igniter | A device to set fire to an explosive or combustible. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| imitational | Of, pertaining to, or characterized by imitation. | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| impervertible | Incapable of being perverted. | 1850 | Go To Quotation |
| incompletable | That cannot be completed. See incompletability n. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| Indo-European | Common to India and Europe; applied to the great family or class of cognate languages… | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| ineconomic | Not economic; not according to (political) economy. | 1852 | Go To Quotation |
| inexecutable | That cannot be executed. | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| insomnolence | The state of being insomnolent; insomnia. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| iotal | Existing with respect to every iota; absolute in every detail. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| jeune premier | An actor who plays the part of the principal lover or young hero. Also in extended use. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| jeune première | An actor who plays the part of the principal female lover or young heroine. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| kouros | A sculptured representation of a youth. | 1920 | Go To Quotation |
| lycée | The name given in France to a secondary school maintained by the State, in contradistinction… | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| madreporic | Relating to, produced by, or consisting of madrepores. Now rare. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| malodour | A foul smell, a stench. Also fig. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| media luna | An instrument consisting of a crescent-shaped blade attached to a long wooden pole… | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
| mesocratic | Of or relating to the middle classes. Obs. rare. | 1857 | Go To Quotation |
| miniator | A person who miniates a manuscript; a rubricator, an illuminator. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| miraculism | A power that is seemingly miraculous. Obs. nonce-use. | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| miserabilist | That advocates or supports miserabilism; self-indulgently pessimistic; gloomily negative. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| mnemonically | In a mnemonic manner; for mnemonic purposes; by means of mnemonics. | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| mobbishness | Mobbish quality or nature. Also (without negative connotation): the tendency to go about in mobs or groups. | 1920 | Go To Quotation |
| Moeso-Goth | A member of a Gothic tribe which inhabited Moesia (see Moesian n. adj.) in the 4th and 5th centuries a.d. | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| moirologist | In Greece: a hired mourner. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| Mongolic | Mongolian. | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| monition | trans. To warn by a monition (monition n. 2b). | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| Montaignesque | Of or relating to Montaigne; having the characteristics of Montaigne's writings, esp.… | 1856 | Go To Quotation |
| nail-clipping | A shaving cut from a fingernail or toenail. Cf. nail-cutting n. 2, nail-paring n. 1. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| Near Eastern | Of or relating to the Near East. Cf. Far-Eastern adj. at Far East n. Derivatives, Middle Eastern adj. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| neckful | A quantity that fills the neck; as much as the neck will hold. | 1853 | Go To Quotation |
| necropolis | A cemetery; freq. used as the name of a large cemetery in or near a city. Now chiefly hist., with reference to sense 2. Also fig. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| Norsk | = Norse n. 2. | 1844 | Go To Quotation |
| novene | = novena n. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| numismatology | Numismatics as a branch of study. | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| odylism | The doctrine of odyl or Od; practices and beliefs relating to or involving Od. | 1853 | Go To Quotation |
| onymity | The condition of being onymous, or named. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| open-airness | Open-air quality; coolness and freshness. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| Ossianized | Written in the style of Macpherson's alleged translations of Ossian's verse… | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| Ottomanism | The culture of the Ottoman Turks; Ottoman civilization; the promotion of these as a political programme. | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| outflaming | That flames out or flares up. | 1856 | Go To Quotation |
| outflanker | A person who engages in an outflanking manoeuvre. | 1920 | Go To Quotation |
| overhunt | trans. To deplete the stock of (a species of animal) by hunting; to hunt (an area, an adversary) too much or to depletion. | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| overtrawling | Excessive trawling of a fishing ground, causing depletion of fish stocks. | 1913 | Go To Quotation |
| palatability | The quality of being palatable; pleasant or agreeable flavour. Also fig. | 1850 | Go To Quotation |
| pan-Germany | Freq. with capital initial. A notional country incorporating all German-speaking peoples. Now chiefly hist. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| pan-Orthodox | Of, relating to, or involving all the Eastern Orthodox churches. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| pentasyllable | A word with five syllables. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| philosophastering | Belonging to or characteristic of a philosophaster; pretentiously philosophizing. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| pianistic | Of, belonging to, or characteristic of a pianist or pianism. Also: relating to or suitable for performance on the piano. | 1849 | Go To Quotation |
| pistolade | trans. To attack or fire at with pistols. | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| pledgeless | Without a pledge or pledges. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| plenarium | A book or manuscript containing a complete set of sacred writings, e.g. all the gospels or all the epistles. | 1844 | Go To Quotation |
| post-exilian | = post-exilic adj. | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
| Poussinesque | Of, relating to, or characteristic of Poussin; after the manner of Poussin's work… | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| pre-classical | Occurring in or characteristic of a period prior to one regarded as classical, esp. in music, literature, or ancient history. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| preformationism | Belief in or advocacy of the theory of preformation (preformation n. 2). | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| proverbiology | The study of proverbs. Also: proverbs collectively. Cf. paroemiology n. | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
| pseudism | A false statement. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| punctatim | = punctuatim adv. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| puntilla | A dagger used to administer the coup de grâce to the bull. | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
| radiographic | Of or relating to radiography; carried out by means of radiography. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| Raphaelism | The artistic principles introduced by Raphael; the style or method associated with Raphael. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| readability | The ease with which a text may be scanned or read; the quality in a book, etc., of being… | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| recibir | = recibiendo n. | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
| resourcefulness | The state or quality of being resourceful; the capacity to be resourceful. | 1849 | Go To Quotation |
| revenant | A person who returns from the dead; a reanimated corpse; a ghost. Also fig. | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| Samoyedic | Of or pertaining to the Samoyeds. Also quasi- n., their language. | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| Sandwicher | An inhabitant of the Sandwich Islands in the South Pacific ocean; a Sandwich Islander. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| sansculottid | One of the five (in leap-years six) complementary days added at the end of the month… | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| scientist | A person with expert knowledge of a science; a person using scientific methods. | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| secondment | The action of second v. Also transf.; freq. in phr. on secondment. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| Semitic | In linguistic sense: The distinctive epithet of that family of languages of which… | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| sentimentalization | The action or process of sentimentalizing. | 1839 | Go To Quotation |
| Serb | A native of Serbia, a Serbian. | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| shareable | That may be shared. | 1920 | Go To Quotation |
| short circuit | A circuit made through a small resistance, esp. one that acts as a shunt to a… | 1854 | Go To Quotation |
| splasher | A guard placed over or beside a wheel to prevent splashing or accidental contact. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| splashet | = plashet n. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| stanzaic | Of, belonging to or of the nature of poetry composed in the form of stanzas. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| stylize | trans. To conform (an artistic representation) to the rules of a conventional style; to conventionalize. Chiefly in pa. pple. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| suerte | An action or pass performed in bull-fighting; one of the three stages of a bull-fight; = tercio n. 2a. | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
| swayamvara | A Hindu ceremony in which a woman chooses her husband from amongst several contenders… | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| symphonous | = symphonious adj. 1 (In first quot. 1814 ironical.) | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| Tantric | Of or pertaining to the Tantras; characteristic of Tantrism. In Western use, also loosely… | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| tapism | Official formality or routine; = red-tapism n. | 1852 | Go To Quotation |
| tendido | An open tier of seats above the barrera at a bull-fight. | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
| theoretician | One who treats of or studies the theoretical side of a subject; = theorist n. 1. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| theosoph | One who pursues theosophy n. (sense 1). | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| tragalism | A designation for the principles of the Spanish Constitutional party of 1820 and succeeding years. | 1837 | Go To Quotation |
| transhistorical | (Having significance) that transcends the historical; universal or eternal. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| tur-turring | An imitation of the cooing of a dove, used to designate the action or sound. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| tweezer | intr. To use tweezers; trans. to pull out with tweezers; also to pinch or pluck with or as with tweezers. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| ultrageous | Violently extreme. | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| unalleviable | (un- prefix 7b.) | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| unbottle | trans. To extract from, or let out of, a bottle. Also fig. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| under-estimate | trans. To estimate at too low an amount, quantity, number, etc. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| undogmatical | (un- prefix 7.) | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| unedited | (un- prefix 8 5b.) | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| unexaggerable | (un- prefix 7b.) | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| ungentlemanliness | (un- prefix 12: cf. ungentlemanly adj.) | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| unmathematical | (un- prefix 7.) | 1720 | Go To Quotation |
| unpresentable | (un- prefix 7b.) | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| unquoted | That has not been quoted; not quoted (cf. quote v. 7). | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| unrecanted | (un- prefix 8.) | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| unshaveable | (un- prefix 7b.) | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| untruism | An untruth. | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| vermean | = vermian adj. 1. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| volapié | In Bullfighting, a manner of killing in which the bullfighter runs in to kill a… | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
