wobbegong (n.) Look up wobbegong at Dictionary.com
type of Australian shark, 1852, an Aboriginal word.
-tuple Look up -tuple at Dictionary.com
1863, word-forming element abstracted from quintuple, etc.
anymore (adv.) Look up anymore at Dictionary.com
one-word form by 1865, from any + more.
Deutsch Look up Deutsch at Dictionary.com
the German word for "German;" see Dutch.
ileo- Look up ileo- at Dictionary.com
word-forming element, from comb. form of ileum (q.v.).
manxome Look up manxome at Dictionary.com
1871, a word invented by Lewis Carroll.
muskeg (n.) Look up muskeg at Dictionary.com
kind of moss bog, 1865, from a Cree Indian word.
colloquialism (n.) Look up colloquialism at Dictionary.com
1810, "a colloquial word or phrase," from colloquial + -ism.
commoditization (n.) Look up commoditization at Dictionary.com
1965, from commodity + -ization; the businessman's word; the Marxist's is commodification.
Guyana Look up Guyana at Dictionary.com
from a native word perhaps meaning "respectable." Related: Guyanese.
Gallicism (n.) Look up Gallicism at Dictionary.com
"French word or idiom," 1650s, from Gallic + -ism.
-ologist Look up -ologist at Dictionary.com
word-forming element; see -ology + -ist.
-metric Look up -metric at Dictionary.com
word-forming element representing -metry + -ic.
-ocracy Look up -ocracy at Dictionary.com
word-forming element; -cracy with a connective -o-.
plio- Look up plio- at Dictionary.com
word-forming element, Latinate form of pleio-.
-ular Look up -ular at Dictionary.com
word-forming element, see -ule + -ar.
video- Look up video- at Dictionary.com
word-forming element; see video (adj.).
Guarani (n.) Look up Guarani at Dictionary.com
South American Indian language, 1797, from a native word.
phlebo- Look up phlebo- at Dictionary.com
word-forming element in medicine meaning "vein," from Greek phlebo-, comb. form of phleps "vein," a word of uncertain origin.
verbicide (n.) Look up verbicide at Dictionary.com
"the killing of a word" by perversion from its original meaning, 1836, from Latin verbum "word" (see verb) + -cide.
gematria (n.) Look up gematria at Dictionary.com
1680s, from Hebrew gematriya, a transliteration of Greek geometria (see geometry). "[E]xplanation of the sense of a word by substituting for it another word, so that the numerical value of the letters constituting either word is identical" [Klein].
henge (n.) Look up henge at Dictionary.com
1740, noted as a Yorkshire word for hanging rocks (see Stonehenge).
non-combatant (n.) Look up non-combatant at Dictionary.com
also noncombatant, 1809, from non- + combatant. A word from the Napoleonic wars.
logo (n.) Look up logo at Dictionary.com
1937, probably a shortening of logogram "sign or character representing a word."
doodad (n.) Look up doodad at Dictionary.com
"unnamed thing," 1905, chiefly U.S., a made-up word (compare doohickey).
drill (n.4) Look up drill at Dictionary.com
"West African baboon species," 1640s, perhaps from a native word (compare mandrill).
muggle (n.) Look up muggle at Dictionary.com
"marijuana, a joint," 1926, apparently originally a New Orleans word, of unknown origin.
tangelo (n.) Look up tangelo at Dictionary.com
"hybrid of a tangerine and a pomelo," 1904, the word formed like the fruit.
spliff (n.) Look up spliff at Dictionary.com
conical cannabis cigarette, 1936, a West Indian word, of unknown origin.
-ase Look up -ase at Dictionary.com
word-forming element used in naming enzymes, from ending of diastase.
aristocrat (n.) Look up aristocrat at Dictionary.com
1789, from French aristocrate, a word of the Revolution, a back-formation from aristocratie (see aristocracy).
alongside (adv.) Look up alongside at Dictionary.com
1707, from along + side (n.). A word formed from a phrase. Originally mostly nautical.
cacoon (n.) Look up cacoon at Dictionary.com
large, flat bean from an African shrub, 1854, from some African word.
uncomprehensible (adj.) Look up uncomprehensible at Dictionary.com
late 14c., from un- (1) "not" + comprehensible. The usual word is incomprehensible.
toc Look up toc at Dictionary.com
word used for the letter T in radio communication, 1898.
undecisive (adj.) Look up undecisive at Dictionary.com
1660s, from un- (1) "not" + decisive. The usual word is indecisive.
unevitable (adj.) Look up unevitable at Dictionary.com
from un- (1) "not" + evitable. The usual word is inevitable. Related: Unevitably.
whereabout (adv.) Look up whereabout at Dictionary.com
"near what place," early 14c. as an interrogatory word, from where + about.
Yucatan Look up Yucatan at Dictionary.com
said to be from a local word meaning "massacre." Related: Yucatecan.
anytime (adv.) Look up anytime at Dictionary.com
one-word form by 1854, from any + time (n.).
Hebe (2) Look up Hebe at Dictionary.com
derogatory word for "a Jew," 1921, shortened from Hebrew (n.).
garrot (n.) Look up garrot at Dictionary.com
kind of sea-duck, 1829, from French garrot (1757), a word of unknown origin.
kidnapper (n.) Look up kidnapper at Dictionary.com
1670s; see kidnap (though this word is attested a few years earlier).
deferential (adj.) Look up deferential at Dictionary.com
1822, from deferent + -ial; as a word in anatomy, from 1877. Related: Deferentially.
ecumenism (n.) Look up ecumenism at Dictionary.com
1937, from ecumen- (see ecumenical) + -ism. The older word is ecumenicalism (1870).
onboard (adj.) Look up onboard at Dictionary.com
1966 as one word, from on + board (n.2).
om Look up om at Dictionary.com
mystical word in Hinduism, Buddhism; an utterance of assent, 1788.
oro- Look up oro- at Dictionary.com
word-forming element meaning "mountain," from Greek oros "mountain" (see oread).
-genic Look up -genic at Dictionary.com
word-forming element meaning "producing, pertaining to generation;" see -gen + -ic.
geoduck (n.) Look up geoduck at Dictionary.com
edible Pacific clam, 1883, perhaps from an American Indian word.