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