Wiktionary:Requested entries (English)
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Non-letter
- The alchemical symbols for the elements, etc (plus links from the articles)
- The astrological symbols for the planets, etc (plus links from the articles)
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- a bit hot (OED: "somewhat unreasonable"; syns: "a bit off")
- all-up service
- apparate
- apple midge "a small dipterous insect (Sciara mali), the larva of which bores in apples" here Nothing recent; may have been reclassified/renamed
- ar "Southern English form of aye; stereotypical pirate saying..."
- arab-parast
- art therapy
- axeblade -- NOT in OED, used in Gravity's Rainbow
B
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- backhaul (networking)
- back pass
- back sight
- base communications
- basils Template:italbrac
- bas relief type of sculpture on a surface
- beetleskin
- bemud
- Bende - not in OED, Webster
- big old, big ole
- bit-count integrity
- black angus, (cattle) variously, Angus cattle, Abderdeen angus.
- black bloc (see: Wikipedia)
- blue eye cod
- blue swimmer crab
- boatlead -- misprint in Gravity's Rainbow?
- bon vivant -- good life?
- Boinen - not in OED, Webster
- bounce-back ability
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- clavicular
- cleaveth
- climb up
- cohoe Template:pos n Var. of coho (salmon)?
- collateral energy
- come on
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- depositary receipt
- diktat
- Dirty Harry - reference to movie character - used to label vigilante cops
- djomo Template:pos n
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- ecclesiocracy (Rule by the Church)
- egyptianization (sexual practice)
F
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- facial features
- facial cream
- fairy dust Template:pos n
- fannish
- farting around
- fee patent
- feed into
- feed out of
- feel around
- film out (noun; technical term in film)
- filter on
- finicking
- Fipa
- firewagon
- first chair Template:pos n
- flail about
- flogging the land (Aus)
- flowerpot
- flower-sweet
- food waste disposer
- foody adj. To be messy with ones own food or food ingredients. Not to be confused with the noun (foodie)
- fooferall Template:pos n var. of fol-de-rol? "Fol-de-rol and fiddle dee dee and fiddley faddley foddle all the wishes in the world are poppy cock and twoddle." --lyrics to Richard Rogers' Cinderella
- for all
- forebore
- forge-hammer
- Frannie, Franny
- fraternal birth order
- froofy Template:pos a having or exibiting the qualities of Kellis flute players; similar to high or trilled/repeated notes
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- gas and gaiters, a British idiom? only in the TV sitcom "All Gas and Gaiters"?
- gayety -- misspelling of gaiety
- geddies
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- inadequacy
- incruit to recruit with the Internet.
- indoor culture See [1]
- inop
- intercalat typo for intercalate, adding a day or month to a calendar?
- interest rate swap Template:pos n (see Wikipedia)
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- keep with
- kick off meeting
- kiddie, kiddy Template:pos n (also a modifier)
- Kiha
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- Mabia
- mad for it
- make good on (a promise) (idiom)
- make it hot for Template:pos vt
- make right
- make-ready
- make-readies
- make things hot for Template:pos vt
- Malila
- Maryolotry
- maté Template:pos n
- Matengo
- mathematizing
- matrixism Template:pos n
- Matumbi
- maturable
- maugre
- Mbunga
- MCS
- meep [2]
- mediagenic Template:pos a
- melomania Template:pos n
- meroblastic
- Merry Widow
- Meru
- Meruimenti
- Merutig
- mesoblastic
- mesomorphic
- messmate
- metafiction Template:pos n
- metagenic
- metaphrastic
- metaplastic
- metazoic Template:pos a
- middie
- middleaged
- middle ground
- mid-morning
- midshipman Template:pos n
- mill around
- minaceous Template:pos a
- minstrelsy Template:pos n
- Miskatonic
- misconstruction Template:pos n
- mirabilia
- mishomonism Template:pos n
- misthought
- mitogenic
- mixed marriage
- Mkuu
- Mkwaya
- mnemic
- mnemist
- mobilisable Template:pos a
- mollying-cull
- mollying-bitch
- mome Template:pos n Template:pos a
- mommick Template:pos vt
- monadic Template:pos a
- monarchic Template:pos a
- monic
- monodromic
- monogenic
- monomorphism
- moosebird
- moral meaning
- moral order
- Morobashi
- morphemic Template:pos a
- morphinomania Template:pos n
- Mosaic proper a
- most of all
- most likely
- mostly rainy Template:pos a
- motley crue
- mountainslope
- mountaintop
- Mpoto
- muffin-baiting
- mulloway (or is it mulloway jewfish?)
- multicausal
- multiprotein
- Munyarwand
- murid Template:pos n
- muscle in on Template:pos vt
- musculoskeletal
- mushroom body Template:pos n
- mycologic
- myelinate
- myo- prefix
- myoblastic
- mythomania Template:pos n
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- n-adic Template:pos a
- nail pairing's chance (probably should be paring, not pairing)
- Namwaga
- napped
- nargery
- Nata
- nation-state
- naturalistic
- nblanked
- Ndali
- Ndamba
- Ndari
- Ndengeleko
- neck of the woods
- nekkid
- neogenic
- neoplastic
- nerveway
- nesticle
- netmums
- networkanatomy
- Ngoreme
- Nguungule
O
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- oafish
- obliquity, obliquities
- oceangoing
- octadic Template:pos a
- octett, octette Template:pos n probably var of octet
- oenomania Template:pos n
- off-base
- offprints
- off the back foot
- oilsmoke
- oldskool
- omen of crows
- omnificence Template:pos n
- omnium (Latin?) [3]
- omoplatoscopy Template:pos n
- on point
- one trick pony
- only just
- ontogenic
- oogabooga
- oojamaflip Template:pos n
- oort Oort cloud?
- oozing
- ophiuroid some sea creature
- opiated
- oppo
- orach
- orby
- orenda
- organised crime, organized crime
- orogenic
- osmanthus Template:pos n
- ostentatiously
- osteoplastic
- ostracized
- OSV Our Sunday Visitor? Catholic publication.
- otogenic
- oude genever -- NOT in OED, used in Gravity's Rainbow
- outdoorsman
- outshine Template:pos vt
- overanxious
- overattachment
- overcapitalized
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- Paakantyi proper n - a language
- paedomorphic, pedomorphic
- Pangwa
- panne
- paralogue
- paramorphic
- parish-house
- parodying
- paronomastic
- participial
- pass-and-catch
- passionflower
- pastoralism Template:pos n
- Patrick Henry College hm, looks encyclopedic...
- pedal pushers (pluralia tantum)
- pedantical
- pedes
- peer editing
- pennaceous Template:pos a
- pentadic Template:pos a
- perimorphic
- performativity
- personalized
- petalomania Template:pos n
- petroleum coke
- pettishly
- Phalidimyde
- phasic
- phelloplastic
- phonographic
- photoelastic
- photonastic
- phthisic Template:pos a
- phytologic
- piccadilly
- pièce montée (culinary term)
- pightle
- pig-run
- pig’s trotter
- pillory
- Pimbwe
- pimpwar
- pinch cake
- pit against
- playoff berth
- plethoral
- polygenic
- polymastic
- polyphonic
- poolish Template:pos n
- post-feminism
- post-paid
- postromantic post-romantic, post romantic
- potichomania Template:pos n
- preadolescent
- preantenultimate Template:pos n looks wrong; ultimate, penultimate, antepenultimate, preantepenultimate
- preceptoryTemplate:pos n
- predispose
- preempting
- pre-eminence Template:pos n
- prefigure
- prehension
- pre-op
- presexual
- pressmen
- prisonhouse
- prodigally
- professorially
- proforma — You must mean pro forma
- proteoclastic
- protoplastic — protoplasmic perhaps?
- protosyntax
- protozoic Template:pos a
- protrusive
- provisioner
- pseudogamy
- pseudohermaphroditism
- pseudoscientific
- Psittacula
- psychogeography
- psychosocial
- psychosociological
- publands
- punkie, punky
- purile (Oblivion:Document of Purile Banter) — Misspelt. It’s puerile.
- purples — in OED
- put a stop to
- putti
- pyramidal stove
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- R-1 the scunner missile
- radicalisation
- ragga
- ramie
- randomosity
- rangebound
- raphania
- ratching
- readest
- readjustment
- readmission
- realisation
- recantation
- reciprocator
- recission misspelling of rescission?
- recombine
- recommences
- reconsideration
- reconstructed (adj)
- redback Template:pos n
- redbud
- Red Sox Nation
- redia
- reductionist
- reduviid
- reflect on, reflect upon
- regulative
- reintroduction
- relaid
- remindful
- rending
- renegation
- replenished
- reprehension
- resettle
- REST -- computing. Representational State Transfer -- but what is it?
- retail theft -- a newer synonym for shoplifting
- retake (contract retainage)
- retake Template:pos n, Template:pos vt
- retrocolonial
- retropulsion (medical)
- reweighted
- revenue land -- legal
- rheumy
- rhombihexahedron
- richesse
- rickies
- ricksha
- ring off Template:pos vi
- ripping gel
- riv’n
- rivaled
- rocambole Template:pos n
- rocking horse shit, rocking-horse shit
- rock up in Oxford Dictionary of English
- roisterer Template:pos n
- roofline
- roque Template:pos n type of croquet
- roquelaure, also spelled roquelaire
- root rot
- Rotuman
- rough-and-tumble
- roughed up
- royal red prawn
- rubidium oxide
- Rufiji
- ruft Template:pos a (obsolete?)
- Rukiga
- rule-based Template:pos a
- rum-tum
- runagate
- Rundi
- Rungu
- Rungwa
- running speech Template:pos n
- run-off (election)
- run-off (printed)
- run-on
- Runyambo
- Runyankore
- Runyoro
- Rutooro
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- Safwa
- sagamore Template:pos n
- saltbox
- Sambaa
- Samialugwe
- SamoaTel
- Sandor
- sandpapered
- sandpile
- sand whiting
- Sangu
- Sashi_siz
- savagery
- scalene (muscles)
- scampish
- scapulimancy Template:pos n
- scapulomancy Template:pos n
- scatter rug
- scenarist Template:pos n
- schizogenic
- scholiastic
- scoreless
- scoriating
- Scotch tape
- screen test
- scuffling
- scurrier Template:pos n
- seastained
- seamy
- sea wall
- second-string
- segmental Template:pos a
- selectmen
- self-possession
- semisafely
- sentimated
- shepherd’s purse
- shibby
- shirtwaist
- shithead
- shiznit (l33t speak for saying something is awesome, "that is teh shiznit"}
- shoggoth (Lovecraft creature)
- shooed
- Shubi
- shingly (beach)
- shirtwaist blouse
- shortness of breath
- side-by-side
- sidesmen
- Siha
- silphion
- silver bream
- Silver Rhythm Dancers
- silver top Template:pos n
- singulare tantum (opposite of plurale tantum)
- singularia tantum Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "singulare tantum" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.
- six ways to sunday ('in every way imaginable?') "Sunday", not "sunday", surely?
- skewampus
- Skinnerism Template:pos n
- skirmisher
- slapes
- slashed velvet
- slavering
- slipstream
- slowmatch -- in OED as slow match?
- small-scale Template:pos a
- snack bar
- snaphaan -- NOT in OED, used in Gravity's Rainbow without italicizing - Dutch?
- snapper Template:pos n
- sneak thief
- sneered
- snerk
- snikt (apparent onomatopoeia, 200,000 google hits)
- snuffled
- softhearted
- Sonjo
- soon-to-follow
- soothingly
- sopor
- soured
- sowerful
- sparrow dominoes
- spasmodically
- spats a kind of dandified clothing??
- specialities
- speech impediment
- spendest
- spime
- spin move
- spinette (spinet or not English?)
- splenic
- spondonicle Template:pos n
- sporange
- sprauncy
- spring-goer
- squandermania Template:pos n
- squinted
- squirmed
- stableman
- stage mother
- stagey, stagy
- stamping ground
- stanchless
- standover
- standardized Template:pos a
- stape
- Stark effect
- steadiness Template:pos n
- step up to the plate
- stick it to the man
- stickybeak
- stomatologist Template:pos n
- stonewalling
- stop-gap Template:pos a
- Straussian follower of Leo Strauss
- striate
- strut one's stuff Template:pos vi
- stuporous
- St. Vitus’ dance Template:pos n
- Suba
- subchapter Template:pos n
- Subdovian
- subjectivity
- subordinated
- subrogation Template:pos n
- subterraneous Template:pos a
- success story Template:pos n
- sucker punch Template:pos n, Template:pos vt
- Sukuma
- Sumbwa
- superintended
- surf-rider or surfrider? Template:pos n
- surjective
- susurration
- swamplife
- swedged
- symport
- symptomatically
- syngas
- synthesis gas
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- take one moment at a time
- take it one step at a time
- takeaways (concessions by labor union)
- talk back (verb)
- tapered
- tappy
- Tarawan
- teamsheet
- telapia
- tellingly
- temming
- tennis club
- tennis dress
- textbase
- texting
- Tharaka
- theatergoing
- thermalized
- thinkest
- thread count
- Three Lions (As we've been enterring)
- three-step drop
- tidal river
- tiger prawn
- time on -- a concept in Australian rules football similar to extra time or injury time in soccer
- to be sure
- toddy
- Tokyoite
- too hot for
- torrefaction
- torrefied
- touchhole -- in OED as touch-hole?
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- voicegram
- voiceprint
- voidage (bubbles in fluid?)
- voken
W
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- wagonload
- warm-up jacket
- washed-up Template:pos a
- wattled
- waza-ari Template:pos n
- weak tea in her mouth
- weekender
- well-rounded Template:pos a
- Wembawemba proper n - a language
- were-elves
- whereat
- whistle-blowing Template:pos v
- whorled Template:pos a, Template:pos v
- wifelet
- Wik-Mungkan proper n - a language
- Wild West
- Winnebago
- windbitten
- Windflower
- wiues (archaic wives)
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