Etymologie, Etimología, Étymologie, Etimologia, Etymology, (griech.) etymología, (lat.) etymologia, (esper.) etimologio
UK Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte, Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord, Regno Unito di Gran Bretagna e Irlanda del Nord, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, (esper.) Britujo
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Michael Quinion
about international English from a British viewpoint
The English language - its history, quirks, curiosities and evolution

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The English language is forever changing. New words appear; old ones fall out of use or alter their meanings. World Wide Words tries to record at least a part of this shifting wordscape by featuring new words, word histories, words in the news, and the curiosities of native English speech.

After 20 years writing about the peculiarities and evolution of the English language, I stopped suddenly and finally early in 2017. Truth be told, after 930 issues of my weekly newsletter I was becoming written out. Every week that passed made writing more of a chore and less of a pleasure. So I shall no longer be sending out newsletters nor adding or updating pages on the site.
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How Words Enter the Language

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In the world of today’s lexicography, usage is king. We are, in the language of the business, descriptive dictionary makers: we record, we collate, we analyse, and we describe what people actually say and write. If enough English speakers decide that some word or phrase has value, to the extent that those who encounter it are likely to need to consult the dictionary in search of its meaning, then it is put into new editions. Not always very quickly — there is merit in taking one’s time to build up a picture of usage and so avoid being misled by temporary enthusiasms and short-lived fashion. And if enough speakers decide that a word no longer means what the dictionaries say it means but something else entirely, then we have to note that, too. You may feel that such changes amount to misuse — and certainly terms do change because of ignorance or misunderstandings — but that’s largely irrelevant to the job of the dictionary maker.
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Some people hate this anarchy so much that there are occasional calls for a body to regulate the language, control what should be in and what out, and to advise users on what is good English and bad. The example of the "Académie Française" is often put in evidence. The Académie attempts to maintain the purity of the French language (for example, by providing lists of French words that are suitable alternatives to the influx of English neologisms, such as replacing "tie-break" with "jeu décisif", "walkman" with "baladeur", or "software" with "logiciel"), but its influence, though great, has not been decisive.

There have been determined attempts to amend the way people use languages: Noah Webster was influential in changing some spellings in the United States after the 1820s; Kemal Atatürk changed Turkish to the Latin script in 1928 and removed many borrowings from other languages; the Singapore government has instituted a Speak Good English session every April to persuade local people to use international English rather than their own patois called "Singlish"; there have recently been spelling changes in both Dutch and German. Making that kind of change requires political will and muscle and is hard even then. Canute had it right — there are some tides which authority is unable easily to resist or control.
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So, no English Academy, I’m afraid. No huddles of earnest scholars, debating the current crop of neologisms (like "bonkbuster") and marking them with the tick of official acceptance or the cross of oblivion. Just a number of individual dictionary editors, trying to make sense of an inchoate mass of material thrown up by shifts in fashion, personal usage, inventive genius, new technologies, and a dozen other factors. It’s a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it.

*The OED’s definition of bonkbuster: “A type of popular novel characterized by frequent explicit sexual encounters between the characters. Popularized by the British writer Sue Limb, writing under the pseudonym ‘Dulcie Domum’, in her humorous newspaper column ‘Bad Housekeeping’ (1990-2001)”. The word is from the common British slang "bonk" for “an act of sexual intercourse”, on the model of "blockbuster".


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Newsletter back-issues

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Pronunciation Guide

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This list contains the main sounds of standard British English (the one that’s associated with southern England, also often called Received Pronunciation). The "International Phonetic Alphabet" ("IPA") symbols appear on my Web pages; the text equivalents are for my weekly e-mail newsletters. See the bottom of the page for some important notes.

Consonants

The following letters have their usual values in English:

b, d, f, h, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v, w, z.
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Misc 2C-B; 360-degree feedback; 3D fatigue.

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360-degree feedback
3D fatigue


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A A flea in one’s ear; A rose by any other name; A Word A Day; A Word for All; A Zillion Troubles; Abacot; Abbreviation ‘lb’ for pound; Abditory; Abecedarian; Abigail; Able-whackets; Abracadabra; Absquatulate; According to Cocker; Acersecomic; Acid test; Acoustic shock; Acronychal; Acronyms for Your Enjoyment; Acrophony; Across the board; Action at a distance; Activate the balls!; Activitystat; Adam’s off ox; Addiction; Adimpleate; Adipocere; Adoxography; Adumbrate; Adust; Aeriated; Aerobot; Aerotropolis; Affluence test; AfPak; Aga saga; Agelastic; Agister; Agitory; Agnotology; Agog; Agrestic; Agroterrorism; Ahead of the curve; Ahoy!; Aksed versus asked; Alamagoozlum; Alas Poor Nell; Albertopolis; Alcolock; Alcopop; Alegar and beeregar; Alexipharmic; Aliment; All mouth and trousers; All my eye and Betty Martin; All Sir Garnet; All wool and a yard wide; Allision; Allohistory; All-singing, all-dancing; Altermodernism; Aluminium versus aluminum; Ambient; Ambient advertising; Ambulance at the bottom of the cliff; America In So Many Words; Amn’t; Amperkine; ; An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology; Anadiplosis; Analemmatic; Anamorphosis; Anatine; Andrew; Andropause; Anfractuosity; Angiogenesis inhibitor; Animadvert; ; Ansated; Ansible; Antelucan; Anthropodermic; Anti-fogmatic; Antimacassar; Apocope; Apology; Apoptosis; Aposematic; Aposiopesis; Apostrophes; Apotropaic; Apozem; Apple of one’s eye; Approximeeting; Apricate; April; Arab Spring; Archaeogenetics; Archaeon; Arenaceous; Areologist; Arfanarf; Argosy; Argy-bargy; Aristology; ; Arsenal; Artefact versus artifact; Artilect; As the crow flies; Ascian; Ash; Asian Brown Cloud; Asparagus; Astrobleme; Astrobolism; Asylo; Asymmetrical warfare; Asynartesia; At sixes and sevens; At the drop of a hat; Ataraxy; Atrabilious; Attercop; Aunt Sally; Austerian; Austringer; Autohagiography; Auxetic.

A flea in one's ear
A rose by any other name
A Word A Day
A Word for All
A Zillion Troubles
Abacot
Abbreviation "lb" for pound
Abditory
Abecedarian
Abigail
Able-whackets
Abracadabra
Absquatulate
According to Cocker
Acersecomic
Acid test
Acoustic shock
Acronychal
Acronyms for Your Enjoyment
Acrophony
Across the board
Action at a distance
Activate the balls!
Activitystat
Adam's off ox
Addiction
Adimpleate
Adipocere
Adoxography
Adumbrate
Adust
Aeriated
Aerobot
Aerotropolis
Affluence test
AfPak
Aga saga
Agelastic
Agister
Agitory
Agnotology
Agog
Agrestic
Agroterrorism
Ahead of the curve
Ahoy!
Aksed versus asked
Alamagoozlum
Alas Poor Nell
Albertopolis
Alcolock
Alcopop
Alegar and beeregar
Alexipharmic
Aliment
All mouth and trousers
All my eye and Betty Martin
All Sir Garnet
All wool and a yard wide
Allision
Allohistory
All-singing, all-dancing
Altermodernism
Aluminium versus aluminum
Ambient
Ambient advertising
Ambulance at the bottom of the cliff
America In So Many Words
Amn't
Amperkine
An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology
Anadiplosis
Analemmatic
Anamorphosis
Anatine
Andrew
Andropause
Anfractuosity
Angiogenesis inhibitor
Animadvert
Ansated
Ansible
Antelucan
Anthropodermic
Anti-fogmatic
Antimacassar
Apocope
Apology
Apoptosis
Aposematic
Aposiopesis
Apostrophes
Apotropaic
Apozem
Apple of one's eye
Approximeeting
Apricate
April
Arab Spring
Archaeogenetics
Archaeon
Arenaceous
Areologist
Arfanarf
Argosy
Argy-bargy
Aristology
Arms akimbo
Arsenal
Artefact versus artifact
Artilect
As the crow flies
Ascian
Ash
Asian Brown Cloud
Asparagus
Astrobleme
Astrobolism
Asylo
Asymmetrical warfare
Asynartesia
At sixes and sevens
At the drop of a hat
Ataraxy
Atrabilious
Attercop
Aunt Sally
Austerian
Austringer
Autohagiography
Auxetic


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B Back to square one; Backronym; Bad cess; Bafflegab; Bail out; Balderdash; Balderdash & Piffle; Balderdash and flummery; Bald-faced, boldfaced or barefaced?; Balductum; Balls-up; Ban; Banana; Banausic; Bangalored; Bankrupt; Bant; Banter; Baragouin; Barbarian; Barbecue; Barber’s cat; Barking mad; Barmecide; Barometz; Barrelhouse Words; Basket case; Bat an eyelid; Bated breath; Bathykolpian; Beam me up, Scotty!; Beanpole family; Bear up; Beat; Beat the band; Beck and call; Bedbug; Bedizened; Bee’s knees; Beefing; Beg the question; Begat; Beggar on horseback; Beggar-my-neighbour; Beghilos; Behove and behoove; Bejuggle; Believe you me; Bells and whistles; Bellwether; Benidorm leave; Beside oneself; Besmitten; Bespoke; Best bib and tucker; Between the Lines; Between versus among; Betwixt; Beyond the pale; Bezoar; Big Apple; Big Bang II; Big cheese; Big girl’s blouse; Big pond; Big shot; Bill; Bill of goods; Billy-o; Binge-watching; Bint; Bioart; Bioinformatics; Bioinvasion; Biomimetics; Biomusicology; Biophilia; Biopiracy; Biopunk; Biosimilar; Biosurgery; Birds and the bees; Birtism; Bissextile, Intercalary, Embolistic; Bistro; Bitter end; Black as Newgate knocker; Black Hole; Black Maria; Black swan; Blackbirding; Blackguard; Blackmail; Black-water rafting; Blairism; Blatherskite; Blatteroon; Bless your cotton socks; Blighty; Blind Freddie; Blivet and nitnoid; Blizzard of horseradish; Blobitecture; Blockbuster; Blogger; Bloke; Blood and thunder; Blood minerals; Bloody; Blooming English; Blooper; Blot one’s copy book; Bloviate; Blow the gaff; Blower; Blue; Blue blood; Blue moon; Blue murder; Blue revolution; Bluejacking; Blue-plate special; Bluestocking; Bluetooth; Blu-Ray; Blurb; Bob’s your uncle; Bob’s-a-dying; Bobby; Bodacious; Bodger; Boffin; Bog-standard; Bogus; Bohemian; Boilerplate; Bold as brass; Bombilation; Bonce; Bonzer; Boodle bag; Bookaneer; Bookcrossing; Books without the letter ‘e’; Boondoggle; Boot; Boot and trunk; Boot camp; Bootleg; Bootless; Borborygmus; Boscage; Boss; Bossnapping; Bossy; Botnet; Bottle; Boughten; Bounding main; Bounty hunter; Boustrophedonic; Bowdlerise; Bowser; Box of birds; Boxing Day; Boycott; Bozo; Braggadocious; Brain fingerprinting; Brainstorming; Brand; Brand spanking new; Brass monkey weather; Brass ring; Brass tacks; Brassed off; Brassiere; Brave New Words; Bread-and-butter letter; Break a leg; Break one’s duck; Break-out space; Brexit; Briar pipe; Bribery; Bridegroom; Bridewell; Bridie; Bright; Brimborion; Bringing Home the Bacon; Brobdingnagian; Bromopnea; Broom-squire; Brosiering; Brouhaha; Brown as a berry; Brown study; Brown Windsor soup; Brownie points; Brummagem; Bruxer; Buck up; Buckley’s chance; Budget; Buff; Bug; Bug letter; Bull in a china shop; Bulldozer; Bulls and bears; Bully pulpit; Bumbershoot; Bumf; Bun fight; Bunny rabbit; Burden of one's song; Burgoo; Burke; Business theatre; Busman’s holiday; Bustard; But and ben; Butler; Butter no parsnips; Butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth; Butterfly; Butterscotch; By and large; By hook or by crook; By Jove; By the skin of one’s teeth.

Back to square one
Backronym
Bad cess
Bail out
Balderdash
Balderdash & Piffle
Balderdash and flummery
Bald-faced, boldfaced or barefaced?
Balductum
Balls-up
Ban
Banana
Banausic
Bangalored
Bankrupt
Bant
Banter
Baragouin
Barbarian
Barbecue
Barber's cat
Barking mad
Barmecide
Barometz
Barrelhouse Words
Basket case
Bat an eyelid
Bated breath
Bathykolpian
Beam me up, Scotty!
Beanpole family
Bear up
Beat
Beat the band
Beck and call
Bedbug
Bedizened
Bee's knees
Beefing
Beg the question
Begat
Beggar on horseback
Beggar-my-neighbour
Beghilos
Behove and behoove
Bejuggle
Believe you me
Bells and whistles
Bellwether
Benidorm leave
Beside oneself
Besmitten
Bespoke
Best bib and tucker
Between the Lines
Between versus among
Betwixt
Beyond the pale
Bezoar
Big Apple
Big Bang II
Big cheese
Big girl's blouse
Big pond
Big shot
Bill
Bill of goods
Billy-o
Binge-watching
Bint
Bioart
Bioinformatics
Bioinvasion
Biomimetics
Biomusicology
Biophilia
Biopiracy
Biopunk
Biosimilar
Biosurgery
Birds and the bees
Birtism
Bissextile, Intercalary, Embolistic
Bistro
Bitter end
Black as Newgate knocker NEW ; Black Hole
Black Maria
Black swan
Blackbirding
Blackguard
Blackmail
Black-water rafting
Blairism
Blatherskite
Blatteroon
Bless your cotton socks
Blighty
Blind Freddie
Blivet and nitnoid
Blizzard of horseradish
Blobitecture
Blockbuster
Blogger
Bloke
Blood and thunder
Blood minerals
Bloody
Blooming English
Blooper
Blot one's copy book
Bloviate
Blow the gaff
Blower
Blue
Blue blood
Blue moon
Blue murder
Blue revolution
Bluejacking
Blue-plate special
Bluestocking
Bluetooth
Blu-Ray
Blurb
Bob's your uncle
Bob's-a-dying
Bobby
Bodacious
Bodger
Boffin
Bog-standard
Bogus
Bohemian
Boilerplate
Bold as brass
Bombilation
Bonce
Bonzer
Boodle bag
Bookaneer
Bookcrossing
Books without the letter "e"
Boondoggle
Boot
Boot and trunk
Boot camp
Bootleg
Bootless
Borborygmus
Boscage
Boss
Bossnapping
Bossy
Botnet
Bottle
Boughten
Bounding main
Bounty hunter
Boustrophedonic
Bowdlerise
Bowser
Box of birds
Boxing Day UPDATED ; Boycott
Bozo
Braggadocious
Brain fingerprinting
Brainstorming
Brand
Brand spanking new
Brass monkey weather
Brass ring
Brass tacks
Brassed off
Brassiere
Brave New Words
Bread-and-butter letter
Break a leg
Break one's duck
Break-out space
Brexit
Briar pipe
Bribery
Bridegroom
Bridewell
Bridie
Bright
Brimborion
Bringing Home the Bacon
Bromopnea
Broom-squire
Brosiering
Brouhaha
Brown as a berry
Brown study
Brown Windsor soup
Brownie points
Brummagem
Bruxer
Buck up
Buckley's chance
Budget
Buff
Bug
Bug letter
Bull in a china shop
Bulldozer
Bulls and bears
Bully pulpit
Bumbershoot
Bumf
Bun fight
Bunny rabbit
Burden of one's song
Burgoo
Burke
Business theatre
Busman's holiday
Bustard
But and ben
Butler
Butter no parsnips
Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth
Butterfly
Butterscotch
By and large
By hook or by crook
By Jove
By the great horn spoon
By the skin of one's teeth


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C C3; Cabal; Cachinnatory; Cack-handed; Cacoethes; Cacography; Cad; Cadastral; Cadge; Café Scientifique; Caffeinol; Cagmag; Cahoot; Caitiff; Calenture; Callipygian; Callithumpian; Caltrop; Camelion; Camera; Camp; Campaign; Can of worms; Cancrine; Candent; Cantankerous; Cantrev; Caparisoned; Capitulate and recapitulate; Captology; Carabidologist; Carbon bubble; Carbon footprint; Carborexia; Card; Cardigan; Career versus careen; Carnage; Carnal; Carpet; Carphology; Carrot and stick; Carrotmobbing; Carry the can; Carwhichet; Carwichet; Cascabel; Case in point; Case the joint; Cash on the nail; Cast aspersions; Cataglottism; Cataract; Catbird seat; Catchpole; Catoptromancy; Caucus; Caught red-handed; Cedar revolution; Cello scrotum; Celtic Tiger; Cenatory; Cento; Centre around; Centrifical force; Ceraunograph; Chad; Chaise longue; Chalazion; Chalk and cheese; Chambers Dictionary of Etymology; Chambers Slang Dictionary; Chance your arm; Charabanc; Charley horse; Charon; Chatoyant; Chav; Cheap at half the price; Cheapskate; Cheat-bread; Cheese it!; Chemical; Chemtrail; Chequered past; Chestnut; Chew the fat; Chew the scenery; Chicanery; Chickens coming home to roost; Chi-ike; Chiliastic; Chill Can; Chillaxing; Chillwave; Chin wag; Chindia; Chip off the old block; Chip on one’s shoulder; Chiptune; Chissicking; Chloephobia; Chock-a-block; Chook; Chops; Chosen Words; Chow; Chrestomathy; Chronogram; Chronopsychology; Chronotherapy; Chthonic; Chuck-farthing; Chucklehead; Chunder; Church key; Cider Insight; Circular; Circumbendibus; Citing Online Sources; Citizen journalism; Claptrap; Claytronics; Clean one’s clock; Cleanskin; Cleft stick; Clerihew; Clicktivism; Cli-fi; Climate velocity; Clinical governance; Clinquant; Clone; Closet versus Cupboard; Cloud nine; Cobblers; Cobot; Cock a snook; Cock and bull story; Cock-a-hoop; Cockaigne; Cockamamie; Cockles of your heart; Cockpit; Cockshut; Cocksure; Cocktail; Cock-up; Codology; Codswallop; Cohobation; Colcannon Night; Cold shoulder; Collaboratory; Collapse of stout party; Collins English Dictionary; Collop; Collyrium; Collywobbles; Colon; Colonel; Colophonian; Colour Me Environmental; Colporteur; Column; Come a cropper; Come hell or high water; Come the old soldier; Comeuppance; Commash; Commentariat; Community currency; Community marriage policy; Compleat v complete; Comprise; Comprise redux; Computer-assisted journalism; Concinnity; Confide; Conformator; Conkerer; Consilience; Contextomy; Contumely; Convivium; Cooked; Cooking one's goose; Cool; Cool Britannia; Coopering; Coopetition; Cooties; Cop; Copacetic; Cop-out; Copper-fastened; Coppice; Co-respondent; Corium; Corpus; Corybantic; Cosmeceutical; Costard; Costus; Cotton on; Coulrophobia; Country names in -stan; Countryside; Coup; Covenant marriage; Coxcomb; Crêpe hanger; Crack shot; Crackerjack; Crackpot; Crap; Cream; Cream crackered; Credible; Crib; Cribellate; Cricket; Crimony; Crimping; Crinkum-crankum; Crisis memoir; Crisitunity; Criticaster; Crizzling; Crocodile tears; Cronyism; Crosspatch; Crowdworking; Cruciverbalist; Crumpet; Crunk; Crush; Cry all the way to the bank; Cub; Cucking-stool; Cucumber time; Cudiles or cudulles; Cull; Culpon; Culprit; Culture; Culture jamming; Cunicular; Cupertino; Curate’s egg; Curmudgeon; Curriculum; Curry favour; Curtain lecture; Cut and dried; Cut the mustard; Cut your stick; Cute as a bug’s ear; Cuts no ice; Cyber Monday; Cyberchondria; Cyberloafing; Cyberplague; Cyberventing; Cyborg; Cymbocephalic; Cynosure.

C3
Cabal
Cachinnatory
Cack-handed
Cacoethes
Cacography
Cad
Cadastral
Cadge
Café Scientifique
Caffeinol
Cagmag
Cahoot
Caitiff
Calenture
Callipygian
Callithumpian
Caltrop
Camelion
Camera
Camp
Campaign
Can of worms
Cancrine
Candent
Cantankerous
Cantrev
Caparisoned
Capitulate and recapitulate
Captology
Carabidologist
Carbon bubble
Carbon footprint
Carborexia
Card
Cardigan
Career versus careen
Carnage
Carnal
Carpet
Carphology
Carrot and stick
Carrotmobbing
Carry the can
Carwhichet
Carwichet
Cascabel
Case in point
Case the joint
Cash on the nail
Cast aspersions
Cataglottism
Cataract
Catbird seat
Catchpole
Catoptromancy
Caucus
Caught red-handed
Cedar revolution
Cello scrotum
Celtic Tiger
Cenatory
Cento
Centre around
Centrifical force
Ceraunograph
Chad
Chaise longue
Chalazion UPDATED ; Chalk and cheese
Chambers Dictionary of Etymology
Chambers Slang Dictionary
Chance your arm
Charabanc
Charley horse
Charon
Chatoyant
Chav
Cheap at half the price
Cheapskate
Cheat-bread
Cheese it!
Chemical
Chemtrail
Chequered past
Chestnut
Chew the fat
Chew the scenery
Chicanery
Chickens coming home to roost
Chi-ike
Chiliastic
Chill Can
Chillaxing
Chillwave
Chin wag
Chindia
Chip off the old block
Chip on one's shoulder
Chiptune
Chissicking
Chloephobia
Chock-a-block
Chook
Chops
Chosen Words
Chow
Chrestomathy
Chronogram
Chronopsychology
Chronotherapy
Chthonic
Chuck-farthing
Chucklehead
Chunder
Church key
Cider Insight
Circular
Circumbendibus
Citing Online Sources
Citizen journalism
Claptrap
Claytronics
Clean one's clock
Cleanskin
Cleft stick
Clerihew
Clicktivism
Cli-fi
Climate velocity
Clinical governance
Clinquant
Clone
Closet versus Cupboard
Cloud nine
Cobblers
Cobot
Cock a snook
Cock and bull story
Cock-a-hoop
Cockaigne
Cockamamie
Cockles of your heart
Cockpit
Cockshut
Cocksure
Cocktail
Cock-up
Codology
Codswallop
Cohobation
Colcannon Night
Cold shoulder
Collaboratory
Collapse of stout party
Collins English Dictionary
Collop
Collyrium
Collywobbles
Colon
Colonel
Colophonian
Colour Me Environmental
Colporteur
Column
Come a cropper
Come hell or high water
Come the old soldier
Comeuppance
Commash
Commentariat
Community currency
Community marriage policy
Compleat v complete
Comprise
Comprise redux
Computer-assisted journalism
Concinnity
Confide
Conformator
Conkerer
Consilience
Contextomy
Contumely
Convivium
Cooked
Cooking one's goose
Cool
Cool Britannia
Coopering
Coopetition
Cooties
Cop
Copacetic
Cop-out
Copper-fastened
Coppice
Co-respondent
Corium
Corpus
Corybantic
Cosmeceutical
Costard
Costus
Cotton on
Coulrophobia
Country names in -stan
Countryside
Coup
Covenant marriage
Coxcomb
Crêpe hanger
Crack shot
Crackerjack
Crackpot
Crap
Cream
Cream crackered
Credible
Crib
Cribellate
Cricket
Crimony
Crimping
Crinkum-crankum
Crisis memoir
Crisitunity
Criticaster
Crizzling
Crocodile tears
Cronyism
Crosspatch
Crowdworking
Cruciverbalist
Crumpet
Crunk
Crush
Cry all the way to the bank
Cub
Cucking-stool
Cucumber time
Cudiles or cudulles
Cull
Culpon
Culprit
Culture
Culture jamming
Cunicular
Cupertino
Curate's egg
Curmudgeon
Curriculum
Curry favour
Curtain lecture
Cut and dried
Cut the mustard
Cut your stick
Cute as a bug's ear
Cuts no ice
Cyber Monday
Cyberchondria
Cyberloafing
Cyberplague
Cyberventing
Cyborg
Cymbocephalic
Cynosure


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D Dab hand; Dactylonomy; Daft-days; Dandiprat; Dangerous; Darby and Joan; Darg; Dark tourism; Darknet; Darwin Day; Dashboard; Data archaeology; Data haven; Datacasting; Dauncy; Davy Jones’ locker; Daylight robbery; Dead as a doornail; Dead cat bounce; Dead reckoning; Deadhead; Dealybob; Dear John letter; Deasil; Death toll; Decadal Dismay; Decimate; Decussate; Deep Web; De-extinction; Defenestrate; Deipnosophist; Dekko; Deleb; Deliquescent; Demitarian; Demutualisation; Denglisch; Denigrate; Dental Spa; Deodand; Depraved and Insulting English; Deprecate; Deray; Derby; Derring-do; Destrier; Devil to pay, the; Devo-max; DFY; Diabesity; Dibs; Dichotomy; Dick’s hatband; Dictionary of American Regional English; Diddler; Different to; Digamy; Digital divide; Digital Radio Mondiale; Digladiation; Digs; ; Dingbat; Dint; Diplomacy; Discombobulate; Disgruntled and gruntled; Disintermediation; Ditto; Ditty bag; Divagation; Dog and pony show; Dog in the manger; Dogme 95; Dogsbody; Dog-whistle politics; Doh!; Domesday; Domotics; Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater; Done and done; Donkey’s years; Donnybrook; Doohickey; Doolally tap; Doozy; Dope; Dopp kit; Doryphore; Dot and carry one; DOTS; Double possessive; Double-dog dare you; Doughboy; Doula; Down to the wire; Downshifter; Dozenal; Dracontology; Drag; Draw a line in the sand; Dreaded lurgi; Dressed to the nines; Dress-up Thursday; Dribs and drabs; Drink it, it’ll do you good; Drive-by-wire; Droogish; Drug on the market; Drum and Gaff; Drunkard's cloak; Drunkorexia; Dry run; Duck soup; Ducks and drakes; Ducks in a row; Duct tape; Dude; Duke’s mixture; Dulcarnon; Dumbbell; Dumbledore; DVD; Dwarf planet; Dwile flonking; Dydler; Dyspraxia.

Dab hand
Dactylonomy
Daft-days
Dandiprat
Dangerous
Darby and Joan
Darg
Dark tourism
Darknet
Darwin Day
Dashboard
Data archaeology
Data haven
Datacasting
Dauncy
Davy Jones' locker
Daylight robbery
Dead as a doornail
Dead cat bounce
Dead reckoning
Deadhead
Dealybob
Dear John letter
Deasil
Death toll
Decadal Dismay
Decimate
Decussate
Deep Web
De-extinction
Defenestrate
Deipnosophist
Dekko
Deleb
Deliquescent
Demitarian
Demutualisation
Denglisch
Denigrate
Dental Spa
Deodand
Depraved and Insulting English
Deprecate
Deray
Derby
Derring-do
Destrier
Devil to pay, the
Devo-max
DFY
Diabesity
Dibs
Dichotomy
Dick's hatband
Dictionary of American Regional English
Diddler
Different to
Digamy
Digital divide
Digital Radio Mondiale
Digladiation
Digs
Dingbat
Dint
Diplomacy
Discombobulate
Disgruntled and gruntled
Disintermediation
Ditto
Ditty bag
Divagation
Dog and pony show
Dog in the manger
Dogme 95
Dogsbody
Dog-whistle politics
Doh!
Domotics
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater
Done and done
Donkey's years
Donnybrook
Doohickey
Doolally tap
Doozy
Dope
Dopp kit
Doryphore
Dot and carry one
DOTS
Double possessive
Double-dog dare you
Doughboy
Doula
Down to the wire
Downshifter
Dozenal
Dracontology
Drag
Draw a line in the sand
Dreaded lurgi
Dressed to the nines
Dress-up Thursday
Dribs and drabs
Drink it, it'll do you good
Drive-by-wire
Droogish
Drug on the market
Drum and Gaff
Drunkard's cloak
Drunkorexia
Dry run
Duck soup
Ducks and drakes
Ducks in a row
Duct tape
Dude
Duke's mixture
Dulcarnon
Dumbbell
Dumbledore
DVD
Dwarf planet
Dwile flonking
Dydler
Dyspraxia


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E Eagre; Earl Grey tea; Early doors; Easy Pickings; Eating Crow; Eavesdropper; E-bandoned; Ebonics; Ecdysiast; Echo boomer; Eco-auditor; Eco-cement; Eco-driving; Ecofact; Ecologism; Economy-class syndrome; Econophysics; Ecotarianism; Ecotherapy; Edacious; E-day; Ee; Eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious; Egg on one’s face; Egg somebody on; Eggcorns; Eggplant; Eggy; Egregious; Egyptian days; Eighty-six; Electroclash; Electromagnetic hypersensitivity; Electronic cinema; Electronic paper; Electrosmog; Eleemosynary; Elementary, my dear IUPAC; Elephant and Castle; Elephant in the room; Ell; Embuggerance; Emmet and grockle; Emo; Emoji; Empasm; Emuscation; Enchiridion; Endocrine disrupter; Engastrimyth; Engine and Motor; English is difficult; Enormity; Enquire versus inquire; Ensorcelled; Enthuse; Enthusiast; Entitlement card; E-num; Envirocrime; Envision versus envisage; Epeolatry; Ephebicide; Ephebicide; Ephebiphobia; Epicaricacy; Epigenome; Epilimnion; Epizeuxis; Ergophobia; Erumpent; E-science; Esculent; Esprit de l’escalier; Estovers; Esurience; Etaoin shrdlu; Etheromaniac; Ethical fading; Ethnic; E-thrombosis; Etiquette; Eugeroic; Euro-creep; Euroland; Europanto; Evernet; Evidence-based education; Evo-devo; E-voting; Exception that proves the rule; Exercise bulimia; Exformation; Eximious; Exoplanet; Experience; Experimental travel; Exposome; Extranet; Extraordinary rendition; Eyerobics; Eyot.

Eagre
Earl Grey tea
Early doors
Easy Pickings
Eating Crow
Eavesdropper
E-bandoned
Ebonics
Ecdysiast
Echo boomer
Eco-auditor
Eco-cement
Eco-driving
Ecofact
Ecologism
Economy-class syndrome
Econophysics
Ecotarianism
Ecotherapy
Edacious
E-day
Ee
Eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious
Egg on one's face
Egg somebody on
Eggcorns
Eggplant
Eggy
Egregious
Egyptian days
Eighty-six
Electroclash
Electromagnetic hypersensitivity
Electronic cinema
Electronic paper
Electrosmog
Eleemosynary
Elementary, my dear IUPAC
Elephant and Castle
Elephant in the room
Ell
Embuggerance
Emmet and grockle
Emo
Emoji
Empasm
Emuscation
Enchiridion
Endocrine disrupter
Engastrimyth
Engine and Motor
English is difficult
Enormity
Enquire versus inquire
Ensorcelled
Enthuse
Enthusiast
Entitlement card
E-num
Envirocrime
Envision versus envisage
Epeolatry
Ephebicide
Ephebicide
Ephebiphobia
Epicaricacy
Epigenome
Epilimnion
Epizeuxis
Ergophobia
Erumpent
E-science
Esculent
Esprit de l'escalier
Estovers
Esurience
Etaoin shrdlu
Etheromaniac
Ethical fading
Ethnic
E-thrombosis
Etiquette
Eugeroic
Euro-creep
Euroland
Europanto
Evernet
Evidence-based education
Evo-devo
E-voting
Exception that proves the rule
Exercise bulimia
Exformation
Eximious
Exoplanet
Experience
Experimental travel
Exposome
Extranet
Extraordinary rendition
Eyerobics
Eyot


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F Fabless; Face the music; Facile; Facinorous; Factotum; Faffing; Faggot; Fainites; Fair cop; Fair dinkum; Fair to middling; Fall guy; Family; Fan; Fandangle; Fanfaronade; Fantods; Far From the Madding Gerund; Farb; Fard; Fardel; Farrago; Fashionista; Fat tax; Fatootsed; Faux Pas?; Fawn; Faze; Fears and dreads; Feckless; Feebate; Feghoot; Femtocell; Fender; Ferret; Fescennine; Festucine; Fewmet; Fiasco; Fib; Fibres from the Earth; Fiddler’s Green; Fiddlesticks; Fidimplicitary; Fight like Kilkenny cats; File; Filemot; Film trailer; Fimbriated; Finagle; Financephalograph; Financial phobia; Fine fettle; Fink; First, Second and Third; First, second and third worlds; Fish-faced; Fist; Fit to be tied; Fizgig; Flabbergasted; Flagitious; Flamenco; Flammable; Flapdoodle; Flash mob; Flat; Flavicomous; Fletcherise; Flibbertigibbet; Floccinaucinihilipilification; Florilegium; Flummox; Fly in the face of; Fog; Fogou; Foison; Folderol; Folksonomy; Foofaraw; Foot the bill; Footfall; Footloose and fancy free; For appearance’s sake; For Pete’s sake; Former wines are passed away; Fornication; Forte; Forthwith; Fossick; Foudroyant; Fowler’s Modern English Usage, Fourth Edition; Franglais; Fratire; Freecycling; Freegan; Freelance; Free-running; French fries; Frequency of initial letters; Frick and Frack; Friend and pitcher; Frigorific; Frisbee; Fritinancy; Fro; From cellar to dome; From Elvish to Klingon; From hero to goat; From pillar to post; From soup to nuts; From whence; Frontispiece; Froward; Fuck; Fuddy-duddy; Fudge; Fugleman; Fuliginous; Funambulist; Funk; Funner and funnest; Furbelow; Furthest and farthest; Fusion inhibitor; Fustigate; Fustilugs; Fuzz.

Fabless
Face the music
Facile
Facinorous
Factotum
Faffing
Faggot
Fainites
Fair cop
Fair dinkum
Fair to middling
Fall guy
Family
Fan
Fandangle
Fanfaronade
Fantods
Far From the Madding Gerund
Farb
Fard
Fardel
Farrago
Fashionista
Fat tax
Fatootsed
Faux Pas?
Fawn
Faze
Fears and dreads
Feckless
Feebate
Feghoot
Femtocell
Fender
Ferret
Festucine
Fewmet
Fiasco
Fib
Fibres from the Earth
Fiddler's Green
Fiddlesticks
Fidimplicitary
Fight like Kilkenny cats
File
Filemot
Film trailer
Fimbriated
Finagle
Financephalograph
Financial phobia
Fine fettle
Fink
First, Second and Third
First, second and third worlds
Fish-faced
Fist
Fit to be tied
Fizgig
Flabbergasted
Flagitious
Flamenco
Flammable
Flapdoodle
Flat
Flavicomous
Fletcherise
Flibbertigibbet
Floccinaucinihilipilification
Florilegium
Flummox
Fly in the face of
Fog
Fogou
Foison
Folderol
Folksonomy
Foofaraw
Foot the bill
Footfall
Footloose and fancy free
For appearance's sake
For Pete's sake
Former wines are passed away
Fornication
Forte
Forthwith
Fossick
Foudroyant
Fowler's Modern English Usage, Fourth Edition
Franglais
Fratire
Freecycling
Freegan
Freelance
Free-running
French fries
Frequency of initial letters
Frick and Frack
Friend and pitcher
Frigorific
Frisbee
Fritinancy
Fro
From cellar to dome
From hero to goat
From pillar to post
From soup to nuts
From whence
Frontispiece
Froward
Fuck
Fuddy-duddy
Fudge
Fugleman
Fuliginous
Funambulist
Funk
Funner and funnest
Furbelow
Furthest and farthest
Fusion inhibitor
Fustigate
Fustilugs
Fuzz


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G Gaberlunzie; Gadget; Gadzooks; Gafiate; Gainsay; Galanthophile; Galimatias; Galligaskins; Gallimaufry; Gallivant; Galoot; Gamification; Gamp; Gander; Gander month; Ganderflanking; Gandy dancer; Gantlope; Garbage in, garbage out; Garbler; Garboil; Gargalesis; Garnish versus Garnishee; Garth; Gas and gaiters; Gastro-diplomacy; Gazebo; Gazump; Geis; Gelotologist; Gender-neutral pronouns; Gene chip; Genetic pollution; Genetic underclass; Geocaching; Geo-engineering; Geosequestration; Geronimo; Get ahead, get a hat; Get one’s goat; Getting a word into dictionaries; Ghoulies and Ghosties; Gibberish; Gibbous; Gibus; Gifable; Gig; Gigantic; Gimcrack; Gingerly; Ginglyform; Girl and youth; Gist; Git; Give it some welly; Give no quarter; Give one’s eye teeth; Give someone the sack; Give the mitten; Glamping; Glass slipper; Glebe; Global dimming; Global distillation; Globesity; Glycomics; Gnathonic; Go hence without day; Goat and Compasses; Gobbledygook; Gobemouche; Gobo; Gobsmacked; God willing and the creek don’t rise; Godwottery; Going Dutch; Going south; Going spare; Going to hell in a handbasket; Going to the dogs; Goldbricking; Gold-collar worker; Golden rice; Golf; Gomer; Gone for a Burton; Gonfalon; Gong farmer; Gongoozler; Good egg; Gooding; Goody two shoes; Goon; Goose-step; Gorbellied; Gordon Bennett; Gorge-walking; Gormagon; Gorp; Gossypiboma; Gotham; Gowk; Gowpen; Grand slam; Grangerise; Grapefruit; Grasp the nettle; Grass; Grass roots; Grass widow; Gravitas; Gravy train; Grawlix; Great Recession; Great Scott; Great Wen; Green famine; Green roof; Green room; Green’s Dictionary of Slang; Green-ink letter; Gremial; Gremlin; Grexit; Grey goo; Grey literature; Grid; Grid computing; Griffonage; Grime; Grimoire; Gringo; Grocerant; Grog; Grok; Groovy; Ground zero; Groundswell; Groze; Grub; Gubernatorial; Guddling; Guerrilla gig; Guff; Guinea pig; Guiser; Gunsel; Gurning; Gussied up; Gutkha; Gutta-percha, Ketchup, Sago; Guy Fawkes night; Gyp: pain; Gyp: thieve; Gyre.

Gaberlunzie
Gadget
Gadzooks
Gafiate
Gainsay
Galanthophile
Galimatias
Galligaskins
Gallimaufry
Gallivant
Galoot
Gamification
Gamp
Gander
Gander month
Ganderflanking
Gandy dancer
Gantlope
Garbage in, garbage out
Garbler
Garboil
Gargalesis
Garnish versus Garnishee
Garth
Gas and gaiters
Gastro-diplomacy
Gazebo
Gazump
Geis
Gelotologist
Gender-neutral pronouns
Gene chip
Genetic pollution
Genetic underclass
Geocaching
Geo-engineering
Geosequestration
Geronimo
Get ahead, get a hat
Get one's goat
Getting a word into dictionaries
Ghoulies and Ghosties
Gibberish
Gibbous
Gibus
Gifable
Gig
Gigantic
Gimcrack
Gingerly
Ginglyform
Girl and youth
Gist
Git
Give it some welly
Give no quarter
Give one's eye teeth
Give someone the sack
Give the mitten
Glamping
Glass slipper
Glebe
Global dimming
Global distillation
Globesity
Glycomics
Gnathonic
Go hence without day
Goat and Compasses
Gobbledygook
Gobemouche
Gobo
Gobsmacked
God willing and the creek don't rise
Godwottery
Going Dutch
Going south
Going spare
Going to hell in a handbasket
Going to the dogs
Goldbricking
Gold-collar worker
Golden rice
Golf
Gomer
Gone for a Burton
Gonfalon
Gong farmer
Gongoozler
Good egg
Gooding
Goody two shoes
Goon
Goose-step
Gorbellied
Gordon Bennett
Gorge-walking
Gormagon
Gorp
Gossypiboma
Gotham
Gowk
Gowpen
Grand slam
Grangerise
Grapefruit
Grasp the nettle
Grass
Grass roots
Grass widow
Gravitas
Gravy train
Grawlix
Great Recession
Great Scott
Great Wen
Green famine
Green roof
Green room
Green's Dictionary of Slang
Green-ink letter
Gremial
Gremlin
Grexit
Grey goo
Grey literature
Grid
Grid computing
Griffonage
Grime
Grimoire
Gringo
Grocerant
Grog
Grok
Groovy
Ground zero
Groundswell
Groze
Grub
Gubernatorial
Guddling
Guerrilla gig
Guff
Guinea pig
Guiser
Gunsel
Gurning
Gussied up
Gutkha
Gutta-percha, Ketchup, Sago
Guy Fawkes night
Gyp: pain
Gyp: thieve
Gyre


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H Haberdasher; Habiliments; Hackneyed; Haggard; Ha-ha; Hail fellow well met; Hair of the dog; Hairbrained; Hairy at the heel; Hairy eyeballs; Halcyon; Halt; Ham; Hammer and tongs; Handbag; Handfasting; ; Handicapped; Hands off?; Handsel Monday; Hang a Louie; Hang fire; Hangover; Hap; Haplology; Happy as a clam; Happy as a sandboy; Happy as Larry; Happy slapping; Haptic; Hard graft; Hard lines; Harsh one’s mellow; Harum-scarum; Haruspex; Hat trick; Hate-watching; Haute barnyard; Have no truck with; Have one’s guts for garters; Have your cake and eat it; Haymaker; Haywire; Head over heels; Hearth-money; Heat; Heath Robinson; Heavens to Betsy; Hebdomadal; Hebesphenomegacorona; Hebetude; Hedera; Hedonometer; Heebie-jeebies; Heighth; Heiligenschein; Heliotrope; Hem and haw; Herb; Herf; Heroin chic; Heterography; Hidden hunger; Hide one’s light under a bushel; Higgledy-piggledy; Higgler; High dudgeon; High jinks; High Street; Hill of beans; Hillbillies; Hingle; Hippie; Hippodroming; Hircocervus; His nibs; Historical forms of the possessive; Hobbledehoy; Hobo; Hobson’s choice; Hocus-pocus; Hodening; Hodmandod; Hoity-toity; Hokey-pokey; Hole in the wall; Holy cow!; Holy smoke; Home in on; Home zone; Homeshoring; Honeyfuggle; Honeymoon; Honky-tonk; Honorificabilitudinitatibus; Honour and honorary; Hoodwink; Hoo-ha; Hooker; Hooligan; Hooplehead; Hoosegow; Hoosier; Hootenanny; Hop the twig; Hopefully; Horlicks; ; Hornswoggle; Horse creature; Horse latitudes; Horsefeathers; Hot desking; Hot dog; Houghmagandy; How bona to vada your eek!; How Many Words?; How to Promote your Dictionary; How Words Enter the Language; How’s your father; Hoyden; Huckleberry; Hue and cry; Hugger-mugger; Hullabaloo; Human safari; Humdudgeon; Humicubation; Humongous; Hundred days; Hung parliament; Hunker down; Hunky-dory; Hush puppy; Hwyl; Hybrid CD; Hydrodyne process; Hydrogen economy; Hyetal; Hyperborean; Hypercar; Hyperlocal; Hypermiling; Hypernova; Hyphen; Hypnobioscope; Hypnopompic.

Haberdasher
Habiliments
Hackneyed
Haggard
Ha-ha
Hail fellow well met
Hair of the dog
Hairbrained
Hairy at the heel
Hairy eyeballs
Halcyon
Halt
Ham
Hammer and tongs
Handbag
Handfasting
Handicap
Handicapped
Hands off?
Handsel Monday
Hang a Louie
Hang fire
Hangover
Hap
Haplology
Happy as a clam
Happy as a sandboy
Happy as Larry
Happy slapping
Haptic
Hard graft
Hard lines
Harsh one's mellow
Harum-scarum
Hat trick
Hate-watching
Haute barnyard
Have no truck with
Have one's guts for garters
Have your cake and eat it
Haymaker
Haywire
Head over heels
Hearth-money
Heat
Heath Robinson
Heavens to Betsy
Hebdomadal
Hebesphenomegacorona
Hebetude
Hedera
Hedonometer
Heebie-jeebies
Heighth
Heiligenschein
Heliotrope
Hem and haw
Herb
Herf
Heroin chic
Heterography
Hidden hunger
Hide one's light under a bushel
Higgledy-piggledy
Higgler
High dudgeon
High jinks
High Street
Hill of beans
Hillbillies
Hingle
Hippie
Hippodroming
Hircocervus
His nibs
Historical forms of the possessive
Hobbledehoy
Hobo
Hobson's choice
Hocus-pocus
Hodening
Hodmandod
Hoity-toity
Hokey-pokey
Hole in the wall
Holy cow!
Holy smoke
Home in on
Home zone
Homeshoring
Honeyfuggle
Honeymoon
Honky-tonk
Honorificabilitudinitatibus
Honour and honorary
Hoodwink
Hoo-ha
Hooker
Hooligan
Hooplehead
Hoosegow
Hoosier
Hootenanny
Hop the twig
Hopefully
Horlicks
Hornswoggle
Horse creature
Horse latitudes
Horsefeathers
Hot desking
Hot dog
Houghmagandy
How bona to vada your eek!
How Many Words?
How to Promote your Dictionary
How Words Enter the Language
How's your father
Hoyden
Huckleberry
Hue and cry
Hugger-mugger
Hullabaloo
Human safari
Humdudgeon
Humicubation
Humongous
Hundred days
Hung parliament
Hunker down
Hunky-dory
Hush puppy
Hwyl
Hybrid CD
Hydrodyne process
Hydrogen economy
Hyetal
Hyperborean
Hypercar
Hyperlocal
Hypermiling
Hypernova
Hyphen
Hypnobioscope
Hypnopompic


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I I before E except after C; I could care less; I feel good; I should cocoa; I Spy Gry!; I’m Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears; Ice house; Ichthyophagous; Identity theft; Idioticon; Ignivomous; Ignoramus; Ilk; Illeism; Immense chemical names; Immensikoff; I-mode; Impactful Ignorals; Impeach; Impignorate; Importantly; Imposthume; In a trice; In cold blood; In like Flynn; In silico; In the field; In the Land of Invented Languages; Incalescence; Incarnadine; Incunabulum; Indefinite article before words starting with H; Indexes versus indices; Indian summer; Inenarrable; Infandous; Influenza; Information fatigue syndrome; Information rich/information poor; Informavore; Infowar; Infra dig; Infundibulum; Inglenook; Ingrained; Injecting room; Inkhorn terms; In-laws; Inplacement; Insinuendo; Insult; Interesterification; Intermercial; Internet; Internet 2; Internet of things; Interrobang; Interweb, Internetweb and Intertube; Intranet; Inwit; Iraqification; Iris code; Irish twins; Irregardless; Irritable male syndrome; Is This a Word?; Isabelline; Ishkabibble; It ain’t over till the fat lady sings; It’s a dog’s life; It’s Greek to me; Ivory tower; Ivy League; Ixnay.

I before E except after C
I could care less
I feel good
I should cocoa
I Spy Gry!
I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears
Ice house
Ichthyophagous
Identity theft
Idioticon
Ignivomous
Ignoramus
Ilk
Illeism
Immense chemical names
Immensikoff
I-mode
Impactful Ignorals
Impeach
Impignorate
Importantly
Imposthume
In a trice
In cold blood
In like Flynn
In silico
In the field
In the Land of Invented Languages
Incalescence
Incarnadine
Incunabulum
Indefinite article before words starting with H
Indexes versus indices
Indian summer
Inenarrable
Infandous
Influenza
Information fatigue syndrome
Information rich/information poor
Informavore
Infowar
Infra dig
Infundibulum
Inglenook
Ingrained
Injecting room
Inkhorn terms
In-laws
Inplacement
Insinuendo
Insult
Interesterification
Intermercial
Internet
Internet 2
Interrobang
Interweb, Internetweb and Intertube
Intranet
Inwit
Iraqification
Iris code
Irish twins
Irregardless
Irritable male syndrome
Is This a Word?
Isabelline
Ishkabibble
It ain't over till the fat lady sings
It's a dog's life
It's Greek to me
Ivory tower
Ivy League
Ixnay


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J Jack; Jackalope; Jackanapes; Jackpot; Jacob’s join; Jactitation; Jaculation; Jafaikan; Jake-leg; Jalopy; Jamoke; Janus-faced; Jay-walking; Jazz; Jeep; Jejune; Jentacular; Jericho; Jesus H Christ; Jiggery-pokery; Jimmy a lock; Jingoism; Jinx; Jitney; Jobation; Jobbernowl; Jobsworth; Jocund; Joe; Joe Soap; John; John Doe; Johnny-on-the-spot; Jollop; Jolly hockey-sticks; Jorum; Josser; Joystick; Jubilee; Juju & jujube; Jukebox; Jumbo; Jumentous; Jump the shark; Jumper; Jumping Jehoshaphat; Jury rigged; Just des(s)erts.

Jack
Jackalope
Jackanapes
Jackpot
Jacob's join
Jactitation
Jaculation
Jafaikan
Jake-leg
Jalopy
Jamoke
Janus-faced
Jay-walking
Jazz
Jeep
Jejune
Jentacular
Jericho
Jesus H Christ
Jiggery-pokery
Jimmy a lock
Jingoism
Jinx
Jitney
Jobation
Jobbernowl
Jobsworth
Jocund
Joe
Joe Soap
John
John Doe
Johnny-on-the-spot
Jollop
Jolly hockey-sticks
Jorum
Josser
Joystick
Jubilee
Juju & jujube
Jukebox
Jumbo
Jumentous
Jump the shark
Jumper
Jumping Jehoshaphat
Jury rigged
Just des(s)erts


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K Kakistocracy; Kakuro; Kangaroo court; Katy bar the door; Katzenjammer; Keep it under your hat; Keep mum; Keep your eyes peeled; Kelemenopy; Kelsey’s nuts; Kerfuffle; Ketchup versus catsup; Kettle of fish; Kettling; Kibibyte; Kick the bucket; Kidding on the square; Killick; Kilometre; Kilroy was here; Kilter; Kinetoscope; King Charles’s Head; Kip; Kippers and curtains; Kiss the gunner’s daughter; Kith; Kitty; Kitty-corner; Kludge; Knock seven bells out of someone; Know the ropes; Know your onions; Knucker.

Kakistocracy
Kakuro
Kangaroo court
Katy bar the door
Katzenjammer
Keep it under your hat
Keep mum
Keep your eyes peeled
Kelemenopy
Kelsey's nuts
Kerfuffle
Ketchup versus catsup
Kettle of fish
Kettling
Kibibyte
Kick the bucket
Kidding on the square
Killick
Kilometre
Kilroy was here
Kilter
Kinetoscope
King Charles's Head
Kip
Kippers and curtains
Kiss the gunner's daughter
Kith
Kitty
Kitty-corner
Kludge
Knock seven bells out of someone
Know the ropes
Know your onions
Knucker


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L Labretifery; Lackadaisical; Ladult; Lagan; Lagniappe; Lame duck; Landing; Larrikin; Larval therapy; Lasagne; Latrinalia; Latrociny; Lazy Susan; Lead-pipe cinch; Lead-swinger; Leechcraft; Left holding the bag; Left in the lurch; Leiotrichous; Leisure sickness; Lemniscate; Let the cat out of the bag; Leucipottomy; Lewd; Lexiphanic; Lickety-split; Lie Doggo; Lieutenant; Life of riley; Lifestyle drug; Lightcraft; Lightning in a bottle; Like a banshee; Like the clappers; Like the dickens; Likeness; Lilly-low; Limerick; Limitrophe; Linguistic profiling; Linhay; Linsey-woolsey; Lipogrammatist; Lippitude; Liripipe; List; List slippers; Lithophone; Living daylights, the; Lizzie Tish (or Tizzy Lish); Lo and behold; Lobbyist; Loblolly boy; Locavore; Lock, stock and barrel; Logan stone; Loggerhead; Logocidal; Logodaedalus; Logomaniac; Lollapaloosa; Lollygag; London to a brick; Long arm of the law; Long johns; Long tail; Longman Pronunciation Dictionary; Loo; Loophole; Lope; Lord love a duck; Lorinery; Losing one’s marbles; Love these crazy titles!; Lucubration; Ludibrious; Lukewarm; Lump it; Lush; Lustrum; Lycanthropy; Lynch.

Labretifery
Lackadaisical
Ladult
Lagan
Lagniappe
Lame duck
Landing
Larrikin
Larval therapy
Lasagne
Latrinalia
Latrociny
Lazy Susan
Lead-pipe cinch
Lead-swinger
Leechcraft
Left holding the bag
Left in the lurch
Leiotrichous
Leisure sickness
Lemniscate
Let the cat out of the bag
Leucipottomy
Lewd
Lexiphanic
Lickety-split
Lie Doggo
Lieutenant
Life of riley
Lifestyle drug
Lightcraft
Lightning in a bottle
Like a banshee
Like the clappers
Like the dickens
Likeness
Lilly-low
Limerick
Limitrophe
Linguistic profiling
Linhay
Linsey-woolsey
Lipogrammatist
Lippitude
Liripipe
List
List slippers
Lithophone
Living daylights, the
Lizzie Tish (or Tizzy Lish)
Lobbyist
Loblolly boy
Locavore
Lock, stock and barrel
Logan stone
Loggerhead
Logocidal
Logodaedalus
Logomaniac
Lollapaloosa
Lollygag
London to a brick
Long arm of the law
Long johns
Long tail
Longman Pronunciation Dictionary
Loo
Loophole
Lope
Lord love a duck
Lorinery
Losing one's marbles
Love these crazy titles!
Lucubration
Ludibrious
Lukewarm
Lump it
Lush
Lustrum
Lycanthropy
Lynch


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M Macaronic; Machicolation; Machinima; Macilent; Mad as a hatter; Mad as cheese; Mad as hops; Maggot; Magiric; Magnetar; Magnoperate; Maieutic; Mail; Make a hames of something; Make ends meet; Make no bones about it; Makebate; Making love; Malacia; Malapert; Malarkey; Mallemaroking; Maloik; Malvertising; Mammock; Man date; Man of straw; Manavilins; Mangel-wurzel; Manicule; Mansuetude; Manticore; Mare’s nest; Mari-fuel; Maritorious; Marketopia; Marmalade; Marmalise; Marthambles; Marylebone stage; Mash note and masher; Mastigophorous; Materteral; Mathom; Mattoid; Maundy; Mayfair; Mazoola; McGuffin; McJob; M-commerce; MDR-TB; Mechatronics; Medium; Meeting room jargon; Megilp; Meld; Meldrew; Meme; MEMS; Menaissance; Merismus; Meritocracy; Merrythought; Mesh radio; Mesmerise; Mess; Metagrobolise; Metamediary; Metemptosis; Meteoric rise; Methinks; Metoposcopist; Metrosexual; M-government; Mickey Finn; Microcredit; Microgreens; Microtransaction; Micro-wind turbine; Mighty Fine Words and Smashing Expressions; Migrate; Millennium; Millennium bug; Milquetoast; Mimsy; Mind the Gaffe; Mind the greens!; Mind your beeswax; Mind Your Ps and Qs; Minigarch; MINT; Misanthrope; Misomusist; Misplaced Modifiers; Missing opposites; Mistress; Miswanting; Mithridate; Mobisode; Mociology; Mogadored; Moggie; Molecular Archaeology; Molecular farming; Molecular gastronomy; Moletronics; Mollycoddling; Mollydooker; Moment; Money matters; Mongo; Moniker; Monkey wrench; Monkey’s uncle; Monkey’s wedding; Mononymous; Monstering; MOOC; Mooch; Mooncalf; Moonshine; Mooreeffoc; Moot point; More than one way to skin a cat; Morgan’s Orchard; Morganatic; Mortarboard; Mortsafe; Mosey; Mountainboarding; Mournival; Moxie; Mrs; Muchness; Mudlark; Mufti; Muggins; Mugwump; Mulct; Muliebrious; Mullered; Mulligrubs; Mumblecore; Mumchance; Mummer; Mumping; Mumpsimus; Mundungus; Murder; Murphy’s Law; Muscle dysmorphia; Musterdevillers; Mutoscope; Mx; My fellow Merkins; My giddy aunt; Mycodiesel; Myriad; Myrmidon.

Macaronic
Machicolation
Machinima
Macilent
Mad as a hatter
Mad as cheese
Mad as hops
Maggot
Magiric
Magnetar
Magnoperate
Maieutic
Mail
Make a hames of something
Make ends meet
Make no bones about it
Makebate
Making love
Malacia
Malapert
Malarkey
Mallemaroking
Maloik
Malvertising
Mammock
Man date
Man of straw
Manavilins
Mangel-wurzel
Manicule
Mansuetude
Manticore
Mare's nest
Mari-fuel
Maritorious
Marketopia
Marmalade
Marmalise
Marthambles
Marylebone stage
Mash note and masher
Mastigophorous
Materteral
Mathom
Mattoid
Maundy
Mayfair
Mazoola
McGuffin
McJob
MDR-TB
Mechatronics
Medium
Meeting room jargon
Megilp
Meld
Meldrew
Meme
MEMS
Menaissance
Merismus
Meritocracy
Merrythought
Mesh radio
Mesmerise
Mess
Metagrobolise
Metamediary
Metemptosis
Meteoric rise
Methinks
Metoposcopist
Metrosexual
M-government
Mickey Finn
Microcredit
Microgreens
Microtransaction
Micro-wind turbine
Mighty Fine Words and Smashing Expressions
Migrate
Millennium
Millennium bug
Milquetoast
Mimsy
Mind the Gaffe
Mind the greens!
Mind your beeswax
Mind Your Ps and Qs
Minigarch
MINT
Misanthrope
Misomusist
Misplaced Modifiers
Missing opposites
Mistress
Miswanting
Mithridate
Mobisode
Mociology
Mogadored
Moggie
Molecular Archaeology
Molecular farming
Molecular gastronomy
Moletronics
Mollycoddling
Mollydooker
Moment
Money matters
Mongo
Moniker
Monkey wrench
Monkey's uncle
Monkey's wedding
Mononymous
Monstering
MOOC
Mooch
Mooncalf
Moonshine
Mooreeffoc
Moot point
More than one way to skin a cat
Morgan's Orchard
Morganatic
Mortarboard
Mortsafe
Mosey
Mountainboarding
Mournival
Moxie
Mrs
Muchness
Mudlark
Mufti
Muggins
Mugwump
Mulct
Muliebrious
Mullered
Mulligrubs
Mumblecore
Mumchance
Mummer
Mumping
Mumpsimus
Mundungus
Murder
Murphy's Law
Muscle dysmorphia
Musterdevillers
Mutoscope
Mx
My fellow Merkins
My giddy aunt
Mycodiesel
Myriad
Myrmidon


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N Naff; Nail; Nakation; Naked Street; Namby-pamby; Nano; Nanofood; Nanopublishing; Napping; NaSSA; Natiform; Nauseous versus nauseated; Nave; Navvy; Naysayer; NDM-1; Near miss; Nebbishy; Needs must when the devil drives; Nepenthes; Nerd; Nescient; Net neutrality; Neurobics; Neurocinematics; Neuroeconomics; Neuromarketing; Neurosexism; Neurotheology; New; New Puritans; New Words in the News; New York minute; News; Newspapergate; Niche; Nick of time; Niddering; Nidicolous; Niggardly; Nihilartikel; Nimrod; Nincompoop; Nine days’ wonder; Nineteen to the dozen; Ninnyhammer; Nipcheese; Nipperkin; Nit-picking; Nitty-gritty; No names, no pack drill; No room to swing a cat; No soap; No Trees in the Forest?; Nocebo; Noggin; Nomophobia; Nonce; Nonplussed; Nordic walking; Nosopoetic; Nostoc; Nosy parker; Not a happy bunny; Not a word to Bessie!; Not by a long chalk; Not my pigeon; Not on your tintype; Not so green as you’re cabbage-looking; Not this little black duck!; Not to be sneezed at; Nothing like leather; Notta Lotta Nottle; Nous; Nubbing-cheat; Nuciform; Nugiperous; Nu-metal; Nummits and crummits; Nurdle; Nut-crack night; Nutraceutical; Nutrigenomics; Nychthemeron; Nye; Nympholepsy.

Naff
Nail
Nakation
Naked Street
Namby-pamby
Nano
Nanofood
Nanopublishing
Napping
NaSSA
Natiform
Nauseous versus nauseated
Nave
Navvy
Naysayer
NDM-1
Near miss
Nebbishy
Needs must when the devil drives
Nepenthes
Nerd
Nescient
Net neutrality
Neurobics
Neurocinematics
Neuroeconomics
Neuromarketing
Neurosexism
Neurotheology
New
New Puritans
New Words in the News
New York minute
News
Newspapergate
Niche
Nick of time
Niddering
Nidicolous
Niggardly
Nihilartikel
Nimrod
Nincompoop
Nine days' wonder
Nineteen to the dozen
Ninnyhammer
Nipcheese
Nipperkin
Nit-picking
Nitty-gritty
No names, no pack drill
No room to swing a cat
No soap
No Trees in the Forest?
Nocebo
Noggin
Nomophobia
Nonce
Nonplussed
Nordic walking
Nosopoetic
Nostoc
Nosy parker
Not a happy bunny
Not a word to Bessie!
Not by a long chalk
Not my pigeon NEW ; Not on your tintype
Not so green as you're cabbage-looking
Not this little black duck!
Not to be sneezed at
Nothing like leather
Notta Lotta Nottle
Nous
Nubbing-cheat
Nuciform
Nugiperous
Nu-metal
Nummits and crummits
Nurdle
Nut-crack night
Nutraceutical
Nutrigenomics
Nychthemeron
Nye
Nympholepsy


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O Oaf; Obdiplostemonous; Obesogenic; Obnubilate; Oche; Ocker; Octothorpe; Odd; Odd-shoe boy; OED Historical Thesaurus; Of messes in pots; Of thimbleriggers and joculators; OK; OK; Old besom; Old Dart; Old fogey; Old leather-arse; Old-fashioned look; Olitory; Ollie ollie oxen free; Ombre; Omnishambles; Omnium-gatherum; Omphaloskepsis; On a hiding to nowhere; On a wing and a prayer; On all fours; On one’s tod; On pins and needles; On tenterhooks; On the Adrian; On the ball; On the fritz; On the lam; On the QT; On the wagon; On your uppers; Once upon a time; One another; One fell swoop; One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb; Oneirodynia; One-off; Only joking?; Onomasticon; Onomatopoeia; Onshore offshoring; Onychophagist; Ooglification; Oojah; Open source; Opisthograph; Opodeldoc; Optics; Optogenetics; Opusculum; Orange; Orchidelirium; Orexin; Orey-eyed; Organic; Organogram; Orientated versus oriented; Orismology; Orotund; Orrery; Orthorexia; Oryzivorous; Oscillon; Ostrobogulous; Otpotss; Out like Lottie’s eye; Out of sorts; Out of whack; Over a barrel; Over the moon; Over the yardarm; Overclass; Overweening; Oxford comma; Oxford Dictionary of English; Oxter; Oyez.

Oaf
Obdiplostemonous
Obesogenic
Obnubilate
Oche
Ocker
Octothorpe
Odd
Odd-shoe boy
OED Historical Thesaurus
Of messes in pots
Of thimbleriggers and joculators
OK
OK
Old besom
Old Dart
Old fogey
Old leather-arse
Old-fashioned look
Olitory
Ollie ollie oxen free
Ombre
Omnishambles
Omnium-gatherum
Omphaloskepsis
On a hiding to nowhere
On a wing and a prayer
On all fours
On one's tod
On pins and needles
On tenterhooks
On the Adrian
On the ball
On the fritz
On the lam
On the QT
On the wagon
On your uppers
Once upon a time
One another
One fell swoop
One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb
Oneirodynia
One-off
Only joking?
Onomasticon
Onomatopoeia
Onshore offshoring
Onychophagist
Ooglification
Oojah
Open source
Opisthograph
Opodeldoc
Optics
Optogenetics
Opusculum
Orange
Orchidelirium
Orexin
Orey-eyed
Organic
Organogram
Orientated versus oriented
Orismology
Orotund
Orrery
Orthorexia
Oryzivorous
Oscillon
Ostrobogulous
Otpotss
Out like Lottie's eye
Out of sorts
Out of whack
Over a barrel
Over the moon
Over the yardarm
Overclass
Overweening
Oxford Dictionary of English
Oxter
Oyez


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P Pace egg play; Padania; Pagan; Pain versus pine; Painient; Pair of pants; Palermo scale; Palimpsest; Pall-mall; Palooka; Palpebrous; Pander; Pandiculation; Panel; Panglossian; Panhandle; Panic; Panic button; Panjandrum; Panking pole; Panorama; Pantechnicon; Pants; Paparazzo; Paralipsis; Paraphernalia; Paraprosdokian; Pardon my French!; Paregoric; Pareidolia; Paroemiological; Part and parcel; Part brass rags; Passenger; Passive drinking; Passive survivability; Past master; Pastinaceous; Patent troll; Patibulary; Patient; Pavonine; Peanut gallery; Pearls of wisdom; Pear-shaped; Pecksniffian; Peely-wally; Pelf; Penny dreadful; Penny for your thoughts; People Versus Persons; Peradventure; Percontation; Perfect storm; Perissology; Peristeronic; Permission-based marketing; Personal telco; Peruse; Perverb; Petard; Peter out; Petrichor; Pettifogging; Phage therapy; Phantasmagoria; Pharmacogenomics; Pharming; Pharology; Phen-fen; Phenology; Phenomenon; Philanthropreneur; Philogynist; Phishing; Phizzog; Photo cut-outs; Phrop; Phytoremediation; Picadil; Picayune; Picnic; Pico-projector; Pie; Pie in the sky; Piepowder; Piffy on a rock bun; Pig in a poke; Pig sick; Piggy bank; Piggyback; Pigs might fly; Pigwidgeon; Piker; Pilcrow; Pilgarlic; Pillaloo; Pinch of salt; Pinchbeck; Pinguescence; Pinkie; Piping hot; Piss-poor; Pitch; Pitmatic; Placeshifting; Plain English Campaign Awards 2002; Plain English Campaign Awards 2003; Plan B; Planet; Plasticarian; Plat; Play it by ear; Playing gooseberry; Pleased as Punch; Plenilune; Plonk; Pluck the gowans fine; Plug-ugly; Plurals in ‘-en’; Pluton; Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis; Poach; Pocillovy; Pod slurping; Podcasting; Po-faced; Pogey; Pogonotrophy; Point-blank; Policy wonk; Polish off; Political stripe; Pollyanna; Poltroon; Polyamory; Polychronic; Polypill; Pom; Pony up; Poodle-faker; Pop goes the weasel; Pop one’s clogs; Popinjay; Poppycock; Poppysmic; Porphyrogeniture; Port Out, Starboard Home; Portal site; Portfolio; Portolan; Posh; Positronic; Possessive Apostrophes; Possessives with verbal nouns; Potboiler; POTUS; Pound; Pracademic; Prat; Preantepenultimate; Prebuttal; Precariat; Precision of Lexicographers; Precrastination; Predictive policing; Predominately versus predominantly; Preposterous; Presenteeism; Presidential Voices; Prestidigitator; Pretty; Prevent; Preventative or preventive; Prick-me-dainty; Pridian; Prion; Private Eye; Pro bono publico; Probiotic; Problemsome; Prodnose; Profician; Prognosticate; Programming, Hungarian style; Prolegomenon; Promession; Pronoia; Proof of the pudding; Prosumer; Proteome; Proteomics; Protologism; Psytrance; Pulchritudinous; Pull devil, pull baker; Pull the plug; Pulling one’s leg; Punch list; Punchline; Punctuation and quotation marks; Punt; Purdonium; Purl; Purse-lipped; Push technology; Push the envelope; Pusillanimous; Put a sock in it; Put on (the) dog; Put the mockers on; Putter or potter; Putting the kibosh on it; PVR; Pyknic.

Pace egg play
Padania
Pagan
Pain versus pine
Painient
Pair of pants
Palermo scale
Palimpsest
Palooka
Palpebrous
Pander
Pandiculation
Panel
Panglossian
Panhandle
Panic
Panic button
Panjandrum
Panking pole
Panorama
Pantechnicon
Pants
Paparazzo
Paralipsis
Paraprosdokian
Paregoric
Pareidolia
Paroemiological
Part and parcel
Part brass rags
Passenger
Passive drinking
Passive survivability
Past master
Pastinaceous
Patent troll
Patibulary
Patient
Pavonine
Peanut gallery
Pearls of wisdom
Pear-shaped
Pecksniffian
Peely-wally
Pelf
Penny dreadful
Penny for your thoughts
People Versus Persons
Peradventure
Percontation
Perfect storm
Perissology
Peristeronic
Permission-based marketing
Personal telco
Peruse
Perverb
Petard
Peter out
Petrichor
Pettifogging
Phage therapy
Phantasmagoria
Pharmacogenomics
Pharming
Pharology
Phen-fen
Phenology
Phenomenon
Philanthropreneur
Philogynist
Phishing
Phizzog
Photo cut-outs
Phrop
Phytoremediation
Picadil
Picayune
Picnic
Pico-projector
Pie
Pie in the sky
Piepowder
Piffy on a rock bun
Pig in a poke
Pig sick
Piggy bank
Piggyback
Pigs might fly
Pigwidgeon
Piker
Pilcrow
Pilgarlic
Pillaloo
Pinch of salt
Pinchbeck
Pinguescence
Pinkie
Piping hot
Piss-poor
Pitch
Pitmatic
Placeshifting
Plain English Campaign Awards 2002
Plain English Campaign Awards 2003
Plan B
Planet
Plasticarian
Plat
Play it by ear
Playing gooseberry
Pleased as Punch
Plenilune
Plonk
Pluck the gowans fine
Plug-ugly
Plurals in "-en'
Pluton
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Poach
Pocillovy
Pod slurping
Podcasting
Po-faced
Pogey
Pogonotrophy
Point-blank
Policy wonk
Polish off
Political stripe
Pollyanna
Poltroon
Polyamory
Polychronic
Polypill
Pom
Pony up
Poodle-faker
Pop goes the weasel
Pop one's clogs
Popinjay
Poppycock
Poppysmic
Porphyrogeniture
Port Out, Starboard Home
Portal site
Portfolio
Portolan
Posh
Positronic
Possessive Apostrophes
Possessives with verbal nouns
Potboiler
POTUS
Pound
Pracademic
Prat
Preantepenultimate
Prebuttal
Precariat
Precision of Lexicographers
Precrastination
Predictive policing
Predominately versus predominantly
Preposterous
Presenteeism
Presidential Voices
Prestidigitator
Pretty
Prevent
Preventative or preventive
Prick-me-dainty
Pridian
Prion
Private Eye
Pro bono publico
Probiotic
Problemsome
Prodnose
Profician
Prognosticate
Programming, Hungarian style
Prolegomenon
Promession
Pronoia
Proof of the pudding
Prosumer
Proteome
Proteomics
Protologism
Psytrance
Pulchritudinous
Pull devil, pull baker
Pull the plug
Pulling one's leg
Punch list
Punchline
Punctuation and quotation marks
Punt
Purdonium
Purl
Purse-lipped
Push technology
Push the envelope
Pusillanimous
Put a sock in it
Put on (the) dog
Put the mockers on
Putter or potter
Putting the kibosh on it
PVR
Pyknic


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Q Q followed by U; Quack; Quadricycle; Quantum; Qubit; Queen of Spain’s Legs; Queer somebody’s pitch; Queer Street; Quidnunc; Quillon; Quincunx; Quinion; Quinquagenary; Quiz; Quocker-wodger; Quodlibet.

Q followed by U
Quack
Quadricycle
Quantum
Qubit
Queen of Spain's Legs
Queer somebody's pitch
Queer Street
Quidnunc
Quillon
Quincunx
Quinion
Quinquagenary
Quiz
Quocker-wodger
Quodlibet


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R Raining cats and dogs; Rambunctious; Ramping cat; Range; Rannygazoo; Rantipole; Raparee; Rasorial; Raw foodism; Read the riot act; Real; Real McCoy, the; Reality fighting; Rear its ugly head; Rebarbative; Receipt versus recipe; Recessionista; Recreational grief; Recumbentibus; Red rag to a bull; Redd; Redding; Red-headed stepchild; Refocillate; Refugee; Regender; Religitigation; Replica; Restaurateur; Restive versus restless; Retail anthropologist; Reticent versus reluctant; Reticule; Retort; Retronym; Reuben; Reverse ferret; Revolutionary Colours; RFID; Rhadamanthine; Rhapsodomancy; Rhine; Rhino; Rhinotillexomania; Rhopalic; Rhykenology; Richard Snary; Ride shotgun; Riff-raff; Right as rain; Rigmarole; Ringer / Dead ringer; Ripsnorter; Riskometer; Road; Road metal; Robinsonade; Robodroid; Rocket; Rod; Rodomontade; Roger; Rogue; Roister-doister; Roo; Rookery; Roscid; Rotate versus revolve; Round the bend; Round-robin; Rozzer; Rub of the green; Ruckus; Rule of thumb; Rules, Britannia; Rum do; Rumbledethumps; Rush the growler; Rusticate.

Raining cats and dogs
Rambunctious
Ramping cat
Range
Rannygazoo
Rantipole
Raparee
Rasorial
Raw foodism
Read the riot act
Real
Real McCoy, the
Reality fighting
Rear its ugly head
Rebarbative
Receipt versus recipe
Recessionista
Recreational grief
Recumbentibus
Red rag to a bull
Redd
Redding
Red-headed stepchild
Refocillate
Refugee
Regender
Religitigation
Replica
Restaurateur
Restive versus restless
Retail anthropologist
Reticent versus reluctant
Reticule
Retort
Retronym
Reuben
Reverse ferret
Revolutionary Colours
RFID
Rhadamanthine
Rhapsodomancy
Rhine
Rhino
Rhinotillexomania
Rhopalic
Rhykenology
Richard Snary
Ride shotgun
Riff-raff
Right as rain
Rigmarole
Ringer / Dead ringer
Ripsnorter
Riskometer
Road
Road metal
Robinsonade
Robodroid
Rocket
Rod
Rodomontade
Roger
Rogue
Roister-doister
Roo
Rookery
Roscid
Rotate versus revolve
Round the bend
Round-robin
Rozzer
Rub of the green
Ruckus
Rule of thumb
Rules, Britannia
Rum do
Rumbledethumps
Rush the growler
Rusticate


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S Sabermetrician; Sabrage; Safe as Houses; Safe harbour / Safe haven; Saggar; Salad days; Salmagundi; Salop; Salt of the earth; Sam Hill; San fairy ann; Sand; Sandy-grey russet; Sapid; Sapristi Nadgers!; Sarcophagus; Sardoodledom; SARS; Satisfactory; Satisficer; Saturnalia; Saucered and blowed; Saved by the bell; Saviour sibling; Say (or cry) uncle; Scacchic; Scalene; Scallywag or Scalawag; School gate mum; Schooner; Sciolist; Scobberlotcher; Scofflaw; Scombroid; Sconce; Scot free; Scotch; Scran; Screaming ab-dabs; Screenager; Screw your courage to a sticking-place; Scrimshaw; Scrumping; Scrumptious; Scutching; Scuttlebutt; Sea change; Seaborgium; Seasteading; See a man about a dog; Seersucker; See-saw; Segue; Self-quantifying; Selmelier; ; Send down; Send to Coventry; Sennight; Sentence-initial conjunctions; Sentimental; Sequacious; Serendipity; Sesquipedalian; Set one’s cap at; Settle a score; Set-top box; Seven-year itch; Sferics; Sha’n’t versus shan’t; Shades of Meaning; Shag; Shaggy-dog story; Shake a stick at; Shank’s mare; Shanty; Sharpshooter; Shellacking; Shemozzle; Shenanigan; Shilling ordinary; Shindig; Shirttail relative; Shit; Shiver my timbers; Shock and Awe; Shoestring; Shoo-in; Shoot one’s cuffs; Shoot oneself in the foot; Shopdropping; Short shrift; Shot; Shovel-ready; Shrink; Shrinking violet; Shufti; Shyster; Siccity; Sick abed on two chairs; Sick as a dog; Sidekick; Signs for Sums; Silicon; Silver bullet; Simoleon; Since Hector was a pup; Singular or plural verb with ‘none’; Singular they; Singultient; Sipe; Sisyphean; Sitooterie; Sitting bodkin; Six ways from Sunday; Sixpenny nails; Sizzle and steak; Skedaddle; Skeleton in the closet; Skell; Skew-whiff; Skillygalee; Skimble-skamble; Skimmington; Skinny; Skint; Skive; Skivvies; Skosh; Skulduggery; Skunk works; Sky-blue pink; Sky-surfing; Slang; Slang: The People’s Poetry; Slanging match; Slangwhanger; Sledging; Sleep tight; Sleeping one’s head into train oil; Sling one’s hook; Slipshod; Slow travel; Slubberdegullion; Slumgullion; Smaragdine; Smart Alec; Smart as paint; Smart gun; Smartbook; Smarty pants; Smellfeast; Smelling of the lamp; Smithereens; Smouch; Snake oil; Snarge; Sneap; Snickersnee; Snit; Snob; Snollygoster; Snooter; So dull you could ride to China on them; So help me Hannah; Soap opera; Soapbox; Sobriquet; Social jet lag; Social software; Sock it to them; Sockdolager; Soft sawder; Softly, softly, catchee monkey; Sojourner; Solar sail; Solutionism; Solutions journalism; Somniloquent; Sonic cruiser; Sonofusion; Sooth; Sophisticated; Sophrosyne; Soup and fish; Souped-up; Sous-Sherpa; Southpaw; Sow one’s wild oats; Spade; Spamdexing; Spanghew; Spanish practices; Spatchcock; Spatterdashes; Speaking out of school; Spelling bee; Spelunking; Spendthrift; Spermodynamics; Sphairistike; Sphexish; Sphragistics; ; Spiff; Spifflicate; Spill the beans; Spin a yarn; Spinster; Spintronics; Spissitude; Spitting feathers; Spitting image; Spiv; Spoil; Spoken Web; Spondulicks; Sponging-house; Sport one’s oak; Spot of tea; Sputnik; Squabash; Squalamine; Square; Square meal; Squared away; Squaw; Squilgee; Staddle; Stag-deflation; Stammel; Standing pie; Stannator; Staple; Stars and garters; Start from scratch; State of the art; Stationary versus stationery; Staycation; Steal one’s thunder; Steam radio; Steganography; Stemwinder; Step-; Stepney; Sternutatory; Stick one’s oar in; Stick-in-the-mud; Sticky wicket; Stiff upper lip; Stillicide; Stitched up like a kipper; Stone the crows; Stonking; Stool pigeon; Stoozing; Stotting; Strait and narrow; Stramonium; Strickle; Strop; Struthonian; Stultiloquy; Stylite; Subfusc; Sublime; Subnivean; Subprime; Suburb; Succedaneum; Sudoku; Suffonsified; Sugar and sure; Sugar daddy; Sulphur; Sundae; Sunday throat; Supererogation; Supernaculum; Surrebutter; Swag; Swain; Swamper; Swan song; Swanning around; Swan-upping; Swashbuckling; Swazzle; Swearing on one’s testicles; Swiz; Swoose; Sycophant; Symploce; Synaesthete; Synecdoche and metonymy; Synthespian; Synthetic biology; Syzygy.

Sabermetrician
Sabrage
Safe as Houses
Safe harbour / Safe haven
Saggar
Salad days
Salmagundi
Salop
Salt of the earth
Sam Hill
San fairy ann
Sand
Sandy-grey russet
Sapid
Sapristi Nadgers!
Sarcophagus
Sardoodledom
SARS
Satisfactory
Satisficer
Saturnalia
Saucered and blowed
Saved by the bell
Saviour sibling
Say (or cry) uncle
Scacchic
Scalene
Scallywag or Scalawag
School gate mum
Schooner
Sciolist
Scobberlotcher
Scofflaw
Scombroid
Sconce
Scot free
Scotch
Scran
Screaming ab-dabs
Screenager
Screw your courage to a sticking-place
Scrimshaw
Scrumping
Scrumptious
Scutching
Scuttlebutt
Sea change
Seaborgium
Seasteading
See a man about a dog
Seersucker
See-saw
Segue
Self-quantifying
Selmelier
Semordnilap
Send down
Send to Coventry
Sennight
Sentence-initial conjunctions
Sentimental
Sequacious
Serendipity
Sesquipedalian
Set one's cap at
Settle a score
Set-top box
Seven-year itch
Sferics
Sha'n't versus shan't
Shades of Meaning
Shag
Shaggy-dog story
Shake a stick at
Shank's mare
Shanty
Sharpshooter
Shellacking
Shemozzle
Shenanigan
Shilling ordinary
Shindig
Shirttail relative
Shit
Shiver my timbers
Shock and Awe
Shoestring
Shoo-in
Shoot one's cuffs
Shoot oneself in the foot
Shopdropping
Short shrift
Shot
Shovel-ready
Shrink
Shrinking violet
Shufti
Shyster
Siccity
Sick abed on two chairs
Sick as a dog
Sidekick
Signs for Sums
Silicon
Silver bullet
Simoleon
Since Hector was a pup
Singular or plural verb with "none"
Singular they
Singultient
Sipe
Sisyphean
Sitooterie
Sitting bodkin
Six ways from Sunday
Sixpenny nails
Sizzle and steak
Skedaddle
Skeleton in the closet
Skell
Skew-whiff
Skillygalee
Skimble-skamble
Skimmington
Skinny
Skint
Skive
Skivvies
Skosh
Skulduggery
Skunk works
Sky-blue pink
Sky-surfing
Slang
Slang: The People's Poetry
Slanging match
Slangwhanger
Sledging
Sleep tight
Sleeping one's head into train oil
Sling one's hook
Slipshod
Slow travel
Slubberdegullion
Slumgullion
Smaragdine
Smart Alec
Smart as paint
Smart gun
Smartbook
Smarty pants
Smellfeast
Smelling of the lamp
Smithereens
Smouch
Snake oil
Snarge
Sneap
Snickersnee
Snit
Snob
Snollygoster
Snooter
So dull you could ride to China on them
So help me Hannah
Soap opera
Soapbox
Sobriquet
Social jet lag
Social software
Sock it to them
Sockdolager
Soft sawder
Softly, softly, catchee monkey
Sojourner
Solar sail
Solutionism
Solutions journalism
Somniloquent
Sonic cruiser
Sonofusion
Sooth
Sophisticated
Sophrosyne
Soup and fish
Souped-up
Sous-Sherpa
Southpaw
Sow one's wild oats
Spade
Spamdexing
Spanghew
Spanish practices
Spatchcock
Spatterdashes
Speaking out of school
Spelling bee
Spelunking
Spendthrift
Spermodynamics
Sphairistike
Sphexish
Sphragistics
Spick and span
Spiff
Spifflicate
Spill the beans
Spin a yarn
Spinster
Spintronics
Spissitude
Spitting feathers
Spitting image
Spiv
Spoil
Spoken Web
Spondulicks
Sponging-house
Spoonerism
Sport one's oak
Spot of tea
Sputnik
Squabash
Squalamine
Square
Square meal
Squared away
Squaw
Squilgee
Staddle
Stag-deflation
Stammel
Standing pie
Stannator
Staple
Stars and garters
Start from scratch
State of the art
Stationary versus stationery
Staycation
Steal one's thunder
Steam radio
Steganography
Stemwinder
Step-
Stepney
Sternutatory
Stick one's oar in
Stick-in-the-mud
Sticky wicket
Stiff upper lip
Stillicide
Stitched up like a kipper
Stone the crows
Stonking
Stool pigeon
Stoozing
Stotting
Strait and narrow
Stramonium
Strickle
Strop
Struthonian
Stultiloquy
Stylite
Subfusc
Sublime
Subnivean NEW ; Subprime
Suburb
Succedaneum
Sudoku
Suffonsified
Sugar and sure
Sugar daddy
Sulphur
Sundae
Sunday throat
Supererogation
Supernaculum
Surrebutter
Swag
Swain
Swamper
Swan song
Swanning around
Swan-upping
Swashbuckling
Swazzle
Swearing on one's testicles
Swiz
Swoose
Sycophant
Symploce
Synaesthete
Synecdoche and metonymy
Synthespian
Synthetic biology
Syzygy


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T Tabloid; Tabnabs; Tacky; Tacky; Tagarene; Taghairm; Take a powder; Take the biscuit; Take the mickey; Take the piss; Talaria; Talk turkey; Talking Turkey; Tall tale; Tantivy; Taphonomist; Tapping the Admiral; Taqwacore; Taradiddle; Target; Tarred with the same brush; Tatterdemalion; Tattoo; Tautochrone; Tawdry; Tax; Taxi; Tchotchke; Teaching one’s grandmother to suck eggs; Teamspace; Techgnosis; Technorealist; Teetotal; Teetotum; Teknonymy; Teleplasmic; Televersity; Television 2.0; Teller; Tempest in a teapot; Tergiversate; Termagant; Terms using Dutch; Terraforming; Terrific; Test This Question; Tetrapyloctomy; Thank your mother for the rabbits; That’s all she wrote; Thatcher's Linguistic Legacy; Thaumaturgy; The abbreviation ‘pp’; The balloon’s gone up; The cat’s mother; The cheese gets binding; The Colour of Words; The E- prefix; The ending -ati; The ending -nomics; The ending -wards; The endings ‘-ise’ and ‘-ize’; The First English Slang Dictionary; The Full Monty; The Great Element Chase; The Grouchy Grammarian; The Language Myth; The Lure of the Red Herring; The Mighty Burger; The Miller’s Tale; The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang; The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker; The Stories of English; The whole megillah; The Whole Nine Yards; The whole shebang; The Word at War; The Words of Dickens; Thelemic; Theodolite; Theranostics; Therapeutic cloning; There’s the rub; Therianthrope; Thimbles and thumbs; Thin client; Thinspiration; Third Way; Thirteen and the odd; Thrasonical; Three books in brief; Three sheets in the wind; Through the Blender; Through the grapevine; Throw a tub to a whale; Throw in the towel; Thrown for a loop; Thwart; Tickety-boo; Tiddlywinks; Tide one over; Tiffin; Tilly-vally; Time out of mind; Tin Pan Alley; Tinhorn; ; Tinny; Tintamarre; Tintinnabulation; Tip; Tit for tat; Titch; Titivil; Titubation; To a T; To be in someone’s black books; To boot; To buy the farm; To wit; Toad-eater; Toad-in-the-hole; Toast; Toe the line; Toe-rag; Toffee-nosed; Toise; Tolfraedic; Tolley; Tom; Tomfoolery; Ton; Tontine; Toodle-pip; Top dog; Top notch; Toploftical; Topsy-turvy; Tosticated; Totter; Touch and go; Touch wood/knock on wood; Tourbillion; Town of Trades; Toxicogenomics; Tracklements; Traffic evaporation; Transition Town; Travellers to Antique Lands; T-ray; Treasure-House of the Language; Trebuchet; Triacle; Trig and trim; Trimmer; Trip the light fantastic; Triple-drug therapy; Tripudiate; Triskaidekaphobia; Trivial; Troop; Troubleshoot; Trove; Truckle; True blue; True facts; Truepenny; Trussell; Truthiness; Try and; Tsar; Tsunami; Tub thumping; Tufthunter; Tumbarumba; Tundra; Turdiform; Turducken; Turgescent; Turlough; Turn up for the book; Turnpike; Tussie-mussie; Twaddle; Twee; Tweenager; Tweenie; Twenty-three Skidoo; Twitterpated; Twixter; Two Australian expressions; Two hoots; Two-car funeral; Two-factor authentication; Type louse.

Tabloid
Tabnabs
Tacky
Tacky
Tagarene
Taghairm
Take a powder
Take the biscuit
Take the mickey
Take the piss
Talaria
Talk turkey
Talking Turkey
Tall tale
Tantivy
Taphonomist
Tapping the Admiral
Taqwacore
Taradiddle
Target
Tarred with the same brush
Tatterdemalion
Tattoo
Tautochrone
Tawdry
Tax
Taxi
Tchotchke
Teaching one's grandmother to suck eggs
Teamspace
Techgnosis
Technorealist
Teetotal
Teetotum
Teknonymy
Teleplasmic
Televersity
Television 2.0
Teller
Tempest in a teapot
Tergiversate
Termagant
Terms using Dutch
Terraforming
Terrific
Test This Question
Tetrapyloctomy
Thank your mother for the rabbits
That's all she wrote
Thatcher's Linguistic Legacy
Thaumaturgy
The abbreviation "pp"
The balloon's gone up
The cat's mother
The cheese gets binding
The Colour of Words
The E- prefix
The ending -ati
The ending -nomics
The ending -wards
The endings "-ise" and "-ize"
The First English Slang Dictionary
The Full Monty
The Great Element Chase
The Grouchy Grammarian
The Language Myth
The Mighty Burger
The Miller's Tale
The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang
The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
The Stories of English
The whole megillah
The Whole Nine Yards
The whole shebang
The Word at War
The Words of Dickens
Thelemic
Theodolite
Theranostics
Therapeutic cloning
There's the rub
Therianthrope
Thimbles and thumbs
Thin client
Thinspiration
Third Way
Thirteen and the odd
Thrasonical
Three books in brief
Three sheets in the wind
Through the Blender
Through the grapevine
Throw a tub to a whale
Throw in the towel
Thrown for a loop
Thwart
Tickety-boo
Tiddlywinks
Tide one over
Tiffin
Tilly-vally
Time out of mind
Tin Pan Alley
Tinhorn
Tinker's damn
Tinny
Tintamarre
Tintinnabulation
Tip
Tit for tat
Titch
Titivil
Titubation
To a T
To be in someone's black books
To boot
To buy the farm
To wit
Toad-eater
Toad-in-the-hole
Toast
Toe the line
Toe-rag
Toffee-nosed
Toise
Tolfraedic
Tolley
Tom
Tomfoolery
Ton
Tontine
Toodle-pip
Top dog
Top notch
Toploftical
Topsy-turvy
Tosticated
Totter
Touch and go
Touch wood/knock on wood
Tourbillion
Town of Trades
Toxicogenomics
Tracklements
Traffic evaporation
Transition Town
Travellers to Antique Lands
T-ray
Treasure-House of the Language
Trebuchet
Triacle
Trig and trim
Trimmer
Trip the light fantastic
Triple-drug therapy
Tripudiate
Triskaidekaphobia
Trivial
Troop
Troubleshoot
Trove
Truckle
True blue
True facts
Truepenny
Trussell
Truthiness
Try and
Tsar
Tsunami
Tub thumping
Tufthunter
Tumbarumba
Tundra
Turdiform
Turducken
Turgescent
Turlough
Turn up for the book
Turnpike
Tussie-mussie
Twaddle
Twee
Tweenager
Tweenie
Twenty-three Skidoo
Twitterpated
Twixter
Two Australian expressions
Two hoots
Two-car funeral
Two-factor authentication
Type louse


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U Ugsome; Ullage; Ultimo; Ultracrepidarian; Umami; Umbrage; Umpty; Umquhile; UMTS; Un- versus In-; Unclarity; Unconference; Under the rose; Under weigh; Understand; Understrapper; Unfriend; Union; Unipedal; Unitasker; Unobtainium; Unpaired words; Unputdownable; Until, till and ’til; Up in Annie’s room; Up the creek; Up the spout; Up to snuff; Up to speed; Upper crust; Upset the apple cart; Upsidaisy; Upsizing; Upskilling; Urban gaming; Urtication; Usufructuary.

Ugsome
Ullage
Ultimo
Ultracrepidarian
Umami
Umbrage
Umpty
Umquhile
UMTS
Un- versus In-
Unclarity
Unconference
Under the rose
Under weigh
Understand
Understrapper
Unfriend
Union
Unipedal
Unitasker
Unobtainium
Unpaired words
Unputdownable
Until, till and 'til
Up in Annie's room
Up the creek
Up the spout
Up to snuff
Up to speed
Upper crust
Upset the apple cart
Upsidaisy
Upsizing
Upskilling
Urban gaming
Urtication
Usufructuary


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V Vaccary; Vaccimulgence; Valetudinarian; Vamp; Vape; Vection; Vegelate; Vehicle-to-Grid; Velleity; Vellicate; Vellichor; Velocipedist; Venery; Verbatim; Verbigeration; Verecund; Vet; Vexillology; Viatical; Vigintillion; Vigorish; Vilipend; Vinolent; Virescent; Virosphere; Virotherapist; Virtopsy; Virtual water; Virtual Words; Vlogger; V-mail; Volitation; Volleyballene; Voluntourism; Volvelle; Vomitorium; Vote; Vril; Vulcan; Vulgar fractions.

Vaccary
Vaccimulgence
Valetudinarian
Vamp
Vape
Vection
Vegelate
Vehicle-to-Grid
Velleity
Vellicate
Vellichor
Velocipedist
Venery
Verbatim
Verbigeration
Verecund
Vet
Vexillology
Viatical
Vigintillion
Vigorish
Vilipend
Vinolent
Virescent
Virosphere
Virotherapist
Virtopsy
Virtual water
Virtual Words
Vlogger
V-mail
Volitation
Volleyballene
Voluntourism
Volvelle
Vomitorium
Vote
Vril
Vulcan
Vulgar fractions


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WWW
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W W00t; Waddle; Waffling; Wag; Wait; Waiting for the other shoe to drop; Walker!; Wanion; WAP; Warchalking; Wardour Street English; Wassail; Watch; Water banking; Water poverty; Water war; Watershed; Wave and pay; Wax poetic; Ways of Eating; Waywiser; Wayzgoose; Weakest go to the wall; Weaved or wove?; Web 2.0; Web ring; Webucation; Weeds in the Garden of Words; Weight of public opinion; Weightless economy; Weird; Weird and Wonderful Words; Welfare; Welkin; Well heeled; Well, blow me!; West Brit; Wet day centre; Wet one’s whistle; Whale of a time; What am I? Chopped liver?; What Paddy shot at; Wheeling and dealing; Whelmed; Where it’s at; Whet one’s appetite; Which came first: he or she?; Which versus that; Whiffler; Whiff-waff; While versus whilst; While versus wile; Whilom; Whim-wham for a goose’s bridle; Whip round; Whipping-boy; Whistle-stop tour; White lie; Who coined forecast?; Whole ball of wax; Whole cloth; Whole kit and kaboodle; Whopper-jawed; Whose; Whys and wherefores; Widdiful; Widget; Widow’s peak; Widowered; Wigg; Wigs on the green; Wikitorial; Wild West; Wildcat strike; Wildfire; Williwaw; Will-o’-the-wisp; Willy-nilly; Windy City; Wine bottle sizes; Wiseacre; Witching hour; Within a gnat’s ...; Wittol; Wobbegong; Woebegone; Won’t; Word of finger; Word Origins and How We Know Them; Words for the numbers following ten; Words of 1997; Words of 1998; Words of 2001; Words of 2002; Words of 2003; Words of 2011; Words of the Year 2007; Words of the Year 2012; Words of the Year 2015; Words, Words, Words; Work; Work cut out; Wormwood; Worry wart; Worth the candle; Wrack or rack?; Writing and Script; Wrong and wrongly; Wrong end of the stick; Wrong side of the bed.

W00t
Waddle
Waffling
Wag
Wait
Waiting for the other shoe to drop
Walker!
Wanion
WAP
Warchalking
Wardour Street English
Wassail
Watch
Water banking
Water poverty
Water war
Watershed
Wave and pay
Wax poetic
Ways of Eating
Waywiser
Wayzgoose
Weakest go to the wall
Weaved or wove?
Web 2.0
Web ring
Webucation
Weeds in the Garden of Words
Weight of public opinion
Weightless economy
Weird
Weird and Wonderful Words
Welfare
Welkin
Well heeled
Well, blow me!
West Brit
Wet day centre
Wet one's whistle
Whale of a time
What am I? Chopped liver?
What Paddy shot at
Wheeling and dealing
Whelmed
Where it's at
Whet one's appetite
Which came first: he or she?
Which versus that
Whiffler
Whiff-waff
While versus whilst
While versus wile
Whilom
Whim-wham for a goose's bridle
Whip round
Whipping-boy
Whistle-stop tour
White lie
Who coined forecast?
Whole ball of wax
Whole cloth
Whole kit and kaboodle
Whopper-jawed
Whose
Whys and wherefores
Widdiful
Widget
Widow's peak
Widowered
Wigg
Wigs on the green
Wikitorial
Wild West
Wildcat strike
Wildfire
Williwaw
Will-o'-the-wisp
Willy-nilly
Windy City
Wine bottle sizes
Wiseacre
Witching hour
Within a gnat's ...
Wittol
Wobbegong
Woebegone
Won't
Word of finger
Word Origins and How We Know Them
Words for the numbers following ten
Words of 1997
Words of 1998
Words of 2001
Words of 2002
Words of 2003
Words of 2011
Words of the Year 2007
Words of the Year 2012
Words of the Year 2015
Words, Words, Words
Work
Work cut out
Wormwood
Worry wart
Worth the candle
Wrack or rack?
Writing and Script
Wrong and wrongly
Wrong end of the stick
Wrong side of the bed


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X XDR-TB; Xenoglossy; Xenotransplantation; Xenozoonosis; Xeric.

XDR-TB
Xenoglossy
Xenotransplantation
Xenozoonosis
Xeric


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Y Yaffle; Yale; Yaoi; Yarely; Yclept; Ye gods and little fishes!; Yealm; Year dot; Year’s mind; Yedsirag; Yehudi did it; Yogurt; Yonks; You snowing me?; Your carriage awaits, Mr Holmes; Your name is mud; Yuhangyuan; Yuletide.

Yaffle
Yale
Yaoi
Yarely
Yclept
Ye gods and little fishes!
Yealm
Year dot
Year's mind
Yedsirag
Yehudi did it
Yogurt
Yonks
You snowing me?
Your carriage awaits, Mr Holmes
Your name is mud
Yuhangyuan
Yuletide


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Z Zany; Zemblanity; Zenzizenzizenzic; Zilch; Zip; Zograscope; Zoilism; Zoochosis; Zorbing; Zymurgy.

Zany
Zemblanity
Zenzizenzizenzic
Zilch
Zip
Zograscope
Zoilism
Zoochosis
Zorbing
Zymurgy


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Gallimaufry
A Hodgepodge of Our Vanishing Vocabulary

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gallimaufry (noun)

From the cover

Words are always changing, and here best-selling language writer Michael Quinion has made his own selection of some of the most interesting examples of words and meanings that are vanishing from our vocabulary. Sometimes a word is lost when the thing it describes becomes obsolete: would you wear a billycock? Sometimes it survives in a figurative sense while the original meaning is lost: what was the first paraphernalia? Sometimes it simply gives way to a more popular alternative: who still goes to the picture house to watch the talkies? The story of these and many other words is brought vividly to life by the author, and illustrated by numerous historical references and quotations from writers down the years, including Samuel Pepys and Jane Austen, William Shakespeare and Patrick O’Brian.

An extract from the book

Two of the three classic styles of men’s headwear of the period were actually popularised by actresses. The fedora, later to be the classic topping of the Italian-American mobster, was named after the title and main character in a famous play by the French playwright Victorien Sardou, first performed in 1882 with Sarah Bernhardt as the hat-wearing Russian princess Fédora Romanov. The name of the trilby comes from a play adapted by the American Paul Potter from a book by George du Maurier. The latter had been an immense hit when it came out in 1894, as a writer in the New York Tribune in March 1895 wailed:

We are beset by a veritable epidemic of Trilby fads. Trilby bonnets and gowns and shoes, Trilby accents of speech and Trilby poses of person. Trilby tableaux, teas and dances. Trilby ice cream and Trilby sermons, Trilby clubs and reading classes and prize examinations, Trilby nomenclature for everybody and everything.

The play was brought over to London in November 1895 by the impresario Beerbohm Tree and was a huge success, ensuring that the hat worn by the bare-footed, chain-smoking, 20-year-old leading lady Dorothea Baird would become part of the British Trilby craze. Her picture, wearing that hat, appeared on postcards, in advertisements, on chocolate boxes, and in newspapers.

Women’s hats of the period also had names with literary associations. The Dolly Varden was large, with one side bent down, “abundantly trimmed with flowers” as the Oxford English Dictionary puts it. The name came from the coquettish character in Charles Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge. The fashion for it started about 1872, but it was not universally popular, it would seem, to judge from a snooty comment in The Athens Messenger (the one in Ohio) in May that year:

The maids of Athens, and the matrons too, do not take to Dolly Vardens worth a cent.

In the same month, Harper’s Weekly commented,

Was ever any new costume more criticized than the new ‘Dolly Varden’.

Another a little later was the Merry Widow, an ornate and wide-brimmed hat whose style and name derived from the hat worn by Lily Elsie in the London premiere of Franz Lehar’s operetta in June 1907. The show made Ms Elsie a star and the focus of a craze, just as happened with Dorothea Baird a decade earlier. Her picture—wearing that hat, of course—appeared very widely in advertisements and picture postcards. This style was as common in the US as in Britain; Wu Tingfang wrote in confusion in his book America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat in 1914 that

There you will see women wearing ‘Merry Widow’ hats who are not widows but spinsters, or married women whose husbands are very much alive, and the hats in many cases are as large as three feet in diameter.

He was right about their size. Some American examples became so large, in fact, that a postcard of the time featured a wearer staring sadly at a sign by a lift:

Ladies with Merry Widow Hats Take Freight Elevator.

Publishing details

Gallimaufry: A Hodgepodge of Our Vanishing Vocabulary is published by Oxford University Press. Hardcover: ISBN 0-19-861062-9, pp272; the publisher’s price in the UK is £12.99 and in the USA is $25.00. Paperback: ISBN 978-0-19-955102-6; now available worldwide; the publisher’s UK price is £8.99.


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Quinion, Michael - OaI
Ologies and Isms
A Dictionary Of Word Beginnings And Endings

(E?)(L?) https://www.biblio.com/9780192801234

Ologies And Isms A Dictionary Of Word Beginnings And Endings (Oxford Paperback Reference)

by Michael Quinion

ISBN 13: 9780192801234

ISBN 10: 0192801236

Paperback; Oxford: Oxford University Press, USA, April 3, 2003; ISBN-13: 978-0192801234


Sprache: Englisch
Broschiert - 288 Seiten - Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 13. Oktober 2005
Auflage: Reissue
ISBN: 0192806408


Over 10,000 examples of word affixes to help you to decode word meanings.

This book covers topics such as Aquaculture, Haemophilia, Isochronous, Neuralgia, Polyunsaturated, and Rodenticide. How often do we see a technical word without quite knowing what it means? If we can decipher it - undo its language code - we can start to understand others of a similar kind. For example, if we know that words beginning with "aqua" are to do with "water", then we are half way to understanding the word "aquaculture". "Ologies and Isms" is about the building blocks of the English language - the beginnings and endings and sometimes the middles - that help form or adapt many of the words we use.

Whether you're a student or a practitioner, a teacher of English, an inveterate word-user, or just a seeker-out of linguistic trifles, the book should help you understand better the language of your workplace and the world around you. The text contains over 10,000 examples within 1250 entries and a selective thematic index breaks prefixes and suffixes down by theme, including biochemistry and drugs, living world, places and people.

We all have a childlike love of playing with words, adding bits, Lego-style, to create new ones. And we often wonder where words come from and how they are formed.

This book fills a gap we hardly knew existed. Ologies and Isms is about the building blocks of the English language—the beginnings and endings, sometimes the middles—that help create many of the words we use. How often do we see a common technical or medical word without quite knowing what it means? Does your blood run cold when you hear haemophilia; do you pale at paleobotany? If we can decipher such words, we can start to understand others of a similar kind.


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Quinion, Michael - POSH
Port Out Starboard Home
Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds
Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins
Language Myths

In einer Vorstellung des Buches wird auch von "etymythology" gesprochen. Michael Quinion hat sich also Wörter vorgenommen, um die sich viele Geschichten zu ihrer Herkunft ranken, von denen die meisten dem Reich der Phantasie entstammen.

Sprache: Englisch
Taschenbuch - 288 Seiten - HarperCollins Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum: März 2006
ISBN: 0060851538

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One book, two titles. It’s called "Port Out Starboard Home" everywhere but in the US, where its title is "Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds".

It’s published in paperback by Penguin in the UK and by HarperCollins in the USA.
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Some experts call the creation of such stories about the origins of words popular etymology or folk etymology. A large part of this book retells such mythic tales and also tries to find and explain the true stories behind them. You might like to think of it as illustrations of the imaginative ways in which people work hard to make sense of the unknown.
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Publishing details

"Port Out Starboard Home: And Other Language Myths" is published outside the USA by Penguin Books. Hardcover: ISBN 0140515348, pp304; UK price £12.99. Paperback: ISBN 0141012234, pp282; UK price £7.99. In the USA it is published by the Smithsonian Institution Press under the title "Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds". Hardcover: ISBN 1588342190; pp280, US$19.95. The US paperback is published by HarperCollins; ISBN 0060851538, publisher’s list price $12.95.



Logophile Quinion, who writes a column about new words for the Daily Telegraph, proves his knowledge of familiar phrases in this energetic look at common English words and idioms. The first known use of the term "cut and dried", for example, occurred in 1710, in reference to an uninspired sermon; like herbs precut for sale in markets, the sermon lacked freshness. The notion of a "graveyard shift" did not arise from Victorian-era workers minding cemeteries to make sure people weren’t accidentally buried alive ("I love such stories, complete and utter hogwash though they are", notes the author), but dates from the early years of the 20th century, and is merely an evocative term for the night shift. From "Akimbo" (perhaps Old Norse in origin) to "Zzxjoanw" (an etymological hoax rather than a real word), Quinion tours the English language, not always offering definitive answers but generally providing the next best thing: good theories.

Words lovers, get ready to have some myths shattered. "Hot dog" didn't originate with a cartoonist who couldn't spell "frankfurter". Thomas Crapper - and he would probably be relieved to know this - did not give us the word "crap". The word "cop" is not an acronym for "constable on patrol". When he is not busting myths, the author (who runs the World Wide Words Web site) offers up origins of words and phrases most readers will probably have wondered about. We're all familiar with the phrase "happy as a... Lesen Sie mehr

What is the true origin of the phrase "one fell swoop"? Does the word "honeymoon" really derive from an old Persian custom of giving the happy couple mead, a honey wine, for the first month after the wedding? The rapid growth of the internet and the use of email has increased the circulation of (usually) false tales about the evolution of language. In this entertaining and fascinating new book on the origins of words and expressions, Michael Quinion retells the mythic tales that have become popular currency - the word "posh" deriving from "port out, starboard home" - and also tries to find and explain the true stories behind the origins of phrases. Quinion offers explanations of why and how stories about words are created, and how misunderstanding word origins - while usually harmless - can have serious consequences.

"The cat’s pajamas", "the bee’s knees", and "the whole nine yards" rolled into one, this true feast for word lovers skewers commonly accepted word-origin myths and etymological folk tales. Can it really be true that "golf" stands for "Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden"? Did the term "computer bug" really derive from an errant moth shorting out an early computer? Did the "kangaroo" really get its name through a misunderstanding between explorers and natives? Did "OK" really derive from the bad spelling of a US president?

The real story of the origin and evolution of a word or phrase is often much stranger than the commonly accepted one. The expressions that Michael Quinion reviews range throughout the English-speaking world, from "cater-cornered" to "dinkum" and from "wet one’s whistle" to "happy as a clam". From the bawdy to the sublime, explanations and delightful asides truly prove that the proof is in the pudding. If you ever wondered about why we utter such oddities as "raining cats and dogs", I could care less or twenty-three skidoo, this one’s for you. It’s a treasure trove of fiction and fact for anyone interested in language.

Can it really be true that "golf" stands for "Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden"? Or that "rule of thumb" comes from an archaic legal principle that a man may chastise his wife, but only with a rod no thicker than his thumb? These and hundreds of other stories are commonly told and retold whenever people meet. They grow up in part because expressions are often genuinely mysterious. Why, for example, are satisfying meals "square" rather than any other shape? And how did anyone ever come up with the idea that if you're competent at something you can "cut the mustard"? Michael Quinion here retells many of the more bizarre tales, and explains their real origins where they're known. This is a fascinating treasure-trove of fiction and fact for anyone interested in language.


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ETYMOLOGICAL MYTHS.

The Telegraph has begun a series of excerpts from "Port Out, Starboard Home" by Michael Quinion, to be published by Penguin at £12.99 on July 1 (in the UK, obviously). The first begins with a good summary of various wrong ideas people get about where words come from and continues with a discussion of the marvelous phrase "all mouth and trousers"
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(E?)(L?) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/sep/10/featuresreviews.guardianreview21

Word games

Michael Quinion intrigues Nicholas Lezard with his fascinating book of etymologies, Port Out, Starboard Home

Nicholas Lezard

The Guardian, Saturday 10 September 2005

Port Out, Starboard Home

by Michael Quinion

I am sorry, everyone, but I am going to have to murder a cherished belief. The word "crap" has nothing to do with Thomas Crapper, supposed inventor of the flush toilet. The OED cites a reference from 1846 to a "crapping ken", meaning a privy. Michael Quinion writes: "As Thomas Crapper wasn't born until 1836, didn't start his business until 1861, didn't invent the flush toilet, and didn't become well known until much later, it's clear his name had no influence on the development of the word crap."
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Quinion, Michael - QU
Why is Q Always Followed by U?

(E?)(L?) http://www.worldwidewords.org/whyisq.htm

From the blurb

The cover of Michael Quinion's book 'Why is Q Always Followed by U?'

Quinion’s answers to questions about the meanings and histories behind the quirky phrases, slang and language that we all use are set to delight, amuse and enlighten even the most knowledgeable word-obsessive.

Did you know that ‘Blighty’ comes from an ancient Arabic word? Or that Liberace cried his way to the bank so many times people think he coined the phrase? That cloud nine started out as cloud seven in 30s America? And that the first person to have their thunder stolen was a dismal playwright from Drury Lane?

Why is Q Always Followed by U? is full of surprising discoveries, entertaining quotations and memorable information. There are plenty of colourful tales out there, but Michael Quinion will help you discover the truth that lies behind the cock-and-bull stories.

From the introduction

Over the past ten years, people from all around the world, not all of them by any means with English as a first language, have been asking me about the meaning and history of words in the Questions and Answers section of my online World Wide Words newsletter and Web site.

I’ve been able to answer about 900 of them so far. This book contains revised, corrected, expanded and updated versions of the most popular couple of hundred.

Out of an extraordinarily mixed bag of questions on slang, grammar, vocabulary, word histories and regional usage, I’ve chosen a selection that mainly refer to words and phrases that you’re likely to recognize, no matter which variety of English you’re comfortable with. However, I’ve also included some pieces about quirky phrases (such as up in Annie’s room, behind the clock) that may no longer be living expressions, or even be recognized by anybody who hasn’t been drawing their pensions for a while, but which I hope will intrigue you.

Etymology is an uncertain science and we often have to say ‘we don’t know’ to a question about word origins. But we are at a time of huge advances in the resources available to researchers. Searchable digital archives of newspapers and books have transformed the field in the past decade or so, with discoveries being reported almost every week. Not only did many of the entries in this book have to be updated following their first appearance in the World Wide Words newsletter as a result of new information, but several even had to be revised during its compilation because researchers had found fresh material that altered our understanding of the provenance of terms. New sources of information are being created all the time, with the British Library newspaper archive becoming available as this book began to be compiled and the announcement of a new wave of newspaper digitization by Google as it was completed.

There was a BBC radio series about archaeology many years ago called The Changing Past, a clever title that pointed up the impact of new findings on our understanding of prehistory. The point is just as relevant to etymology and it is a constant delight not only to investigate the stories behind words and phrases and put them within their social and cultural milieu, but also — as a person who has been intrigued with and fascinated by English since a child — to be able at times to provide fresh insight into the way the language has evolved.

Publishing details

[Michael Quinion, Why is Q Always Followed by U? Word-perfect Answers to the Most-asked Questions about Language, published by Penguin Books; hardback, 352pp; UK list price £12.99, ISBN: 978-1-846-14184-3. Paperback, also from Penguin, list price £9.99, ISBN: 978-0-141-03924-4.]


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Online dictionaries Chambers Dictionary. Free search. Collins Dictionaries. Dictionaries in several languages, plus thesaurus and automatic translator. Dictionary.com. Dictionary search, word games and a blog. Macmillan Dictionary. Free search of dictionary and thesaurus. Merriam-Webster. Search the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary. OneLook Dictionaries. Gives access to several hundred dictionaries. Oxford Dictionaries. Not to be confused with the OED, this is a portal to many multilingual dictionaries and useage guides.. Oxford English Dictionary online. An expensive subscription service, but some background documents and a Word of the Day are available free. Many UK residents with a library card get free access. The Free Dictionary. Many language and specialist dictionaries. The Australian National Dictionary (OUP). Free online. YourDictionary.com. Dictionaries for 200+ languages. Visual Thesaurus. A unique way to visualise links between words. The site also has many blogs and other departments. Subscription service with free trial. Regional Englishes Macquarie Dictionary. Subscription access to this famous Australian Dictionary. Dictionary of American Regional English. A major dictionary project, now on its last volume. Estuary English. Documents and links at University College, London. Scottish National Dictionaries. . Corpora British National Corpus. A freely available small subset of this huge collection of written texts. Dictionary centres Australian National Dictionary Centre. Compilers of the Australian National Dictionary and other works. Scottish National Dictionary Association. Publishers of the standard dictionary of modern Scots. Dictionary Unit for South African English. At Rhodes University. Includes articles on South African English. New Zealand Dictionary Centre. At Victoria University. Language and literature The American Language. The Second Edition of H L Mencken's classic is online at Bartleby.com. British Library Language & Literature centre. Among other themes are those on the changing language, English regional dialects and the history of dictionaries. The Elements of Style. The original 1918 first edition of this famous work by William Strunk. Now principally of historical interest. Linguistics/phonetics Ask a Linguist. An online questions and answers service. The Eggcorn Database. Eggcorns are unusual English spellings caused by writers trying to make sense of unfamiliar words, such as “reckless” turning into “wreckless”. FAQs About Linguistics. By Professor John Lawler. Linguist List home page. Mailing lists and archives. Phonetics and Linguistics. At University College, London. Mailing lists A Word A Day. Sent out every weekday. dictionary.com. Word of the Day Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day. A daily mailing Regional Englishes Dictionary of American Regional English. A major dictionary project, now on its last volume. The Australian National Dictionary (OUP). Free online. Estuary English. Documents and links at University College, London. Scots Online. An introduction to the spoken and written Scots language. Regular Web columns and blogs American Heritage Dictionary. Language Log. Several professional linguists, including Geoffrey Pullum and Mark Liberman, comment on language of the moment. Separated By A Common Language. Observations on British and American English by an American linguist in the UK. Web of Language. A regular blog by Dennis Baron, professor of English and linguistics at the University of Illinois. Word Detective. Updated fortnightly. Slang Dictionary of Slang. Slang from a British perspective. Updated monthly. The Jargon File. A comprehensive collection of terms relating to computing. The original online source from which the printed New Hacker's Dictionary was compiled. Maledicta. A learned discussion of multilingual insults, including obscenities. Not for the faint-hearted or rigid of mind. Online Slang Dictionary. A large selection, mainly user-contributed. The Septic's Companion: A British Slang Dictionary. Formerly The English-to-American Dictionary. A large collection of words in colloquial British English that are likely to confuse Americans in particular. The Urban Dictionary. A user-compiled slang dictionary. Often useful, but entries need to be approached with caution. Variety Slanguage Dictionary. The magazine is renowned for its linguistic inventiveness, such as “ankle” meaning to leave a job. The magazine has posted this glossary of its principal inventions. Style guides and language guidance Common Errors in English. Paul Brians' site. The Guardian Style Guide. The style guide for the British newspapers The Observer and the Guardian. Guide to Grammar and Style. By Jack Lynch. An online style guide with information designed originally for business writers. US Government Printing Office Style Manual. Viewable as text or downloadable PDF files. General interest alt.usage.english. A vast archive of material from this very active Usenet newsgroup. A Way with Words. A lively American radio programme from PBS, conducted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett. Banished Word List. A list of words which, according to Lake Superior State University, should be banned from the language through overuse or misuse. A slight site, but thought-provoking. Martha Barnette's Fun Words. An archive of some less common words that are great fun to discover. e-editor. A British site for copyeditors, "mainly aimed at helping and supporting e-editors and non-news editing staff everywhere". Focusing On Words. Particularly the Latin and Greek elements used in English. Mailing list. Fun With Words. Daniel Austin's wordplay site, including word puzzles and games. The Funny Signs gallery is worth a visit alone. Rhetoric. Ross Scaife tells you more than you ever thought you needed to know about rhetoric, in alphabetical order from Anacoluthon to Zeugma. Richard Lederer's Verbivore Page. The web site woven for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores Dave Wilton's Etymology Page. A collection of short articles on the origins of words in English. Words and Stuff. Jed Hartman's language columns, on a great variety of subjects. Word Wizard. Your questions answered, a selection of new words provided, plus "snappy quotes and elegant insults", competitions, Fancy Word Parties and Lexicographer's Club.