Missing Words

[Tex2002ans]

Words

demoness's

• demoness currently exists, but not -'s.

parentheticals

• parenthetical currently exists, but missing -s.

epistemics

• epistemic currently exists, but missing -s.
• Google n-grams: "epistemics"
  • Note: Interesting to see this -s usage boosted since the 1960s, but the word epistemic is infinitely more popular.

Galician Galicians

• Galicia currently exists.
  • This is "A person from Galicia."
• Google n-grams: "Galicia" + "Galician" + "Galicians"

Nantucketer Nantucketers

• Nantucket currently exists.

  • This is "A person from Nantucket."

• M-W

• American Heritage

• OED

• Google n-grams: "Nantucketer" + Nantucketers"

• • -

Side Note on Demonyms

These last 2 are known as a "demonym".

Typically this is when you ask the question:

• "What are people from X called?"

There are a ton of these for countries/states/cities. Here is a list of a few:

• Wikipedia.org: "Demonym" > Suffixation
• Wikipedia.org: "List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names"
  • Note: Some of these are extremely rare—doubt they're even used by people from those places—especially the smaller the unit/location becomes.

I first stumbled across this term while working on a mod for a game (Europa Universalis IV). The entire globe is split into ~4000+ named sections/counties/states, and sometimes random events would trigger or rebels would rise up from certain areas... so they were called:

• The XXX Rebels

so you needed all forms to be used correctly depending on where they landed in sentences.

Most demonyms follow common suffix rules... For example:

• Hamburg
  • Noun: The city/state of Hamburg.
• Hamburgish
  • Adjective.
• Hamburgian / Hamburgers
  • Demonym: The people from Hamburg.
  • Add an -ian

but then there are rare oddities, like:

• Cyprus -> Cypriots
• Azerbaijan -> Azeris
• Halifax -> Haligonian
• Montenegro -> Montenegrins

Side Note: Last time I researched these in-depth, some of the extremely rare ones only appeared on Wikipedia, with real-life usage near-zero—especially when dealing with Native American tribes and things like that. So the older and more obscure/small you go, those definitely need double-/triple-checking. Do not just trust what Wikipedia lists.

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demonkind demonkind's

• OED
• Google n-grams: "demonkind"
  • You can see a bump in the 1970s, then a large uptick in the 2000s.

demonifuge

• OED
• Lexico
• Century Dictionary (1904), Vol. 2, p. 1528
• Google n-grams: "demonifuge"
  • Note: Extremely rare word.

demonist

• OED
• Lexico
• Collins
• Century Dictionary (1904), Vol. 2, p. 1528

monocarp monocarps monocarpic

• M-W
• Lexico
• American Heritage
• Collins
• Dictionary.com
• OED
• Century Dictionary (1904), Vol. 5, p. 3837

monocarpellary

• M-W
• Collins
• Dictionary.com
• OED
• Century Dictionary (1904), Vol. 5, p. 3837

polycarpellary

• M-W
• Collins
• Dictionary.com
• OED
• Century Dictionary (1904), Vol. 6, p. 4600

monocarpous

• M-W
• American Heritage
• Collins
• Dictionary.com
• OED
• Century Dictionary (1904), Vol. 5, p. 3837

monocarpy

• American Heritage
• OED
• Google n-grams: "monocarpy"

trepanger trepangers

• OED
  • "A trepang-fisher."
• Google n-grams: "trepanger" + "trepangers"

trepanner

• Various trepan words exist, but missing this -ner version.
  • "trepanning" is when people would perform surgery by drilling holes into the head.
• Collins
• Dictionary.com
• OED
• Google n-grams: "trepanner"

slanguage

• M-W
• Lexico
• American Heritage
• Collins
• Dictionary.com
• OED
• Note: I randomly ran across this word (and a few others) in this article:
  • Atlas Obscura: "The Low Down on the Greatest Dictionary Collection in the World" by April White (November 14, 2023)

cryptolect

• Lexico
• OED
• Google n-grams: "cryptolect"
  • Looks like it appears in the mid-1970s.

rakehell rakehells rakehelly

• M-W
• Lexico
• American Heritage
• Collins
• Dictionary.com
• OED
• New Century (1904), Vol. 6, p. 4946–4947.
• Google n-grams: "rakehell" + "rakehells" + "rakehelly"

nappier nappiest

• M-W
• American Heritage
• Collins
• Dictionary.com
• OED
• Note: These are based on the word "nappy", as in very curly hair.

venery

• M-W
• Lexico
• American Heritage
• Collins
• Dictionary.com
• OED
• Google n-grams: "venery"
  • Note: Many of the dictionaries mark it as "Archaic", but according to Google n-grams, its usage is higher than many rare words. I'm suspecting it's a quirk in Google's data. (Perhaps republished old books?)

capturable uncapturable

• M-W
• Collins
• Dictionary.com
• OED
• Google n-grams: "capturable" + "uncapturable"

mistitle mistitled mistitles mistitling

• M-W
• Collins
• Dictionary.com
• OED
• Google n-grams: "mistitle" + "mistitled" + "mistitles" + "mistitling"

mistless

• M-W

• Collins

• Dictionary.com

• OED

• Google n-grams: "mistless"

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Definitions of Rarer Words

New Century Dictionary, Volume 2 (1904)

demonifuge n.

A charm or protection against demons.

demonist, n.

A believer in or worshiper of demons.

New Century Dictionary, Volume 5 (1904)

monocarpous, a.

In botany: (a) Producing fruit but once in its life: said of annual plants. (b) Noting a flower in which the gynœcium forms only a single ovary, whether simple or compound.

New Century Dictionary, Volume 6 (1904)

rakehell, a. and n.

[A corruption of rakel, simulating rake¹, v., + obj. hell, as if one so bad as to be found only by raking hell, or one so reckless as to rake hell (in double allusion to the “harrowing of hell”: see harrow² and harrow¹): see rakel, and cf. to rake hell, under rake¹, v.]

I. a. Dissolute; base; profligate.

And farre away, amid their rakehell bands, They spide a Lady left all succourlesse. Spenser, F. Q., V. xi. 44.

II. n. An abandoned fellow; a wicked wretch; especially, a dissolute fellow; a rake.

A rakehell of the town, whose character is set off with no other accomplishment but excessive prodigality, profaneness, intemperance, and lust, is rewarded with a lady of great fortune to repair his own, which his vices had almost ruined. Swift, Against Abolishing Christianity.

rakehelly, a.

Like or characteristic of a rakehell.

[marcoagpinto]

Hi,

I will add them tomorrow.

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Thanks!

[marcoagpinto]

Heya,

Is this it?

Thanks!

88796) demoness's + demonesses
88797) parentheticals
88798) epistemics
88799) Galician + Galicians + Galician's
88800) Nantucketer + Nantucketers + Nantucketer's
88801) demonkind + demonkind's (Noun: uncountable)
88802) demonifuge + demonifuges + demonifuge's + demonifugic
88803) demonist + demonists + demonist's + demonistic
88804) monocarp + monocarps + monocarp's + monocarpic
88805) monocarpellary
88806) polycarpellary
88807) monocarpous
88808) monocarpy + monocarpy's (Noun: uncountable)
88809) trepanger + trepangers + trepanger's
88810) trepanner + trepanners + trepanner's
88811) slanguage + slanguages + slanguage's
88812) cryptolect + cryptolects + cryptolect's + cryptolectal
88813) rakehell + rakehells + rakehell's + rakehelly
88814) nappier + nappiest
88815) venery + venery's (Noun: usually uncountable)
88816) capturable + uncapturable
88817) mistitle +s +ing +ed
88818) mistless

[Tex2002ans]

Is this it?

Yep, looks like it.

Besides:

• demonifugic
  • Google n-grams says 0 usage. + there's only ~600 "hits" on Google.
    • (And many of those are these word games.)
  • Where did you find this referenced?

That sounds like one of those I'd definitely toss on the extremely, extremely rare-to-nonexistent pile!

I did a skim through Google Books... and yes, it shows up in a handful... but all(?) the books beyond Page 2 don't even have the word inside!

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Side Note: When I was submitting this issue, I even came across a "word" that only had 2 hits on Google.

2!!!

And both referenced scans of the Century Dictionary. It didn't show up anywhere else... in any other book or website ever! lol.

I don't think I ever ran across anything like it before. Usually you get 0 hits, or a few hundred/thousand... but 2... my mind was blown. 😄

[marcoagpinto]

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