English words first recorded in the 18th century

It is formed from human or humanity and the suffix of unitarian and similar words.

It is formed from English infiltrate + -ion as a noun of action, perhaps after French infiltration, recorded in French in the 16th century. The verb is formed from English in- + filtrate, perhaps…

It is borrowed from Sanskrit मन्त्र (mantra, “sacred message or text, charm, spell, counsel”), literally "instrument of thought", formed from a root meaning "to think" and a suffix expressing the…

It is formed from English motive + -ate, after French motiver (“to give the reasons for; to serve as a motive”) and German motivieren (“to give reasons for; to provide an incentive”), itself from…

It is formed from English objective + -ity. Etymonline thinks it was probably modelled on the German word, which is recorded by 1788 in writing on Kant. The OED compares French objectivité, recorded…

It is of unknown origin. Etymonline suggests that it was perhaps prompted by stow and cache, and Dictionary.com takes it as a blend of stow and cache; Weekley thought it was perhaps coined on stow…

It is borrowed from French télégraphe, from télé-, far (Greek tēle-), and -graphe, writer (see -graph), so “that which writes at a distance”. The French word was suggested in 1792 by the diplomat…

It is borrowed from French utiliser (1792), from utilizzare (1760), from utile (“useful”), ūtilis (“usable, useful”), from ūtor (“to use, profit by”), the source of use. Merriam-Webster and Klein…

It is borrowed from Latin animus (“mind, soul, spirit; desire, courage, anger”), related to anima (“breath, soul”). De Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic *anamo- (“breath, spirit”) and…

1. The club is probably from Billy, a pet form of the name William, which, like jack, jimmy and jenny, was given to various implements and machines from 1795; Barnhart notes billy as a common…

The name of the tree and nut, also spelled kola, is a Latinized form of a West African name: the OED takes it borrowed from Italian cola and its source borrowed from Portuguese cola (1575), which…

It is formed from English connect + -or, as an agent noun in Latin form, which Etymonline finds usefully distinct from connecter. The OED notes that the form is not of a Latin type, the noun in…

It is the plural of crossroad, which is formed from English cross + road. It is usually treated as a singular. Etymonline notes that Middle English had way-lete for a place where roads meet, from…

It is borrowed from French exploitation (“working of natural resources”), from exploiter, from Old French esploitier (“to achieve, perform”), ultimately from Latin explicitum, the neuter past…

1. The girl is a spelling of a colloquial or regional pronunciation of girl, American or southern English; compare gell, the 19th-century literary form of the northern English variant. 2. The unit…

It is borrowed from French gélatine, a specific use by A.-F. de Fourcroy in 1787 of the Middle French word for a jelly made from boiled animal tissue, recorded from 1567 or earlier. The French word…

It is borrowed from French millionnaire, a noun recorded from the early 18th century or earlier (as millionaire) and an adjective from 1740, formed from million and the suffix -aire. Etymonline…

It is from the verb place with the suffix -ment, compare French placement.

It is formed from English soy + bean. In its first record, a translation of Thunberg's travels (1795), it follows Swedish sojaböna, recorded from 1764; the OED compares Dutch sojaboon, recorded in…

It is formed from English style + -ist, according to the Shorter Oxford after German Stilist, which the OED also compares, together with French styliste, recorded in French from the late 19th…

It is borrowed from French terrorisme, a coinage of the French Revolution, from Latin terror (“great fear, dread”) (see terror) and -ism.

It is borrowed from French terroriste, from Latin terror and -iste (see terror and -ist).

1. The animal is borrowed from Tibetan གཡག (gyag), the name of the male yak. Barnhart notes that it was taken into English in conventional Roman letters, and suggests a possible connection with…

It is from Latin congenitus (“born together with, connate”) with the English suffix -al, the Latin adjective being formed from com- (“together, with”) and genitus (“born”), the past participle of…

It is borrowed from French déploiement, from déployer (“to deploy”) (see deploy).

It is from the Derby, the horse race founded in 1780 by Edward Stanley, the twelfth Earl of Derby, and run at Epsom Downs in Surrey, which is nowhere near the town of Derby. The earldom is named…

It is formed from develop and -er.

It is borrowed from German Graphit, coined in 1789 by the German mineralogist Abraham Gottlob Werner from Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō, “to write”) and the mineral suffix -it, the German form of…

It is borrowed from Latin humus (“earth, ground, soil”), possibly by way of French humus, according to Barnhart, and Merriam-Webster gives New Latin as the intermediate stage. Etymonline and…

It is borrowed from French idéologie (“the study or science of ideas”), coined by the French philosopher Destutt de Tracy from idéo-, of ideas, from Greek ἰδέα (idéa) (see idea), and -logie (see…

It is borrowed from Latin mūtātus (“changed”), the past participle of mūtō (“to change”), as the revised OED has it. Etymonline, the Shorter Oxford and the Oxford Dictionary of English instead take…

It is formed from English panorama + -ic. The noun was the name the painter Robert Barker gave to his large painting shown on the inside of a cylinder, which he patented in 1787 according to the…

It is borrowed from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, figure, appearance”), which Merriam-Webster and the Shorter Oxford say came through German Schema, the word in Kant's philosophy; Barnhart and…

It is borrowed from German Titanium, the name given in 1795 by the German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth, formed from Titan, titan, and -ium, -ium, after his earlier Uranium, uranium, following a…

It is formed from English up- + town.

It is a natural exclamation, imitative, first recorded in American English in the mid-19th century.

It is borrowed from French cache (“hiding place”), a noun formed from cacher (“to hide”), which is recorded from the 13th century. Etymonline and Barnhart trace the English use to the French of…

It is borrowed from Chinese 風水 (fēngshuǐ, “geomancy; literally, wind and water”), a compound of 風 (fēng, “wind”) and 水 (shuǐ, “water”). The American Heritage Dictionary traces the second part back…

1. It is borrowed from French gramme, from Late Latin gramma (“a small weight”), from Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma, “something written, a letter; a small weight”), from the stem of γράφω (gráphō…

It is borrowed from Arabic حلال (ḥalāl, “that which is permissible or lawful”), from حل (ḥalla, “to untie, free; to be permissible”). In Arabic the noun was used especially for ritually slaughtered…

It was formed in English from ideology with the suffix -ical, or from ideologic with -al; the OED analyses it as ideo- with the combining form -logical, after ideology. The noun is modelled on…

It is formed from English mail + box, from mail in the sense of the post. The noun mail comes from Old French male (“wallet, bag, bundle”), and box from Late Latin buxis.

It is borrowed from French millimètre, formed from French milli- + mètre, "a thousandth part of a metre". The prefix milli- comes from Latin mīlle (“thousand”), and the meter, as a unit of length…

It is formed from English real + -ism, originally after German Realismus, used by Kant in 1781 and of literature from 1798. Etymonline allows French réalisme too, but the OED dates the French word…

It is formed from English re- + use, the verb from the verb use and the noun from the noun. The OED compares Anglo-Norman reuser, recorded before 1342, Spanish reusar (15th century) and Italian…

It is from English tax + payer, also written tax-payer.

It is borrowed from New Latin tractor (“that which draws”), an agent noun formed with -or on tractus, the past participle of trahō (“to draw, pull, drag”). The OED, revised in 2026, identifies it…

It is New Latin uranium, coined in 1789 by the German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth, from Uranus, the planet discovered by William Herschel in 1781, and -ium. The planet was named after the Greek…

It is borrowed from German ästhetisch and French esthétique, from New Latin aestheticus, from Greek αἰσθητικός (aisthētikós, “of or for perception by the senses”), from αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai), to…

It is either borrowed from French annoncement or formed in English from announce and the suffix -ment. Announce is from Old French anoncier, from Latin annūntiō, from ad- (“to”) and nūntiō (“to…

It is formed from English betray + -al. The verb betray is bitraien, from bi- and the obsolete traien (“to betray”), from Old French traïr, from Latin trādō (“to hand over, deliver”).

It is apparently from English cock + tail, but the allusion is uncertain, and was obscure even to contemporaries. Hoad calls the drink sense of unknown origin. One explanation derives it from…

It is formed from English curriculum + -ar, originally on Latin curriculum (“a running, course; a fast chariot”) itself, before the English noun was in use. The Latin noun is from currō (“to run”)…

It is borrowed from Italian marina (“coast, shore, port area”), with Barnhart and Etymonline also allowing Spanish marina, the noun use of the feminine of marino (“of the sea”), from Latin marīnus…

In mathematics it is borrowed from New Latin modulāris, which the OED finds in the phrase modularis ratio used by Roger Cotes in 1714; Etymonline also allows borrowed from French modulaire. The New…

It is formed from English national + -ism, probably on the model of German Nationalismus, recorded from 1774. Etymonline instead derives it from nationalist and the suffix, with some uses taken from…

It is a compound of pass and word.

It is borrowed from French polytechnique, from the name of the “École polytechnique”, the engineering school founded in Paris in 1794, and ultimately from Ancient Greek πολύτεχνος (polútekhnos…

It is formed from English resurgent + -ence, after pairs such as excellent and excellence, as Merriam-Webster puts it. The Shorter Oxford derives it directly from the stem Latin resurgent-, of…

1. The adjective is formed from English retina + -al. Retina is from Medieval Latin retina, probably from rēte (“net”), from the net-like look of the blood vessels at the back of the eye. 2. The…