English words first recorded in the 18th century

It is formed from English squeak + -y, from the noun or the verb. Squeak is probably imitative; the OED compares Swedish sqväka (“to croak”).

It is borrowed from French vandalisme, first used about 1793 by Henri Grégoire, Bishop of Blois, in a report that condemned the plunder and destruction of works of art during the French Revolution…

It is a shortening of advertisement.

It is borrowed from New Latin ammonia, a name coined in 1782 by the Swedish chemist Torbern Bergman for the gas obtained from sal ammoniac. The Latin name of sal ammoniac is sāl ammōniacus (“salt of…

It is formed from English archive + -al. Archive is from French archif, now archives, from Late Latin archīvum (“written records”), from Ancient Greek ἀρχεῖον (arkheîon, “town hall, public office…

It is borrowed from French kilomètre, coined in French in 1795, when the metric system was officially adopted in France, from kilo- (“thousand”) and mètre (“metre”). The prefix is an arbitrary…

It is borrowed from French mobilisation, from mobiliser (“to mobilize”) and the suffix -ation. The OED records the French noun from 1771, as a legal term for treating property normally held to be…

It is formed from English pelvis + -ic, which Etymonline and Klein call an irregular formation; Etymonline adds that the OED once preferred the better-formed French pelvien. The OED compares French…

It is formed from English reaction + -ary, apparently at first after French réactionnaire, which the OED finds as a noun by 1799 and as an adjective by 1794. Merriam-Webster takes the English word…

It is a variant of saucy, originally in American English. That adjective, recorded from 1511 for "impudent", comes from sauce in its figurative sense of something that adds piquancy. The noun sass…

It is borrowed from French surveillance (“oversight, a watch”), from surveiller (“to oversee, watch”), from sur-, over, and veiller (“to watch”), from Latin vigilāre (“to keep watch”), from vigil…

It is formed from English toxico- + -logy. The OED compares French toxicologie, which it dates to 1812; Etymonline takes the English word from the French one, also dated 1812, although the OED…

It is formed from English un- + compromising, the present participle of the verb compromise. The noun compromise is from Old French compromis, from Latin comprōmissum, the past participle of…

It is formed from English under- + statement, and the OED compares the verb understate.

It is borrowed from French bureaucratique, recorded in French from 1796; the OED treats the English word as formed from bureau and -cratic on the French model. The French adjective joins bureau…

It is borrowed from French chrome, from Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “colour”) (see chromatic), because its compounds have brilliant colours. The element was isolated in 1797–8 by the French chemist…

It is a noun of action from isolate, or from French isolation, from isoler, to isolate.

It is borrowed from Sanskrit कर्म (karma, “action, work, deed; fate”), the nominative of कर्मन् (karman), from करोति (karoti, “he does, makes”), related to Avestan kərənaoiti (“makes”) and Old…

It is formed from English method + -ology, probably after New Latin methodologia, used in 1727 by J. F. Buddeus. The Oxford Dictionary of English and the Shorter Oxford derive it from that word or…

It is formed from English outside + -er. The OED derives it from the noun outside.

It is borrowed from Hindi पाजामा (pājāma) or Urdu پاجامہ (pājāma), with the English plural -s as in trousers. The Indian word comes from Persian پاجامه (pā-jāma, “leg clothing”), a compound of پا…

It is a compound from English team + work, usually spelled with a space or a hyphen in its early senses.

It is borrowed from French tic, first known in French as the name of a twitching disease of horses, which Cotgrave (1611) recorded as ticq and tiquet, a disease that suddenly stops a horse's breath…

It is formed from typhus and the suffix -oid (“like”), from Ancient Greek -οειδής (-oeidḗs, “like”). Typhus is a New Latin adaptation of Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “smoke, vapour; stupor from…

It is formed from English vaccine + -ation, from the adjective meaning "of or from cows", recorded from 1798, itself from Latin vaccīnus (“of or from a cow”), from vacca (“cow”), a word of uncertain…