English words first recorded in the 18th century

It is formed from English accessible + -ity, but Etymonline allows that it may instead come from French accessibilité, which the OED records from 1630; the OED also compares Late Latin…

It is formed from English adapt + -ive. The OED calls the formation irregular, since the past participle of the Latin verb is adaptātus: the word follows adjectives that were taken from Latin past…

It is borrowed from Latin gubernātor (“steersman, governor”) with the English suffix -ial, formed in American English; the OED allows either the Latin noun or the English noun gubernator as the…

It is formed from English snow + flake. Snow is from Old English snāw, and flake is of uncertain origin, perhaps from an Old English word or from Old Norse flak (“flat piece”). Compare Dutch…

It is formed from English un- + constitutional, with the negative prefix. constitutional is from constitution, from Old French constitucion and Latin cōnstitūtiō, from cōnstituō (“to set up…

The OED takes it as ultimately a derivative or variant of the verb or noun game, formed from English game + -er, and notes that it is recorded earlier than the verb gamble (1775), so that it may…

It comes from the man's name John, which is inherited from Middle English Jon (also Johan), borrowed from Old French Jehan, from Late Latin Iōannēs, Medieval Latin Iōhannēs, from Ancient Greek…

It is formed from English screw + driver.

It is formed from English fetus + -al, on the stem of the noun. Fetus is from Latin fētus (“bringing forth of young; offspring; young in the womb”), from the same base as fēmina (“woman”), which…

It is borrowed from Latin pervās-, the past participial stem of pervādō (“to go through, spread through”), with the English suffix -ive. The Latin verb, the source of pervade, is formed from per-…

It is formed from English finger + print. The OED compares the earlier finger mark. The verb, first recorded in 1900, is formed from the noun.

It is formed from English modern + -ism. Johnson (1755) called it "a word invented by Swift". The adjective comes from French moderne and Late Latin modernus, from Latin modo (“just now”), the…

It is formed from English athletic + -ics, probably on the model of gymnastics. The adjective goes back through Latin āthlēticus to Ancient Greek ἀθλητικός (athlētikós, “of an athlete”), from…

It is borrowed from French détour (“change of direction”), earlier Old French destor or destour (“side road, byway; evasion, excuse”), from destorner (“to turn aside, divert”), now détourner, formed…

It is formed from English division + -al.

It is borrowed from New Latin prostheticus, a Latinized form of Ancient Greek προσθετικός (prosthetikós, “adding, furthering”), from πρόσθετος (prósthetos, “added”), the verbal adjective of…

It is a compound from English sun + screen.

Its origin is disputed. The American Heritage Dictionary, Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com take it as probably of African origin and compare Kimbundu mbanza, a plucked stringed instrument…

It is borrowed from French douche (“shower”), recorded in Middle French as doulche in the late 16th century, from Italian doccia (“conduit pipe; shower”). The Italian word is dated to the 13th…

It is formed from English in- + filtrate, perhaps after French infiltrer, used by Paré in the 16th century. The second part is from Medieval Latin filtrātus, the past participle of filtrō (“to…

It is borrowed from French ventral and directly borrowed from Late Latin ventrālis (“of the belly or stomach”), from Latin venter (“belly, paunch”). Barnhart calls the origin of venter unknown…

It is formed from any and time.

The OED takes it as formed from English embryon + -ic, embryon being an older English form of embryo; other dictionaries form it from Late Latin embryō, stem embryōn-, and -ic. The Latin word is…

It is borrowed from French maximum, and directly borrowed from Latin maximum, the neuter of maximus (“greatest”), the superlative of magnus “great, large”, from *mag-samo-, a superlative form of…

It was formed from English pay + roll in English.

Most dictionaries take it as borrowed from French philharmonique, from Italian filarmonico (“loving harmony”), formed from fil- and armonico (“harmonic”). Barnhart traces the parts to Ancient Greek…

It is formed from editor and -ial.

It was formed from English align + -ment in English, on the model of alignement, and Etymonline, Merriam-Webster and the Oxford Dictionary of English simply derive it from the French noun. In French…

It is formed from English approximate + -ly. Approximate is from Late Latin approximātus, the past participle of approximō (“to come near to”), formed from ad- (“to”) and proximō (“to come near”)…

It is borrowed from French thermal, a word of Buffon's, formed from Greek θέρμη (thérmē, “heat, feverish heat”) with the suffix -al, from PIE Proto-Indo-European *gwher- (“to heat, warm”) (see warm).

It is from Latin tūtōrius (“of a guardian”) with the suffix -al. The Latin adjective comes from tūtor (“guardian, protector”), the source of tutor, a noun formed on the past participle of tueor (“to…

It is apparently borrowed from New Latin acne, recorded in post-classical Latin from 1713, also acna, perhaps from Byzantine Greek ἀκνή (aknḗ), a copying error for Ancient Greek ἀκμή (akmḗ…

It is formed from English bag + -y. The OED compares the earlier adjective bagging and the verb bag; Etymonline dates bagging in this sense to the 1590s. The base noun is from Middle English bagge…

It is formed from English ideal + -ism, partly from the adjective and partly from the noun, in early use partly after French idéalisme, recorded in philosophy in 1749, and in later philosophical…

It is borrowed from Ancient Greek μεταβολικός (metabolikós, “changeable”), a Hellenistic Greek adjective formed from μεταβολή (metabolḗ, “change”) with -ικός (-ikós). The biological sense follows…

It is borrowed from French plateau, partly the French word for a tract of flat land, used in military language from 1718 for level ground where troops can be deployed and in general geography from…

It is from English replace + -ment.

It is formed from English social + -ize. Merriam-Webster takes only the first sense this way, and the others as a back-formation from socialization. The OED compares French socialiser, which meant…

It is the phrase under way written as one word, from under and way, perhaps after Dutch onderweg (“on the way”).

It is borrowed from Italian casino (“a little house”), a diminutive of casa (“house”), from Latin casa (“hut, cottage, cabin”), of uncertain origin. The same Latin word is the source of chalet.

It is borrowed from French glacier, earlier glacière, a word of the Savoy dialect, from Old French glace (“ice”), from Vulgar Latin *glacia, an alteration of Latin glaciēs (“ice”). The same Vulgar…

It is from English government + -al.

1. The cake is borrowed from Dutch wafel, from Middle Dutch wāfel, perhaps through Middle Low German wāfel, from Proto-Germanic *wabila- (“web, honeycomb”), related to Old High German waba…

It is formed from English discriminate + -ory. The OED compares the earlier discriminator, discriminative and discriminating. Discriminate is from Latin discrīminō (“to divide, separate…

It is formed from English break + out, as a noun use of the phrasal verb break out. The OED describes it as a conversion of the verb phrase. The verbal phrase itself goes back to Old English…

It was formed in English from reproduce on the model of produce and productive, that is, from re- and productive; Etymonline analyses it as reproduce and -ive. The OED compares reproductif, recorded…

It is formed from English climate + -ic. The noun climate is from Old French climat (“region, part of the earth”), from Latin clima, from Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma, “region, zone; literally a…

It is formed from English colonize + -ation, although the Shorter Oxford derives it from colonist. The verb colonize is from colony (or its Latin source) and the suffix -ize, and colony is from…

The name of the rock is of uncertain origin. The OED and Barnhart take it as a specialized use of an older English noun meaning "shell, husk, pod", or of the verb formed from it, which was used of…

It is borrowed from Spanish adobe (“sun-dried brick”), which the OED, the American Heritage Dictionary and Klein derive from Arabic اَلطُّوب (aṭ-ṭūb, “the brick”), the word for brick with the…

It was formed in English, from Ancient Greek αὐτόματος (autómatos, “acting of one's own will, self-acting”) and -ic (see automaton), from αὐτός (autós, “self”) and -matos “thinking, animated”, from…

It is borrowed from French brochure (“a stitched work”), from brocher (“to stitch”) (sheets of a book together), with the suffix -ure. The verb comes from Old French brochier (“to prick, jab…

It is borrowed from New Latin Magnolia, the scientific name of the genus, from Magnolius, the Latinized name of Pierre Magnol (1638–1715), a French botanist, professor of botany at Montpellier, with…

It is formed from out- and door, from out-of-door, out-of-doors.

It is formed from out- and fit, after the phrase “fit out”.

It is borrowed from French pique-nique (also written piquenique), and the OED thinks it may partly have come through German Picknick, which is itself from French. The French word is recorded in 1694…

1. The fellow is of unknown origin. Hoad and Ayto think it is probably formed from English buff + -er from an imitative base meaning to blow, puff or make the sound of a soft blow, which in Middle…

It is formed from English chunk + -y. The noun chunk, a short thick piece, is recorded from the 1690s and is probably a nasalized variant or alteration of chuck, a cut of meat or a short piece of…

It is formed from English electric + -ian, in the pattern of words in -ician such as technician. Electric goes back to New Latin electricus, apparently first used by William Gilbert in “De Magnete”…

It is formed from English end + game.