English words first recorded in the 18th century

It is formed from English sentiment + -al. Sentiment is from Old French sentement and Medieval Latin sentīmentum (“feeling”), from Latin sentiō (“to feel”). According to the OED, Littré and…

It is formed from accountable and -ity.

It is formed from English in- + efficient, with the negative prefix in-. Efficient is from Old French efficient and efficiēns, the present participle of efficiō (“to work out, accomplish”), from ex…

It is borrowed from Italian lava, at first a word of the Neapolitan dialect (Calabrian, according to Barnhart and Etymonline), where it meant a stream or torrent, especially one caused by a sudden…

It is formed from English un- + restricted, "not" and "limited, confined". Restricted itself is formed from the verb restrict.

It is formed from English bi- (“two”) + lateral (“of or at the side”), and lateral is from Latin laterālis (“belonging to the side”), from latus (“side”), a word of uncertain origin.

It is formed from English blue + grass, an American coinage, for grasses named from their bluish flowers or the bluish green colour of their stems. The music is named after the Blue Grass Boys, a…

It is formed from English dis- + connect. The OED compares the earlier disconnection, and Etymonline suggests the verb may be a back-formation from it. The base verb comes from Latin connectō (“to…

It is formed from English re- + organization, after the verb reorganize; the OED compares French réorganisation, recorded from 1791. Etymonline takes it from the French noun or as a noun of action…

It is formed from English symmetry + -ical, after geometrical. Its base is from Middle French symmetrie, or the from Late Latin symmetria behind it, from Ancient Greek συμμετρία (summetría…

It is borrowed from French dentiste, from dent (“tooth”) and -iste, from Latin dēns (“tooth”) (stem dent-), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth”).

It is formed from English egg + plant, because of the shape of the fruit, and was originally the name of the variety with white fruit. The OED compares German Eierpflanze, recorded from 1783 or…

The word for the jellyfish is borrowed from New Latin Medusa, the genus name that Linnaeus gave in allusion to the Gorgon's snaky hair, which the tentacles of some jellyfish resemble. The name is…

It is borrowed from French morale (“morality, good conduct”), the noun use of the feminine of the adjective moral (“moral”), from Old French moral and ultimately Latin mōrālis, from mōs (“custom”)…

It is formed from English adapt + -er. The verb adapt is from Middle French adapter (“to apply or adjust”) and Latin adaptō (“to make fit, modify”), from ad- (“to”) and aptō (“to fit, join”), from…

It is borrowed from French artistique, from artiste (“artist”) (see artist), or formed from artist and -ic.

It is borrowed from New Latin azalea, the name given by Linnaeus, from Ancient Greek ἀζαλέα (azaléa), the feminine of ἀζαλέος (azaléos, “dry”), from ἄζω (ázō, “to dry up, parch”). The plant was…

It is borrowed from New Latin eczema, from Ancient Greek ἔκζεμα (ékzema, “eruption”), from ἐκζέω (ekzéō, “to boil over; of a disease, to break out”), formed from ἐκ (ek, “out”) and ζέω (zéō, “to…

It is probably from English game + -le, formed in English on either the verb or the noun game; the ending may be the frequentative suffix, or the word may reflect a form of game with a short vowel…

It is formed from in and put, after the verbal phrase to put in, first as a Scots noun. The Middle English verb input “to impose” followed Latin impōnō, and the modern verb is a new formation from…

It is from English notice + -able. The OED and the Shorter Oxford derive it from the verb notice, Etymonline from the noun.

It is formed from English sponsor + -ship. The noun sponsor, recorded from the 1650s, is a borrowing of Late Latin sponsor (“sponsor at baptism”), in classical Latin a surety or guarantor, an agent…

It is formed from English un- + scrupulous. Scrupulous, recorded from the mid-15th century, is from Anglo-Norman scrupulus and directly from Latin scrupulosus (“careful, exact”), from scrupulus, the…

It is formed from the verb document and -ation, or else from a Medieval Latin noun meaning “a reminding”, ultimately from Latin documentum (“example, proof, lesson”), in Medieval Latin an official…

It is from Medieval Latin praeferentia (“preference”) with the suffix -al, the Medieval Latin noun being formed from praeferēns, the present participle of praeferō (“to place before, prefer”), from…

It is formed from bat, a packsaddle, and man, from Old French bat, bast (“packsaddle”) (modern French bât), from Late Latin bastum (see baton).

It is formed from English brilliant + -ance. The OED notes that French has no corresponding noun. The adjective brilliant is from French brillant (“shining, sparkling”), the present participle of…

It is borrowed from French évaluation, from évaluer (“to find the value of”), from é- (out) and Old French value (see value), from Latin valēre (“to be strong; to be worth”), from PIE…

It is borrowed from Swedish nickel, the name given to the metal by the mineralogist Axel von Cronstedt in 1754, shortened from kopparnickel, the copper-coloured ore from which he had first obtained…

It comes from the name of Piedmont, a region in north-west Italy, first applied in the form piemont directly from Italian Piemonte (“mountain foot”). The Shorter Oxford takes the common noun from…

It is formed from English share + holder, the first part in the sense of a portion of a company's capital, the second the agent noun of hold. That financial sense of the noun is recorded from about…

It is borrowed from Norwegian ski, from Old Norse skíð (“snowshoe; stick of wood”), cognate with Old English scīd, stick of wood, the source of obsolete English shide, and German Scheit (“log”)…

It is borrowed from French versatilité, or formed from English versatile + -ity. The OED compares versatilità and versatilidad. Versatile is from French versatile, or Latin versātilis (“turning…

It is formed from Latin colonia or English colony and -al, perhaps after French colonial.

It is formed from English develop + -ment, after French développement.

It is formed from English fun + -y.

It is formed from English repetition + -ive, after pairs such as action and active, or, as the OED, Etymonline and Klein put it, from Latin repetīt-, the past participle stem of repetō (“to do or…

It is formed from English blur + -y. The origin of blur is unknown: the noun and verb appear in the mid-16th century, and the OED suggests they may be a variant of blear, perhaps onomatopoeic…

It is an altered pronunciation and spelling of God, a euphemism used in oaths, probably developed from by gosse, which is in Udall's Ralph Roister Doister (before 1553).

It is borrowed from French manœuvre (“manipulation, maneuver”), from Old French maneuvre (“manual labor”), also manovre, from Medieval Latin manuopera, from manuoperō (“to work with the hands”)…

It is formed from English percent + -age.

It is a compound, from English rail + road.

The verb is borrowed from Latin rotātus, the past participle of rotō (“to cause to spin, revolve, whirl round”), from rota (“wheel”), with the English suffix -ate. The OED suggests that it may have…

It is formed from English sis + -y, a pet form of sister in which sis is a short form of that word. The OED suggests that the adjective was perhaps also influenced by the adjective-forming -y. Klein…

1. The bed is probably a clipping from English bunker, in that word's sense of a seat or bench; Dictionary.com calls it a back-formation from that word. The OED considers it of unknown origin…

It is borrowed from Scots bonker (“a chest or box, often serving as a seat”), a word recorded from the 16th century as boncure and in other spellings. Its further origin is uncertain. Barnhart…

According to the OED, revised in 2026, it is borrowed from Latin charismaticus, recorded in post-classical Latin by 1609, from the stem of charisma, and the suffix -icus. Other dictionaries form it…

It is formed from English manager + -ial, perhaps on the model of ministerial. manager is the agent noun of manage, a verb first used of handling and training a horse, and ultimately from Italian…

It is formed from English negotiate + -able, perhaps after French négociable, recorded from 1678; Etymonline gives the French word as a possible direct source. Negotiate goes back to Latin negōtior…

It is formed from confidence (from Latin cōnfīdentia) and -al, after pairs such as penitence and penitential. The Latin noun is from cōnfīdō (“to trust”), from fīdō (“to trust”).

It is of uncertain origin. Most dictionaries take it as borrowed from French floche, as in soie floche (“floss silk”), or as a partial translation of that phrase, from Old French flosche (“down, nap…

It is borrowed from Spanish mesa (“plateau; literally, table”), from Latin mēnsa (“table”). The Spanish word is recorded for a table from the 10th century and for a high, flat plateau from 1581. The…

It is borrowed from French optimisme, coined in 1737 in the Jesuit journal “Mémoires de Trévoux” as a name for the doctrine of Leibniz. In his “Théodicée” (1710) Leibniz had used New Latin optimum…

It is formed from English ovary + -an, or, as the OED analyses it, from ovarium and the same suffix; the OED compares French ovarien, recorded in 1820. Merriam-Webster takes it as probably from an…

It is borrowed from French prolifération, from prolifère (“producing offspring, proliferous”), from Latin prōlēs (“offspring”) and -fer (“bearing”), from ferō (“to bear, carry”), from…

It is formed from English book + store, and Dictionary.com marks it as an Americanism. Here store has its American sense of a shop, recorded by 1721, which grew out of the sense "a place where…

It is from continent with the suffix -al.

It is formed from English sediment + -ary; the OED compares French sédimentaire. Sediment is from French sédiment and Latin sedimentum (“a settling, sinking down”), from sedeō (“to sit, settle”)…

It is from Medieval Latin affīliātus, past participle of affīliō, to adopt as a son, from ad-, to, and fīlius, son (see filial), probably after French affilier.

It is borrowed from New Latin anaemia, from Ancient Greek ἀναιμία (anaimía, “lack of blood”), from ἄναιμος (ánaimos, “bloodless”), formed from ἀν- (an-, “without”) and αἷμα (haîma, “blood”)…