English words first recorded in the 18th century

It is a compound from English coast + line. Coast is from Old French coste (“rib, side; slope; shore”), from Latin costa (“a rib”); line goes back to līnea (“linen thread, string”), partly through…

It is formed from English generalize + -ation. The OED compares French généralisation, recorded from 1754, and the Shorter Oxford takes the English word from the French noun, itself from…

It is probably partly borrowed from French aide (“assistant, helper”) and partly a shortening of aide-de-camp; Merriam-Webster, Barnhart, Etymonline and the Shorter Oxford call it simply short for…

It is formed from English arch- + diocese, with the prefix meaning "chief". The second part is from Old French diocese, from Late Latin diocesis, at first a governor's jurisdiction in the Roman…

It is borrowed from Latin habitat (“it inhabits”), the third person singular present of habitō, to live in, dwell (see habitation), from habeō, to have. It was the first word of the Latin…

It is formed from English key + word, with key in its figurative sense of something that opens or explains. The OED notes that in later use the first element may be understood as the adjective key…

It is formed from English re- + construct. The OED compares French reconstruire (“to rebuild”), recorded in Middle French from 1549, and notes that the noun reconstruction is earlier. Construct is…

It is formed from English starve + -ation. Klein and Etymonline call it a hybrid, a native Germanic verb with a suffix that goes back to Latin -ātiō; Etymonline notes it as one of the earliest uses…

It is formed from English in- + eligible, perhaps on the model of French inéligible, recorded in French from 1752. Merriam-Webster takes it as a direct borrowing of the French adjective. The base…

It is formed from English over- + due.

The OED takes it as borrowed from New Latin ballisticus, recorded in 1644 in “Phenomena ballistica”, the title of a section of Mersenne's “Cogitata physico-mathematica”, and formed with the suffix…

It is formed from English capital + -ize, the letter sense from capital “capital letter” and the financial senses from capital “wealth, funds”. Merriam-Webster Unabridged and Webster's Third instead…

It is a compound from English hair + dresser, the second part an agent noun from the verb dress.

It is formed from English kin + -ship. Kin is from Old English cynn (“family; race; kind, sort, rank; nature”), from Proto-Germanic *kunją (“family”), from the Proto-Indo-European *gene- (“to give…

It is borrowed from Spanish patio (“courtyard”), recorded in Spanish in that sense since 1414, and as a building plot since 1397 or earlier. The Old Spanish word could also mean untilled land and a…

It is formed from English water + shed, with shed in the sense of a ridge of high ground parting two valleys. It was probably modelled on German Wasserscheide (“water parting”), which is recorded…

It is formed from English artist + -ry, like chemistry from chemist.

It is formed from English emphasis + -ize. The noun is from Latin emphasis, from Ancient Greek ἔμφασις (émphasis, “outward appearance, reflection; significance”), from ἐμφαίνω (emphaínō, “to…

It is borrowed from Latin intolerantia (“impatience; unendurableness, insolence”), from intolerāns (“impatient, intolerant”), formed from in- (“not”) and tolerāns, the present participle of tolerō…

It is formed from option and -al.

It is borrowed from French prospectus, recorded in French from 1723 for the announcement of a book, and directly borrowed from Latin prōspectus (“a lookout, distant view, outlook”). The Latin noun…

It is a compound from English rain + fall, of the nouns. The OED compares similar compounds in other Germanic languages: Dutch regenval (late 19th century), Danish regnfald and Swedish regnfall.

It is imitative, of a cough or grunt.

It comes through the French of colonial Louisiana: borrowed from French bayou, earlier bayouque, written Bayoue in its first English record of 1766 and bayou from 1803. Most dictionaries take the…

It is formed from English enact + -ment, and replaced the earlier noun enaction, recorded from the 1620s in Etymonline and 1631 in the OED. Enact is formed from en- and act, which go back to Latin…

It is borrowed from Latin īnsurgēns (“rising up”), the present participle of īnsurgō (“to rise up; to rise against”), which the Shorter Oxford, Hoad and the Oxford Dictionary of English say came…

It is borrowed from French petite, the feminine of petit (“small, little”), which is the source of petit and petty. The French adjective is recorded from about 1100 and is probably from the stem of…

It is formed from English water + front.

It is borrowed from French boutique (“small shop”), recorded in French from the 14th century; Merriam-Webster's Book of Word Histories says that it has meant a retail shop in French since the 13th…

It is probably borrowed from French classification, from classe (“class”) (see class) and -fication, or formed from the Latin stem of classify.

It is formed from English depreciate + -ion, as a noun of action. The verb depreciate is from Latin dēpretiātus, the past participle of dēpretiō (“to lower the price of, undervalue”), spelt dēpreciō…

It is a compound from English door + step. The noun door continues dor and duru, and step continues stæpe.

It is formed from English insulate + -ation, as the noun of action of the verb. Barnhart and Dictionary.com analyse it as insulate and -ion. The verb was formed from Latin īnsula (“island”) and the…

It is formed from English stair + way. Stair is Middle English steir, from Old English stæger (“stair, staircase, flight of steps”), from Proto-Germanic *staigriz, a noun from the root of…

It is formed from English vulnerable + -ity. The adjective is from Late Latin vulnerābilis (“wounding”), from vulnerō (“to wound”), from vulnus (“wound”); it was taken in the passive sense "able to…

It is formed from English adjust + -able. The verb adjust is from Middle French adjuster, now ajuster, from a- and juste (“just”), according to the OED; Etymonline traces the older Middle English…

It is an American variant of mamma, or an alteration of mammy. Compare mom and momma.

It is a compound from English play + ground, and the OED compares the earlier playing field. Old English had plegstōw and plegstede, a place for play, a sports ground or gymnasium; Bosworth-Toller…

It is from some and day, originally written some day.

It is formed from English suicide + -al. The OED compares the earlier suicidical, and Etymonline notes that Horace Walpole wrote the form suicidial in a letter of 1755. suicide is from New Latin…

It is borrowed from New Latin analis (“of the anus”), from Latin anus (see anus). Merriam-Webster forms it in English from anus and -al.

It is borrowed from French avide or directly borrowed from Latin avidus (“longing eagerly, desirous, greedy”), from aveō (“to long for, crave”). The French word is recorded from 1470. Barnhart…

It is a compound, from English battle + field. The usual Old English word was wælstow, literally “slaughter-place”.

It is formed from English bump + -y, from the noun bump in the sense of a swelling or protuberance; the Shorter Oxford allows the noun or the verb. The noun bump is probably imitative, and…

It is formed from English care + taker, an agent noun of take.

It is from Medieval Latin expenditus, an irregular past participle, formed after venditus (“sold”), of expendō (“to weigh out, pay out”), with the suffix -ure. The Oxford Dictionary of English and…

It is formed from English finance + -ial. Klein says it was coined by the British statesman Edmund Burke.

It is formed from English round + up, and is also written with a hyphen. In its first, shipbuilding sense the first element is the noun round, a curve; in its later senses the word is a noun use of…

It is of unknown origin, first used as a sailors' word. Barnhart, Etymonline and Partridge suggest that it is a frequentative of tog, an old form of tug, with the suffix -le; Klein and Weekley…

It is formed from the phrase “down town”, from down and town.

It is borrowed from French genre (“kind, sort, style”), from Old French genre, gendre (see gender), ultimately from Latin genus (“kind”).

It is a compound of light (the adjective meaning “not heavy”) and weight; the OED compares heavyweight and Leichtgewicht, recorded in the 18th century.

It is formed from English modernize + -ation. The verb modernize is formed from modern and -ize, though Etymonline allows that it may also be from French moderniser, which the OED dates only to 1754…

It is formed from molecule and -ar, or from French moléculaire or New Latin molecularis; MWU treats it as an International Scientific Vocabulary formation.

The OED, which revised the entry in 2012, has it formed from English statist + -ic, modelled on French statistique (“study of a state, statecraft”) (1768) and on German Statistik (1744 or earlier)…

It is borrowed from German Statistik, with the English plural -s, from New Latin statisticum (collegium), “(lecture course on) state affairs”, from Italian statista “one skilled in statecraft”, from…

It is from surgery or surgeon with the suffix -ical, after French cirurgical, from Old French cirurgien, replacing the earlier chirurgical (early 15th century).

It is apparently borrowed from German Schwindler (“person making extravagant, unrealistic plans; cheat”), from schwindeln (“to be dizzy; to act extravagantly; to cheat”), from Middle High German…

It is borrowed from Swedish tungsten (“scheelite, calcium tungstate”), from tung (“heavy”) and sten (“stone”), "heavy stone". Barnhart and Klein say that it was coined by its discoverer, the Swedish…

It is formed from English un- + professional. Professional is from profession and -al, and was used of the profession of religious orders from the mid-15th century and of careers from 1747. That…