English words first recorded in the 18th century

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…

1. It is borrowed from Latin costa (“rib, side, wall”), also the source of English coast. 2. It is borrowed from Spanish costa (“coast”), from the same Latin source as English coast, as in the…

It is borrowed from New Latin fauna, an application of Late Latin Fauna, the name of a Roman rural goddess of fertility, usually called the sister of Faunus, though Barnhart and Etymonline also make…

It is formed from English guitar + -ist. The OED compares Spanish guitarrista. Guitar comes from French guitare, ultimately from Latin cithara.

It is borrowed from French préhensile (“adapted for grasping”), a word of Buffon's, recorded in 1758, formed with the French suffix -ile on Latin prehēnsus, the past participle of prehendō (“to…

It is borrowed from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma. Barnhart and Etymonline place the Quechua word in Peru, among the Incas. The Spanish word is recorded in 1602, in a passage that was translated…

It is formed from English rotation + -al. Rotation is from Latin rotātiō (“a turning about in a circle”), from rotō (“to turn round, revolve”), from the same source as rota (“wheel”). The OED…

It is formed from English variable + -ity, or perhaps borrowed from French variabilité; compare Italian variabilità and Spanish variabilidad. Klein forms it directly from Latin variābilis. Variable…

1. It is possibly an extended sense of earlier brake, a bridle or curb (1552), which is borrowed from Middle Dutch braeke or Middle Low German brake, a nose ring for draught animals, also a toothed…

It is formed from English ethnic + -ity. In its first, obsolete sense it follows Spanish etnicidad, used in 1758 in the Spanish passage translated in the first English quotation. The adjective…

It is a shortening of grandmama (1749), a childish or familiar form of grandmother, from grand- and mama.

It is formed from English roost + -er, the roosting bird, from the verb roost according to the OED and Etymonline, from the noun according to the Shorter Oxford. The earlier name was roost-cock…

It is formed from tour and -ist.

It is formed from English ubiquity + -ous, perhaps as an alteration of the rarer adjective ubiquious; the earlier adjectives were ubiquitary, from about 1600, and ubiquitarian. Ubiquity is from New…

It is from Latin bonus (“good”), used in place of the neuter noun bonum “a good thing”, probably first as a joke or by mistake in the slang of the London Stock Exchange. Weekley called it “Stock…

It is probably a partial loan translation borrowed from Dutch ijsberg (“ice mountain”), ijsberg, with the English word ice put in place of the first element. The Dutch compound is formed from ijs…

It is formed from English investigate + -ive. Etymonline and the Shorter Oxford instead form it from the past participle stem of Latin investīgō (“to trace out, search after”), with the same suffix…

It is formed from English red + neck. For the slang senses, the OED thinks they may all have referred at first to the sunburnt skin of fair-skinned people, though it finds this reasonably certain…

It is a back-formation from resurrection, on the model of verbs such as connect and protect. The OED instead derives it from Latin resurrēct-, the past participial stem of resurgō (“to rise again”)…

It is borrowed from Dutch Sante Klaas (“Saint Nicholas”), a dialect form, of Sint Klaas, modern Sinterklaas, from Middle Dutch Sinter Niklaas (“Saint Nicholas”), also Sinterclaes. The Dutch name is…

It is borrowed from Latin campus (“plain, field, flat land”), from Proto-Italic *kampo- “field”, a word of uncertain origin. De Vaan compares Ancient Greek καμπή (kampḗ) “a bending, curve”…

It was formed from English capital + -ist in the sense of capital as wealth, after French capitaliste, which itself followed capitalist. The Dutch word meant a person subject to a capital tax (1621)…

It is borrowed from Hindi चीता (cītā, “leopard, panther”). The Hindi word goes back to Sanskrit: the OED, Barnhart and the Shorter Oxford name a derivative meaning leopard or hunting leopard, formed…

It is borrowed from French couguar, a name coined by the French naturalist Buffon, in 1761 according to Barnhart, on the model of jaguar. Buffon shortened New Latin cuguacuarana, which Barnhart…

It is formed from English curl + -y, from the noun.

It is an American compound from English egg + nog (“strong ale”). The second part, nog, was a strong beer brewed especially in Norfolk, recorded from 1693; Etymonline finds “a boull of nogg” already…

1. Its origin is unknown. A likely source, in Etymonline's and Hoad's view, is the earlier slang feague, feak “to beat”, also “to spruce up by artificial means”, from German fegen (“to polish…

It is probably formed irregularly from English pest + -y, or is an alteration of the noun; the OED also considers an alteration of pesty, which is, however, recorded later. Collins takes it as…

It is borrowed from French souvenir (“memory; keepsake”), a noun use of the verb se souvenir (“to remember”), from Old French suvenir (“to come to mind, remember”), from Latin subveniō (“to come to…

It is formed from English class + -ify. The OED, revising its entry in 2010, analyses it as Latin classis (“class, division”) with the suffix -fy, and compares French classifier, recorded in this…

The OED gives it two sources. At first it is borrowed from French différentiation, recorded in 1772 in the passage of Lagrange that the first English quotation translates, from New Latin…

It is borrowed from Hindi jangal, desert, forest, wasteland, uncultivated ground, from Sanskrit जाङ्गल (jāṅgala), arid, sparsely grown with trees, a word of unknown origin, perhaps cognate with…

It is a compound of key, in the sense part of the mechanism of a musical instrument, and board.

It is a compound of rail and way.

It is formed from English shot (“small lead pellets”) + gun, originally American. The noun shot had been used for lead in small pellets since 1770, according to Etymonline.

It is borrowed from French tolérant, the present participle of tolérer (“to tolerate”), and partly directly from Latin tolerāns, present participle of tolerō (“to bear, endure”). The French…

It is borrowed from French volcanique, from volcan (“volcano”), which comes from Italian volcano or vulcano. Etymonline takes the French adjective from Italian vulcanico. The OED instead treats it…

It is from English atmosphere + -ic.

It is formed from Ancient Greek αὐτόνομος (autónomos, “having its own laws”) and -ous, from αὐτός (autós, “self”) and νόμος (nómos, “law”) (see autonomy), from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to assign…

It is probably borrowed from Dutch kam (“comb, cog of a wheel”), as in kamrad, cogwheel, from Proto-Germanic *kambaz, comb (see comb), from PIE Proto-Indo-European *gembh- (“tooth, nail”). MWU and…

It is formed from class and room.

The OED, in its 2015 revision, takes it as formed in English: in early use probably from English improviso + -ation, improviso being an adjective and verb meaning extempore, and in later use from…

It is a diminutive formed from English leaf + -let. Klein notes that it joins a native word to a suffix of French origin. In its botanical senses it followed the scientific use of New Latin foliolum…

It is formed from English dismiss + -al, on the model of nouns such as refusal, committal and upheaval. The verb dismiss is apparently from dīmissus, the past participle of Latin dīmittō (“to send…

It is borrowed from Latin equīnus (“of a horse, of horses; of horsehair”), from equus (“horse”) and the adjective suffix -īnus, which gives English -ine. Weekley allows that it may also have been…

It is formed from English geology + -ist. Geology is from New Latin geologia (“the study of the earth”), compounded of geo- and -λογία (-logía). In Medieval Latin geologia had meant the study of…

It is formed from English grump + -y, from grump in the old phrase “humps and grumps”, slights and snubs. The OED suggests that grump was prompted by grunt, with an ending that imitates a wordless…

It is borrowed from French loto and directly borrowed from Italian lotto (“lottery; lot”), recorded in Italian before 1536 and in French in 1778. The Italian word is from French lot (“lot, share”)…

It is formed from English conversation + -al. The noun conversation came into Middle English in the mid-14th century, from Old French conversacion and directly from Latin conversātiō, a noun of…

It is formed from English orchestra + -al. The OED compares the slightly earlier adjective orchestran. The noun is from Latin orchēstra, the space in front of the stage in the ancient theatre, from…

It is borrowed from French reconnaissance (“recognition; exploration, survey”), from reconnaître (“to recognize”), earlier Middle French reconoissance, Old French reconoissance (“recognition…

It is formed from English trans- + Atlantic, with trans- meaning across or beyond. Compare French transatlantique. Klein compares cisatlantic.

It is borrowed from Latin viā (“by way of”), the ablative of via (“way, road, path, channel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wegh- (“to go, move, transport in a vehicle”), which is also the source of…

It is a compound, from English bath + room, also written bath-room.

It is formed from Latin clīnicus and the suffix -al, or from clinic and -al. Latin clīnicus “physician who visits patients in bed” is borrowed from Ancient Greek κλινικός (klīnikós, “of the bed”)…

It is from English congress + -man.

It is formed from English cook + -er. The verb cook comes from the noun, which is from Old English coc, from Vulgar Latin *cocus and Latin coquus, from coquō (“to cook, ripen”), from…

It was coined by Jeremy Bentham in 1780, from English inter- + national.

Its origin is uncertain. Perhaps it is formed from English lolly (“the tongue”) + pop (“a blow”), with northern dialect lolly "the tongue", which the OED records in Cumberland and Northumberland in…