English words first recorded in the 18th century

It is formed from alcohol and -ic.

It is borrowed from Italian ballerina, recorded in Italian before 1492, the feminine of ballerino (“dancer, dancing master”), from ballare (“to dance”), from Late Latin ballō (“to dance”), from…

It is borrowed from French café (“coffee, coffee-house”), from Italian caffè (“coffee”) (see coffee), ultimately from Turkish kahve.

It is borrowed from French carbone, coined by Lavoisier in 1787, from Latin carbō (“a coal, glowing coal; charcoal”) (genitive carbōnis), from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“heat, fire”). It is related…

It is a compound from English card + board, with card in its sense of stiff paper. An earlier word for the same material was cardpaper, recorded from 1777.

It is borrowed from French démocrate, formed from démocratie (“democracy”) (see democracy) on the model of aristocrate, aristocrat.

It is from French dynamique, the noun use of the adjective, formed in English from dynamic and -ics.

It is formed from English hood + -ie, from the noun meaning a covering for the head, with the diminutive or familiar suffix also spelled -y; the OED compares hooded. The name of the garment is a…

It is borrowed from Latin immigrāns, immigrantem, the present participle of immigrō, to go into, move in (see immigrate), perhaps through French immigrant, and on the pattern of the older emigrant.

It is formed from English liberty + -arian, on the model of unitarian and similar words. Liberty is from Old French liberte (“freedom, free will”), from Latin lībertās (“freedom, the condition of a…

It is borrowed from French oxidation, now spelled oxydation, formed from oxider (“to oxidize”), now oxyder, with the suffix -ation. Etymonline dates the French word to 1787 and credits it to the…

It is borrowed from French oxygène, coined in 1777 by the French chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, from Ancient Greek ὀξύς (oxús, “sharp, acid”) and French -gène (“producing”) (see -gen), meaning…

It is formed from English quirk + -y. The noun quirk is itself of unknown origin. The OED compares the earlier quirking and quirkish, which Etymonline dates to the 1670s.

A compound of room and mate (a companion), formed in American English; it is also written with a hyphen or as separate words. The short form roomie is recorded by 1918.

It is formed from sexual and -ity.

It is formed from un- and employment.

It is probably a clipping from English of caddie, or of its variants caddee and cadee, which come from French cadet; the Shorter Oxford, the Oxford Dictionary of English and Cresswell allow either…

It is formed from English correction + -al. Etymonline also allows a borrowing from Medieval Latin correctionalis. Correction is from Old French correccion, from Latin correctiō (“amendment…

The noun is of uncertain origin. Most dictionaries take it as probably a dialect alteration of flue, down or nap, recorded from the 16th century; the OED suggests an imitative change, suggesting the…

1. It is perhaps a transferred use of Middle English gigge, ghyg, a spinning top (in gygmylle, 1463, and whyrlegyg, whirligig, 1440), with reference to bouncing or whirling motion. The Middle…

It is formed from English keep + sake, on the model of namesake, and Etymonline calls it an unusual formation. Literally it is an object kept for the sake of the giver. The verb goes back to Old…

It is borrowed from French municipalité, formed from municipal and the suffix -ité, the French counterpart of -ity. The OED dates the French word to 1758 in the sense of a town's governing body and…

It is named after Paisley, a town in Renfrewshire in south-western Scotland, famous for its textiles and, in the 19th century, especially for patterned shawls inspired by those imported from…

It is formed from English re- (“again”) + birth. The OED compares the earlier adjective reborn, and notes that the sense "revival" was partly modelled on French renaissance, the source of renaissance.

It is formed from English refer + -al. The verb refer is referer and Latin referō (“to carry back; to relate”), from re- (“back”) and ferō (“to carry”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry”)…

It is a compound from English steam + ship.

It is borrowed from French sulfate, which Etymonline and Barnhart give as sulphate and Etymonline dates to 1787, from New Latin sulphātum, in the phrase sulphatum acidum, formed from Latin sulphur…

1. The worker in leather is inherited from Old English tannere, an agent noun formed from tannian (“to tan hides”) and -ere, and in part borrowed from Old French tanere, the nominative of taneor…

It is formed from English unit + -ary, and partly from the stem of unity, and in many senses it follows French unitaire. The noun unit is an alteration of unity, which is from Anglo-Norman unite…

It is formed from English colonial + -ism. The adjective comes from Latin colōnia (“settlement, colony”) and the suffix -al, and the Latin noun from colōnus (“farmer, settler”), from colō (“to…

In its modern use it is from English decorate + -ive, or, as the OED puts it, the Latin participial stem decorātus with the English suffix. The verb decorate comes from Latin decorō (“to adorn…

It is borrowed from French départemental, from département, the source of department, and the suffix -al. The Shorter Oxford instead treats it as formed in English with the suffix -al. The French…

It is formed from English director + -ate, and the OED compares French directorat (“the functions of a director”) (1666) and directoriat (1832). Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com take it from the…

It is partly a back-formation from editor, and partly borrowed from French éditer (“to publish, edit”), itself formed on édition (see edition), and perhaps also from Latin ēditus, the past…

It is formed from English geology + -ic, perhaps after French géologique, recorded from 1779 or earlier; compare Italian geologico (1792) and German geologisch (1795). The noun is from New Latin…

It is borrowed from French hydrogène, coined in 1787 by Guyton de Morveau, Lavoisier, Berthollet and Fourcroy, from Greek hudr-, the stem of ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) (see water), and -gène, producing…

It is formed from in-, not (see in-), and appropriate.

It is borrowed from French journalisme (1781), from journal, a daily publication (see journal), and -isme, -ism.

It is borrowed from Yiddish כּשר (kosher, “conforming to Jewish dietary laws; pious”) and partly directly borrowed from Biblical Hebrew כָּשֵׁר (kāšēr, “fitting, suitable, proper”), which in…

It is borrowed from French nitrogène, a word coined in 1790 by the French chemist Jean-Antoine Chaptal, formed from nitro-, from νίτρον (nítron, “sodium carbonate, natron”), the source of nitre, and…

It was coined by the painter Robert Barker (1739–1806) as the name for his large circular paintings of a scene, literally “a view of all”. Its first part is the prefix pan-, all, and its second is…

It is borrowed from French publicité (1690s), from Medieval Latin pūblicitās, from Latin pūblicus (see public) and -ité (see -ity).

It is formed from English sky + scraper, the agent noun of scrape. Klein compares French gratte-ciel, from gratter (“to scrape”) and ciel (“sky”), and German Wolkenkratzer, from Wolke (“cloud”) and…

It is borrowed from French diplomatie, in which the t was pronounced as s, formed from diplomate (“diplomat”), or from diplomatique (“diplomatic”), on the pattern of aristocratie (“aristocracy”)…

It is formed from English news + room.

The OED takes it partly as borrowed from French publiciste (“expert on public law”), recorded in French in 1748, and partly as borrowed from German Publicist, now Publizist, used in German of an…

It is formed from English rebut + -al. Rebut is from Middle English rebouten (“to thrust back”), from Anglo-Norman rebuter, reboter, rebouter (“to push back, drive back”), formed from re- (“back”)…

It is formed from English under- + estimate, the verb from the verb and the noun from the noun or from estimation. Klein took it as a loan translation of French sous-évaluer, a word he says…

It is formed from English walk + way, from either the verb or the noun walk, originally in American English.

It is formed from English bi- + sexual, and sexual goes back to Late Latin sexuālis, from Latin sexus (“sex”). In the sense of attraction to both sexes it followed German bisexuell, recorded by…

It is borrowed from French cassette (“little box”), a diminutive of casse (“box”) with the suffix -ette. Barnhart and Merriam-Webster derive it through Middle French casset, a diminutive of Old…

It is the name of the letter N, written as a word, chosen for the printing unit because the letter is roughly that wide. It was formed like em, the name of M.

The noun is borrowed from French initiative (16th century), from Latin initiātus, the past participle of initiō (“to begin”), from initium (“a beginning”) (see initial). The adjective, from 1642…

It is formed from recruit and -ment.

It is formed from English toddle + -er. The verb, first recorded in 1513 (Etymonline: c. 1600, in Scottish and northern English), is of uncertain origin. The OED takes it as a first element…

It is a shortening of line-of-battle ship, recorded from 1705, a ship large enough to take its place in the line of battle in a main attack. The longer name is formed from battle and ship…

It is from creep with the suffix -y.

It is borrowed from French cyclique, recorded in French from the 16th century, or directly borrowed from Latin cyclicus, from Ancient Greek κυκλικός (kuklikós, “circular, moving in a circle”), from…

It is borrowed from French dépôt (“deposit, place of deposit”), from Old French depost (“a deposit or pledge”), from Latin dēpositum (“a deposit”), the neuter past participle of dēpōnō (“to lay…

It is formed from human or humanity and the suffix of unitarian and similar words.