Appendix:English dictionary-only terms

The following is a list of putative words that have entries in two or more general English dictionaries, but that have two or fewer attested uses. Notable ghost words are also included for the sake of completeness.

Homonyms and individual senses of attested words are not included. This is due to the comparative difficulty of verifying non-attestability in such cases.

There is a key to the dictionaries referenced in the list at the bottom of the page.

Formerly listed terms
The following words were at one time listed on this page, but have since been cited at least 3 times and have full entries.
 * abligurition
 * acersecomic
 * advesperate
 * aggrandizable
 * animadversiveness
 * autocratship
 * amnicolist
 * chasmatical
 * debacchate
 * esquivalience
 * grandevous
 * redamancy
 * ridibund
 * snilch
 * thelitis
 * vendication

Key to dictionaries

 * 1611, Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues. Available via Greg Lindahl.
 * 1616, John Bullokar, An English Expositor. 1719 edition available via Google Books.
 * 1623, Henry Cockeram, The English Dictionarie, or, An Interpreter of Hard English Words. Searchable via Lexicons of Early Modern English.
 * 1656, Thomas Blount, Glossographia. Searchable via Lexicons of Early Modern English.
 * 1661 (2nd) edition available via Google Books.
 * 1707 edition available via Google Books.
 * 1658, Edward Phillips, The New World of English Words. 1720 edition available via Google Books.
 * 1676, Elisha Coles, An English Dictionary. 1717 edition available via Google Books.
 * c. 1698, "B.E.", A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew. 1899 edition available at Archive.org.
 * 1721, Nathan Bailey, An universal etymological English dictionary [volume 1]. 1724 edition available via Google Books.
 * 1727, Nathan Bailey, An universal etymological English dictionary [volume 2].
 * 1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language. 1768 edition available via Google Books.
 * 1760, Johann Christian Prager, editor, Neueingerichtetes englisches Wörterbuch, in welchem die teutschen Wörter, ihren verschiedenen Bedeutungen und Revensarten, die englische Sprache übersezt zu finden sind. Herausgegeben von Johann Christian Prager Conrectorn der Schule zu Heldburg. Zweyter Theil [Newly Revised English Dictionary, in which the German Words, Their Different Meanings and Types of Revisions, are to be Found in the English Language. Edited by Johann Christian Prager, Conrector of the School of Heldburg. Second Part.], part II, Coburg; Leipzig: Georg Otto, 931750943, available via Google Books.
 * 1775, John Walker, Rhyming Dictionary. Second edition (1806) available at Archive.org.
 * 1775, John Ash, The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language. 1795 edition available via Google Books.
 * 1791, John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary. 1797 edition available at Archive.org.
 * 1823, George Crabb, Universal Technological Dictionary. 1833 edition (3rd ed., single volume) available via Google Books. 1823 edition volume 1 also available.
 * 1828, Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language. Searchable via ARTFL.
 * 1845, William Bolles ed., An Explanatory and Phonographic Pronouncing Dictionary. Available via Google Books.
 * 1846, James Orchard Halliwell, Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Volume 1. Available via Google Books.
 * 1847, James Orchard Halliwell, Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Volume 2. Available via Google Books
 * 1847, John Craig, A new universal etymological, technological, and pronouncing dictionary of the English language. Volume 1 (1848 ed.) and Volume 2 (1849 ed.) available at Archive.org.
 * 1850, John Ogilvie ed., The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language. Various editions and volumes available at Archive.org.
 * 1888, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, Volume 1 (A-B). Available at Archive.org.
 * 1890, William Dwight Whitney ed., The Century Dictionary. Available at Century Dictionary Online.
 * 1893, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, Volume 2 (C). Available at Archive.org.
 * 1895, Robley Dunglison, A dictionary of medical science, Available via Google Books.
 * 1897, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, Volume 3 (D-E). Available at Archive.org.
 * 1900, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, Volume 4 (F-G). Available at Archive.org.
 * 1901, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, Volume 5 (H-K). Available at Archive.org.
 * 1908, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, Volume 6 (L-N). Part 1 and Part 2 available at Archive.org.
 * 1911, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, Volume 6, (M–O). Available at Google Books.
 * 1909, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, Volume 7 (O-P). Available at Archive.org.
 * 1913, Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. Searchable via ARTFL.
 * 1914, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, Volume 8 (Q-Sh). Part 1 and Part 2 available at Archive.org.
 * 1919, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, Volume 9 Part 1 (Si-St). Available at Archive.org.
 * 1919, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, Volume 9 Part 2 (Su-Th). Available at Archive.org.
 * 1920, I.F. Henderson and W.D. Henderson, A Dictionary of Scientific Terms: Pronunciation, derivation, and definition of terms in biology, botany, zoology, anatomy, cytology, embryology, physiology, Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd. Available at Archive.org in digitised copies from the Missouri Botanical Garden and from the University of California Libraries.
 * 1926, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, Volume 10 Part 1 (Ti-U). Available at Archive.org.
 * 1928, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, Volume 10 Part 2 (V-Z). Available at Archive.org.
 * 1955, Joseph T. Shipley, Dictionary of Early English. Available at Archive.org.
 * 1992, Christopher G. Morris,  Dictionary of Science and Technology, ISBN 0122004000. Limited preview available via Google Book Search.
 * 2002, Robert Alan Lewis, CRC Dictionary of Agricultural Sciences, ISBN 0849323274. Limited preview available via Google Book Search.