Buried states.Recently I noticed that the state name Oregon is buried in the word 'foregone'; could I find other examples? I decided to concentrate on state names with six letters or fewer (Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Nevada, Ohio Nevada (pronounced nah-VAY-da) is a village in Wyandot County, Ohio, United States. The population was 814 at the 2000 census. Nevada was the home of Dr. Charles E. Sawyer, a homeopathic physician who is blamed for giving a false diagnosis of U.S. President Warren G. , Oregon, Texas, Utah), ignoring words that were obviously derived from the state names concerned (such as Hawaiitic, meaning Hawaiian-like, and Oregonite, a mineral found in Oregon). Eventually I found examples for all but Hawaii. Oonalaska Aleutian town of Iliulick (Hodge, Handbook of American Indians American Indians: see Americas, antiquity and prehistory of the; Natives, Middle American; Natives, North American; Natives, South American. N of Mexico) Unalaska a large island in the Aleutians (WebGeographicalDict) Tidaholm town in Sweden (TimesIndexGazetteer) cassiowary 17th cent variant of 'cassowary', a flightless flightless see ratite. New Guinea New Guinea (gĭn`ē), island, c.342,000 sq mi (885,780 sq km), SW Pacific, N of Australia; the world's second largest island after Greenland. bird (OED OED abbr. Oxford English Dictionary Noun 1. OED - an unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles O.E.D., Oxford English Dictionary ) haiowa variant of 'hyawa', a balsam-bearing tree and shrub of Guyana (OED) haiowaballi variant of 'hyawaballi', a timber tree Noun 1. timber tree - any tree that is valued as a source of lumber or timber tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms of Guyana (OED) iowaile, iowalle 15th cent and 16th cent Scots variant of 'jewel' (OED) iowaire 15th cent variant of 'jewellery" (OED) Kiowa an Indian people (and their language) of the US Southwest (Web3) Kiowan adjective of Kiowa (Web2) Kioway variant of Kiowa (Web 2) niowan a form of the adjective 'new' in Beowulf (OED new) radio wave (Web3), radio wavelength (OED) siowan an Old Eng form of the verb 'sew' (OED sew etymology etymology (ĕtĭmŏl`əjē), branch of linguistics that investigates the history, development, and origin of words. It was this study that chiefly revealed the regular relations of sounds in the Indo-European languages (as described ) spiowan 17th cent variant of 'spew', to be sick (OED) Arkansas a state in the US (Web3) Arkansassy 'I have seen sassy sas·sy 1 adj. sas·si·er, sas·si·est 1. Rude and disrespectful; impudent. 2. Lively and spirited; jaunty. 3. Stylish; chic: a sassy little hat. people, but of all sassy people in the world Arkansassy people are the sassiest" (OED sassy, 1908 quote) Almaine old name for Germany (Web2, OED) amaine old spelling of 'amain', to lower a flag or sail (Web2, OED) Castlemaine towns in Victoria, Australia and County Kerry “Kerry” redirects here. For other uses, see Kerry (disambiguation). County Kerry (Irish: Contae Chiarraí) is a county in the south west of Ireland, in the Munster province of the Republic of Ireland, informally referred , Ireland (TimesIndexGazetteer) Charlemaine old form of 'Charles's Wain', seven stars in Ursa Major This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Ursa Major, sorted by decreasing brightness. Name Designation Location Magnitude Dist. (ly) Sp. class Notes B F HD HIP RA Dec vis. abs. ε UMa ε 77 112185 62956 12h 54m 01. (OED quotations) Charmaine girl's given name, variant of Carmen Carmen throws over lover for another. [Fr. Lit.: Carmen; Fr. Opera: Bizet, Carmen, Westerman, 189–190] See : Faithlessness Carmen the cards repeatedly spell her death. [Fr. (Lareina Rule, Name Your Baby) demaine another spelling of 'demesne', the legal possession of land (Web3) demainer 16th cent variant of 'demeanour', a conduct or way of acting (OED) dimaine 16th cent variant of 'dimane', to flow forth from or to originate (OED) domaine a vineyard (NewOxfordDict) Glomaine in phrase "Beaking Glomaine', a type of long apple (OED beaking) germaine 14-17th cent variant of 'german', closely akin (OED) humaine 15-17th cent variant of 'human' (OED) inhumaine 16-17th cent variant of 'inhuman' (OED) jermaine 17th cent variant of 'german', closely akin (OED) Jermaine boy's given name (Jermaine Jackson was a member of the Jackson Five) ledgerdemaine, legerdemaine, legierdemaine, legeirdemaine variants of 'legerdemain' (OED) leucomaine a substance in the animal body, a decomposition product of protein matter (OED) maineable 17th cent variant of 'maniable', easy to handle, pliable (OED) maineath 14th cent variant of 'manath', false oath, perjury perjury (pûr`jərē), in criminal law, the act of willfully and knowingly stating a falsehood under oath or under affirmation in judicial or administrative proceedings. (OED) mained past tense of 'main', to convert into a main road, or to insert drugs into a vein (OED) mainer 18th cent Scots variant of 'manner' (OED); also the comparative form of 'main' (OED) mainest superlative form of 'main', (OED main, various illustrative quotations) mainefaire, mainefeere 17th cent variants of 'mainferre', a gauntlet for the left arm (OED) maineliche, mainely 15th and 17th cent variants of 'mainly' (OED) mainepernour 17th cent variant of 'mainpernor', surety for a prisoner's court appearance (OED) maineporte 17th cent variant of 'mainport', tribute of bread loaves paid to a church rector (OED) maineprise 16-17th cent variant of 'mainprize', legal responsibility for contract fulfilment (OED) mainetayne 16th cent variant of 'maintain' (OED) mortmaine 16-18th cent variant of 'mortmain', an inalienable possession of lands (OED) mortmainer one who exercises posthumous control over uses of property (OED) paindermaine white bread of the finest quality, or a loaf or cake of this bread (Web2) passamaine obs variant of 'passement', decorative trimming of gold, silver or silk (Web2) pairmaine, paremaine, pearmaine, peer-maine, permaine 16-17th cent variants of 'pearmain' ptomaine ptomaine /pto·maine/ (to´man) (to-man´) any of an indefinite class of toxic bases, usually considered to be formed by the action of bacterial metabolism or proteins. various organic substances formed by putrefying animal or vegetable matter (Web3) rere-demaine 16-17th cent variant of 'rere-demain', a back-handed stroke (O ED) remaine 16-17th variant of 'remain' (OED) remained past tense of 'remain' remainer one who remains or stays (Web2) romaine US name for what is known elsewhere as Cos lettuce (Web3) Semaine village in Upper Egypt (TimesIndexGazetteer) Semainean adjective designating the last period of predynastic culture in Egypt (OED, Web3) unevadable not able to be evaded (OED, Web3) Varohio a people and dialect of Mexico (OED Tarahumara, 1934 quote; also in Hodge) Coregoninae subfamily subfamily /sub·fam·i·ly/ (sub´fam-i-le) a taxonomic division between a family and a tribe. sub·fam·i·ly n. A taxonomic category ranking between a family and a genus. of freshwater whitefishes (CenturyDict) coregoni in phrase 'Bosmina coregoni Baird' (OED palaeo-, 1970 quote) coregonid any of various whitefishes (Web3) Coregonidae a family of fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes (Web3) coregonine pertaining to freshwater whitefishes (Web3, also a noun in Web2) coregonoid adjective and noun with the same meaning as coregonine (Web2, We b3) Coregonus genus of plainly-colored salmonlike fishes (Web3) foregone (Web3) foregoneness the state of being foregone (Web3) ore-gone variant of overgone (Act 5, Scene 2, lines 196-7 of "Love's Labour's Lost", 1588 text) unforegone not foregone (OED, Web2) t'exasperate to exasperate (OED exasperate, 1677 quote) cab-without-a-horse early term for a motor vehicle (OED cab, 1899 quote) futah a material imported from India to Arab countries, or a garment made from it (OED) gutah variant of 'gutta', short for 'gutta-percha', the juice of various trees (OED) Mascoutah town in St. Clair County, Illinois St. Clair County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois, and determined by the U.S. Census Bureau to include the mean center of U.S. population in 1970. As of 2000, the population was 256,082. Its county seat is Belleville, Illinois. It is a part of the St. (WebGeographicalDict) prutah pru·tah n. pl. pru·toth or pru·tot A coin formerly used in Israel, equal to one thousandth of a pound. [Modern Hebrew pruta, from Mishnaic Hebrew former monetary unit of Israel, one-thousandth of a pound (Web3) DARRYL FRANCIS Thursby, Cumbria, England darrylfrancis@yahoo.co.uk |
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