Last updated 18 Oct 2024
The free-software world has good spellcheckers (like Aspell) and general-purpose word lists (like SCOWL) but lacks specialized, technical spelling dictionaries. (SCOWL has technical words in its larger word lists, but they're intermingled with words that could hide typos, like "eponymus".) Here, to help fill the gap, is my personal Aspell dictionary. I've removed words that I don't think will be generally useful (like "Kodi") and organized the list into categories to make it easier to take only what you want. I use American spellings, and coverage is biased towards my own interests: psychology, math, and computer geekery, with a little neuroscience, philosophy, grammar, and fantasy fiction. Also included are several surnames (mostly of psychologists; I should stress that the inclusion of a name in this list is not meant to be a statement about the person bearing the name), a few given names, and lots of miscellany. I would be grateful for any corrections.
The format of each line is:
c word # Comment
where c is a single character representing the category and word is the word. Categories are described in lines of the form:
c !name Snips and snails and puppy-dogs' tails
Here's the list. Currently, it has 1,034 words.
c !name Computers (software, programming, and the Internet) c accessor c adaptively c AVEN c backtick c blockchain c Bourne c bytecode c CGI c comparator c copypasta c Craigslist c crowdsource c crowdsourcing c cryptocurrency c curlies # A slang term for braces c extensibility c FFI c Firefox c genericize c GIF c Goodreads c Google c GPL c grayscale c Hy c inbox c interoperability c interoperable c IP c iteratively c JPEG c JSON c LaTeX c lookup c lossily c lossless c losslessly c lossy c MATLAB c MediaWiki c memetic c memetically c metacharacter c metacharacters c metaprogram c metaprogramming c microservices c MTurk c multiplayer c namespace c OpenDocument c parallelize c parallelized c parallelizes c parallelizing c PNG c postprocessor c postprocessors c pragma c preprocessing c preprocessor c preprocessors c programmatically c quasiquotation c Rakudo c Reddit c regex c reimplement c reimplemented c reimplementing c reimplements c reStructuredText c roguelikes c screenshot c SQL c Stallman c superclass c SVG c technobabble c Tetris c timestamp c timestamps c tokenize c tokenized c tokenizes c tokenizing c Ubuntu c uniquified c uniquifies c uniquify c uniquifying c variadic c WebAssembly c whitespace c wiki c Wikipedia f !name Fiction and mythology f alicorn f anime f bronies f brony f Calistria f Celestia f channeler f Cthulhu f cuirass f deific f Doylist f draconic f ectoplasm f ectoplasmic f elven f Excrucians f Fluttershy f Gehennom f golem f golems f grimoire f Iomedae f Klingons f kobold f mage f mages f manticore f manticores f Mimir f pegasi f Pikachu f Pokémon f Sarenrae f scried f scries f scry f scrying f shapeshift f shapeshifter f shapeshifting f sorcerous f spellbook f spellcaster f StarCraft f Tartarus f teleport f teleportation f teleported f teleporting f thaumaturge f undead f vampirism f Voldemort f Wookie f Wookies l !name Language l backronym l calque l dysphemism l dysphemistic l entendre # In "double entendre" l eponym l euphemize l euphemized l euphemizing l guillemet l guillemets l initialism l initialisms l mononym l sequitur # In "non sequitur" l subordinator m !name Mathematics, statistics, and theoretical computer science m abelian m accuracies m additivity m agglomerative m AIC m Akaike m algebraist m algebraists m ANOVA m Archimedean m axiomatize m betweenness m bijection m bijective m bimodal m biostatistician m biostatisticians m biostatistics m bivariate m Bolzano m Bonferroni m cardinality m centroid m centroids m CIs m codomain m collinear m collinearity m combinator m combinatorial m combinatorics m combinators m constructible m contrapositive m coordinatize m coordinatizing m coprime m covariance m covariate m covariates m curvilinear m dataset m datasets m decile m deciles m dendrogram m DFA m diagnosticity m dichotomization m dichotomized m dichotomously m differentiability m differentiable m dimensionality m discretization m discretize m discretized m discretizing m disjunction m DV m DVs m econometrics m equicontinuity m equicontinuous m estimand m exchangeability m exponentiate m extrema m extremum m finitude m formulae m Fraenkel m frequentist m GLM m heteroscedastic m heteroscedasticity m homeomorphic m homoscedastic m homoscedasticity m hyperbolically m hypercyclic m hypercyclicity m hyperparameter m hyperparameters m hyperplane m identifiability m iff m iid m infima m infimum m injective m injectivity m interquartile m intransitivity m irreducibles m jitter m jittered m jittering m kurtosis m lemmata m lemniscate m leptokurtic m Levenshtein m Lipschitz m logarithmically m logit m logits m maxima m maximin m MCMC m minima m missingness m MLE m monad m monads m monotonicity m MSE m multilinear m multilinearity m multinomial m Neyman m NFA m nondecreasing m nondeterministic m nondeterministically m nondiagnostic m nonincreasing m nonlinearly m nonnegative m nonparametric m nonpositive m nonreflexivity m nonsignificant m nonsingular m nontrivially m nullary m OLS m optimality m orthogonally m outlier m outliers m overfit m overfitting m overrepresented m overweighted m parametrically m parametrization m parametrize m parametrized m parsers m platykurtic m Poincaré m polychoric m predictively m preimage m preorder m prepend m primality m probabilistically m probit m quantile m quantiles m quartile m quartiles m recode m reparametrizing m resampled m resampling m rescale m rescaled m rescales m rescaling m RMSE m sigmoid m sinusoids m skewness m Spearman m sphericity m stationarity m subadditive m subadditivity m subsample m subsequence m subsequences m superset m suprema m supremum m surjection m surjective m surjectivity m tesseract m toroidal m tuple m unbiasedness m underfitting m underrepresentation m underweighted m univariate m variabilities m varimax m Voronoi m weighings m Zermelo m ZFC n !name Given names n Gaylen n Rebecca n Tobias p !name Psychology, psychometrics, neuroscience, biology, chemistry, and medicine p acetylcholine p Adderall p ADHD p affective p affectively p affiliative p agonist p agonists p alkyl p Ambien p ampoule p ampoules p amygdala p amygdalae p amygdaloid p anaphrodisia p anaphrodisiac p anaphrodisiacs p androphilia p anhedonia p anilingus p anthropogenic p antimasking p antiparkinsonian p antipsychotic p antipsychotics p antisociality p antivaccination p antivaxxers p APA p apperception p appetitive p areola p areolae p Ariely p asexuals p Asperger p autist p autistics p autists p automatization p aversive p avoidant p BDSM p benzodiazepine p benzodiazepines p binging p biohazard p BMI # body mass index p bonobo p bonobos p bottlenose p boundedly p Brownmiller p Camerer p cephalopod p cephalopods p cerebrospinal p cisgender p cognitions p colonoscopy p comorbid p comorbidities p comorbidity p conspecific p conspecifics p construal p consummatory p contralateral p correlational p corticostriatal p cortisol p COVID p creatureliness p creaturely p cultivar p cyproterone p damsire p decussate p decussates p deidentified p deidentify p deinonychus p dichotomize p dichotomizing p disinhibited p dispositional p distractibility p distractor p distractors p dizygotic p dopamine p dopaminergic p duloxetine p dyad p dyads p dysmorphic p dysphoria p dysphoric p dysthymia p echidna p econometrically p economicus p efferents p electrophysiological p Elsevier p emissivity p endocannabinoid p endocannabinoids p endocrinological p endorphins p ephebophilia p epiphenomenal p epistemically p epistemologist p epistemologists p eroticization p eroticize p erotophilia p erotophobia p erotophobic p evaluability p evaluator p evolutionarily p examinee p excitatory p extraversion p extravert p extraverted p eyeblink p fluoxetine p fMRI p follicular p Freitas p frottage p GABA p gametogenesis p genotype p genotyped p genotyping p glial p glutamate p glutamatergic p glutamine p gustation p gynephilia p haloperidol p haplotype p heterozygous p hippocampus p homologue p homosexually p homozygous p homunculi p homunculus p Hsee p hyperaccessibility p hyperaccessible p iatrogenic p immunosuppression p impulsivity p interpretability p interpretable p intertemporal p introns p ionotropic p ipsilateral p JDM p Kahneman p ketoglutarate p kinesthetic p lesioned p Likert p limbic p longlegs p Luhmann p luteinizing p maladaptive p mediational p medroxyprogesterone p melatonin p menarche p metabotropic p metacognition p methaqualone p methylphenidate p micronutrient p micronutrients p microtubule p microtubules p misattribute p misattributed p misattribution p mitochondria p mitochondrion p modalities p modality p monoamine p monoamines p monotreme p monozygotic p motivationally p MZ # monozygotic p NEO # In "NEO-FFI" and "NEO PI-R" p neurobiological p neuroeconomics p neuroimaging p neuropeptide p neuropeptides p neuroscience p neuroscientific p neuroscientist p neuroscientists p neuroticism p nmol p Noam p nociception p noradrenaline p norepinephrine p nystagmus p occluder p OCD p olfaction p operationalization p operationalizations p operationalize p operationalized p opioid p opposable p orbitofrontal p organismal p oxytocin p paroxetine p parthenogenetic p pathologization p pathologize p pathologized p pathologizes p pathologizing p patrilineal p patrilineally p peacocking p peritraumatic p peritraumatically p phagocytize p phagocytized p phallometry p phenomenologically p philtrum p postsynaptic p posttreatment p pramipexole p prefrontal p pressor # In "cold-pressor task" p pretreatment p prevalences p priapism p proband p probands p proctology p prosocial p prosociality p prosocially p pseudopods p psychodynamic p psychodynamics p psycholinguistics p psychometrically p psychometrician p psychometricians p psychometrics p psychopharmaceutical p psychopharmaceuticals p psychopharmacology p PTSD p Rachlin p reinforcer p reinforcers p reliabilities p replicability p representativeness p reputational p reuptake p rostral p Rotheram p saccade p saccading p safewords p sanitization p sessile p sexualize p sexualized p sexualizes p sexualizing p sibs p sociosexuality p somatosensory p spandrel p spandrelism p spatiotemporal p speciation p spermatophore p SSRI p SSRIs p STDs p stepwise p stressor p stressors p striatal p striatum p Stroop p subscale p subscales p suicidality p symptomatology p synesthesia p synesthetic p syngamy p Tetlock p tetrahydrocannabinol p thyroiditis p Titchner p titrate p titrated p titrates p titrating p Tourette p transduced p tribadism p tryptophan p Tversky p unvaccinated p vaginismus p valenced p validities p vanillin p velociraptor p ventromedial p vestibular p viscerality p visuospatial p vitro # In "in vitro" p Wechsler p Zajonc z !name Miscellany z accelerationist z advisee z advisees z advisors z afterwards z aggress z aggressed z aggresses z aggressing z al # In "et al." z aleph z analyses z analytical z Angeleno z Angelenos z Angeles z anthropic z anthropomorphize z anthropomorphized z anthropomorphizes z anthropomorphizing z approachability z arcana z archetypical z arrestee z arrestees z artisanal z aspirational z assumedly z asynchrony z atheoretical z autodidactic z autodidacticsm z bandicoot z believability z bindle z bioconservative z Bornean z bulleted z burqa z café z calendrical z caltrop z caltrops z capita # In "per capita" z castrati z Charlottesville z chitter z chittered z chittering z chitters z colloquia z comedically z concordantly z Confucianist z Confucianists z contrarian z corpsicle z could've z counterfactual z counterintuitive z counterintuitively z debatably z defeatingly z defenestrate z definitional z deniability z denialism z deontological z desistance z desynchronization z detectability z diarch z diarchy z didacticism z differentially z digressionary z dilemmata z disambiguate z disambiguated z disambiguates z disambiguating z disambiguation z disposability z dissociable z distractible z dojigger z Dopp z dualist z duffel z durations z dystopia z efficacies z eldritch z electability z epistemic z epistemological z epistemologically z equilibria z essentialism z essentialist z esurient z et # In "et al." z ethicist z eunuchism z fakery z falsifiability z falsificationism z falsificatory z fashionista z faux z favorability z fellate z fellated z fellates z fellating z FEMA z festschrift z fivefold z flashbang z flechette z flipside z fogey z forbiddance z Führer z gaijin z gameplay z gefilte z generalizability z geocentrism z granularities z Hashanah z hearted z hearteningly z heliocentrism z heretically z hermeneutics z Herostratus z hijinks z hoc # In "ad hoc" z hominem # In "ad hominem" z housecat z hypotheticality z identifiably z imperviousness z incapacitation z incentivized z incommensurable z incommensurably z incomparability z incongruent z incorporeity z indices z instantiation z instantiations z intentioned z interdisciplinarity z interlibrary z irreproducible z irresistibility z jism z kholodets z LaGuardia z latke z latkes z leapt z libertarianism z lispingly z literatures z Los z lumen z lumens z luminiferous z manageably z may've z men's z merchantability z midline z might've z militaries z millennia z miscommunication z misremember z mooks z mâché # In "papier-mâché" z natured z naturedly z nauseam # In "ad nauseam" z neoliberal z Neoplatonic z nihilo z noogie z normatively z numerousness z Obama z obfuscatory z observables z online z onwards z ostensive z ostensively z papier # In "papier-mâché" z parodic z passant # In "en passant" z permissibility z pled z Popperian z positivity z preindustrial z prepended z prepending z preprovided z prespecified z priori # In "a priori" z proficiencies z progressivism z progressivist z progressivists z proven z proximately z pseudonymously z pseudoscientific z Puerto # In "Puerto Rico" z puffery z puzzlingly z quadrichotomy z qualia z quesadilla z quesadillas z quo # In "status quo" z reactivity z rebar z recency z recoilless z reconceptualization z recreationally z reexperience z referenda z reification z reified z relatedly z relativistically z reproducibility z residuary z responder z resubmission z roboticist z roboticists z roleplay z roleplaying z roly # In "roly-poly" z romanticization z Rosh # In "Rosh Hashanah" z RPG z se # In "per se" z sedulity z should've z shuriken z sigil z singlemindedly z situational z snarky z solipsist z spacetime z spelunk z spelunked z spelunking z spelunks z spilt z steganography z stereotypically z suboptimal z superordinate z supportively z synchronism z tantric z themself z theodicy z thingie z Tiananmen z tradeoff z tradeoffs z transhumanist z trichotomous z trichotomy z trinitarianism z tropospheric z troublingly z unaddressed z uncoincidentally z underappreciated z undergird z undergirds z underperform z underperformed z underreport z unexamined z unfalsifiability z unfalsifiable z uninterpretable z unrelatedly z unsupportive z unyieldingly z vengefulness z veridical z versa # In "vice versa" z vigintillion z vigintillions z vortices z Westchester z whencever z women's z y'know z Yorker # In "New Yorker" z ziggurat z ziggurats