coined words
- repair coined 1300
- larceny coined 1425
- psychology coined 1450 by Marko Maruli
- firstly coined 1475
- rupee coined 1540 by Sher Shah Suri
- rhythm coined 1557
- levity coined 1564
- guy coined 1570 by Guy Fawkes
- blatant coined 1596 by Edmund Spenser
- chemistry coined 1605
- gigantic coined 1612 by Michael Drayton
- crater coined 1613
- disbelieve coined 1640
- crony coined 1655
- barometer coined 1665 by Robert Boyle
- witticism coined 1670 by John Dryden
- nostalgia coined 1688 by Johannes Hofer
- vitreous coined 1733 by Charles Fran
- hydrogen coined 1737 by Louis-Bernard Guyton
- vaccination coined 1749 by Edward Jenner
- vaccine coined 1749 by Edward Jenner
- serendipity coined 1754 by Horace Walpole
- aphid coined 1758 by Carolus Linnaeus
- mammal coined 1758
- freelance coined 1771 by Walter Scott
- cumulus coined 1772 by Luke Howard
- utilitarian coined 1781 by Jeremy Bentham
- belittle coined 1782 by Thomas Jefferson
- percept coined 1788 by Sir William Hamilton
- nitrogen coined 1790 by Jean-Antoine Chaptal
- panorama coined 1792 by Robert Barker
- physicist coined 1794 by William Whewell
- ideology coined 1796 by Antoine Destutt
- iridescent coined 1800
- energy coined 1802 by Thomas Young
- torpedo coined 1805 by Robert Fulton
- potassium coined 1807 by Humphry Davy
- calcium coined 1808 by Humphry Davy
- sodium coined 1808 by Humphry Davy
- chlorine coined 1810 by Humphry Davy
- chloride coined 1812 by Humphry Davy
- fluorine coined 1813 by Humphry Davy
- iodine coined 1814 by Humphry Davy
- viaduct coined 1816
- group coined 1830
- polymer coined 1833 by Jacob Berzelius
- anode coined 1834 by William Whewell
- cation coined 1834 by William Whewell
- ion coined 1834 by William Whewell
- scientist coined 1834 by William Whewell
- ecclesiology coined 1837 by British Critic
- cyclone coined 1840 by Henry Piddington
- harmonium coined 1840 by Alexandre Debain
- insectivore coined 1840 by William Whewell
- kindergarten coined 1840 by Friedrich Fr
- dinosaur coined 1841 by Richard Owen
- halogen coined 1842
- folklore coined 1846 by William Thoms
- paronym coined 1846
- scalar coined 1846 by William Rowan Hamilton
- simplex coined 1846 by Pieter Hendrik Schoute
- vector coined 1846 by William Rowan Hamilton
- linguistics coined 1847 by William Whewell
- fluorescence coined 1852 by George Stokes
- diphtheria coined 1855
- aerobic coined 1863 by Louis Pasteur
- entropy coined 1865 by Rudolph Clausius
- supernormal coined 1865
- homosexual coined 1868 by Karl Maria Kertbeny
- homosexuality coined 1869 by Karl Maria Kertbeny
- enzyme coined 1878 by Ancient Greek
- dyad coined 1884 by Josiah Willard Gibbs
- dyadic coined 1884 by Josiah Willard Gibbs
- tabloid coined 1884 by United Kingdom
- admittance coined 1887
- back-formation coined 1888
- dulcitone coined 1888 by Thomas Machell
- electrocution coined 1888
- televisor coined 1888 by John Logie Baird
- cinema coined 1890
- deflate coined 1891
- electron coined 1891 by George Stoney
- marathon coined 1894 by Michel Br
- antimatter coined 1898 by Arthur Schuster
- radioactive coined 1898 by Pierre Curie
- conjugated coined 1899 by Johannes Thiele
- neutron coined 1899 by William Sutherland
- heterozygote coined 1902 by Edith Rebecca Saunders
- homozygote coined 1902 by Edith Rebecca Saunders
- agribusiness coined 1904 by John Herbert Davis
- nociceptive coined 1906 by Charles Sherrington
- proprioception coined 1906 by Charles Scott Sherrington
- blurb coined 1907
- empathy coined 1909 by Edward Bradford Titchener
- gene coined 1909 by Wilhelm Ludwig Johannsen
- isotope coined 1909 by Margaret Todd
- ambivalence coined 1910 by Eugen Bleuler
- conurbation coined 1915
- photon coined 1916 by Leonard Troland
- psychedelic coined 1917 by Humphry Osmond
- diode coined 1919 by William Henry Eccles
- four-way coined 1920 by John Kiradjieff
- three-way coined 1920 by John Kiradjieff
- phot coined 1921
- lipid coined 1923 by Gabriel Bertrand
- transsexual coined 1923 by Magnus Hirschfeld
- racketeering coined 1927 by Employers' Association
- tau coined 1927 by Martin Lewis Perl
- quark coined 1929 by Murray Gell-Mann
- whodunit coined 1930 by Donald Gordon
- proactive coined 1933 by Gerald Blankfort
- nylon coined 1938
- instantiation coined 1946
- transistor coined 1947 by John Robinson Pierce
- flat coined 1956
- clade coined 1957
- beatnik coined 1958 by Herb Caen
- software coined 1958 by John Tukey
- numeracy coined 1959 by UK Committee
- doll coined 1966 by Jacqueline Susann
- informatics coined 1967
- pulsar coined 1968 by Antony Hewish
- flow coined 1975 by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- meme coined 1976 by Richard Dawkins
- podcast coined 1976 by Ben Hammersley
- mobile coined 1978 by Richard Bartle
- thruster coined 1980 by Simon Anderson
- slipstream coined 1989 by Bruce Sterling
- satori coined 1991 by Daisuke Yamamoto
- euro coined 1995 by Germain Pirlot
- matrix coined 1999
- based coined 2010 by California Lil
- dwarrowdam coined 2010
- side coined 2010 by Joe Kort
- legacy coined 2011 by Rob Daviau
- posit coined 2017 by John Gustafson
- glimmer coined 2020
- acetylene coined by Marcellin Berthelot
- agastache coined by Ancient Greek
- aluminium coined
- anthology coined
- aquarium coined by Philip Henry Gosse
- battery coined by Benjamin Franklin
- boo coined
- buoy coined
- bureaucracy coined by Jean Claude Marie Vincent
- carbon coined by Antoine Lavoisier
- centrifugal coined by Christiaan Huygens
- centripetal coined by Sir Isaac Newton
- clonism coined
- collagen coined
- deferential coined
- essay coined
- exogamy coined by John Ferguson McLennan
- finicking coined
- folks coined by Kevin Starr
- gas coined by Jan Baptist
- gel coined mid 19th century by Thomas Graham
- genetic coined
- gonad coined
- graphology coined by Jean-Hippolyte Michon
- guerrilla coined
- harmonica coined by Benjamin Franklin
- heathenism coined 17th century
- immunization coined by Albert Calmette
- irreticence coined by Virginia Woolf
- joyance coined by Edmund Spenser
- khaki coined
- lactose coined by Marcelin Berthelot
- logarithm coined by Ancient Greek
- loggerhead coined
- magnesium coined by Humphry Davy
- mannerism coined by Luigi Lanzi
- mint coined
- moron coined
- oxide coined
- panjandrum coined 18th century by Samuel Foote
- philosopher coined
- portmanteau coined
- predesignate coined by Sir William Hamilton
- protein coined
- psilocybin coined by Albert Hofmann
- psycholytic coined
- quality coined
- quantification coined by Sir William Hamilton
- radar coined by Lieutenant-Commander Samuel
- rotor coined by William Kingdon Clifford
- schizophrenia coined by Eugen Bleuler
- scrambling coined
- semiosis coined by Charles Sanders Peirce
- semiotics coined by Ancient Greek
- silicon coined by Thomas Thomson
- smarmy coined
- solidus coined
- speckle coined late 16th century
- stratosphere coined
- streetcar coined
- suggest coined
- sylph coined 16th century
- synchronous coined
- taxi coined
- taximeter coined
- telemeter coined
- theocracy coined 1st century by Against Apion
- transgender coined
- vacciolation coined
- widget coined
- woman-born-woman coined
Dates come from each word's history on Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org (CC BY-SA).