Wikipedia:Basic English international wordlist

This is a list of Basic English "international" words in alphabetical order. These words are similar in many Western languages, are used in diplomacy or schools, or are international standards.

This page is a list of words that come from a specific source and should not be changed.
Please do not add new items or make casual updates to it, unless you are correcting it to match its original source.

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A

alcohol • Algebra • aluminium/aluminum • ammonia • anaesthetic/anesthetic • April • Arithmetic • asbestos • August • autobus • automobile

B

ballet • Bang • bank • bar • beef • beer • Biology • bomb

C

cafe • calendar • catarrh • centi- • champagne • chauffeur • chemist • Chemistry • check • chocolate • chorus • cigarette • circus • citron • club • coffee • cocktail • cognac • College • colony

D

dance • December • deci- • degree • Dominion • dynamite

E

eight • electricity • eleven • Embassy • Empire • encyclopedia • engineer

F

February • fifteen • fifth • fifty • five • four • fourteen • fourth • forty • Friday

G

gas • Geography • Geology • Geometry • gram • glycerin

H

half • Hiss • hotel • hundred • hyena • hygiene • hysteria

I

Imperial • inferno • influenza • international

J

January • jazz • July • June

K

kilo- • King

L

latitude • lava • litre/liter • liqueur • longitude

M

macaroni • madam • magnetic • malaria • mania • March • Mathematics • May • metre/meter • Mew • micro- • microscope • milli- • million • minute • Monday • Museum

N

neutron • nickel • nicotine • nine • November

O

October • olive • once • omelet • one • opera • opium • orchestra • organism

P

pyjamas/pajamas • paraffin • paradise • park • passport • patent • penguin • petroleum • phonograph • Physics • Physiology • piano • platinum • police • post • potash • President • Prince • Princess • program • propaganda • Psychology • Purr • pyramid

Q

Quack • quarter • Queen • quinine

R

radio • radium • referendum • restaurant • rheumatism • Royal • rum

S

salad • sardine • Saturday • second • September • serum • seven • sir • six • sixteen • sport • Sunday

T

tapioca • taxi • tea • telegram • telephone • ten • terrace • theatre • thermometer • third • thirteen • thirty • thousand • three • Thursday • toast • tobacco • torpedo • Tuesday • turbine • twenty-one • twelve • twenty • twice • two

U

university

V

vanilla • violin • visa • vitamin • vodka • volt

W

Wednesday • whisky

Z

zebra • zinc • Zoology

External links

• Odgen's Basic English "International Word" list