- pp. 67 and 503 cortége
- pp. 150 and 169 enciente
- p. 182 Urh hai or Uhr sea
- p. 192 crenulated
- p. 297 alluvial plane
- p. 694 bestead
The following are used inconsistently in the text:
- Compass directions (e.g. northwest/north-west) are inconsistently hyphenated
- aërial and aerial
- ærolites and aerolites
- background and back-ground
- chihlí and chih-lí
- cocoanuts and cocoa-nuts
- crawfish and craw-fish
- demigod and demi-god
- dépôt and depot
- earrings and ear-rings
- Édifiantes and Edifiantes
- Façade and Facade
- firstborn and first-born
- flagstaffs and flag-staffs
- Fuhhí and Fuh-hí
- Grainery and Granary
- grasscloth and grass-cloth and Kwachau
- headmen and head-men
- headquarters and head-quarters
- headwaters and head-waters
- hiohching and hioh-ching
- horseshoe and horse-shoe
- hum and hûm
- Hungtsih and Hung-tsih
- inflow and in-flow
- jih and juh
- Kihngan and Kih-ngan
- Kílung and Kilung
- Kisilbash and Kisil-bash
- Kwachau and Kwa-chau
- Lí-fan and Li-fan
- Lintsing and Lin-tsing
- Lohyang and Loh-yang
- maladministration and mal-administration
- Manasarowa and Manasa-rowa
- matchmaker and match-maker
- Ma Tsupu and Ma Tsu-pu
- merrymaking and merry-making
- Nankau and Nan-kau
- Ningyuen and Ning-yuen
- overtopped and over-topped
- Pwanyü and Pwanyu
- rainfall and rain-fall
- reöpened and reopened
- résumé and resumé
- ridgepole and ridge-pole
- rockwork and rock-work
- seaboard and sea-board
- seacoast and sea-coast
- seashore and sea-shore
- sea-weed and seaweed
- semicircular and semi-circular
- Shameen and Sha-meen
- Shanhai and Shan-hai
- Shihpah and Shih-pah
- Síngan and Sí-ngan
- Síning and Sí-ning
- signboards and sign-boards
- silkworm and silk-worm
- stiffnecked and stiff-necked
- Suitsing and Sui-tsing
- synonyms and synonymes
- Talí and Ta-lí
- Tapa and Ta-pa
- threefold and three-fold
- títuh and tí-tuh
- Tsitsihar and Tsi-tsi-har
- tsiangkiun and tsiang-kiun
- Tsupu and Tsu-pu
- Tungkwan and Tung-kwan
- twofold and two-fold
- untamable and untameable
- Ushí and Ushi
- vicegerent and vice-gerent
- watercourses and water-courses
- watershed and water-shed
- wellnigh and well-nigh
- wheelbarrows and wheel-barrows
- widespread and wide-spread
- woodwork and wood-work
- Yuenming and Yuen-ming