words from the 1900s
- accelerator 1900
- acronym 1900
- television 1900
- heterozygote coined 1902 by Edith Rebecca Saunders
- homozygote coined 1902 by Edith Rebecca Saunders
- agribusiness coined 1904 by John Herbert Davis
- savvy 1905
- nociceptive coined 1906 by Charles Sherrington
- one-way 1906
- proprioception coined 1906 by Charles Scott Sherrington
- blurb coined 1907
- panty 1908
- 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
- bai 1910
- nitwit 1910
- spic 1910
- coverage 1912
- jazz 1912
- addictive 1914
- conurbation coined 1915
- shiv 1915
- tad 1915
- tank 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
- teenage 1921
- abo 1922
- lipid coined 1923 by Gabriel Bertrand
- transsexual coined 1923 by Magnus Hirschfeld
- jalopy 1924
- pearlescent 1926
- racketeering coined 1927 by Employers' Association
- tau coined 1927 by Martin Lewis Perl
- limo 1929
- quark coined 1929 by Murray Gell-Mann
- efficient 1930
- elitism 1930
- oddball 1930
- whodunit coined 1930 by Donald Gordon
- proactive coined 1933 by Gerald Blankfort
- customize 1934
- fitness 1935
- nylon coined 1938
- machismo 1940
- gin 1941
- instantiation coined 1946
- transistor coined 1947 by John Robinson Pierce
- weirdo 1950
- flat coined 1956
- clade coined 1957
- beatnik coined 1958 by Herb Caen
- software coined 1958 by John Tukey
- numeracy coined 1959 by UK Committee
- zit 1960
- pixel 1965
- doll coined 1966 by Jacqueline Susann
- informatics coined 1967
- prioritize 1967
- consciousness-raising 1968
- pulsar coined 1968 by Antony Hewish
- email 1970
- sprite 1970
- 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
- icon 1982
- slipstream coined 1989 by Bruce Sterling
- jawn 1990
- satori coined 1991 by Daisuke Yamamoto
- euro coined 1995 by Germain Pirlot
- matrix coined 1999
Dates come from each word's history on Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org (CC BY-SA).