Thousands of words have entered the language in the past 100 years. Here is a partial list:
- x-ray, or röntgenograph(November 8, 1895, by Röntgen)
- radar (1941) from Radio Detection And Ranging
- laser (1960) from Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
- blackhole (1968)
- meme (1976)
- prion (1982)
- lidar (late 90s) from Light Detection And Ranging
- Internet (1974)
- hyperspace (1934)
- robotics (1941)
- waldo (1942)
- ansible (1966)
- phaser (1966)
- ringworld (1971)
- replicant (1982)
- cyberspace (1984)
- xenocide (1991)
- metaverse (1992)
- alien space bats (1998)
- teleojuxtaposition (2003)
- carpetbagging (19th century)
- genocide (1943)
- Dixiecrat (1948)
- meritocracy (1958)
- pro-life (1961)
- homophobia (1969)
- Californication (1970s)
- heterosexism (1979)
- glocalisation (1980s)
- astroturfing (1986)
- Islamophobia (1991)
- fauxtography (1996)
- corporatocracy (2000s)
- Islamofascism (2001)
- santorum (2003)
- Chindia (2004)
- Saddlebacking (2009)
- Accenture (2001), derived from 'Accent on the future'
- Acette (2002), derived from 'ace', meaning expertise, and the encapsulating suffix 'ette'; when read together as aye~set signifying 'expertise encapsulated'.
- Protiviti (2002), derived from professionalism and proactivity as well as independence and integrity.
- Bauhaus (early 20th century)
- blobject (1990s)
- fabject (2004), a fabricated 3-D object
- kirkyan (2006)
- moin (early 20th century)
- prequel (1958)
- posterized (c. 1980s) ("posterize" also has existed for some time as a term for an image-editing technique; its neologistic sports usage is completely unrelated)
- queercore (mid 1980s)
- blog (late 1990s)
- chav (early 2000s)
- webinar (early 2000s)
- truthiness (2005) (already existed as an obscure word previously recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary, but its 2005 usage on the Colbert Report was a neologistic one, with a new definition)
- fauxhawk (late 1990s)
- aspirin
- hoover
- laundromat
- linguistics
- retronym (popularized in 1980)
- backronym (1983)
- aptronym (2003; popularized by Franklin Pierce Adams)
- snowclone (2004)
- xerox
- googling
- photoshopping
- protologism (2005)