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.
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alcohol • Algebra • aluminium/aluminum • ammonia • anaesthetic/anesthetic • April • Arithmetic • asbestos • August • automobile
ballet • bank • bar • beef • beer • Biology • bomb
cafe • calendar • centi- • champagne • chauffeur • chemist • Chemistry • check • chocolate • cigarette • circus • citron • club • coffee • cocktail • cognac • College • colony
dance • December • degree • dynamite
eight • electricity • eleven • Embassy • Empire • encyclopedia • engineer
February • fifteen • fifth • fifty • five • four • fourteen • fourth • forty • Friday
gas • Geography • Geology • Geometry • gram • glycerin
half • hotel • hundred • hyena • hygiene • hysteria
Imperial • influenza • international
latitude • lava • litre/liter • liqueur • longitude
macaroni • madam • magnetic • malaria • March • Mathematics • May • metre/meter• micro- • microscope • milli- • million • minute • Monday • Museum
neutron • nickel • nicotine • nine • November
October • olive • once • omelet • one • opera • opium • orchestra • organism
pyjamas/pajamas • paraffin • paradise • park • passport • patent • penguin • petroleum • phonograph • Physics • Physiology • piano • platinum • police • post • President • Prince • Princess • program • propaganda • Psychology • pyramid
radio • radium • referendum • restaurant • rheumatism • Royal • rum
salad • sardine • Saturday • second • September • seven • sir • six • sixteen • sport • Sunday• Sex
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
vanilla • violin • visa • vitamin • vodka • volt