List of American English words not used in British English American auto, automobile barf (colloquial) barnyard bill

(paper money) blinders (on a horse) broil bullhorn burglarize British car (as US), van (for small commercial vehicle) puke (colloquial), vomit, be sick farmyard note blinkers grill (cooking) loudhailer / megaphone (occasionally bullhorn) burgle (no equivalent) junior restaurant worker assisting waiting staff, table clearer, water pourer etc. engaged tone sweets

busboy

busy signal candy

Quick Facts about: canola Quick Summary not (oilseed) rape found for this subjectcanola carriage (for baby) cart (for shopping) pram (shopping) trolley

Quick Facts about: checkers A checkerboard game for two players who each draughts have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's piecescheckers

check (bank check) cheque check (meal payment) checking account cilantro collect call (telephony) cookout cotton candy crapshoot cuss diaper diner drapes drug store drywall dumpster duplex (house) eggplant "El" elevator envision fall fanny pack ( N.B. : Fanny is British slang for vagina) faucet bill current account coriander reverse charge call (telephony) informal meal cooked and eaten outdoors - a cross between a picnic and a barbecue candy floss risky and uncertain venture swear nappy cafe curtains chemist, chemist's shop plasterboard, or any process that builds interior walls without the use of water skip semi-detached aubergine elevated railway used in urban transport lift envisage autumn bum bag tap

flashlight gasoline gotten green thumb gridiron hickey (hominey) grits hobo hog intern irregardless kleenex

torch petrol got (but gotten is used in some British dialects) green fingers field of play for American football love bite coarsely ground maize boiled for breakfast, especially in the Southern USA tramp, vagrant mature pig temporarily employed trainee regardless generic term for tissue (from brand name, which is known in Britain but not used generically) sweets in a shape reminiscent of a life-belt, usually packaged in a roll lifejacket maths named after meet (meet with is also used)

lifesavers life preserver math named for meet with

normalcy (common in speech though normality usually seen as erroneous) pantyhose parking lot popsicle tights car park ice lolly

direct debit (variable pre-authorized amount)/standing order payment/withdrawal (fixed amount) railroad raincheck railway put off (possibly indefinitely) Quick Facts about: abseil A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher pointabseil (to descend on a rope) toilet(s), loo, lavatory swede spring onion Sellotape (brand name used generically) saloon (car) artic (for articulated lorry) pavement (unlike US, always refers to sidewalk, never to road), footpath frying pan second (particularly second-year students) (terrestrial) telescope (vegetable) marrow estate car manual gearbox (not often used, since it's the default. The opposite is "an automatic") informer tram pushchair, buggy

rappel

restroom rutabaga scallion Scotch tape sedan (car) semi (truck) sidewalk skillet sophomore spyglass squash station wagon stick-shift stool pigeon streetcar stroller

switchback tenderloin theater (movie) theater (stage) thumb tack

hairpin bend or bends fillet steak cinema theatre drawing pin

Quick Facts about: tic-tac-toe A game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a noughts and crosses 3-by-3 board; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent doestictac-toe traffic circle, rotary triplex (house) trolley car truck stop turn signal, directionals tuxedo two cents underpants undershirt wall jack roundabout no direct equivalent, more than two houses joined together "terraced" houses tram transport cafe indicators dinner jacket, 'DJ', 'black tie' fourpenn'orth/tuppenn'orth pants (some regions), knickers (usually female), underpants vest, singlet electricity outlet, plug socket, phone socket, power socket, or even "plug", despite being

exactly the same term as the thing that fits into it. wall wart transformer that plugs directly into the wall socket i.e. has no trailing lead/power cable

Quick Facts about: xerox Duplicator that copies graphic matter by the action of light on an photocopy (although electrically charged 'xerox' is still used by photoconductive some older people) insulating surface in which the latent image is developed with a resinous powderxerox at traffic lights. In British English this is always referred to as the Quick Facts about: amber A deep yellow coloramber light.

yellow light

Quick Facts about: ZIP code A code of letters and digits added to postcode a postal address to aid in the sorting of mailZIP code zucchini courgette