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Unit names for worldbuilding: lengths, distances, weights, volumes, land areas and time spans such as Bowshot, Mule-Load, Candle-Inch, Ox-Day and Hearth-Kettle. Real historical units carry their origin in brackets, like Verst (Russian distance).

About unit of measurement names

Real units of measurement grew out of everyday life. A cubit is a forearm, a fathom is the reach of two outstretched arms, a furlong is the length of a furrow, and a hogshead is a cask. Invented units convince for the same reason: a Bowshot, a Mule-Load, a Hearth-Kettle, an Ox-Day of plowland or a Candle-Inch of time tells the reader how people in your world live and work.

This list holds 1,000 unit names of two separate kinds. Entries whose brackets start with a people, a place or a period (Russian, biblical, medieval, or simply old), such as Verst (Russian distance), Kilderkin (English ale cask) or Shekel (biblical weight), are real historical units. They come without conversion values, because most changed from region to region. Everything else was coined for worldbuilding: body lengths, travel distances, loads, vessels, field work and time spans, short units in dwarvish, elvish, desert and steppe styles, shipboard and soldier units for science fiction, and a small comic share. Brackets say what a unit measures where the name alone does not.

One caution: everyday objects became units all over the world, so a coined name here may match a local measure somewhere. Treat a name without an origin as fiction, not as proof that no such unit ever existed.

How to choose unit of measurement names

  • Build a small system instead of one unit: pick a short length, a travel distance, a weight, a volume and a time span that could come from the same daily life, such as Knuckle, Day's March, Mule-Load, Stewpot and Candle-Inch.
  • Let the unit show what the culture does. Herders count in Fleece and Cow-Summer, sailors in Day's Sail and Tide-Run, smiths in Forge-Shift.
  • Keep units a little vague on purpose. Old measures differed between towns, so a character can grumble that a northern Stewpot holds less. Skip the conversion table unless the plot needs one.
  • If you borrow a real unit, remember where it comes from: a Verst suggests Russia and a Koku suggests Japan, which may or may not suit an invented world.
  • For science fiction, mix formal units named after people, like Veyra (drive output), with crew slang such as Hard Burn or Sarge-Minute.

Frequently asked questions

Are the units on this list real?

Some are. Entries whose brackets start with a people, a place or a period (including the plain word old), such as Furlong (English distance), Parasang (Persian distance) and Koku (Japanese rice volume), are real historical units. The rest were coined for fiction, though pots, loads and candles became units in so many places that a coined name may match a local one.

Why are there no conversion values?

Most old units never had a single value. They changed between regions, trades and centuries, so one number would mislead. In fiction it rarely matters: readers need to feel that a Day's Ride is far and a Thimble is small, not how many meters or milliliters each one is.

How do I invent a believable unit of measurement?

Start from something everyone in the culture handles: a body part, a tool, a container, a load an animal carries, or a job that takes a known time. Bowshot, Ox-Day and Mule-Load work because a reader pictures them at once. Then decide who sets the standard, if anyone, because quarrels over measures make good story detail.

What do the brackets after a name mean?

They say what the unit measures where the name does not make it plain, as in Kettle (ale) or Candle (time). On real units they give the origin first, as in Stone (English weight), and on the coined language-style units they give the style: dwarvish, elvish, desert or steppe.

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A: 39 names

  • Aam (Dutch wine cask)
  • Acorn-Cup (medicine)
  • Acorn-Fall (woodland)
  • Acre (English land)
  • Adair-Voss (energy yield)
  • Aerenne (elvish walking distance)
  • Air-Bottle (air)
  • Airlock (a few steps)
  • Almud (Spanish dry measure)
  • Almude (Portuguese wine measure)
  • Alqueire (Portuguese grain measure)
  • Amphora (Roman wine volume)
  • Anchor-Drop (depth)

A, continued

  • Anchor-Weight
  • Angler's Inch (always longer in the telling)
  • Anker (Dutch wine cask)
  • Ankle-Deep
  • Anvil (heavy weight)
  • Apple-Basket
  • Apple-Stand (orchard)
  • Apprentice-Hour (two hours)
  • Ardeb (Egyptian grain measure)
  • Arkhut (steppe kettle of tea)
  • Arm-and-a-Half
  • Aroura (ancient Greek and Egyptian land)
  • Arpent (French land)

A, continued

  • Arroba (Spanish weight)
  • Arrow-Length
  • Arrowhead (small weight)
  • Arshin (Russian length)
  • Artaba (Persian dry volume)
  • Arvelin (elvish forest distance)
  • Aune (French cloth length)
  • Aurochs-Horn (mead)
  • Axe-Day (woodland)
  • Axe-Haft
  • Axe-Thick (ice)
  • Azumbre (Spanish liquid measure)
  • Azzurak (desert caravan distance)

B: 83 names

  • Baatik (steppe saddle-load)
  • Back-Burden
  • Baker's Generous Dozen
  • Baking (hours)
  • Baktun (Maya long count)
  • Ballast-Basket
  • Ballyboe (Irish land)
  • Banner-Field
  • Bard's Brief Word (about an hour)
  • Barge-Day
  • Barid (Arabic courier stage)
  • Barleycorn (English small length)
  • Barn-Floor

B, continued

  • Barrel (English ale cask)
  • Barrique (French wine cask)
  • Basin (water)
  • Bath (biblical liquid volume)
  • Bathful (water)
  • Beacon-Hop (distance between buoys)
  • Beacon-Sight
  • Bead-String
  • Beam (timber)
  • Beard-Length
  • Bed (garden)
  • Bell (old naval time)
  • Bell-Hearing (parish land)
  • Bell-Metal (bronze)

B, continued

  • Bell-Reach
  • Bellows-Count (forge time)
  • Belt (ammunition count)
  • Beru (Mesopotamian double hour)
  • Bigha (Indian land)
  • Biscuit-Dunk (short time)
  • Blackjack (ale)
  • Blade (a sword's reach)
  • Blast-Width
  • Blink
  • Bloom (raw iron)
  • Boat-Catch
  • Boisseau (French dry measure)
  • Boll (Scottish grain measure)

B, continued

  • Bolt (English cloth length)
  • Bonfire (light)
  • Boom (docking distance)
  • Boot (ale)
  • Boot-Deep (snow)
  • Boot-Mile
  • Bootlength
  • Bootprint (low-gravity stride)
  • Borghal (dwarvish ale barrel)
  • Boulder (heaviest weight)
  • Bounce (moon stride)
  • Boundary-Walk
  • Bovate (medieval land)
  • Bowshot

B, continued

  • Bowstave
  • Braccio (Italian arm)
  • Braid (hair or rope)
  • Brannick (radiation dose)
  • Brass-Hour (longer than an hour)
  • Brasse (French arm span)
  • Braza (Spanish arm span)
  • Bread-Oven (heat)
  • Bread-Rise
  • Bread-Walk
  • Breath (short time)
  • Breather (suit air)
  • Brenta (Italian wine measure)
  • Brew (days)

B, continued

  • Brewer's Vat
  • Brick (weight)
  • Brick-Course (wall height)
  • Broom-Flight (a night's travel)
  • Brow (height)
  • Brundt (dwarvish heavy iron)
  • Bucket-Night (rain)
  • Bulkhead (wall thickness)
  • Bunder (Dutch land)
  • Burn (thrust time)
  • Burtek (steppe wool)
  • Bushel (English dry measure)
  • Bushel-Sowing
  • Butt (English wine cask)

C: 93 names

  • Caballería (Spanish colonial land)
  • Cabbage-Patch
  • Cable (old naval distance)
  • Cairn (trail marker to marker)
  • Camel-Burden
  • Camel-Day
  • Campfire (a day's travel)
  • Can (cargo container)
  • Candle (time)
  • Candle-Bright (light)
  • Candle-Inch
  • Candle-Notch
  • Candle-Warm (heat)

C, continued

  • Candle-Weight
  • Cántara (Spanish wine measure)
  • Canteen-Day
  • Carat (old jewelers' weight)
  • Caravan-Day
  • Carga (Spanish mule-load)
  • Carpenter's Rule
  • Cart-Width
  • Cartron (Irish land)
  • Carucate (medieval land)
  • Castellane (air purity)
  • Cat's Opinion (weight of disapproval)
  • Cat-Nap (short time)

C, continued

  • Cat-Stretch (longer than the cat)
  • Catty (Chinese trade weight)
  • Cauldron (broth)
  • Cauldron-Stir (brewing time)
  • Cavan (Philippine rice measure)
  • Celemín (Spanish dry measure)
  • Cell (rifle charge)
  • Celwenn (elvish arrow flight)
  • Centuria (Roman land)
  • Chain (English surveyors' length)
  • Chaldron (English coal measure)
  • Chandler's Dip (candle thickness)
  • Charcoal-Pannier

C, continued

  • Charcoal-Stand
  • Charge-Brick (battery charge)
  • Charka (Russian cup volume)
  • Charter Year
  • Cheese-Turn (days)
  • Cheese-Wheel
  • Chest-High
  • Chetvert (Russian grain volume)
  • Chi (Chinese length)
  • Chimney (household plot)
  • Choinix (ancient Greek grain ration)
  • Chopin (Scottish liquid measure)
  • Chopine (French liquid measure)
  • Chous (ancient Greek liquid volume)

C, continued

  • Chow-Bar (ration)
  • Chupak (Malay rice measure)
  • Churn (milk)
  • Circle (ritual size)
  • Cistern (water)
  • Cloak-Length (cloth)
  • Clutch (eggs)
  • Coat of Mail (weight)
  • Cock-Crow
  • Coffee (short wait)
  • Coil (rope)
  • Coinweight
  • Collop (Irish grazing land)

C, continued

  • Colony-Year
  • Combat Drop (one deployment)
  • Committee-Year (time for one decision)
  • Company Hour
  • Congius (Roman liquid volume)
  • Cookpot (grain)
  • Cooper's Hoop
  • Coppice-Lot
  • Copyist's Day
  • Cord (old firewood stack)
  • Corridor (station distance)
  • Cottage-Ground
  • Courier's Ride

C, continued

  • Cow-Summer (pasture)
  • Cran (Scottish herring measure)
  • Crater (blast size)
  • Crawler-Day (surface distance)
  • Cream-Pan
  • Creel (fish)
  • Crock (honey)
  • Crow-Flight
  • Cruet (oil)
  • Crumb (smallest serving)
  • Cubit (ancient length)
  • Culleus (Roman wine volume)
  • Curfew (a night)
  • Cyathus (Roman small volume)

D: 45 names

  • Daelis (elvish bow height)
  • Dark-of-Moon
  • Dark-Shift (station night)
  • Daskell (shield strength)
  • Davoch (Scottish land)
  • Day's March
  • Day's Ride
  • Day's Sail
  • Day's Walk
  • Deben (ancient Egyptian weight)
  • Deck (height)
  • Deck-Weight
  • Depa (Malay arm span)
  • Desyatina (Russian land)
  • Dew-Dry (morning hours)

D, continued

  • Dhanus (Indian bow height)
  • Dhunaq (desert camel-load)
  • Dicker (old count of ten hides)
  • Digit (Roman small length)
  • Dipper (water)
  • Diver's Breath (depth)
  • Dock-Slot (cargo area)
  • Dog-Bark (earshot)
  • Dog-Shift
  • Dog-Wag (speed)
  • Dome-Width
  • Door-Width
  • Dorrak (dwarvish ore load)
  • Dou (Chinese grain volume)
  • Dough-Trough (flour)

D, continued

  • Dragon-Length
  • Dragon-Nap (a century or so)
  • Drift (coasting days)
  • Drinking-Horn
  • Dropped-Toast (bad luck)
  • Drum-Carry
  • Drying-Rack (herbs)
  • Dunam (Ottoman land)
  • Dunmorrow (dust density)
  • Durgeln (dwarvish mine distance)
  • Dust-Season
  • Dustoff-Wait
  • Dye-Lot
  • Dzorga (steppe horse height)
  • Dzurgai's Rope (steppe lasso throw)

E: 18 names

  • Ebb (hours)
  • Ebb-Drift
  • Echo (signal round trip)
  • Eel-Basket
  • Eel-Reach (marsh)
  • Egg-Basket (count)
  • Egg-Boil
  • Eggshell (medicine)
  • Eimer (German bucket measure)

E, continued

  • Elbow-Reach
  • Elder's Memory
  • Ell (English cloth length)
  • Elunir (elvish night hours)
  • Ember (short time)
  • Ember-Year (red dwarf year)
  • Ephah (biblical dry volume)
  • Estergaard (warp shear)
  • Ewer (water)

F: 46 names

  • Faelith (elvish leaf weight)
  • Fair-to-Fair (a year)
  • Falcon-Flight
  • Fall (Scottish length)
  • Familiar (weight a witch can carry)
  • Fanega (Spanish grain measure)
  • Farsakh (Arabic distance)
  • Farzut (desert oasis land)
  • Fathom (English depth)
  • Favn (Danish arm span)
  • Feddan (Egyptian land)

F, continued

  • Ferry-Crossing (river width)
  • Field-Length
  • Finger-Count (five)
  • Firing (kiln days)
  • Firkin (English ale cask)
  • Firlot (Scottish grain measure)
  • First Frost
  • Fisherman's Arm (the one that got away)
  • Fistwidth
  • Five-More-Minutes
  • Flag-Lift (wind)
  • Flagon (wine)

F, continued

  • Fleece (wool)
  • Fleet-Standard Day
  • Fletcher's Bundle
  • Flood (a year)
  • Flour-Scoop
  • Fold (one drive transit)
  • Font (water)
  • Forced March
  • Ford-to-Ford
  • Forearm-and-Fist
  • Forefinger-and-Thumb

F, continued

  • Forge-Shift
  • Forge-White (heat)
  • Fortnight (English time)
  • Founding (years since landing)
  • Freeze (one cold-sleep voyage)
  • Frigate-Length
  • Frost-Bite (cold)
  • Fuder (German cartload of wine)
  • Full-Moon (light)
  • Furlong (English distance)
  • Furrow-Field
  • Furrow-Run

G: 39 names

  • Ganduk (steppe saddle-strap)
  • Ganta (Philippine rice measure)
  • Gantang (Malay rice measure)
  • Garlic-Braid
  • Garnok (dwarvish tunnel)
  • Gate-Bell
  • Gate-to-Gate
  • Gate-Wait
  • Gaz (Persian length)
  • Geng (Chinese night watch)
  • Gerah (biblical small weight)
  • Ghati (Indian time)
  • Giant's Sneeze (wind strength)

G, continued

  • Giant-Stride
  • Gill (English liquid measure)
  • Glass (old naval time)
  • Glassblower's Breath
  • Gleaner's Strip
  • Glimmer (faint magic)
  • Glimmet (dwarvish silver)
  • Gnome's Leap (not far)
  • Goat-Tether (grazing)
  • Goatskin (wine)
  • Goblet (wine)
  • Goblin's Promise (no time at all)
  • Gold-Bead

G, continued

  • Goose-Chase (distance, no result)
  • Goose-Green
  • Gourd (water)
  • Grain (old small weight)
  • Grandfather's Winter (snow depth, deeper every year)
  • Grandmother's Tale (generations)
  • Griffin-Wing
  • Gross (old count of twelve dozen)
  • Grunt-Mile (longer than a mile)
  • Guard-Change
  • Guild-Mile
  • Gull-Sight (distance from shore)
  • Gur (Mesopotamian grain volume)

H: 72 names

  • Haddique (coolant flow)
  • Halfling's Snack (a full meal)
  • Hall-Voice (sound)
  • Halt (distance between rests)
  • Halvane (thrust)
  • Hammer-Ring (sound)
  • Hamzur (desert grain sack)
  • Hand (English horse height)
  • Handcast (land sown)
  • Hands-and-Feet (twenty)
  • Harbor-Light (distance at night)
  • Hard Burn
  • Hare's Dash
  • Hare-Pole (game count)

H, continued

  • Harrok's Thumb (dwarvish fine work)
  • Harrow-Day
  • Harvest (a year)
  • Hasta (Indian forearm)
  • Hat (grain)
  • Hat-Lifter (wind)
  • Hawk-Wing
  • Haycock (meadow)
  • Hayrick (meadow)
  • Heartbeat
  • Hearth-Banking (a night)
  • Hearth-Kettle
  • Hearth-Plot
  • Hearth-Stack (firewood)

H, continued

  • Hearthstone (builder's rod)
  • Hedge-Day
  • Heel-to-Toe
  • Hekat (ancient Egyptian grain volume)
  • Helmet (grain)
  • Hemina (Roman liquid volume)
  • Hen's Egg (kitchen scale)
  • Herb-Bed
  • Herb-Bunch
  • Herd-Night (grazing)
  • Hide (Anglo-Saxon land)
  • Hide-Stretch
  • Hin (biblical liquid volume)
  • Hiring (half a year)
  • Hiro (Japanese arm span)

H, continued

  • Hive (honey)
  • Hodd (dwarvish tankard)
  • Hoe-Day (garden)
  • Hog-Wood (woodland)
  • Hogshead (English cask)
  • Hold (Hungarian land)
  • Holdful (cargo)
  • Homer (biblical dry volume)
  • Homeweight
  • Homeyear
  • Honey-Comb (honey)
  • Honey-Spoon
  • Hoofprint (tracking)
  • Hook-String (fish count)

H, continued

  • Hopper (grain)
  • Horn (mead)
  • Horn-Call
  • Horse-Keep (pasture)
  • Horse-Morning (plowland)
  • Horseshoe (iron)
  • Hot Drop
  • Hound's Life (years)
  • Hound's Run
  • Hufe (German farm holding)
  • Hulgrim (dwarvish shaft depth)
  • Hull (ship length)
  • Hull-Down (distance at sea)
  • Hundred-Furrow
  • Hymn-Mile

I: 9 names

  • Iku (Mesopotamian land)
  • Ilvaren (elvish season)
  • Incense-Stick (hours)
  • Indiction (Roman fifteen years)
  • Ingot (metal)
  • Ink-Horn
  • Inn-to-Inn
  • Innkeeper's Pint (smaller than a pint)
  • Ishivane (magnetic flux)

J: 7 names

  • Jerib (Persian land)
  • Joch (German yoke of land)
  • Joiner's Thumb
  • Jorvald (cold-sleep time)
  • Journal (French day's plowing)
  • Jugerum (Roman land)
  • Just-a-Tick (ten minutes)

K: 34 names

  • Kab (biblical dry volume)
  • Kanna (Swedish liquid measure)
  • Keel-Clear (shallow depth)
  • Keel-Length
  • Keelstone (ballast)
  • Kegling (ale)
  • Kettle (ale)
  • Kettle-Boil (short time)
  • Kettle-Watched (time that never boils)
  • Kharvar (Persian donkey-load)
  • Kherel (steppe arrow flight)

K, continued

  • Khessar (desert cool hours)
  • Khulgar (steppe gallop)
  • Kilderkin (English ale cask)
  • Kile (Ottoman grain measure)
  • Kiln-Load
  • Kindling-Armful
  • King's Forearm
  • King's Year
  • Klafter (German arm span)
  • Knee-Deep (snow)
  • Knee-High

K, continued

  • Knight's Modesty (smallest known amount)
  • Knot (old sailors' speed)
  • Knot-Cord (counted goods)
  • Knuckle
  • Koku (Japanese rice volume)
  • Kor (biblical volume)
  • Kordrun (dwarvish stonework)
  • Korzec (Polish grain measure)
  • Kos (Indian distance)
  • Kotyle (ancient Greek cup volume)
  • Kowalczek (armor rating)
  • Kyathos (ancient Greek ladle volume)

L: 41 names

  • Lachter (German mining depth)
  • Ladle (broth)
  • Lambing (a year)
  • Lamp-Fill (oil)
  • Lamp-Lighting
  • Lamp-Oil (evening hours)
  • Lamplighter's Reach
  • Lance-Height
  • Landfall
  • Landfall-Day
  • Lantern-Glow (light)
  • Lantern-Sight
  • Lap (one orbit)

L, continued

  • Lapful (grain)
  • Lark-Rise
  • Last (English cargo measure)
  • Leadline-Mark (depth)
  • Leaf-Fall (a year)
  • League (old European distance)
  • Ledger-Weight
  • Legion-Day
  • Legua (Spanish distance)
  • Li (Chinese distance)
  • Libra (Roman weight)
  • Lindqvar (ice purity)
  • Lippie (Scottish grain measure)
  • Little Finger

L, continued

  • Loaf (bread and dough)
  • Lock-to-Lock
  • Log-Burn (hours)
  • Long Arm
  • Long Burn
  • Long Furrow
  • Long Stride
  • Longbone
  • Longnight (polar winter)
  • Longship-Length
  • Loom-Width (cloth)
  • Lord's Share
  • Lunethe (elvish moon cycle)
  • Lustrum (Roman five years)

M: 54 names

  • Mag (ammunition count)
  • Malter (German grain measure)
  • Man-Height
  • Marhala (Arabic day's journey)
  • Mark (German silver weight)
  • Market Hog (butcher's scale)
  • Market-Day (a week)
  • Market-Reach
  • Mash-Tun (ale)
  • Mason's Line
  • Mason's Reach
  • Mast-Height
  • Maund (Indian weight)

M, continued

  • Mazer (ale)
  • Mbeku (sensor range)
  • Medimnos (ancient Greek grain volume)
  • Mehzur (desert waterskin)
  • Merkland (Scottish land)
  • Metretes (ancient Greek liquid volume)
  • Milepost
  • Milk-Pail
  • Milking (half a day)
  • Mill-Sack (flour)
  • Mill-Turner (wind)
  • Miller's Loaf
  • Miller's Toll (share of grain)
  • Millstone (heavy weight)

M, continued

  • Mina (ancient Greek weight)
  • Minot (French dry measure)
  • Mirveth (elvish dew measure)
  • Mithqal (Arabic gold weight)
  • Modius (Roman grain volume)
  • Moment (medieval time)
  • Momme (Japanese small weight)
  • Monday (longest day)
  • Monsoon (a year)
  • Montrevane (terraforming progress)
  • Moon's Journey
  • Moon-Charge (stored magic)
  • Moonrise (nights)

M, continued

  • Moonweight
  • Morazin (hull stress)
  • Morgen (German morning's plowing)
  • Mower's Morning
  • Mu (Chinese land)
  • Mud (Dutch grain measure)
  • Mudd (Arabic dry measure)
  • Muhurta (Indian time)
  • Muid (French bulk measure)
  • Mule's Mind (stubbornness)
  • Mule-Day
  • Mule-Load
  • Mustard-Seed (goldsmith's scale)
  • Mutchkin (Scottish liquid measure)

N: 15 names

  • Nail (English cloth length)
  • Nail-Pouch
  • Naimak (steppe day's drive)
  • Naldrek (dwarvish gemstones)
  • Nazrum (desert spice)
  • Near-Enough (carpenter's tolerance)
  • Nearly-There (any distance)
  • Net-Drying Ground
  • Net-Haul
  • Net-Length
  • Net-Sinker (lead)
  • Noggin (English liquid measure)
  • Noon-Mark
  • Nosebag (oats)
  • Nugget (gold)

O: 31 names

  • Oak-Age
  • Oar-Bank (ship size)
  • Oar-Length
  • Oar-Shift (river distance)
  • Obol (ancient Greek small weight)
  • Ogre's Handful (too much)
  • Oil-Jar
  • Oka (Ottoman weight)
  • Okkel (dwarvish lamp-oil hours)
  • Okonwe (comms delay)

O, continued

  • Olive-Press (oil)
  • Olive-Stand (grove)
  • Olympiad (ancient Greek four years)
  • Ombasa (field density)
  • Omer (biblical dry volume)
  • Onion-Rope
  • Onion-Row
  • Orchard-Row
  • Ore-Bucket (ore)
  • Orelith (elvish tree height)

O, continued

  • Orgun (steppe grazing land)
  • Orgyia (ancient Greek arm span)
  • Oumrit (desert well distance)
  • Ouvrée (French vineyard land)
  • Owl-Hour
  • Ox-Day
  • Ox-Load
  • Ox-Safe (ice)
  • Ox-Team (plowland)
  • Oxgang (medieval land)
  • Oyelund (signal strength)

P: 46 names

  • Pace (Roman length)
  • Palm (Roman length)
  • Pan-Dust (gold dust)
  • Parasang (Persian distance)
  • Patrol-Leg
  • Pearl-Weight
  • Peck (English dry measure)
  • Peninkulma (Finnish distance)
  • Pennyland (Scottish island land)
  • Pennyweight (English silver weight)
  • Peppercorn (spice)

P, continued

  • Pereskova (stellar brightness)
  • Picul (Chinese shoulder-load)
  • Pilgrim's Walk
  • Pin (English ale cask)
  • Pinch-and-Palm (salt)
  • Ping-Wait
  • Pipe (English wine cask)
  • Pipe-Smoke (walking distance)
  • Pitcher (milk)
  • Plank-Width
  • Ploughgate (Scottish land)
  • Plow-Day

P, continued

  • Plow-Handle
  • Plow-Turn (short distance)
  • Plowshare (iron)
  • Plumb-Bob
  • Plumb-Drop (height)
  • Poling-Day (river distance)
  • Pony-Burden
  • Pood (Russian weight)
  • Porringer (grain)
  • Portage
  • Porter's Load

P, continued

  • Post-Stage
  • Posy (herbs)
  • Potter's Wheel-Turn
  • Pottle (English liquid measure)
  • Pouce (French thumb)
  • Prahar (Indian watch of the day)
  • Prayer (short time)
  • Printer-Spool (feedstock)
  • Psalm-Length
  • Puncheon (English wine cask)
  • Puppy-Minute (attention span)
  • Pyeong (Korean area)

Q: 9 names

  • Quelis (elvish silver)
  • Quench (short time)
  • Quern-Stone
  • Queue (time, estimated badly)
  • Quill-Length
  • Quillon (reactor heat)
  • Quire (old paper count)
  • Quiverful (arrow count)
  • Qurzam (desert night march)

R: 43 names

  • Raft-Day (river distance)
  • Rafter (timber)
  • Rai (Thai land)
  • Rain-Bowl
  • Rain-Butt (water)
  • Raised Eyebrow (doubt)
  • Ram's Fleece
  • Rast (Norse distance between rests)
  • Ratl (Arabic weight)
  • Ratti (Indian seed weight)
  • Ravindrum (psionic strength)
  • Reaper's Stint
  • Reed (biblical length)
  • Reed-Bed (marsh)

R, continued

  • Reign (years)
  • Relay-Lag (signal delay)
  • Relong (Malay land)
  • Remount (distance between fresh horses)
  • Rest-Day
  • Ri (Japanese distance)
  • Rib (boatbuilding)
  • Rider-Height
  • Ridge-Hop
  • Ring-Arc (station distance)
  • Ring-Row (mail)
  • Ring-Turn (station day)
  • River-Pebble (small weight)
  • Rock (asteroid mass)

R, continued

  • Rod (English land length)
  • Rood (English land)
  • Rooster-Crow (earshot)
  • Rooster-Late (after sunrise)
  • Rope-Square
  • Rope-Walk (rope)
  • Rotation (deployment months)
  • Round-the-Corner (not round the corner)
  • Rover-Charge (surface distance)
  • Ruck (soldier's carry)
  • Ruddek (dwarvish coal basket)
  • Rule-of-Thumb-and-a-Bit
  • Rune-Count (spell size)
  • Rush-Stalk
  • Rushlight (short time)

S: 136 names

  • Sack (English wool weight)
  • Saddle-Deep (snow)
  • Saddle-Skin (leather)
  • Saeculum (Roman lifetime)
  • Saffron-Thread (spice)
  • Sail-Breadth
  • Sail-Cloth
  • Sail-Fill (wind)
  • Salt-Block
  • Salt-Lick
  • Salt-Pan
  • Samhal (desert incense)
  • Sandbag (wall height)

S, continued

  • Sandglass
  • Sarge-Minute (longer than a minute)
  • Sarguul (steppe milk skin)
  • Saw-Cut
  • Sazhen (Russian length)
  • Scaffold-Lift (height)
  • Scheffel (German grain measure)
  • Schock (German count of sixty)
  • Schoinos (ancient Greek distance)
  • Schoppen (German drink measure)
  • Scoop (ore)
  • Scope-Dot (aiming width)
  • Score (old count of twenty)
  • Scribe's Page

S, continued

  • Scrubber-Day (air)
  • Scruple (old apothecaries' weight)
  • Scythe-Day (meadow)
  • Seah (biblical dry volume)
  • Seam (English horse-load)
  • Second Helping (volume)
  • Seed-Basket (land sown)
  • Seed-Lip (seed)
  • Seer (Indian weight)
  • Seidel (German drink measure)
  • Sennight (English time)
  • Setier (French grain measure)
  • Sextarius (Roman liquid volume)

S, continued

  • Shaddur (desert noon rest)
  • Shadow-Length
  • Shaftment (old fist and thumb)
  • Shaku (Japanese length)
  • Sheaf-Field
  • Shearing-Time
  • Sheepwalk
  • Shekel (biblical weight)
  • Sheng (Chinese volume)
  • Shepherd's Fold
  • Shepherd's Walk
  • Shichen (Chinese double hour)
  • Shield-Weight
  • Shift (work hours)

S, continued

  • Shin
  • Short Stride
  • Short-Year
  • Shoulder-Breadth
  • Shoulder-High
  • Shoulder-Pole
  • Shout (carrying range)
  • Shrine (road distance)
  • Shrug (uncertainty)
  • Shtof (Russian liquid volume)
  • Shuttle-Length
  • Shuttle-Throw (cloth)
  • Sigil (binding strength)
  • Signet (gold)

S, continued

  • Sinking Bowl (hours)
  • Sip (fuel)
  • Sirenne (elvish river distance)
  • Skip (short transit)
  • Skippund (Scandinavian ship cargo)
  • Sleep (a day's travel)
  • Sleep-Shift
  • Slingcast
  • Slingshot (one planetary pass)
  • Smelt (refined metal)
  • Smith's Arm
  • Smith's Heat (forge time)
  • Smoke-Break

S, continued

  • Smoke-Sight
  • Snail-Mile
  • Snow (a winter)
  • Sock-Gap (distance to the missing one)
  • Soldier's Stride
  • Sollenby (fold distance)
  • Song-Length (walking distance)
  • Sounding (depth)
  • Soup-Splash (stain size)
  • Sower's Bag (seed)
  • Sower's Day
  • Span (old spread hand)
  • Spark (spell strength)
  • Sparrow-Weight

S, continued

  • Spear-Length
  • Spearcast
  • Spin (station gravity)
  • Spindle (English yarn length)
  • Spit-Deep (digging depth)
  • Spithame (ancient Greek hand span)
  • Spoke (station distance)
  • Spring-Tide (two weeks)
  • Squad-Spread
  • Squire's Errand (longer than expected)
  • Stadion (ancient Greek distance)
  • Staff-Length
  • Stag-Run

S, continued

  • Stag-Weight
  • Staio (Italian grain measure)
  • Stake-and-Cord
  • Stand-To (dawn hour)
  • Standard Hour
  • Star-Step
  • Star-Turn (night hours)
  • Stathmos (ancient Greek day's march)
  • Stewpot
  • Stone (English weight)
  • Stone-to-Stone
  • Stonecast
  • Stoop (Dutch liquid measure)
  • Storm-Count

S, continued

  • Street (city walking)
  • Stretcher-Carry
  • Strike (English dry measure)
  • Stubbed Toe (pain)
  • Suckling Pig (butcher's scale)
  • Suit-Hour
  • Sulung (Anglo-Saxon land)
  • Sun-Hand
  • Sun-Width
  • Sunfall
  • Swell-Count
  • Sword-Length
  • Syli (Finnish arm span)
  • Sylvar's Step (elvish pace)

T: 69 names

  • Tael (Chinese trade weight)
  • Tagwerk (German day's work of land)
  • Tailor's Tape
  • Talent (ancient weight)
  • Tall Man's Reach
  • Tall Tale (exaggeration)
  • Tallum (desert dune crossing)
  • Tally-Notch
  • Tally-Stick
  • Talvenn (elvish starlit night)
  • Tan (Japanese land)
  • Tank (fuel)
  • Tankard (ale)

T, continued

  • Tanner's Pit (months)
  • Tap-Draw (ale)
  • Tavern-Mile (longer on the way home)
  • Temek (steppe felt)
  • Tent-Ground
  • Tessaly (gravity gradient)
  • Tether (spacewalk distance)
  • Tezmar (desert salt)
  • Thandeka's Constant (drift rate)
  • Thatch-Bundle
  • Thatch-Stripper (strong wind)
  • Thaw (a year)
  • Thaw-Day
  • Thessil (elvish thread)

T, continued

  • Thighbone
  • Thimble (spirits)
  • Threshing-Floor
  • Threshold (doorway width)
  • Thumb-Joint
  • Thumb-on-Horizon (range by eye)
  • Thumbnail (fine work)
  • Thump (blast strength)
  • Thunderclap (loudest sound)
  • Thurnak (dwarvish gold)
  • Tide (Anglo-Saxon time)
  • Tide-Run
  • Timber (old count of forty furs)
  • Tirrenko (plasma pressure)

T, continued

  • Tithe-Sheaf
  • Tod (English wool weight)
  • Toddler's Bedtime (short, feels endless)
  • Toise (French length)
  • Tola (Indian weight)
  • Tolgar (steppe riding distance)
  • Torch-Bundle
  • Torch-Reach (light)
  • Tortoise-Dash
  • Tour-Year
  • Tower-Sight
  • Trench-Depth
  • Trencher (meal)
  • Troll's Patience (very short)

T, continued

  • Troll-Height
  • Trough (water)
  • Truss (English hay bundle)
  • Tsavdar (steppe winter months)
  • Tsubo (Japanese area)
  • Tube (ration paste)
  • Tun (English wine cask)
  • Tunic-Length (cloth)
  • Tunnland (Swedish barrel of land)
  • Turf-Day (peat)
  • Turn of the Glass
  • Twinrise (double-sun day)
  • Two-Ox Morning
  • Two-Sleep Road

U: 6 names

  • Uinal (Maya twenty days)
  • Ulgar (steppe herd count)
  • Uncia (Roman twelfth part)
  • Union Ration
  • Uphill-Both-Ways (school distance)
  • Urdak (dwarvish hammer-swing)

V: 14 names

  • Vaelume (elvish cup of wine)
  • Vara (Spanish length)
  • Varrowby (soil fertility)
  • Vat-Day (grown food)
  • Vedro (Russian bucket volume)
  • Veldrum (dwarvish forge shift)
  • Verse (short walk)
  • Verst (Russian distance)
  • Veyra (drive output)
  • Vika (Norse sea distance)
  • Vine-Row
  • Vinedresser's Day
  • Vintner's Jar
  • Virgate (medieval land)

W: 39 names

  • Wader-Deep
  • Wagon-Day
  • Wainweight
  • Waist-High
  • Wall-Day (stonework)
  • Wall-Walk
  • Wand-Length
  • War-Sheaf
  • Ward-Stone (protection)
  • Wasq (Arabic camel-load)
  • Watch (old naval time)
  • Water-Clock Bowl
  • Waterskin (water)

W, continued

  • Wave-Crest (height)
  • Waystone
  • Weaver's Arm
  • Weaver's Day (cloth)
  • Weir-Reach
  • Well-Bucket
  • Well-to-Well
  • Wenlaith (elvish long years)
  • Wet-Finger (wind direction, roughly)
  • Wey (English wool and cheese weight)
  • Wezzin (desert copper)
  • Wheat-Ear (small length)
  • Wheelwright's Spoke

W, continued

  • Whisper (sound)
  • Whistle (carrying range)
  • Wick (hours)
  • Wine-Jar
  • Wine-Year
  • Wineskin
  • Wingspan
  • Winter-Stack (firewood)
  • Wizard's Minute (never on time)
  • Woodcutter's Week
  • Wrist-to-Elbow
  • Wristbone
  • Wyrm-Coil

Y: 8 names

  • Yak-Burden
  • Yawn (boredom)
  • Yazzir (desert oil jar)
  • Ylenne (elvish song time)
  • Yojana (Indian distance)
  • Yoke-Width
  • Yugada (Spanish plow land)
  • Yurtag (steppe tent ground)

Z: 4 names

  • Zahrem (desert date basket)
  • Zellweck (jump stress)
  • Zolotnik (Russian small weight)
  • Zuurak (steppe butter)