diff --git a/rpmlint.config b/rpmlint.config
index 2b135e1..7447203 100644
--- a/rpmlint.config
+++ b/rpmlint.config
@@ -437,6 +437,9 @@ addFilter(r"invalid-url .*github\.com/.*HTTP Error 403")
 # They automatically include the package name and are always
 # quite long.
 addFilter("-debuginfo.* description-line-too-long")
+# ignore "common" jargon words
+# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1424684#c9
+addFilter(r"spelling-error.* \b(runtime|Runtime|metadata|cryptographic|multi|linux|filesystem|filesystems|backend|backends|userspace|addon|wayland|Wayland|util|utils|lossless|virtualization|toolkits|libvirtd|crypto|glyphs|GStreamer|http|extensibility|codec|codecs|truetype|scalable|pluggable|pixbuf|Kerberos|customizable|bitstream|tcp|libXss|libs|libc|encodings|GLib|udev|posix|libpng|glapi|gbm|freedesktop|spi|realtime|preprocessor|libaudit|hypervisor|embeddable|distributable|devel|config|cairo|bootloader|adaptors|pragma|passphrase|malloc|libvirt|libmagic|io|datetime|boolean|argparse|py|pinentry|namespace|middleware|lowlevel|libxcb|libudev|libsoup|libgcrypt|libcom|iSCSI|initramfs|GObject|executables|dialogs|checkpolicy|bitmapped|assistive)\b")
 
 bad_crypto_warning = \
 '''This application package calls a function to explicitly set crypto ciphers
diff --git a/rpmlint.spec b/rpmlint.spec
index 84e7444..c3f29aa 100644
--- a/rpmlint.spec
+++ b/rpmlint.spec
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 Name:           rpmlint
 Version:        1.10
-Release:        4%{?dist}
+Release:        5%{?dist}
 Summary:        Tool for checking common errors in RPM packages
 Group:          Development/Tools
 License:        GPLv2
@@ -127,6 +127,9 @@ make check PYTHON=%{python} PYTEST=%{pytest} FLAKE8=%{flake8}
 %{_mandir}/man1/rpmlint.1*
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Oct 29 2017 Tom Callaway <spot@fedoraproject.org> - 1.10-5
+- ignore common jargon words in spellcheck
+
 * Sun Oct 29 2017 Tom Callaway <spot@fedoraproject.org> - 1.10-4
 - fix SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list waiver
 - use raw strings in config file to silence python3 deprecation warnings