Right now my favorite is COCKFIRE and I made it up myself. Cockfire!! I never get to use any of my favorite words enough though.
― TOMBOT, Monday, 22 December 2003 13:12 (twenty years ago) link
It's a lung disease caused by breathing silicon dust. This is spelling from memory, so excuse me if its a little out.
― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 22 December 2003 13:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah (starry), Monday, 22 December 2003 13:17 (twenty years ago) link
― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 22 December 2003 14:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 22 December 2003 14:06 (twenty years ago) link
1. defenestration 2. serendipity 3. onomatopoeia 4. discombobulate 5. plethora 6. callipygian 7. juxtapose 8. persnickety 9. kerfuffle 10. flibbertigibbet
Had I know about this earlier, I would have voted for "trousers."
― Ernest P. (ernestp), Sunday, 6 June 2004 02:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 6 June 2004 02:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 6 June 2004 05:36 (nineteen years ago) link
slux
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 18 October 2007 03:41 (sixteen years ago) link
venery
― Michael White, Thursday, 7 August 2008 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Enschede
― nakhtar donetsk (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
pah! it's not as good as "syncretic" which i looked up the other day. it sounds like a horrible flaky skin disease but IN FACT means the synthesis of two formerly separate belief systems.
― katie, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (9 years ago)
philipe du clare used this word on the guardian weekly football podcast the other day fwiw
― best poster with ten-letter single-word username (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 02:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
fear of the number 66
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
*666
how can we trust you didn’t also muck up the spelling
― estela, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 22:55 (four years ago) link
I checked on this thread to see what you wrote, estela, and sure enough, i got a healthy chuckle out of it.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 01:05 (four years ago) link