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Triceratops

― Shaquana Stineberg, Monday, 28 June 2004 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Melisma. Clavicle. Overweening. Gigolo. Hooley. Sesquipedalian.
Passerine. Axolotl. Loxodromic. Bailiwick. Sump.

― gjm, Monday, 28 June 2004 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link

partially hydrogenated

― Joan Vaughan, Monday, 28 June 2004 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link

sawdust - pleasantly descriptive

― David Elinsky (David Elinsky), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Lately: abecedarian
Previously: sprachgefuhl

― Brian Sawyer, Monday, 28 June 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

no-one likes cozen.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link

sorry, that wasn't me. it was morozen.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I like cozen, but especially the etymology-from Italian "cozzone" horse trader.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link

syphilis is such a pretty word (for sound - not meaning!)

― Julie VW, Monday, 28 June 2004 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link

when i worked at an ice cream shop in college i used to really like writing "PIST NUT" in lieu of pistachio nut.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Too many to choose from, but...

sussuration
murmur
sternutation
widdershins/deasil (archaic words for clockwise/counterclockwise)
cicisbeo (an old Italian word for sweetheart or lover, but it's in US dictionaries)

― NikkiS, Monday, 28 June 2004 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Ugsome

It really is a word (though considered archaic, now).

― S. Hagge, Monday, 28 June 2004 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link

and another one:
humidor

― sparkle j (sparkle j), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I have always like the word 'lackey'. Oooh, and 'boob'. And my I think 'fuck' is a great word too. So many uses!

― bookdwarf (bookdwarf), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, that's two for fuck.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I used the word "soupçon" twice in an hour yesterday. I have to stop that.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link

spasm. maybe not quite my favorite, but really satisfying to say.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link

UNDERPANTS!!!!

God, it's the best word. Say it... "underpants..." "underpants..."

― sarahjane, Monday, 28 June 2004 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

A few words only recently discovered, easily among my favorites:

Tarantism - An urge to overcome melancholy by dancing;
Exsibilation - The collective hisses of a disapproving audience;
Strikhedonia - The pleasure of being able to say 'to hell with it';
and, finally
Petrichor - The pleasant smell that accompanies the first rain after a dry spell.

Makes me want to curl up with a good dictionary.

― Jennifer Waggener, Monday, 28 June 2004 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link

sanguine
bucolic
laconic
maladroit
preposterous (and pretty much any other 12-letter word)

― Brianne Gibson, Monday, 28 June 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Shibboleth
gesticulate
elegiac
plethora

― tomlang (tom), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 00:01 (nineteen years ago) link

antithesis
hyperbole
daschund
flagrant
blurt
blunt
belly
hirsute
fornication
and for the sheer magnitude of it all...

antidisestablishmentarianism

― Jason Kurylo, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link

jocose
festoon
akimbo
moribund
deft
spork
behoove

― Erica Menard, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 00:56 (nineteen years ago) link

It was agoraphobia, that is until I found out it wasn't a sweater.

― Cupie (Cupie), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 01:14 (nineteen years ago) link

My all time favorite is word that usually describes me- sesqipedalian!

― Jasmine Jay-Bonn, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 01:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Erumpent
Kenotic
Theosis

― Kevin Jones, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 03:44 (nineteen years ago) link

"Irish word 'feck', which can mean 'throw' or 'steal', or can be substituted for 'fuck' as a swearword, but not for 'fuck' as a description of a sex act.

It's not a real Irish word, btw. It's just a word the Irish use."

I've always wondered about 'feck'. I know what the Ramones mean when they say feckless, but how can I be without feck if I don't know what it is?!

Some of my favorite words:

laignappe, nefarious, ennui, enchant, hope

In Spanish, ojala - means I hope, I wish, and sounds so pretty

― Funky Winkerbean, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 04:14 (nineteen years ago) link

zoom!

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Heirarchy, great word, though the only reason its in my head right now is that i'm reading maslow.
and who cant love the word soliloquy (hope i spelled that corectly)

― Patrick Hanners, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:36 (nineteen years ago) link

cleanlinesslessness
only 2 results on google. yo.

― Fred (Fred), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 09:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Pants. Definitely pants.

― Taleswapper, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 11:03 (nineteen years ago) link

shim

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 11:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Mishegoss
philatelist
Busby

― Carrie Tobey, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Cataclysm
Chiaroscuro
Chthonic
Crepuscular

Hmm, all C words. They're just fun to say.

And on a related note, I really HATE the word "panties".

― Sarah Galbreath, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link

asthmatic
vug
sough
another vote for erumpent
another vote for pants

― Matthew K (mtk), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Cheeseburger. And feckless. And definitely Fuck.

― kin, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link

echo

― clellie, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I very much like the word "windpipe".

― Baravelli. (Jake Proudlock), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link

i learned a new one last week: pecksniffs. Definition is a person with a "holier than thou" attitude. also,

pishtosh
dentalingus (one who picks up his/her teeth after having them knocked out)
babbling
mourn
excitable
fellatio (!!!)

― John Keiffer, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 00:53 (nineteen years ago) link

from Liverpool: a Liverpudlian
from Glasgow: a Glaswegian
...it's so boring being nothing but a New Yorker

― kt, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 01:58 (nineteen years ago) link

bandicoot! otter!

and don't forget the common mouse.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 02:38 (nineteen years ago) link

shush.

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 06:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Noumenon

― Fred (Fred), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 10:39 (nineteen years ago) link

juxtaposition is also one of my favourites.

conviviality is my word of the day, especially the vivi-part

― erik, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Espionage.

― David Bannister, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Hemoglobin

― Jessa (Jessa), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Explosive.

Magnificent.

Larry Hartzell

― Larry Hartzell, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Once upon a time I was a classics major, so:

Draconian
Socratic
Sophistry

― Eric, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't like words out of context.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

bayou, noise (because for some reason I always think it's spelled incorrectly), fumblerooski

― DN, Thursday, 1 July 2004 00:23 (nineteen years ago) link

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