Favorite Obscure Words

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  • HeidiCooksSupper
    HeidiCooksSupper Posts: 3,831 Member
    quidnunc
    abecedarium
    homoscedasticity (and heteroscedasticity)
    plinth
  • rudydtd
    rudydtd Posts: 12 Member
    Cromulent
  • jacques57
    jacques57 Posts: 2,129 Member
    Confabulation

    Rectitude

    Puce (a shade of gray)

    Reticulated

    Legerdemain
  • Shropshire1959
    Shropshire1959 Posts: 982 Member


    Puce (a shade of gray)


    ......is a dark red or purple brown colour
  • sullus
    sullus Posts: 2,839 Member


    Puce (a shade of gray)


    ......is a dark red or purple brown colour

    Not to a protanope.
  • Joannah700
    Joannah700 Posts: 2,665 Member
    Misconstrued
  • LesliemarieAZ
    LesliemarieAZ Posts: 352 Member
    Bullsh*ttery
  • cstringfellow2013
    cstringfellow2013 Posts: 172 Member
    Petrichor

    is the scent of rain on dry earth, or the scent of dust after rain. The word is constructed from Greek, petros, meaning ‘stone’ + ichor, the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology. It is defined as "the distinctive scent which accompanies the first rain after a long warm dry spell".
  • jacques57
    jacques57 Posts: 2,129 Member
    Redacted


    Aa (pron: AH-ah), a specific form of lava with glassy sharp shards over the surface


    sphygmomanometer


    Calypygous - of or pertaining to the perfect buttocks


    Bogosity as measured on a bogometer
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  • jacques57
    jacques57 Posts: 2,129 Member
    Bullsh*ttery

    Winner!
  • MrsBooBear
    MrsBooBear Posts: 12,618 Member
    Petrichor

    is the scent of rain on dry earth, or the scent of dust after rain. The word is constructed from Greek, petros, meaning ‘stone’ + ichor, the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology. It is defined as "the distinctive scent which accompanies the first rain after a long warm dry spell".

    One of my favourite scents. I'm pleased to learn that it has a name. :flowerforyou: :smile:
  • DanielGray73
    DanielGray73 Posts: 17 Member
    Embiggen. What? It's a perfectly cromulent word.
  • Zaftique
    Zaftique Posts: 599 Member
    callipygian
    defenestration
    quixotic
    prolix
    epistemological
  • kingjabou
    kingjabou Posts: 48 Member
    Onomatopoeia....BOOM! for the win. (what ya mean I didn't win?)

    I beat you to it! :laugh:

    That will teach me to read all the post and not just skim. Great minds think alike.
  • Gawanne
    Gawanne Posts: 105 Member
    Slutherer a person who doesn't clean the house properly
  • grillnchill
    grillnchill Posts: 772 Member
    petticoat
    accoutrement
    obsequious & sycophant
  • 99clmsntgr
    99clmsntgr Posts: 777 Member
    Qi, xi, xu, ar, sh, hm, za, et, aa, ae, ai, re, un, ka, ki

    Scrabble player, eh?
  • mjterp
    mjterp Posts: 650 Member
    spoonerism: it's the best word and the best thing ever.

    Have you met Zilch the Torystellar?
    "My name is Terry Foy, although you might know me better as Zilch the Storyteller.
    Er, ah, Torysteller.
    The stories I tell have a bit of a twist to them.
    I spalk in toonerisms. Ah, I talk in spoonerisms.
    Citching one's swonsonants fack and borth
    Worning your Turds around.
    It's serfectly pimple.
    You just have to tink thaster than you falk."

    LOVE that man!!!

    And Alfalfa (According to Puke and Snot it is the most sensuous word in the Englsh Language...Hmmmm, maybe too much time spent at Shakopee Ren Fest)

    Other favorite words...
    dihydrogen monoxide (chemists, don't yell at me...I know I know...)

    phlebotomy/phlebotomist/phlebology
    philanthropy
    verigate
    linguistically
    antidisestablishmentarianism
    geriatric

    and another favorite quote...with some great vernacular with linguistic fortitude
    "disinclined to acquiesce to your request."
  • Fullsterkur_woman
    Fullsterkur_woman Posts: 2,712 Member
    Petrichor

    is the scent of rain on dry earth, or the scent of dust after rain. The word is constructed from Greek, petros, meaning ‘stone’ + ichor, the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology. It is defined as "the distinctive scent which accompanies the first rain after a long warm dry spell".

    One of my favourite scents. I'm pleased to learn that it has a name. :flowerforyou: :smile:
    Ugh! That smell literally chokes me. I cannot stand it. I am vexed that there is a word for it. I'm terribly vexed. :angry:

    My contribution for today is "concupiscent".
  • polyseme
    polyseme Posts: 11 Member
    linguistically

    I don't see how that's obscure at all. Says the linguist.

    I don't think escutcheon is obscure, but I don't say it often enough, so I'll use that as my content.
  • Limeycat
    Limeycat Posts: 249 Member
    'Concatenate' was always one of my favourite words
  • LesliemarieAZ
    LesliemarieAZ Posts: 352 Member
    Lickety-split
  • Morgan5647
    Morgan5647 Posts: 598 Member
    Medulla oblongata
  • jacques57
    jacques57 Posts: 2,129 Member
    Medulla oblongata

    Excellent. And how about Gluteus Maximus? Sounds like a spell from Harry Potter....
  • VeganAmandaJ
    VeganAmandaJ Posts: 234 Member
    Yes, I love that word and sadly only learned it a few years ago!
    Doppelganger
  • Morgan5647
    Morgan5647 Posts: 598 Member
    Onomatopoeia
  • VeganAmandaJ
    VeganAmandaJ Posts: 234 Member
    Love it all! Especially that last phrase ;) Can we use that at work some time???
    spoonerism: it's the best word and the best thing ever.

    Have you met Zilch the Torystellar?
    "My name is Terry Foy, although you might know me better as Zilch the Storyteller.
    Er, ah, Torysteller.
    The stories I tell have a bit of a twist to them.
    I spalk in toonerisms. Ah, I talk in spoonerisms.
    Citching one's swonsonants fack and borth
    Worning your Turds around.
    It's serfectly pimple.
    You just have to tink thaster than you falk."

    LOVE that man!!!

    And Alfalfa (According to Puke and Snot it is the most sensuous word in the Englsh Language...Hmmmm, maybe too much time spent at Shakopee Ren Fest)

    Other favorite words...
    dihydrogen monoxide (chemists, don't yell at me...I know I know...)

    phlebotomy/phlebotomist/phlebology
    philanthropy
    verigate
    linguistically
    antidisestablishmentarianism
    geriatric

    and another favorite quote...with some great vernacular with linguistic fortitude
    "disinclined to acquiesce to your request."
  • VeganAmandaJ
    VeganAmandaJ Posts: 234 Member
    I was going to say "Facetious"! I love that word and it's sad that some of these words aren't used in everyday speech..
    facetious....oh and douchecanoe
  • GiddyupTim
    GiddyupTim Posts: 2,819 Member
    Obsequious
    Undone

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