I have a great love of words, and I will include here
some of my favourites - those that do and don't exist (most of them do);
and those that I think should be used more widely. Some I like for the
meaning, some just for the beauty of the word.
Hippopotomusesquipedalian - Pertaining to a very long word.
Pseudoultraantidisestablishmentarianists - Those who feign to be avid opponants of the dissolution of the established religeous base
Gormful - Everyone knows what it is to be gormless, and many people go around with a constant lack of gorm. But why do we never notice when people are not gormless, when they are bounding with gorm, are gormful?
Nosethirls - The old word for nostrils. And so much nicer. My English teacher pointed this out to me in A level English, whilst studying The Miller's Tale.
Discombobulate - No idea what it means but it's a great word.
Bizzarre - Its odd.
Equus - Of horses
(And a very odd Peter Schaffer play).
Futtocks - Old beams in ships.
A (anyone remind
me of this one?)
Biopsy
- These three words are the only English 6 letter words with
all the letters in alphabetical order!
Chintz
Facetious - My favourite 'all the vowels in order' word, mainly because knowing that, is.
Syzygy - Got this from Graeme's page (below). No idea what it is (probably good in scrabble).
Szasz - Thomas Szasz, and antipsychiatrist.
Logogogue - One who legislates on words
Zoara - insomnia
Dysrhythmia - jet lag
Pandiculation - stretching and yawning
Qwerty - a type of keyboard - q sans u
Coq - feathers on a hat
Zaqqum - a tree with bitter fruit (double q!)
Praline - a confection
Committee - three double letters
Bookkeeping/er/s - the only word (I'm told) with three double letters in a row
Kempt - we never hear of this, people are always 'unkepmt'
Promiscuous - composed of all sorts
Aphallatosis - disorder resulting from a lack of sex
Neolagnia - first appearance of sexual desire
Amphigory - poetry which looks meaningful but is actually nonsense
Anthropophilic - mosquitoes which prefer human blood (i.e. of good taste, but appalling manners)
Bibliobibuli - people who read to much (H.L. Mencken)
Boustrophedon - writing which runs left right, then right left
Camouflet - an underground cavity
Chad - the tiny bits of paper left from punch cards (meaning more interesting than word, here)
Charrette - the rush to reach a deadline (which I do too often)
Coruscation - a flash of wit
Defenestration - a classic
Dontopedalogy - aptitude for foot in mouth syndrome (Prince Philip)
Duende - the power to attract by charm
Ejaculatirium - use yer imagination!
Exoteric - another one we don't hear enough
Feuterer - one with a dog (who thinks of these words???)
Formication - the feeling that ants are crawling on you
Illeism - referring to self in the third person
Omphaloskepsis - the act on contemplating one's navel (an interesting pasttime)
Oxymoron - uses xy, must be good
Pognophile - lover of beards
Pygalgia - soreness of the buttocks
Incongruous - standing out
Snurp - to become wrinkled or shrivelled
Thurification - the act of burning incense
Yerk - to beat vigorously
Incongruous - standing out
Logamnosis - mania to recall lost words
Logion - Maxim of a teacher
Logodaedalus - one who is cunning in words
Logodaedaly - arbitrary coining of words (see Taussikograph and Taussikism)
Logofascinated - fascinated by words
Logolatry - worship of words
Logology - study of words
Logophile - lover of words
Logastellus - one who's enthusiasm for words is greater than his knowledge of them (John McClellan, 1970)
Logocide - to kill a word (Dmitri Borgmann, 1965)
Comiconomenclaturist - one who collects funny names
Moria - morbid impulse to make jokes
Risibility - the inclination to laugh at what is ridiculous, incongruous or absurd
Verbigeration - habit of frequently repeating favourite words, verbigeration, verbigeration verbigeration
| deep bosomed | shapely buttocks | others |
| Bathycolpian
Bustluscious Macromastic |
Callipygian
Spheropygia |
Pulchritudinous -
physical comeliness
Evancalous - embrasable Leptosome - slender Zaftig - having a pleasantly plump figure |
| To eat greedily; one who does so | Foods | Drinking | Logomangia |
| Bellygod
Gorbelly Grangousier Gulosity Gundygut Guttler Mounch Tenterbelly |
Carbando
Gallimaufry (see Aristophanes) Hogoo Lobscouse Maw-wallop Opsony Prog Salmagundi |
Doundrins - in the
afternoon
Supernaculum - the last drops in a bottle Poculant - fit for drinking Swillbowl - a heavy drinker |
Refollication - restoration
of strength from food
Omophagous - eating raw meat Accubation - lying down at meals Coenaculous - one who enjoys a midnight snack Epulation - a feast Jentacular - pertaining to breakfast |
Kakorrhaphiophobia - fear of failure
Basostasophobia - standing
Medomalacophobia - loosing an erection during coitus
Ophthalmophobia - being stared at
Phthisiophobia - tuberculosis
Onomatomania - attaching a significance to certain words
Phlebotomomania - bloodletting
Onychotillomania - neurotic picking of the nails
Brrr - expression of cold
Crwth - a musical instrument
Hsh - expression to urge silence
Phpht - expression of annoyance
Tch - expression of vexation
Tck - expression of surprise
Tsk - expression of annoyance
Tsktsk - to say tsk
Tst - expression to
urge silence
CAUTION - Citizens Against Unnecessary Tax Increases and Other Nonsense
COYOTE - Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics (in support of prostitutes)
CREEP - Committee to RE-Elect the President (Nixon)
GOOD EGGS - Geriatric Order of Old Dolls who Encourage the Generation Gap Single-mindedly
NOSE - Neighbours Opposing Smelly Emissions
OGLE - Organisation Getting Legs Exposed
SHAMES - Society to Humiliate, Aggravate, Mortify and Embarrass Smokers
SUCKER - Society for Understanding Cats, Kangaroos, Elks and Reptiles
CLITORIS - Campaign For The Liberation ... And Their Reintegration Into Society (from Red Dwarf)
KABOOM - the one from The Naked Gun
FUMTU - Fouled Up More Than Usual
TASFUIRA - Things Are So Fouled Up Its Really Amazing
GRUMPIE - Grown Up Mature Person
SWAG - Scientific Wild Ass Guess
BURMA - Be Upstairs Ready My Angel
FICTIONS - Forgivable Inventions Created To Impress ONe's Spouse
LAWYERS - Losing, As Winning, Yet Earning Remunerations Safely
Dzo - yak and cow
Zum - yak and cow
Yakalo - yak and
buffalo
Zobo - zebu and yak
Hinny - stallion
and she-ass
Mule - male ass and
mare
Zebrula - zebra and
horse
Geep - goat and sheep
Liger - male lion
and female tiger
Tigon - male tiger
and female lion
Jumart - cow and horse
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- Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Dahlemense Strain (1, 800 odd letters)
Floccinaucinihilipilification - the act of estimating something as worthless
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - miners lung disease
Hepaticocholangiocholecystenterostomy - Surgical creation of a passage between the intestine, gall bladder and a hepatic duct
Honorificabilitudinitatibus - with honour, as used by Shakespeare
Philosophicopsychological - pertaining to philosophy and psychology








