SATICHE - 0831

People's good and favourite words

Muschuck - Any critter that must chuck across the road into the path of your vehicle.
Immolate. As in, "Son, how many times have I told you not to immolate the ants with that magnifying glass?"
Exnilhiate: I love the way this word feels when you say it. It is the direct opposite of "annihilate". It means to create matter from nothingness.
Plication: The act or process of folding or state of being folded. Or simply a fold itself. As found in pliable pliers amplify multiply complicate implicit explicit replica duplicate explicate implicate duplicate application supplicate multiply and elsewhere.
On my last ship (USS NIMITZ CVN-68) we used the word "Jethro" to mean someone who broke into a line or someone who pilfered something. Like so: "Hey, who jethroed my ice cream". Or, "Don't jethro the line!"
Schizoid - pronounced: skee-zoid. "He has schizoid tendencies".
These are my favorite melodious words: archangel, mezzanine, anthrax, vivarium, paradimethylaminobenzaldahyde - Isaac Asimov waxed eloquent about this word in one of his books. Stress every third syllable and it almost becomes a song: PAIR-a-die-METH-ul-a-ME-no-benz-AL-da-hide Catchy. Say it five times fast and you might not be able to stop.
Other fun words: -- wicked, incestuous, gotcha, hotshot - the last two remind me of Jimmy Durante's "ha-cha-cha-cha". Notice the spelling of hotshots.
thanks to other posters for these fun words: -- fiasco, epizoon, underbelly, luscious, gingham, spackle, awesome, lummox (sounds like a Dr. Seuss critter)
it's beautimous, as in a beautimous day
when something just happens, it's automagic
My 2 favorite words are linoleum and Zimbabwe. They're just fun to say.
"Hoochie-mama", meaning a scantily dressed girl.
"Porkamorf"-it just sounds cool to say.
"bopper"-the remote control; or "space commander."
Cause they sound yummy-and make you feel: -lapse -wither -dubious -lattice -infinite -shimmy -faerie -pixie dust -green -pewter
How could such an extensive list not contain "zephyr?"
my favorite words: "aeaeae" - meaning magic. longest all-vowel word, i think; "thaumaturge" - meaning magician; "serendipitous" - secret; but the best word i think is "hello" - in a conversation, all other words rely on it for their existence.
Smarmy Is a good word, and it's in the dictionary, and it has a real definition. Smarmy means: revealing or marked by a smug, ingratiating, or flase earnestness (a tone of self satisfaction). Smarmy is used to describe people, not things. Although, smarmy people can leave a bad taste in your mouth.
Pussyfooting does NOT mean "taking your time." Check your Webster's!
Despicable means contemptible or deserving scorn. I just love the way it sounds
a•be•ce•dar•i•an - One who teaches or studies the alphabet. One who is just learning, a novice. I fell in love with this word because of the tie between its meaning and the pronunciation... "a-b-c-d-arian."
ab•lu•tion - A washing or cleansing of the body or the liquid used incleansing. In this word you can almost hear the water moving in a deep stone cistern.
ci•lan•tro - The parsley like leaves of fresh coriander. A delight for the mouth in more ways than one,
Serendipity: I like the word and its sound and its meaning.
Perspicacity: good sounding word.
How about: Ankylosing Spondilitis! Awesome name even if it does mean some sort of nasty illness...
I have a good word "smarmie" I use it to describe anything that leaves an unsalted peanutty taste in my mouth.
Floccipaucinihilipification: This word, to which the correct meaning was given (the act of deciding something is totally worthless), is spelled 'floccipaucinihilipification'. I know this because it happens to be my favorite word - and so far, I have only been able to find it in one very old unabridged dictionary.
While reading the side of a can of diet Coke (I was bored, o.k?) I found the neatest warning: "Phenylketonurics: Contains Phenylalanine" Those words just roll off my tongue! What is it? Some problem with your liver or kidneys or something and if you were a phenylketonuric you'd know it by now.
Moebel, a German word meaning "furniture." It's really supposed to be spelled "Mobel" with an umlaut over the "o". If you say it ten times fast your mouth gets all knotted up.
Pussyfooting: As in taking your time. Ex: Quit pussyfooting around and finish mowing the yard.
Fiddlefarting: Same as pussyfooting.
My favorite as a child: Xifoid (zi foid). It is the tip of your sturnum (called the Xifoid process).
riboflaven! I don't know what it is, but it has been my favorite word since grade school (20+ years ago!).
uftah..good substitution for Oh, man; or I'm so sorry; it is just an all-round good word.
Aeaeae : magic, as in "She used her aeaeae arts"
Harengiform: Herring shaped.
Turdiform: Thrush shaped.
Fustilugs: A fat, clumsy person.
Paramiographer: A collector or writer of proverbs.
Quoz: Something strange, absurd or ridiculous.
Quim: Either a queen or a vagina.
Formicate: To swarm like ants. "Look! The whole football team is formicating on the field!"
Rood: A quarter of an acre, or a length of seven or eight yards.
Solisequious: Following the sun. "But, boss, I have to go to Hawaii. My doctor says it's the only way to treat my solisequious affliction."
Pentad: Period of five consecutive days or years. "It seems like a pentad since last weekend!"
ozymandias
Eleventeen was, in my opinion, not adequately defined in your list. I have heard this word all too many times but it's not in the dictionary and I have no idea what it means. Seventy-eleventy = 81? or 180? Third world countries have been known to quote their national debts using "eleventeen" as in "eleventeen million" This is especially true of countries who's leaders are also budding rap stars.
I have always loved the word...."GREGARIOUS"....fond of association.
How about...."FLIMFLAM" and "FLUBDUB"?Really....basically nonsense...you might say to a friend who has diarrhea of the mouth..."enough flimflam and flubdub what's the point to your incessant ramblings?
Bushit: the emanative disinformation from the George Bush administration.
The word "YES" is the best word ever! You can't use it in a negative tone. It's always positive!
The word "NEW" is always worth saying!
Hi, I was reading your list of words (which is really funny) and I stumbled upon the word 'Methylchloroisothiazolinone' and was wondering if you could tell me where it is derived from?
Serendipity is a great sounding word...and it feels good rolling off your tongue.
From old movies (set in the South)-"Be still-"polite way of saying shut up and from old movies 2 (set in England)-"He's/she's mad!-"polite way of saying he's/she's nuts.
My favorite (a.k.a. fav) euphanism for sex is from the James Kirkwood novel, "Good Times, Bad Times-" conjugate the verb...
chryptorcid
I just skimmed through your listings and discovered that no one had submitted the word quincunx. It is the title of a good book from a few years ago and means five objects forming a square-like pattern with four on the corners and one in the middle. I tend to use it in polite conversation. At the coffeeshop, ordering a jumbo mocha, cashier asks how I'm doing. "Fine," I respond, "how's your quincunx?" The startled response, if she's awake yet, is worth the effort.
ubiquitous-meaning ever present. Enuf said.
FUT-ZIN : as in "I broke the knob off while I was futzin with the controls." Meaning, "messing with",etc. I believe it has Yiddish origin. My mother and I use it quite often and some people unfamiliar with it are quite shocked due to it's similar sounding cousin. (I'm just sitting around futzin with the computer...)
TAR ARN - What you use to change a tire in Texas.
ERUDITE - Learning and sholarship. "The eruditions of music and language are very similar." (It helps if you are one)
glisk: a momentary sense of pleasure or pain
gonna as a contraction for going to
y'all
troublem (created by my S. Vietnamese friend)
preantepenultimate: fourth from last. A true improvement on penultimate, which was an exciting world already.
dibble: to drink like a duck, by turning one's chin up.
Just cool to say: thrust, throttle - actually, any word that begins with "th" is fun.
fiasco: literally meaning (in italian, I belive, but maybe just good ol' latin) "from the bottle." Works for me, baby.
metagrobolization is near the top of the "colligation of anoetic sesquipedaliansms"(c) that my friend Trevor and I colligated when we were young. It is the process of confusing, or puzzling, used originally by Rabelais in the French form metagroboulis
a lovely Screamin' Jay Hawkins phrase: "Great Googly-Moogly" i know not what it means, but i like it. i know it's not classy or even reasonable, but there are some moments when i've got to say "shut yer punk-ass up". "punk-ass".....say it with emphasis, say it with feeling. being a horror fan, i think "Hastur" is a wonderful word. Lovecraft and Bierce fans should know that one.
pneumothorax - accumulation of air/gas in the pleural cavity, occuring as a result of disease or injury. Sometimes induced to collapse the lung in the treatment of tuberculosis.
quickzel - any word with 8 or more letters which, in a game of Scrabble, is played across 2 TRIPLE WORD SCORE spaces. (useage note: this word is capitolized when refering to a quickzel which uses both of the letters "q" and "z" - ie. QUICKZEL )
My favourite word is "Gestalt" - can't you just sink your teeth into that one!
Tentacle - you can taste it if you say it right. Tentacular isn't bad, either.
Schadenfreude has a "c" in it.
Epinephrine (ep-in-EF-rin}: A neurotransmitter. In the UK it's called adrenaline, but I personally think epinephrine sounds MUCH better.
"Fard", as a verb... it means the act of putting on make-up. You know, ladies who drive down the freeway while farding at the same time...
sesquipedalian, meaning many-syllabled. This is one William F Buckley himself would be proud to use, as pretentiously as possible.
epizoon - an animal that lives on another animal. Not exactly the same thing as calling someone a parasite, but the word has such a cool sound to it, doesn't it?
groak (GROHK) - a person or animal that hangs around watching hopefully for some food. We've all met them; hell, some of us *are* them. Hey, we gotta eat. Ya gonna finish that?
*lovely- it just kinda flows . . .
*bastard- a very potent word
*omnipotent- om-NI-po-tent need i say more?
*nefarious- a better word for eeevil
*oakley- ok so its not a real word yet but used to replace "nasty", it sounds pretty good --> "man, that guy's pants are totally oakley!"
desultory - marked by a lack of order or planning
eristic - what you call someone when they are just trying to win the argument, rather than reach for the truth.
apotropaic - intended to or thought to ward off evil. Great word!
omphaloskepsis - literally, contemplating one's navel. ooommmm...
misanthrope - someone who doesn't like people. Not an exceedingly rare word, but it comes in handy and fits certain people perfectly. For effect, call them a 'troglodytic misanthrope,' which is even better. Not only do they not like people, they go so far as to become cave-dwelling hermits to avoid them.
one of my favorites, shadenfreude, a German word that means that little pleasure you get at someone else's misfortune. Everyone needs something to look forward to, I think.
I have a good word:compudu. It's what my little brother calls the computer.
Turnip - HATE the vegetable. LOVE the word.
BONK: Because it sounds like what its supposed to mean.And SO much more genteel than the oft.used alternative...
pocket is one of many great "p" words, which happens to include the ever popular hard-c sound.... ooooh I just love those...
Pickle: this one practically jumps out at you.
Purple: like having a little bubble right on your tongue.. purple pruple purple... it always reminds me of Nermal from Garfield.... oooh.... Nermal... that's a good one too...
Piano. A wonderful, elegant word for a wonderful, elegant instrument.
MINUTIA...mi noo she uh Breathy, yet firm. Sounds fancy, yet describes all things trivial. My boyfriend with the bad vocabulary said when I asked him if he knew what it meant..."No, but I like the way you say it."
Bellybutton.... best if you say it bel-ly-bu-tonne' really fast....
discombobulated-who cares what it means...just puts me in a good mood every time I say it. (In case you do care, it means disoriented, or confused.)
visceral (vis' ah rahl) used in the context of an instinctual or, "in the gut" feeling . "It was not noble love. It was visceral desire. "
squizz (aparently only aussie)... a personal fave I picked up from an Australian friend. As in... go take a squizz at that thingy....
I really like the word voluptuous. My ex-boyfriend told me I had voluptuous hips. He said it means well rounded or something. Is that true? I thought it meant fat. I also really love the word ruminate. It sounds so cool!
How about Micturition? It means urination, or as most of my patients know it -- "peeing."
The word LEKKER! This is an Afrikaans word used to describe something (usually food) that tastes real good.
australopithecine: like an australopithecus (an ancestor of homo sapiens) - one of my favourite insults, used to describe people who are stupid, or people with excessive bodily hair (take your pick!)...
Apocalypse: I'm thinking of naming my dalmation or next child Apocalypse. How's this sound? Apocalypse Amuck Smith.
Some people don't like this word - but in my estimation it is a good one-- figgin (a form of fixin') 'I'm figgin to go down to the pool hall'. A definite Okie word, and one which most Okies are proud of. (yes, I ended that sentence with a preposition - I guess I could have said - ...one which most Okies are proud of.)
uvula: it really does feel good in your mouth! Sorta just hangs there doesn't it?
Where is Rutabega in this list? It's such a great word for something as mundane as a vegetable, albeit a PURPLE vegetable- I sure hope I spelled all this right after the trouncing given to the poor guy who spelled lugubrious wrong!
Farnarckling - as in piss-farting around, wasting time. It's a phrase my grandfather used, as a vague way of swearing, but getting away with it in front of my grandmother. He'd say to her, "Dear, why are you farnarckling around instead of sitting down?"
humuhumunukunukuapoaa- I'm not sure I spelled it right, but it is one of two types of triggerfish living in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It's Hawaiian.
ululation--pronounced yoo-you-lay-shun--it means loud wailing or lamentation--especially the eerie high pitched yodeling of women in arab countries.
I feel this word is over used sometimes, but not entirely noticed: RECKON.
-age : not really a word in it's self, but it's an awesome suffix for most any other words e.g Phone = Phonage; Flame = Flamage. Beware: some words do not work, e.g January = Januarage... crap.
"Hard drive" - Trying to climb a steep, muddy hill with 3 flat tires and pulling a trailer load of fertilizer.
"Keyboard"- Place to hang your truck keys.
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"Window" - Place in the truck to hang your guns.
"Floppy" - When you run out of Polygrip.
"Modem" - How you got rid of your dandelions.
"ROM" - Delicious when you mix it with coca cola.
"Byte" - First word in a kiss-off phrase.
"Reboot" - What you do when the first pair gets covered with barnyard stuff.
"Network" - Activity meant to provide bait for your trot line.
"Mouse" - Fuzzy, soft thing you stuff in your beer bottle in order to get a free case.
"LAN" - To borrow as in, "Hey Delbert! LAN me yore truck"
"Cursor" - What some guys do when they are mad at their wife and/or girlfriend.
"bit" - A wager as in, "I bit you can't spit that watermelon seed across the porch longways."
"digital control" - What yore fingers do on the TV remote.
"packet" - What you do to a suitcase or Wal-Mart bag before a trip.
Imbroglio: tonight, after a really messy scene after I bumped into my boyfriend while out with another man, a good friend of mine commented "well, that was quite the imbroglio, wasn't it?" Made a sloppy bar brawl seem rather refined.
Ya'll is a great word used extensively in the South. I picked it up during the brief time I lived in Oklahoma and have carried it with me for 15 years. Ya'll should try it! Editor's Note: Y'all in Oklahoma put the apostrophe in the wrongdamn place, y'all. For the advanced Southerner, try the plural possessesive, "y'alls'es" as in, "BubbaJoe, BobbyRae, LulaFrank is that y'alls'es new truck?"
Best damn word in the English language is ain't, as in ain't gonna.
ARNIE: (verb) to slowly gain credibility; for example, "He arnied his way from being an inarticulate body builder to a major Hollywood star"
Gription: of or pertaining too the soles on one's shoes. "Gee these shoes have good Gription".
FROCK: (Australian), meaning 'dress' mostly from the 1950's; for example, "Eunice wore a nice frock". Especially useful these days to bitchily put someone else down, for example "Love your frock, Gwyneth Paltrow!"
Gorgebeau- it's a word I made up. A cross between gorgeous and beautiful.
I love the word mullet, it is so HEAVY (it is really a fish)
firktoodling - a wonderful word that means caressing or fondling.
also like chuck-a-curly which, believe it or not means to fake an illness. So the next time you take a "sick day" away from work just tell your boss that you are chuck-a-curlying.
Pecid... I think. Well, maybe not, it's pronounced (p EE K ed), and it means pale toned. Like a person lacking of the state of tanness might be considered pecid. Or dead, but you know what I mean. [peaked: etymology unknown]
The word "Infernal." This word can increase your frustration by a 100 fold. For example, I was trying to load a Pez Dispenser the other day. (of course, the Tweety Bird one) I made a mistake putting them in, and they flew threw the air, breaking as they hit the ground. "Infernal PEZ!" I screamed, and got applause.
spagurken: it means geek. Yeah, you!
The word, Grandilloquism (gran dill' oh kwizm) 1. A large word used where a smaller would do. 2. Any appropriate embodiment of a word by itself for the sole purpose of promoting its own use in the sense that it will further the meaning unto it's definition while remaining constant in the form for which it was intended, until it becomes greater than the sum of it's characters whereby it reverts to a less traditional capacity for the purpose of maintaining redundancy. 3. Extra. 4. Surplus. 5. More. 6. Even more. 7. Way too much.
Condiments. Just for fun, ask for these next time you go to McDonald's and watch the look on their faces.
Returning to vogue are my two favorites: Plethora and Ennui. "Viewing the vast assembly of teenagers in the Auditorium during a lecture on Economic trends, I noted a plethora of ennui." Just makes your lips pucker up, doesn't it?
melanoma: A lovely word albeit with a terrible meaning. It is a joy to roll off the tongue and has a certain almost Hawaiian flavor to it. How odd - almost ironic (it SHOULD be considered a malapropism), indeed, it is that such a mellifluous oral exercise which renders such a melodius sound is put to use to describe a malignant malady.
undawest - this is what happens to someone who has done something against the law. Used in a sentence, it would sound like: 'You robbed the bank so I'm gonna undawest you!
circumambulate
Punkum - 3 year old Ryan's word for Pumpkins (also nakum for napkin)
SUBUNQUIS: (SUB-UN-GWISS) The skin immediately under the fingernail. When you bend your fingernail back, it is the tearing of the nail from the subunquis that causes the pain.
Ratamahatta: Sepultura's song, listen to it and you'll understand why it's so good to say!
absitively spespluvious! For something that is more than awesome and better than excellent:
oligodendroglia -- a type of cell in the Central Nervous System. mmmmm -- say it -- yummy!
"Mortified" -- it tends to be more "dramatic" than surprised or shocked.
Just to save you from further embarrassment -- it's lugubrious, not "lagubrious." Unfortunately, the former doesn't seem to apply, the latter doesn't exist. Oh well. You can work it out.
I, too, love words--but I prefer that they be spelled correctly. For example, "lagubrious" SHOULD be "lugubrious"--that is, with a "u" after the "l". No big deal, but if you're going to rhapsodize about words ("rhapsodize" is a good one, eh?), you should check their spelling first. I use the online Hypertext Webster's--it suggests correct spelling if you misspell the word you're checking. Editor's Note: This is the last lugubrious posting we'll add. The submitter must have the point by now. Can you say, "pedantic?" I knew you could.
Callipygious - having shapely buttocks
Slevs - abbreviation for Seven Eleven
Abulia - being incapable of making a decision
Boborygmi - a word that has now appeared four times on this list, so it must be really good.
Bah
Swordfish
LAMENTABLE - sounds really posh
SQUAWFUL - "Awful"
DODGE - meaning weird : That bloke looks really dodge
SHNAW - meaning "Oh NO!" or "No WAY!"
SCRIVER - "Fiver" (£5 note)
SCRENNER - "Tenner" (£10 note)
SQUID - "Quid" (£1 note)
Try "orphey" instead of "cool." That makes your listener wonder if you're somehow making fun of people who say "cool" too much.
There's a character in Anthony Trollope's Barchester Chronicles with one of the most lagubrious names in literature - Obadiah Slope. hmmm..lagubrious...that's not bad, either.
blitzkrieg: It makes a good exclamatory to be used like "Gadzooks!" or "My word!" It actually means war (or more accurately in history, 'lightning war). But it just sounds sooooo good.
lush: Don't you just like the way that it rolls off your tongue?
spunky: It sounds energetic, vibrant and alive like what it actually describes.
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.. i'm not Canadian, nor have i ever been Canadian, but that just makes me feel so very Canadian when i say it long and keen-like. Also, using Nova Scotian as an adjective for just totally cool.
memice - prescribed drugs - used in a sentence or a title to a tv show such as "Dr. Quinn, Memice Woman"
memochamatrol - my son used this to describe the remote
The word is: Gazongaloid (Guh zong guh loyd) It means attractive big breasts. As in: "Did you see the gazongaloids on that chic??" Editor's note: We thought those were "jazalamabammas." Who says the internet is not informative?
Methylchloroisothiazolinone - a common ingredient in most shampoos.
Actually, its "limicolous." Which means dwelling in mud.
Since a few of the words on the list seem to have come from Lee Blessing's great play, "Eleemosynary," about a 16-year-old spelling genius, I'll throw in another one. "Deodand," (DEE-UH-DAND) which is the word for chattel that was inadvertently involved with the death of a human and hence given up to the King to be put into some kind of pious service. So if a horseshoe fell on your wife's head and killed her, you'd have to give it to the king and he'd have a new planter. Hunh.
Metasequoia glyptostroboides- botanical name for the Dawn Redwood (thought extinct till the 1940's when it was rediscovered in China) Say it-- it's fun.
Lecherous: it just SOUNDS like a slobbery dirty old man
Heresy: Great to shout at the top of one's lungs (also, "blasphemy!" and "sacrilege!" are great, too.)
Evil: say this with widened eyes and a low growly voice when someone offends you, and emphasize the first syllable ("EEE-vil"). If you're feeling naughty, you can describe your own state with this word, only pronounce it "ee-vil," not "ee-vul."
Transmogrify - to change or alter often with grotesque or humorous effect. My dad used to threaten us kids with this when we were playing up.
Floccinaucinihilipilification - the act or habit of estimating as worthless. The longest true english word.
Monstrosity: good to call someone this in your most horrified and disgusted voice.
Deified: sounds good, and is made even better by being a palindrome
Severance: a beautiful word describing a gruesome state
Debonair: a swanky way to say 'swanky'
Hallowed
Et Hoc Genus Omne - 'And all that sort of thing'. To be used in preference to etcetera
Limpopo - A river in Africa. Kipling wrote of 'the great, grey, green, greasy Limpopo...'.
Merkin - A pubic wig?! Also the given name of the US President in Dr Strangelove.
swallowable -- meaning able to be swallowed. Kind of a tounge-twister, ain't it?
tilde (teel dee) that little squiggle next to the ! key. (~) just feels good in your mouth.
Farf---A great word to say to someone who just said something completely moronic.
diabolical - say it twelve or eight times, you'll like it!
Esurient -- very very hungry
Pleonasm -- a phrase that uses more words than necessary
extremliciously good! - (ex - trem- lish- us- lee) to describe a deliciously extremely good sensation
Grendelian - from the book Grendel by John Gardner to describe a monstrously uncontrollable urge [ or a human of similar nature ]
hippopotomonsproesquipedalian, one of the longest words in english, describes the act of making a big word.
putupwithable - able to put up with something
tizzle - in a state about something
All of these are amazing words to say in a loud, dramatic voice or in an accent other than Canadian: spoon, mattress, grape, thrust, colloquialism, euphamism, euphoric, idyomatic, scruple, machievellian, flower, sprightly, rejoice, belated.
Limoculous -- dwelling in mud
Sebacious Cyst -- just really fun to say
Quilt- don't it just make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside
Perdictity - too fussy for fussy. As in don't be so perdictity.
I love to say DIABOLICAL. Try it! Say it a few times... I can tell you like it.
Serendipity- finding something that you weren't looking for. Ain't it cool?
appypollyloggy - always liked it
rudeyprod - a great word to trivialise sexual activity
diggledubblebus - a double decker bus
flup - merging the words fluffy and pup - what we call my new god-daughter. More satisfying than 'googoo' any day!
circumdition: Same thing but only diff'rnt.
slipstream: such a sexy word. Slips off your tongue, taking you under, then brings you to the surface again for a gasp of air. Take it in.
Tentacle. It dances it your mouth.
schleck: the beauty of it is that it's so multifunctional--"get the schleck out of my way," "what the schleck is that?". It can also mean kissing: "I saw them schlecking in a corner."
blah, blah, blah: this is just fun to say over and over and over...until someone hits you over the head with a shovel.
"bad ass:" a word for all occassions. You could call someone totally trying to be cool a bad ass, or someone who is totally cool a bad ass.
yahad: alternative to yuppie; a yuppie who goes and sees movies about youth angst and then goes and talks about the kids horrible plight -- came to be after we saw "Trainspotting"
ornament: You know that thing on top of your house.
kismet
tennis
-ooh schzoo boo boo doo-->this is actually from the "Ace Ventura" movies, but it sounds cooler when my friends and I say it.
picaroon - a logger's tool (steel pick at the end of a wooden pole) also the name of a microbrewery in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
antepenultimate - the one before the penultimate
borborygmus - stomach rumblings
Empathy - Doesn't it just make you feel SO good?
erethic: abnormal irritability
Remotcamatrol (Remote Ca Ma Trol) My 3 year old dauther changes TV Channels with.
Snuggle-piggy It both resonates and sounds like what it is. This is what I call my baby daughter.
Sugar Booger - great sounding term of endearment for my 2yr old - she's sweet & snotty at the same time - and I still pick her!
Also, Snickelfritz - just sound good and it's mixable, ie, nickelsnitz, frikelsnitz, etc!
phantasmagoric--I love this word because it sounds so sexual but it's not
fif and gepip ; my gramps used to say it when he was going out and he didn't want us to know where.
Borborygmy: medical term for that growling noise your tummy makes. It's fun to say, and it sounds much worse than it is (try saying to someone, "I believe you're suffering from borborygmy-- maybe you should eat something")
Sycophant: so much more evocative than "brown-noser"
Boogerlicious: Anything yummy and green!
smock; it's just a cool word to say. smock, smock, smock.
Valkyriosis - A condition brought by watching the entire "Ring Cycle" by Wagner over the course of a short period. Characteristic symptom: wearing winged helmets and shouting "Hoyotoho!".
munge
gigabyte - just say it - you'll understand
melbatoast
kershuks : we made it up it just can about one day but it means "cold french fries" "Ew, kershuks"
skosh (pronounced with a long 0) a little less than a little bit, definitely less than a pinch. Better than saying "just a hair" Use it well, use it often. One of my all-time favorite measurements.
Sloop -- it's a kind of small sailing ship, and the word has this nice gliding sound, just the way a sloop glides through the water.
Epiphany: What you achieve when your brain goes, "Duh!" Sounds almost religious.
iiaight (sp) i-ight maybe just awful just say all right!
pudgy
underbelly
jungle
pirhanapic - say real quick
Bullshockey - (Pronounced bull-shock-y) - Say it a view times and confuse everyone else
Piddidle - Say it when you see a car with one of its headlights out, it makes ya feel better!
Pa-rize - a neat word for surprise. Little Wesley, my grandson, used this word from the gitgo (oh, another good one)...........
The word is spuzzled -- My brother coined it while we were working in a factory in the summer during college. He used it to describe the state of the permanent factory workers after years of mind deadening factory work.
Huw....MEANING A PERSON WHO IS TOTALLY UNIMPRESSIVE IN PUBLIC.
Onomono, a new word created by The Word Company Germany. Other new words are: Flogo, Smorp, Explom, Quix, ...
cybersurfer (say it 5 times fast!)
tautology : overstating a point
Penultimate does not mean "superior to all others." It means "next-to-last."
Nooner - Need I say more?
The response to "Jeetjet" is, of course, "No. Squeet."
SISU (see'soo): A Finnish word meaning gutsy drive perseverance BALLS. WHat we need these days to have good days.
right on
smoosh- Squishing something softly... expl- "I was smooshed between two pillows"
God As a child I would lie on the upper bunk that was always mine, stare at the white plaster above me and say it until its cohernce dissipated, then sleep.
Sopwith: my cat's name. Makes it ever so much fun to call her!
Confabulate: "To replace fact with fantasy in your memory"
haanaabaataa
plethora
Paraquat - as in "don't hit it with a hammer, you paraquat!" Actually a weedkiller. So maybe it should be Paraquat(r)?
heliotrope
Pesky--- as in "those pesky kids!"
crapulous - Perfect word! Perfect sound! -- For how you feel the morning after
spro--short for espresso
ShuckyDucky: I forget the comedian who coined the term, but its funny and fun to say. ShuckyDucky Quack Quack.
Neener: Put your thumbs to your cheeks and wave your hands, now repeat after me: "Neener Neener" Now don't you feel better?
pinguescent-sounds good. "You look positively pinguescent today." Means: having a tendency to become fat.
fisticuffs: a delicate reference to a fist fight.
accag--the sound your cat makes when it spits up a hairball. also the acronym for a service group in Vermont.
nonchalant
Underbrella...a word invented by my 2-yoear-old daughter (MANY years ago) that seems to make more sense than "umbrella"
schizenburg
six 'lebenty - is slightly less than eleventeen, and the moral equivalent of a-dollar-two-eighty
hoi polloi - so very common, those people over there, let's snub them
Foof: Are your foofs silent and deadly? or just plain loud and smelly?
horse-piddle - where the dokkers and nerfses work (according to my 4-year-old)
amn't - my son's derivation; it's the first-person singular for aren't and isn't
disembark - somebody lamented their inability to find a good word for deplane" on the bad words page. "Disembark" is what you need.
Elaboratly, awesome, flabbergasted, and preposterous. (Don't they just make your tounge happy?) Also : Gotcha!
Hamburer Burglar- You gotta love it.
Macarena
Smearmunk...sadly enough, it describes small roadkill. But just say it--smeeeeeeaaaaar*munk*. fun fun fun
harsh... definition: use instead of very, eg: "that's harsh cool" ("that's very/ really cool")
Awquityerbellyachin is a great thing to say.
statiophonicoxygeneticaplifiagraphaphonideliverberator-the coolest and longest of all words.
a comment- "Shvitzing" was defined incorrectly- it means to sweat.
Snooze- it's just a sleepy word
MINT! or DER HEY! or SWEET! or Sure
prestidigitation-a tricky way to say legerdemain
dotage
obstreperous
fungible
punctilious
uxorious
No, no: not "jewheat" - the original phrase/word is "Jeet jet?" which you could turn into "jeetjet."
Squamous - Flattened, as in 'squamous epithelium'- the flattened top layer of skin cells. Say it 'skway - muss'
Argh.....Good cartoon word, it even hurts to speak it.
dipsodic - craving alcohol. (an invented word by John Yorke based on dipsomania)
Flutterbys----------- Word meaning Butterflys it just sounds better doesn't it
bismuth
Luscious: very pleasant to smell or taste; appealing to the sences. Innit tho??
Incentify --- To motivate a consumer, retailer, sales rep, company, to purchase, use, repurchase, an item where they receive an value-added incentive to make it worth while
milksop
claptrap
bulbous
finial - an ornament at the top of a spire, gable, etc.
Borborygmus - sound made by gas in the intestines
Pacheyscephelosaurus-pronuced packEESefellowsAUrus a Dinosaur
All Done. Used to describe someone who is so drunk (or whatever) that they're just "All Done". Also strung out, or the person is about to get smacked in the forehead.
Inbred. A name for everyone: "How's it goin' inbred?"
humongous
Grotesque - But only if you pronounce it "grotaskew".
Clamster - any type of shellfish that is left stranded on the beach at low tide. From my son Joe, when he was three.
Snacks - a great word (and a great concept). perfect word for "madlibs"
fugly
Disintegrationalisticasticisminity (Dis-in-tuh-gray-shun-al-ist-i-cast-i-sizm-in-it-e), the complete anticorrilastic expulsatory of inanimatronically inertialized english teachers, is a very cool word. (It's even cooler if you can use it fluently in a sentence)
schmurf -- no not smurf! -- it must needs have the 'ch' in there. and of course, schmurfing, schmurfie, schmurfles, etc.
psssgehtti - the way I pronounced "spaghetti" when I was little. Doesn't it sound cute?
subinfeudination
horrid
Storsha - My friend calls me this; It's a nickname, shorter than my own, and it's catchy.. (Name's Natasha)
Oxy Moron or Oxymoron - It describes me perfectly... Contradictive.
Vehicular Homicide - Sick, isn't it?
Dis-com-bob-u-lated (I'm not sure on the spelling, but this the sound of it)
i love this list way better than the bad word list this list was funny and imaginative and the ppl arent like the ppl of the other list who seem to have sticks up their butts and dont seem to like anything the two list cant be made by the same ppl by the way i used many of those words on the bad words list well i had fun reading the good word list
zoftig - slang "zaftig"...all I can say is look this one up in the dictionary, you will begin using it!!!
eegah ooogha: my mother's word for a gentle "get out of the way", as in you are standing in front of the stove and she wants to stir the pudding: "eegah ooogha. It's from the sound of the old klaxon horns on cars. I was in college before I realized it wasn't a standard English word.
Stroppy
Perspective - An evolutionary word that works (invented by Harold Bloom)
SCHVITZING - meaning to get in a stress and start fussing about. It is undoutedly one of the most fabulous and beautiful words to squeeze into conversation at every possible moment!
Ergo: it's better than therefore, and there's a certain way to say it: "airgo"...stumps many!
hand
juicy - you can feel it when you say it....
solipsism - solipsistic. Isn't it great!
splendiferous
Zircon: Just say it over and over.....
Assholic - description for someone you want to insult, but don't want them to realize it until later.
"fixin' to," as in "I'm fixin' do that job right now." An invaluable phrase that disarms criticism and implies far more industry and activity than any alternative.criticism
Apotheosis
gibbous: the shape of the moon when it's more than half-full but less than full
FERDOODEE - DESCRIPTION OF A PERSON OR A THING. USUALLY MEANING WEIRD,CRAZY, WHACK ETC.
Egregious
orgasm: almost as much fun to say as it is to do!
Glom: To eat quickly or hog.
Byzantine: I could explain what it means, but it's too complicated.
maroon- those big fat guys who have been lifting weights for year but have never really gotten in shape. Easily identifiable by chest hair, slicked hair and cheesy gold bracelets and chains.
phantasmagorical
Feord: Ren's cousin Sven's word for four. Bad speech habit to get into if you are still in school.
Expignant. It doesn't mean anything. I used it several times in a newsletter to see if anyone actually read my stuff. Nope! Not one person asked what it meant even though it had different meanings depending on context.
Festoon. To drape loosely. It sounds great, especially if you use it out of context.
outrageous
slyboots
Ghoti - Pronounced , "Fish"
lasterday--for years my kids used this instead of yesterday
sea shell: What a cool word (well, wordS, but they go together!)
gingham
Caterwaul-a harsh cry or angry quarrel.
In Ulm, um Ulm, und um Ulm herum: German tonguetwister
tempestuous--isn't it great? passionate, fun to say, basically a yummy word
Petty-fogging Bunkum: Strictly two words, or even three, meaning a load of shit (usually to talk).
rectoplectomy - a surgical proceedure that installs a clear plexiglass window in the abdomen enabling you to see where you're going while walking around with your head stuck up your ass.
Oi oi: for insiders
virid
vestibule: v., to delay departure from another's home, office, whatever, by standing just inside the door where one continues to talk at/with the person who wishes one would just LEAVE!
ack!: just plain ol' ack, ack Bill the Cat
hyperventilation
obersuperpanamatoll: that's german, and it's about what it sounds like
Onomatapoeia: Happy-poetic word. You can skip it and sing it. You can SPLISH SPLASH CRASH BASH MASH CRUNCH and BOING it too.
perusal
Slurp: The word sounds, looks, and feels just like the action it describes
wahaygh: meaning: hooray, yay, i am incredibly happy with this outcome etc...
Pecksniffian: Hypocritically benevolent. It's just a great word to say.
tiramisu
BOING: Who doesn't like to boing?
foogiwah: a word expressed apon poking someone in the ribs.
icky icky fotong fotong: the correct response to foogiwah
tergiversate (means to change opinions or defect (political), but I use it much like vacillate (another good word))
anthropophagous: Brings a whole new meaning to the epithet "eat me."
"jewheat?".."no. jew?" -are we hungry or are we discussing religions?
vestibule: The common meaning you know, but it is also a term from anatomy. It is the area of the vagina just inside of the labia. A warm, cozy entranceway. No different, really, just a change in context. A friend of mine, who also has a penchant for words, made me a tape, and called it: Different from a Mellifluous Vestibule She has a loathing for people who use 'different than', and the last two words are among my favorites. But this was before I knew the second meaning of vestibule.
cantaloupe: looks, feels, sounds and tastes wonderful.
oaf: a large, bumbling person. (Sounds good also as oafish, oaflings, oafishly, etc.) ex: "Why is that large, blonde oaf staring at me?"
vermiculite: the stuff found in potting soil. "Vermiculite. Vermiculite. Vermiculite."
cylindrical: it even sounds cylindrical when you say it.
cocoa butter: feels good in the tonsils, and good on the tongue
portly: sounds neat by pronouncing "port-LAH".
despicable: as when Daffy says "you'rrre despicable" - perfect description of some people.
vulpine: denotes a foxlike quality such as looking sleek or predatory.
vespertilian: of or pertaining to bats. It sounds sinister and rather sleek. And almost NOBODY knows what it means.
beepilepsy: The spasm your body goes through when your pager goes off.
tellurium: Element 52. tel-LURE-ium. A good tongue-curling word.
trilobyte: Extinct arthropod. Say it fast. Say it again. Try to stop.
Fliberty-Gibit: Like a thing-a ma- jig or sometimes a somewhat flighty person.
rambunctious
cg: cool guy, as in, "Darren is a cg from Lindsay."
defenestrate: v, to be thrown out of a window.
FAWAAAZZ: I saw this license-plate once in Washington DC
both: The stupidest word in the english language, but fun to say.
peche: Fr. peach.
ZOINKS!!! Remember Shaggy?
Word!: Means, I understand and I agree whith that.
Extentual: to extend
effluvium: stuff, as in "Addicted to Effluvium"
yoni: Sanskrit word (very reverent and respectful) for female private parts. It's pronounced "yoh- nee", which is much nicer and sweeter than those crude terms you're sick of. Also fun to say: yohhhh- neeee. I'll use it in a sentence: "Her yoni was a wonderful springtime happy thing."
entelechy: a snappy word for a cool concept
spiffy, said with pursed lips
hoojahmicrobaphobia: another thingamabobster
Words are like WIENERS. Not really, but I love to say "weiner." Weiner, Weiner, Weiner, Weiner
Tit, What if James Earl Jones said it over and over again. "tit, tit, tit." Wouldn't that be cool?
Mango. This is a word Mexican women use for a really good looking guy. I like the word. It is juicy, it drips, it rolls around and melts in your mouth.
ignatz - an excellent word which substitutes in certain circumstances for "shit," goddamnit," and "hell."
eleventeen; also see seventy-eleventy.
Pedantic: A friend was once told, by a grade school teacher, that he was pedantic. He cried all the way home, until he was told to look it up!
helicoppopter; it's really more appropriate than the traditional spelling, because if you think about it, helicopters 'pop' into the air. from Jared B., when he was 3.
chiaroscuro: the contrast of light and darkness in a painting, but can also be used just in general. Like "Look at the chiaroscuro effect that couple has." It makes you sound very intellectual.
thingamabobster: you know, like a thingamagig, whatchamacalit; widget, ... by Jessica G.; when she was 7.
fulsome: sounds like a compliment but means offensive to good taste, excessive, gross, disgusting, repulsive, insincerely lavish
Chewy: go ahead and say it! Doesn't it sound so beautiful, so heavenly, so sweet, so....CHEWY!
circumambulate: It's good!! It's good! Say it! NOW! I found it in 6th grade. It means to wander around. I wrote this long story in 6th grade and went thru the thesaurus and substituted every boring noun with a beautiful one.....
wax: grow slowly, gradually e.g. Her speech waxed eloquently.
flauschig
aesthetic: rolls off the toungue and has to do with beauty
tahini: fun to say and yummy too.
clock: it's gooooooooood. mightygood. clock.
yestermorning: it means yesterday, in the morning. my nephew Timothy came up with this one last year, when he just was 3 years old.
Sentient: One who or that which is capable of feeling or perception. Conscious. The mind.
yurt: a circular domed tent of skins or felt stretched over a collapsible lattice framework and used by the Kirghiz and other Mongol nomads of Siberia; also a structure that resembles a yurt in size and design
wrought: made, fashioned, worked, completed by a craftsman
bombastic: Fabulous word. Denotes something that makes great and immediate impression. Great fun to say.
mellifluous: Rolls right off the tongue.
pulchritude: because it doesn't seem to match its definition.
fecund: because it sounds dirty, but isn't
cacophony: Riotous clamor or discordant noise. The terrible din of modern life.
apophasis: the device of mentioning something by stating that it will not be mentioned.
y'all: A good and descriptive word when used by a Southerner; only marginally better than chewing tin foil when used by a Northerner.
ecclesiastical: not fun to say, but actually fun to spell quickly--try it.
obsequious: It's safe to accuse anybody who is, of being so.
BOGUS: Say the word and feel the contempt for something phoney
lummox: a clumsy, stupid person, but fun to say.
Dubious: Doubtful--It should be a slang word. "Ya goin' out tonight?" "Dubious, dude."
Generic: Not a brand name. Simple. I like to use it to refer to people or thier actions. "Man you are so GENERIC."or "That's GENERIC." or "How GENERIC." It just sounds like cheap or stupid.
Snarfer (variation on "Snarf"): This is a word to describe a person whom you are talking about.
moist: Sounds really cool. moistmoistmoistmoist. moist. (usually referring to their coolness). ex: "She's a real snarfer"
moron: Sounds like what it means. Fun to say. Variants include pronunciation variations for emphasis. "He did WHAT? What a total MOE-rawn."
antidisestablishmentarianism: An antidisestablishmentarianist is a redneck.
bedebai: Fun to say when there is an uncomfortable pause in conversation or when you have just accomplished a strived for achievement.
ziggurat: Something people who lived a long time ago built, they were probably pretty big and funny- looking, considering that the workmen building them must have had a difficult time holding their laughter after every time their supervisor said "ziggurat."
Fulsome: An all-purpose adjective to be used at least daily.
wombat: An honorable little mammal whose name serves well as a non-sequitor or dummy variable. Wommm-Batt. Pops out of the mouth fully formed into the world. Additionally, contains womb, which few other words do.
picaro: A rogue, so picara - a female rogue which leads to picaresque, which leads to picaroon or pirate.
Widgit: You know...a gizmo, contraption. WIDGIT WIDGIT WIDGIT WIDGITWIDGITWIDGITWIDGIT.
idiosyncracy: Noun. An "idio-and-crazy" habit. Sounds just like its definition. Another good word is "idiosyncratic" adj. -- He is very idiosyncratic. I love it!
flauschig: Say it and feel it - cozy and fluffy can't cover it.
stalwart: resolute, uncompromising. Morally and physically strong. A good thing to be.
Priapism: A persistant painful erection which can be successfully treated by draining the blood from the corpora cavernosa of the penis and instilling a vasoconstrictor.
Porringe: The act of getting up from a particularly squashy seat, and sitting down again -- to prove to others in the room that the bizarre noise emitted upon sitting was caused by the chair and not the breaking of wind. Originally conceived due to the lack of a word to rhyme with "orange," but we,re pushing for acceptance from the semantic community...
eleemosynary: of or pertaining to charity
Cumbersome: Burdensome
assphasia: noun, Condition afflicting those with their heads so far up their ass that they require a navel lens to see daylight. Common among employers and supervisory personnel. Prerequisite to being sworn in as a police officer.
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis: Longest valid word in English. Medical term for the coal miner's occupational hazard "Black Lung." Say it out loud at cocktail parties, "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis."
proclivity: A tendency towards something as in "She had a proclivity towards talking loudly." A very graceful word.
Axion: Just because it has an "X" in it.
niminy-piminy: Affected or pretentious; very onomatopoeic.
defenestrate: To throw something out of the window.
toothsome: Tasty, and them some. Not to be confused with soothsome, a work of serious intellectual import which, unfortunately, just puts one to sleep.
hella: Very much so, to a good extent. "Hella good." "Had a hella time."
cross-naming: Similar to cross-dressing; common in the SouthEastern US. example: BobbySue, JoeMary, BubbaAnn
audient: One person in an audience; a singular viewer/listener
whook: When you're reading a book and a wind comes along, catching the pages, making you lose your place.
antidisestablishmentarianism: Used to be the longest word around but got surpassed by someother word that is so long nobody remembers it.
syzygy: Getting your ducks lined up on a somewhat larger scale.
beaner: Dirty little guy with slicked back hair with bad teeth that likes to say stuff to everyone he sees.
weezil: A variant upon the traditional spelling of the rodent of the same name. Implies, somehow, an even greater level of opportunistic tendency than implied in the traditional use of the animal name as invective. Describes a hairball of the first degree.
egregious: outstanding for undesirable qualities; remarkably bad
Flannery: A woman's name or, alternately, a cat's name, as in a replacement for an original thoughtless name such as 'The Cat." Could originate from several famous authors, but most likely from the custard-like "flan." Flannery is also the factory in which flan is made by third-world laborers working for 17 cents an hour.
modempie: An inexplicable word. But fun when said real fast, with lips pursed. Overheard from Haribo. Perfected by Sylvie.
exasperating: I'm not sure if I spelled it correctly, but I love to say it. You're so exasperating!
epitome: Something that is typical or characteristic of things similar. Both e's are long which easily confuses people.
Fraggle: Characters on a kids' show, Fraggle Rock. Damn good word, damn good show.
neuroglia: connective cells that support neurons
penguin: A super-cool animal; a pretty darn cool word too
bamboozle: Great word, isn't it? Bamboooozle. Just rolls off your tongue. It means to trick or hoodwink,
flatulent: Marked by or affected with gases generated in the intestine.
knucklehead: dummy; it just sounds funny
fluffy: my favorite bleached-blonde overdressed waitress who works in heels on linoleum at my favorite pizza place
wrench: that tool-type thing; roll the rrrrrr when you say it
weevil: a weird bug, but very funny to say weeeeeeeeevil
fecund: alive with vegetation, fertile. A little dubious sounding, but it tastes good.
ology: a cool word that you have to pause to pronounce properly, e.g., o (pause) ology pronounced oh all oh gee
chimera: Guess the pronounciation: SHIM-er-uh? nooooooo. no. no. no. ki-MEER-uh or ky-MEER-uh (thanks, Reg)
staccato: Short little notes in quick succession; it sounds like its meaning.
cake: mmmmmm ....... cake. yummy.
otiose: Superfluous, unnecessary, only with fewer syllables and less well known. Some people are otiose, they just don't know it.
scootch: To move without standing from one sitting position to another. "She scootched over to make room on the bench."
kumquat: A fruit. This is just plain funny. Say it over and over. Scream it during sex. Kumquat. Say it.
yam: A tuber. I yam what I yam. And it's all what I yam.
hectivity: Activity at a hectic pace. Hectivity.
sibilant: ssssssomething that hassssss a lot of sssss sssssoundssss in its pronounssssiation
lalochezia: "lah loh KEY zee uh" The act of talking dirty to relieve tension.
naupathia: "naw PATH ee uh" Seasickness
contesseration: The act of making friends.
juxtaposed: Nearer than close proximity. I love the way it sounds. The final "d" makes it more bettererererer
Sassafras: Something they put in tea, I think. But, just generally a treat for the teeth -- fun to say.
propinquity: Nearness in place or time. But for propinquity, lovers would not meet.
masoleum: That place where they enshrine rich dead people. Also, my very favorite word to say.
timpani: Kettle drums played in an orchestra. Just rolls off the tongue. Imagine Richardo Montalban saying it.
fossilectomy: Forcible removal of the fossil driving the slow moving car in front of you when you are 20 minutes late for - fill in a reason
flossgules: The stuff left over on the mirror after you floss your teeth. Good, gross, made up word.
snuggle: v.i.-- 1. to lie or press closely, as for comfort, or from affection; nestle; cuddle.v.t. -- 2. to draw or press closely against, as for comfort or from affection. It's a wonderful verb either transitive or intransitive. I welcome being either the subject or the object of this verb.
WYSIWYG: "What You See Is What You Get" acronym means 'as is' pronounced "wizzy-wig." Fun to say.
masticate: To chew.
flirt: Fun to say and fun to do.
Stella fontinella: The best cheese there is. It's as fun to eat as it is to say
poutine: French fries, with a gravy suace, sprinkled with cheese curds
ersatz: substitution, usually of inferior quality
thrust: To surge forward into something with a great passion
desiccate: to dry thoroughly ... like the exterminator does with bugs, but it sounds nice
areola: That darkened skin around your nipple . . . "uh REE uh luh" (thanks Reg)
endoplasmic reticulum: an organelle in a cell, but doesn't saying it just make you feel groovy?
vapid: Lacking liveliness; flat, uninteresting, isipid. Can definitely be applied to someone you know. Fun to say.
Hemoplugs: The little pieces of tissue paper you put on your face when you cut yourself shaving.
sesquipedalian: Using long or complicated words when shorter terms would be just as good or better. Literally means, "feet," as in "poetic feet," not centipede feet. Clarification from another reader: "actually is foot as in 12 inches -- someone who uses words that are a foot and a half long"
atlatl: Fun to say. I have always wanted to own an "atlatl" just because the word is so cool.
susurrate: Murmur, rustle, whisper. I think of dry wheat in a breeze when I hear this word. Sometimes, I think of skin on skin.
gemmie: slang, West Scotland, adj.; having admirable, pleasing, or positive qualities
enormity: Most correctly used to mean a grave offense or a great wickedness. Can be used to mean huge.
adroit: having skill, cleverness or resourcefulness in handling situations
WYGIWYLI: pronounced "wiggly-willy" ; What You Get Is What You Luck Into
huh: Excuse me, my brain was temporarily immobile
coprolite: white dog turd on your lawn; fossilized excrement, a spanish coprolito
ignasecond: The moment before the car door shuts that you realize the keys are in it.
lighten-up: You should. The object of language is to communicate. If I say, "wow, that's like, way cool," you know what I mean and I have succeeded. Language is not static as you apparently would have it be. Lighten up.
hyperbole: People who pronounce this word hyper-bowl should be peeled and rolled in salt. It means excessive, exaggerated.
obfuscate: Is a self-defining word
Terse.: Sounds just like its meaning
osculate: To kiss. Said to your roommate after he/she returns from a date - "C'mon, c'mon. Did you two... osculate?
indefatigable: untiring, unwearying
hirsute: Tell a chick she's hirsuit. For example, "Hey, your upper lip is kinda' hirsuit." "It's what?", "You know. Hairy". Run for cover.
granola: Oats with flavor, yummy. Sounds like a person saying hello to grain.
monet: an adjective used to describe someone who looks good from a distance
silence: a very good word - both in sound and meaning
fractious: a troublesome word, gets on one's nerves
subsume: to include under a class as belonging to it -- subsooooooooooooom
pusillanimous: Lacking courage, weak-willed, but sounds great
superfluous: One of my all time favorite words. Mark Twain liked it too. exceeding what is sufficient or neccesary, wasteful, extravagant
coaxial cable: quacksial; fun to say
smocks: I agree with Hobbes the tiger, not the philosopher. It's fun to say.
overneath: I know it's somewhere around here.
napkin: This word is just inherently funny. Say it, "Napkin."
spackle: You could fix walls with it, but it's so much more fun to say than to do. Spackle. Spackle. Spackle.
ambiguous: equivocal; 'nuff said
mausoleum: A large tomb, especially above ground. I just love the way this one rolls off the tongue.
mulligan: n., a pain in the intestines; colic, hence, ill-tempered; sulkiness
extrude: To make by pushing through or out .. that Play-Doh device that one squeezed shapes from was actually labeled as an "Extrusion Toy." A very versatile verb, especially when used when asking for items not available, rather than making an EXTraRUDE request. "Why don't you just eat some of these old boards and extrude a new controller."
shitload: The biggest measurement next to infinity.
fusty: smelling like mold, mildew
cwm: cirque, steep, hollow excavation high on a mountainside made by glacial erosion; a natural ampitheatre. Find the vowel in this word, I dare you!
melody: tune or song or musical treble line, but really just a word that sounds musical
castigate: to punish, reprove, or criticize severly
bombastic: A great word for the coming election year given chest-out, table-pounding pompous nonsense.
choli: The ultimate definition of beauty in a woman as defined by the guiding principles of Kama Sutra.
prolixity: lots-o-words, wordy, verbose, long drawn out
nictitate: wink
fustigate: to chastise severely
defenestrate: To be thrown out of a window. From the Latin, meaning not and the French fene, meaning window.
robust: It's just so, so ... so ROBUST
Actually: Puts you in the position (says Connie) of sounding like you know what you are talking about.
cornucopia: a collection of dissimilar objects, "The party was a cornucopia of culture."
discombobulate: to confuse, frustrate, upset
angst: anguish, feeling of dread ... damn good word
mafudiwadi: one of your best friends, as in, "Hey mafudiwadi, what's happening?"
integrity: complete, whole, honest ... sounds that way
infundibulum: A tissue stalk, pedicle
spam: amorphous; hard to digest thing or action.
sciolist: superficial pretender to knowledge
Uh: Let us pause while my brain goes to the next sector
tintinabulation: ringing of bells
ululate: howl and wail, said ululatingly
uvula: No, ma, it's not what you think. Open reaaaaaal wide now.
stuff: The best word. Popular word. Lycos found 6894 URLs; Webcrawler found 8,889; EINet found 744. Veronica found 343 DIR's at SUNET and over 10,000 items.
pimple: Doesn't it just SOUND like what it is?
straddle: When I see this word, I see a man. And he is standing. He is dominating.
sofa: "Sofa" sounds like what it is. "Couch" does not.
alluvium: Water-borne matter deposited on low-lying lands. The word feels good in my mouth. "allloooooooveeeeeeeummmmm."
attenuate: To make thin or slender; to weaken the potency of.
contort: It sounds just like what it is.
foible: ffffffffooooooyyyyyble
impervious: Impenetrable; impassable
palaver: Idle talk; empty conversation