# Cool Words **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 12, 2020, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827 "2020-10-12T19:57:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/1 "2020-10-12T19:57:17Z")
I was chatting with my brother about some DIY stuff recently, and I somehow uttered two ‘words’ that immediately struck me as cool: Grub screw Plinth block Which made me think about a whole litany of words that, IMHO, are just inherently cool – either because of the way they sound or what they mean. Got any that come to mind ? ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/2 "2020-10-12T19:58:12Z")
I wrote a poem (a tanka) about one … and it got published: we both couldn’t sleep infundibulum I said is such a cool word go back to sleep said my bride but how can I now ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/3 "2020-10-12T20:12:38Z")
Refrigerator/freezer I’ll let myself out. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/4 "2020-10-12T21:11:26Z")
Bulbous Bouffant Macadamia Gazebo ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/5 "2020-10-12T21:22:04Z")
I was talking to my wife about fixing the microwave, and mentioned that it was likely a problem with the Magnetron. She looked at me and said “really?” ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/6 "2020-10-12T21:46:27Z")
Bespoke ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/7 "2020-10-12T21:48:25Z")
Micturition syncope ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/8 "2020-10-12T21:57:04Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > we both couldn’t sleep > infundibulum I said > is such a cool word > go back to sleep said my bride > but how can I now Love this. But also finding a large number of great words in a definition of infundibulum. I have underlined my favourites: - the hollow stalk which connects the hypothalamus and the posterior pituitary gland. Therefore _infundibulum_ is truly a hyper-cool word. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/9 "2020-10-13T00:33:48Z")
A few years ago, there was an Indian politician whose name sounded to me like **Bodge-pie** , and I thought that was surely the coolest name for a world leader. I later found it’s spelled with a V, but it’s still cool. **Mandibular** sounds much more magnificent than its meaning. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/10 "2020-10-13T02:00:09Z")
Harmonic Balancer I like it because it sounds like something vastly different than what it is. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/11 "2020-10-13T02:23:50Z")
Chiffarobe ---
**Author:** ![Drummond\_Bays](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8edcca/32.png) [@Drummond\_Bays](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drummond_Bays)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/12 "2020-10-13T02:41:01Z")
Plectrum Trundle Crepuscular Perfunctory Haberdasher Abscondery Embiggens Cromulent Boomachuck Chazwozzer ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/13 "2020-10-13T02:58:05Z")
Highfalutin ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/14 "2020-10-13T05:26:57Z")
> [@USCDiver](#): > > Gazebo \*_Garbanzo_ beans ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/15 "2020-10-13T07:41:52Z")
defenestration. A truly wonderful way to remove unwanted politicians. 🙂 > **[Defenestrations of Prague](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > The Defenestrations of Prague (Czech: Pražská defenestrace, German: Prager Fenstersturz, Latin: Defenestratio Pragensis) were three incidents in the history of Bohemia in which people were defenestrated (thrown out of a window). Though already existing in Middle French, the word defenestrate ("out of the window") is believed to have first been used in English in reference to the episodes in Prague in 1618 when the disgruntled Protestant estates th... ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/16 "2020-10-13T09:45:32Z")
Plangent Sitooterie Some more I gleaned from a Christmas present book of rare and unusual words: [https://autolycus-london.blogspot.com/2007/12/some-christmas-logodaedaly.html?m=0](https://autolycus-london.blogspot.com/2007/12/some-christmas-logodaedaly.html?m=0) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/17 "2020-10-13T11:28:22Z")
Mellifluous ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/18 "2020-10-13T11:34:24Z")
Thalweg ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/19 "2020-10-13T14:14:07Z")
Smorgasbord ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/20 "2020-10-13T14:29:52Z")
therblig. (the best thing about it is the origin: it’s the engineer’s name backwards (Gilbreth) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827.md?page=2)