# 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:** 2
**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, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/21 "2020-10-13T18:14:55Z")
Frangipani ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/22 "2020-10-13T18:51:01Z")
velleity ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/23 "2020-10-13T18:53:25Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > Micturition syncope Hell’s teeth, do I have a story to tell about this - but I’m waiting til I get to the end of it before posting. In the meantime: Mondegreen j ---
**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 13, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/24 "2020-10-13T19:08:17Z")
Philately Numismatics Quiescent Torpid Indefatigable Phlegmatic Sartorial Tonsorial Stentorian Obdurate Hematoma ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/25 "2020-10-13T19:11:32Z")
Dearth Evanescence Fiduciary (and tertiary) Kumquat Paucity Recalcitrant Unmutual Zeugma Zoophyte ---
**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 13, 2020, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/26 "2020-10-13T19:13:16Z")
Unguent Garrulous Prolix Bombast Invertebrate Dodecahedron Ethnocentric ---
**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 13, 2020, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/27 "2020-10-13T19:13:47Z")
Smegma [it deserved its own post] ---
**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, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/28 "2020-10-13T19:35:55Z")
Translucent Iridescent Crystalline Celestial ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/29 "2020-10-13T19:53:11Z")
Dogma Ex Cathedra Rectory Toroid Oblate Spheroid Phlegmatic Stoic Sardonic (All the sailing terms) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/30 "2020-10-13T19:59:46Z")
intrinsic epithelial implacable sardonic freudulent ---
**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, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/31 "2020-10-13T20:23:58Z")
flotsam and jetsam ---
**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 13, 2020, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/32 "2020-10-13T20:24:59Z")
His boy, Elroy. Jane, his wife. ---
**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 13, 2020, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/33 "2020-10-13T20:28:52Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > epithelial I like this one so much that … when an optometrist once told me I had a mild case of epitheliopathy in one eye … after confirming that it wasn’t serious and didn’t require treatment … I was thinking “Huh. How _cool is that_?” ---
**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, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/34 "2020-10-13T20:29:43Z")
Hey, you forgot daughter Judy in between. I won money on a radio contest once, the question was “Where did Judy Jetson go to school?” ---
**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 13, 2020, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/35 "2020-10-13T20:31:25Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > Hey, you forgot daughter Judy in between. Didn’t forget. Restraining Order. **Long** story 😉 > [@saucywench](#): > > I won money on a radio contest once, the question was “Where did Judy Jetson go to school?” Okay, now _that’s_ impressive. I can’t remember. Care to dazzle the folks at home … one more time ?? ---
**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, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/36 "2020-10-13T20:34:36Z")
It was Orbit High School. My mom actually answered the phone and had no idea, she put her hand over the phone and asked me. ---
**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 13, 2020, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/37 "2020-10-13T20:37:04Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > It was Orbit High School. Winner, winner, chicken dinner ! > **[Orbit High School](https://thejetsons.fandom.com/wiki/Orbit_High_School)** > > Orbit High School is a school in Orbit City. Judy Jetson attends, among others. This article is a stub. Can you help The Jetsons Wiki by explaining it? > [@saucywench](#): > > My mom actually answered, she put her hand over the phone and asked me. She was able to ‘phone a friend’ before the idea ever occurred to Regis Philbin. Nice ! And … since Astro’s former name was Tralfaz … though Astro hated it … it _was_ a pretty cool word. ---
**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, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/38 "2020-10-13T20:41:43Z")
Tralfaz! Now that’s impressive. ---
**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, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/39 "2020-10-13T20:42:37Z")
Chiaroscuro Sfumato ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/40 "2020-10-13T20:46:58Z")
Someone mentioned bookkeeper in a recent thread. To which I’ll add abstemiously, facetiously. j [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827.md?page=3)