# 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:** 3
**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, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/41 "2020-10-13T20:47:15Z")
I’ve been banging lots of these against the online dictionary sites and finding that – along with sounding ridiculously cool – so many of them have ridiculously interesting meanings. So … thanks ! And while some medical terms clearly have _meanings_ that are _pretty awful …_ the words themselves are ridiculously cool. F’rinstance … A few years back, I got sick. On the table (among the differential diagnoses) was: **Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis** And while I’m glad it wasn’t what I had … it really is a cool sounding term … once you get your head around saying it … er … mellifluously. ---
**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, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/42 "2020-10-13T20:48:02Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > Someone mentioned bookkeeper in a recent thread. To which I’ll add abstemiously, facetiously. Don’t those also have all the vowels in the ‘correct’ order ? Extra credit. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/43 "2020-10-13T21:03:12Z")
Poikilocytosis ---
**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, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/44 "2020-10-13T21:15:44Z")
Lycanthropy ---
**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, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/45 "2020-10-13T21:16:37Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > Tralfaz! > > Now that’s impressive. I wonder if he was from Tralfamador ---
**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, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/46 "2020-10-13T21:24:10Z")
Hmmm. Maybe the Jetson’s writer read Vonnegut. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/47 "2020-10-13T21:42:46Z")
Tumescent ---
**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, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/48 "2020-10-13T21:57:50Z")
Turgid ---
**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, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/49 "2020-10-13T21:58:17Z")
Dirigible ---
**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, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/50 "2020-10-13T22:37:05Z")
Incandescent ---
**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, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/51 "2020-10-13T22:38:29Z")
woody tinny ---
**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, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/52 "2020-10-13T22:43:30Z")
Cowabunga! ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/53 "2020-10-13T23:12:36Z")
I have those books. They’re loads of fun. ---
**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, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/54 "2020-10-13T23:15:29Z")
Albuquerque ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/55 "2020-10-13T23:29:36Z")
Dubuque (place of my birth~at least I never forget how to spell it) ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/56 "2020-10-13T23:36:41Z")
I was watching some TV show, I can’t remember what, and one character named a litany of ways to kill another character, and they were all these short, Anglo-Saxony words: shoot, beat, choke, stab! and at the end, she says “or defenestrate!” It struck me as very, very funny for some reason. ---
**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, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/57 "2020-10-13T23:44:12Z")
Luminous ---
**Author:** ![MrMrmrmr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrmrmrmr/32/5828_2.png) [@MrMrmrmr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrMrmrmr)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/58 "2020-10-14T00:10:13Z")
**Quiescent** ---
**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 14, 2020, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/59 "2020-10-14T00:20:55Z")
Luminiferous ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/60 "2020-10-14T00:48:38Z")
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