# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/61 "2020-10-14T01:07:07Z")
serendipitous ---
**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 14, 2020, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/62 "2020-10-14T12:29:03Z")
Kerfuffle Imbroglio Loquacious Parsimonious ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/63 "2020-10-14T12:33:22Z")
Continuum Transfunctioner ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/64 "2020-10-14T23:46:07Z")
Sometimes when I’m reading seed catalogs I start just reading heirloom tomato names out loud. Cosmonaut Volkov Pruden’s Purple Bizhiki Rose de Berne German Johnson Soldaki Weisnicht’s Ukranian Tiffen Mennonite Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye Garden Peach Black Prince Green Zebra Schimmeig Striped Hollow Mr. Fumarole Opalka Orange Banana – that’s just part of the list from just one catalog, Fedco. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@Earl\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Grey)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/65 "2020-10-14T23:55:32Z")
Terpsichorean ---
**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 15, 2020, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/66 "2020-10-15T00:07:22Z")
That’s amusing. ---
**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 15, 2020, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/67 "2020-10-15T01:54:35Z")
sastrugi ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/68 "2020-10-15T12:18:49Z")
Gargoyle. ---
**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 15, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/69 "2020-10-15T13:50:47Z")
Troglodyte ---
**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 15, 2020, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/70 "2020-10-15T14:26:48Z")
Usufruct (as in, “Wow. You’re in a heck of a jam now !”) ---
**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 15, 2020, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/71 "2020-10-15T23:22:26Z")
My mom once told me her dad got mad at some ignorant SweetOlBoy, and he haughtily called him a **parallelogram.** The guy backed away in shame. He didn’t know what he’d been called, but he was sure he’d been told off. ---
**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 15, 2020, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/72 "2020-10-15T23:31:50Z")
As amusing as it is, I’m going to guess that there are more than two sides to that story 😉 ---
**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 15, 2020, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/73 "2020-10-15T23:49:37Z")
If there’s much more to the story, I don’t know it. Grandpa T. died before I was born. I know he was a preacher, so he probably didn’t do a lot of cussing. ---
**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 16, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/74 "2020-10-16T01:16:25Z")
convergence ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/75 "2020-10-16T02:16:38Z")
Provocateur ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/76 "2020-10-16T08:20:25Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > As amusing as it is, I’m going to guess that there are more than two sides to that story 😉 > [@AskNott](#): > > If there’s much more to the story, I don’t know it. Grandpa T. died before I was born. I know he was a preacher, so he probably didn’t do a lot of cussing It’s possible you missed his angle there. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/77 "2020-10-16T08:25:23Z")
> [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](#): > > Therefore _infundibulum_ is truly a hyper-cool word The very hyper-most infundibula are the chronosynclastic ones. sesquipedalian (This thread is full of …) Here’s one I just found last week in my spam folder: sempiternal boustrophedon callipygian ---
**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 16, 2020, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/78 "2020-10-16T09:55:32Z")
Disingenuous. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/79 "2020-10-16T16:02:10Z")
Supersonic ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827/80 "2020-10-16T22:01:48Z")
**Wickerbill** (also known as a Gurney flap) One of my old favorates from before my time: **Shelvador** (shelf-in-door, when it was a new offering for refrigerators) **fecundity** **hydroplane** **akimbo** **codswallop** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words/922827.md?page=5)