serendipitous
Kerfuffle
Imbroglio
Loquacious
Parsimonious
Continuum Transfunctioner
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.
Terpsichorean
That’s amusing.
sastrugi
Gargoyle.
Troglodyte
Usufruct (as in, “Wow. You’re in a heck of a jam now !”)
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.
As amusing as it is, I’m going to guess that there are more than two sides to that story
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.
convergence
Provocateur
It’s possible you missed his angle there.
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
Disingenuous.
Supersonic
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