Cool Words

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 :wink:

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