# Gimme your great words **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 1, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991 "2015-07-01T21:14:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/61 "2015-07-09T15:57:19Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > **Arquebus** - a very early muzzle-loading firearm. Like, 200 years before the Pilgrims. Ya gotcher arquebusses, and then ya gotcher blunderbusses. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/62 "2015-07-09T22:22:18Z")
Abstemiously and facetiously for their obvious feature. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/63 "2015-07-10T00:58:21Z")
Although it’s not an unusual word, I love the word explicate. As a visually-oriented person, I always demonstrate things when I explain them. And although this isn’t the precise meaning of explicate, the word seems like the perfect blend of explain and demonstrate. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/64 "2015-07-10T18:58:04Z")
> [@davida03801](#): > > Defenestration = To throw a person out a window > > Always liked that word. I was going to say that. It sounds like a bureaucratic word, but the actual meaning makes it so much more interesting. I’ll contribute **chthonian**. It just means “underground,” but it sounds so diabolical. ---
**Author:** ![MmeRose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@MmeRose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MmeRose)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/65 "2015-07-11T00:48:01Z")
Not very exotic but I like them: Inane. Vapid. Inamorata. Amiss. My current favorite, I just caught myself typing it on another post. ---
**Author:** ![Clarisse\_McClellan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Clarisse\_McClellan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clarisse_McClellan)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/66 "2015-07-11T02:20:42Z")
I have a file of my favorite words on my computer. Superfluous Jejune Ethereal Debacle Anodyne Copacetic ---
**Author:** ![MmeRose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@MmeRose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MmeRose)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/67 "2015-07-11T16:20:42Z")
> [@Clarisse\_McClellan](#): > > I have a file of my favorite words on my computer. > > Superfluous > Jejune > Ethereal > Debacle > Anodyne > Copacetic I can never pronounce " copacetic" and I think I’ve heard other people say “copaTHetic”, or is that a real word? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/68 "2015-07-14T01:54:34Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I was going to say that. It sounds like a bureaucratic word, but the actual meaning makes it so much more interesting. No expectoration by the pool! ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/69 "2015-07-14T05:06:55Z")
Sesquipedalian. You gotta love them self-referential words. ---
**Author:** ![Clarisse\_McClellan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Clarisse\_McClellan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clarisse_McClellan)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/70 "2015-07-15T03:24:26Z")
And a few more: Sybaritic Scintilla Fatuous Execrable Asinine [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991.md?page=3)