# Good words **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 26, 2005, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-words/305628 "2005-05-26T17:24:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-words/305628/21 "2005-05-26T21:00:52Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > I like “limpid” and “lugubrious”, if for no other reason than they do naht mean whachoo thik they mean. :dubious: Inconceivable ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-words/305628/22 "2005-05-26T21:12:16Z")
Luggage Bollocks Serendipitous Anthropomorphic Methoxydimethylmethamphetamine Trinitrotoluene Bungled Strassenbahnhaltestelle Can anyone claim a more diverse selection?! ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-words/305628/23 "2005-05-26T21:15:29Z")
Wombat! ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-words/305628/24 "2005-05-26T21:16:57Z")
> [@DeVena](#): > > \*Gonorrhea \* is far to pretty a word to be such a nasty thing. I had a pregnant patient once who, upon hearing she had chlamydia, say “what a beautiful name! I wanna call my little girl that.” Very scary. We spent an hour trying to talk her out of it. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-words/305628/25 "2005-05-26T21:17:54Z")
persnickety gonads ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-words/305628/26 "2005-05-26T21:21:54Z")
> [@KlondikeGeoff](#): > > Wombat! Ooh…good one! **Maureen** , I actually knew a “Plecenta” in high school. Some people are just plain crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-words/305628/27 "2005-05-26T21:22:25Z")
> [@Maureen](#): > > I had a pregnant patient once who, upon hearing she had chlamydia, say “what a beautiful name! I wanna call my little girl that.” > > Very scary. We spent an hour trying to talk her out of it. Funny. An ex-g.f.'s mother had a similar problem. She was a social worker, and one of the teen mothers she was checking up on wanted to name her daughter “Euthanasia”…because it sounded pretty. Attempts to dissuade the misguided mom only angered her, making her break off contact. Should ex-g.f.'s mom not have been sucessful, there’s a Euthanasia out there someplace. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-words/305628/28 "2005-05-26T21:28:50Z")
My personal favorite is _Shadenfreude._. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-words/305628/29 "2005-05-26T21:30:01Z")
And some day, I’ll learn to proofread. :smack: After coffee. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-words/305628/30 "2005-05-26T21:40:53Z")
I’ll raise you all a **floccinaucinihilipilification** flocky-nocky-nihilly-pill-iffy-cation. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-words/305628/31 "2005-05-26T22:01:43Z")
I kinda like perambulate and parsimonious. I tend to overuse “robust”, but that’s a good, meaty word, IMO. I’ve been complemented on experimental design that is robust despite parsimony. The beancounters love that. ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-words/305628/32 "2005-05-27T00:02:37Z")
incandescent slurp splash snurf scintillating transcendent intransigent buttercream ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-words/305628/33 "2005-05-27T00:09:54Z")
Ooo, my favorite made-up word (but aren’t they all?) is “schmung”. I think it’s somehow the bastard child of “smegma” and “dung”, but I can’t be sure of the etymology. Anyhow, it means what it sounds like it means. “Hey roomie: You mind cleaning the bathroom for a change? There’s like an inch-thick layer of schmung all over everything.” ---
**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-words/305628/34 "2005-05-27T00:13:38Z")
ORGASM. you have to say it slow with your eyes closed. or…ga…smmmmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-words/305628/35 "2005-05-27T00:22:39Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > cunnilingus > gravitas (anyone?) fellatio antidisestablishmentarianismist ---
**Author:** ![jweb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@jweb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jweb)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-words/305628/36 "2005-05-27T04:01:27Z")
malfeasance granulated loquatious matriculated facetious tempramental ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-words/305628/37 "2005-05-27T05:10:30Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > Funny. An ex-g.f.'s mother had a similar problem. She was a social worker, and one of the teen mothers she was checking up on wanted to name her daughter “Euthanasia”…because it sounded pretty. Attempts to dissuade the misguided mom only angered her, making her break off contact. Should ex-g.f.'s mom not have been sucessful, there’s a Euthanasia out there someplace. Should we find her and put her out of her misery? ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-words/305628/38 "2005-05-27T05:16:28Z")
evisceration has to be one of my favourite words of all time. ---
**Author:** ![Dignan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dignan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dignan)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-words/305628/39 "2005-05-27T05:21:18Z")
> [@The Chao Goes Mu](#): > > ubiquitous Ubiquitous. That’s the one I was going to say. It’s everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![kimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f0a364/32.png) [@kimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kimera)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-words/305628/40 "2005-05-27T05:44:54Z")
Oligopoly. My teacher was a crazy fellow who used to pronounce it “oh-lee-goh-poh-lee” because he wanted to embarass us in future econ classes. I find the way he says it hilarious and have decided to always pronounce it that way outside of the classroom. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-words/305628.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-words/305628.md?page=3)