Love words?

I do.

I am sorry if you clicked on this thread to find that it was idiotic.
In the hope of redeeming myself, I will try to make clicking on it in future less of a waste of time by suggesting that you post your favourite words. I like long, difficult to spell words. But can’t think of any right now (other than the boring full spelling of DNA) so I give you fluent

Words I know that aren’t listed at Dictionary.com:

Aleatoric
Cromulent

Believe it or not, I clicked on this thread because I too love words. “Antidisestablishmentarianism” is fun.

Luscious
Eloquent
Marsupial
Vascular

Yes. I do, too.

Platypuss (SP?)
Estranged
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia – the fear of long words. honest!
Hemoglobin

Shat.
Trounce.

And some others I can’t think of right this second.

banjaxed :smiley:

Lugubrious and Salubrious

My dad taught them to me when I was 5.

Methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphen-
ylalanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylgluta-
mylglysylalanylphenylalanylvalylprolylphenylalanylyalylthre-
onylleucylglcycylaspartylprolylglicylisoleucyglutamylgluta-
minlserylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleu-
cylglutamylalanylglyclyalanylaspartylalanylleucyglutamylle-
ucylgluycylisoleucylproluylphenylalanyserylaspartyprolylleu-
celalanylaspartylglycylprolylthreonylisolleucyglutaminylaspa-
raginylalanythreonylleucylarginylalanylphenylalanylalanylal-
anylglycylvalylthreonylprolylalanylglutaminylcysteinylphen-
ylalanylglglutamylmethionylleucyalanylleucylisoleucylarginyl-
glutaminyllysylhistidylprolyuthreonylisoleucylprolylisoleuc-
ylglycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasbaraginylleucyl-
valylphenylalanylsparaginyyllysylglycylisoleucylaspartylglut-
amylphenylalanylyltyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyll-
ysylvalylglycylvalylspartylserylvalylleucylvallalanylaspart-
ylvalylprolylvalvlglutaminylglutamylserylalanylprolylpheny-
lalalrginylglutaminylalanylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasp-
araginylvalylalalprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucylcystei-
nylprolyprolylaspartylalanylaspartylaspartyspartyleucylle-
ucylarginylglutaminylisoleucylalanylseryltyroslglycylargin-
ylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylserylarginlalanyl-
glycylvalylthreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginylarginyla-
nylalanylleucylprolylleucylaspaaginylhistidylleucylvalylalan-
yllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasparagimylalanylalanypro-
lylprolylleucylglutaminylglycylphenlalanylglycylisoleyucyls-
erylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyllysylalanylalanylisol-
eucylalspartylalanylglycylalanylalanylglycylalanylasoleucylse-
rylglycylserylalanylisoleucylbalyllysylisoleucylisoleucylgluta-
mylglutaminylhistidylasparaginylisoleucylglutamylpronylglu-0
tamyllysylmethionylluecylalanylalanyoeucyllysylvalylpheny-
lalanylvalylglutamilylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreo-
nylarginylserine.

It just has that certain ring to it, ya know. :wink:

I’ve always been fond of plethora myself…

I’m pretty sure we’re scarring the kids by teaching them words that don’t exist like: incribination, PaYambas, and Bubbaichans.

We’re also pretty punny when we want to be. All the more fun for embarassing the kiddies when they get older :slight_smile:

::wanders in::

Oh.

Love words, not Love words…

Flummoxed
Annihilate
Exhilaration

Oooohh… plethora. Oh, YES!

pumpkin (I just like the sound of it)
tintinabulation
ululate
steatopygia
transcendentalist
Azerbaijan
glue
feckless
pandiculation
kakistocracy (under which we are currently suffering)
borborygmus

Let me be the first to say:

perpendicular.

Oh yeah, baby.

Oh and a story. I took a class called “Voice for the Actor,” and one assignment we had was to make a list of ‘delicious’ words, words we liked the sound of. My list had words like plethora, perpendicular, sospechoso, susurrar, and about 20 others. Everyone else’s list followed in the same way, just as the assignment had been given.

Then we get to Ramona, an older student who was very strange and never quite got it. She begins to read her list: “peach, pumpkin, pear, hot chocolate…” Like I said, she didn’t quite get it.

My personal favorites are;

Poleaxed

Taciturn

Fraternize

incomprehensible

and…

unconscionable

Sanguine
oubliette (WHOOO!)
rancor
bittersweet
unrequited (WHOOOOOOOOO HOO!!)
supercalifragilisticexpealla----oh fuck it.
timbre
juggernaut
usurp (WHOOOO A-HOOO!)
usurper (WHOO— nevermind)
calliope
queen
M’lord (don’t ask) or milord depending
burgundy
perverse (not perverted)
masticate
hither (funny inside joke dealing with my real first name, Heather… um, don’t ask)
gallant
romantic
tragedy
Elizabethian
Victorian
avant garde
There are many, many more. It’s hard to type without getting a headache (fuckin’ safe mode!!) so I’ll add more later. Enjoy Lobsang!

knave
scoundrel
heathen
pagan
pirate (you gotta know what that word means to me, heh heh)

I am beginning to breathe hard…

Aristotelian
acquiesce
propinquity
jazz
suckle
harvest
samba