# Love words? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 3, 2004, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-words/222504 "2004-01-03T19:31:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-words/222504/1 "2004-01-03T19:31:34Z")
I do. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-words/222504/2 "2004-01-03T19:59:25Z")
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_ ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-words/222504/3 "2004-01-03T20:21:48Z")
Words I know that aren’t listed at [Dictionary.com](http://Dictionary.com): Aleatoric Cromulent ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-words/222504/4 "2004-01-03T20:24:11Z")
Believe it or not, I clicked on this thread because I too love words. “Antidisestablishmentarianism” is fun. ---
**Author:** ![zephyrine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/35a633/32.png) [@zephyrine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zephyrine)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-words/222504/5 "2004-01-03T20:35:02Z")
Luscious Eloquent Marsupial Vascular Yes. I do, too. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Matrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/34f0e0/32.png) [@Red\_Matrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Matrix)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-words/222504/6 "2004-01-03T20:53:07Z")
Platypuss (SP?) Estranged Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia – the fear of long words. [honest!](http://exit13.f2o.org/blog/archives/000044.php) Hemoglobin ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Serpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@Silver\_Serpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Serpentine)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-words/222504/7 "2004-01-03T21:16:25Z")
Shat. Trounce. And some others I can’t think of right this second. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-words/222504/8 "2004-01-03T21:23:09Z")
banjaxed 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Scantilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Scantilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scantilly)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-words/222504/9 "2004-01-03T21:40:15Z")
Lugubrious and Salubrious My dad taught them to me when I was 5. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-words/222504/10 "2004-01-03T21:48:35Z")
**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. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-words/222504/11 "2004-01-03T22:00:56Z")
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 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LadyMack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@LadyMack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LadyMack)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-words/222504/12 "2004-01-03T22:04:19Z")
_::wanders in::_ Oh. Love **words** , not **Love** words… Flummoxed Annihilate Exhilaration ---
**Author:** ![zephyrine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/35a633/32.png) [@zephyrine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zephyrine)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-words/222504/13 "2004-01-03T22:22:53Z")
Oooohh… **plethora**. Oh, YES! ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-words/222504/14 "2004-01-03T22:31:19Z")
pumpkin (I just like the sound of it) tintinabulation ululate steatopygia transcendentalist Azerbaijan glue feckless pandiculation kakistocracy (under which we are currently suffering) borborygmus ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-words/222504/15 "2004-01-03T23:43:42Z")
Let me be the first to say: _perpendicular._ Oh yeah, baby. ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-words/222504/16 "2004-01-03T23:49:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-words/222504/17 "2004-01-04T01:00:59Z")
My personal favorites are; Poleaxed Taciturn Fraternize incomprehensible and… unconscionable ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-words/222504/18 "2004-01-04T01:09:24Z")
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**! ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-words/222504/19 "2004-01-04T01:11:25Z")
knave scoundrel heathen pagan pirate (you gotta know what that word means to _me_, heh heh) ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-words/222504/20 "2004-01-04T02:16:47Z")
I am beginning to breathe hard… Aristotelian acquiesce propinquity jazz suckle harvest samba [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-words/222504.md?page=2)