# Tell me some wonderful words. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 15, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181 "2018-06-15T23:19:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/41 "2018-06-17T21:06:50Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > Ujiji has four dotted letters in a row. It’s the town in Tanzania where Stanley tracked down Dr. Livingstone. [Pijijiapan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pijijiapan), Mexico has 5 of them. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/42 "2018-06-18T05:49:23Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > How about **qubit** , which is commonly used when talking about quantum computing. I suspect that it’s more frequently used than obloquy. There’s Qum, the city in Iran, though I think nowadays it’s more commonly spelled Qom. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/43 "2018-06-18T09:46:59Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > There are people who would include tre and cinco on that list. And u. But that requires mixing languages. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/44 "2018-06-18T11:45:57Z")
Abecadarian. In alphabetic order. Or: as easy as A B C. Too bad about the “e” near the beginning. The “d” is just a fluke of formation, I think. In teaching Computer Science, at times I mentioned work by Leslie Goldschlager. 6 consonants in a row. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/45 "2018-06-18T13:13:33Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Abecadarian. In alphabetic order. Or: as easy as A B C. Too bad about the “e” near the beginning. The “d” is just a fluke of formation, I think… _Abecedario_ is Spanish for alphabet, Catalan has\* l’abecedari\* as well (as far as a cursory google shows me, other Romance languages may have a cognate but it’s not commonly used). The first three letters are called\* a, be, ce\*; next is _de_, but its vowel gets slammed by the\* a\* of the suffix. Whenever English imported the word, it updated the suffix but didn’t adapt the pronunciation to match your own names for letters. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/46 "2018-06-18T13:16:41Z")
My favorite obsolete word is “hurple” meaning to raise one’s shoulders to one’s ears in response to cold or fear. Not only does it describe an action there is no other word for, but it rhymes with “purple.” And when I hurple My lips turn purple. ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/47 "2018-06-18T13:46:11Z")
In Dutch, _fairies_ is _feeën_ with a nice triple “e” combo (and the umlaut is the icing on the cake). ---
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/48 "2018-06-18T15:49:05Z")
Bulbous bouffant. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/49 "2018-06-18T16:38:34Z")
Dreamt - the only word in English ending in “mt” besides its own variants, “undreamt” and “redreamt.” ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/50 "2018-06-18T18:05:56Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I like “obloquy” for no particular reason except that it’s not very common and I once got a lot of points for it in Scrabble. Also very useful in Pit threads. Also Scrabble related, I like “craziest” because it allowed me to score 230 points on a single play. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/51 "2018-06-18T18:27:00Z")
The word “repetitive” is kind of repetitive. It has the two e’s near the beginning and the repeated ti’s. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/52 "2018-06-18T23:48:43Z")
Is it true no English word rhymes with orange? I like Madagascar. All those hard consonants separated by a short a. It really does just trip off the tongue. ---
**Author:** ![Razncain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@Razncain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Razncain)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/53 "2018-06-19T00:00:34Z")
This word often makes me smile when I hear it, and I enjoy using it in a sentence in a humorous way: discombobulated. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/54 "2018-06-19T02:21:42Z")
Re-entered or Reentered. The first three "e"s have a different sound, the last “e” is silent. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/55 "2018-06-19T11:52:35Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Is it true no English word rhymes with orange? Even odder is that purple and silver also have no rhymes and all three can be used as color names. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/56 "2018-06-19T17:18:27Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > I like Madagascar. All those hard consonants separated by a short a. It really does just trip off the tongue. Personally, I like Oconomowoc. Every other letter is an O. Five of them. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/57 "2018-06-19T20:09:10Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > My favorite obsolete word is “hurple” meaning to raise one’s shoulders to one’s ears in response to cold or fear. Not only does it describe an action there is no other word for, but it rhymes with “purple.” > > And when I hurple > My lips turn purple. > [@ftg](#): > > Even odder is that purple and silver also have no rhymes and all three can be used as color names. Excuse me? ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/58 "2018-06-20T12:15:04Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Excuse me? C’mon, obsolete words and such that very, very few people know about don’t count. How many top 40 songs are there with “hurple” in them. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/59 "2018-06-21T13:23:25Z")
You stated “purple has no rhymes.” It doesn’t have any common word rhymes, but “hurple” is a word and does qualify. ---
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-wonderful-words/816181/60 "2018-06-22T20:32:44Z")
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