The triphodont’s care in setting up the ambuscade was supernumerary when his borborygmus erupted in loud sesquipedalian hemisemidemiquavers and his putative victim exhibited anisotropic hyperacceleration.
Sphagnum as in “sphagnum peat moss,” which is redundant because sphagnum is just a type of moss. Besides its hard to pronounce.
I like it. And perhaps this is an example of something which is thelyphthoric, “that which corrupts women”. Actually, that could be quite a useful word…
Jumentous- pertaining to the smell of horse urine.
Molendinaceous- like a windmill.
I rather like nidnod, too. It means “to nod continuously”. I found it in the O.E.D.
Totally. I use anisotropy fairly often, it’s an exceedingly useful term in my line of work.
You want useless words? Try “the”. Good lord, what a waste of space.
C: Well, I was, sitting in the public library on Thurmon Street just now, skimming through “Rogue Herrys” by Hugh Walpole, and I suddenly came over all peckish.
O: Peckish, sir?
C: Esuriant.
O: Eh?
C: 'Ee, Ah wor 'ungry-loike!
O: Ah, hungry!
C: In a nutshell. And I thought to myself, “a little fermented curd will do the trick,” so, I curtailed my Walpoling activites, sallied forth, and infiltrated your place of purveyance to negotiate the vending of some cheesy comestibles!
O: Come again?
C: I want to buy some cheese.
Well, I’ll always defer to Twain, but I didn’t know he had a thing for Arabs. I thought he hated the French.
I can’t think of any instance in which “utilize” must absolutely be used over “use.”
They are different in that “utilize” means profitable use of [the subject], while “use” has nothing to do with profitablity.
I’m quite partial to omatidia myself.
Though I don’t even know if I’m spelling it right. ween?
ennead :dubious: so what’s wrong with “nine”?
ommatidium – one of the unit eyes of a compound (arthopod) eye. pl = ommatidia. Hi Rasa… 
I use those words every single day.
Actually, reading a paper on some aspect of fly morphology can be quite the adventure.
scutellum – area of the hind thorax between the wings
sternoplurum – the front side of the thorax
arista – the fifth antennal segment, it looks like a feathery hair on the tip of the meaty antenna
haltere – the degenerate hindwing of dipterans, a balance organ which moves in counterstroke to the main wings during flight
ocellum – one of the three light sensing organs on the top of the head, used for sensing the horizon
trichome – one of the small bristles covering the surface of the fly
macrochaete – one of the large bristles covering the surface of the fly
I don’t like atelectasis because it is just not informative or useful for most collapsed lungs. We would more often say a lung collapses due to pneumothorax or hemothorax than worry about the lung. It is only useful to describe where the lung is not expanding due to an actual lung problem, which doesn’t happen all that often except in post-op situations. The main reason I don’t like it is because it is a cumbersome, hard to pronounce word. Like “apoptosis” (programmed cell death, which 50% of people mispronounce as a-pop-tosis rather than apo-tosis), but I study apoptosis on some level so I have to use the word every day.
hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- the fear of long words
i actually find it quite amusing but i guess its pretty useless since the only people who would actually need to use it are either people who have and therefore can’t because of its length or doctors who treat people with it but they wouldnt use it either because of their patient’s phobia.
also, i wouldn’t call “utilize” useless since just like other synonyms, it often comes in handy when i am writing a long paper and dont want to sound redundant