# Your Favorite Multi-syllabic Word **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 27, 2017, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-multi-syllabic-word/797427 "2017-09-27T14:58:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-multi-syllabic-word/797427/41 "2017-09-28T18:13:36Z")
A word I grew fond of from reading _Doc Savage_ pulps was William Harper Littlejohn’s “Superamalgamated”. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2017, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-multi-syllabic-word/797427/42 "2017-09-28T18:20:33Z")
Some of these words are really Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. But is there any song with them in the lyrics? ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-multi-syllabic-word/797427/43 "2017-09-28T18:22:15Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I’m sure it’s used commonly and I’ve even used it several times myself. But I suspect you mean “googolplex.” (And I’m sure I can come up with an example where it would make sense when discussing combinatorics, but it’d be pretty narrow and probably a bit contrived.) [This is the Googleplex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googleplex), by the way. Hyperbole: I’ve got a googolplex of things to do today. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-multi-syllabic-word/797427/44 "2017-09-28T18:31:04Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Some of these words are really Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. But is there any song with them in the lyrics? I know you being humorous but: The Tom Lehrer song Elements has a lot of long words in it. Possible not in the song but two of my favorites are: Rubdium and Ytterbium. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-multi-syllabic-word/797427/45 "2017-09-28T19:04:07Z")
Bicenquinquagenary for a 250th anniversary For one I’d actually use, mellifluous ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-multi-syllabic-word/797427/46 "2017-09-28T20:58:11Z")
Blowjob ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-multi-syllabic-word/797427/47 "2017-09-28T21:14:53Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Why use a whole sentence when one word will do…even if that one word is longer than the original sentence. 😃 > > A guy by the name of Michael Longcor introduced me to this one-[_Rhinotellexomania_.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lapxKZ9VVY) As a long time lover of filk music at SciFi/Fantasy conventions, I’ve heard him do this live. There was another filker present, named Tom Smith, dubbed “The World’s Fastest Filker”. The two have a longstanding friendly rivalry. After Longcor finished the song in question, he looked at Tom and said “Betcha can’t filk that!”. Tom left the room. People looked at their watches. 14 minutes later Tom returned and present the group with a song (to the same tune), called “Mucoidal Peridontia”, which isn’t about picking your nose, it’s about eating the booger after its picked. Favorite long words include: quisquilious - having the nature of refuse or rubbish and bathycolpian - deep-bosomed, which goes well with callipygean - having a well-shaped bottom. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-multi-syllabic-word/797427/48 "2017-09-28T21:17:09Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > As a long time lover of filk music at SciFi/Fantasy conventions, I’ve heard him do this live. There was another filker present, named Tom Smith, dubbed “The World’s Fastest Filker”. The two have a longstanding friendly rivalry. After Longcor finished the song in question, he looked at Tom and said “Betcha can’t filk that!”. Tom left the room. People looked at their watches. 14 minutes later Tom returned and present the group with a song (to the same tune), called “Mucoidal Peridontia”, which isn’t about picking your nose, it’s about eating the booger after its picked. I’ve been to many a filk concert at many a convention…and I am so fucking jealous right now. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-multi-syllabic-word/797427/49 "2017-09-28T22:16:01Z")
Not just \*triskaidekaphobia \*but _friggatriskaidekaphobia_! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-multi-syllabic-word/797427/50 "2017-09-28T22:57:44Z")
Magnanimous is one I use often in conversation, but the already-multiply-mentioned antidisestablishmentarianism is usually what I trot out for my kids if talk turns to long words. Defenestration is a great word- it always makes me think of David Eddings’s _Sparhawk_ books. The giantess Mirtai: “I defenestrated him.” The Knight Kalten: “Mirtai! That’s a terrible thing to do to a man!” Mirtai: “What, throwing him out of a window?” Kalten: “That’s what that word means?” ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-multi-syllabic-word/797427/51 "2017-09-28T23:14:11Z")
Callipygian. Who would have thought there’d actually be a word for such a concept? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-multi-syllabic-word/797427/52 "2017-09-29T00:27:58Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Callipygian. Who would have thought there’d actually be a word for such a concept? Synonyms: bootylicious, bumtastic, rumpalicious. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-multi-syllabic-word/797427/53 "2017-09-29T02:53:12Z")
In Scorpion this week, Toby is trying to get a new term for genitals to take off and become part of everyday language. As if there aren’t already enough terms for the genitals! 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-multi-syllabic-word/797427/54 "2017-09-29T03:30:39Z")
Onomatopoeia ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-multi-syllabic-word/797427/55 "2017-09-29T15:10:52Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Callipygian. Who would have thought there’d actually be a word for such a concept? “Aye Calypso , I’ll tell you a story, I’ll you a story that I know so well.” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-multi-syllabic-word/797427/56 "2017-09-29T15:32:13Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Onomatopoeia It always bothered me that _onomatopoeia_ isn’t spelled the way it sounds. ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-multi-syllabic-word/797427/57 "2017-09-29T15:35:17Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > [antidisestablishmentarianism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidisestablishmentarianism_(word)) is always a good one. > [@Skammer](#): > > I’ve always been sentimental about _antidisestablishmentarianism_ and An easy one to spell! Its one of my favorites Chrysanthemum-story behind this one. Neighbor’s father, I was telling I was a good speller. He said spell chrysanthemum, guess I was not that good of a speller as I thought I was. :smack::smack: One of my more interesting memories as a child. ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-multi-syllabic-word/797427/58 "2017-09-29T15:39:21Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > I’m partial to _gruntled_. As apposed/opposed to disgruntled? :D:D Just read the definition of apposed and opposed-seems like that are near alike…:eek::eek: ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-multi-syllabic-word/797427/59 "2017-09-29T16:24:32Z")
_Struthiomimus_, or simply _struthious_. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2017, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-multi-syllabic-word/797427/60 "2017-09-29T17:09:21Z")
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