chokedamp

These user-created lists contain the word ‘chokedamp’.

• Logolepsy

  "Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...

  Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...

• My Little Phonies

  Names for the next generation of My Little Ponies. Inspired by Star's list.

  juggernaught, flamboyant, cuddly maggot, astrobleme, agroof, windburn, poshlost, crucifer, feedbag, dunderwhelp, nebelwerfer, bliss ninny and 453 more...

• breathing

  suffocate, hypoventilation, apnea, suffocation, asphyxiation, hypoxia, anoxia, inhale, breathe, respire, pulmonary reserve, exhale and 54 more...

• Miscellany, pt. c

  chokedamp, clitter, circumbendibus, catmint, cacoëpy, co-feoffee, caribou, conturbation, chalicothere, calamus, cochineal, cincture and 168 more...

• Compounds That Look Freakish

  You know who you are, freakish compounds. Though very useful, some of these words just don't seem right together--or, their meanings are so far from what the two (or more) component words suggest t...

  nightjar, bullfinch, grassquit, bananaquit, ovenbird, waxwing, stonechat, wheatear, bushtit, wrentit, starthroat, godwit and 158 more...

• Learned (or Encountered) in Reading

  I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
  
  Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...

  cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...

• Gaw

  Words for things both tangible and anthropic. I'm in the process of spinning off hardware into ute, and people into oofy.

  cum-twang, naumachia, yngling, juggernaught, bliss ninny, iliac crest, moistened bint, slumlord, spondoolies, classy lady, charnel house, electrodoméstico and 334 more...

• Lessons of Wordie / Wordnik

  Words and concepts I learned on Wordie, or happened upon as I roamed through dictionaries and websites seeking ammunition.

  usquebaugh, baugh, plunderbunny, plinthiform, hendiatris, buckjumper, peripetia, trenchmore, antifogmatic, felon, whitlow, paronychia and 152 more...

• Words from Table Talk's "Five Words" ...

  The 5 words contest is a parlor game where people respond to the challenge to come up with a sentence which contains 5 specified words determined by the challenger (and makes a degree of sense). Sa...

  mirage, bedecked, breasts, prairie dog, canyon, eau-de-vie, kinkajou, xiphoid, oubliette, quorum, president, atrocities and 62 more...

• notable

  tintype, filature, cyanotype, haptic, haecceity, kenspeck, plex, moreish, damask, cerise, calid, calamus and 20 more...

• litany of lexical likes

  words I find interesting or that stuck in my head or that I want to revisit at some point

  loblolly, animadvert, misoneism, outrance, chokedamp, appropinquate, noesis, cataphor, flabbergastment, godforsaken, mendacity, sussurus and 86 more...

• jumble-pile

  a catch-all list for words i like

  kenspeckle, larrikin, velivolant, spatchcock, plenilune, larnax, dabchick, planxty, callathump, tarradiddle, pinchbeck, grawlix and 9 more...