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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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ikahime's Words
callipygian, squidocracy, epicene, alkahest, syzygy, pysmatic, ideopraxist, quandary, vulpine, fandango, ataraxia, exsanguinate and 92 more...
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Says You Words
Words discovered while listening to the NPR podcast "Says You."
nelipot, strigil, skype, qantas, apple, gloze, gyrovague, sarcle, gubbertushed, icker
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some words
phatic, macerate, amanuenses, theophagy, seraglio, gloaming, geophagy, metaphone, anastrophe, neologism, tetragrammaton, bête noire and 568 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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English Vocabulary
English words, definitions, synonyms, pronunciations, etymology
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flannagan's Words
netop, kenspeckle, loden, framboise, providence, milquetoast, schism, cadence, thrush, asphodel, clandestine, aesthete and 196 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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Merry Scholar
festschrift, panchreston, opisthograph, entrelac, florilegium, passim, grammelot, incipit, goropize, shibboleth, enchiridion, scholium and 17 more...
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Peregrinatio
words of pilgrimage in the Celtic tradition
peregrinari pro Dei amore
many from Thomas Merton's 'Mystics and Zen Masters'pergrini, St. Columba, St. Cadroe, eulogiae, Aetheria, martyrium, St. Brendan, relegatio in insulam, Le Puy, Compostela, Rocamadour, Ponce de Leras and 19 more...
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Ecclesiastical Miscellanea
Obscure but not obsolete church words. I'm an Episcopal priest, so my knowledge is largely in the Anglican world, but I'm guessing there's a rich diversity of vocabulary particular to churches. Als...
pyx, aumbry, predella, cincture, nave, narthex, esonarthex, sacristy, vestry, alb, chasuble, croizer and 13 more...
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jconway A gyrovague is a wandering monk from the early Middle Ages. They were despised for their practice of selling fake relics. Jul 4, 2009
brightshade Wandering, itinerant monks "without fixed residence or leadership, who relied on charity and the hospitality of others." (Wikipedia, that not-always-reliable-source). Featured on episode #1124 of NPR's Says You. Jun 23, 2009