lexiphanicism

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

• 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...

• -ism's -logies

  acosmism, absurdism, absolutism, ableism, aestheticism, alarmism, allotheism, anachronism, animalculism, analogism, animatism, animism and 464 more...

• Lyngwistix

  semantic, semiotic, linguistic, etc.

  lexeme, sonorant, prosody, monophthong, portmanteau, dithyramb, inflection, deixis, mondegreen, screed, persiflage, polysemy and 42 more...

• Metawords

  Talking about talking, writing about writing, etc.

  epizeuxis, tautological, aptote, bibliophagist, parataxis, scriptorium, aposiopesis, variorum, chantefable, boustrophedon, psellism, adoxography and 51 more...

• Better Words

  Extremely fond of adjectives. To conquer phlegmatic speech and indolent phrases.

  auric, hemispherical, quadrivial, adumbral, weighty, deuced, aliquot, commendable, anterior, osculant, ferly, enceinte and 26 more...

• difficult words

  ordure, tatterwallop, callipygian, odious, colophon, cynosure, hardener, emollience, valetudinarian, demonym, volage, polysemantic and 259 more...

• Gone, But Not Forgotten...Yet

  Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
  
  Obsolete, rare, and obscure words culled from my Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabi...

  rouzie-bouzie, knuckylbonyard, ferrups, defease, malahane, accinge, venundate, pinguidity, preterlapsed, wlatsome, emuscation, atbraid and 427 more...

• The Collection

  A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.

  ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...

• 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...

• logophile

  viresce, infinitum, transient, nonpareil, anon, therianthropy, lycomania, halcyon, unblinkered, seraphim, nephilim, moros and 160 more...

• Tawkward

  Verbal 'wtf' exchanges; odd moments of conversation and socializing.

  somniloquy, bafflegab, syllepsis, sesquipedalian, whinge, divulge, anacoluthon, anaphora, sumpsimus, persiflage, eristic, overtones and 198 more...

• Words of the Day

  glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2041 more...

• rememberers

  prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...

• Lee's List

  Words I like, and should try to use more often.

  insipid, laconic, clandestine, quizzical, endeavor, sanguine, crestfallen, apocryphal, purloin, moribund, facetious, rancor and 67 more...

• Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalianism.

  Words so mouthy that you can drown your enemies with them.

  sesquipedalian, antidisestablishm..., antihypersyllabic..., supercalifragilis..., hippopotomonstros..., floccinaucinihili..., floccinaucity, tryptophan synthase, antequasimetasupe..., xenohomonecropeda..., oberwieserdampfsc..., quasihemidemisemi... and 6 more...

• No Home

  List of random words that have yet to be categorized.

  Wonderlust, hubbub, hootenanny, ladyfriend, saturnine, labyrinthine, iridescent, ubiquitous, crevis, hermes, blasphemous, saccharine and 39 more...