Examples
“It is a pity, but no surprise, that the lucifugous LRB has space for the Wortschatz of Adam Shatz.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lucifugous’.
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More Adjectival Arcana
List of adjectives such as everduring that do not frequent common speech and writing. A continuation of my list Adjectival Arcana, which had grown to over 7700 words and had become far too cumbersome.
transpontine, fetichistic, everduring, tachygraphic, tachygraphical, holographic, holographical, spectrobolographic, autographic, chirographal, autographal, ipsographic and 1419 more...
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phrontistery - l
from phrontistery.info
labarum, labefactation, labeorphily, labidometer, labile, lability, labiomancy, labret, labrose, labtebricole, lac, laccolith and 496 more...
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via Weird and Wonderful Words
Catch-all for things culled from Weird and Wonderful Words, More Weird and Wonderful Words, and Totally Weird and Wonderful Words, by Erin McKean, et al.
aboulia, alexiteric, angletouch, dactylion, alveary, sparlire, glabella, philtrum, pallium, heart-spoon, hyperprosexia, paraprosexia and 438 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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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...
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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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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 1999 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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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...
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Shunning or Drawn
Words that describe 'shunning' or 'drawn to' behavior, mostly of plants and animals.
lucifugous, lucifugal, solifugous, heliophobous, chionophobous, heliophobic, ombrophobous, heliophilous, leucophilous, nidifugous, nidicolous, finifugal and 31 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
ecumenical, apostate, nominal, vituperate, equivocation, sedulous, welter, reticent, salient, alacrity, corollary, lucifugous and 7 more...
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Verbal palette?
Words I like to use or would like to use in the near future. Totally random.
convalescence, bellibone, persnickety, contiguous, pabulum, dummary, preliminary, pristine, funny fuse, dolt, shitless, nebulous and 50 more...
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Moods
States of mind, feelings, moods, etc.
sanguine, schadenfreude, asperity, acedia, lucifugous, catharsis, chivy, petulant, maudlin, invidious, saturnine, lugubrious and 1 more...
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Good to know
when I can't find just the right word for it...
remplissage, rabblement, lucifugous, remolino, grammaticaster, lucubratory, homonym, alluvial, macula, vitiate, convalescent, wamble and 13 more...
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Charming
For various reasons.
taghairm, noctuary, autumnal, zephyr, ouroboros, schadenfreude, Zeitgeist, necrosis, glasnost, rhotic, plethora, eunoia and 25 more...
Tweets
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mtc "Lucifugous," as applied to certain plants and politicians. Antonyms "luciphilous" and "photophilic."
Nov 7, 2012