lusus naturae

These user-created lists contain the word ‘lusus naturae’.

• 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...

• LQTM

  Words that make me Laugh Quietly to Myself (its more honest) or refer to humor.

  antiphrasis, lucus a non lucendo, abderian, pantagruelism, Rabelaisian, copypasta, take my wife, please, muchacha, jocoserious, lusus naturae, punster, numnuts and 9 more...

• Knee Deep in Chic

  Words, prose, bon mots, and literary styles that cause a contagious enthusiasm by its very existence. They can be muses to a story. rekindling the spark that went out. The cure-all elixir to a bla...

  euphuism, quiddity, saudade, zugzwang, razbliuto, parti pris, oleaginous, crevasse, chantepleure, chiaroscuro, prestidigitation, dysphemism and 79 more...

• Papageno's Words, Pt. II

  cicurate, circumforaneous, codger, comiconomenclaturist, constable, contradistinction, contraindicated, counterpane, coxcomb, decalcomania, decanal, decoction and 307 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...

• A fortiori

  Latin; from a stronger even more certain for an even stronger reason
  

  desquamation, certissima, bien pensant, sinestesia, ausgezeichnet, birdcall, frontiersman, wandering, jotunheim, caravanserai, lusus naturae

• stun the opposition!

  luddite, phillistine, pedant, aesthete, libertine, tyro, dilettante, neophyte, mendicant, troglodyte, sybarite, charlatan and 23 more...

• Native Tongue

  Words from other languages that have become part of my own.

  kagakshi, pespeyason, mskoda, potawatomi, athabaskan, waglula, fu, weemoed, solidarność, congou, darjeeling, alpe d'huez and 55 more...

• perhapsolutely's Words

  polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...

• Words I had to Look Up. Srsly.

  These are words I've encountered reading that I've had to look up on-the-spot.

  execrable, ex cathedra, liminal, elegiac, synecdoche, desuetude, disingenuous, parallelopiped, vulpine, probity, amanuensis, mustelid and 67 more...

• My Words

  Words of mine

  jeremiad, adoratrice, entropy, oriflamme, rixatrix, alembic, catoptric, chthonian, de rigueur, oosik, cinerary, lusus naturae and 61 more...

• nignog's got a vocab

  adulation, lusus naturae, austerity, belligerent, puerile, palliative, onanism, effrontery, surreptitious, iridescent, precarious, pejorative and 2 more...