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These user-created lists contain the word ‘mamihlapinatapai’.
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Say it Frenchie
A list of foreign or foreign based words
ce soir, vous allez, voudrais, imbroglio, zeitgeist, umami, gastronomique, schadenfreude, waldeinsamkeit, ilunga, taarradhin, litost and 18 more...
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It's All Just Words.
quixotic, penisaurus rex, plibt, pot, polaroid, gemütlichkeit, hey! pooper scoop..., nowhere, anywhere, somewhere, elsewhere, wherever and 80 more...
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Foreign Words that should be English ...
All of the wonderful words and phrases that ought to be anglicized, so lets!
l'esprit d'escalier, vorgestern, mamihlapinatapai, ubermorgen, afiyet olsun, kolay gelsin, gecmis olsun, itadakimasu, wabi sabi, duende, Mamihlapinatapai, meraki and 5 more...
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ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
bilby's Words
pandemic, whirl, guffaw, ethereal, feisty, dunt, ephemeral, pule, flipergebet, prink, maunder, gammon and 1023 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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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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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1402 more...
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wreckingball's Words
reprehensible, problematize, crepuscular, deleterious, pestilent, strumpet, draggletail, interrobang, meretricious, systematize, schadenfreude, capricious and 443 more...
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artoparts's Words
illation, finite, edify, abide, abrade, vouch, amiss, vociferate, perusing, techantiquery, rigamarole, holon and 615 more...
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kewpid's Words
moleskine, araldite, dessicate, cellar door, grotesque, fallacy, vendetta, raindrop, panacea, ethereal, hircus, treppenwitz and 446 more...
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Interesting Words
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Face Place ㋡
Facial expressions, methods for determining emotional states, and general terms for passionate emotional states.
I've put specific-emotion words in these other lists of mine:
Hap...perfervid, vehement, demonstrative, fervent, torrid, frantic, agog, choler, moue, histrionic, dacrygelosis, verklempt and 92 more...
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Nakoo's list of beautiful words.
Just about any word I like at the time.
razbliuto, anaxiphilia, lipothymous, inamorata, acushla, abulia, serendipity, alexithymia, quixotic, idiosyncratic, ad nauseam, equanimity and 305 more...
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songs for the dead
Tweets
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ode_to_luna a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start. Feb 4, 2010
Telofy “Mamihlapinatapai” explained by TheRavenOfPoe. Dec 6, 2009
artoparts Also erroneously spelled with an "e" - many people list mamihlapinatapei. Apr 22, 2009
artoparts Looking at each other hoping that either will offer to do something that both parties desire but are unwilling to do. Title of one of my paintings. Feb 18, 2009
whichbe Combine this with the passdance and let the awkward hilarity ensue. Aug 2, 2008
kewpid Eye-contact implying “after you…�? Jul 18, 2008
colleen featured on Kottke.org today! Jul 14, 2008
altrus The word voted most succinct by Guiness WR. Dec 7, 2006