orectic

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

• Cepstrums

  to cepstrumize a word is to reverse its 1st 4 characters in the way that "cepstrum" was derived from "spectrum" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepstrum...

  acedy, adustion, sudation, aedility, ideality, agentive, negative, agral, argal, agrestic, ergastic, alerce and 202 more...

• phrontistery - o

  from phrontistery.info

  oakum, oakus, oast, obambulate, obdormition, obduracy, obedible, obedientiary, obeism, obeliscolychny, obelize, obelus and 504 more...

• 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...

• Hence

  Words with definitions that have a "hence" in them.

  hanger, Deet, tripe, spindlelegs, fiddle, store, pluck, snap, villain, link, comedy, particular and 410 more...

• Philosophy

  solipsism, realism, tautology, suasion, moral suasion, mode, modality, orectic

• 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...

• orect-, -orexia

  appetite

  orectic, dysorexia, anorexia

• Words featured in Mrs. Byrne's Dictio...

  Selections from Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words by Josefa Heifetz Byrne (University Books, 1974). Definitions in the comments when not available elsewhere.

  apanthropy, anoetic, aristology, ayne, bibliopole, bibliotaph, calecannon, caoine, catlap, chirospasm, clamjamfry, coadunate and 174 more...

• larsonsm's list

  "When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain" WS

  picaresque, orectic, lunisolar, rhadamanthine, sisyphean, lucubration, opsimath, adoxography, barathrum, engastration