Definitions
Etymologies
- From Latin pandiculātus, perfect active participle of pandiculor ("stretch oneself"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I was told that women pandiculate in the morning because they don't have a certain part of the anatomy to scratch.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pandiculate’.
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I didn't know there was a word for that!
interdigitate, aspheric, benthos, reptation, pastiche, pandiculate, agelast, obdormition, dysania, armscye, phosphene, etiolation and 62 more...
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There's a word for it
catkin, pastiche, badonkadonk, biome, omphaloscopy, pogonophobia, reptation, anathema, xyst, commodify, commoditize, monetize and 68 more...
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My favorites
foible, sidereal, amygdala, woodnote, cogitate, silvern, ollalieberry, ramify, diaphanous, surreality, myopia, subcelestial and 75 more...
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Specificity
Words that have with subtly different meanings from other words.
vestibule, commoditize, commodify, monetize, corroborate, mezzanine, apposite, irony, calefacient, maxim, pandiculate, rarefaction and 39 more...
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Faves
nepenthe, cupidity, anodyne, obdurate, doleful, obsolescent, quale, piquant, velleity, inchoate, disport, facile and 366 more...
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soph2's Words
serendipity, audacity, groak, petrichor, lethologica, loganamnosis, agnuopia, dysania, dysphagia, neologism, incredulity, harbinger and 246 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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My Words
heuristic, malapropism, vicissitude, discursive, interstitial, velleity, phosphene, pandiculate, obdormition, vertiginous, flibbertigibbet, truculent and 128 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Physiological Terms
Terms used in physiology
contabescence, infix, instill, demulcent, pachystichous, pachyhaemous, adrenal, suprarenal, adrenocorticotropic, remedial, flaccid, phosphene and 136 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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new acquisitions
found in the wild (i.e., not on Wordie!)
samara, indehiscent, paschal, rogation, wen, rete, diriment, epicene, duramen, euhemerism, objurgate, canaille and 429 more...
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Words I like
velleity, pandiculate, agelast, abderian, dysania, pulchritude, tittle, aglet, polycephalic, defenestration, tabula rasa, inchoate and 2 more...
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My Good Words
robust, seeth, uncanny, earnest, palpate, belabor, minx, plaintive, endemic, contingent, henceforth, perfunctory and 80 more...
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Sensations
croodle, caterwaul, fervid, epicure, boation, pandiculate, fetid, evanescent, somnolence, insensate, paresthesia, harbinger and 1 more...
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Tip of my tongue
I tend to find myself searching for these words.
insinuate, schwag, coquette, mezzanine, affront, tacit, tantamount, nascent, wisteria, assuage, epistolary, impinge and 38 more...
Tweets
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knitandpurl "Wynne fetched his greatcoat and hat without a word, while DeBrutus pandiculated on the sofa, trying to look unconcerned."
Aurorarama by Jean-Christophe Valtat, p 147 Jul 23, 2011
abrimmer It refers to the combined action of stretching and yawning. Sep 10, 2009
kittysing pandiculation is the action of stretching and yawning, stretching out of tiredness, or the stretching you do when you wake up in the morning. a good sentence for this word would be the following: "Cats pandiculate frequently while lazing around in the sun." Mar 28, 2009
sionnach After the pandiculation comes the heart-rending* ululation of grief. Then begins the lifetime of desolation and loss. Life as a feral dog isn't all alley-humping and lapdog-terrorizing.
*: or, if you are an ignorant philistine, and insist, "heart-rendering". Mar 4, 2009
rolig My condolences to your feral dog, Jack-Joseph. Mar 4, 2009
jackjoseph A feral dog pandiculates in the mourning in a pile of its own feces. Mar 4, 2009
reesetee Heehee. Oct 16, 2007
sionnach to yawn and stretch amidst the bamboo trees Oct 16, 2007