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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A lover of intelligence or knowledge.
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘philonoist’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 more...
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Wunderkammer
A not-so-secret cache of wonderfilled words; may be mythical, magical, philosophical, oddball or just plain cool
thaumazein, anacampserote, cledonism, mirabile dictu, limen, sough, amaranthine, anamorphosis, lyribliring, lubberland, luciferous, madstone and 31 more...
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bluebirdcry's list
I love words. The following words do I find especially interesting.
nihilism, aboulomania, bibliomania, arithmomania, dinomania, probabilism, chrysophilist, ergophile, myrmecophilous, philonoist, mathematicaster, logomachy and 4 more...
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words I like
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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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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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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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amillionrubies's list
frigorific, quixotic, petulant, philtre, impassible, scuttlebut, riposte, confabulation, abraded, zaftig, insouciance, duende and 16 more...
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dynamite's Words
avant-garde, secret, shutters, brassiere, devanagari, lotus, composition, film, vanguard, ultra, brocade, voile and 41 more...
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Oh Me
These may or may not describe me. My aboulomania won't let me say.
aboulomania, ablutomania, bruxomania, choreomania, dinomania, drapetomania, dromomania, ecdemomania, eleutheromania, erotomania, gamomania, graphomania and 44 more...
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