Examples
“-- I don't think there is one of our boarders quite so testudineous as I am.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘testudineous’.
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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...
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1755
Interesting words appearing in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1755). Some are interesting for their unfamiliarity, and some for the meanings then assigned by Johnson.
absonous, adumbrate, agrammatist, alderlievest, ambages, ana, anfrantuous, aperitive, assapanick, babery, bellytimber, blatant and 103 more...
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via Weird and Wonderful Words
Catch-all for things culled from Weird and Wonderful Words, More Weird and Wonderful Words, and Totally Weird and Wonderful Words, by Erin McKean, et al.
aboulia, alexiteric, angletouch, dactylion, alveary, sparlire, glabella, philtrum, pallium, heart-spoon, hyperprosexia, paraprosexia and 438 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 1459 more...
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Uncle John’s Interesting Words
Words I find interesting.
abecedarius, acomoclitic, aperçu, apophenia, aspic, bêtise, bhang, callipygian, calque, carking, cataphract, ceruminous and 97 more...
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mariacristina's list
random words I find while reading.
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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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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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nifty book words
anthroparian words I'm still wondering about
anthroparian, buhl, caducity, dehisce, ex-voto, fylfot, gammon, hidalgo, irenist, jumby, kraken, lustrate and 21 more...
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Glosseme's Words
pusillanimous, fuliginous, nomenclature, cloture, cudgel, infra dig, aurora borealis, lexicon, domicile, lachrymose, pulchritude, veracity and 52 more...
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Grandiloquent Gleanings
polyphloesboean, testudineous, thelyphthoric, psychopannychism, thnetopsychism, xenodocheionology, zenzizenzizenzic, paraskevidekatria..., arachibutyrophobia, heautontimorumenos, hippopotomonstros..., lethologica and 3 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for testudineous.

chained_bear Reminds me of Testudo aubreii. :) Oct 7, 2009
she Or, as slow as a tortoise. Jul 9, 2008
mariacristina a. resembling the shell of a tortoise.
Mar 3, 2008