[Last updated: 3/1/2026.]

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| "[T]here's a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one
| long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think that the man
| is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do the same thing. There'll be
| a whole stack of long words stored away just for this purpose."
|
| "Where?"
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| "In the 'word-memory' section," he said, epexegetically.
|
| -- The Great Automatic Grammatizer, Roald Dahl
|

I love words. The way they look on paper, the way they sound out loud, the way
they make your mouth feel when you say them. I like being a word collector -- a
lexical packrat. My tenth-grade English teacher called me the prisoner of
vocabzkaban.

New words I find are added here; the list is updated periodically. Some words
and phrases repeat because my memory is imperfect. New definitions of old words
also end up here, from time to time...

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My Knipe List
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(epexegetically)
preterite
anatine**
künstlerroman
panegyric
philology
protuberant
pannikin
ambrosial
palimpsest*
samizdat*
expurgate
qualia
oeillade
machinate*
sprezzatura**
polysyndeton**
sartorial*
skunkworks
rhoticity
teratological
prosaic
L'esprit de l'escalier
potemkin
pusillanimous
puerile
pablum
laconic
teutonic
in saecula saeculorum
perfidious
recondite
catatonia
kitsch
kipple
quid accidit
edentate
circumlocution
prolixity
desultory
crotchety
charlatan
requisition
commandeer
effasure, an erasing
anchorite
fecundity
bivouac
abscond, deus abscondicus
pinochle
insouciant
profligate
ex nihilo
fatuous
anomie
Weltanschauung
pulchritude
perfervid
elegaic
gedankenexperiment
inflect
dragoman
prescind
tendentious
insalubrious
motte and bailey
dialectic
prophylactic
prurient
acculturation
post hoc ergo propter hoc
snowclone
quo vadis?
hobgoblin
ontology
lazarus taxon
hysteresis
stochastic
polysemy
internecine
tergiversate
hermeneutics
staid
apotheosis
dedesiderata*
topos
liminal
non-diegetic
jejeune
certiorari
bromides
acerbity
fiduciary
annunciation (not "enunciation")
homoscedasticity**
supraparable
neurasthenia
motu proprio
sacristy
moribund
testamentary
recalcitrant
febrile
continent (the word has pun potential)
epithet
periphrases
a relingo walk
acme
epitome
doxastic
yen (verb)
irruption (ecology)
pleiotropy
cadmus* (to sow a dragon's tooth)
infelicitous
skerry
extirpation
allee effect
depredation
susten(t)ation
funk island
guillemots & guillemets
prow
gratuitous
weft and warp
discomfit
bolide
belemnite
ammonite
rudist
lacuna
codswallop
tubercle
broil
palynologists
benthic
Signor-Lipps effect
lilliput effect
decadent
gestation
perspicuous
thing (assembly) (the king is a thing!)
tome
currency (monetary adjective)
vacillate
putatively
amanuensis
inflorescence
talmudic
lianas
austral and boreal
gravid
scleros-
flotsam, jetsam, lagan, derelict*
cay
linn
petroglyph
encrustation
pteropod sea butterfly
ptero-
brachio-
zircon
holo-
anthro[po]-
anthropocene
turducken
mesocosm
candelabra
subsidence
obdurate
vivarium
blast fishing
eschaton
enfilades
salvo
mezzanine*
scion
gamut
in loco parentis
proscribe
dialectic
fritz
bucolic
exordium
euphonious
mammon
execrable
extirpate
perambulate
bulwark
idem
paean
stultifying
panacea
cashiered
diaeresis
pareidolia
supine
mojombo
poet shirt
loquacious
hawala
abjured
contrite
aesthete
preclude
despot
etiology
temerity
wallaby
proteus phenomenon
peregrination*
barbiturate
Caveat emptor
proclivity
deification
duplicitous
perspicacity
diatribe
languor
Augean
seigniorage

Stanford
emendations
probity
entente
alacrity
vizier
legation
blanchiment = money-laundering
ripostes
recalcitrance
homesteader
fantasists
profligate
disaffection
redound
dilatory
telos
ecclesiastical
insular
abeyance
acolytes
geriatric
plenipotentiaries
abrogated
usufruct
suzerainty
sine que non
proclivities
propitious
plenary
indefeasible
desultory
co-extensive
inchoate*
draconian
debellatio
ex injuria jus non oritur
pacta sunt servanda
etiolated
sui generis
cenotaph
sacral
miscegenation
vernacular
hegemony
sobriquet
bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria nube
cromulent
primogeniture
tanistry
eremitic
ecclesiastical
warp and woof
paroxysm
philology
legerdemain
equanimity
louche
subaltern
concomitant
coparcener
peccadillo
contingency
proselytism
plebiscite
nemine contradicente
balustrade
inchoate
meum et tuum
clemency
clientelism
bollards**
chicanery
nadir
propinquity
inure
cockle
magisterium
erstwhile
inchoate
macguffin*
Damnatio memoriae
effluvia
fascia
anomie
pusillanimously
sabermetricians
contra preferentem
consilience**
consigning
intifada
ennui
diffidence
perfidy
complaisance
pleonexia
meum and tuum
timorousness
stare decisis
perlustration
odium theologicum
prima facie
expediencies
preponderance
il maestro di color che sanno
ad misericordiam
heterodox
laity (vs. clergy)
Socratici viri
eo ipso, ipso facto
agoraphobia
effrontery
abrogate
monism
de novo
prima facie
certiorari
propounded
proscribing
polemic
expounding
normative
coverture
probative
provincialism
primacy
suasion
intransigence
town-gown
contradistinction
teleologically
subventions
paean
imprimatur
abjuring
obloquy
internecine
obiter dicta
inchoate
qua
anisotropic
conniption
proscribes
epithet
nexus
pro se
dispositive
putative
passim
animus
seditious libel
obloquy
scholium
duplicity
ex-ante
Grand Poobah
picayune
pettifogging
nostradamus
alembic
naciancenes
troupials
cetaceans
implacable
poultice
esparto
incipient
lugubrious
seraphic
concupiscence
corpulence
muriatic
aqua regia
scapular
capon
caladium
daguerreotype
repertory
per omnia secula seculorum
chimerical
stentorian
pianola
brocade
temerity
soporific
prostration
encyclical
lacerated
laudanum
implacable
organdy
charlatan
curaçao
cassock
skein
benzoin
calabash
carbine
cornet
convalescence
inure
exequies
stropping
reprisal
amnesty
de gustibus non est disputandum 
intransigence
nadir 
recrudescence 
St. Elmo’s fire
cloistered
punctilious
messianic 
indolence 
bodacious 
retinue
anodyne
itinerant
soporific
acceded
convalescence
catechism
sacristy 
fecundity 
colic
apotheosis
abjection 
slough
junta
concordat
invidious
propounded
vacillating
hosannas
mendacious
risible
flocculent**
floccinaucinihilipilification
salvos
seigniorage
vitiate
pusillanimous
preponderance
dysphoric
dispositive
milquetoast*
praxis
quincunx
quid pro quo
grognard
lich
ansatz
terpsichorean*
exculpatory
aubade
lethean
bipartite
manticore
leitmotif
pontifical
seigniorage
venality
turpitude
salubrious
intercessory
pabulum
ineluctable
Saturnine
Supernal
Lugubriously
Glutinous
Dissimulation
Deliquesce
Coiffed
Forbore
Rashers
Turbot
Transmogrified*
Prosaic
Somnolence
Perforce
Neurasthenic
Verve
Tenebrous
Imprecations
Afreet
Tyburn Tree
Kipper
Fauntleroy
Obsolescent
Orotund
Lackadaisical
Abalone
Protean
Revenant
Simulacrum
Velour
Peccadilloes
Philistines
Inchoate
Imperious
Apostate
Opobalsam
Farangi*
Eunuch
Henotheist
Castigates
hapax legomenon
Steles
Intercession
Loth
Amphisbaenae
Phantasmagoria
Sibyl
Simurgh
Implacable
Dismemberment
Abrogation
Bereavement
Sempiternal*
Miasmic*
Dionysian
Implacable
Maunderings*
Estancia 
Imprecations
Putative
Bolas
Indigent
Cordillera
Borsalino
Gabardine
Primes inter pares
Outré
Peroration*
Discomfiture
Claque
Budgerigars
Bathos
Ministrations
Gnomic
Pierrot
Patchouli
Simulacrum
Rubicund
Declivity
Juggernaut
Tannoy
Paidea
nobless oblige
turpitude
sprezzatura**
orotund
quiddity
histrionically
Repertory
Acquiescent
Paristan
Depredations
Alacrity
The Golden Ass
Probity
Pastiche
Argot
Jingoistic
Balustrade**
Lambrakis
Mote and beam
Imperious 
Stasis
Bowdlerize
penitent
bremsstrahlung
anaphora
enthymeme
irredentist
beleaguered
zwanze* — self-deprecating humor in wartime brussels
zeugma** (Dunlap's favorite rhetorical device, a figure of speech combining logically different ideas, such as [this is Gaby's example] "the farmers grew potatoes and bored")
tant pis
incisive
excoriated
ersatz
melismatic*
skeuomorph
macte virtute*
luthier
epicurean
episcopal
ecumenical
catholic (etymology)
prognostic
dialectic
rococo
prestidigitator
Manchurian candidate
saccade
hirsute**
pulchritude
apostasy
irascible
burke*
concomitant
narthex
antiphon
catechism
horror vacui
mutatis mutandis
fealty
aporia
conniption
dole
valedictory
capitonym
verlan
vizard (vs. wizard)
gonzo journalism
roman à clef
Roskomnadzor
chorography
ichnology
affiance
boulted
ordure
rivage
aegis
pharaonic
lachrymal
statists
pastern
palfrey
legerity
provender
slovenry
fetlock
avuncular
barouche
approbation
verboten
prelate
crescive
salic
lenity
nomogram
straphanger
pelage
immiserate
lethologica**
aptronym
distal
noctilucent
eschatological
woolgathering
decadence
redlining
Lethean
cerulean
venial
svengali
zugzwang
Conchoidal**
Lacunae
Vitiated
Syncretism
Neoplatonism
Perdition
tutelary
Bagatelle
Incunabulum
ecce signum*
Audi alteram partem
inter alia*
encomium
falchion
triptych
itinerant
satori
suppuration
onomancy
cratylic
epanalepsis
usufruct**
weltanschauung
indicia
ablative (grammar, but also matsci)
perquisite
crux (an unknown word)
hamartia
retinue
epithet
cucullus non facit monachum*
concupiscible
anodyne
antanaclasis
bedlam
atavistic
peripatetic
peroration
hortatory
hagiographic
imbroglio
ekphrasis
ensconced
asseveration
mimesis
concomitant
obeisance
Potrzebie
velleity
logorrhoea
shrive
asperity
gentian
beatification
salutary
meliorist
spruiking
etiology
posse comitatus
non-teleological
vacilando*
concupiscent
saudade*
Ad astra per alia porci*
perspicuous
parturition
picaresque
bowdlerised
dvoeverie, the Slavic idea of believing in Christian devils and pagan
house-spirits
Canticle
demesne
Chatham House Rule
salutary
melismatic
noviny - "new" epic songs
langue and parole (like fabula and syuzhet)
contradictio in adjecto
contradictio in terminis
crapulous
belvedere
lugubrious
perspicacity
ekphrasis
gestalt
abbozzo** - from Greg Valiant's lecture notes on Good-Turing estimates for unseen words
l'homme d'ondoyant et divers
vaunted
daffy
kennings
mulct
solecism
Alford plea
nihilartikel / Mountweazel
diptych
demiurge
heresiarch
petitio principii
ex ungue leonem
abbatoir
anoraks
sitzprobe
wandelprobe
homily
excoriated
fronted adverbial
incipit
estoppel
lumpen[proletariat]
crinolines
effrontery
empyrean*
linearithmic
panopticon
quiddity
caduceus
bitterlich sampling
hagiographic
roman-a-clef
ronin
telegenic
superannuated
vigorish
ratiocination
mete
encomiums
Bobolink
sacerdotal
bosovski - shoes traditionally left slightly unfinished for Russian funerals
bullion
stigmata
aleatory
scleronomous and rheonomous
Hypostatic Union
chiaroscuro (and Roscuro)*
sfumato
ansatz
interregnum
apotheosis
abeyance
sosialpornografi*
ekphrasis*
peristeronic*
apocalypse, eucalyptus, calypso, hell**
ossifrage (a cryptic cryptographic connection)
Dextrarum iunctio
Thaumaturgy
Holy Unmercenaries
Wonderworking unmercenary
kudos, not escudos (from Knuth)
Elysian
malefit (as the opposite of benefit, e.g. in Tolkien)
interstitial
skaz
Thagomizer
spoliation
einbahnstrasse
augenblick
theodicy
chanticleer
gesamtkunstwerk*
The Three Princes of Serendip
cerulean**
syncretism
silviculture
pastiche
eremetic
creosote
Homo unius libri ("what does it mean? it doesn't mean anything")
Methodenstreit
prolegomenon
bravura
demiurgical
gerede - German "high gossip"
hermeneutics
amateur - amatore
propitiatory
abstemious
hortus conclusus - "walled garden"
invidia - the evil eye
poiesis
corrigenda
Guilloché
enantiomer
racemic* (from the racemic form of tartaric acid, found in grapes)
tendril perversion
gormandize
immanent (not imminent)
bal-musette
apotropaic
pellucid
seicento
dispositif
divinarelli pittorici
syntagmatic
denegation
effaced
apposite
eucharistic*, when the representation becomes the thing itself, map becomes the territory (like in Lear), the menu becomes the food
prosopopoeia
caducous
dyspepsia
circumjacent
pudency
antinomia
blindsight and aphantasia
post-festum
chrematistics - Aristotle's dual to economics, the art of endless (limitless, purposeless) wealth
Auri Sacra Fames - damned thirst for gold (Virgil)
chiasmus
rondure
proleptic
ankylosed
Index Librorum Prohibitorum
pro tanto
cutler
conspectuity - vision or sight
bisson - blind
caterpillars of the commonwealth - moochers
Interpellation
hermeneutic
gestalt
Dasein
Cautelous - wily
Tarpeian rock
mountebank
hegemony
Frankenstein veto
Idiurus - the flying mouse
lagniappe
patagium
frugivore
antediluvian
bedlam
katzenjammer* (Marx - 18th Brumaire - hangover or cat's wings)
blagueurs
tenebrism
primus/secunda inter pares
pastoral (as a noun)
attitudinizing
Kloveniersdoelen
maladroit
pendant (as complementary art)
pastiche
pentimento
bravura
putti
obeisance
scumbled
ineluctably
gutta-percha
scapular
roiling
otherness**, lightness**
priapic
palatine and pal[p]atine
amerciaments
saber and cowl, feudal ideology
in petto, sub rosa
in partibus infidelium, of another faith
troglodytes
leonine
diocese
episcopal
see (catholicism)
cephalophore
abjection
monobloc chair
apperception
plenitude
causa sui
vertiginously
edenic
tartuffe
ephemeris
malaphor (Patricia thinks I do this a lot; William Safire, Nixon's speechwriter, says "Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors.")
  Helen Keller: It comes over me that in the last two or three pages of this chapter I have used figures which will turn the laugh against me. Ah, here they are—the mixed metaphors mocking and strutting about before me, pointing to the bull in the china shop assailed by hailstones and the bugbears with pale looks, an unanalyzed species! Let them mock on. The words describe so exactly the atmosphere of jostling, tumbling ideas I live in that I will wink at them for once, and put on a deliberate air to say that my ideas of college have changed.
cartouche
extenuate
eglantine
bergomask
choropleth
servitor
intransigent
matura
malinger
proscenium
syntagm
pleonastic
gymnosophists
picaresque
shivaree
improvident
aeriform
bight
concomitant
expropriation
terrene
sublunary
baroque
vertiginous
pungent, poignent, potent
gloss* as in glossary
Träskofiol* (shoe violin from Dreamers' Circus)
prophylactic
Alea iacta est
enneagram
desporting
mukbang
umwelt
Vemödalen** - the fear that everything has already been done
Homoousion and Homoiousian ("not one iota of difference")
kenning - Norse forged words like ocean = whale road
kayfabe, kayfabrication - pre-negotiated collaborative competition, e.g. in professional wrestling
spomenik - Yugoslav concrete monuments
atelier
catena, catenary, concatenate
stichic - from military for "aligned," front lines, poetic forms and military patterns
procrustean bed
dudeen
farandole
cruciferous (vegetables)
ecce homo**
granfalloon
guignol
Rumspringa
round robin (see etymology)
ratiocinative
imp (falconry)
jeremiad
scatological
thiotimoline
periodic sentence
Stagirite (Aristotle)
Menippean satire
georgic
eclogue
synchronicity* (Jung)
pronoia
seraphic
audiate** (from Josh; see also, aphantasia)
bedlam (John Ousterhout's description of gc failure)
disklavier (Dan Tepfer)
atavism** (reversing the game of life)
cometary coma
amuse-bouche
ubi sunt* ("Where are they?")
stadialism
delectation
anodyne
faience
boanthropy*
equinoctial (Bishop's Sestina)
myriahedral (like polyhedral, but more?)
hysteron proteron
adumbrate
traduce
metalepsis
asprezza (vs. ease)
kitbash (Kate Kinnear's thesis)
dies irae
monody
aganippe (spring of the muses)
gadding
siste viator et lege** ("halt, traveler, and read" - on roman roadside tombs)
ludology
technology shear** - John's word for when different technologies advance at different rates, e.g. disk latency vs. memory size -> paging no longer makes sense
voix céleste - organ stops with beat frequencies
lomography - cheap camera photography
pastiche
guinea (has several meanings, for interesting reasons)
chthonic** - dear, dear Matisse
lissomely (brother gorilla, jake thackray)
chrism, censer, chalice
anamnesis* - loss of forgetfulness (PKD, how to build a universe that doesn't fall apart two days later)
lambent*
Dodecanese
hierophany - a manifestation of the sacred
propitiate
bogart (the verb)
rondure
kulning call
pinguid
reconnoiter
hieratic
ogived
trimaran
cupola
moue
payola
enfilade*
materiel (as opposed to personnel)
menhaden
cantus firmus
tegument
multiparous
apostasy
valetudinarian
stelliferous
quonset
somnolent
demurs
arroyo
desperados
Californiana
adenoidal
dross
freimarke - stamp
hiraeth
numen, numina
gustatory
Brodie (as in jump)
cataclysm
priistas
interregnum
jitney
flinders
beaverboard
plowshare, coulter
PBX
hipshot
nicht wahr?
Biedermeier
oubliette
solmization
gewehr and büchse
Zimmerbild
panem et circenses
tempus fugit
stearin
feuilleton
epigone
maieutics
anagnorisis
Bowdlerized (in reverse?)
poetaster*
sodality
harquebuses
stilettos
muscatel
steins
enervated
de bonis non
peccadillo
absolution* (and ablution)
lambent
carpaccio
Teuthology
flagrante delicto
zettelkasten
deontic
avuncular
conniption
hapax
hapax legomenon
razzamatazz
diaristic
pellucid
defowlerize** (Nabokov on translating Pushkin, potentially a hapax?)
paraphrast (someone who paraphrases)
rebarbative
reprobate
rodomontade*
plangent
quadrille
quiddity
poetaster
Lothario
sylvan*
quaff
durachkí
leas
verst, sazhen
palaver*
cuirassiers
lorgnette
madrigal
missive
languor
osmotically
paronomasia
meridian (has many meanings)
sententious
sallet
investment (etymologically related to "vetement" - to invest is to clothe)
invigilating
fusillade
halberdiers
stratagem
poniard
expiatory
acedia*
praeteritio
synoeciosis - composition of contraries in Elizabethan rhetoric ("mirth in funeral, dirge in marriage")
cabinet noir
hendiadys* (see also, zeugma, syllepsis, hysteron proteron)
unctuousness
bathos
orotundity
sententious
rodomontade
suppliance
solus
anima
rachises**
vitiated
excursus
tendentious
bardolatry
tercentenary
aboulia
congeries
transpicuous
cathectic, cathexis
vigorish (Persi's term for the house's edge)
aubade
parthenogenesis
weregild (from Saxo Grammaticus)
jantelagen / Jante's law*
parimutuel (Don Ylvisaker from UCLA on the CA lottery's "fortune cookie disaster" with repeated numbers)
immanent and imminent
chiasmus, chiasmic*
pneumatology (not what you think, not pneumatics)
charnel*
supine
veridical
rapscallion*
columbarium
incunables
malaxage (kneading pottery clay)
monotreme (platypus? easter bunny?)
midrash
paschal
abrogate
celebrant
churlish
Lollardy
crede, et manducasti
ciborium, paten, corporale, maniple
anamnesis*
new historicism* (I think I'd make a good new historicist)
dryad
teleuton*, envoi, tornada
salal
avuncular
dyadic
metempiric - beyond experience
aril* - the part of a pomegranate seed that's not the seed
esemplastic** - M finds the best word for Dreamers' Circus. Coleridge comes to mind: for calling imagination the "esemplastic power" and for calling poetry the "best words in the best order." I think also about the lasagna.
drupelet - like an aril
saltation** - to leap, as in the BNP(?), another M word
    note: stiny uses "saltation" in relation to "gestalt" (in the star-chevron-triangle section); oddly, the etymologies give the words opposite "meanings." i wonder further about "stellation": are *stel- and *ster- the same?
alectryon (chicken god)
askesis
atopy (unclassifiability, especially in relation to love)
lover (okay, okay, we all know this word - but here is Roland Barthes' definition: "the one who waits")
limerence
asepsis
nasturtiums
jacaranda
divagate
szeretlek - "first-person singular indicative present second-person object definite of szeret" - that is, "I love you" - Hungarian
holophrase
phatic
satori
doxa and episteme
merycism
loquela - the twiddling of the wound (metaphorically)
affective - "Like a bad concert hall, affective space contains dead spots where the sound fails to circulate. --The perfect interlocutor, the friend, is he not the one who constructs around you the greatest possible resonance? Cannot friendship be defined as a space with total sonority?" (see also: Nelle Fertig's poem)
kigo - season-word in a haiku
aubade
exiguous
hypostases
sesquipedalian
tapinosis
thaumasmus
topothesia
astrothesia
dendrographia* - these are all from silva rhetoricae on rhetoric.byu.edu
kerf** - matthew says this is the bit that vaporizes when you laser cut something (can we apply "kerf" to the scheduling fragmentation problem? 10-minute breaks vaporize into temporal kerf!)
ipseity* - selfhood
syncope - losing consciousness because of low blood pressure, OR dropping syllables from a word (e.g. "probably")
tergiversate
geminate
falutin (as in high-)
dissimulation
diaphanous** - M uses this to describe my past - and indeed it is - even and especially to myself - gossamer
soppressata
terete**, stout, glabrous**, and sometimes slightly reddish - M finds a description of bloodroot
teleoanticipation* - related to pacing, e.g. with athletes - but also, mykel's green bananas from trader joe's?
mescal
taarof*
introrse
ligulate
cliché - "a poem that won" - this definition is due to craig arnold (who speaks about the goodness in bad love poetry in an interview with jeremy richards)
monocoque
bàofùxìng áoyè - "revenge bedtime procrastination"
kolaveri
aphonia and aphasia
chinotto
ontic - (as opposed to antic, when describing dispositions - from M, of course)
murmuration - from siken's poem
gashapon / gacha game
concomitant
profligate
corium
contused
bracteate** - pineapple spikes or thin gold ornaments
intercorporeality* - Merleau-Ponty defines a mode of embodied coexistence-communication
apostates
shoshin - to have a beginner's mind (even as an expert)
lanugo - fine hair covering newborns
aleatory - and epistemic - uncertainty (from a greg-group meeting!)
renrou sousuo - literally translated as “human flesh search” - brainpower powered search engine - used often for doxxing
pharmakos - ritual sacrifice of human scapegoat - comes from "pharmakon," itself a duality - sacrifice is both medicine and poison - Derrida - see also the brass/bronze serpent in Numbers 21:9
acheiropoieton* - art that comes into being without hands
turbinate
bivouac
pinochle
profligate
sedges
sere
ribband
castellated - stellated
gnosticism
cataclysm
unscrupulous
discalced
shod
litany
ailinon
suet
pique (second meaning)
oriflamme* - starlings
quince
flensing
surd - as itself, as an (irrational - so not really!) antonym to absurd
dominion
termopolium
divagates
bejahung - affirmation (of everythingness)
doçura
asphodel* - not an M word but i can just *imagine* her saying it out loud
druther
spinnen** - german for "spider" or "weave" or "be weird or crazy" or "nerd out together" - from Jens' keynote at Snap!Shot
luminaria** (or farolito)
cineraria
gentian
crenellated
kaffeeklatsch
autopoiesis
tsundoku* - a person who owns a lot of books they haven't read (but no judgement!)
valence* - this is a word (architectural in nature) that M jokingly says she uses to mean whatever she wants it to mean - but not so fast! - valence is related to electrons (chemistry), medicinal extracts (archaic), goodness (psychology), arity (linguistics) - the common thread is "strength" - note also that "valentine" comes eventually from the same root as "valence" - "strength" - there is also "valance," a short drapery panel on top of windows - and a french commune called "valence" - strength, togetherness - valence!
carcinization - nature loves turning things into crabs! (i'm reminded of the french video "la révolution des crabes" that m. losier showed us)
anodyne
quokka and quagga (different mammals!)
paracusia
credence
haustorium (in relation to mistletoe)
incarnate** and unfleshed
theodolite
pert
fractal and fraternal (in relation to strange-loops-and-souls - though etymologically speaking these words might be unrelated)
proprioception** ("where is your mind at?" asks M)
subject-object commutativity (i kiss you, you kiss me, we kiss; hug, call, share, text, touch, high-five, meet, date, f---, wrestle)
trollop
fustian
effete
rococo
sui generis
sublime, beautiful, picturesque
liturgical
symposiast
malleolus**
birefringence* - polarization-dependent index of refraction
faience, delftware, maiolica
woad
aureolin
malachite
recondite
anthropometries (in the sense of yves klein's work)
pereviortyshi - topsy-turvies
hwæt
twigging** (M says this a lot and it makes me smile, smile, smile! also, the Oxford definition is funny in its double-meaning: "it was amazing that Graham hadn't twigged before")
civil twilight** (public time and private time)
eternal september
ressikan
astringent** (dry mouth taste, like "jamun" and certain unripe persimmons)
eleemosynary
eutectic - there must be a good metaphor here... but all i've come up with is too much on-the-nose
skolion
limerence
molybdomancy*
badinage
stemma codicum* (ivan: "aren't all diagrams the same?")
wissenschaft* (ivan: in english we distinguish between science and humanities; in german it's all "wissenschaft"; to me, of course, the word looks like "witchcraft")
homebound (double-meaning)
share** (M: "with sharing the distinction between becoming and being melts the more you think of it")
pellucid
wraith
frechets
divine* - adjective or verb? M shared a tweet about "oh night, divine." and… what is div school? divinity, divination? Nietzsche: "to call someone 'divine' means 'here, we do not have to compete' "
libration* (/not/ "liberation" or "libation", though those are also excellent words) - no, libration is the "wagging" of the moon - from my Hertz interview. "wagging!"
dithyramb
perspicuous
santonica
vaingloriousness
ut nihil non iisdem verbis redderetur auditum
sulci and gyri - valleys and folds and ridges of the brain (…and, perhaps, walnuts?)
Stria of Gennari
postlapsarian*
bivalence - giving different values to the same thing (themes like wandering or height or water can be "positively" or "negatively" valenced) - see also: "valence" above
remnant - weightiest, perhaps, in the biblical sense
colorscripts - a pixar tradition of long sequential painting strips that map the hues of a film over time
to craunch a marmoset - croquer le marmot (to knock on a door, as translated in "English as She is Spoke" by Pedro Carolino)
exoteric
zahir and batin
polyperceivable* (greg's word!)
obol
trephine and trepan
cytoarchitectonic
contralateral
interknuckular* (if you're seeing this in a google search result, you're probably M, in which case, a reminder - don't forget to fluff Yak daily!)
relate - a verb, meaning storytelling and (separately? —or maybe not!) meaning connection
revenant
cant (not "can't")
ascesis
jouissance
pelagic** ("analog lake!")
thalamic
strabismus
quiescent
murine (like anatine - used in biology research texts)
cholinergic
plumule
bricolage*
syntonic** - or rather, body/ego-syntonic in the Papertian turtle sense - I talk a lot about "kinesthetics" of things, but perhaps the "syntonics" of things is what I mean
axolotl - I know what this word means and i know how to spell it but i always have to spell it in my mind before i can say it out loud
ructions 
frisson 
recrudesce
vizier
wizened
hellion
founder - robinson crusoe asks for a definition
a list of missing words:
+ eat : feed :: drink :: ___
+ "enmorningen"/"ennighten" (it rained at night, and then it ___ed?)
+ a word for "polyperceivable" sounds and images
rhotic
syncretic
serged
prise
fervid
fealty
encomiums
weald
munificence
gobbets
scops or "shapers" - medieval poets
stanned
corps
rapacious
scrimshaw
sere ("the mere made sere by engineering" - headley's beowulf on grendel's mom's lair - i think also of the manmade armor that goes against the enchanted dragon-hide)
skein
sclerite
sky-designer
ague
canny
betrothed
filigree
linden
fusillade
sepsis
wyrm
bier
keened
tabret
kine*
murrain*
blains
purtenance
hyssop
lintel
victual
timbrel
retinotopic
stereopsis
amacrine (cells)
amblyopia
Hebbian theory - "cells that fire together wire together"
mononymous (apparenly my Slack handle is just @K—. I'm like Madonna.)
axolotl
horopter* ("what do babies see?" - mechanisms for stereopsis)
veridical
mete
omer and ephah
betrothed
seethe
ephod
stacte, onycha, galbanum
tabernacle
topos
protracted
zamzummim* (chim-chiminey?)
typology
amerce
egocentric (in relation to video footage, e.g. of babies doing their thing)
novena
munhamunhando - wanderer
haunch
suaçurana
pinima
cangussu - portuguese for kangaroo
Jaguaretama
calabash tree
berimbau
victuals
asemic writing
visual diet** - the vision science community's word for what a baby sees
mirror neurons (there's maybe something literary about this)
rereward
inveigle
besotted
putative
apostasy
amor patriae
recrudesce
prosopopeia
proprioceptive
ethology
chromatophore
(in)formed - in relation to something like a book or a material work of ark, into which we pour or inscribe memory - from Vampyroteuthis Infernalis
immanence and imminence (this may have appeared before earlier in the list…)
diverticulum
orphic
dasein
mythomaniacal
mesozoa, parazoa, metazoa
myrmecological*
iniquitous
factum and datum
dialectically
hymenopteric
tertius gaudens
aere perennius
inculcation
ensconced
vocation - "the call" or "your calling" (at least, so claims Pat Parker)
coven* (this is from David)
coven, brethren, beholden, soften, sudden, risen, happen: all different kinds of -en endings!
swink and swonken
tachygen
oracular** (M on the prominence of robots in the modern chess scene - I'm reminded of Omer Reingold's lectures)
tacit labor - Crystal Abidin - reminds me of sprezzatura
Technozoosemiotics
chévere ("Flusser's text is really cool. Surprisingly glorious, considering he's insane.")
tentacular
cirrina
teuthology
crepitus
ophir
proskinesis
solitons
peripatetic* (a Soros interview panelist describes my life story)
anophthalmic
connubial
thanatechnology
ides (they exist for non-march months, too!)
kalends, nones (thank you M!)
sesquipedalian (I received an email with "some truncated expatiation replete with sesquipedalia")
pasquinade
accismus*
adynaton
camouflanguage
embolalia
logogogue* (not a typo)
logodaedaly
loxodromic navigation
logolatry
enneagram
escrevivência* - writing and living, as per Conceição Evaristo
syncretism
deuteronomic code
gittith
granfalloon
cloudland* - Bentley talks about a snowflake's "journey through cloudland"
polyptoton
antanaclasis
eringo (shakespeare: snowflake = snow-eringoes)
askesis
emanata* (comics theory)
praline
grody
graupel** - clumped snowflakes
interdigitate* - M!!
unprepossessingly - cusk, outline
juddering
obverse
analgesic
equipoise
insensate
enantiosemy
endling
terminarch*
camellias - "a tree so tall it could invert distances" - the orchid at the exposition, astrid cabral
tuberoses
chamoy
hermetically (sealed)
firmament*
contemptus mundi - in relation to orfeo
alopecic* - somewhat an opposite of flocculent?
blast tax** - GSB tradition where email blasts need to have a meme attached to make it worth your while
teraphim
chalcedony
interpellate
cyclopean
trafilatura - Italian word for wire drawing
mastic
parataxis
mammon
phylacteries
golgotha
tonotopy - retinotopy but for sound
memristor
littoral
ausländer
sankofa* - it is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten
slovenly
decollation, collimation
calvary - in particular, when the word is used referring to the genre of art representing Calvary
narghiles
naiads
pluttification** - makes me think of M and M pluttifying fractions together… together
exogenous
oleander
eclogues
architrave
olivette (all of it?)
pantser - "There’s wallpaper in the hall even if the stairs lead nowhere at all." (Zadie Smith on kinds of writers)
gnomon* (M was briefly a gnomon today!)
purple patch
purple passage
cabala
visual diet
skandalon - stumbling block -> "scandalize"
diegetic
glossolalia
grammelot
macaronic (as in macaronic language)
amanuensis
protrepsis and paraenesis
charity -- cherish (Memorial Church tries to list 1 Corinthians 13:13, but lists faith, hope, charity *and* love!)
concision
propitiation
cliodynamics
the channel** - vesta quotes zadie smith, "keep the channel open"
peronist
proscenium
crenellations*
adulterine (a castle built without a ~license to crenellate~ (i'm not making this up))
machicolation
corbel
mashrabiya
syntagmatic
schwerpunkt
akinetopsia
gibbous (not gibbons)
captive audience, captivated audience (these are different things!)
coronel pringles* (not what you think; also, not misspelled)
synods
irenic apocalypse - a peaceful one (irene = peace), as in "half an hour of silence" before the trumpets
inkling, seedling, duckling, darling, earthling, and other -ling words
prosopagnosia
effluvia
planchet
mezzanine* (it's just /spelled/ like that, says M)
instandbesetzung* - german for "maintenance squatting" or "restorative occupation"
mise en place - katherine on penrose
cheana féin - irish for "before"/"already"
maggidim
medlar
grimoire**
frumenty - herrick's "hock-cart or harvest home," but also i think this came up in ms. ichikawa's random-word-meaning-guessing contest (i lost)
parens patriae (King James)
lapidary*
graminivorous (Dickens, Hard Times)
intradiagetic and extradiagetic narrators
comic - "something mechanical encrusted upon the living" (Bergson)
cozen
diocese
prelate
anabaptistry
syllogistically ("deal syllogistically")
simony
pursuivants
varlets
in pectore
pasquino* and marforio* (the talking statues of Rome)
imputation ("data imputation")
tergiversate (from Richard Gabriel's Patterns of Software)
deleator
combobulated* (the opposite of discombobulated?)
blazon - in Petrarchan lyric poetry, going from longing to an enumeration of the beloved's qualities
spondee* - the foot, but also a libation - herrick's farewell to sack uses spondees during… spondees! a drink to drink!
terebinth -> Terabithia
mico/micare** - M when I hold up 2 fingers
ludus latrunculorum
purling
eclogue
cruciferous* - christina persuasively claims to have a cruciferous vegetable intolerance
lariat, quirt
Texarkana
garrote
autoclave
prelate (martin marprelate -> mar + prelate, or rather mar @ prelate)
aver
excrescency
lourdan
simoom
excresence
propitiatory
tachment - a judicial writ authorizing the apprehension of a person or the seizure of goods (Booy’s note in his edition of The Notebooks of Nehemiah Wallington)
timorous
coverlet
tissintite
Rabelaisian**
tureen
dichoptic
haploscope, cheiroscope
Eikon Basilike
Solvitur ambulando
ad lapidem
gemba / genba - "the actual place" or "the room where it happens"
gastroliths (reminds me of dropstones)
bishoprics
unpremeditated* - the standard for lyric poetry / elegy in Milton's time - but also, murder - Professor Yu: "premeditation makes it worse!" - "art should be like a crime - you don't discuss it afterwards"
firmament (eric uses this to mean… any large flat thing?)
partitive / partido alto / palo alto / partita / partida / partito (all different words)
schtum
georgic
arcana imperii
Lysenkoism
antinomianism
levellers, diggers, ranters
pomaceous* (also: pomace)
quince, medlar, loquat
myrmecochory - seed dispersal by ants
fritillary ("the great spangled fritillary")
celandine
parterre
Wagyu cows
opex and capex
repunits
flocculant** (!= flocculent)
Taizé
valetudinarian (not valedictorian)
trestle
quadrille
yeomanry
polysemic
idiolect
lazzarone
asperity
simper
inveterate
lacerate
subtil
kummerspeck and frustfressen - german - the result of stress-eating
hireling
tabret
mazzaroth*
neesings
cerumen
Cyclomatic complexity
espadrille
rosacea
mohair
hoiked
finial (Qanon Shaman has a “flagpole with a finial spear tip”?)
kenopsia
dyspeptic
callipygian
impresario
boffo
Zapruderian - adverb to strengthen “studied in detail,” based on the cultural reaction to the Zapruder film
hornswoggle*
asperities
mise-en-scène (compare to mise-en-place)
soigné
sidération - planet-struck
ōsmós - Greek, push/thrust
corslet
emulous
bergamot
deodands* (from Marvell's "Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn")
chattel
Noxal surrender
delict
paterfamilias
weregild
silience - silent brilliance - "n. the kind of unnoticed excellence that carries on around you every day, unremarkably—the hidden talents of friends and coworkers, the fleeting solos of subway buskers, the slapdash eloquence of anonymous users, the unseen portfolios of aspiring artists—which would be renowned as masterpieces if only they’d been appraised by the cartel of popular taste, who assume that brilliance is a rare and precious quality, accidentally overlooking buried jewels that may not be flawless but are still somehow perfect."
ganze nett
sehr schön
cadastre
renal
oleaginous
erebus
etheree*
simulacra - jean baudrillard - copies without originals
experiential capital
Xoloitzcuintli
dell (as in, the thing that contains the farmer)
somersault
rising of the lights
caduceus
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ar/county/greene/olddiseases1.htm
Paris green
marthambles
annus mirabilis
stanza - Italian, place to stand - like a room
otium / negotium ~> "negotiation" (just like oikos ~> "economy")
conventicle
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
extirpate ("Don't use the word extirpate too often" - Ron Padgett)
allusive
diastic (Jackson Mac Low's poetry machine)
elution
alliums - garlic, onions, shallots, scallions, ramps, ramsons, leeks, and so on
Muller's ratchet
gnuckles** - knuckles, but for feet
cavil
caput inter nubilia - head in the clouds - Locke on Robert Filmer
supposititious
cornucopianism
amanuensis**
admonitory
abstemious
stratagem
canna
oleander
supine
rapacious
absinthe
gustatory
pyrogenic
demitasse
yooperlite
delope
quire
caltrop (Wikipedia: "also known as caltrap, galtrop, cheval trap, galthrap, galtrap, calthrop, jackrock or crow's foot")
companionship - to eat bread together (-pan- / "pain")
peal
dryland (and, separately, drylands)
protoevangelium
sententious
socinianism
Fifth Monarchists
lineation
supersession
remaindered - verb (unsold books getting pulped)
reliquary
turophile* - mattalie are turophiles!
Chronophage - the bug-shaped escapement in the Corpus Clock at Cambridge (aka "Rosalind")
purple prose
Hobsonian
theurgy
folkloric**
fribble
sobriquet*
innamorati
Cuticura
rattan
daknam and bhalonam (pet and good names, Bengali)
melamine
ululate
purl
patience - as a synonym for solitaire, the card game
cupola, cupolaed
taper - the noun (candle) and the verb
Naxalite
forsythia
environs
denuded
fretwork
terrazzo
bidi
berth
ajowan
calomel
crenelated
architrave, entablature, tympanum, voussoir - Gogol's architecture vocabulary
billfold
Palladian
pedimented
lintels
pilaster
entablature
fainting couch
bouillabaisse
osso buco
deveining
to steel oneself
cornichon
pâté
diffident
payesh
gird
chignon
Sancerre
cassoulet
cornice
elevation (as an architectural term, a part of a building)
discomfit
saltcellar ~ salt seller
crewel, crewelwork
topor
shenai
tulle
baby breath
Châteaubriand
kilim
flokati
fiddleheads
haleem
brasserie
choucroute
mansard
gambrel
languidly
carrel
alle vongole
Lucite
sconce
parquet
prosecco
pecorino
quincunx
barrette
soppressata
croquettes
sandesh
pantua
campari
aperitif
jamai
gooseneck
confabulation
cowed
nadir
tobacconist
colicky
feted
parochial
palingenetic
mews - stable-like houses
impresario
alginate
milieu
taphonomy
biocoenosis
thanatocoenosis
taphocoenosis
autochthonous
paratochthonous
allochthonous
lagerstätten
inviscid
oxytetracycline
craniate
abeunt studia in mores - someone's tagline in the CS diploma ceremony
mottainai - "what a waste"
moulder
debonair
souk
supine
languid
punctate
auscultation*
osculation** (not to be confused with the above)
Drumthwacket*
dispiriting
Danegeld
benighted
punctate* - Ren's word for cone cells as pointlike sampling - nominating because it sounds the way it means - punctate!
cycloplegia
bethump'd** - "Zounds, I was never so bethump'd with words / Since I first called my brother’s father Dad" (King John, 2.1.487)
iatrogenic
sumptuary
emersion (not "immersion" - also, the astronomical meaning is the Modern Family vision of parenting a child who grows up)
compendium - hey, another words list! https://marijn.uk/words/ (some of those words came from this list, it seems - https://marijn.uk/new/ cmd-F my name)
weir
ghillie suit
ticcing
Cappadocia
glazier
cavalcade
naumachia
viridian
derecho
erguotou - nominated for delightful spelling
accretion
deictic
exophora and endophora
acheiropoieta
lapidary
Tyroleans
mezzotint
lazaretto
mirabile dictu
splanchnology
muumuu
trophallaxis
beret - felted mass of contradictions
beefsteak - Brancusi calls Michelangelo's sculpture "beefsteak run amok"
balaclava (not baklava)
elenchus
armature
boustrophedon* - brian hayes on monte carlo visitation patterns
triskelion
andragogy
apostille* - it says this on my diploma
cuckoo's egg - brood parasitism as a metaphor for malware
fragmentologist -- words below found in a notebook, summer 2017
anthrome
seismic line
curupira
depauperate
grandiloquent
melastome
bivouac
rapacity
hegemony
peccary wallow
synergy
statary
torpor
hibernacula
psychrophile
topography
transmuted
genus Rhea
derided
sepulchral
emaciated
(purple) loosestrife
bog
interloper
burdock
herbaria
hubernaculum
switchback
Tyvek
gullet
acclimitization society
starling
ungulate
endemic
linoleum
scrubs
lugubrious
too big to quail
tableau
gloss
ordure
modus vivendi
haft
pongid
abstruse
chelation therapy
commissary
corvid
tragicomic
disparate -- end list found in notebook
courts working in a suo moto capacity (the term means "on its own")
spoliation
adamantium
sangfroid
ratiocination
Impfneid - German “vaccine envy”
Vereinigungskriminalität - german “unification crime”
Erikativ - using verb stem to represent action, like /me on IRC
ptychography
bulimic
birefrigerence
mezzotint
dorodango
altricial* - bird totally dependent on parent
miscegenation
coloratura
polysemy
petechial
fulgurite
myeloma
peloton
chyron
Tessarakonteres
eigengrau
pulchritude
dysgeusia
caryatid
portcullis
creosote
nightshade - "as unalike as members of the nightshade family" - NYT
rostral
kava
tsundoku
victualling
cline
swot
somnolence
catty-cornered
frisson
insouciant
prognostication
patois
jigit
famulus*
clochards
simpering
daiquiri
marabou
debaculous** (dr. seuss called the box-office failure of The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. a "debaculous fiasco")
pennant
amentum
ankyle
psionics
orthant
abat-voix
mangalsutra
tulle
galumph (not to be confused with harrumph?)
jonesing
batrachology
hyponatremia
hominy
pozole
onomastics*
escheat
yokel
boteco
scission
prolegomenon ("a prologomenon to recipology" - David Mundie's "Computerized Cooking")
axiology ("recipological axiology" - same source)
recipology*
axonometric
fossicking
effraction (like infraction)
métier
impressionistically
barnstorming (and, in particular, Bernie Sanders doing it)
appliqué
plagioclase
chatouiller
ungulate
qui tam
syllabary
champing* (it's champing at the bit, not *chomping* at the bit) (william safire: "to spell it champing at the bit when most people would say chomping at the bit is to slavishly follow outdated dictionary preferences")
inartful (same safire essay; https://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/04/magazine/on-language-inartful-dodger.html?pagewanted=all)
antinomian
maladaptive
povs* ("popular orange vegetables" - ie carrots, in an instance of gratuitous "elegant variation")
cosmos and taxis
armamentarium
parochial
bolide
whinge
punctilious (TJ's says items subject to change on the whims of punctilious product developers)
scribomechanica**
beringed and bemooned (skyscapes of alien worlds)
vadouvan
garum
gusseted
triune
atavistic
sprat
bijltjesdag
Copacabana
bien pensant
Gutmensch
exurban
prophylactic
lariat
cotillion
equipoise
praenomina
arrhenotokous
wash trade ("it's a wash")
vocable** (a collection of vocables is a vocabulary!! just like vernacles are what make up the vernacular... to be clear, the etymology seems unrelated to st. veronica...)
eke
bouillabaisse
tweeblaarkanniedood
Fumarole
quisling
luminaire
auxetics
bailiwick
krumping
druther
bivouacked
poolish (not “polish”)
credenza (not “cadenza”)
satisficing
Weltanschauung
poka-yoke
epiousios
autopoiesis
doktorvater
internecine
ligne claire
exurb
gyotaku
shambolic
juustolepä
proprioception** (Josh holds up a Mach card with one eye closed during a meeting… iconic…)
repair* (shouldn't it be "repare," like "prepare"? asks Jasper Travers — it turns out to come from the root *pere, in control, which shows up in parasol, empire, viper, and puerperal, among other words)
kleenices* (plural of "Kleenex" as used by Scott Bates in "The Recalcitrant Piece of Mimeograph Paper")
barcarole
puerperal* - of or pertaining to childbirth
immiserating
battement
kaiju
slake
coprolith
Venus' flower basket
lamé
Syntopicon
appurtenances ("I imagine that Michael Jordan is entirely unthreatened by the appurtenances of any else's fame, and least of all by the fame of a fictitious rabbit." - blog.plover.com)
imprimatur
ex parte
monopsony
lazaretto
corundum*
pinafore
plinth
defile (the geological feature)
mishegoss
sedge
ramekins
immunosenescence
epitaxy
querents
simorgh* - from an Escher engraving, "Other World" (1947)
shofar - plural, shofroth!
Procrustes
chanticleer
apparatchiks
maladaptive
acromegaly
stemwinder
luthiers* - violin/guitar makers
analgesia
aspic
psyops
redound (not rebound)
coreligionists
chyron*
gyrfalcon
porquería
nival - snowular
niveous** - snowular (x2)
tertulia** - ter-two-li-yum!!
ayahuasca
majorant
kishōtenketsu
cadastral*
gonfalon
chamois
hyperopic
aspic
exogenous
leonine
bardo
poke (as a noun, a small bag)
pomade
abide, in the sense of "tolerate" - "they abided this"
agita
trousseaux
jones (as a verb)
campanile
belie
asafetida
ayahuasca
couture
brocading
syconium
animadversion
chrestomathy
trattoria
spirulina
foible
bombogenesis
decedent
sacerdotal
neurasthenia
ōllamaliztli
estivation* - two great meanings
laterite
haunches
inured
seersucker
effulgence
harelip
wimple
anthurium
spathes
spadices
cannae
phlox
repartee
baffle tray
entheogen
perfervid
amplituhedron
umarell
salvia (not saliva)
tumescent
sobriquet
balaclava
mangalsutra
tulle
chelation
harrumph
placer (geology)
glower (as a verb)
afikomen
magnapinnid
Verfremdungseffekt
pixilation*
spinthariscope
dimetrodon
librotraficantes
veridical* [from nishad, in relation to illusions]
Bronteroc* [from "Don't Look Up"]
griot
fluence**
cortege
lycanthropy
tunicates
collet
ichnospecies
coprolite*
genchi genbutsu
genba - the actual place
deixis
sarsens
apophasis - Jason suggests to me an inverse inverse problem in rhetoric
limn** - from Toni Morrison's Nobel lecture
efferent and afferent
to sit shiva
limen
presbycusis
chirurgical
autarky
amadinda
scotopic
earball* - verb, as opposed to eyeball, when approximating auditory quantities (from Katherine in 9.35).
anocracy
catamount
syrinx
chupacabra
trīdeksnis (from Community)
omics
chirag lamp
Manichaean
potentate
murmurate (verb, derived from murmuration, i.e. of birds)
columnar, autumnal
New words that appear in the New York Times! https://twitter.com/NYT_first_said
subitize* [someone in lab: "supersize me" -> "subitize me"!]
cotillion
koinozetetics** - "program in controlled speculation" from Mark Mancall
Gömböc
belletristic**
velar
derailleur
is Russian "serebro" ("silver") related to "cerebrum" ("gray matter")?
explananda* - from Nic Fish's paper (I first think it's a made-up word for explanation + agenda/propaganda)
thanatology
Chinsekikan* - Japanese hall of curious rocks (i.e. face-like rocks)
nadir
kayfabe
mofussil
banrakas** - from Panchayat!
anuloma and prathiloma
fontanelle
tontine
banderilleros (from "The Story of Ferdinand")
picadors
fartlek* = fart (speed) + lek (play), from Swedish
zydeco* (etymology - possibly from mispronunciation of French "les haricots")
chicane
arroz mamposteao
scholium
neonicotinoids
cryptid
aardwolf*
bovibes** ("meadow empty, bovibes only")
eristic
impresario
salvific*
impasto
grisaille
karoshi, gwarosa
caravanserai
papasan and mamasan
mawkish
rioja
cipollini*
frangipani
katabatic
salsify - not a verb
serge
croup
haint
ideographic
nomothetic*
nonavian
pronkstilleven*
dray
hominy
bulimic
potemkin (“Dr. Patemkin” in a Leverage Season 1 episode, The Juror #6 Job)
Hatsuyume
juba
gloaming
rout
choropleth
brazilian anomaly (jake’s satellite story)
recumbent
suffonsify / sophonsify
flânerie
funambulist*
inosculation* - like the loopy tree at ResMo
pronking*
filofax
recumbent
mångata** - moon road, like Minnaert’s and Monet’s sunsets
occlupanid** - bread tag
occlupantology
susurration
soteriological
sybaritic
peccadilloes
lagom - Swedish word found in the Mermaid.js documentation
ganzfeld* - from Seth of course
kvetching
suborn
sciography*
tarachopia
distended
paraprosdokian
isopraxism
vituperative
cartouches
compline
otamatone amigurumi* - from Sonja's Etsy
aleatoric
depredations
revanchism*
petrichor* - from the NYT story about the guy on the sidewalk on a rainy day
capoeira
salvia
cairn
autarkic
pentimento
charette (from Ivan Sutherland's "Technology and Courage")
illeism* (from Stephen Frug's website)
regnant
enchiridion
komorebi - Japanese word for light streaming through trees (what graphics people call "god rays"?)
petiquettulous
aliesthesia
cepstrum
caladium
Svengali
Crick, creak, crack, croak. Zizzy, uncanny, pebble-tapping, lusty, pule. Ventriloquial, tantara, feminine, crepitate. Tintinnabulation, sough, devil’s tattoo. Sparrowy.** (from https://daily.jstor.org/what-it-sounds-like-when-doves-cry/)
eggcorn
neotenize
panicle** - from our lilac date
omphaloskepsis** - from the scripps spelling bee, but also thinking about M and lint
obstreperously
outré
ordure
nolo contendere
parquetry
Frantumaglia*
amanuensis
andamento** (and tesserae)
sessile
lambent*
thanatos
crewelwork
concupiscence
glutinous
caryatid
vivisection
nubile
transom
dipsomaniac
sybarites
spirochete
frisson
fumaroles
ordure
coprolites
spinnaker
postlapsarian
sisal
prognathous
priapic
fontanel
non compos mentis
theodicy
diaphanous
hira hira
incipient
rowel
withers (noun, part of a horse)
cantle
concomitant
covetous
quoit
rococo
gelid
stevedoring
phocomelia
cummerbund
peccadillo
macramé
apocatasis
puissant
Laocoönian
cheroot
insipidities
Torquemadan
kibitz
colicky
gravamen*
supine
sacrum
putrescence
gimcrack
lycanthropic
velour
mentation
palomino
geegaws
macaronic
paronomasia* (from Jakobson)
stodgy
pleonastic*
divagation
Zwischenraum* - from Where do you Stop
drumlin
esker
esculent
stein
bouillabaisse
mythopoeia
sybaritic
hypnagogic
hypergolic
parturition
anacrusis
eisegesis and exegesis
pomology
abomasum
incunabulum
periphrastic locutions (from Laura's paper on "Finding New Facts")
sarcoma
niksen
zanshin - personal awareness (Eliot from Leverage)
cruciverbalist* - andrea, about M
persiflage**
mereology - from Laurie Paul's website
eleemosynary
semasiology
lacteal (milkular)
inutile
epagomenale*
otiose
luthier
engram
trismegistically** (from Scott Bates' bird Christmas poem)
myriahedral** (map projections!)
oenophile
unctuous
stentorian
apodictic
lucubrate
viatical
precocial
altricial
nidifugous
nidicolous
therianthropic
doxastic
encomiums
cascarones (confetti eggs)
anamnesiologist - "i study what has been forgotten"
rustic** - from izabele. useful to reign in perfectionism.
anomie
canthal
kluver constant
decanal
Calcareous
Transects
acker** - from the spelling bee 2025 - patch of ruffled water!
lalapalooza* (labapalooza!)
simoniac
breviary
palaver
imprecation
embrasure 
thigmotactic - following the wall as an anxious prey animal would
tenseless - LA paul
akrasia - from an SPP talk
estuarial
ineluctable
neoteny
shrubbification
hock (of ham) - from rosie aboody
edaphology - the study of the soul's influence on living things (from a poem by Irène Mathieu)
pedology - the study of how soul is formed, its particular granularity (from the same poem)
lubricious
otiose
purslane* - from "feet" by Ross Gay
fleckerl - from MIT ballroom dancing
bailiwick
karass
allusive (not elusive)
fartlek - from Matt
omphaloskepsis - from Gilbert
grenadine
argot
holotype*
wainscoting
in flagrante delicto**
susurrus* (from a susan glickman poem)
spatchcocking
unergative verb
esculent
gim crackery 
anticrepuscular rays** - from Travis
flâneur
marver
sedges
from Yael: titkhadesh** תתחדש
transdescendence - jean wahl (via NYT article on snow)
Pasalubong - T.
sequelae
fixity
amanuensis
prusten - Valmik Thapar
pelargonium
creosote
ferruginous
rodomontade
oblati
decalage
terra silva - from herz
сугроб (pile of snow) - from a Providence-area student newspaper, "The Indy," 52-02