My favourite word is SUCCINCT

discombobulate

collywobbles

Wheelbarrow

Mollycoddle

Juxtaposition

Has anyone ever contemplated the fact that the word "monosyllable" isn't one?

Shovel
Firepans
Coals
Pots

Crackling
Bev.

Sleekit, serendipity, onomatopœia

mine are :
-clement
-plasmolysed (in my biology class)

How do you get this letter?

And why "abbreviate" is such a long word?




I think it's Terry Pratchett who writes that there should be a word for words that sound like something would sound like if it made a sound, even though it doesn't

i.e. words like glint, glisten - which sound like, if "glinting" made a sound, it would sound like glint!

The longest word in english is supposed to be floccinaucinihilipilification. (Setting little or no value)

Another long one is disestablishmentarianism.


But I like the sound of the word Spank !

Oooh I say...

I like the old fashioned medical words:

Dropsy
Laudanum
Tincture
Apothecary
Distemper
Gargoylism

etc. etc

Deciduous
Delectable
Eloquent
Phlegmatic
Whimsical

They all kind of flow quite well...

~Wobby~

Great thread!!

I missed lugubrious, which doesn't have a very cheerful meaning but is like a mouthful of chocolate mousse to say!

Do you suffer from Gargoylism then ?????

No, but I know someone who does!!!

my favourite word is municipal.

I also like obelisk

My favourite word is melancholy, I just like the way it sounds!!!

incontrovertibly, procrastination must be there
the ---athy words, such as: apathy, empathy, sympathy.

Tumbril


and many more in this beautiful language of ours.

Extemporaneous is a nice word.

Zenzizenzizenzic.

OK, you got me: what does that mean? Or did you just make it up cos it looks pretty?

YumYum!!!!

Daisy xxx

Much as I like making up words, this one's real. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzizenzizenzic

That is just too cool!

I am most impressed!!

mine too

MELANCHOLY!! One day I'll find out what it means

My favourite word is music

I know - it's the coolest word ever! (It should have a much more exciting meaning...)

We could always make up a more exciting meaning!!

Ooh, can we? Haha. We should think of a nice musical meaning...

Nice one!

hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

A fear of long words!
imagine having it and having to tell people "i have hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia."

At the bottom of the article it says that it has more Zs than any other known word in the english language. I wasn't aware that there were any unknown ones.

It wouldn't surprise me over much if there are some languages which have not been studied/written down, or possibly that have not even been deciphered or even encountered by "the world at large". So while all languages I guess will be known to somebody, there may be languages that are considered unknown in the same sense that the New World was once considered unknown even though the Native Americans knew it quite well.

But the English language?

Sorry, misread your post

No idea - what does it mean by known? Does a word that someone made up that is used throughout their town but not yet in the OED count as "in the English language"?

Pass!

I suppose it depends how you define the English language - if you say it is the language of the English people then it would be impossible to record all the words in use all over the country.

What I find interesting is you can have a group of words that end in the same letters, where those letters are pronounced differently:

eg. bough, cough, dough, tough, through...

Erudite; which some people no doubt think is a type of glue.

I like simple words at the moment like;

boat (just like it)
oil (as in paint)
Zinzin (french for crazy)
violin (of course )


and 'solipsism' is growing on me

One of my favorite words as well

I like hubris too, it sounds as bad as what it is

zwitterion

Not one I get to use in everyday conversation though...

syzygy

Hm like Maizies rather uncommon zwitterion, there are some nice words in the Chemical Industry in which I work.

I rather like Benzotriazole, chlorhexidine (maybe in your mouthwash), cocoamidopropylbetaine (probably in your shampoo), dimethylcocamineoxide (in your thickened bleach). All of these I supply !

They remind me of a lovely word I used to need to say regularly a few years ago but which I've now forgotten - it began with poly and contained acryloritrilebutadiene (I think!) and it was normally abbreviated to PXX but I've forgotten the initials as well I'm afraid I don't suppose you know what I mean, do you F#???