Really Odd Words!
SORRY, NO PICTURESBUT THE WORDS ARE REALLY ODD!
A
abacinate To blind by putting a hot copper basin near someone's eyes
abderian Given to incessant or idiotic laughter
abecedarian A person who is learning the alphabet
abligurition Excessive spending on food and drink
accubation The practice of eating or drinking while lying down
adoxography Skilled writing on an unimportant subject
aeolist A pompous windy bore who pretends to have inspiration
agelast A person who never laughs
agerasia The state of looking younger than one actually is
agraffe The wire that holds the cork in a champagne bottle
algerining Prowling around with the intent to commit burglary
alphamegamia The marriage between a young woman and an older man
anopisthography The practice of writing on one side of the paper
autohagiographer One who speaks or writes in a smug fashion about their own life and accomplishments
autolatry The worship of one's self
autotonsorialist One who cuts their own hair
B
bathykolpian Deep-bosomed
batrachophagous One who eats frogs
blandiloquent Speaking in a flattering or ingratiating manner
bletcherous Pertaining to something poorly or disgustingly designed
bombilate To loudly hum or buzz continuously
borborygmus The rumbling sound of gas passing through the intestine
brevirostrate Having a short nose
bromidrosis Strongly smelling perspiration
brontide The low rumbling of distant thunder
C
cachinnation Loud or hysterical laughter
cacoethes A bad habit or insatiable urge
cagamosis An unhappy marriage
cancatervate To heap up into a pile
capernoited Slightly intoxicated or tipsy
causeuse A sofa built for two people
charientism An artfully veiled insult
cheiloproclitic Being attracted to a person's lips
chirotonsor An alternate title for a barber
cleptobiosis The act of plundering food
clithridiate Key-hole-shaped
colposinquanonia Estimating a woman's beauty based on her chest
concilliabule A secret meeting of people who are hatching a plot
cruciverbalist One who loves doing crossword puzzles
D
dactylion The tip of the middle finger
dactylonomy Counting using one's fingers
decubitis The act or attitude of lying down
defenestrate To throw out of a window
dehisce To burst open, as the pod of a plant
dentiloquent Pertaining to one who talks through their teeth
dephlogisticate To make something fireproof
digamy A second marriage after the death or divorce of a previous spouse
dippoldism The act of beating or whipping school children
dompteuse A woman who trains animals
E
eccedentesiast One who fakes a smile, as on television
estrapade A horses's attempt to remove its rider
exsibilation The collective hisses of a disapproving audience
F
farctate The state of being stuffed with food (overeating) filipendulous Suspended by a single thread floccinaucinihilipilification The categorising of something that is useless or trivial fuscoferuginous Having a dark rusty colour G gambrinous Being full of beer gargalesis Heavy tickling gargalesthesia The sensation caused by tickling ginglyform Hinge-shaped gongoozler An idle spectator gossypiboma A surgical sponge accidently left inside a patient's body gowpen A double handful grapholagnia The urge to stare at obscene pictures gymnophoria The sensation that someone is mentally undressing you H hadeharia The practice of constantly using the word "Hell" in speaking hamartithia Being likely to make a mistake hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian Pertaining to extremely long words honorificabilitudinitatibus With honour I inaniloquent Speaking foolishly or saying silly things interfenestration The space between two windows J jentacular Pertaining to breakfast jumentous Smelling like horse urine K knismesis Light tickling krukolibidinous The act of staring at someone's crotch kyphorrhinos Having a nose with a bump in it L lalochezia The use of foul or abusive language to relieve stress or ease pain lethologica The inability to recall a precise word for something liripip The long tail of a hood in medieval or academic costume lygerastia The condition of one who is only amorous when the lights are out M maledicent One who is addicted to abusive speech mallemaroking The carousing of seamen on board Greenland whaling ships mammothrept A child who is raised and spoiled by their grandmother maritodespotism Tyrranical rulership of a woman by her husband matronolagnia An attraction to older women, especially ones who have children misocapnist One who hates the smell of tobacco smoke misodoctakleidist Someone who hates practicing the piano mulligrubs A state of depression or low spirits mumpsimus One who sticks obstinately and wrongly to their old ways mytacism The incorrect or excessive use of the letter M N nelipot Someone who walks without shoes nepheligenous Producing clouds of tobacco smoke nidorosity Belching with the taste of undigested meat nudiustertian Pertaining to the day before yesterday O oculoplania Letting one's eyes wander while assessing someone's charms onychophagy The habit of biting one's fingernails P pandiculation Stretching and yawning before going to bed or after waking up petrichor The smell of rain on dry ground philosophunculist One who pretends to know more than they do to impress others pogonotomy The act of cutting a beard polyphloisboian Making a lot of noise or loud racket preantepenultimate Fourth from last prosopography The description of a person's appearance psithurism The sound of wind in trees or rustling leaves pyknic Short and fat Q qualtagh The first person you see after leaving your house quidnunc One who always wants to know what is going on quomodocunquize To make money by any means possible R recumbentibus A knockout blow, either verbal or physical runcation The act of weeding S sabrage The act of opening a bottle with a sabre saprostomous Having bad breath scacchic Pertaining to the game of chess, or to chess pieces sciapodous Having huge feet scolecophagous One who eats worms sgiomlaireached The habit of dropping in at mealtimes skoptsy The act of self castration slubberdegullion A filthy, slobbering person sphallolalia Flirtatious talk that leads nowhere steatopygic Having a fat behind strikhedonia The pleasure of being able to say to hell with it T tachyphagia Fast eating tarantism An urge to overcome melancholy by dancing tetrapyloctomy The act of splitting a hair four ways thelemic Permitting people to do as they like tibialoconcupiscent Having a lascivious interest in watching a woman put on stockings U ulotrichous Having very wooly hair ultracrepidarian Of one who speaks or offers opinions on matters beyond their knowledge usufructuary A person who has use or enjoyment of something, especially property V ventripotent Big-bellied, gluttonous vesthibitionism The flirtatious display of undergarments by a woman vigesimation The act of killing every twentieth person viraginity Masculine qualities in a woman W wanweird An unhappy fate witzelsucht A feeble attempt at humour X xenobombulate To malinger xerophagy A diet of bread and water ximelolagnia The urge to stare at women who are sitting with crossed legs xylopolist One who sells wood products Y yclept By the name of; called Z zenzizenzizenzic A number raised to the eighth power