[Closed] Lovely words

Moist.

A bit darker but I always loved the meaning.

Posthumous means 'born after the death of your father'

Actually it's Latin and merely means after you're in the ground.

Discombobulated....I try and use it daily

Sunshine.
Warmth.
Beer.

Futtock.

I'll probably never have cause to use it in conversation. Plus, it rhymes with buttock.

When I first read the Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, I loved the way Hans would describe the sick people at the sanatorium he is sent to in the Swiss Alps as the "moribund".

It was the first time I had come across the word and I thought it was a quaint German way of saying someone was "poorly".

My mother was a bit under the weather at one point while I was reading the book, and a neighbour asked how she was. I decided to use my new word and said she was "moribund", thinking it was quite fitting. My neighbour clearly knew what the word meant and appeared to be quite shocked and concerned. After I assured him she would be fine, I disappeared back in the house and puzzled over his reaction.

I thought it may have been the word which spooked him so I googled it.

Moribund means "almost dead"

🙂

Yeah, I appreciate it's Latin.
[url] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/posthumous [/url]

Corrugated
Marmalade
Hippopotamus

[i]Futtock.[/i]

Esselgrunt?

Undulating.

Dunno why I like it. Attracts me to an area.

Tumulus.

A mound or small hill 😀

The word "scorcher" came up a while ago as a term for someone who rides fast, typically while in the "scorching position".
I said at the time I would try to use the word as often as possible, however, I have resolutely failed to do so.
I shall redouble my efforts to use the word at all available opportunities.

I shall also try to use words like resolutely and redouble more often. It makes me sound clever.

"Bendigedig" - my favourite Welsh word.

Cheryl Cole.

A lovely word.
Fills me with joy
A luvverly bird.
I'd fill her with joy.
And other things.
This is not a sonnet.

Nonchalant
Trebuchet

Nemesis.....

Always liked it 8)

Haberdashery

Shortcake
Cheesecake
Cake

"We Have a Match"

[url= http://www.nhsbt.nhs.uk/bonemarrow/ ]Bone Marrow registar[/url]

Ducati Panignale.

Anything Italian. Ferrari do it too.

'Quatropuorte' basically means 'four ports'.

They make engineering sexy 😆

tiramisu

means "pick-me-up"

Buffoon - and you sir are a buffoon

Doris
I call my granddaughter (Ellie) Doris and the lady in my satnav

onomatopoeia
Thingamajig or in German dingsbum.
Serendipity

Meander

onomatopoeia

Nice, but you dont get to use it too often really, or do I need to live in a different world?

The others, I get!

Alighted.

Gloaming

Pootle

Fond
merriment
beer
glokenspiel
whimple

whattyre - Member

Discombobulated....I try and use it daily

Me too, in fact I used it this evening but I'm not going to say in what context

Nipple.

It rolls off the tongue, as it were...

Flange
Sprocket
Giraffe
Boing
Bobbin
Titillate

Wonder what a psychologist would make of that?

Tea?

Crepuscular

Mellifluous

The Drew Barrymore teacher character in Donnie Darko says something along the lines of the two most beautiful words in the English language are 'Cellar Door'. I never quite got that. But they are mentioned in a Lemonheads song, 'It's a Shame About Ray', which is one of my favourites.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellar_door aaaah!

When Kate Humble uttered the words....

'I can't wait to put this in my [i]picked walnut[/i]'

Heavenly 🙂

Favourite word sadly isn't English.

Backpfeifengesicht.

It's brilliant. It means "a face badly in need of a fist". Think Nigel Farage.

Tumescent
Furkle
Corpuscular
Appendage

crenellations has always been a one I like ever since a primary school trip to a castle somewhere.

Numpty

Slartibartfast

incredulousness

I'm well up for the excessive use of vocabulary to fight the good fight.

I love the word sinister, its origins are pretty odd as well.

SueW Bendigedig or its Wenglish counterpart Splendigedig 😆

Rhombus
Mosquito
Exsanguinate

Petrichor - the distinctive scent which accompanies the first rain after a long warm dry spell

from googling Backpfeifengesicht I found [url= http://www.cracked.com/article_17251_the-10-coolest-foreign-words-english-language-needs.html ]this[/url]. Not exactly relevant but interesting...

Archipelago
Dérailleur
All of the areas on the shipping forecast

Militate is a word that I enjoy using in reports instead of the more common but incorrect usage of mitigate.

Maudlin

Got to love a word that sounds like it's definition. You can mix it up with some harshness in a sentence though.

"Stop being so F'kin maudlin" 😀

Muppet :noun:A person of extraordinary lack of capability

Muppetry:adjective: A descriptive term for a fleeting moment (hopefully just fleeting) where Darwinism is not working in your favour

Fettle - either as 'in fine...' or 'my gears need fettling'.

Flange already been mentioned.

Gusset always brings a smile to my face.

Defenestrate.

It means to throw something out of a window.

Dingus. As used by the maintenance engineer at my first workplace to describe anything he couldn't be bothered to use the right word for. For example, pass me the dingus so I can get the nut undone on the dingus.

He had a lovely turn of phrase. Describing doing his national service as a wireless operator for the RAF in norfolk. They'd pitch up to a field near a town, put the ariels up, scan the airwaves for a bit, then declare that storm clouds were brewing, and pull the ariels down as a precaution. And then sunbathe for the afternoon, or take turns to head into the nearest town and sort some girls out 'as fast as you could throw them under me'

Bubble

I've been beaten to the two that came to mind, petrichor and gusset.

Phenomenology

Frugal

I'd like 'onomatopoeia' more if it was 'onomatopoeic' but then it would be a word that has to change to suit it's application. Like a chameleon.

Chameleon

Guatemala is a great word

[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene ]Phosphene[/url]
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorescence ]Phosphorescence[/url]
and
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efflorescence ]Efflorescence[/url]

Duvet

[waves a sueW]

How about [url= http://geology.about.com/od/geoprocesses/ig/slickensides/ ]Slikensides?[/url]

borborygmic

i've alwsys thought Schwarzwaldekirschtorte (sp) to be a spectacular word 🙂

Pocket.

It's just a nice word to say and hear.

'Quatropuorte' basically means 'four ports'.

I like the way 'flange' rolls off the tongue.

And 'Schadenfeude'.

Malarkey

superlative

sure there are a few others out there I like but none come to mind right now..

Oh and Krankenwagen always gives me a smile

I like the word

'Commensurate'

especially when in business correspondence. not sure why.

also words that put together sound pleasing and evoke nice images:

Whelping Basket,

Beer Garden

Cupcake

If we're doing German , then we've got to have
Straßenbahnhaltestelle

I love the way they just stick all the words of the full description together.

Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän.......

Or "Danube steamship company captain."

Schmetterlinge..... Butterfly.

ausgezeichnet

Effervescent. Mellifluent. Probs spelt them wrong tho. Words that sound like what they do on the tin.

periwinkle
glaznost
schadenfreude
feuilleton (French for soap opera)
unravel
circularity
quadrifoglio (as in cloverleaf Alfas, possibly a bit too nerdy to use it in English but hey ho...)

oh and +1 to the quattroporte referring to the number of doors rather than the awesomenezz of the cyliner head. FWIW referring to an estate car as a 'Brake' sounds way cooler in french too. 😀

Omniscient
prescient

Flibbertigibbet

Wookster - Member

Nemesis.....

Always liked it

+1

Do you know what "nemesis" means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible ****... me.

Class!

Disgruntled, especially as it means that presumably one's default state is to be gruntled.

ordure

undulant