[Closed] Lovely words

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

Petulant just sounds right.

And there's anastomosing and imbricate.

Frangible
Moist
Crevice

Content (as in the state of being, as opposed to stuff that resides within something)

Spigot

And for the German speakers: lebensmittelgeschäft

Oh - and a big +1 for both flange and fettle

Churlish
Inchoate
Vicissitudes

Flummoxed
Bamboozled
Cretin

fodder