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abacinate: To blind by holding a red-hot metal rod or plate before the eyes

abderian: Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment.

abecedarian: One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.

abligurition: Prodigal expense for food.

accubation: The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.

adoxography: Good writing on a minor subject.

agelast: one who never laughs; a mirthless person

agerasia: An outward appearance more youthful than one's true age

agraffe: A clasp consisting of a hook which fastens on to a ring.

autolatry: The worship of oneself.

bathykolpian: deep bosomed.

blandiloquent: Describing mild, flattering speech

borborygmus: A rumbling sound made by the movement of gas in the intestines heard from a distance.

brevirostrate: Short-beaked; having a short bill.

bromidrosis: Fetid or foul-smelling perspiration. Also called osmidrosis.

cachinnation: Convulsive, loud laughter.

cacoethes: compulsion; mania

charientism: A figure of speech wherein a taunting expression is softened by a jest; an insult veiled in grace.

cheiloproclitic: having an erotic attraction to a person's lips

cruciverbalist: A person who constructs crosswords

dactylonomy: The use of one's fingers to express numbers.

decubitis: Inflammations cause by a reclined position of the body; it often refers to the complications of bed-ridden patients such as bed sores.

defenestrate: To eject or throw (someone or something) from a window.

dehisce: To burst or split open at definite places, discharging seeds, or pollen, or other contents, as the ripe pods of some plants.

dephlogisticate: To take away the phlogiston, i.e. ability to burn, which is now understood to be chemically impossible

emunction: The act of blowing one's nose.

farctate: The state of having overeaten.

filipendulous: Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.

floccinaucinihilipilification: The act or habit of describing or regarding something as worthless.

gambrinous: Drunk; full of beer.

gongoozler: Someone who gongoozles (who watches boats go by, or stands by and watches things without participating.)

gossypiboma: A gauze or surgical sponge left inside a patient's body during surgery.

gowpen: A bowl made of two hands cupped together.

hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian: Of or pertaining to extremely long words[1].

honorificabilitudinitatibus: The state of being able to achieve honours

inaniloquent: Tending to speak profusely; loquacious; garrulous

jentacular: Of or pertaining to a breakfast taken early in the morning, or immediately on getting up.

jumentous: Of, relating to, or smelling like horse urine.

lethologica: The inability to remember the correct word.

maledicent: ((archaic)) one who enjoys using slanderous language

mallemaroking: carousing on icebound Greenland whaling ships.

mammothrept: a spoilt child

mulligrubs: colic

mumpsimus: A person who obstinately adheres to old ways in spite of clear evidence that they are wrong; an ignorant and bigoted opponent of reform.

mytacism: excessive or incorrect use of the letter M

nelipot: ? One without shoes.

nudiustertian: Of the day before yesterday.

onychophagy: the habit of biting one's nails

pandiculation: A stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and drowsy or on waking, often accompanied by yawning.

petrichor: The scent of rain on earth after a dry spell

preantepenultimate: [1]preantepenult[1]

prosopography: a study of the individuals in a group of people within a specific context and their relationships

pyknic: A short, thickset person characterised by thick neck, large abdomen and relatively short limbs; a mesomorph.

qualtagh: the first individual a person meets after exiting his or her house

quidnunc: Someone who attempts to know all that happens, but who is not careful of the facts.

sabrage: The opening of a bottle, normally of champagne, by slicing off the bottle's neck with a sabre sword.

scacchic: Of or related to chess

slubberdegullion: A filthy, slobbering person; a sloven, a villain, a fiend, a louse.

sphallolalia: Flirtatious talk that leads nowhere.

tachyphagia: Excessively rapid eating or bolting of food

tarantism: An extreme urge to dance, popularly thought to have been caused by the bite of a tarantula and prevalent in southern Italy in the 15th through 17th centuries.

ulotrichous: Having woolly or crispy hair

ultracrepidarian: Of a critic, giving opinions on something beyond his or her knowledge.

usufructuary: Of or pertaining to a usufruct.

ventripotent: Having a big belly.

xerophagy: A restrictive diet (of bread and water, for example) as a punishment or religious form of discipline.

xylopolist: A seller or purveyor of fine woods.

yclept: Called, named.

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