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56 Unusual Words

japhett:

  1. Agelast — a person who never laughs
  2. Autolatry — the worship of one’s self
  3. Autotonsorialist — the one who cuts his own hair
  4. Basorexia — an overwhelming desire to neck or kiss
  5. Batrachophagous — a person who eats frogs
  6. Blandiloquent — to speak in a flattering manner
  7. Bombilate — to loudly hum or buzz continuously
  8. Borborygmus — the rumbling sound of passing gas through the intestine
  9. Bromidrosis — strongly smelling perspiration
  10. Cachinnation — loud or hysterical laughter
  11. Callipygean — having a well-shaped butt
  12. Capernoited — slightly tipsy
  13. Cataglottism — French kissing
  14. Cheiloproclitic — being attracted to a person’s lips
  15. Dactylion — the tip of the middle finger
  16. Dactylonomy — counting using one’s fingers
  17. Dippoldism — the act of whipping or beating school children
  18. Eccedentesiast — the one who fakes a smile
  19. Farctate — the state of being stuffed with food
  20. Gambrinous — being full of beer
  21. Gargalesthesia — the sensation caused by tickling
  22. Grapholagnia — the urge to stare at obscene pictures
  23. Gymnophoria — the sensation that someone is mentally undressing you
  24. Hadeharia — the practice of constantly using “hell” in speaking
  25. Inaniloquent — saying silly things
  26. Jentacular — breakfast
  27. Krukolibidinous — the act of staring at someone’s crotch
  28. Lalochezia — the use of foul and abusive language to relieve stress
  29. Lethologica — the inability to recall the precise word for something
  30. Maledicent — a person who’s addicted to abusive speech
  31. Misocapnist —  a person who hates the smell of tobacco smoke
  32. Nelipot — someone who walks without shoes 
  33. Nepheligenous — producing clouds of tobacco smoke 
  34. Nudiusterian — pertaining to the day before yesterday
  35. Onychophagy — the act of biting someone’s fingernails
  36. Pandiculation — stretching and yawning before going to bed or after waking up
  37. Philosophunculist — one who pretends to know more than they do to impress others
  38. Psithurism — the sound of wind in trees or rusting leaves
  39. Pyknic — short and fat
  40. Quidnunc — a person who always wants to know what’s going on
  41. Recumbentibus — a knockout blow, either physical or verbal
  42. Saprostomous — having a bad breath
  43. Sciapodous — having large feet 
  44. Sphallolalia — a flirtatious talk that leads to nowhere
  45. Tachyphagia — fast eating
  46. Tarantism — the urge to overcome melancholy by dancing
  47. Ulotrichous — having very woolly hair
  48. Ventripotent — big-bellied, gluttonous
  49. Vesthibitionism — the flirtatious display of undergarments by a woman
  50. Viraginity — masculine features in a woman 
  51. Wanweird — unhappy fate
  52. Witzelsucht — a feeble attempt at humor
  53. Xerophagy — a diet of bread and water
  54. Ximelolagnia — the urge to stare at a woman who is sitting with crossed legs
  55. Yclept — by the name of; called
  56. Zenzizenzizenzic — a number raised to the eighth power

(Source: unique-orn)