Best words ever

[Wicked]

Being a vocabulary junkie, I tend to enjoy finding new words and using them. (read: One of my posts used "Quixotic" because I had just learned the word and loved it.)

So here, I figured people should post their top five/ten favorite words so that I don't end up spamming the xat with them. <.<'

So here's mine:

1) Quixotic - Impulsive, unrealistic
2) Flamboyant - "Colorful"
3) Pentheraphobia - Fear of mother-in-law
4) Hobophobia - Fear of bums (yes it exists, lawl)
5) Deluge - To flood/a flood

[Sam]

Well, aren't you a interesting one. I've got some words for you that are my favs.

1) quandary -a state of perplexity or doubt

2) enigma -something hard to understand or explain

3) hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia -fear of long words.

4) anatomy -a branch of morphology that deals with the structure of organisms

5) zephyr -a breeze from the west

[Arja]

My brain isn't working today. Alas, my two favourite words are the following:

Pedantic: Overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning. Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner. Being finicky or picky with language.

Pectoantebrachialis: A muscle found in cats that is just one-half inch wide, and is the most superficial in the pectoral muscles. Origin, manubrium of the sternum, Insertion, in a flat tendon on the fascia of the proximal end of the ulna, Action, draws the arm towards the chest.

[Dai]

5, you say? Alright...

1) Triskaidekaphobia - Fear of the Number 13

2) Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - 'A lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, causing inflammation in the lungs.

3) Taumata-whakatangihanga-koauau-o-Tamatea-haumai-tawhiti-ure-haea-turi-pukaka-piki-maunga-horo-nuku-pokai-whenua-ki-tana-tahu - This is a Maori place name, and one of the longest in the world. It literaally translates to (I kid you not) (IM SERIOUS) "The hill of the flute playing by Tamatea — who was blown hither from afar, had a circumcised penis, grazed his knees climbing mountains, fell on the earth, and encircled the land — to his beloved."

I think I'll leave it there... xD

[Muffin]

Five favourite words, huh?

Well, Dai took two of mine, so here are three:

1) Albutophobia - Fear of Bathing or Cleaning.

2) Flocci­nauci­nihili­pili­fication - The act of deeming something as worthless.

3) Flux - A state of ongoing change.

[Wicked]

Here's a new one:

Omphallophobia -- the fear of belly buttons.

... I'm sorry, but I fear for the English language if that word actually exists.

On a seperate note entirely:

Lucidity.
I have no idea what it means. But that word is awesome.

[Muffin]

Lucidity: clarity; free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression; a lucid state of mind; not confused. Also the state when one is aware they are dreaming.

Because I own Delain's album, Lucidity

[uploaf]

abiogenesis - a spontaneous generation of living matter

Trichotillomania - hair loss from a patient's repetitive self-pulling of hair

acolous - limbless