Words of Wonder

The Blogstats suggest, that many of you enjoy a fine fifty-dollar word,

relished after dinner,

with a good cigar and an aged brandy.

So here is a ... florilegium, of available vocables; 

simply paste one into the search box (upper left)

and enjoy.

aboutness
aetiological

akribia
algebraic geometry

allochthone
amanuenses
amatory

Amazonomachy
amblyopia
anaetiology
anagnorisis
anagogic
analysand
anastomoses
anathemetized
Anglicè
anomie
antecedently
antinomy
ἀπείρων
apocatastasis
apophatic
apophthegm

apophthegmatic
apotheosis

arachnophilic
aspirated
associativity
asyndetically
atavistic

attritely
autological
autolytic
axiomatics

beguiling
belletristically
bemusement
beyonden
bibliocide
bijection
bivalences
blivit
bricolage

bushmeat
byword

callipygean

See something you like, sailor?

calque
canted
capewise
capybara
catagogic
catchphrase
categoricity
cathexis
caviary
centicidal
chalking
chary
cherubim
chevaliers
chiral
clausules
cleidoic
clerihew
cloacal
cockades
combinatorialist
commutator
compactification
compartmented
complexus
conjugate space
consciencectomy
consilience
contavenient

CONUS

contrapposto
cordate
cortices
cosmogony
counterintuitive
countertransference
coven
craftily
criticasters
cryppies
cryptomelodia
cryptonym
curating

darkling
definiendum
degeneracies
delphic
deontic
depauperate
desymmetrized
de-transitively
deverbal
dhimmitude
diabolists
diagonalization
differentia
disjecta membra
disputants
dominical

dominionism
doppelgänger
doxology
draught
duality
ducal

duovirpaternity
dustman
dysphemism
dysphemistic

ecdysiast
elative
emerod
empyrean

enantiosemantics

enantiosemantic

ennoösis

enthymeme
entia
epigones
epigrammatize
epiphanically

equinity
equinoctial
equinumerous
erinnyes
eschatological
Euler characteristic
Eurosibérie
Eve-teasing
excipient
excursus
exfoliation
exiguous
exordium
explicandum
exudation
eyrie

fideism
filicide

filicide

fingerpost
flayed
fleetful
fleischig

florilegium
fluxions
folie à deux
foolscap 
foredoomed
frequentive
fugue

fuite en avant
Formalists

Gallicism
gallinaceous

gallinaceous

gander
gasper
gat
gavagai
Gedankenexperiment

gematria
geometer
gewgaw
glossoplastic
glurge
goodthink

grand guignol
graphological
gully-washer
guttersnipe
gynecized

habitus
handmaiden
hapax
heinie

heliology
hemistich
henodemonist 
heteroglossic
heterological 
hippogriff 
hippogriffic
hocus-pocus 
holograph
holophrastically
homologous
homology
homomorphic
homomorphism
homoousian
homunculus 
huffy
hydrodynamics

hypermasculinity
hyperpower 
hypertask 
hyperzoöphiles

ictus
ideation 
idiopathic 
Illuminati
impredicative
incontinently 
incunabula 
infra-theological

inkslinger
instanton 
instrumentalised
intensional

interconfessional
intercrural 
interfertile 
intrabuccal
Intuitionist
invisibilia

ipsigeneric
irredenta

Islamistical
isomelodic 
jongleur 
kinesic

labiodental
lamassu
laryngeals
latitudinarian
leipogrammatic
lemma 
lemmata
leporiform

leporiform

Levant 
lexicogenesis

limbo stick
logicism 
logophiles

logopoeic
louche 
lucubration

Lumpen

Magian
magistricide 
majuscularity
marmotic

marmotic

martingale
masque 
Meinongian 
mentation 
meshugaas
metalanguage

metasilience
metrizable 
mindscape 
mindstock
misandrist 
modularity
modus tollens
monocerous
monoglot
monostich 
monotremes

monotreme

mooncalf
morbido
morphophonemically
morphosemantic
multiverse
musicoidal
myrmecologist
mysterian
mythologem

nates
necessitarian
necromancy
negentropy
nephrophoric
nilpotent 
nisus
nominalism

nonagenarian
noösphere
nosological
noumenon
nugatory 
nunc dimittis

Oahspe

occultation

Ockhamian
oecumene

Islamic oecumene

off-kilter
oligophreniac 
oneiric
onomastic 
onomatolatry
ontological 
oobleck
op 
optative
organon

orismological

orthoëpy

ostensive
overactress
overdetermined
oxytone

palindromic
pangolins
paralogism
paronomasia 
paronyms
parsimony
particularist 
pegasizing
pejoration

penguinity
pharyngealized
phenomenalistic
philology 
phlogiston
piffle 
Pigovian 
Pisgah-glimpse
platonistically
plenum 
plosive 
pluralizable
po-faced
pokey
polyglot
polymath 
polytope
postlapsarian 
precisionism
pre-Conciliar 
pre-tiffen
predicatory 
primordium

proctoscopic
propitiatory 
psycholytic 
psychotropic
puericulture
pyx
qasida 
Realpolitik

Realpolitik

recherché
refulgence
reknitting
renationalization
reticulated
rictus

Robobaby
samizdat

schadenfroh

schlemassel

schrecklichkeit
sciurine

sciurine

scop
self-dual
semiology
sentimentalist
seriatim

sesquipedalian

Shabbos goy
shaveling
shave-pate

shavepate

shibboleth
shibilant
shrills
shrovetide
sirreverence

skald
slammer

"the slammer"

smickling
sniffable
snookered
solifugae
solsticial
sophistical
sortal
sotie
Spheniscidae
stichomythia
sublunary
subspace 
subvocalization

Spheniscidae

 
spinosaurus
starvelings
steganography
Strange Attractor
stress-timed
sublated
sublunary
sullage
supersensible
supervened 
supposititious 
supraluminal
surdity
surveyable
swart
syllogistic
symplectic
syncategorematicity
synsemantic
 

tachyons
taciturnity
tarbaby

taxonomic
tensile

tensor product
tetraglossia
tetrasyllabic
tetrameter
theistic
theologoumenon
theometry
theophobes

theriophilia
thrawn
threnody
topoi
tragoidoscopy
transfinite
transgalactic
Triduum
triune
triskelion

triskelion

troche
twit

umlauts
unchurched
unisonous 

valetudinarian
Victimology
viviparous
vocalic

wazzock

wazzock

whipperginnie
winsome
wordsmithery
zeitgeistlich

zoögraphy

And, some (novel, non-lexicalized, or foreign) phrases:

  Banach-Tarski paradox
  labio-ludic

  lèse-shariah

  mother structures
  multimorphemic wordclump

  obligate-anglophone

  red mercury

  repetition compulsion

  salvâ veritate
  sauber getrennt 

  solipsism-à-deux

solipsism-à-deux

  sub specie aeternitatis

  takfiricidal aviatrix

  tentacularly octopodal

tentacularly octopodal

  tertium gaudens

[Update 23 February 2015]  My colleague Commander Buckwalter writes in:

mot du jour:  « djoumloukiates » 

Début de la fin des djoumloukiates arabes.(بداية نهاية الجملكيات العربية) Liste des dictateurs arabes... au suivant !

... les «djoumloukiates » des pantins-dictateurs...

The term caught my attention because it appears to be used mostly in Algeria (first used by someone writing for lequotidienalgerie.org, whose article was reposted on other Algerian sites). Evidently the term was coined by Saad Eddin Ibrahim around 2002. Juan Cole got the etymology half right: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/saads_revolution_20110131

Not related, but amusing: To defeat robots, websites post things like:

    Are you Human? 8+9= You must enter the number 17 in the box below. 

which strikes me as something a robot can easily solve.

That last is disturbing.  Such elementary challenges were put to defeat limited webbot intelligence;  but apparently humans themselves can no longer be relied upon to solve things like “8 + 9 =”.