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 Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:46 pm
Show off your nerdie-ness by posting words that are longer than ten letters long and their definitions. And yes they have to be real words! If you are going to put a fake word, at least tell us that you made it up.
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:47 pm
First word:
Floccinaucinihilipilification - the act or habit of estimating or describing something as worthless, or making something to be worthless by deprecation
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:48 pm
Second word:
Humuhumunukunukuapua'a - a Hawaiian fish
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:50 pm
Third word:
Ravenousinormity - to have a ravishing hunger or desire for something that has meat in it
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:42 am
Fourth Word:
HONORIFICABILITUDINITATIBUS = honorableness.
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:40 pm
fifth word:
perspicacity: clearness of understanding.
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:55 pm
Deionization-the process by which ions are removed from elements or compounds.
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:58 pm
vicariousness-being unecpected or not following "the usual".
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Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:43 pm
contemplation - the act of thinking
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:12 pm
flibbertigibbet - a chattery or flightly person
The following is a word one of my friends made up.
amazabulonderfistastic- a combination of the words amazing, fabulous, wonderful, idealistic, and fantastic. It is used to describe something that is... all of the words that it's made up of! It's very.... positive.
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:28 pm
inevitabilities- things incapable of being avoided.
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 5:35 am
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust found in volcanoes
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 5:34 pm
Sesquipedalianism: using long words when you can use simpler, shorter ones.
Multiplexator: an electronic system which selects one out of several inputs and passes it directly towards the output.
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:45 pm
Triscadecaphobia: Fear of the number 13.
Indecisive: Unable to make a descision. (me)
Anachronistic: Being in the wrong time (ex: a medieval person with a cell phone.)
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:18 pm
Flabbergasted - As if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise.
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