Uncommon words that you like

It’s not a word. It’s many

Cockney.

Because it means something totally different than what I thought it meant the first time I heard it.

Niggardly
Scoundrel
Furtive
Velocipede
Denture

Debauchery.

flabbergasted

Shenanigans

:slight_smile:

hahaha

Nincompoopery

(Not a real work of course, but well… there it is)

Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism

facetious
defenestrate

con·com·i·tant [kon-kom-i-tuhnt, kuhn-] Show IPA
–adjective
1.
existing or occurring with something else, often in a lesser way; accompanying; concurrent: an event and its concomitant circumstances.

There are a number of words I like, not terribly rare, but not common either.

Absolve
Bulwark
Conflagrate
Deluge
Entropy
Forsake
Glaive
Harbinger
Incendiary
Justify
Klaxon
Lament
Martyrdom
Nostalgia
Osmosis
Paradigm
Qualm
Radula
Sojourn
Temperance
Undulate
Vindicate
Wanton
Yester
Zealot

Damnation!

Candescence. Used in a sentence:

“Rest assured that there is absolutely no chance of a dangerous equipment malfunction prior to your victory candescence.”

Inopportune
adhere
ignorant

Main Entry: re·cal·ci·trant
Pronunciation: -trənt
Function: adjective
Etymology: Late Latin recalcitrant-, recalcitrans, present participle of recalcitrare to be stubbornly disobedient, from Latin, to kick back, from re- + calcitrare to kick, from calc-, calx heel
Date: 1843
1 : obstinately defiant of authority or restraint
2 a : difficult to manage or operate b : not responsive to treatment c : resistant <this subject is recalcitrant both to observation and to experiment — G. G. Simpson>

Considering the forum, your choice-words are inopportune. If you’d stop being ignorant and adhere to reading my posts, you’d see those aren’t uncommon at all!

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Polydactylism

Contrition

con·tri·tion [kuhn-trish-uhn] Show IPA
–noun
1.
sincere penitence or remorse.
2.
Theology. sorrow for and detestation of sin with a true purpose of amendment, arising from a love of god for His own perfections (perfect contrition), or from some inferior motive, as fear of divine punishment (imperfect contrition).
Origin:
1250–1300; ME contricio(u)n (< AF) < LL contrītiōn- (s. of contrītiō). See contrite, -ion

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aminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylglutamylglycylalanylphenylalanyvalyl-
prolylphenylalanylvalythreonylleucylglycylaspartylprolyglycylisoleucylglut-
amylglutaminylserylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleucylglut-
amylalanylglycylalanylaspartylalanylleucylglutamylleucylglycylglycylisoleu-
cylprolylphenylalanylserylaspartylprolylleucelalanylaspartyglycylprolythreo-
nylisoleucylglutamiylasparaginylalanylthreonylleucylarginylalanylphenylalan-
ylalanylglycylvalyltheonylprolylalanylglutaminylcysteinylphenylalanygllutam-
ylmethionylleucyalanylleucylisoleucylarginylglutaminyllysylhistidylprolylthre-
onylisoleucylpriIylisoleucylglycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasparag-
inylleucylvalyphenylalanylasparaginyllysylgyycylisoleucylaspartylglutamylph-
enylalanyltyrosylalanylgutaminyllcysteinylglutamyllysylvalylglycylavlylaspart-
ylserylvalylleucylvalylalanylaspartylvalyprolylvalylglutaminylglutamyllserylal-
anyprolyphenylalanylarginylglutaminylalanylalanylleucylarginylhistidylaspara-
ginylvaylalanylprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucylcysteinylprolylprolylaspart-
ylalanylaspartylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginyglutaminylisoleucylalanyyls-
eryltyrosylglycylarginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylserylarginylal-
anylglycylvalythreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginylarginylanylalanylleucyl-
prolylleucylaspaaginylhistidylleucylvaylalanyllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosyla-
saraginylglycylphenylalanylglycylisoleucylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyl-
lysylalanylalanylisoleucylaspartylalanylalanyglycylalanylalanyglycylalanylisol-
eucylserylglycyserylalanylisoleucylbalyllsylisoleucylisoleucylglutamyyylgluta-
minylhistidylasparaginylisoleucylglutamylprolyglutamyllysylmethionylleucyla-
lanylalanylleucyllysylvalylphenylalabylvalylglutaminlylprolylmethionyllysylala-
nylalanylthreonylarginylserine

Although I hear it used very frequently, I still like it.

I Call Bullshit

https://blisstree.com/feel/the-longest-word-in-the-english-language/

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