Showing posts with label big words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label big words. Show all posts

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Big Words (continued from the phobia list)

Big Words. What pops in your head what you hear that. for me?  supercallafragilisticsexbealladocious I didn't even look it up so i'm pretty sure that it is spelled incorrectly.

here are some of my favorite big words
Sanctimonious: Making a show of being morally superior to other people, or being a totally jerk.
Not caring about other people, only yourself
Incomprehensibleness: Impossible to know or fathom.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippediliophobia: The fear of long words.
Okay I know this is totally boring but I'm bored. I went on google and just copied and pasted these. ha ha, the definitions probably aren't even right

Honorificabilitudinitatibus: The state being able to achieve honors.
Circumbilivagination: The definition of this word is not yet out.
Pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism: The false support of the idea that a government should not support the church.
Antidisestablishmentarianism: Opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England.
Floccinaucinihilipilification: the action or habit of estimating something as worthless.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis: A lung disease.
Armsaye: the armhole in clothing.

Boanthropy: a type of insanity in which a man thinks he is an ox.

Cachinnation: loud or hysterical laughter.

Dactylion: the tip of the middle finger.

Defenestration: the act of throwing someone or something out a window.

Dibble: to drink like a duck.

Diplasiasmus: the incorrect doubling of a letter when spelling a word.
Flocinaucinihilipiliphication: the action of estimation is worthless.

Fremescence: the grumbling sound of an unhappy mob of people.

Hebephrenic: a condition of adolescent silliness.

Horripilate: to get goose bumps.

Impecunious: having no cash or money.

Lachanophobia: the fear of vegetables.

Librocubicularist: one who reads in bed.

Logorrhea: excessive talking (or verbal diarrhea).

Minimus: little finger or toe.

Misodoctakleidist: someone who hates practicing the piano.

Neanimorphic: looking younger than one's year.

Nostomania: overwhelming homesickness.

Obdormition: numbness caused by pressure on a nerve (when a limb is "asleep").

Oniochalasia: buying as a means of mental relaxation.

Pandiculation: stretching and yawning before going to bed or after waking up.