Favourite words found

[Naboka]

Funny story: my husband is from South Dakota and shortly after he came here, said (I do not remember exactly what is was about, I think it was cold coffee) “can’t you just nuke it?”. I was stunned and asked “where the heck did you learn THAT word”. Some confusion on both sides followed .

That's so funny.

Assume you're either from the Netherlands or speak Dutch.

We had a German foregeign exchange student. Really handsome kid. Very, very popular with the girls. My wife said something along the lines of "I think it's mushy." His eyes got wide. He paused for a bit, then asked if we knew what "muschi" meant in German.

Language can be hilarious.

And problematic.

Even with two people speaking the same language from the same region in the same household seldom know what the other really means.

Ask my wife.

(Would say ask me, but word on the street is that I "don't know what I'm talking about.")

[bwt1213]

I also mentioned in another thread: DOGGO counts, and I love it.

That's been around forever. I remember it from my childhood, where someone "lying doggo" meant that someone was lying very peacefully, usually with the intention of hiding.

[mcdonna]

Got frustrated. I had found "SUPER" and "ATIONS" in a board but couldn't figure out how to connect them. Finally as a joke I made "SUPERINFEUDATIONS" and was shocked to find out that it is a word. Superinfeudation is "the establishment of a feudal estate from smaller ones held by vassals." Of course! I should have known.

[DrPlacebo]

EXOPHTHALMOSES - just before time ran out! I still enjoy finding medical terms that aren't piles of common English prefixes and suffixes.

[GildaLily]

FLIMFLAMMERY

[BoggleOtaku]

Kinnikinnick, crazy looking board, with even more c's etc., but couldn't figure out the spelling in time.

[Naboka]

Read this word sometime in the preceding decades, used to describe the millions of workers in society who produced and reproduced, but...basically lived meaningless lives.

Seemed like a term fit for an Ayan Rand novel.

Echoing Thoreau's comment about most men living lives of quiet desperation.

Had Thoreau lived in a less sexist time, he probably would have included women.

It's actually a term for wingless worker-like ants of either sex who are capable of reproduction.

Those who can produce and reproduce but will never fly.

For some reason, it's stuck with me-- probably because In my mind it immediately conjoined with "heavens to murgatroyd!" An expression that we used for hilarity as kids.

Part of the mnemonic muddle of my mind.

It won't supplant oont as the loveliest word on Wordtwist, but...

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[NukeProofCakePops]

'papyrological': having to do with the study of ancient writings on papyrus

love me some ancient papyri

[lalatan]

Good find NukeProofCakePops. I read the word before but never saw it in a puzzle. I just found NANOLITHOGRAPHICAL. Love me some nanolithography but I can't read it as easily as your papyri.

[Naboka]

Always on the hunt for new word possibilities.

Here's one for the 5x5ers: tectonostratigraphy. Too many letters for 4x4.

Though lithostratigraphy is just right.

Maybe, just maybe.

ps: the wife and I are watching a delightful show on Netflix: Extraordinary Attorney Woo. About a young autistic female genius. Korean with subtitles.

Also been watching Love On The Spectrum. Both shows very insightful.

[DrPlacebo]

MONOUBIQUITINATIONS. I'm not going to forget that word any time soon, because the professor for my introductory molecular biology class in college spent far too much time talking about his own area of research, namely ubiquitin.

[crazykate]

I just found the word PERIPATETICISM (20 pts.) on a board that hat been played 16 times, and the best/longest word records stuck at 12 points/7 letters.
I credit Calvin and Hobbes for my knowledge of this word. The only time I've ever come across the word "peripatetic" was in a Calvin and Hobbes comic where Calvin asks, quite out of the blue, "what if someone calls us 'a pair of pathetic peripatetics?'"
I had to look it up, never used it since.

[kittencaboodle]

Once I've played a board I'll sometimes run it through a solver to see what long words I've missed. Lately what's been coming up are ever more obscure bits of medical and scientific equipment! I mean I guess if you play around with the elements you might hit on them. I used to be quite good at some of the more science-y words but, really, these will be words known only to a tiny handful of specialists. Good luck everyone!

[Railroader66]

Hi there! When I'm typing there are times when the typing is interrupted and no longer happening. I have to re-click on the typing space to start up again. I replaced my keyboard thinking that might solve the problem but it did not. Does this happen to anyone else and is there a way to avoid it from happening? I get really frustrated. Thanks ahead of time for your input.

[bwt1213]

Hi there! When I'm typing there are times when the typing is interrupted and no longer happening. I have to re-click on the typing space to start up again. I replaced my keyboard thinking that might solve the problem but it did not. Does this happen to anyone else and is there a way to avoid it from happening? I get really frustrated. Thanks ahead of time for your input.

Yes. Happens to me all the time -- but, oddly, only when I'm playing this game. I thought I was doing it by clumsily striking a wrong key.