Favourite words found

[Razorflame]

DENUCLEARISATIONS and GRAMMATICALIZATIONS were both found by me. DENUCLEARISATIONS was fun to find, and I haven't had GRAAMATICALIZATIONS before, so I decided to keep that and will keep that as my word for the month, unless I find a board with a 40+ point word I haven't found yet.

[lalatan]

Nice find DrP! I was pretty sure I played that about 2 weeks ago so I searched my word finds folder. it was actually last Oct 25! (Time and words fly when you're having fun, I guess. ) What I found 2 weeks ago was actually a related topic: PROLETARIANNESSES.

[DrPlacebo]

BOURGEOISIFICATION. I actually saw BOURG- and -IFICATION and guessed at the rest. (Also guessed BOURGEOIS from seeing only part of the word.)

Pretty sure I've gotten points for BOUGIE before, but it wasn't on this board.

[Spike1007]

kate, This sounds fair. The next time I see LYSOGENIZATIONS, I'll get it (maybe) and you'll get TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA. Let me know...

[crazykate]

kate, LYSOGENIZATIONS is a great word. I can imagine finding -GENIZATIONS, and then trying to tack something onto the front of it. Whether LYSO- would occur to me, I have no idea. (I don't know the word, but that's where you go for whatever you can find.)

That's exactly what happened, spike!
I think "oxygenization" wasn't quite there and I tried different combinations until I landed on LYSO-.

Triskaidekaphobia is a great word! I'm not sure I'd have recognized it on a board, but you never know.

[Spike1007]

kate, LYSOGENIZATIONS is a great word. I can imagine finding -GENIZATIONS, and then trying to tack something onto the front of it. Whether LYSO- would occur to me, I have no idea. (I don't know the word, but that's where you go for whatever you can find.)

I forget who here introduced me to the QUATTUOR- prefix & what word it was part of. Whoever you are, thanks!

By the way, one of my all-time favorite words here was TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA (fear of the number 13). I've only run across that twice. The first time, I was sure it was there, but didn't remember how it was spelled & just couldn't put it together. I looked it up, and was ready (more or less) for the next time. I got it then, but haven't seen it since.

[lalatan]

Spike, I've played that word for records a few times over the last year. DrP blazed the trail for me with that one. There'd be about a quattuordecillionth of a chance of me ever coming up with that one on my own. I usually misspelled the prefix once or twice before I got it right. But now I finally have it straight in my head by pronouncing it phonetically.

The first time I saw it I looked up QUATTUORDECILLION: 1. a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 45 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 84 zeros. adj. 2. amounting to one quattuordecillion in number. Quite a disparity in value between the UK and US! Thank God for scientific notation.

Nice find, kate!

[crazykate]

Today I found LYSOGENIZATIONS. Wasn't sure that was a real word until it got accepted.

[Spike1007]

I found that again, but it was on a board where I'm pretty sure that lalatan had already found it. I'm trying to take only new words this month, but there, I couldn't help myself. I liked it so much that I took it.

[Razorflame]

I think my current favorite word that I have seen found (I have not found it) was found by Spike as QUATTUORDECILLIONTHS? Pretty interesting

[Spike1007]

I didn't really have a choice. I started with DAMMER, stared a little bit, and saw that it was preceded by a GOTTER. That rang a bell, and I saw that if I put those together, I could add the -UNG. There was an S after that. I didn't have much faith in it, but I typed it. Anyway, I've gotten "better" words this month, but nothing that's amazed me so much.

[lalatan]

That was a great find, Spike! I would've never even considered stringing those characters together.

I found another new favorite word this week: LONGHEADEDNESSES for 30 pts & 2 records. At first I thought it might describe head binding or even maybe the alien in the movie of the same name. But it is actually the quality of having unusual foresight.

kate: I saw cobalt on a board this week and checked right away if it flowed into -ite. It did and there it was: SPHAEROCOBALTITE for 30 pts and 2 records. Thanks.

[Spike1007]

kate, thanks! I guess on its way into English & its ability to be pluralized with the -S, it lost its umlauts. Anyway, I'd never seen it before, but as long as it was there, I thought I'd try the plural (the English way). It makes me wonder whatever else they might be hiding here.

I've taken some German (although I'm a long way from being fluent, or even able to put together a couple of coherent sentences). Anyway, the path some German words & names take into English puzzles me. Of course, without umlauts, we make do by adding an E after an umlauted O (if that's a word at all), and then pronouncing the result as a long A. (I doubt if that applies to GOTTERDAMMERUNG. We didn't add the Es, and I assume that we just pronounce the vowels the English way.)

[crazykate]

A few days ago I found GOTTERDAMMERUNGS. I knew it was German & had something to do with Wagner. I didn't think it was an English word, but I couldn't imagine that it showed up in there by accident.

Amazing! German is my native language, but I can say with certainty that I wouldn't have found that word on a board. I often miss words with a German base, actually, because my mind dismissed German syllables as irrelevant in this game.
Also, without the umlauts and with the plural -S, the word looks very different to what I'm used to. My mind sort of did a double-take when reading it here because it looked so unfamiliar. (The pronunciation would be wrong without the umlauts, too.) I'm sure I wouldn't have recognised it on the board.
Well done to you for finding it!

[Spike1007]

A few days ago I found GOTTERDAMMERUNGS. I knew it was German & had something to do with Wagner. I didn't think it was an English word, but I couldn't imagine that it showed up in there by accident.