The strange, the bizarre and the unexpected

[lalatan]

What could be more obscure than OBSCURENESSES (19/13)? SUBOBSCURENESSES (30/16), perhaps? Not so. SUBOBSCURE: Somewhat dark or obscure; (Botany and Zoology) somewhat dark and dingy in colour. (I guess it's shorter than typing SOMEWHATOBSCURENESSES )

[bwt1213]

always interested in interesting words.

found apricate today. to bask in the sun.

Love to apricate.

Speaking of which: bask, basked, and basking are all accepted. Basker and baskers are not, or at least they weren't the last time I tried. No apparent reason for their omission.

[lalatan]

Cool word. I used to love to apricate as well but the nerve pain in my feet ramps up when they get hot. Can only do so now when I'm close by water to cool my feet off. I'm glad I can still walk the beach for a while.

Today I learned: noun: paraesthesia

1. an abnormal sensation, typically tingling or pricking (“pins and needles”), caused chiefly by pressure on or damage to peripheral nerves.

Never knew the medical name for it.

[Naboka]

I never got it. I looked it up in Collin's and YAWL dictionaries. Not in either one so I doubt it was valid. SURGELESS was in YAWL but not Collin's.
I played another board with MALARIOLOGIES on it and set 2 records again. I came up w 3 other words you may find entertaining when you come across them.

always interested in interesting words.

found apricate today. to bask in the sun.

Love to apricate.

[lalatan]

I never got it. I looked it up in Collin's and YAWL dictionaries. Not in either one so I doubt it was valid. SURGELESS was in YAWL but not Collin's.
I played another board with MALARIOLOGIES on it and set 2 records again. I came up w 3 other words you may find entertaining when you come across them.

[Naboka]

Has anyone gotten "urgelessnesses?" My fumbly fingers got anxious so I couldn't get it in during that last seconds rush and was wondering if it would have counted.

[lalatan]

Nah, I'm no expert... just love cymatics. Check out YouTube videos - amazing and beautiful patterns created in sand and water and other substances just through the vibration of sound. Theories are that the frequencies of planets may also be creating patterns around them.

That is some cool stuff. It seems composers don't have that many resonant frequencies to choose from. I had to laugh when the director in Nigel Stanford's video about the bass speaker said they found that frozen vodka had the best property for vibrating at 50 and 100 Hz. Made me wonder how many other liquids they tried (or what other liquors, haha).
It's always so ironic in sci-fi shows that the spaceship goes rumbling and roaring by with rockets blazing when in reality it would be totally quiet in the vacuum of outer space.

[Naboka]

Nah, I'm no expert... just love cymatics. Check out YouTube videos - amazing and beautiful patterns created in sand and water and other substances just through the vibration of sound. Theories are that the frequencies of planets may also be creating patterns around them.

Wow. Opened up a whole new world of...

[BoggleOtaku]

I've done research with photoacoustics before, but cymatics is a new word to me. Photoacoustics is broader in application than I realized, and I missed out on some of the more beautiful/artistic applications. I would guess you could use a piezo actuator as a source for cymatics in many cases more easily than photoacoustics. Photoacoustics would be of more interest when you wanted to probe something remotely/noncontact or when what you wanted probe was dependent on some property of light such as wavelength.

[mdyak]

Wow, I never heard of photoacoustics or cymatics til today. You could be right; seems like you're more knowledgeable than me on the subject.

Nah, I'm no expert... just love cymatics. Check out YouTube videos - amazing and beautiful patterns created in sand and water and other substances just through the vibration of sound. Theories are that the frequencies of planets may also be creating patterns around them.

[lalatan]

Wow, I never heard of photoacoustics or cymatics til today. You could be right; seems like you're more knowledgeable than me on the subject.

[mdyak]

Edit: I just found a Frankenstein word: PHOTOACOUSTICALLY (32/17). photoacoustics: The emission of sound from a material illuminated by a modulated light source.[/QUOTE]

Maybe in a roundabout way connected to cymatics?

[lalatan]

Whenever I think I've probably collected the full set of -heartednesses words I find something else. The previous 2 times it was ROUGHHEARTEDNESSES and then VACANTHEARTEDNESSES (never heard either one minus the -nesses before). Today it was WEAKHEARTEDNESSES. It's almost enough to make one fainthearted.

Edit: I just found a Frankenstein word: PHOTOACOUSTICALLY (32/17). photoacoustics: The emission of sound from a material illuminated by a modulated light source.

[2cute]

I often like to take on the challenge of a board that has only 1 or 2 ultra-rare 9+ letters with no words in the 8 letter column. It's usually going to be some bizarre scientific word. I tried one yesterday and found a Frankenstein word: MECHANOENZYMATIC (33/16). It seems to me that the 2 halves should never be together but they are nevertheless valid when combined. MECHANOENZYME: (biochemistry) Any enzyme that converts chemical energy into mechanical energy and hence into movement. I learn something every day on this website...

That is cool, thanks for sharing what your Frankenstein word meant.

[lalatan]

I often like to take on the challenge of a board that has only 1 or 2 ultra-rare 9+ letters with no words in the 8 letter column. It's usually going to be some bizarre scientific word. I tried one yesterday and found a Frankenstein word: MECHANOENZYMATIC (33/16). It seems to me that the 2 halves should never be together but they are nevertheless valid when combined. MECHANOENZYME: (biochemistry) Any enzyme that converts chemical energy into mechanical energy and hence into movement. I learn something every day on this website...