Words to add to the dictionary

[Naboka]

Buccalization isn't accepted but debuccalizations is.

[rlaWTX]

THERMOPERIODISM is, but THERMOPERIOD isn't

[MegaWord]

DEPACKETIZATION was accepted but not the plural.

[Naboka]

sometimes the -al vs -ally words make a little bit of sense as to which counts and which doesn't,

but...

subtrapezoidally counts and subtrapezoidal doesn't.

Go figure.

[MegaWord]

Found COUNTERPULSATION, but the plural wasn't accepted.

[Somervillain]

UNAGITATEDNESSES and UNAGITATEDNESS work fine. AGITATEDNESSES and AGITATEDNESS don't work at all.

[DrPlacebo]

Similarly, I got points for UNTALENTEDNESS, but TALENTEDNESS wasn't accepted.

[Naboka]

Some days are transcendent. You find words that fill you with such an awe that it's nearly a religious experience.

Yet...

Newton and the equal and opposite...

I found pithecanthropine which would make any dilittante anthropologist swoon, thought of posting it, caught a screen grab, and decided against it.

Then aspheterizing cropped up. Marx had nothing on the aspheterists.

But....

WTF. They're both pretty archaic terms. Obsolete?

Not that I think they should be eliminated, but it begs the question about other such terms that are excluded for that reason.

I love words like those. Words that tell us what people before us were discovering and thinking. Some of the greatest ideas are from our past--along with the words.