List of good words!

[a_lilian]

@kosmischesasha

flotsam

<3

[a_lilian]

Also:

• tonsilloth (or anything with the -illoth suffix really)
• amygdala

[ameise_fan]

Bilge is a actually a real word so I’m adding it to the list

[Liz]

Furusato (故郷) - Japanese, home place

Here’s a great series of video essays about Animal Crossing, furusato, and anarchist communism.

From the video (still watch it it’s so good)

You’re probably already familiar with the way furusato looks thanks to Japanese media exports: Rurouni Kenshin, Inuyasha, Mushi-shi, Okami, even Ocarina of Time. One could argue that Pokémon even builds on furusato tropes. Furusato functions as a shorthand for cultural nostalgia connected to village life that no longer exists, often represented as an “idyllic non-existent countryside home, a far away place in the past.”

[slow_math]

Truly we all yearn for the cosy life…

Cosy is a great word too, add it to the list

[proxy]

@listennui

Ennui? In a list? Hmmm yes

...i may have just understood the joke, hearing your name on stream again ☆(・ω<)

[PetTurtle]

I didn’t realize there was a joke there either… xD Thank you for pointing it out

[listennui]

Oh, but you see… It’s even deeper than that. Ennui, boredom, listlessness. But perhaps listed. It’s a list of listlessness. The listless list. Also kinda has the word listen in it, but that’s happenstance.

[PetTurtle]

Oh my… Here I was believing it was Listen nui… And you improvised that joke. But Rinion just actually played into your long con joke by saying they liked the word ennui.

[zqlk]

• remedy
• acclaim
• turbulent
• lepidoptera

also fun are words with internal repetition/reduplication. gives them a nice rhythm.

• tiptop
• shipshape
• pish-posh
• haplodiploid

[its_ameise]

Haplodiploid is so good i never knew the word for it i was just like yeah. Comunal insects are weird

Now i can reasearch more wahoo

Also Squall and Avast are good words

[zqlk]

From that same Wikipedia article: peculiarities
As in “The haplodiploid sex-determination system has a number of peculiarities.”

And yes, avast is another good one. Nautical slang in general has some nice words, like hulk, sloop, pontoon, amidships, doldrums, flotsam and jetsam, etc.

[zqlk]

Also foo-foo band.

[Drill]

Rinion reminded me of this one:
Sinusoidal

[a_lilian]

• Accoutrements

[listennui]

Some new additions to my list:

• Obfuscate - I've always loved this one, it was a mistake to have left it out
• Asperities - Specifically in material science context, where they're just the name of microscopic surface defects that prevent objects from having more perfect contact
• Desquamation - Cursed. moving on.
• Oxaziridine - A really cool and useful molecule with only 1 each of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen (and a few hydrogen, naturally). Elements 678. Beautiful. Just look at it for a bit.
  

  More dishonorable words:

  • squelch - Circuit to suppress signal noise if signal is too weak
  • squelching - when a DNA transcription activator blocks gene activation or something
  • Skwal - Snowboarding on a single ski instead, basically
  Why the hell is squelching so unrelated to squelch? The world is a fucked up place. That's why.

[a_lilian]

@a_lilian

trellises

and of course

• parallax

[ameise_fan]

ahem 𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓽𝓷𝓲𝓽𝓮

[heartkin]

I’ve always loved words, and the way that people sound when they love the idea of words ^^
Some old favourites…

• astral
• shine
• ensnare
• snuggle
• treatise
• swill

[basilessabasilesson]

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