I don’t know why, but lately I’ve been enjoying saying “kiosk”
I say it like it’s a fantasy villain name, emphasizing the sharp sounds
I also think the spelling is fun. I don’t know of any other word spelled similarly to it and that uniqueness is interesting to me
I remember reading someone talking about endoplasmic reticulum and there’s some more biology terms I like:
These enzymes (Lactase, Amalyse, Sucrase, Maltase, …)
Bonus points for how they pair with chemical like Lactase and Lactose
Shotout to DD-trans-peptidase, peptide bonds, and most peptidases.
How the DNA guys sound together (Thymine, Guanine, Andenine, Cytosine)
Idk if other people figured this out earlier than me but Im pretty sure the Commanders from Gurren Laggan are named after these DNA guys.
Amino acids (also aspartic acid and lysine)
Autotroph
The blood terms are really just the best (even plasma).
Chlorophyll
Circadian rhythm
Siphonophore
Neat little existential crisis guys (both and neither colony or individual)
Anguilla (Scientific terms for eels)
Centriole and Vacuole
Pyruvate
Love Aromatics they look really cool
Isomers (I will never forgive you but love the sound)
Amylase and lipase! I love how these two enzymes always tag along as a pair in clinical medicine. I’ve never seen a doctor order labs for one without the other. I’ve never seen a doctor talk about one without the other. It’s always “amylase & lipase.” A cute couplet, a binary star system.
I’m kind of surprised nobody’s mentioned the word antediluvian yet. For me it gives the vibes of someone talking about the lost/undiscovered corners of the world. Very evocative.
Defenestration is also one of my favourites, if only because of how silly it is.
Rambunctiousness is a fun word to say I think
Also defenestrate has a nice mouth feel and is a little bit of a vocal stim for me but also I think that it’s really funny that the English language has an entire word for throwing someone out a window
If you want to know why we have that word, it’s tied to 1. The fact that in Latin, window is fenestra, and 2. There is a historical incident in 1618 in which some Protestants threw Catholics out a window, starting the Thirty Years War and becoming known as the “Defenestration of Prague.”
Also I just read the reply above this and saw defenestration there so I wrote all this for nothing but I’m going to post it anyway because look I added why the word exists
I love words like antediluvian! Words that are really long and almost never used, but they mean relatively simple things. Like antediluvian can basically mean ancient, but it evokes such a different vibe, like you said
Another one I like for the similar reasons is “exsanguinate” which basically means bleeding
“понял” (ponyal).
Meaning “understood” in most cases.
The language this one most commonly associates with it is Russian, though its likely used in other slavic languages, though it has no confirmation on this.
хлеб (xleb/khleb/hleb)
Meaning “bread”
Just kind of silly and fun to say
Fun fact, whenever a word in Russian/Ukrainian/etc gets romanized to have a “Kh” sound at the beginning, its kind of supposed to be a kind of flemmy-sounding H, though for sake of ease of pronunciation, just pronouncing it like an H is probably fine. The spelling tends to cause confusion to most English speakers, though, leading to news outlets pronouncing cities like “Kharkiv” as “Kar-keev” and not “Har-keev”.
The reason that those word are probably not used much is because they seem to be latin inspired words that have been just “turned english” without really thinking much about how understandable they may end up being.
Antediluvian means “Before the flood”, referencing the Great Flood of the Noah`s ark.
It is easy to understand for neo-latin language speakers, cause “ante” means “before” and -diluvian- is similar to the italian word -diluvio- which means -flood-.
As for exsanguinate is the same thing, it comes from the latin word “sanguis” which means blood.