Wordplay

Obscure & Fun

Words For Things You Didn't Know Have Names, Vol. 3

When thingummy and whatsit won't do

Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 3

Lovely, pointless, or both?

17 of the Finest Words for Drinking

Try these out at your next happy hour

Galaxy Brain: 10 Words for Deep Thoughts

What's (another word for) the big idea?

Your Favorite Band is in the Dictionary

10 bands you can look up and queue up

Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 1

Some may be more useful than others.

12 Words from the Wrong Side of the Law

Crime doesn't pay, but vocabulary might

Nine Obscure Beer-Related Words

Crack open a cold (or warm and eggy) one and enjoy

Ahoy! Ten Words for Talking Like a Pirate

Whether on International Talk Like a Pirate Day or any day!

Words That are Their Own Opposites

Do I contradict myself?

30 Ways to Tell the Future

Let us know if any of these work for you

Another Ten Ways to Improve Your Vocabulary

Simple But Intelligent Word Choices, Vol. 3

A Wicked Awesome List of New England Words

Things you may overhear when you park your car at Harvard Yard

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

Get your mind into the gutter

10 Uncommon Emotional Words

Once more with (obscure) feeling

11 Bookish Words for Book Lovers

You'll enjoy these words more than a bibliotaph in a bookery.

9 More Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

How to tell your butoxy from your hawsehole

Even More Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

Get off your plum duff and check these out

From Auto-Tune to Zipper: Eight Products that Became Words

Va-va-vuvuzela

9 Weird Words in Moby-Dick

All are great; one is offal

'Cattywampus' and Other Funny-Sounding Words

Feeling 'bumfuzzled' or have the 'collywobbles'?

The Longest Long Words List

21 words with 21 letters or more

And So It Begins: 9 Words for Beginnings

Let's take it from the top.
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