Wordplay

Obscure & Fun

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.

10 Hella Good U.S. Regionalisms

We’re on a word tour, going each and every place with a mic in our hand

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

Some may be more useful than others.

'Arsy-Varsy,' and Other Snappy Reduplicatives

In the jinglejangle morning we’ll be chitchatting with these

8 Uncommon Words Related to Love

You won't find these on candy conversation hearts, but maybe you should

Nine Obscure Beer-Related Words

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

Even More Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

Get off your plum duff and check these out

Your Favorite Band is in the Dictionary

10 bands you can look up and queue up

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

Va-va-vuvuzela

8 Delicious Words for Uncommon Fruits and Vegetables

When we go loquat, we also go salsify

9 Fun Words for Ghosts and Goblins

Dressing up this Halloween? Be our barghest!

Words for Dictionary Supernerds

Know the language of the lexicographer

9 Whiskery Words for Facial Hair

A tonsorial tutorial

Dice, Dice, Baby: 8 Dungeons & Dragons Words

Chaotic and good, like English itself

Ahoy! Ten Words for Talking Like a Pirate

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

9 Weird Words in Moby-Dick

All are great; one is offal

9 More Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

How to tell your butoxy from your hawsehole

A Wicked Awesome List of New England Words

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

Another Ten Ways to Improve Your Vocabulary

Simple But Intelligent Word Choices, Vol. 3

Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 5

So beautiful. So useless.

12 Underrated Words That Deserve More Love

These are some good words

Ten More Ways to Improve Your Vocabulary

Simple But Intelligent Word Choices, Vol. 2
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