Wordplay

Obscure & Fun

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

Lovely, pointless, or both?

Top 12 Sophisticated Compliments

'Urbane,' 'incisive,' and other good things to be

17 of the Finest Words for Drinking

Try these out at your next happy hour

Words For Things You Didn't Know Have Names, Vol. 2

When 'thingamajig' and 'thingamabob' just won't do

13 Bizarre Things That Somehow Have Words

For frog-tossing, sword dancing, and more

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

Some may be more useful than others.

10 Better Ways to Say Underwear

Get your knickers in a twist

9 Whiskery Words for Facial Hair

A tonsorial tutorial

8 Uncommon Words Related to Love

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

8 Ways to Tell Someone to Be Quiet

When shushing just isn't cutting it

'Apricity' and Other Rare Wintry Words

Hiemal, brumation, & rare wintry words

Words About Words

As your friendly dictionary, we know some things about words. We also know lots of words about those words. This is a list of some of them.

Dice, Dice, Baby: 8 Dungeons & Dragons Words

Chaotic and good, like English itself

16 Glee-ridden Words from Schitt's Creek

Don’t watch without reading this, you little frippets!

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.

Obscure Words for Everyday Feelings

There has to be a word for it.

10 Hella Good U.S. Regionalisms

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

'Arsy-Varsy,' and Other Snappy Reduplicatives

In the jinglejangle morning we’ll be chitchatting with these

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
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