OK then, let's try this new one


new word..............lagniappe

something new, fresh, and different
also, the name of a free street newspaper in New Orleans


how's about.......

New Word: precociousness

Unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development. If a younger child does it, they are often referred to as precious.

new word......trammel

OK no takers soooo how about........


new word impish......

Trammel.... refers to an netting device to capture an fish.

Impish refers to those elves who work hard all year long.


New Word: Cowabunga! :tease:

For trammel I was thinking also along the lines of..........


A restriction or impediment to someone's freedom of action.


It always amazes me how so many words have so many various meanings!

cowabunga...........



Said to express delight or satisfaction.


new word........tintinnabulation

That's a word that describes the sound of ringing bells or tingling of wind chimes or keys or even coins in your pocket (I think). It's actually an word invented by Edgar Allen Poe, which is used in the first stanza of his poem.... The Bells. :balloon:

New Word: Paleomagnetism

paleomagnetism is the branch of geophysics concerned with the magnetism in rocks that was induced by the earth's magnetic field at the time of their formation.

new word.............licentious

OK let's try...............


wafture .........

The act of waving or a wavelike motion.


Soon they will be doing this at the start of baseball season once again.........:outfield:


new word...........lilt

enmesh. see. i just went and did what i thought. though that may not be the game at all.....

to catch by entanglement as a fish in a boating net

New Word: ethnobotony :bunchflowers:

Hey puddin'

Give a definition to the last word posted then YOU leave and a word and someone defines that and so on and so on..........:hangloose:

Ethnobotany is the study of a region's plants and their practical uses through the traditional knowledge of a local culture and people. ... investigating plants used by primitive societies in various parts of the world.


new word.............plethora

Plethora, can mean having an abundance of examples or an abundance of most anything, I think.

New Word: Superlative :rrose:

Of the highest quality or degree. The very best.

new word....redolent

having a pleasant odor or scent
something that is aromatic


New Word: organic (chem.)

the chemistry of carbon compounds (other than simple salts such as carbonates, oxides, and carbides.


New Word...........Triskaidekaphobia

Triskaidekaphobia..........
extreme superstition regarding the number thirteen.


New word..........

Genuphobia..

irrational fear of knees

New Word: Genophobia

extreme or irrational fear of women or of the female.

new word...Arachibutyrophobia

A fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one's mouth.

New word........aspergillum

a brush or device for dispersing holy water (good one, homoe)


Marberg virus (get a little technical, pls)

A severe and highly fatal disease caused by a virus from the same family as the one that causes Ebola. These are among the most virulent pathogens known to infect humans. Both diseases are rare, but have a capacity to cause dramatic outbreaks with high fatality.

nudiustertian

rare or obsolete term for describing the day before yesterday


aromatase

An adrenal enzyme that converts androstenedione and estrone to estrogen. Inhibiting its action is one approach to breast cancer prevention and treatment.

pyknic

a stature characterized by short stature, round girth, powerful
muscularity. Is an endomorphic body structure.


psychometrics:

The science of measuring mental capacities and processes.

zoanthropy

A psychiatric disorder in which a person believes self
capable of, and actually does turn into an unspecified
animal. Lycanthropy, a similar disorder, is one in which
the person believes themselves able to become a wolf.


Parsimonious

Unwillingness to spend money or use resources; stingy or frugal.

deipnosophist

a person who is extremely adept at dinner conversation.


sapiosexual..................

A person who finds intelligence sexually attractive or arousing.



Meldrop

a drop of mucous hanging from the nose before it drops
(another good one, homoe)

anhedonia

The inability to feel pleasure.

emacity

fondness for buying things (shopaholic)


pelagianism

A theological theory named after the British monk Pelagius.

taeniacide

a substance which kills tapeworms...................


negraph.................