absquatulate v. to leave abruptly acapnotic n. a nonsmoker accismus n. feigned disinterest in a desired object accubation n. the act or posture of reclining on a couch acersecomic n. a person whose hair has never been cut acnestis n. that part of an animal’s skin that it cannot reach to scratch aegrotat n. a note excusing a student's sickness afterwit n. knowledge gained too late to do any good agelast n. one who never laughs agerasia n. youthful appearance in an old person agnoiology n. the study of ignorance agrexophrenia n. inability to perform sexually due to fear of being overheard ambisinister adj. clumsy with both hands; having "two left hands" anaxiphilia n. the act of falling in love with the wrong person antichthon n. hypothetical second Earth on the opposite side of the sun antivitruvian adj. taking pleasure in destroying architectural monuments apodyopsis n. the act of imagining a person naked apricity n. the warmth of the sun in winter artolater n. a worshiper of bread basial adj. pertaining to kissing basorexia n. a craving to kiss bathycolpian adj. having deep cleavage beblubbered adj. disfigured by weeping belgard n. a sweet or loving look bemute v. to drop dung on from above boanthropy n. the delusion that one is an ox borborygmus n. rumbling noise in the intestines breedbate n. one who seeks an argument brephophagist n. one who eats babies cacoepy n. incorrect pronunciation cacographic adj. badly written or spelled cacozelia n. the use of rare or foreign words to appear learned cagamosis n. marital unhappiness callipygous adj. having beautiful buttocks cejijunto n. a person with one long continuous eyebrow chantpleure v. to sing and cry at the same time cingulomania n. a desire to hold another in one's arms commorient adj. dying together or at the same time conclamant adj. crying out together cuniculous adj. full of rabbits curglaff n. the shock felt on first plunging into cold water curtain-lecture n. a reproof given by a wife to her husband in bed cynoclept n. one who steals dogs dactylconomy n. the art of counting on one's fingers darg n. a day's work dasypygal adj. having hairy buttocks decemnovenarianize v. to act like a person of the 19th century dedolence n. absence of sorrow deipnosophy n. learned dinner conversation dentiloquy n. speech through gritted teeth diamerdis n. a man who is covered in feces dissave v. to spend more than one earns drollic adj. of or pertaining to puppet shows dysania n. difficulty getting out of bed in the morning dyscallignia n. the dislike of beautiful women eccedentesiast n. one who fakes a smile ecdemolagnia n. lustfulness when one is away from home eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious adj. very good egrote v. to feign sickness in order to avoid work epalpebrate adj. lacking eyebrows engastration n. the act of stuffing one bird into another epicaricacy n. taking pleasure in others' misfortune eyeservice n. work done only while the boss is looking filipendulous adj. hanging by a thread flimp v. to rob (someone) while a partner hustles fysigunkus n. one who lacks curiosity gambrinous adj. full of beer gammerstang n. a tall, awkward person, usually a woman gargalesis n. forceful tickling gelogenic adj. producing laughter geloscopy n. the divination of one’s character by the manner of his laughter glabella n. the space between the eyebrows gongoozler n. an idler who stares at activity on a canal griffade sudden seizure with the claws groak v. to stare at a person longingly while he is eating gynotikolobomassophilia n. a proclivity for nibbling on women's earlobes hadeharia n. constant use of the word "hell" hallelujatic adj. containing hallelujahs hieromachy a fight or quarrel between priests hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia n. fear of long words iatrogenic adj. (of a medical disorder) caused by a doctor iatronudia n. a woman's pretending to be ill in order to disrobe in front of a doctor ignivomous adj. vomiting fire illeist n. one who refers to oneself in the third person imberb adj. without a beard immerd v. to cover with excrement imparlibidinous adj. pertaining to an unequal state of desire between two people inkle v. to attend a party to which one has not been invited jehu n. a reckless driver jentacular adj. pertaining to breakfast jeofail n. a lawyer's mistake jerque v. to search for smuggled goods kakopygian adj. having ugly buttocks kalopsia n. the delusion that things are more beautiful than they are lachschlaganfall n. a condition in which a person falls unconscious due to violent laughter ladify v. to make a lady of someone lalochezia n. emotional relief gained by using indecent or vulgar language leint v. to add urine to ale to make it stronger leiotrichy n. straight-hairedness leptodactylous adj. having slender toes or fingers leptorrhine adj. having a long, narrow nose lethonomia n. a propensity for forgetting names librocubicularist n. one who reads in bed lingible adj. meant to be licked logodaedalus n. an inventor of words and phrases logomach n. one who fights over words lychnobite n. one who works at night and sleeps during the day macropicide n. a slayer of kangaroos mageira n. a woman's sublimation of sexual desire through cooking mancinism n. the condition of being left-handed mariturient adj. eager to marry martext n. a blundering preacher misocapnist n. one who hates the smell of tobacco smoke misodoctakleidist n. one who hates practicing the piano misologist n. one with a hatred of mental activity mumpsimus n. a view stubbornly held even when shown to be wrong murcous adj. lacking a thumb musophobist n. one who regards poetry with suspicious dislike mytacism n. excessive use of the letter M nake v. to make naked neanimorphism n. the quality of looking younger than one's age nelipot one who is walking barefoot nihilarian n. a person with a meaningless job nod-crafty adj. nodding to give an air of wisdom nolition n. unwillingness nosocomial adj. (of an infection) acquired in a hospital noyade n. a mass execution by drowning nudiustertian adj. of the day before yesterday obsolagnium n. waning sexual desire due to age ombibulous adj. drinking everything omnilegent adj. having read everything omphaloskepsis n. navel-gazing onychophagy n. nail-biting opsigamy n. marriage at an advanced age pandiculation n. the act of stretching oneself paralian n. one who lives near the sea paraph n. a flourish after a signature parnel n. the mistress of a priest pentapopemptic n. one who has been divorced five times perendinate v. to put off until the day after tomorrow perioeci n. people who live at the same latitude on opposite meridians, so that noon for one is midnight for the other pernoctation n. the act of staying up all night perpilocutionist n. one who expounds on a subject of which he has little knowledge picqueter n. one who arranges artificial flowers for a living pilliwinks n. an instrument of torture for crushing the fingers pinguitude n. fatness potvaliant adj. inclined to fight when drunk preantepenultimate adj. fourth from last procerity n. tallness propreantepenultimate adj. last but four psilosopher n. a superficial philosopher ptarmic n. that which causes sneezing qualtagh n. the first person one meets after leaving the house quinquiplicate v. to multiply by five Ralph n. the imp of mischief in a printing house recumbentibus n. a knockdown blow redamancy n. the act of loving in return saulie n. a hired mourner at a funeral scacchic adj. pertaining to chess scarebabe n. a thing that frightens a baby scoteography n. the art of writing in the dark scroop n. the rustle of silk semiopathy n. the tendency to read humorously inappropriate meanings into signs sgiomlaireachd n. (Scottish Gaelic) the habit of dropping in at mealtimes shunamitism n. rejuvenation of an old man by a young woman shunpike n. a side road taken to avoid turnpike tolls or traffic siagonology n. the study of jawbones sialoquent adj. spraying saliva when speaking suggillate v. to beat black and blue slockster n. one who entices away another's servants snirtle v. to attempt to suppress one's laughter sophomania n. delusion that one is incredibly intelligent spanghew v. to launch a frog or toad into the air spatchcock v. to insert into a text too hurriedly sprezzatura n. the art of making a difficult task appear effortless stiricide n. the falling of icicles from a house swasivious adj. agreeably persuasive swedge v. to leave without paying one's bill tecnolatry n. worship or idolization of children tegestologist n. a collector of beer mats threpterophilia n. love of female nurses tomomania n. irrational predilection for performing surgery torschlusspanik n. a sense of alarm or anxiety (said to be experienced particularly in middle age) caused by the feeling that life's opportunities are passing one by ucalegon n. a neighbor whose house is on fire ugsome adj. horrid or loathsome ultracrepidate v. to criticize beyond sphere of one's knowledge uzzard n. a third-generation bastard vaccimulgence n. the milking of cows verbunkos n. a dance performed to persuade people to enlist in the Hungarian army vespertilionize v. to turn into a bat vivisepulture n. burial alive weequashing n. the spearing of fish or eels by torchlight from canoes whelve v. to cover with an inverted bowl whiskerine n. beard-growing contest wittol n. A man who knows of and tolerates his wife's infidelity xanthocomic adj. yellow-haired xanthodont n. having yellow teeth xenium n. a gift given to a guest xenodocheionology n. love of hotels Words dropped since the 1901 edition of the Chambers Dictionary: * decacuminated adj. having the top cut off * effodient adj. habitually digging (zoology) * essorant adj. about to soar * flipe v. to fold back, as a sleeve * lectual adj. confining to the bed * neogamist n. a person recently married * nuciform adj. nut-shaped * numerotage n. the numbering of yarns so as to denote their fineness * pantogogue n. a medicine once believed capable of purging away all morbid humours * parageusia n. a perverted sense of taste * presultor n. the leader of a dance * ramollescence n. softening, mollifying * roytish adj. wild, irregular * sagesse n. wisdom * salebrous adj. rough, rugged * sammy v. to moisten skins with water * sarn n. a pavement * scavilones n. men's drawers worn in the sixteenth century under the hose * tarabooka n. a drumlike instrument * tortulous adj. having swellings at regular intervals * wappet n. a yelping cur