Daily Definition: Sockdolager

Sockdolager: 1. A conclusive blow or remark. 2. Something outstanding.

Used in a Sentence: Somehow I don’t think when you said ‘Oh yeah?’ it was a sockdolager.

Daily Definition: Bumptious

Bumptious: Crudely forward and assertive in behavior; pushy.

Used in a Sentence: I can’t believe that just because I followed you into the bathroom, you would think that I was bumptious. Are you afraid to pee in front of me?

Daily Definition: Echolalia

Echolalia: Involuntary repetition of words or phrases just spoken by others.

Used in a Sentence: So your saying that you don’t have echolalia, and never had it, and you can’t believe I would ask you that.

Daily Definition: Suijuirs

Suijuirs: Capable of managing one’s own affairs.

Used in a Sentence: Most celebrities are not suijuris.

Daily Definition: Setaceous

Setaceous: Bristle-like.

Used in a Sentence: Too many people are setaceous, and easily offended.

Daily Definition: Echolocation

Echolocation: The ability of an animal, such as a bat or a dolphin to orient itself by the reflection of the sound that it has produced.

Used in a Sentence: I once knew a man who could use his farts for echolocation.

Daily Definition: Cephalalgia

Cephalalgia: Pain concentrated in the head region.

Used in a Sentence: When I hear children screaming near me I suddenly develop cephalalgia.

Daily Definition: Suigeneris

Suigeneris: Unique; individual.

Used in a Sentence: In a world of conformity I will proudly be suigeneris.

Daily Definition: Gorgonizing

Gorgonizing: To have a paralyzing or stupefying effect upon.

Used in a Sentence: I find most teenager's makeup to be gorgonizing.

Daily Definition: Corroboree

Corroboree: 2. A large and noisy celebration.

Used in a Sentence: Drinking your sixth beer in a row is not a reason for a corroboree.

Daily Definition: Flechette

Flechette: A steel missile or dart dropped from an airplane.

Used in a Sentence: When they release the liquid from an airplane urinal, it becomes a flechette.

Daily Definition: Blandish

Blandish: To coax by flattery or wheedling; cajole.

Used in a Sentence: Salesman: “I am not trying to be blandish sir; you really do look good in plaid pants."

Daily Definition: Rutilant

Rutilant: Bright red in color.

Used in a Sentence: I am not embarrassed; I am naturally rutilant.

Daily Definition: Solfatara

Solfatara: A volcanic fissure that emits sulfurous vapors, steam, and at times hot mud.

Used in a Sentence: After eating spicy chili, most people seem to spontaneously develop a solfatara.

Daily Definition: Dysphonia

Dysphonia: Difficulty speaking.

Used in a Sentence: Most politician’s would benefit from having dysphonia.

Daily Definition: Rodomontade

Rodomontade: Pretentious boasting or bragging: bluster.

Used in a Sentence: It is not rodomontade; I am simply the best person I know.

Daily Definition: Micturate

Micturate: To urinate.

Used in a Sentence: Have you ever noticed that when you are halfway home, driving in your car, you suddenly have the strong urge to micturate?

Daily Definition: Batophobia

Batophobia: An abnormal fear of being near an object of great height, such as a skyscraper or a mountain.

Used in a Sentence: When I stand next to Shakeel O'Neil I get batophobia.

Daily Definition: Coruscant

Coruscant: Glittering.

Used in a Sentence: Not all that is coruscant is gold.

Daily Definition: Anfractuous

Anfractuous: Full of twists and turns; winding; tortuous.

Used in a Sentence: The path of my life is anfractuous.

Daily Definition: Butyraceous

Butyraceous: Resembling butter in appearance, consistency, or chemical properties.

Used in a Sentence: Isn’t it interesting that the more butter you eat the more butyraceous your backside becomes.

Daily Definition: Fantoccini

Fantoccini: Puppets animated by moving wires or mechanical means.

Used in a Sentence: When politicians speak, sometimes I think they look like fantoccini.

Daily Definition: Dissilent

Dissilent: Bursting apart.

Used in a Sentence: After eating too many cup cakes my pants are dissilent.

Daily Definition: Urceolate

Urceolate: Urn-shaped.

Used in a Sentence: I tend to like women that are urceolate.

Daily Definition: Theriomorphic

Theriomorphic: Having the form of a beast.

Used in a Sentence: Some women are theriomorphic once a month.

Daily Definition: Orbicular

Orbicular: 2. Circular and flat, as a leaf.

Used in a Sentence: Some of the women that I have gone out with have been orbicular.

Daily Definition: Arriere-Pensee

Arriere-Pensee: An ulterior motive.

Used in a Sentence: Do not trust someone who says, “Trust me.” They probably have an arriere-pensee.

Daily Definition: Stellify

Stellify: To transform into a star.

Used in a Sentence: Too many people think they are going to stellify, without any effort on their part.

Daily Definition: Metaplasia

Metaplasia: The metamorphosis of tissue from one type to another, as in ossification.

Used in a Sentence: The older we get the more susceptible we are to metaplasia.

Daily Definition: Dodecahedron

Dodecahedron: A polyhedron with twelve faces.

Used in a Sentence: A politician cannot be two-faced, they must be a dodecahedron.

Daily Definition: Tacet

Tacet: Be silent. It is silent.

Used in a Sentence: If politicians only spoke when they were telling the truth, they would all be tacet.

Daily Definition: Juvenocracy

Juvenocracy: Rule or influence by young people.

Used in a Sentence: When I go to other people’s homes, that have a lot of kids, they seem to be a juvenocracy.

Daily Definition: Guerdon

Guerdon: A reward.

Used in a Sentence: I think that all of us are hoping for a guerdon.

Daily Definition: Telegony

Telegony: The supposed influence of one sire on offspring sired by subsequent males of the same female.

Used in a Sentence: Politics seems to be widespread with telegony.

Daily Definition: Bugbear

Bugbear: An object of obsessive dread.

Used in a Sentence: For many people the bathroom scale has become a bugbear.

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Daily Definition: Tellurian

Tellurian: An inhabitant of earth.

Used in a Sentence: There are many celebrities that are not tellurian.

Daily Definition: Tautology

Tautology: Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

Used in a Sentence: When most people give their opinion they are guilty of tautology, not me of course, I would never do that, needlessly repeating myself would be something I would not do.

Daily Definition: Crepuscular

Crepuscular: Becoming active at twilight or before sunrise.

Used in a Sentence: It seems that regardless of when I sleep, I am crepuscular.

Daily Definition: Teledu

Teledu: A carnivorous mammal, like the skunk, that is capable of emitting an offensive odor.

Used in a Sentence: No matter what, you DO NOT want to be behind a teledu in a supermarket line.

Daily Definition: Prestidigitation

Prestidigitation: Manual skill and dexterity in the execution of tricks; sleight of hand.

Used in a Sentence: To be a politician you must be a master of prestidigitation.

Daily Definition: Bugaboo

Bugaboo: 2. A steady source of concern.

Used in a Sentence: The Patriot Act has definitely become a bugaboo.

Daily Definition: Analgesia

Analgesia: Inability to feel pain while conscious.

Used in a Sentence: Many times in life I find myself wishing I had analgesia.

Daily Definition: Sinophile

Sinophile: One friendly to the Chinese and their interests.

Used in a Sentence: I do not think you could find a Tibetan sinophile.

Daily Definition: Orchidaceous

Orchidaceous: 2. Suggesting ostentatious luxury; showy.

Used in a Sentence: Just because something is orchidaceous does not mean it is something of value.

Daily Definition: Rhynchocephalian

Rhynchocephalian: Of or pertaining to the rhynchocephalia, an order of mostly extinct lizard-like reptiles.

Used in a Sentence: I am convinced that on of my college professors is rhynchocephalian.

Daily Definition: Loxodromic

Loxodromic: Pertaining to sailing on a rhumb line. Slanting.

Used in a Sentence: It seems to be a natural law that all drunks find themselves loxodromic when they walk.

Daily Definition: Loupgarou

Loupgarou: A werewolf of Germanic origin.

Used in a Sentence: I am convinced that my last girlfriend was a loupgarou.

Daily Definition: Alienor

Alienor: A person who transfers ownership of property to another.

Used in a Sentence: I swear the lady who sold me my house was an alienor at least a realtor.

Daily Definition: Warp and Woof

Warp and Woof: The underlying structure upon which something is built: base.

Used in a Sentence: Many people I know do not have a warp and woof.

Daily Definition: Stridulate

Stridulate: To produce a shrill grating or creaking sound.

Used in a Sentence: Too many people do not seem to speak; they only stridulate.

Daily Definition: Vociferate

Vociferate: To cry out, or utter vehemently especially in protest.

Used in a Sentence: I tend to vociferate more often in the voting booth.

Daily Definition: Putrescence

Putrescence: 1. A character or condition that is becoming putrid. 2. Putrid matter.

Used in a Sentence: Can anyone run for public office without experiencing putrescence?

Daily Definition: Sortilege

Sortilege: The act or practice of foretelling the future by drawing lots.

Used in a Sentence: Sometimes it seems that sortilege is just as accurate as any futurist.

Daily Definition: Turgescence

Turgescence: 1. a The process of swelling. b. The condition of being swollen.

Used in a Sentence: No mater the truth of the situation, if your wife or girlfriend ever ask if you think they are experiencing Turgescence? The answer is always no.

Daily Definition: Somniferous

Somniferous: Inducing sleep.

Used in a Sentence: When giving a talk, the most important thing is not to be somniferous.

Daily Definition: Turbinal

Turbinal: 1. Having the shape of a cone resting on its apex. 2. A turbinate bone.

Used in a Sentence: If a presidential candidate's head is turbinal, does that mean he is a bonehead, or a conehead, or a boneheaded conehead?

Daily Definition: Somnambulate

Somnambulate: To walk while asleep.

Used in a Sentence: Most people in life seem to somnambulate.

Daily Definition: Tuquoque

Tuquoque: A retort accusing an accuser of a similar offense or similar behavior.

Used in a Sentence: My next door neighbor said I was using a tuquoque, but I think that he is the one with the problem.

Daily Definition: Slugabed

Slugabed: One who is inclined to stay in bed out of laziness.

Used in a Sentence: I have noticed that when the weekend arrives I have become a slugabed.

Daily Definition: Flocculate

Flocculate: To form lumps or masses.

Used in a Sentence: When I eat too much, I swear my butt is beginning to flocculate.

Daily Definition: Revanchism

Revanchism: A foreign policy motivated by a desire to regain territory lost earlier to an enemy.

Used in a Sentence: Many bald men find themselves adopting a policy of revanchism.

Daily Definition: Eclaircissement

Eclaircissement: A clarification, enlightenment.

Used in a Sentence: I am always looking for eclaircissement.

Daily Definition: Prosopopeia

Prosopopeia: The impersonation of an absent or imaginary speaker.

Used in a Sentence: I sometimes get the impression that the president is performing prosopopeia.

Daily Definition: Cenogenesis

Cenogenesis: The environmentally determined development of characteristics or structures in an organism.

Used in a Sentence: The cenogenesis of a child's heart is directly proportional to the amount of love it is given.

Daily Definition: Poetaster

Poetaster: An inferior poet.

Used in a Sentence: It would be a disaster to be a poetaster.

Daily Definition: Rheotaxis

Rheotaxis: The movement of an organism in response to the flow of a current.

Used in a Sentence: Sometimes moving against the current is the correct rheotaxis.

Daily Definition: Phillumenist

Phillumenist: One who collects matchbooks or matchboxes.

Used in a Sentence: It would be better for the world if all terrorists suddenly became phillumenists.

Daily Definition: Traducianism

Traducianism: The belief that the soul is inherited from the parents along with the body.

Used in a Sentence: I have enough to blame my parents for without traducianism.

Daily Definition: Melpomene

Melpomene: The Greek muse of tragedy.

Used in a Sentence: Some days I feel like I am living my life under the influence of Melpomene.

Daily Definition: Agrypnia

Agrypnia: Insomnia.

Used in a Sentence: New parents are in an involuntary state of agrypnia.

Daily Definition: Ranson d'etre

Ranson d'etre: Reason or justification for existing.

Used in a Sentence: Most people need a better ranson d'etre than they have now.

Daily Definitions: Superciliary

Superciliary: Of or pertaining to the eyebrow.

Used in a Sentence: What politicians say is causing me to have a permanent raising of the superciliary.

Daily Definitions: Megalocardia

Megalocardia: Enlargement of the heart.

Used in a Sentence: The world would be a better place if more people had megalocardia.

Daily Definition: Bifurcate

Bifurcate: To divide into two parts or branches.

Used in a Sentence: If we do not come to an agreement we will have to bifurcate.

Daily Definitions: Tergiversate

Tergiversate: To use evasions or ambiguities.

Used in a Sentence: When ask their age, all women over 40 will tergiversate.

Daily Definition: Terraqueous

Terraqueous: Composed of both land and water.

Used in a Sentence: Before you throw the terraqueous at someone else, be aware that someone could throw some back.

Daily Definitions: In medias res

In medias res: In or into the middle of a sequence of events, in the middle of things.

Used in a Sentence: Some people, no matter how hard they try, find themselves in medias res.

Daily Definitions: Spinescent

Spinescent: Having a spine.

Used in a Sentence: Many people I have met do not seem to be spinescent.

Daily Definitions: Inconsequential

Inconsequential: Without consequence; lacking importance; petty.

Used in a Sentence: Most of the things in life we worry about are inconsequential.

Daily Definitions: Paronomasia

Paronomasia: Word play, esp. a pun.

Used in a Sentence: I will engage in paronomasia no mater a whatia.

Daily Definitions: Imbibition

Imbibition: The absorption of fluid by a solid or colloid that results in swelling.

Used in a Sentence: Woman to her husband, "Does this imbibition make my butt look bigger?"

Daily Definitions: Compos Mentis

Compos Mentis: Of sound mind; sane.

Used in a Sentence: I am convinced that people who get married before they are 30 years of age are not compos mentis.

Daily Definitions: Iilumine

Iilumine: To give light to.

Used in a Sentence: As enlightened and educated beings we should iilumine the world.

Daily Definitions: Homomorphism

Homomorphism: Similarity of external form, appearance, or size.

Used in a Sentence: Because of plastic surgery, many woman in Southern California have homomorphism.

Daily Definitions: Harridan

Harridan: A vicious, scolding woman.

Used in a Sentence: Many men seem to think that their mother-in-law is a harridan.

Daily Definitions: Agriology

Agriology: The study of peoples whose cultures are at an early stage of development.

Used in a Sentence: Aliens who come to our planet are undoubtedly studying agriology.

Daily Definitions: Graminivorous

Graminivorous: Feeding on grasses, grains, or seeds.

Used in a Sentence: The older I get the more graminivorous I become.

Daily Definitions: Rebarbative

Rebarbative: Tending to irritate; repellent.

Used in a Sentence: I find most presidential candidates are rebarbative.

Daily Definitions: Floriferous

Floriferous: Bearing flowers, esp. in abundance.

Used in a Sentence: A man who has angered his wife must quickly become floriferous.

Daily Definitions: Superannuated

Superannuated: Retired or ineffective because of advanced age.

Used in a Sentence: The social security agency should be superannuated because it is superannuated.

Daily Definitions: Disintermediation

Disintermediation: The process whereby savers by-pass banks and savings and loan associations and lend their money directly to borrowers.

Used in a Sentence: It would be a great thing to receive a large sum of money through disintermediation.

Daily Definitions: Estoppel

Estoppel: A bar against an allegation or denial that is contrary to one's previous allegation or denial of a fact.

Used in a Sentence: Get your facts straight or I will estoppel you.

Daily Definitions: Corniculate

Corniculate: Having horns or hornlike projections.

Used in a Sentence: I could have sworn that I saw corniculate on the presidential candidates yesterday.

Daily Definitions: Radix

Radix: A root or point of origin.

Used in a Sentence: Some people's capacity to be an idiot was determined at their radix.

Daily Definitions: Confabulate

Confabulate: To talk informally, chat.

Used in a Sentence: Women can confabulate much better than men.

Daily Definitions: Whited Sepulcher

Whited Sepulcher: An evil person who pretends to be holy or good; hypocrite.

Used in a Sentence: I think Ben Stein might just be a whited sepulcher.

Daily Definitions: Churlish

Churlish: Difficult to work with, intractable.

Used in a Sentence: I am only churlish if you try to talk to me within an hour of when I wake up.

Daily Definitions: Chance-medley

Chance-medley: A sudden quarrel resulting in an unpremeditated homicide.

Used in a Sentence: You must be kinder to your spouse so you do not have a chance-medley.

Daily Definitions: Bathos

Bathos: A ludicrously abrupt transition from an elevated to a commonplace style.

Used in a Sentence: Bathos is the state of all presidential candidates that do not win.

Daily Definitions: Afflatus

Afflatus: a creative impulse; inspiration.

Used in a Sentence: Some people think they are having a afflatus, when they are only producing a brain flatus (Fart).

Daily Definitions: Basophobia

Basophobia: An abnormal fear of standing erect or walking.

Used in a Sentence: It is a good thing our ancestors did not have basophobia.

Daily Definitions: Clyster

Clyster: An enema, to wash out.

Used in a Sentence: Sometimes when the president speaks it makes me think he needs a clyster.

Daily Definitions: Agraphia

Agraphia: A disorder marked by the inability to write.

Used in a Sentence: I have recently been a victim of agraphia.

Daily Definitions: Adumbrate

Adumbrate: To disclose partially or guardedly.

Used in a Sentence: I adumbrate only part of the time, sometimes, mostly.

Daily Definitions: Yegg

Yegg: A thief, esp. a burglar or safecracker.

Used in a Sentence: (Warning, Bad Pun) A thief who fell off a building is a scrambled yegg.

Daily Definitions: Aceldama

Aceldama: A place with dreadful associations.

Used in a Sentence: After months of neglect, my bathroom has become a place of aceldama.

Daily Definitions: Xerophilous

Xerophilous: Flourishing in or able to withstand a dry, hot environment.

Used in a Sentence: People in Hell must be Xerophilous.