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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #30 on: January 19, 2007, 07:40:39 PM »
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #31 on: January 19, 2007, 09:43:57 PM »
spork isn't rare either when you are amongst nerds. :P 8)
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #32 on: January 19, 2007, 09:56:27 PM »
Fun words and terms from some of my interests:

Thermionic - valve amplification

Hysteresis - magnetics

Gaussian - magnetics

Reverberation constant - Acoustics problem solving term, along with reverberation times (say it fast a bunch of times)

Acoustician - One who does acoustic preparations prior to a recording session (one of my specialties was determining and correcting the causes of sonic colorations)

Circles of confusion - limits maximum resolution in any photographic reproduction process

Ballistic coefficient - Aerodynamics of a bullet (super-simplified) How well a bullet will cut through the air.

Sectional Density - A direct indication of the penetrating power of a bullet (mass/diameter2 of a projectile)

Angle of incidence - photography - lighting angles - Measured from a plane perpendicular to the axis of  the receiving lens

Asplenium - Botany - Genus of ferns (Ferns are a special interest, inside a special interest)

Monocotyledons - Botany - Single flower leaf ( another word that sounds like your tongue is doing tai chi exercises)

Epiphytic - Horticulture - plant that grows on other plants, but not parasitic

Lithophytic - Horticulture - plant that grows on rocks

Angiosperm - Botany - flowering plant (try telling a receptionist that she has a number of angiosperms on her desk)

Zygomorphic - Botany - bi-laterally symmetrical (it's just hard to find a conversaton to drop this word into)

Phalaenopsis - Botany - Genus of orchids (want to talk about orchids, anyone?)

Thermionic, thermionic, thermionic!
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #33 on: January 23, 2007, 08:01:25 AM »
Chicanery- not really an unsual word but not used very often and I just love the sound of it.
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #34 on: January 23, 2007, 08:03:52 AM »
cool word, what does it mean? it reminds me of chica cherry colah! :P
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #35 on: January 23, 2007, 08:05:22 AM »
Quote from: Millabella on January 23, 2007, 08:03:52 AM
cool word, what does it mean? it reminds me of chica cherry colah! :P

1.   trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry: He resorted to the worst flattery and chicanery to win the job.
2.   a quibble or subterfuge used to trick, deceive, or evade.
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #36 on: January 23, 2007, 08:12:26 AM »
 ool! i learned a new word!
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #37 on: January 25, 2007, 08:47:09 AM »
superfluous. ;D
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #38 on: January 31, 2007, 09:43:31 AM »
Quote from: McJagger on January 25, 2007, 08:47:09 AM
superfluous. ;D
Yes! ... that's how I felt yesterday! Another good word for that is "disposable", and that discribes me even better.

How about recrementitious?
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #39 on: January 31, 2007, 10:52:10 AM »
Quote from: DirtDawg on January 31, 2007, 09:43:31 AM
Quote from: McJagger on January 25, 2007, 08:47:09 AM
superfluous. ;D
Yes! ... that's how I felt yesterday! Another good word for that is "disposable", and that discribes me even better.

How about recrementitious?

recrementitious 

IN BRIEF: Adjective- Of, relating to, consisting of, or of the nature of superfluous matter separated from that which is useful.
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #40 on: January 31, 2007, 01:19:35 PM »
I know this word is not uncommon.  And also, I am somewhat pissed off it became 7 of 9's catch phrase, because she was such an over played character, and she often used it incorrectly.  But I am a big fan of irrelevant.

That is how I describe myself. ^_^
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #41 on: January 31, 2007, 01:55:34 PM »
Quote from: Callaway on January 31, 2007, 10:52:10 AM
Quote from: DirtDawg on January 31, 2007, 09:43:31 AM
Quote from: McJagger on January 25, 2007, 08:47:09 AM
superfluous. ;D
Yes! ... that's how I felt yesterday! Another good word for that is "disposable", and that discribes me even better.

How about recrementitious?

recrementitious 

IN BRIEF: Adjective- Of, relating to, consisting of, or of the nature of superfluous matter separated from that which is useful.


I don't want to call you Sherlock, but - No shit!
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #42 on: January 31, 2007, 02:14:08 PM »
Quote from: Nomaken on January 31, 2007, 01:19:35 PM
I know this word is not uncommon.  And also, I am somewhat pissed off it became 7 of 9's catch phrase, because she was such an over played character, and she often used it incorrectly.  But I am a big fan of irrelevant.

That is how I describe myself. ^_^

 ... but how often do you get to use that word with 'normal people'?

Fuck a bunch of words!

I agree that you are irrelevant, but if you do not lay off of Star Trek, I am going to remove your skin and ravage you, alive, in ways that you have not, yet, known.
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #43 on: January 31, 2007, 03:53:59 PM »
I am familiar and enough of a fan of star trek that I have license to point out where it fucked up.  They gave 7 of 9 too much story time, and you know it.
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #44 on: January 31, 2007, 04:03:35 PM »
defenestrate  >:D
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