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Luscious

It’s just an amazing word. Especially when complementing someone’s hair. It sounds very alluring and sophisticated. It means “highly pleasing to the taste or smell; luxurious and rich.”

Agnes

Inconceivable

I may have fallen in love with this word after hearing the cute little bald man in “The Princess Bride” say it. It is such a forceful word, but if you say it with a slight lisp it makes you sort of lovable and vulnerable.

Song Bolin Switzerland

Wordicuffs

The verbal version of fisticuffs. The perfect word to describe an argument. And it’s a delight to say.

anon. North Wales

Contrafibularities

This is not, I must confess, a real word. But it is taken from Blackadder 3, when Edmund Blackadder says, “Well, in that case, sir, I hope you will not object if I also offer the doctor my most enthusiastic contrafibularities” to Doctor Samuel Johnson, author of the dictionary, who subsequently scribbles yet more [...]

Regardless

I tend to digress a lot when I speak, making “regardless” the ultimate safety net. Useful for stopping other peoples’ tangents in their tracks, too. Someone starts to go off-topic, just slap ‘em with a “regardless” and throw your hands in the air. Works every time.

Peter Pittsburgh

Nincompoop

I just find it a very cute word to pronounce.

Irene

Tertiary

This word follows the sequence: primary, secondary, tertiary. I like it because of the way that it sounds. I also like it because 3 is my lucky number, and this is a fancy way of saying ‘third.’

Trisha Missoula, MT

Sublime

What a beautiful word to describe things of beauty, fantastic moments and experience.

Andy W

Simoom

A hot, dry, dust-laden wind of North Africa and the Middle East. I think this word is evocative of its place and meaning. It conjures images of turbaned men leading camels across a vast, sandy desert to a palm-fringed oasis.

Rhys Adelaide, Australia

Epitome

Not only is it fun to say, it’s a compliment of the highest form.

Jillie Erie, Pennsylvania

Idiosyncratic

I like the way it feels in my mouth. I like that things should not all be the same.

Pam Murray

Globule

A globule is a citizen of the global world. The beauty of mercury smattering and scattering. Nice sound too.

Tendency