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Defenestration

How can you not love a word that means specifically to throw someone out of a window? That’s just plain awesome in every single way. I especially like to use it against people who have no earthly idea what it means. They usually end up thinking it means something close to “castrate.”

Thomas Alabama

Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty

Something that I have personally experienced. Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty for obstructive sleep apnea Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP) is a procedure that removes excess tissue in the throat to make the airway wider. This sometimes can allow air to move through the throat more easily when you breathe, reducing the severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The tissues that [...]

Philtrum

The philtrum is the vertical midline groove in the upper lip that runs from the top of the lip to the nose. According to the Talmud, (Niddah 30b), and other sources, God sends an angel to each womb just before a baby is born, when the angel touches it between the upper lip and [...]

Mellifluous

This word meaning is something that is sweet sounding or smoothly flowing and I think the word itself is mellifluous.

Tom Melbourne

Onomatopoeia

Used when a word sounds like the one it is describing …..buzz…bark…moo…meow.

Jamie Eire

Manifest

1. readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error. 2. Psychoanalysis. of or pertaining to conscious feelings, ideas, and impulses that contain repressed psychic material: the manifest content of a dream as opposed to the latent content that it conceals.

Andra Rancho Cucamonga

Porcelain

The word conveys images of Arabic merchants trading in India and stuffy British ladies sipping tea in their overly lavish tea rooms. It reminds me of Asia and purity, and fits nicely into any poem.

Jordan California