Wordplay

Obscure & Fun

Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 3

Lovely, pointless, or both?

17 of the Finest Words for Drinking

Try these out at your next happy hour

9 Whiskery Words for Facial Hair

A tonsorial tutorial

8 Uncommon Words Related to Love

You won't find these on candy conversation hearts, but maybe you should

Strange Words for Body Functions

Did you know that you 'micturate' and 'sternutate'?

12 Words from the Wrong Side of the Law

Crime doesn't pay, but vocabulary might

Words For Things You Didn't Know Have Names, Vol. 4

Sitzmarks! Jarkmen!! Pronking!!!

Nine Obscure Beer-Related Words

Crack open a cold (or warm and eggy) one and enjoy

Ahoy! Ten Words for Talking Like a Pirate

Whether on International Talk Like a Pirate Day or any day!

Words That are Their Own Opposites

Do I contradict myself?

'Apricity' and Other Rare Wintry Words

Hiemal, brumation, & rare wintry words

Words About Words

As your friendly dictionary, we know some things about words. We also know lots of words about those words. This is a list of some of them.

Dice, Dice, Baby: 8 Dungeons & Dragons Words

Chaotic and good, like English itself

Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 5

So beautiful. So useless.

9 Fun Words for Ghosts and Goblins

Dressing up this Halloween? Be our barghest!

Words For Things You Didn't Know Have Names, Vol. 3

When thingummy and whatsit won't do

Words for Dictionary Supernerds

As with all specialized fields, those involved in dictionary making employ terms in their work that most other people never encounter. If you’re a dictionary supernerd, you might be interested to know them.

Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 4

More words, more beautiful, more useless

13 Wonderful Words That You're Not Using (Yet)

Words as delightful as they are rare

Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 1

Some may be more useful than others.

'Arsy-Varsy,' and Other Snappy Reduplicatives

In the jinglejangle morning we’ll be chitchatting with these

10 Words for Uncommon Colors

Color names taken from paintings, flowers, fleas & more

8 Delicious Words for Uncommon Fruits and Vegetables

When we go loquat, we also go salsify
1 of 3