Wednesday, September 10, 2014

A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter

Your favorite word of four or more syllables. GO!

8 comments:

fillyjonk said...

Diaphanous.

(Bonus word favorite: sesquipedalian.)

Lynn said...

defenestration

Actually that's just the first one that came to mind. I just think it's hilarious that there is actually a word for throwing someone out a window. But if I think about it I can probably come up with several words I like better.

Call me Paul said...

Favourite word I will never use: Antediluvian.
Word I love to hate: Bifurcated.
Am I doing this right?

Roger Owen Green said...

prestidigitation

Bonus word, per Isaac Hayes: hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic

Bonnie McDaniel said...

Cerulean (a shade of blue). I love color names. They're so descriptive and gorgeous.

Jason said...

Oddly, the first four-syllable word that came to my mind was... polysyllabic.

Kaye Waller said...

The one that seems to come up most in my day-to-day is avocado.

the author said...

Incandescent. Probably doomed, too, now that the bulbs are outlawed. :)