The Ultimate Vampire Resource and Directory

Post words you find odd or just hear of, in alphabetical order.

This website is a great place for finding unusual words.

abditive: remote; secret; hidden

baccivorous : eating berries

Caricature

Damson: dark brownish purple

ecchymosis: black-and-blue spot

Favonian: of, like or pertaining to the west wind; mild and favourable.

galanty shadow play

hagioscope - opening in wall to enable viewing of altar

Ichnomancy: divination using footprints.

jambiya: curved dagger with two edges

kenspeckle

largiloquent: talkative; full of words.

madarosis: loss of eyelashes or eyebrows

Narcohypnia: numbness experienced upon awakening.

oblivescence forgetfulness; forgetting

paedophobia: fear of children; fear of dolls

Quarion: candle

Rabelaisian: coarsely hilarious

saeculum astronomical or geological age

tabor: light medieval drum buckled onto the player's chest

uromastix - a spiky tailed ground dwelling lizard

Valorise: to set a fixed arbitrary .

valorise: to set a fixed arbitrary price.

Wallydrag - feeble or worthless person or animal

xebec: small three-masted pirate ship

Yakow: animal crossbred from male yak and domestic cow.

zamacueca: Chilean dance where partners move around each other

Azimuth: arc of the horizon.

bantling - brat; whelp; bastard child

Cairngorm: yellow-brown quartz.

Dapperwit A quick-witted, lively young man.

éclaircissement: clarification; enlightenment

Falsiloquence: deceitful speech.

gallophobia fear of France or the French

haemathermal: warm-blooded

iconomachy opposition to the worship of images or icons

janiform: having two faces

Kenophobia: fear of empty spaces.

lanuginose downy; covered with fine soft hair