The foam on beer
Punt
The indent on the bottom of a wine bottle
Griffonage
illegible handwriting
Armscye
The armhole in clothing.
Wamble
A stomach rumble.
Rhinotillexomania
Obsessive nose picking
Petrichor
The smell after rain.
Caruncula
The small triangular bump on the inside corner of your eye.
Apricity
The feeling of being outside on a cold day but feeling the warmth of the sun.
Mondegreen
Misheard lyrics.
Rectal Tenesmus
The feeling of.. um… incomplete defecation.
Grawlix
A string of typographical symbols that is used to indicate profanity.
Feat
A dangly piece of curly hair.
Skeuomorph
A design feature copied from a similar artifact in another item, even when not necessary. For example, copper color on pennies, the shutter sound on a digital camera, or the notepad paper design on your iPhone.
Parasthesia
That pins and needles feeling you get when a body part falls asleep.
Peen
The side opposite the hammer’s hitting side.
Muntin
The strip separating window panes.
Semantic Satiation
That feeling when you say a word too many times and it loses it’s meaning.
Acnestis
The area that’s hard to reach between your shoulder blades.
Scroop
The rustling swooshy sound that ball gowns make.
Biblioklept
A compulsive book thief or hoarder.
Zugzwang
When you’re playing chess and every possible move is to your disadvantage.
Desire path
A path created naturally because it’s “the shortest or easiest” way.
Semordnilap
A word that reads one way forward and another way backward. For example, “desserts,” “diaper” and “parts.”
(It’s literally “palindromes” backwards.)
Dysania
The difficulty of getting out of bed in the morning.
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