I've come to realise this list may never end as it is added to daily. An obvious preference toward certain letters has also been brought to my attention...

  • acerbic
  • acosmism - n. a philosophy in which nothing is real but the Absolute
  • acquiesce
  • acrid
  • acrimony
  • aegis
  • ailurophile
  • altruistic
  • ambulatory
  • ameliorate
  • anagapesis
  • anaphora - n. repetition of a word or phrase in poetry or prose
  • anathema
  • animadversions
  • anomie
  • antediluvian
  • appellation
  • appoggiaturas - also called "grace notes"
  • apropos
  • ardour
  • arrhythmia
  • assemblage
  • astute
  • aubade - n. love song which is sung at dawn
  • aureate - adj. elaborately wordy prose; golden
  • austere
  • avarice
  • avuncular
  • bacchanalia
  • bailiwick
  • baleful
  • balustrade
  • basorexia - n. a hunger for kissing
  • behoove
  • beleaguer
  • bellicose
  • berated
  • bluestocking
  • boustrophedon
  • braggadocio
  • Brobdingnagian
  • brood
  • brouhaha
  • brusque
  • bucolic
  • buoy
  • calibre
  • catharsis
  • cede
  • chatoyant
  • chiaroscuro
  • clandestine
  • colloquialism
  • concupiscence
  • connoisseur
  • convalescence
  • convivial
  • crass
  • curmudgeon
  • cynosure
  • demesne
  • demure
  • denouement
  • desuetude
  • desultory
  • diaphanous
  • dint
  • dissemble
  • dulcet
  • dwale - n. a sleeping potion; belladonna or deadly nightshade
  • dwalen - v. to stray or wander
  • dysphoria - n. an emotional state of restlessness or anxiety
  • ebullience
  • echelon
  • edification
  • effervescent
  • efflorescence
  • effuse
  • egregious
  • eigengrau - n. the fuzzy grey that's seen in the dark
  • eke
  • elision
  • elixir
  • eloquence
  • elucidate
  • embrocation
  • emollient
  • ennui
  • ephemeral
  • epicaricacy - n. schadenfreude
  • epiphany
  • ersatz
  • erstwhile
  • esoteric
  • ethereal
  • eumoirous - n. happiness from being innocent and wholesome
  • evanescent
  • evocative
  • excrescences
  • extemporaneous
  • felicity
  • firmament
  • fisticuffs
  • forbearance
  • fortuitous
  • frabjous - adj. "O frabjous day!" from Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky
  • frenetic
  • frileux - adj. sensitive to cold
  • frutescent
  • fugacious
  • furtive
  • gambol
  • gossamer
  • grandiloquent - adj. pompous in language or manner so as to impress, magniloquent
  • grandiose
  • haberdashery
  • halcyon
  • harbinger
  • heliolatry - n. worship of the sun; sunbathing
  • holocene
  • hubris
  • hypophrenia - n. a feeling of sadness seemingly without cause
  • ignominious
  • illicit
  • imbrication
  • imbroglio
  • imbue
  • incipient
  • ineffable
  • inexorable
  • inglenook
  • insouciance
  • inure
  • iota
  • irascible
  • jackanapes - n. an impertinent person or tame monkey
  • jejune - adj. naive; uninteresting ideas or writings
  • ken
  • kismet
  • labyrinthine
  • lagniappe
  • lagoon
  • lamentation
  • languorous
  • lassitude
  • legion
  • leisure
  • licentious
  • lilt
  • lissome
  • listlessness
  • litany
  • macrocosm
  • maelstrom
  • magnanimous
  • mamihlapinatapai - n. a look shared by two people both wishing the other would initiate what both desire but neither will start
  • maudlin
  • melee
  • mellifluous
  • mélomane - n. music lover
  • mercurial
  • mien
  • mimp - v. to pucker or purse one's lips
  • moiety
  • mondegreen
  • moribund
  • moue
  • multifarious
  • murmurous
  • nascent
  • nebulous
  • nemesis
  • neophyte
  • obfuscation
  • ombre
  • onus
  • oporopolist
  • opulent
  • orifice
  • panacea
  • paradigm
  • paralian - n. someone who lives near the sea
  • pastiche
  • penumbra
  • percipient
  • percolating
  • peregrination
  • persnickety
  • pervigilo - v. to lie awake all night
  • petrichor
  • pettifogging - adj. petty; of a person: placing undue emphasis on petty details
  • pica
  • pontificate
  • proclivity
  • profligate
  • propinquity
  • pulchritude
  • pusillanimous
  • pyrrhic
  • quintessential
  • rapacious
  • ravel
  • reconnaissance
  • redolent
  • redamancy
  • remonstrance
  • restitution
  • reticent
  • rictus
  • rimjhim
  • riparian
  • riposte
  • sabaism - n. worship of the sun, moon, and stars
  • saccharine
  • sacrosanct
  • sanguineous
  • saturnine
  • scarper
  • schadenfreude - n. pleasure felt at another's misfortunes
  • scintilla
  • scunnered
  • sedition
  • sempiternal
  • sequester
  • seraglio
  • seraphic
  • serendipity
  • sobriquet
  • solicitous
  • soliloquy
  • somnambulist
  • somnolent
  • soporific - adj. sleep inducing
  • sordid
  • squiriferous
  • striation
  • supercilious
  • surreptitious
  • susurrus
  • sybaritic
  • sycophant
  • synapse
  • tacenda - n. things better left unsaid; matters to be passed over in silence
  • taciturn
  • talisman
  • tetchy
  • tintinnabulation
  • torrential
  • toska - Vladmir Nabokov: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom."
  • tryst
  • ubiquitous
  • unguent
  • untoward
  • vacuity
  • velocipede
  • verbose
  • verisimilitude
  • vermiform
  • vestigial
  • visceral
  • vitriol
  • vituperative
  • volatile
  • wabi-sabi - Japanese aesthetic partly centering on acknowledgment that nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect
  • wafture
  • weltschmertz
  • wherewithal
  • winsome
  • woebegon
  • wont
  • zephyr
  • zeppelin
apr 9 2011 ∞
aug 25 2014 +