- acoustic - relating to sound or the sense of hearing.
- alcove - a recess, typically in the wall of a room or of a garden.
- alpenglow - the rosy light of the setting or rising sun seen on high mountains.
- anagapesis - the feeling when one no longer loves someone they once did.
- aorta - the main artery of the body, supplying oxygenated blood to the circulatory system.
- arabesque - an ornamental design of intertwined flowing lines, originally found in Arabic or Moorish decoration.
- aubade - a love song which is sung at dawn.
- ayurnamat - the philosophy that there is no point in worrying about events that cannot be changed.
- baisemain - a kiss on the hand.
- baroque - relating to or denoting a style of European architecture, music, and art of the 17th and 18th centuries that followed mannerism and is characterized by ornate detail.
- basorexia - an overwhelming desire to kiss.
- beguile - charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive way.
- bequeath - leave (a personal estate or one's body) to a person or other beneficiary by a will.
- besotted - intoxicated; drunk.
- blithe - showing a casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper.
- brontide - the low rumbling of distant thunder.
- calamity - an event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster.
- capernoited - slightly intoxicated or tipsy.
- cataglottism - kissing with tongue.
- cathartic - providing psychological relief through the expression of strong emotions; causing catharsis.
- clandestine - kept secret or done secretively, esp. because illicit.
- concilliabule - a secret meeting of people who are hatching a plot.
- conundrum - a confusing and difficult problem or question.
- dalliance - a casual romantic or sexual relationship.
- demure - shyness and modesty; reserved.
- drapetomania - overwhelming urge to runaway.
- druxy - something which looks good on the outside, but is actually rotten inside.
- duende - unusual power to attract or charm.
- dysphoria - unwell feeling.
- dystopia - an imaginary place of total misery. A metaphor for hell.
- elixir - a magical or medicinal potion.
- ennui - listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement.
- ephemeral - lasting a very short time; short-lived.
- escapism - mental desire to retreat from unpleasant realities through fantasy.
- ethereal - extremely delicate, heavenly or celestial.
- gargalesthesia - the sensation caused my tickling.
- gossamer - a fine, filmy substance consisting of cobwebs spun by small spiders, which is seen esp. in autumn.
- harbinger - a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another.
- harpsichord - a keyboard instrument with horizontal strings that run perpendicular to the keyboard in a long tapering case, and are plucked by points of quill, leather, or plastic operated by depressing the keys.
- juniper - an evergreen shrub or tree.
- lalochezia - the use of abusive language to relieve stress or ease pain.
- lithe - thin, supple, and graceful.
- lucid - showing ability to think clearly.
- lypophrenia - feeling of sadness seemingly without a cause.
- malapert - clever in manners of speech.
- mamihlapinatapei - the look between two people in which each loves the other but is too afraid to make the first move.
- menagerie - a collection of wild animals kept in captivity for exhibition.
- nequient - not being able.
- nostalgia - a sentimental longing for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.
- oblivion - being completely forgotten.
- paralian - a person who lives near the sea.
- perantique - very antique or ancient.
- petrichor - the pleasant smell that accompanies the first rain after a dry spell.
- plethora - an excess of.
- redamancy - act of loving in return.
- riparian - of, relating to, or situated on the banks of a river.
- ripple - to form small waves or undulations, as water agitated by a breeze.
- sabaism - worship of stars.
- saudade - melancholic feeling of incompleteness, the absence of someone.
- serendipity - the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
- sphallolalia - flirtatious talk that leads no where.
- stardust - a magical or charismatic quality or feeling.
- strikhedonia - the pleasure of being able to say “to hell with it”.
- succumb - fail to resist (pressure, temptation, or some other negative force).
- susurrous - whispering or rustling sounds. vacivity - emptiness.
- susurrus - whispering, murmuring, or rustling.
- vernacular - the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.
- vespertine - of, relating to, occurring, or active in the evening.
- wanderlust - a strong desire to travel.
- wanweird - an unhappy fate.
- whimsical - playfully quaint or fanciful, esp. in an appealing and amusing way.
- yearling - an animal (esp. a sheep, calf, or foal) a year old, or in its second year.
- yearning - have an intense feeling of loss or lack and longing for something.
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