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Knoword | Expand your vocabulary!
Knoword is a game of quick thinking, smart decisions and great words. When you begin, you will be given one randomly generated dictionary definition along with the first letter of its corresponding word. You must fill in the rest of the word to experience a gain in points and an added time bonus.
Confusing Words
Confusing Words is a collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused. Click the Confusing Words logo to return to this page. Click About Confusing Words below for help finding the words you're looking for, contact information, and for a history of this project.
Random Word Generator (Plus)
This page generates a random word based on the parameters you specify. If you want to just generate a random, fairly common noun, try Random Word Generator . To use this page, use the Word Type drop down list to select the type of word you want to generate. Use the Complexity drop down list to select the maximum complexity/obscurity of the word.
Word Spy
n . A senior job or important project, particularly one given to a woman, with a high risk of failure (cf. glass ceiling ). The Glass Cliff has been demonstrated in a number of fields, including FTSE 100 companies, British politics, law and policing, and the research suggests that precarious Glass Cliff positions may be particularly prevalent in male-dominated fields such as ship-ping, logistics and transport.The Simple Story Project has been migrated to deviantart, a site on which Luc has an account. ( link to Luc’s account ) You can read the rules in a journal post Luc made . a phoneme that combines a plosive with an immediately following fricative or spirant sharing thesame place of articulation, e.g., ch as in chair and j as in jar.
Randomly Awesome Words
The Upper Midwest's third-largest compendium of the outer spatters of the emotional palette. Our mission is to harpoon, bag and tag wild sorrows, then release them back into the subconscious. Each definition is written by John Koenig, and is intended to be read at night. Give feedback, tell us about your day or suggest a new word at obscuresorrows@gmail.com . By including your name and hometown you are granting us the right to like you, to reply, and to forever enshrine your name in the tags. Want a fun and easy way to get a supple, sexy vocabulary in time for swimsuit season?
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Unusual Words A by no means exhaustive list of rare, obscure, strange and sometimes funny words and their meanings that only seem to crop up in crosswords and dictionaries. Words that are used so seldom, you wonder who invented them and why.
Unusual Words
"53 Slang Terms by Decade"
Every generation has its slang -- new words and phrases that allow kids to communicate without their parents understanding. Read on to learn some of the most popular slang terms through the decades.
Internet Anagram Server
You can also get anagrams by email. Send a blank message to wsmith@wordsmith.org with the subject line as "anagram myword" (where myword is the word you want to anagram).
The 100 Most Beautiful Words in English
ere are the 100 most beautiful words in English. How do we know we have the most beautiful? They were chosen by Robert Beard, who has been making dictionaries, creating word lists, and writing poetry for 40 years. For five years he wrote the Word of the Day at yourDictionary.com and since 2004 he has written up 1500 words in the series, So, What's the Good Word?
If you know another word whose meaning is entirely different and preferably of a different root in English and German but whose spelling is the same ("false cognate"), please send me email .
Funny words English vs. German
Here's a bunch of words that, by themselves, have a handful of meanings. Because of this flexibility, they can be instrumental in titles for your songs/poems/stories/etc.
Ambiguous Words
Mr. William Jefferson Clinton, former President of these United States of America = Monica flirts. Wife sees hot jism from cad land on fat intern, set to rule free empire