Things

• anthrozoology - study of interaction between living things (interdisciplinary field), primarily human-animal relationships
• bezoar - indigestible mass of material found in stomachs/intestines of some animals
• choropleth map - a thematic map in which areas are shaded or patterned in proportion to the measurement of the statistical variable being displayed on the map, such as population density or per-capita income
• clerisy - intelligentsia
• clinamen - an inclination or a bias (originally: Lucretius term for the unpredictable swerve of atoms)
• delenda - things to be blotted out or erased
• denouement - point in plot that occurs after climax; final resolution/outcome
• dingbat - ornament, character or spacer used in typesetting (sometimes more formally known as a printer's ornament/printer's character)
• dornick - a stone of a suitable size for throwing
• duende - the power to attract through personal magnetism and charm
• extropic systems - near-equilibrium sustainable systems, running in the opposite direction of entropic systems; built-up complexity, sustained on the edge of collapse (seen in formation of galaxies, planets, life, intelligence, technology)
• famulus - private secretary or other close attendant
• festschrift - memorial or complimentary volume issued in honor of a scholar
• furrawn - the kind of talk that leads to intimacy (Welsh)
• gallimaufry - hodgepodge; jumble; mixture of diverse things
• hyperbaton - a figure of speech in which two ordinary associated words are attached; or more generally all different figures of speech which transpose/invert natural word order in sentences
• isobront - line on map passing through points at which first peal of thunder is heard
• keld - a well, fountain, spring; a deep, still, smooth part of a river
• kith - friends and neighbors
• lacuna - blank space or missing part; gap
• lagniappe - a small gift given a customer by a merchant at the time of purchase
• last universal common ancestor (LUCA) - an enormous mega-organism, common ancestor to all life on earth
• lemniscate - may refer to any of several figure-eight or ∞-shaped curves
• labyrinthitis - a swelling of the inner ear that interferes with the body’s ability to hear and balance and causes intermittent attacks of vertigo and nausea
• lucubration - study; meditation
• mimesis - imitation; mimicry
• numen - spiritual force or influence often identified with a natural object, phenomenon or place; a guiding principle, force, or spirit; creative energy/genius
• oneironauts - explorers of the dream world (used in reference to lucid dreamers)
• paracosm - a richly detailed imaginary/fantasy world, involving humans and/or animals, or perhaps even fantasy or alien creations; having its own geography, history, and language
• pelf - money; riches
• petard - small bell-shaped bomb used to breach gate or wall; loud firecracker
• quidam - someone; an anonymous or unknown person
• quincunx - five points - four in square w/ one in center
• schwa - toneless/unstressed neutral vowel
• stases - the fulfilments of the purposes of a text
• syzygy - straight line configuration of three celestial bodies
• telos - an ultimate end
• trema - two dots over letter (umlaut/diaeresis)
• tyro - a beginner in learning; a novice
• zoonoses - animal infections that spill into people

Concepts

• bathos - in speech or writing, a ludicrous descent from sublime to commonplace; anticlimax
• comity - friendly social atmosphere; social harmony
• congeries - aggregation; collection
• dialogismus - speaking as someone else, either to bring in others' points of view into one's own speech, or to conduct a pseudo-dialogue through taking up an opposing position with oneself
• eigenclass - "In object-oriented programming…an abstract structure that constitutes a fundamental part of the object model using the concept of eigenclasses. Eigenclasses are auxiliary (mostly just fictitious) class-like objects that establish infinite regress via the eigenclass map: for every object x, the eigenclass of x is the unique own meta-object of x that is one meta-level higher than x"
• ennead - a group of nine
• euthymia - well-being of the soul; pleasant state of mind; serenity
• eversion - the process of turning inside-out
• hebdomad - a group of seven; a period of seven days
• hylozoism - philosophical point of view that all matter is in some sense alive
• haecceity - property that uniquely identifies an object; "thisness"
• legerity - alert, facile quickness of mind or body
• metanoia - a change of mind; a transformative change of heart or spiritual conversional
• multiliteracy - the concept of understanding information through various methods of communication...
• nodus - complication; difficulty
• ontic - of, relating to, or having real being
• quondam - former; sometime
• quale - a property considered apart from things having the property; a universal
• speleology - the scientific study of caves and other karst [Karst topography is a geological formation shaped by the dissolution of a layer or layers of soluble bedrock] features, their make-up, structure, physical properties, history, life forms, and the processes by which they form (speleogenesis) and change over time (speleomorphology)
• syntony - the state of being normally responsive to and in harmony with the environment
• rhetorical velocity - a term used to describe how rhetoricians may strategically theorize and anticipate the third party recomposition of their texts
• transduction - the process of reshaping of information from one mode to another...
• zeugma - use of a word to modify or govern two or more words (each in different sense)

Verbs

• lucubrate - to stay up late to study
• lulliloo - to welcome with a joyful song
• macarize - to pronounce happy or blessed
• obnubilate - becloud

Adjectives and Adverbs

• aleatory - dependent on chance, luck, or an uncertain outcome
• daedal - intricate; skillful, artistic; adorned with many things
• eidetic - of, pertaining to, or constituting visual imagery vividly experienced and readily reproducible with great accuracy and in great detail
• ergodic - in literature, refers to a text that requires nontrivial effort to traverse
• haptic - relating to/based on the sense of touch
• lambent - playing lightly on or over a surface; flickering
• ludic - of, relating to, or characterized by play or playfulness
• macaronic - involved/characterized by mixture of languages; mixed or jumbled
• oneiric - of or relating to dreams
• orotund - marked by fullness, strength and clarity of sound; sonorous
• selcouth - strange; unusual; rare; wondrous; marvelous
• sidereal - of/relating to/expressed in terms of stars or constellations; astral
• stochasticity - the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan; randomness
• sybaritic - furnishing gratification of the senses; hedonistic/voluptuous/luxurious
• tellurian - of or relating to the earth
• wud - insane; mad