80 Most Complex Terms

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A complete list of 80 complex words in spelling, pronunciation and and definitions. They are some of the most difficult words know in the English language vocabulary and some of the most unknown words.
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  1. captious
    tending to find and call attention to faults
  2. bibulous
    given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol
  3. malapropism
    misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar
  4. tricorn
    cocked hat with the brim turned up to form three points
  5. tenebrous
    dark and gloomy
  6. braggadocio
    vain and empty boasting
  7. bruit
    tell or spread rumors
  8. embonpoint
    the bodily property of being well rounded
  9. pabulum
    insipid intellectual nourishment
  10. parlay
    exploit a skill or resource in order to get something of greater value
  11. pother
    an excited state of agitation
  12. valetudinarian
    weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health
  13. legerdemain
    an illusory feat
  14. cantle
    the back of a saddle seat
  15. estivation
    cessation or slowing of activity during the summer
  16. myrmidon
    a follower who carries out orders without question
  17. regnant
    exercising power or authority
  18. terpsichorean
    a performer who dances professionally
  19. clerisy
    an educated and intellectual elite
  20. deracinate
    move or be moved to a new environment, often forcibly
  21. oneiromancy
    divination through the interpretation of dreams
  22. tatterdemalion
    a dirty shabbily clothed person
  23. caitiff
    despicably mean and cowardly
  24. funambulist
    an acrobat who performs on a tightrope or slack rope
  25. pule
    cry weakly or softly
  26. sparge
    agitate by introducing air or compressed gas
  27. uxoricide
    the murder of a wife by her husband
  28. antediluvian
    any of the early patriarchs prior to the Noachian deluge
  29. xanthosis
    an abnormal yellow discoloration of the skin
  30. chiaroscuro
    the arrangement or interplay of light and dark in an artwork
  31. logorrhea
    pathologically excessive and often incoherent talking
  32. succedaneum
    something that can be used as a substitute
  33. autochthonous
    of rocks, deposits, etc.
  34. appoggiatura
    an embellishing note usually written in smaller size
  35. recalcitrant
    marked by stubborn resistance to authority
  36. ostensible
    represented or appearing as such; pretended
  37. pejorative
    expressing disapproval
  38. verisimilitude
    the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true
  39. denizen
    a person who inhabits a particular place
  40. avuncular
    resembling an uncle in kindness or indulgence
  41. eschew
    avoid and stay away from deliberately
  42. quisling
    someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force
  43. plaudit
    enthusiastic approval
  44. transmogrify
    change completely the nature or appearance of
  45. paucity
    an insufficient quantity or number
  46. junta
    a group of officers who rule a country after seizing power
  47. Daedal
    an Athenian inventor who built the labyrinth of Minos
  48. equipoise
    equality of distribution
  49. daedal
    complex and ingenious in design or function
  50. antiestablishmentarianism
    the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment
  51. pneumonoconiosis
    chronic respiratory disease caused by inhaling metallic or mineral particles
  52. Juniperus communis depressa
    a procumbent variety of the common juniper
  53. deoxyguanosine monophosphate
    one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA
  54. Echinochloa crusgalli
    a coarse annual panic grass
  55. Vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis
    South American bean having very long succulent pods
  56. advantageous
    appropriate for achieving a particular end
  57. ameliorate
    make better
  58. cognizant
    having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization
  59. commencement ceremony
    an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred
  60. commensurateness
    the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount
  61. acumen
    shrewdness shown by keen insight
  62. effete
    excessively self-indulgent, affected, or decadent
  63. lugubrious
    excessively mournful
  64. Parseeism
    the faith of a Zoroastrian sect in India
  65. vena anastomotica
    either of two communicating veins serving the brain
  66. mealie
    an ear of corn
  67. dicarboxylic
    containing two carboxyls per molecule
  68. sial
    the granitelike rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust; rich in silicon and aluminum
  69. Ural-Altaic
    a (postulated) group of languages including many of the indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian)
  70. bain-marie
    a large pan that is filled with hot water
  71. Illampu
    a mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (20,870 feet high)
  72. IX
    the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one
  73. earreach
    the range within which a voice can be heard
  74. Pamlico
    a member of the Algonquian people formerly of the Pamlico river valley in North Carolina
  75. Nicandra physaloides
    coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry
  76. xanthoma
    a skin problem marked by the development (on the eyelids and neck and back) of irregular yellow nodules; sometimes attributable to disturbances of cholesterol metabolism
  77. xanthophyll
    yellow carotenoid pigments in plants and animal fats and egg yolks
  78. Zamiaceae
    a family of cycads often included in the family Cycadaceae: zamias
  79. anathema
    a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
  80. calumny
    a false accusation of an offense
Created on Mon Oct 21 23:24:37 EDT 2013 (updated Thu Oct 24 10:14:30 EDT 2013)

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