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borborygmus (The medical term for the rumbling sound your stomach makes. Plural: borborigmi. Adjective: borborigmic)
 
tatterdemalion (a tattered or ragged person)

I'll frippery the villain; I'll reduce him to frippery and rags, a tatterdemalion !
-Lady Wishfort inthe play The Way of the World by William Congreve
 
Quartodeciman (having to do with the number 14 (from the Latin word "quartodecima", meaning fourteen) it was mainly used of those early Christians who continued to keep Passover as a remembrance of Christs crucifixion, as opposed to those who wanted to move it to the Friday before the Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox.)
 
labarum ... (moral standard; ecclesiatical banner bearing Christ's monogram) ...
 
Rhinotillexomania (You're not going to believe this...)

RHINOTILLEXOMANIA
Habitual or obsessive nose-picking.
This word had its fifteen minutes of fame at the IgNobel awards at Harvard University in October 2001. These annual ceremonies recognise research that, in the words of the organisers, “cannot or should not be reproducedâ€. The award for Public Heath went to an article, A Preliminary Survey of Rhinotillexomania in an Adolescent Sample, which was published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry back in April. The judges described this as a “probing medical discovery that nose-picking is a common activity among adolescentsâ€.

Rhinotillexomania looks like an example of word invention for its own sake, but it has appeared a few times in scientific publications. I haven’t been able to trace it back very far; an early example commonly referred to is a postal survey carried out by two Wisconsin researchers in 1994; this was written up in 1995, also in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, which seems to have a near corner on the term.

The word seems to have been invented in imitation of trichotillomania, an older term for a compulsive desire to pull out one’s hair. This comes, in part, from Greek tillesthai, to pull out. The new word should have been rhinotillomania (from the classical Greek rhis, rhin–, meaning nose), but its authors, unversed in classical Greek, added an unnecessary –exo– (from Greek exo, outside).​
 
literally just read that word about an hour ago :o

lachrymogenic ... (causing tears or weeping) ...
 
lipogrammist (a person who writes lipograms.)

A lipogram is a written work composed of words chosen so as to avoid the use of one or more specific alphabetic characters. Here is one example that completely avoids the letter E, which is the most common letter in the English language.

A jovial swain may rack his brain,
and tax his fancy’s might,
To quiz in vain, for ’tis most plain,
That what I say is right.
 
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