The Dictionary of Fallaciloquence

 
Word
 Definition
Abasement The action of abasing, lowering, casting down, or humbling, in rank or character; humiliation.
Abashance Abashment, dismay.
Abask In a basking position. To bask.
Abditive Having the power to hide, or hide something.
Abdominous Having a paunch, or big belly; corpulent.
Abear To carry; bear weight.
Abessive Applied to the case which denotes absence.
Abiotrophy Degeneration or progressive loss of function in a tissue or organ; a condition characterized by this.
Abirritate To cause diminution of irritation.
Abirritate To cause diminution of irritation.
Abiturient In Germany, a pupil who is leaving a gymnasium or high-school to enter a university.
Abject One cast off; a castaway, an outcast; a degraded person.
Ablactation The weaning of a child, or the young of quadrupeds, from the mother.
Ablepsia Blindness, physical or mental.
Abluent Washing away; carrying off impurities; abstergent.
Abnegate To renounce or abjure, as a tenet; to deny.
Abnegate Deny a right, privlege
Abodement A foreboding, presage, or omen.
Aborticide The killing of the yet born fetus, usually through medical means.
Abraid To wrench or pull out, to snatch, withdraw, draw.
Abroach Broached; pierced; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor. to set abroach: to broach, to pierce and leave running.
Abscission The action or process of abscinding; a cutting off or violent separation.
Absentaneous Performed in absence, alone, away from civility.
Absinthial Pertaining to wormwood; bitter.
Absolutism The practice of, or adherence to, the absolute, in theology, politics, or metaphysics.
Absolutory Of or pertaining to absolution; absolving.
Absonant Harsh, inharmonious; discordant or abhorrent to reason, nature, unreasonable, unnatural.
Absquatulate To make off, decamp. (Jocular word)
Absterge To wipe away; to wipe clean; to cleanse. Often used to purge.
Abusion Misuse, misapplication, perversion.
Abyssopelagic The great deep, the primal chaos; the bowels of the earth, the supposed cavity of the lower world; the infernal pit. Abyss. Depth.
Acanthous A small spiny-finned, shark-like fossil fish of the genus.
Accipitral Of the nature of a falcon or hawk; rapacious; keen-sighted. See well.
Accolent Nearby, Neighbour
Accubation The posture of reclining at table, practised by many ancient nations.
Acerbate Embittered, exasperated; severe.
Acerebral No brain, idiotic, stupid
Acidulous Slightly sour, sourish, sub-acid.
Acoupe Accuse, Blame
Acquest A thing acquired, an acquisition.
Acrasial Disordered, Excessive
Acratia Impotence
Acroamatic Of or pertaining to hearing; hence, privately communicated by oral teaching to chosen disciples only; esoteric, secret.
Acyrology Incorrect use of language.
Adamantine Made of, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; immovable, impregnable.
Adespota Literary works not attributed to (or claimed by) an author. Anonymous
Adharma Near, to dwell nearby.
Adipescent Becoming Fat
Adjudge To settle, determine, or decide, judicially; to adjudicate upon.
Adjutor A helper, assistant.
Adjuvant Assisting, aiding, helpful, auxiliary
Adnascent Growing on another.
Adonise To make an Adonis of; to adorn; to dandify.
Adpress To press closely to a surface, to lay flat.
Adscititious Assumed, adopted from without; taken in to complete something else, though originally extrinsic; supplemental; additional.
Adventitious Appearing casually, or out of the normal or usual place.
Advert To turn one\’s attention; to take notice, take heed, attend, pay attention.
Advesperate Evening, towards night.
Adynamia The want of vital power, which accompanies some fevers; physical prostration.
Aeolistic Long winded. Talking too much.
Aeviternal Everlasting, endless, eternal.
Aeviternity Eternal existence, everlasting duration; eternity.
Affaire de amour A one night stand
Afore Before. Of place: In front, in advance; in or into the fore-part.
Aforesaid Of place: In front, in advance; in or into the fore-part.
Agersia Not aging. Older.
Agnize To recognize, remember.
Agnosy Loss of perception
Agone Ago
Agonistic To annoy endlessly.
Agrypnia Wakefulness, sleeplessness, insomnia
Agrypnia Wakefulness, sleeplessness.
Aiue Old, older, senior
Alack Sorrow or grief
Alacrity Briskness, cheerful readiness, liveliness, promptitude, sprightliness.
Alethiology The doctrine of truth, that part of logic which treats of truth.
Algid Cold, chill, chilly; especially pertaining to or designating the cold stage of an ague.
Algolagnia A form of sexual perversion where pain evokes pleasure.
Allodic Of or pertaining to an allodium; held in absolute ownership.
Allogeneous Of different nature, diverse in kind.
Allotriophagy Craving for random, almost strange food.
Alluvion The wash or flow of the sea against the shore, or of a river on its banks.
Alogism Illogical, irrational statement, alogical.
Alterity The state of being other or different; diversity, otherness.
Alternatim Alternation
Altiloquence High speech, pompous language.
Amadelphous Outgoing
Amatorious Sexual desire and love
Amicicide Of or pertaining to private friendship, friendly.
Amphigory Nonsense, Nonsensical, Rhetorical nonsense – nonsense on stilts!
Analgia Unable to feel pain.
Anandrious Without virility; impotent.
Androphagy Man-eating, anthropophagous, a cannibal.
Anent About, in-regards.
Anhelation A breathing with difficulty, panting; shortness of breath, asthma.
Anomia A form of aphasia characterized by inability to recall the names of objects.
Anomic Lack of laws, order, control.
Anon At once, immediately.
Antapology Response to an apology.
Antepast Something taken before a meal to whet the appetite: a foretaste.
Anthropopagy Cannibalism
Antilogy A contradiction in terms, or ideas.
Antiperistasis Opposition or contrast of circumstances; the force of contrast or contrariness; resistance or reaction roused against any action.
Antiquity The quality of being old or ancient; long standing, oldness, ancientness.
Antithalian Opposed to enjoyment, fun and festivity.
Anuptaphobia On the top of, upon, both of position and direction.
Apert Openly Public
Aphrodisiomania Venereal; having a venereal tendency.
Apophthegm Brief saying
Aporia A perplexing difficulty.
Aporia Insoluble Difficulty; digure of speech doubtful
Appetence The action of seeking for or longing after; appetite, desire.
Applanate Of a flattened or horizontally expanded form.
Apposite Appropriate
Approbation Borrow
Appropinquity Nearness, close
Aprique Sunny
Aprosexia Lack of interest and attention
Arduous Hard to accomplish or achieve; requiring strong effort; difficult, laborious, severe.
Argute Of taste: Sharp.
Aristarch A Critique
Aristarchy Ruled governance by the best
Asitia Loathing of food.
Assuetude Habit
Atactic Of language: not syntactic.
Athymia Despondency, dejection, melancholy, sad, depressed
Auspicate Good luck ritual
Autodidact Self-taught
Autolatry Self-worship
Avaunt Away
Avaunt Boast, hence
Axiopisty Trustworthy
Azuline Blue
Azymous Unleavened.
Bacchanal Indulging in drunken revelry; riotously drunken, roystering.
Badinage Jocular humour, to make fun of playfully.
Bahadur A great man, distinguished personage. Often affixed as a title to an officer\’s name.
Balneary A bath or bathing-place; a medicinal spring.
Baragouin Language so altered in sound or sense as to become generally unintelligible; jargon, double-Dutch.
Barathrum The abyss, hell.
Barbarocracy Government or rule by barbarians, as that of Italy by the German emperors.
Bathetic Analogy of pathetic; trivial and absurd
Battology Pointless repition of words
Battology A needless and tiresome repetition in speaking or writing.
Beatified Made supremely happy or blest.
Beblubbered Disfigured by blubbering; befouled with tears.
Behemoth Large and powerful
Bellipotent Mighty or powerful in war.
Belluine Brutal, beastlike
Beshrew Wish evil upon, curse
Bewray To accuse, malign, speak evil of.
Bibliognost One who knows books and bibliography. Well-read.
Bibliophagist A devourer of books.
Bibliophily A lover of books; a book-fancier.
Bibliophobia Dread of, or aversion to, books.
Bibulous Addicted to drinking or tippling alcohol.
Biduous Lasting for two days.
Bienseance Proper.
Bilious Choleric, wrathful, peevish, ill-tempered.
Billingsgate Scurrilous vituperation, violent abuse, swearing.
Biocentric Centring in life; regarding or treating life as a central fact.
Birsle Toast, scorch, warm
Bismer Shame, disgrace; reproach, mockery; scorn.
Bivious Having or offering two ways or courses.
Blandiloquence Smooth speech, flattering talk, a compliment.
Bletherskate A noisy talkative fellow; a talker of blatant nonsense.
Bodach A peasant, churl, a spectre.
Bodacious Remarkable, Bold, audacious, prodigious
Boethetic Helpful, curative.
Bombilate Bee Buzzing noise and sound
Borborology Filthy talk.
Borborygmus Stomach growling.
Bordereau A memorandum, detailed statement, schedule.
Bouleversemeant Tamult; Violent Uproar
Boutade A sally, a sudden outburst or outbreak.
Bovarism A romantic or unreal conception of oneself. Perception of oneself
Breviloquence Brevity of speech; laconism.
Brigue Intrigue.
Brimborion Nonsense, no use, trash, crap, shit
Brobdingnagian Giant, big, a lot, huge.
Bruxism Involuntary or unconscious grinding or clenching of the teeth.
Bumptious Offensively self-conceited; self-assertive.
Cacodoxy Wrong opinion or doctrine, heterodoxy.
Cacoepy Bad or erroneous pronunciation; opposed to orthoepy.
Cacogen Morbid or depraved formation; a monstrosity, a morbid pathological product.
Cacotopia Worst government. Everything is the worst possible.
Cafard Melancholia; depression
Calefacient Warming effect
Calumniate To asperse with calumny, utter calumny regarding; to accuse or charge falsely and maliciously with something criminal or disreputable; to slander.
Calumny False and malicious misrepresentation of the words or actions of others, calculated to injure their reputation; libellous detraction, slander.
Calvous Bald.
Camsteary Obstinately perverse, unruly, or wilful; fractious.
Canaille A contemptuous name given to the populace; the vile herd, vile populace; the rabble, the mob.
Canard False rumour and or story
Canoness A member of a college or community of women living under a rule, but not under a perpetual vow; hence, a woman holding a prebend or canonry in a female chapter.
Capacious Able to hold much; roomy, spacious, wide.
Capricious Characterized by play of wit or fancy; humorous, fantastic, ‘conceited’.
Captious Trivial objections and fault
Caritative Of charitable or benevolent tendency.
Carnaptious Irritable, quick-tempered, cantankerous, angry
Carnaptious Bad-tempered; quarrelsome; cantankerous.
Casuistry Often applied to a quibbling or evasive way of dealing with difficult cases of duty; sophistry.
Catachresis Improper use of words; application of a term to a thing which it does not properly denote; abuse or perversion of a trope or metaphor.
Cataphysical Against nature, unnatural; infra-natural.
Cautel Craftiness, a deceit; caution
Celsitude Exalted character, height tallness
Certes Of a truth, of a certainty, certainly, assuredly. Used to confirm a statement.
Chasmophilous A plant inhabiting the crevices of rocks.
Chimerical Of the nature of a chimera; vainly or fantastically conceived, imaginary, fanciful, visionary, fake, fiction
Circiter or Circa Around, round about, about.
Circumbendibus A roundabout process or method; a twist, turn; circumlocution.
Clerisy Cultured, smart group of people, intelligentsia
Clinquant littering with gold or silver, and hence with metallic imitations of these; tinselled.
Cloaca An underground conduit for drainage, a common sewer.
Cogent Constraining, impelling; powerful, forcible.
Cohibit To restrain, check; to restrict.
Colluctation A wrestling or struggling together; strife, conflict, opposition.
Commonition The action of reminding, instructing, or warning; a formal admonition or warning.
Commove To move violently, disturb, agitate, stir up, set in commotion.
compendious Containing the substance within small compass, concise, succinct, summary; comprehensive though brief.
Compotation Alcohol drinking party
Compunction Pricking or stinging of the conscience or heart; regret or uneasiness of mind consequent on sin or wrong-doing; remorse, contrition.
Conatus An effort, endeavour, striving.
Conclamation A loud calling out of many voices together.
Concresce To grow together, coalesce.
Concupiscent Horny
Condign Well-deserved, fitting
Congruous Suitable, fitting
Consectary A consequence, deduction, conclusion, corollary.
Consenescence The growing old together; general decay.
Conspurcation Defilement, pollution.
Constate To establish, ascertain, state.
Conticent Keeping silence, silent.
Contrectation Sexual foreplay, touching
Contrist Make sad, miserable, deject
Contrude Push together and crowd
Contumely Scornful, insulting, contemptuous and disgraceful treatment
Convalescent Recovering health and strength after illness; in the way of recovery; still in need of nursing. Sickness, illness
Copacetic Fine, excellent, going just right.
Corollary A proposition appended to another which has been demonstrated, and following immediately from it without new proof; an immediate inference, deduction, consequence.
Corpulent Having a fat stomach, or the colloquial gut.
Cotquean A woman to whom the manners of such a housewife are attributed; a coarse, vulgar, scolding woman, a low beldam.
Crapulous Drunk, hungover, intemperance from overdrinking
Crass Coarse, gross, dense, thick.
Crebrous Frequent.
Crepitus Farting, passing wind.
Crichton A person who excels in all kinds of studies and pursuits
Culorum Conculsion, moral
Curmudgeon Bad-tempered, angry mean-spirited and miserly
Cynosure Focus of attention, guiding star
Cyprian Prostitute
Dangleation Flirting
Dapatical Sumptuous, lavish, plentiful
Decrescent Less, decreasing
Deglute Swallow
Delibate Sip or taste
Deliquesce Dissolve, melt
Dentiloquy Speaking through clenched teeth
Deontology The science of duty; that branch of knowledge which deals with moral obligations; ethics.
Deordination Departure from ordinary or normal condition, as in physical deformity, decomposition, different.
Depurate Purified, cleansed, refined, clarified.
Deracinate Destroy, obliterate, eradicate
Desipient Foolish, silly, stupid
Despondency Sad, loss of hope
Despot An absolute ruler of a country; hence, by extension, any ruler who governs absolutely or tyrannically; any person who exercises tyrannical authority; a tyrant, an oppressor.
Despotism The rule of a despot; despotic government; the exercise of absolute authority.
Desuetude Disuse, discontinuance
Devoir To endeavor.
Diadrom A vibration of a pendulum.
Diallelus Reasoning in a circle.
Dictitate Declare
Didacticism The practice or quality of being didactic or aiming at the conveyance of instruction.
Diffidence Want of confidence or faith; mistrust, distrust, misgiving, doubt.
Dijudicate To Judge.
Dildo Bijoux Indiscrets
Dilogical Having a double meaning; equivocal.
Dilogy The use of an ambiguous or equivocal expression; the word or expression so used.
Dimane Originate from
Dioptric Capable of being seen through. Clear and translucent.
Discombobulate To disturb, upset, disconcert.
Discommodious Causing trouble or inconvenience; inconvenient; disadvantageous, troublesome.
Discursive Rambling
Disillude To free from illusion; to undeceive, disillusion.
Disparage To match unequally; to degrade or dishonour. Speak ill. Ridicule.
Dispendious Costly, expensive; lavish, extravagant.
Dispiteous Pitiless, merciless.
Displat Untangle, unplait, untwist
Dispurvey To rob or strip of provision; to render destitute.
Dissavage To civilize and tame
Dissight Unsightly, ugly, unpleasant
Dissimulate Conceal, disguise
Divagate Straym wander, digress
Doloriferous Causing pain.
Dolorific Causing or giving rise to pain; painful, grievous.
Dolosity Hidden spite, deceit
Draffish Worthless.
Dubitate Doubt.
Duncical Stupid.
Durity Hardness.
Dyslogy Censure, dispraise, unfavourable speech
Ebullition Sudden emotion, expression
Ecdysiast Stripper
Eclaircise To clear up.
Edacious Greedy.
Effable That can be, or may lawfully be, expressed or described in words.
Effrontery Shameless audacity, unblushing insolence.
Effulgent Brightly shining, radiant, brilliant
Egede Foolish, stupid, idiotic
Egregious Bad, outrageous, shocking, terrible
Eisegesis The interpretation of a word or passage by reading into it one\’s own ideas.
Eldritch Hideous, ugly, weird
Emphatic Of language, modes of statement or representation; also of tones, gesture
Enfundying Becoming cold, chilly, stiff and numb
Ephectic Sceptical
Epicene Both sexes related to or not used
Epilogation Summary, conclusion, finish
Epithet Characteristic, Features
Epoch A fixed point in the reckoning of time.
Eponym Something derived from the name of a person
Erotesis Question where the answer is not required
Erotomania Melancholy or madness arising from passionate love.
Erstwhile Some time ago.
Eructate Burp
Esculent Edible, fit to eat
Ethnocentrism Regarding one\’s own race or ethnic group as of supreme importance. Better than all others.
Eudemonic Happiness and well-being
Euphonious Sounding good, pleasant, harmonious
Euphuist Elegant high-flown style of writing or speech
Eutaxy Good or established order or arrangement.
Evanescent Fading quickly, transitory, fleeting, quickly, fast
Eviternal Eternally.
Excoriate Criticize
Excrementum cerebellum vincit Shit Head
Exiguous Insufficient, meagure, less than adequate
Exiguous Scanty in measure or number; extremely small, diminutive, minute.
Eximious Exellent, perfect
Eximious Excellent, distinguished, eminent.
Exlex Beyond the law, outside the law
Expatiate Speak or write in detail
Expatiate Widespread; laid at full length.
Expedite to clear up
Expergefacient Waking up, to awaken.
Expilation Pillage, plunder, destroy, spoliation
Expiscate Search, find
Facinorous Wicked, evil, nasty, brutish
Facultative Permissive as opposed to compulsory; hence of actions, conditions. An option.
Facundity Eloquence.
Fain Happily.
Famelic Starving, hungry, mouth-watering
Famicide A destroyer of one\’s reputation, slanderer.
Famulate To serve
Fantasticate To conceive or represent in the fancy; to fancy.
Fantigue A state of anxiety or excitement; an instance of this, esp. a fit of ill-humour.
Fantod A crotchety way of acting; a fad.
Farctate Stuffed, crammed or full; without vacuities.
Fardel A bundle, a little pack; a parcel.
Farouche Sullen, shy and repellent in manner.
Farraginous Miscellaneous, varied, unsorted
Fasces A bundle of rods bound up with an axe in the middle and its blade projecting. These rods were carried by lictors before the superior magistrates at Rome as an emblem of their power. The ensigns of authority or power.
Fastidious That creates disgust; disagreeable, distasteful, unpleasant, wearisome.
Fastuous Haughty, arrogant, pretentious, ostentatious.
Fatidical Gifted with the power of prophecy.
Fatuous Of persons, their actions, feelings, utterances, etc.: Foolish, vacantly silly, stupid, besotted.
Favela A shack, shanty; a slum.
Featous Of persons and their limbs: Well-formed, well-proportioned, handsome.
Feckless Of things: Ineffective, feeble, futile, valueless. Of persons, their actions and attributes: Destitute of vigour, energy, or capacity; weak, helpless.
Feculent Filthy, pollted, shit, sediment, faeces
Feculent Containing or of the nature of f�ces or dregs; abounding with sediment or impurities; thick, turbid. Now usually with stronger sense: Laden or polluted with filth; foul, fetid.
Fescennine Pertaining to or characteristic of Fescennia; usually in a bad sense, licentious, obscene, scurrilous. Swearing.
Fettered Hampered by disadvantageous conditions. Plagued by bad conditions.
Finical Of persons, their actions and attributes: Over-nice or particular, affectedly fastidious, excessively punctilious or precise, in speech, dress, manners, methods of work, etc. Also of things: Over-scrupulously finished; excessively or affectedly fine or delicate in workmanship.
Firmament Heaven, as the place where God dwells.
Fissility Divided, split.
Fissiparous Breaking up into pieces.
Flagitious Deeply wicked, criminal, infamous, shamefully discraceful
Flagitious Of persons: Guilty of or addicted to atrocious crimes; deeply criminal, extremely wicked.
Flammulated Of a reddish colour, ruddy.
Flexion Bent.
Flibbertigibbet A chattering or gossiping person; a flighty or frivolous woman.
Floccinaucinihilipilification The action or habit of estimating as worthless, inconsiderable, trifling and a matter of small consequence.
Flummery Mere flattery or empty compliment; nonsense, humbug, empty trifling.
Fluxional Variable.
Fogram Antiquated, old-fashioned, out of date.
Forecome To come before the usual time; to come early.
Forinsecal Alien, extrinsic; in, pertaining to, or coming from another country. Alterity or other.
Formication Insects, worms, snakes feeling and sensation which is illusory
Formosity Beauty, comeliness
Forsooth In-truth, truth fully said
Forthwith Immediately
Fortuity Fortuitous character, fortuitousness; accident, chance; an accidental occurrence. Occasionally used for: Appearance of fortuitousness or unstudiedness.
Foudroyant Thundering, stunning, noisy.
Fractious Refractory, unruly; now chiefly, cross, fretful, peevish; esp. of children.
Fragor A loud harsh noise, a crash.
Frangible Capable of being broken, breakable.
Fremescent Murmuring, growing noisy.
Friable Capable of being easily crumbled or reduced to powder; pulverizable, crumbly.
Frigiferous Bearing or bringing cold; cold.
Frigolabile Extreme coldness.
Frigorific Producing cold, freezing; cooling.
Frisson An emotional thrill.
Fritiniency Noise of animals.
Fugacious Of immaterial things: Tending to disappear, of short duration; evanescent, fleeting, transient, fugitive.
Fulgour A brilliant or flashing light; dazzling brightness, splendour.
Fullend Complete, end
Furfuraceous Scaly.
Furibund Furious, raging.
Futurition Existence or occurrence in the future; future existence or accomplishment.
Galimatias Meaningless talk, confused; gibberish
Gamic Having a sexual character; sexual.
Gaminesque A female gamin; an attractively pert, mischievous or elfish girl or young woman, usually small and slim.
Garrulousness Talking non-stop.
Gasconism Boastfulness.
Geromorphism Pertaining to the treatment of the aged.
Glabrous Free from hair, down, or the like; having a smooth skin or surface.
Glaireous Viscid or slimy.
Gluteus maximus Ass
Gnarchy Government where woman or women are in control
Gnathonical Sycophantic, fawning; mean, servile, cringing, or abject flatterer; a parasite, toady, lickspittle.
Goluptious Delightful, luscious.
Gormandizer Greedily eating and indulging in food
Gracility The state or character of being gracile; slenderness, leanness.
Gramercy Gratitude
Grandiloquent Grandiloquent language, usage of profound speech.
Grandisonant Stately-sounding.
Grapholagnia Looking at pornography
Gratuitous Freely bestowed or obtained; granted without claim or merit; provided without payment or return; costing nothing to the recipient; free.
Gratulatory Congratulatory, congratulations.
Gregarious Inclined to associate with others, fond of company. Friends, family.
Grobianism A clownish, slovenly person.
Groupuscule Small political group.
Guerdon A reward, requital, or recompense.
Gulosity Gluttony, greediness, voracity.
Habetate Dull
Habiliment Personal attire, clothing.
Halitosis An abnormally odorous condition of the breath; foul breath.
Hapaxanthous Flowering only once.
Harridan A haggard old woman; a vixen; a decayed strumpet, a usually a term of vituperation.
Hebdomadally Once a week; weekly.
Hebenon Poisonous juice.
Hebetude The condition or state of being blunt or dull; dullness, bluntness, obtuseness, lethargy.
Helminth A worm.
Helotry Class of slaves.
Hereinabove Here within, in here; in this place; in this passage, book, etc.
Heretofore Until now
Hetaera Prostitute.
Heterophemy The saying or writing of one word or phrase when another is meant.
Hirsuties Hairy.
Homogeneous Of one thing in respect of another, or of various things in respect of each other: Of the same kind, nature, or character; alike, similar, congruous.
Homologate To agree, confirm.
Honorificabilitudinity Honourableness.
Houghmagandy Fornication, voluntary sexual intercourse between a man and an unmarried woman; adultery.
Hubris Arrogant
Hyaline Glassy, transparent, see-through.
Hydatoid Watery.
Hydropic Insatiable thirst.
Hypnomogia Insomnia.
Ibidem In the same place.
Iconoclastic Attack tradition or beliefs
Idiocrasy Look, emotion, behaviour of a person
Idiologism Personal speech peculiarity, speaking same language bust differently.
Idoneous Suitable.
Ignavia Slow, sluggish, lazy.
Ignoscency Forgiveness; forgiving spirit.
Ignotism A mistake due to ignorance.
Illaqueate Lure, to trap, ensnare.
Illaudable Not laudable; unworthy of praise or commendation.
Illude To trick, impose upon, deceive with false hopes.
Imbreviate To put into the form of a brief; to enrol, register.
Immarcescible Unfading; incorruptible, imperishable.
Immeritous Undeserving, without merit.
Immorigerous Rude, bad, obstinate, disobedient
Impavid Fearless, undaunted.
Impecunious Having no money, penniless; in want of money.
Impedimenta Things which impede or encumber progress; baggage; travelling equipment.
Impedimenta Things which impede or encumber progress; baggage; traveling equipment.
Implacable That cannot be appeased; irreconcileable; inexorable: of persons, feelings.
Implex Involved; having a complicated plot.
Imprescriptible Not subject to prescription; that cannot in any circumstances be legally taken away or abandoned.
Impudicity Shamelessness, immodesty.
Impugn To fight against: to attack, assail, assault.
in coitu or actus coitus Sex
Inanition Emptiness, physical exhaustion
Incompossible Not possible together; that cannot exist or be true together; wholly incompatible or inconsistent.
Incrispated Wrinkled
Incubus A person or thing that weighs upon and oppresses like a nightmare.
Indagate To search into, investigate.
Indeffe Untiring
Indigence Want of the means of subsistence; straitened circumstances; poverty, penury, destitution.
Indiosyncrasy Characteristic, trait of a person. A mannerism.
Indolent Causing no pain, painless
Indurate Made hard, hardened.
Ineffable indescribable, too great
Ineluctable From which one cannot escape by struggling; not to be escaped from.
Inesculent Inedible.
Infandous Unspeakable, not to be spoken of; nefarious.
Infirmity Weakness or want of strength; lack of power to do something; inability.
Infructuous Not bearing fruit: unfruitful, barren. Unproductive of good results; fruitless.
Iniquity Unrighteous action or conduct; unrighteousness, wickedness, sin.
Inkhornism A learned or pedantic word or expression; an ink-horn term or phrase.
Innoxious Not noxious or hurtful; harmless, innocuous, innocent.
Inscient Not knowing; lacking knowledge; nescient, ignorant, an idiot.
Insidiate To lie in wait for; to plot against.
Insidious Full of wiles or plots; lying in wait or seeking to entrap or ensnare; proceeding or operating secretly or subtly so as not to excite suspicion; sly, treacherous, deceitful, underhand, artful, cunning, crafty, wily.
Insipience The quality of being insipient; lack of wisdom; unwisdom, foolishness.
Insouciance Carelessness, indifference, unconcern, bathetic.
Inspissate Thicken
Intempestive Untimely, unseasonable, inopportune.
Intenerate Soften.
Inter alia Among other things.
Inverecund Unashamed, unabashed.
inveterate That has existed or continued for a long time; of old standing; aged, old, adaged, antiquated
Ipseity Personal identity and individuality; selfhood.
Irascent Becoming angry; leading to anger.
Iterant Repeating, echoing.
Iterum Again.
Jactancy Boastfulness, vainglory; boasting.
Janiform Two-faced.
Jettatura The evil eye.
Juxtaposition Placing side-by-side.
Kalon Ideal beauty, not just skin deep.
Kalopsia Things appear more beautiful than they really are
Katzenjammer A hangover, or a symptom of one.
Kismet Fate, destiny.
Labyrinthine Having or consisting of many intricate turnings or windings.
Lacteous Milky.
Laeotropic Turning left.
Lapidate Death by stoning
Latrant Barking.
Latter The latter of two; the former part.
Lautitious Very expensive.
Leche cul Ass Kisser
Legerity Lightness.
Lenity Mercifulness
Lentitude Slowness.
Leptosome Lean, tall, skinny.
Leukorrhea White liquid from females, the female semen.
Libidinist Lustful person.
Limaceous Slimy and slug-like
Limous Muddy, slimy.
Lithoglyph An incision or engraving on stone; an incised or engraved stone; also, the art of engraving on precious stones.
Logophile Love of words.
Longanimity Patience.
Longueur A lengthy or tedious passage of writing.
Lubricious Lewd, smooth, slippery
Lubricious Slippery, smooth.
Lucifugous Avoiding the light.
Lucriferous Profitable.
Luctation Struggling.
Luculent Full of light; bright, clear, shining.
Ludibry Derision, contempt.
Luxuriant Producing abundantly, prolific.
Madid Wet, moist.
Malefic Productive of disaster or evil; baleful in effect or purpose.
Malversation Corrupt behaviour in position of trust
Mandament Command.
Manducate Eat
Manumission Freed from slavery, emancipation.
Maritodespotism Domination of wife by husband through fear
Meedless Undeserved.
Melanic Very dark, black.
Mellisonant Sweet-sounding, nice-sounding, pleasant to the ears.
Mendaciloquent Telling lies
Mendacity The quality of being mendacious; the tendency or disposition to lie or deceive; habitual lying or deceiving.
Menseful Behaved, polite, sensible, intelligent, hospitable
Mephitic Pestilential, noxious, poisonous smell.
Mephitis Foul smell, stench, noxious gas
Merde Crap
Metabasis Transition.
Metagnostic Incomprehensible.
Methysis Drunk.
Milquetoast A timid or unforthcoming person.
Minatory Threatening
Minimuscular Small, tiny.
Miserly Pertaining to or characteristic of a miser; niggardly, stingy.
Mollified Softened, rendered soft or supple.
Morology Foolish, nonsensical.
Morose Of persons, their attributes and actions: Sour-tempered, sullen, gloomy, and unsocial.
Morosophy One who is foolishly wise; a foolish pedant or would-be philosopher.
Mucedinous Having the character of mould; resembling mould.
Muliebrile Of persons: That has become like a woman: Womanish, unmanly, enervated, feeble; self-indulgent, voluptuous; unbecomingly delicate or over-refined.
Murcid Cowardly, lazy
Mussitation Murmur.
Mycterism Scoffing.
Myrmecoid Ant-line, small, tiny.
Neonate Newly born child.
Nepheloid Cloudy.
Nescience Ignorant, idiocy, lack of wisdom.
Nescient Ignorant.
Nexus Bond, link, Connexion.
Niaiserie Simplicity; foolishness; an instance of this.
Nihility The quality or state of being nothing; non-existence, nullity.
Nimiety Excess.
Noctivagous Wandering in the night
Noumenon Indescribable philosophy of Kant
Nugatory Futile, invalid, no importance
Nullibiety Nowhere, absent
Numinous awe-inspiring, amazing
Numquid An inquisitive person.
Nupson A simpleton and fool.
Obambulate Wander aimlessly
Obambulate To walk about; to wander hither and thither.
Obfuscate Obscure.
Obganiate To constantly repeat with the intent to annoy.
Oblectation Enjoyment, pleasure.
Oblivescence To forget.
Obluctation Striving or struggling against something; resistance, opposition.
Obolary Poor.
Obstreperous Characterized by great noise or outcry, esp. in opposition; clamorous, noisy; vociferous.
Odible Worthy of hatred.
Odious Deserving of hatred, hateful; causing or exciting hatred or repugnance, disagreeable, offensive, repulsive; exciting odium.
Oenophilist Wine lover
Oloquy Disparaging, abusive, derogatory manner of being spoken to
Omnicompetent Competent to deal with everything.
Onychophagia Biting finger nails
Onychophagist Nail biter.
Operose Made or done with, attended by, or involving, much labour; laborious; tedious; elaborate.
Oragious Stormy, tempestuous.
Orming Ungainly, awkward, clumsy
Oscitancy Yawning from boredom or dullness
Ostentatious Performed, exercised, or set forth in a way calculated to attract attention or admiration; boastful.
Otiose Lazy, serving no purpose, functionless, superfluous, indolent
Paedictcato Homosexual Engagement
Pandemian Vulgar.
Pansophy Pretension to universal knowledge.
Paralogise False reasoning.
Paralogism A fallacy
Parapraxis Error.
Paronomasia A playing on words which sound alike; a word-play; a pun.
Peccaminous Sinful.
Peirastic Experimental.
Pejorate Make worse or worsen.
Pejorative Tending to make worse; depreciatory
Pellucid Clear, Lucid
Pellucid Having the property of transmitting, or allowing the passage of, light; translucent, transparent; clear.
Penilingus Oral sex
Penultimate Second last
Peradventure Perhaps
Perduellion Treason.
Perdure To continue, endure, last on.
Peregal Equal.
Perfervid Eager.
Periculous Dangerous.
Peripatetic Wandering, meandering.
Perite Skilled
Perpending Thinking, considering, reflection
Perscrutation A thorough searching or investigation; careful scrutiny, examination.
Persiflage Teasing, flippant talk
Persiflage Light banter or raillery; bantering, frivolous talk; a frivolous manner of treating any subject.
Perspicacious Of clear or penetrating sight; clear-sighted.
Perspicuous Clearly expressed, easily understook
Pertinacity The quality of being pertinacious; resolute or stubborn adherence, as to an opinion, purpose, design, course of action, etc.; persistency; usually in a bad sense: perverse obstinacy or stubbornness; evil persistence.
Pervious Allowing of passage through; passable; affording passage or entrance; lying open.
Pessimal Worst or least favourable; that is at the worst possible extreme.
Pestilential Producing or tending to produce pestilence or epidemic; noxious to life or health; pestiferous.
Phallocrat Men are better than women because of their sex
Philoxenia A lover of hospitality to strangers.
Phlegmatic Not easily excited to feeling or action; lacking enthusiasm; cold, dull, sluggish, apathetic; cool, calm, self-possessed.
Phthartic Destructive, deadly.
Physiurgic Caused by nature.
Piacular Requiring or calling for expiation; sinful, wicked, culpable.
Pinguid Fat.
Pistic Pure and genuine
Planetic Erratic, erring, extravagant.
Platitude Flatness, dullness, insipidity, commonplaceness
Pleasance The condition or feeling of being pleased; enjoyment, delight, pleasure, joy.
Plebeian Commoners, vulgar peasants.
Pleionosis To exagerate one\’s importance
Plenipotence Full power or authority.
Plousiocracy The rule of the wealthy, plutocracy.
Polarity The quality of exhibiting opposite or contrasted properties or powers in opposite or contrasted directions; the possession of two points called poles having contrary qualities or tendencies.
Polemic A controversial argument or discussion; argumentation against some opinion, doctrine.
Polypragmatic Meddling, annoying
Porn Facetiae
Postliminary Subsequently.
Postprandial After dinner.
Pravity Moral perversion or corruption; wickedness, viciousness, depravity; original pravity or natural pravity.
Precept An authoritative command to do some particular act; an order, mandate.
Pregustation A tasting before, a foretaste.
Prehensile Capable of prehension; having the capacity of grasping or laying hold of anything.
Premonish To forewarn; to advise, caution, notify, or admonish beforehand.
Prepense Intend
Prepuce The penis foreskin.
Prescience Foresight, foreknowledge
Prescient Having foreknowledge or foresight; foreseeing.
Pretentious Professing or making claim to great merit or importance, Exagerated
Privation The action of depriving or taking away; the fact or condition of being deprived of or †cut off from something; deprivation.
Privity Privacy.
Proceleusmatic Serving for incitement; animating, inspiriting.
Procerity Tallness, loftiness, height; length.
Proclivitous Steep.
Prodigal Given to extravagant expenditure; recklessly wasteful of one\’s property or means.
Prodigious Ominous, portentous
Proditor A betrayer; a traitor.
Proemial Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a proem; prefatory, introductory.
Progeny That which originates from or is produced by something (material or immaterial); issue, product, outcome, result.
Prolegomenon Preface, introduction to a book.
Proluctory A prologue, preface; an introduction. Start
Propinquity Close, near, proximinate in time and place
Propitiate To render propitious or favourably inclined; to appease, conciliate; close, near.
Propugnation Defence, protection, vindication.
Protervity Waywardness, frowardness, stubbornness; pertness, sauciness, insolence; peevishness, petulance; an instance of this.
Pseudology False speaking; the making of false statements, lying.
Pu dendum Vagina
Pucelage The state or condition of being a �pucelle� or girl; maidenhood, virginity.
Pudicity Modesty, chastity.
Puisne Younger.
Puissant Possessed of or wielding power; having great authority or influence; mighty, potent, powerful.
Pulchritude Beauty.
Pusillanimity Timid, shy, scared
Pythogenic Generated by or from corruption or filth.
Quandary A state of extreme perplexity or uncertainty; a dilemma causing (great) mental agitation or distress
Quat A pimple; an insignificant person.
Querimonious Full of, addicted to, complaining.
Querimony Complaint, complaining
Querimony Complaint, complaining.
Quidditative Full of equivocations, quirky, eccentric.
Quidnunc Nosey person
Quintessence The most essential part of any substance, extracted by natural or artificial processes; a highly refined essence or extract.
Quintessential Important, Essential. The most essential part of a thing; a quintessential element.
Quiscent Quiet, silent, motionless, inactive
Quisquilious Of the nature of rubbish or refuse.
Quisquous Perplexing, Debatable, Dubious
Quixotic Striving with lofty enthusiasm for visionary ideals.
Quoad To the extent of, as regards, with respect to.
Quodlibet Any question in philosophy or theology proposed as an exercise in argument or disputation.
Quotennial Yearly.
Quotidian Pertaining to every day; daily.
Quoz A queer or absurd person or thing.
Radicated Established, rooted.
Ragmatical Wild, ill-behaved, riotous.
Rampallion Wretch, scoundrel, ass, idiot, worthless idiot
Rarissima Extremely rare books.
Rebarbative Repellent, forbidding; unattractive, dull; unpleasant, objectionable.
Recalcitrant Obstinately disobedient or refractory
Recondite Removed or hidden from view; kept out of sight; difficult to understand, ambiguous, unclear
Recusants One who refuses to submit to some authority, comply with some regulation or request
Redargue To blame, reprove, argue.
Redound Reverberation, echo; a resounding cry. The result
Reglementation Regular, in regulations.
Reguerdon Recompense, reward.
Remora An obstacle, hindrance, impediment, obstruction.
Remuant Reckless, fidgety.
Renitent Recalcitrant.
Reprehend To reprove, reprimand, rebuke, censure, find fault with.
Reptant Creeping, crawling, repent.
Resipisence Past mistakes repentance, forgiveness
Rhonchisonant Snorting, sniffling
Riant Smiling, mirthful, cheerful, gay.
Risse Brawl, fight
Rubedinous Reddish.
Rumbustious Noisy, boisterous, turbulent, unruly, uproarious.
Ruptuary A commoner, not of noble blood, a peasant
Saginate To fatten animals.
Salacious Lustful, lecherous; sexually wanton.
Salsitude Saltiness, brackishness.
Sangfroid Coolness, indifference, absence of excitement or agitation.
Sanies Vile watery liquid expelled from wounds.
Sapid Not dull or boring
Sapphism Homosexual relations between women.
Satyromania A man who exhibits excessive sexual desires; a sex maniac.
Sawder Praise, worship, flattery: all not deserving
Scelerat An atrociously wicked person, a villain, wretch.
Scelestic Wicked.
Schadenfreude Malicious enjoyment of the misfortunes of others.
Scintillant Emitting sparks.
Scintillescent Twinkling.
Se passer un poignet Masturbating
Secern To separate; now only, to separate in thought; to place in a separate category, distinguish, discriminate.
Semovedly Separately
Semovedly Separately.
Senectitude Old age.
Senescent Growing old, elderly.
Sententious Full of meaning; also, of persons, full of intelligence or wisdom.
Sentient That feels or is capable of feeling; having the power or function of sensation or of perception by the senses.
Sepelition Burial.
Sequitur Conclusion after evidence
Shambolic Chaotic, disorderly, undisciplined.
Siccaneous Dry, arid.
Signate Marked or distinguished in some way.
Similize To compare, liken.
Simpliste One who adopts an over-simplified or one-sided view of something.
Singillatim Singly.
Slangam Tall lanky person
Sobriquet An epithet, a nickname.
Socius An associate or colleague.
Somatism Materialism.
Somniate To dream.
Somniloquence Talking whilst asleep.
Somnolence Inclination to sleep; sleepiness, drowsiness.
Somnolescent Drowsy, sleepy; inert.
Sophomania Delusion that one has increased intelligence
Sorbile That may be drunk or supped; liquid.
Sounteneur Pimp
Sovenance Remembrance; memory.
Sparsim In various places; here and there; sparsely.
Spatiate To walk about; to stroll, wander, range, or roam.
Spinosity Thorny.
Spirate To breathe out.
Spissitude Density, thickness, compactness.
Splendacious Splendid, good, lovely
Spumescent Having the appearance of foam or froth.
Spurcitious Filthy, foul, obscene.
Sputative Spitting or salivation.
Stentorian Loud, noisy.
Stercorate To shit, manure, or dung.
Stercoricolous Living in dung, shit, crap or excrement.
Sternutation Sneezing.
Stirpiculture Selective breeding.
Strepitant Making a great noise, noisy.
Stricture A binding, tightening.
Stridulous Squeaky sound.
Strumpet A debauched or unchaste woman, a harlot, prostitute.
Stuprate To rape.
Suaveolent Sweet-smelling, sweet-scented fragrance.
Suaviate Kiss
Subintelligitur An unexpressed or implied addition to a statement.
Subitaneous Sudden, hasty, unexpected; hastily produced or constructed.
Subjacent Situated underneath or below; underlying.
Subrident To smile.
Subserve To be subservient to.
Sudation Sweating, perspiration.
Suffisance Satisfaction, contentment.
Summate To add together, or combine.
Sundry Having an existence, position, or status apart; separate, distinct.
Supercherie Deception; hoax; fraud.
Supercilious Haughtily contemptuous in character or demeanour; having or marked by an air of contemptuous superiority or disdain.
Superfluity The quality of being, or something that is, superfluous. Superabundant supply, superabundance; the condition of there being (or of one\’s having) more than enough; an instance of this.
Superfluous That exceeds what is sufficient; of which there is more than enough; excessively abundant or numerous.
Superincumbent Lying or resting upon, or situated on the top of, something else; overlying.
Superlunary Situated above or beyond the moon; belonging to a higher world, celestial.
Surcease To stop.
Surexcitation Excessive excitation. Excited and happy.
Surrepent Quietly creeping, stealing upon someone
Surreptitious Obtained by ‘surreption’, suppression of the truth, or fraudulent misrepresentation, Lies
Suspiration Sighing; a sigh.
Sustentacular Supporting.
Susurrate To whisper.
Swasivious Agreeably persuasive.
Sycophant A mean, servile, cringing, or abject flatterer; a parasite, toady, lickspittle.
Syncretism Merging of philosophy with outher disciplines
Syngenesis Formation of the germ in sexual reproduction by fusion of the male and female elements, so that the substance of the embryo is derived from both parents.
Syntomy Brief statement.
Tabefaction The action or process of tabefying; the wasting away or consumption of the body. Emancipation.
Tabescent Wasting away.
Tacenda Things to be passed over in silence; matters not to be mentioned.
Tacent Silent.
Taction The action of touching; contact.
Tanti Of so much value, worth so much; worth while.
Tarriance The action of tarrying; delay, procrastination.
Tatterdemalion A person in tattered clothing; a ragged or beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin, poor, unkempt.
Tedium The state or quality of being tedious; wearisomeness, tediousness, ennui.
Tellurian Inhabitant of earth
Tellurian Of or pertaining to the earth; earthly, terrestrial.
Tempestuous Procellous: Stormy, very rough or violent
Tenebrific Dark, gloomy
Tenebrose Dark.
Tentiginous Excited to lust; itching, lecherous.
Teratoid Having the appearance or character of a monster or monstrous formation.
Tergiversate Change belief, allegiances
Thematize Modify
Therewithal Besides
Theriodic Malignant.
Theriomorphosis Having the form or characteristics of a beast or animal.
Thersitical Abusive, caustic, scurrilous, nasty speech
Thesmothete Those who lay down the law.
Thymopathy Any mental condition.
Tonitrous Thundering, angry
Tophaceous Of the nature of tophus or toph; sandy, gritty; rough, stony.
Tracasserie A state of disturbance or annoyance; a turmoil, bother, fuss; an embroilment, petty quarrel.
Trahison Treason.
Tralineate Deviate.
Treche Cheat, deceive
Tressilate To start with sudden agitation, as with a thrill of surprise, joy, etc.
Tribade A woman who engages in sexual activity with other women; a Lesbian.
Tribadism Lesbian sex stimulating male intercourse
Truculent Characterized by or exhibiting ferocity or cruelty; fierce, cruel, savage, barbarous.
Tumultuary Hurriedly done; irregular, disorderly, confused; haphazard, unsystematic, random.
Uberty Rich growth, fruitfulness, fertility; copiousness, abundance.
Uliginous Of a watery, slimy, or oozy nature.
Ultracrepidate Going beyond one\’s proper province; giving opinions on matters beyond one\’s knowledge.
Ultrageous Extremely Violent.
Ultraism Holding extreme opinions.
Ultroneous Spontaneous, on ones own accord
Unasinous Being equal Stupid, Idiot, ridiculous
Unctuous Greasy, fat, rich and contemptuous or abusive epithet.
Unctuous Of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment; oily, greasy.
Unguinous Oily, greasy.
Untimeous Unreasonable.
Uranism A homosexual.
Urbanity The character or quality of being urbane; courtesy, refinement, or elegance of manner; refined or bland politeness or civility.
Urticant Adapted for stinging; producing an itching sensation.
Vacuities Empty.
Vadelect A servant.
Vafrous Sly, cunning, crafty, shifty.
Vagient Like a baby: Crying, squalling, wailing.
Varlet Menial Servant
Vegarious Capricious, Unpredictable, Erratic
Venial Excusablem pardonable
Verbiage Wordiness.
Veridical Truthful, Veracious
Vernacular That writes, uses, or speaks the native or indigenous language of a country or district.
Verrucous Warty
Vituperation The action, fact, or process of vituperating; blame, censure, reproof, or (esp. in later use) the expression of this, in abusive or violent language; abuse, railing, rating. Also, vituperative or abusive language.
Vociferance Shoutung, Yell, Scream
Whilom The former; the fore.
Witnesseth Furnished with amicable truths.
Zelotypia Jealousy
Zoilism Unjust Criticism

  3 Responses to “The Dictionary of Fallaciloquence”

  1. Andrew Crichton says:
    18/10/2010 at 3:22 AM

    Glad to have helped.

    The entire dictionary can be found here:

    - http://fallaciloquence.com/

  2. mietwagen mallorca says:
    17/10/2010 at 3:19 PM

    I am doing research for my university paper, thanks for your helpful points, now I am acting on a sudden impulse.

    - Kris