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E earrent - The damage or removal of an ear in lieu of payment on a debt or rent eblandish - To get by coaxing or by flattery eccaleobion - Something which gives life or brings alive eccedentesiast - A person who fakes a smile, such as on television ecclesiarchy - Rulership by the church ecclesioclastic - Disruptive or destructive to the church ecclesiolatry - Excessive devotion to one’s church ecclesiophobia - A fear of churches ecdysiophile - A person who likes to visit strip joints or watch people strip echinoproctous - Having a spiny or prickly rump (like a pocupine) echopraxia - The act of imitating others for no reason ecophobia - A fear of one’s home ectomorphic - Being slender and thin edacious - voracious and devouring edentate - Having no teeth effulgent - Shining or respendent efter - A thief who robs theater patrons during a show eidolism - The belief in ghosts and spirits eisegesis - A faulty interpretation of a text caused by reading in one’s own ideas eisoptrophobia - A fear of mirrors electrophobia - A fear of electricity eleutherophillist - Someone who advocates free love eleutherophobia - A fear of freedom elurophobia - A fear of cats emacity - An urge to buy or to spend money emetophobia - The fear of vomiting 27 28 emmetropia - The medical condition of having perfect eyesight empleomania - An insatiable urge to hold public office emunction - The act of removing obstructions from or cleaning bodily passages (such as picking ones nose) encephalasthenia - A form of mental distress caused by emotional stress enchorial - Belonging to a particular country endomorphic - Being short but powerful energumenist - 1.

A fear of rust ipsedixitism - The practice of dogmatic assertion irenology - The study of peace isangelous - As good as angels, or equal to the angels 47 isocracy - A government in which everyone has equal power isopiestic - Having equal pressure isopterophobia - The fear of termites itaiitai - A diseases caused by cadmium entering the body iteroparous - Describing an organism which has multiple children or multiple sets of children izles - Any sparks or embers which rise from a chimney 48 J jactancy - The act of boasting or bragging jactitate - To toss and turn or to toss back and forth jactitation - The act of boasting or bragging jaculable - Appropriate for throwing jaculate - To throw or to hurl jaculiferous - Having a spine resembling a row of darts jarble - To smear with grime and mud jauk - To dally or to trifle, or to be slow in performing tasks jecoral - Pertaining to the liver jeeter - A rude, uncouth slob jehu - An aggresive or enraged driver jejunator - A person who fasts jentacular - Pertaining to breakfast jentation - The first meal of the day, or breakfast jeofail - A costly mistake made by a lawyer , usually in court jerque - To search for smuggled items jettatore - One who brings bad luck, or spreads bad luck jirble - To spill liquid, or to transfer liquid between containers jookerie - Trickery or the act of swindling joola - A suspension bridge built out of ropes jowfair - An event which does not occur after much planning, such as a wedding with no groom jowter - A person who sells fish jubate - Fringed with a mane of long hair jumentous - Smelling like horse urine junta - All the people who are involved in some form of political intrique 49 50 K kaffiyeh - The cloth head gear worn by many palestinians kainophobia - See cainophobia kainotophobia - See cainophobia kakidrosiphobia - A fear of body odour or sweat kakistocracy - Rulership by the worst leader kakorrhaphiophobia - A fear of failure kalling - Fortunetelling based on what variety of cabbage a blindfolded person picks kalogram - A monogram which uses the persons full name kalokagathia - A nobility and inherent good character kalology - The study of beauty kalopsia - The delusion that things are more beautiful than they really are kamagraphy - The process of making exact copies of paintings kamalayka - A shirt made of seal guts kantele - A five stringed harp from Finland karao - The marriage of a widow to her brother-in-law karmadharaya - A word in which the first half describes the second (such as high-way) karoshi - Death by overworking, or killing oneself because of work related stress katabatic - Relating to a cold downward wind katagelophobia - See catagelophobia katavothron - A chasm created by running water kathenotheism - The belief that there are multiple gods with a single leader kathisophobia - See cathisophobia keb - An ewe which has aborted its lamb kebbie - A Scottish walking stick or cudgel 51 52 keedug - A raincoat made out of an old sack keelivine - A pencil which uses lead kenophobia - The fear of open spaces kepi - The hat worn by members of the french foreign legion keraunophobia - The fear of thunderbolts (lightning or thunder and lightning) keraunoscopia - Divination using thunder kerdomeletia - An excessive desire for material wealth kerf - The initial cut made in a piece of wood that is used to guide the saw blade kevel - To paw the ground and toss one’s head like a bull kimbly - A gift given to the person who spreads the news of a birth kinesipathy - The practice of treating illness with exercise kinesophobia - A fear of motion or movement kinnikinnik - A mixture of dry leaves, bark, and tobacco used in some smoking pipes kirkbuzzer - One who robs churches kishen - A measure equal to eight quarts kiyoodle - A mangy, worthless dog klebenleiben - A pathological reluctance to stop talking about a given subject klebenleiben - The reluctance to stop talking about a certain subject knackatory - A store which sells knick-knacks knaifatic - Describing one who is born to a low class knissomancy - Divination using burning incense koimetrophobia - A fear of cemeteries koinoniphobia - A fear of a room full of people kolophon - See colophon koniophobia - A fear of dust kopophobia - A fear of being mentally or physically exhausted korinthenkacker - A person who is obsessed with every trivial detail korophilia - Being attracted to young men or boys kosmokrator - The ruler of the world krobylos - A tuft of hair on top of one’s head krukolibidinous - The act of staring at someone’s crotch kurveyor - A travelling merchant who sells dry goods from a cart kymatology - The study of waves kymophobia - See cymophobia 53 kynophobia - See cynophobia kyphophobia - The fear of stooping kyphorrhinos - Having a nose with a bump in it kyphotic - Hump-backed kyriolexy - The use of literal expressions 54 L labeorphilist - A collector of beer bottles labrose - Having large or thick lips lachanophobia - The fear of vegetables laconic - Saying a lot with a few words lacustrine - Relating to lakes laetificant - An general term for antidepressants laliophobia - See lalophobia lalochezia - The use of foul or abusive language to relieve stress or ease pain lalophobia - The fear of speaking lambdacism - The overuse of the letter L in writing or speaking langsuir - A female vampire who can disguise herself as an owl to prey on newborn children lanigerous - Wool bearing or covered with fine hair lant - 1.

An unwillingness to perform the job one has been assigned esquivalience - 3. The irresponsible addition of fake words into dictionaries, as was originally done with this word estafette - A courier who rides on a horse estiferous - Pertaining to something which produces heat estivation - To go away somewhere for the summer estrapade - A horse’s attempt to remove their rider ethnocracy - Rulership by a specific race ethnomethodology - The study of social customs and rules ethnomusicology - The study of folk music eudemonics - The study or the science of happiness eulogistic - Expressing approval eumoirous - Happiness due to being honest and wholesome eunomy - The enactment of good laws that help people euonym - A good name euphobia - A fear of good news eupsychics - Good education or teaching eustress - 1.

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