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Seven_And_A_Half

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Random Words

You ever feel like shouting out a word that has nothing to do with anything around you in class? In a supermarket? At the dinner table?
Well i do...often, but i'm running low on words, any suggestions?
Plus some random words are said to often and are no longer random such as: cheese, purple etc. <<< i call these randless!
Now some people hate the word random as it is useless and i do sometimes but at the moment i need it!
Please post replys!
Katharine Stubbs,13,UK
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Female, Teen, Single not too worried about it, Very good at maths, Very good looking, Enjoys music, Hates chavs, Lives in the Uk, RANDOM

Jai Ganesh

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Re: Random Words

Serendipity

Osmosis

Catastrophe

Vigintillion

Connivance

Regicide

Thanatophobia

Mercenary

Last edited by Jai Ganesh (2005-10-09 23:56:25)

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justlookingforthemoment

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Re: Random Words

You should try the WitWords website.
It is a fictionary, which means it contains lots of made up words. They sound really random, if that's what you're looking for.

MathsIsFun

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Re: Random Words

Eternity!

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mathsyperson

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Re: Random Words

The word 'random' is randless, really.

Integer

Oxyhaemoglobin

Goldfish

Charles

Last edited by mathsyperson (2005-10-10 06:01:22)

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insomnia

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Re: Random Words

Animal noises!! (not actual animal noises, but are just as effective)

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Seven_And_A_Half

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Re: Random Words

Thanks a bunch people keep posting

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MathsIsFun

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Re: Random Words

In a Supermarket you could yell:

"Half Price!"

then scuttle away quickly

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justlookingforthemoment

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Re: Random Words

Onomatopoeia

Floccinaucinihilipilification - that's a good one to remember...it means 'to estimate something as worthless' and is the longest real word in English, I think.

Hypotenuse

Liquorice

Calculator

Chalumeau

Last edited by justlookingforthemoment (2005-10-15 12:02:50)

Jai Ganesh

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Re: Random Words

Buckminsterfullerene

The name of C60 molecule

Last edited by Jai Ganesh (2005-10-15 17:05:10)

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

darthradius

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Re: Random Words

Linoleum

"SERENITY NOW!"

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mathsyperson

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Re: Random Words

Antidisestablishmentarianism is popularly quoted as being a very long word and it is longer than justlooking's, but I wasn't sure if it was real. I found a website that not only said it was real, but also gave us this beauty:

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (a miners' lung disease caused by inhaling silica)

It also had the name of a random molecule, which was 1,913 letters long.

It doubles the fun if you are on holiday and you yell out a random word in the language of where you are.
eg. Next time you are in Spain, wait until lots of people are trapped in a lift with you and yell "algodon!", which is Spanish for cotton. Bonus points if you manage to convey inquisitiveness or some other obscure emotion.

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darthradius

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Re: Random Words

LOL..
It is way to early for me to be laughing that hard...
I am going to learn how to say cotton in every language...that is a great idea...
also, that joke is absolutely freakin hilarious...right up my alley

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Zach

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Re: Random Words

It's not a joke. It's a whimsical situation.

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justlookingforthemoment

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Re: Random Words

Antidisestablishmentarianism is popularly quoted as being a very long word and it is longer than justlooking's

My word is actually longer (29 letters). Yours only has 28.

But there are even longer (and weirder words) here.

ryos

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Re: Random Words

Algodón! Encabezamientos! Pañuelo! Guapote! Fuertote! Descremada! Hedor! Actualización! Nudo!

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jU

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Re: Random Words

serenda obusity

mathsyperson

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Re: Random Words

Antidisestablishmentarianism is popularly quoted as being a very long word and it is longer than justlooking's

My word is actually longer (29 letters). Yours only has 28.

Wow. That was stupid. I must have miscounted or something.

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MathsIsFun

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Re: Random Words

serenda obusity

Sounds real ... !

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jU

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Re: Random Words

hmph what about this word Infinitesimal

blank_brunette

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Re: Random Words

ok, my friends think i am sooo weird because i love being random. I like thinking of fun words to say that i will say for days on end. Especially words that roll off the tongue.
my latest discoveries: bungalow(say it slowly and drag out the "low") cluck(say it fast) and quack. (its funny!) ppl think im so weird! :):(:)

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John E. Franklin

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Re: Random Words

roentgen
surrogate
cognac
cough syrup
OPEC
brittle
fossil
Mitchell
Laurent
flower
somebody
which
switch
picky
chart
Lego
hoop
monster
try
lorn (made-up word)
sniffle
crumple
dump
clammer
holy
mustard
mipe (made-up word)
so-called
local
snowcap

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JohnnyReinB

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Re: Random Words

As a reply to JustLooking and Mathsys, your words are actually all longest in their respect.

Antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest non-coined non-technical word
Floccinaucinihilipilification is the longest non-technical coined word
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (my favorite) is the longest technical word to be placed in a dictionary(Merriam Websters).

However, the longest technical word ever actually has aproximately 190 000 letters (189,819 to be exact). The only thing I came up on about it is Methionylthreonylthreonyl...isoleucine (mind the ellipsis)

For the wacky words, I'd recommend the four of Dumbledore:
Nitwit
Blubber
Oddment
Tweak
(though not random, they are weird!)

Last edited by JohnnyReinB (2008-03-27 17:27:34)

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coconut

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Re: Random Words

yo       :cool    wins all is the best

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shimmy shimmy coconut shimmy shimmy nut

coconut

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Re: Random Words

: r o f l o l

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shimmy shimmy coconut shimmy shimmy nut