Finds
- Zazzy Flashy, colorful, or stylish
- Spizzerinctum Energy, courage, and determination
- Zillionaire A person with incalculably enormous wealth
- Irrupt To burst or break in
- Exute To strip or deprive of something
- Wheal A small raised swelling on the skin
- Calender A machine that presses sheets between rollers
- Venust Beautiful, graceful, elegant
- Voracity Veracity's one-letter twin asks whether there's more, not whether it's true
- Calque A word built by translating another language's parts
- Ideocracy Rule by ideas, one letter away from rule by idiots
- Veracity Truthfulness or accuracy, and something true
- Venous Why veins look blue when venous blood is dark red
- Casque A helmet you grow yourself, on record since before 1586
- Androgynous Having both — or neither — on record since 1628
- Idiocracy Government by idiots — a word that predates the film by 39 years
- obtuse The barracuda named for its blunt gill cover
- kidology How Holyfield's trainer lied about the clock
- timorous Russia's railway chief on why the fast trains stayed away from Finland
- misgiving On exam day in Korea, air-traffic control holds every takeoff for the listening section
- soporiferous A sermon so sleep-inducing that the preacher had to shriek
- decedent One Latin root away from decadent, and both words met in the same will
- mordent The word for a musical bite, which cannot stop biting its own spelling
- Rosery A garden given over to roses — and the reason prayer beads are named after them
- Villein The villein worked a plot; the villain plotted
- Evert To turn inside out — as sea stars do with their stomachs
- Breviloquent A twelve-letter, four-syllable word for using few words
- Macilent One adjective for a thin man and a thin argument, on the books since before 1425
- Nidorous An adjective for burnt-meat stench that's been on the books since 1626
- Rorid An adjective for dewy that's been waiting since 1425
- Mordant The word for a cutting remark is also the chemical that bites into the plate
- Corbel The bracket that lets a wall hold something it isn't under