Let me suggest "sabot". A "sabot" is either:

(i) a wooden shoe; or
(ii) a casing used for a small calibre bullet when fired from a larger calibre chamber/bore.

Now that's a cool word. If you use it, it will have the benefit of making you sound like you are well-traveled and know a good deal about firearms. These "facts" will intrigue and frighten your friends and co-workers.

words i used in my last journalistic endeavor.



avuncular - one of my favorite words.
decadent
ostentatious
dilapidated
moribund
despondent
indignant
rapacious

those have fairly negative connotations, so here are some more...

newfangled
propitious

Q: How was your day?

A: Meh, it was fairly hebetudinous.

slowriot wrote:avuncular
decadent
ostentatious
dilapidated
moribund
despondent
indignant
rapacious

I believe that each of these words has appeared in at least one Silkworm song.

Ha Ha!

I can think of one off the top of my head

'the crowd's a rapacious beast...' (el ángel deslustrado)

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:

slowriot wrote:avuncular
decadent
ostentatious
dilapidated
moribund
despondent
indignant
rapacious

I believe that each of these words has appeared in at least one Silkworm song.

don't draw and quarter me, but i've only listened to italian platnum. is that actually true that they use them all, if so, awesome.

slowriot wrote:

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:

slowriot wrote:avuncular
decadent
ostentatious
dilapidated
moribund
despondent
indignant
rapacious

I believe that each of these words has appeared in at least one Silkworm song.

don't draw and quarter me, but i've only listened to italian platnum. is that actually true that they use them all, if so, awesome.

That was a joke made at the expense of literate rock band Silkworm.

And it was a pretty good joke at that!

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:

slowriot wrote:

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:

slowriot wrote:avuncular
decadent
ostentatious
dilapidated
moribund
despondent
indignant
rapacious

I believe that each of these words has appeared in at least one Silkworm song.

don't draw and quarter me, but i've only listened to italian platnum. is that actually true that they use them all, if so, awesome.

That was a joke made at the expense of literate rock band Silkworm.

And it was a pretty good joke at that!

A damn supereminent joke.

(really I just wanted to add to the layers of quotes within quotes)

I'm fond of isomorphic (and I used it in a conference call today, in fact).

Disquisition is nice as well. Then there's the post-structural lacuna of my grad school years. Dehiscence is one of the words I took with me. (Apparently "lacuna" figures in The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Guess I'll have to see it.)

too weird! today i was in a conference call, too, with a handful of upper-echelon fellas in the foreign-intelligence community! only i had a chance to use the word trochophore. the assistant to the head of the NSA made a comment about a potential terrorist scenario he was concerned about, and i retorted, "oh jerry, don't be such a trochophore!" it was hella wikked kewl.