G-words, words starting with the letter “G”, like “G-men” can be gritty, exacting and uncompromising…sometimes they salaciously and lustfully invoke “the beast with two backs”. Here’s some fairly unorthodox, non-mainstream “G” words you quite possibly have not encountered before.
Gallimaufry: a mixture of different things; a hodge-podge [MFr galimafree (“a kind of stew concocted from various ingredients)]
Galluptious: (or Goloptious) wonderful, delightful, delicious; provocative and sexually alluring [origin uncertain, perhaps alteration of “voluptous]
Geophilious: live in or near the ground [Gk geo (“earth”) + -phil (“love”)]
Gewgaw: a showy trifle; a trinket; useless, worthless [ME. giuegaue (orig. meaning uncertain)]
Gigantology: the study of giants [Gk. “giant” + -logy]
Glabrous: without hair; smooth [L. glaber (“smooth”; “bald”; “hairless”)] 👨🏾🦲
Glossoid: like a tongue [Gk. glōssoeidēs + -oid] 👅
Gnomic: a phrase that’s short, catchy and clever; puzzling, enigmatic and ambiguous yet seemingly profound [Gk. gnome (“an opinion”)]
Goliard: a learned person, esp in the humanities; (hist.) a wandering, fun-seeking scholar/clerical student in medieval Europe who wrote goliardy (irreverent , satiric Latin verse) [MF, origin uncertain)]
Medieval Goliards (Image: faculty.sgc.edu)
Grallator: someone who walks on stilts (taking quite long strides); an ichnogenus dinosaur [L. grallotores (“stilt-walker”)] 🦕
Gremial: pertaining to the lap or bosom; intimate [L. gremium (“lap”)]
Gymnogynomania: urge to rip women’s clothes off [Gk. gymnos (“naked”; “bare”) + gyn (-“wife”; “-woman”) + -mania
Gymnophoria: the sensation that someone is mentally undressing you [Gk. gymnos (“naked”; “bare”) + -phoria (“to bear”)
Gynotikolobo-massophilia: a proclivity for nibbling one’s earlobes [Gk. gyn + –lobos (“earlobe”) + -masáomai (“to chew”) + -phile] 👂
The fifth letter and second vowel in the modern English alphabet, “E” can trace its ancestry to the ancient Greek letter epsilon, which in turn has its source in the Semitic letter hê. Words beginning with “E” can be positive and affirmative—energetic, empathetic, etc—but they can also exclude, excise and excommunicate. Here’s some fairly unorthodox, non-mainstream “E” words you possibly have not encountered before.
Eccendentesiast: an insincere person who fakes a smile [L. ecce (“I present to you’) + –dentes (“teeth”) + –iast (“performer”)]
Ecdysiast: a striptease artist; erotic dancer [Gk. ekdysis(“a stripping or casting off”). Coined 1940 by HL Mencken]
Gypsy Rose Lee, famous US ecdysiast
Ectomorph: a person with a lean and delicate build of body; also can refer to someone with an introverted, thoughtful personality [Gk. ecto (“outside”, “external”) + –derm (“skin”) + –morphē (“form”; “shape”). Coined 1940 by WH Sheldon]
Eleemosynary: relating to or depending on charity; charitable [Gk. eleos (“mercy”; “pity”; “compassion”; (pertaining to alms)]
Encomium: a speech or piece of writing which praise someone or something highly (cf. eulogy) [Gk. en (“within”) + –komos (“revel”)]
Endomorph: a person with a heavy, rounded (big-boned) build of body [Gk. endon (“in”; “within”) + –morphē (WH Sheldon 1940)]
Endonym: (also known as Autonym) the native name for a national group, an individual, geographical place, language or dialect; used inside a particular group or linguistic community for self-identification [Gk. endon (“within) + –ónoma (“name”)]
Ennad: any group of nine; orig. a group of 9 deities in Egyptian mythology [Gk. ennea (the number 9)]
Epeolatry: the worship of words [Gk. epos (“word”) + -latry (“worship”)]
Epicrisis: something that follows a crisis, specifically a secondary crisis; a critical or analytical study, evaluation or summing up, esp of medical case [Gk. epíkrisis, (“determination”, “judgment”, “award”)]
Epigamic: attractive to the opposite sex, esp in zoological context [Gk. epi (“upon”; “on”; “near”) + –gamus (“wedding”; “marriage”)]
Epistolographer: a writer of epistles (elegant, formal didactic letters); a letter writer [Gk. epistellein (“send news”) + –graphe (“write”)] ✍️📝
Ergatocracy: rule by the workers [Gk. ergátēs (“workman”) + –crazy]
Ergatocracy (source: libcom.org)
Eschatological: theological considerations relating to death, judgement and the finality of the soul and humankind [Gk. éskhatos (“last”) + -logy]
Excoriate: to denounce or berate severely; verbally flay; to strip or remove the skin (Gk. ex (“out”) + –coríum (“skin”; “hide”)
Excursus: a diversion or digression in a book from the main subject which involves a detailed side-discussion [L. excurrere (“run out”)]
Exonym: (also known as Xenonym) the non-native name for a national group, an individual, geographical place, language or dialect [Gk. exo (“outside) + –ónoma (“name”)]; eg, the exonym for Deutschland (Germany) in Spanish is Alemania
Expiscate: to find out thru scrupulous examination or detailed investigation; fish out (something) (usage Scot.) [L. expicatus from Gk. ex (“out”) + –piscari (“to fish”)] 🎣 🐠
The letter “D” corresponds tothe Semiticdalethand Greekdelta(Δ). “D” is also the Roman numeral for 500. The form (D) is thought toderivefrom an early pictograph, possiblyEgyptian, indicating the folding door of a tent. Later “D” got its more rounded shape, with which we are familiar, from theChalcidian alphabet,which the Latins may have borrowed for their alphabet (https://www.britannica.com/topic/D-letter). Words beginning with “D”, numero quattro in the English alphabetical order, are an eclectic lot. They can be delightful, decadent or distasteful. Here’s a brief sampler of logophile-friendly “D” words for serious verbivores. 
Continuing the A–Z series of out-of-the-norm, non-mainstream quirky words…this time exploring lexical items starting with the ostentatiously curvy letter “C“, the third letter and second consonant of the modern English alphabet. “C” comes from the same letter as “G”. TheSemitesnamed itgimel. The sign is possibly adapted from anEgyptian hieroglyphfor astaff sling, which may have been the meaning of the namegimel. Another possibility, contested by some classical scholars, is that it depicted a camel, the Semitic name for which wasgamal.The utility of “C” extends to the Romans’ numeral system where it represents the number for “100”, “C” for century!
Word
Meaning
Derivation
Cacodoxy
bad doctrine or wrong opinion
Gk caco ("bad") + -doxia ("opinion")
Cacogen
an anti-social person
Gk caco ("bad") + -genēs ("offspring")
Cacophemism
a perjorative expression used instead of a mild one
Gk caco ("bad") + -logía ("speech")
Cagamosis
an unhappy marriage
origin unknown
Calcographer
one who draws with crayons and pastels✍️
L calco ("thread", "trample on") + graphe ("write")
Callpygous
having beautiful buttocks
Gk kallos ("beautiful") + -pūgē ("buttocks")
Camelot
newspaper vendor ️
F origin unknown
Carpophagous
fruit-eating
Gk karpós ("fruit") + -phágous ("eating")
Catapedamania
an impulse to jump from high places
Gk cata ("downward") + -ped ("ground") ⛰️
Catchpole
sheriff's deputy, esp one who makes an arrest for failure to pay a debt
OE cace ("catch") + Med L pullus (a chick")
Celerity
swiftness of movement
L celer ("speedy"; "swift")
Celsitude
loftiness, esp in rel. to position or standing
L celsus ("high"; "lofty")
Cenobite
monk; member of religious order
Gk koinos ("common") + -bios ("life")
Cereologist
someone who studies crop circles, esp one who believes they are not man-made or formed by other terrestrial processes ⭕️
L Ceres (Roman goddess of agriculture ") + -logy ("study")
Chaetophorous
having bristles
Gk khaítē ("hair") + -phoros ("bearing")
Chasmaphilous
fond of nooks & crannies
Gk chasma ("abyss"; "cleft") + phil
Chiliad
divide into parts of 1,000; Millennium
Gk khilioi ("thousand")
Chorizent
someone who challenges the authorship of a major work, esp one who believes that the Iliad & the Odyssey were not penned by Homer ✍️
origin unknown
Chryosophist
a lover of gold ⚱️
Gk chrys ("gold") + -philos ("phile")
Cicisbeo
male companion of a married woman
origin unknown
Cicerone
a guide for tourism information ℹ️
L from Cicero, agnomen of Roman orator, (2th BCE
Clerisy
class of the intelligentsia; group of learned & literary people
Gk klēros ("heritage")
Concision
tenseness & brevity of speech & writing; saying much in a few words
L concīsus ("cut short")
Consign
deserved & appropriate, esp a fair & fitting punishment
L con ("altogether") + -dignus ("worthy"; "appropriate"
Copacetic
completely satisfactory; in good order
origin unknown
Coruscating
sparkling; glittering
L coruscatus ("to vibrate", "glitter")
Cosmocracy
rulership of the world; global government ️
Gk cosmo ("universe")+ -krátos ("rule"; "power")
Coterminous
having the same boundaries
Eng, (18th.
Crepuscular
resembling or rel to twilight
L crepusculum ("twilight")
Cruciverbalist
one who is skilled at or enjoys solving crosswords 里
L cruci ("cross" + -verbum ("word"). Neologism, 1977)
