<p>These aren’t my fields of study (physics and CS) but they have some darn goofy words:</p>
<p>GEOLOGY
diapir
schist
vishnu schist
cleavage
slaty cleavage
Gondwanaland
groin
hogback
lapilli
oolite
ooid
pahoehoe</p>
<p>MATH
parallepiped (pair-uh-LELL-uh-pip-PED)</p>
<p>More?</p>
<p>Music has some:
anacrusis
sforzando
quaver/semiquaver</p>
<p>Math:
Perverse sheaves
Tits alternative</p>
<p>I’m not a poet, but…</p>
<p>iamb
trochee
spondee
qasida
ghazal</p>
<p>Not a classicist (any more? sort of)</p>
<p>^They use the first three of the above for meter, and also dactyl and anapest.</p>
<p>Otherwise:
chiasmus
zeugma
synchisis
hapax legomenon
apostrophe (which does not mean ')
epillon
synecdoche</p>
<p>Abstract Wiener Measure</p>
<p>(it’s a real thing)</p>
<p>Heheheh, “weiner”…</p>
<p>…every girl (including myself) knows the importance of the abstract wiener measure before committing to anything… very helpful in judging without any concrete info before rushing</p>
<p>l’hospital’s rule
nebuchadnezzar
poisson distribution
ogallala aquifer
foo (it’s a thingy that does things)</p>
<p>foo thingie…
Thank goodness there’s a word for all the one’s I can’t remember…</p>
<p>@ThisCouldBeHeavn: You just reminded me of this particular south park episode xD</p>
<p>you can’t comb a hairy ball, but you can comb a hairy doughnut. interesting</p>
<p>I think I’ll have my doughnut combed.</p>
<p>Glocalization. Such a funny sounding word.</p>
<p>From history:</p>
<p>Hegelianism
Rankean theory
Turabian
Doughboy
Whig
Bull Moose Party
Know-Nothing Party
Muckraking
Nullification
Filibuster
Diet of Worms (1521)
Non-Intercourse Act (1809)
Era of Good Feelings (1817-1825)
Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
Cahuilla (“Kah-wee-YAH” - it’s a Native American tribe)</p>
<p>These are the only terms I can think of right now, but I’m sure there are plenty more!</p>
<p>^and the repeal of the non-intercourse act was followed by the era of good feelings ;)</p>
<p>in math there is something called the hairy ball theorem.</p>
<p>HAHA these are wonderful</p>