sesquipedalian
21sesquipedalian — a. a foot and a half long; using very long words; n. such thing or word. ♦ sesquipedalianism, ♦ sesquipedality, n …
22Ward (band) — Ward are an electronica duo consisting of David Meme and Richard Williams (from the emo band Calvados Beam Trio).WARD need to be Richard Williams (Calvados Beam Trio/Noise Noise Alore!) and David Meme (MEME) in a collaborative experimental… …
23sesquipedalia — noun a very long word (a foot and a half long) • Syn: ↑sesquipedalian • Derivationally related forms: ↑sesquipedalian (for: ↑sesquipedalian) • Hypernyms: ↑polysyllable, ↑ …
24sesquipedality — noun using long words • Derivationally related forms: ↑sesquipedalian • Hypernyms: ↑expressive style, ↑style * * * ˌse(ˌ)skwipə̇ˈdaləd.ē noun ( es) Etymology: sesquipedal + ity …
25Sesquipedal — Ses*quip e*dal, Sesquipedalian Ses qui*pe*da li*an, a. [Sesqui + pedal: cf. F. sesquip[ e]dal, L. sesquipedalis.] Measuring or containing a foot and a half; as, a sesquipedalian pygmy; sometimes humorously applied to long words. [1913 Webster]… …
26Self-reference — The Treachery Of Images (1928 29) by René Magritte depicts a pipe along with text stating This is not a pipe. Note: This image is an illustration of a self reference case only if the demonstrative pronoun ceci ( this ) refers not to the idea of a …
27Colorless green ideas sleep furiously — Approximate X Bar representation of Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. See phrase structure rules. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously is a sentence composed by Noam Chomsky in his 1957 Syntactic Structures as an example of a sentence that… …
28William F. Buckley, Jr. — Infobox Celebrity name = William F. Buckley Jr. image size = caption = William F. Buckley Jr. in 1985 birth date = birth date|1925|11|24 birth place = New York City, New York, United States death date = 27 February 2008 (aged 82) death place =… …
29lengthy — I (prolix) adjective digressive, discursive, garrulous, long winded, loquacious, talky, verbose II (prolonged) adjective elongated, extensive, far reaching, gaunt, lengthened, made to last, prosy, protracted, rangy, sesquipedalian, spare,… …
30Length — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Length >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 length length longitude span Sgm: N 1 mileage mileage GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 line line bar rule stripe streak spoke …
