Women who wink at men are known as nictiting women.
A necropsy is an autopsy on animals.
A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called an epithalamium.
A scholar who studies the Marquis de Sade is called a Sadian, not a Sadist.
According to author Douglas Adams, a salween is the faint taste of dishwashing liquid in a cup of fresh tea.
Alma mater means "bountiful mother."
An animal epidemic is called epizootic.
Degringolade means "to fall and disintegrate."
Dendrology is the study of trees.
Dibble means "to drink like a duck."
EEG stands for electroencephalogram.
EMI stands for electrical and musical instrument.
Groaking is to watch people eating in the hope that they will offer you some.
"Hara kiri" is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word seppuku, which means, literally, "belly splitting."
It is possible to drown and not die. Technically, the term drowning refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.
Karaoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
Kemosabe means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
Koala is Aboriginal for "no drink."
Lead poisoning is known as plumbism.
Scatologists are experts who study feces.
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