Good Words
Petrichor: The pleasant loomy smell of rain on the ground, especially after a long dry spell.
Ambisinistrous: Having two left hands; clumsy. (The opposite of ambidextrous)
Residentarian: A person who is given to remaining at table.
Wine-knight: One who drinks valiantly.
Unbepissed: Not wet with piss, from some long forgotten world where so many things were covered in urine, a word was needed to distinguish the dry remainders.
Quomodocunquize: To make money in any way possible.
Psithurism: The whispering of leaves moved by the wind.
Preantepenult: Not the last, not the one before the last, and not the one before that. The next one.
Onomatomania: Vexation at having difficulty in finding the right word (classic!).
Kakistocracy: Government by the worst citizens.
Indesinence: Want of proper ending.
Gymnologize: To dispute naked, like an Indian philosopher.
Mawdlin-drunke: “When a fellow will weep for kinding in the midst of his Ale, and kisses you, saying; By God Captain I love thee, go thy ways thou does not think of me so often as I do of thee, I would (if it pleased God) I could not love thee so well as I do, and then he puts his finger in his eye, and cries.”
Felicificability: Capacity for happiness.
Chrestomathic: Devoted to the learning of useful matters. (As opposed to:)
Mataeotechny: An unprofitable or useless science or skill.
Taken from Reading the OED by Ammon Shea