58 Everyday Things You Never Knew Had Names

 Petrichor:the way it smells outside after rain.

 Purlicue:the space between the thumb and forefingers.
 Wamble:stomach rumbling.
 Aglet:the plastic coating on a shoelace.
 Vagitus:the cry of a newborn baby.
 Glabella:the space between your eyebrows.
 Chanking:spat-out food.
 Lunule:the white, crescent shaped part of the nail.
 Peen:the side opposite the hammer’s striking side.
 Tines:the prongs on a fork.
 Souffle cup:a ketchup/condiment cup.
 Natiform:something that resembles a butt.
 Phosphenes:the lights you see when you close your eyes and press your
hands to them.
 Nurdle:a tiny dab of toothpaste.
 Box tent:the table in the middle of a pizza box.
 Cornicione:the outer part of the crust on a pizza.
 Barm:the foam on a beer.
 Rasceta:the lines on the inside of your wrist.
 Overmorrow:the day after tomorrow.
 Ferrule:the metal part at the end of a pencil.
 Punt:the bottom of a wine bottle.
 Keeper:the loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed
through the buckle.
 Minimus:your little toe or finger.
 Zarf:the cardboard sleeve on a coffee cup.
 Rectal Tenesmus:the feeling of incomplete defecation.
 Agraffe:the wired cage that holds the cork in a bottle of champagne.
 Columella nasi:the space between your nostrils.
 Lemniscate:the infinity symbol.
 Desire path:a path created by natural means, simply because it is the
“shortest or most easily navigated” way.
 Armscye:the armhole in most clothing.
 Dysania:the state of finding it hard to get out of the bed in the morning.
 Collywobbles:butterflies in your stomach.
 Nibling:the non-gender-specific term for a niece or nephew — like sibling.
 Griffonage:unreadable handwriting.
 Paresthesia:that “pins and needles” feeling.
 Defenestrate:to throw out a window.
 Muntin:the strip separating window panes.
 Philtrum:the groove located just below the nose and above the middle of
the lips.
 Snood:the fleshy thing around the neck of a turkey.
 Vocable:the na na nas and la la las in song lyrics that don’t have any
meaning.
 Tittle:the dot over an “i” or a “j.”
 Morton’s toe:when your second toe is bigger than your big toe.
 Crepuscular rays:rays of sunlight coming from a certain point in the sky.
AKA what your aunt might have called “God’s rays.”
 Snellen chart:the chart you look at when you take an eye exam.
 Crapulence:that sick feeling you get after eating or drinking too much.
 Obelus:the division sign (÷).
 Ideolocator:a “you are here” sign.
 Brannock device:the thing they use to measure your feet at the shoe store.
 Interrobang:what it’s called when you combine a question mark with an
exclamation point like this: ?!
 Mamihlapinatapai:the look shared by two people who both hope the other
will offer to do something that they both want but aren’t willing to do.
 Phloem bundles:those long stringy things you see when peeling a banana.
 Semantic satiation:what happens when you say a word so long it loses
meaning.
 Octothorpe:the pound (#) button on a telephone.
 Gynecomastia:man-boobs.
 Mondegreen:misheard song lyrics.
 Scurryfunge:the time you run around cleaning frantically right before
company comes over.
 Aphthongs:silent letters.
 Tmesis:when you separate a word into two for effect. Example: “I AM GOING
TO ASBO-FREAKIN’-LUTELY BE THE BEST SCRABBLE PLAYER ON THE PLANET NOW!”