Favorite science / medical word

[dwigt]

exophthalmos

though my favorite math word/name is Cauchy. It makes such a good adjective...

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[taydoctor]

gymnosperm!

 

[ruthieblackdog]

sympathiomimetic

it just rolls right off the tounge!

 

[Thespartacus]

Mettelschmerz

 

[WantsThisBad]

buckminsterfullerene ...i guess, i'm sure there's better, but that's it for now

Good old Bucky Balls

 

[inrevertias]

ethmoid
molality
poynting vector

 

[112258]

Goosecoid!

 

[Incitatus]

Homunculus
And the concept of a fully mature tiny person piloting a sperm cell.

 

[Zoom-Zoom]

dam methylase

I was going to say that! Dam!



I also like "Primer dimer"

 

[Playmakur42]

proprioreceptive neuromuscular facilitation stretching

 

[DoctorPardi]

Gynecomastia.

 

[ONYX4000GT]

potato

 

[Bubblehead-to-MD]

Plutonium. It's just fun to say. How's your plutonium today? Good, thank you!

 

[Callogician]

Of those mentioned, I like zwitterion, fugacity, and moiety.

Also

putative (supposed)
nascent (newly formed)
purpura (extravasation of blood)
kludge (from computer science-an effective yet awkward and/or inefficient solution to a problem)
varix (a dilated vein)

 

[Callogician]

paroxysm (a sudden outburst or increase in intensity)

 

[Callogician]

Other cool words:

glycyls, rhythms (the longest words in the english language with no standard vowels).

uncopyrightable (the longest word in the english language with no repeated letters).

AEINRST (the combination of seven letters with the most one word anagrams: anestri, asterin, eranist, nastier, ratines, resiant, restain, retains, retinas, retsina, sainter, stainer, starnie, stearin).

Incredible 15 letter anagrams:

nonuniversalist = involuntariness
refragmentation = antiferromagnet
megachiropteran = cinematographer

Spoonfeed (the longest word with the letters arranged in reverse alphabetical order).

Hydroxyzine (the only english word with "XYZ")

Scraunched (longest one-syllable word)

ZOONOSIS (longest word with 180 degree rotational symmetry)

(source = http://www.rinkworks.com/words/oddities.shtml and others)

 

[koog]

mitochondria