
How many of these words do you know?
- aglet : the plastic coating at the end of a shoelace
- agraffe : the wired cage that holds the cork in a bottle of champagne, also called a "muselet" (from the French word for 'to muzzle')
- armscye : the armhole in an item of clothing
- box tent : the little plastic table protecting a pizza, sometimes called a "pizza saver"
- cornicione: the crusty outer part of a pizza
- crapulence: the nasty sick feeling you get after eating or drinking way too much
- drupelets: the bumps on raspberries or blackberries
- fipple: the mouthpiece of a recorder or similar wind instrument which is blown endwise
- glabella – the area of skin between your eyebrows and just above your nose
- griffonage: badly written and unreadable handwriting
- halfpace: the small landing at the top of a flight of stairs where you have to turn and take another flight of stairs, either up or down
- keeper : the loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed through the buckle
- lanula : the pale crescent-shaped area at the base of a fingernail
- lemniscate: figure-eight or ∞-shaped curves, like the infinity symbol
- Morton's Toe: a second toe that is longer than the big toe
- obelus : the symbol for division ÷
- octothorpe: hash tag or the pound sign #
- paresthesia: that burning or prickling "pins and needles" sensation
- peen : the opposite side to the striking face of a hammer
- petrichor : the lovely earthy scent that occurs when rain falls on dry soil.
- philtrum : the little hollow groove on your upper lip and beneath your nose. It’s also called a “Cupid’s bow.”
- Phloem bundles : those long stringy things you find when you peel a banana
- phosphenes : the lights you see when you close your eyes and press your fingers on your eyelids
- pips : are the little bumps (nubs) on the surface of the rubber coating of a table tennnis paddle
- purlicue: the space between the thumb and forefingers
- punt : the indent on the bottom of some bottles, like wine bottles
- Snellen Chart : the standard eye exam chart used to measure visual acuity
- quincunx: an arrangement of five things in a square or rectangle with one at each corner and one in the middle, as on dice
- tines : the little prongs of a fork
- tittle : the dot on top of the letters i and j
Stanley 5/26/2020 5:10:16 PM
I was sure pips were Gladys Knight's backing band ...