33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names

1. AGLET - The plain or ornamental covering on the end of a shoelace.
2. ARMSAYE - The armhole in clothing.
3. CHANKING - Spat-out food, such as rinds or pits.
4. COLUMELLA NASI - The bottom part of the nose between the nostrils.
5. DRAGÉES - Small beadlike pieces of candy, usually silver-coloured, used for decorating cookies, cakes and sundaes.
6. FEAT - A dangling curl of hair.
7. FERRULE - The metal band on a pencil that holds the eraser in place.
8. HARP - The small metal hoop that supports a lampshade.
9. HEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER - A 64th note. (A 32nd is a demisemiquaver, and a 16th note is a semiquaver.)
10. JARNS,
11. NITTLES,
12. GRAWLIX,
13. and QUIMP - Various squiggles used to denote cussing in comic books.
14. KEEPER - The loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed through the buckle.
15. KICK or PUNT - The indentation at the bottom of some wine bottles. It gives added strength to the bottle but lessens its holding capacity.
16. LIRIPIPE - The long tail on a graduate's academic hood.
17. MINIMUS - The little finger or toe.
18. NEF - An ornamental stand in the shape of a ship.
19. OBDORMITION - The numbness caused by pressure on a nerve; when a limb is 'asleep'.
20. OCTOTHORPE - The symbol '#' on a telephone handset. Bell Labs' engineer Don Macpherson created the word in the 1960s by combining octo-, as in eight, with the name of one of his favourite athletes, 1912 Olympic decathlon champion Jim Thorpe.
21. OPHRYON - The space between the eyebrows on a line with the top of the eye sockets.
22. PEEN - The end of a hammer head opposite the striking face.
23. PHOSPHENES - The lights you see when you close your eyes hard. Technically the luminous impressions are due to the excitation of the retina caused by pressure on the eyeball.
24. PURLICUE - The space between the thumb and extended forefinger.
25. RASCETA - Creases on the inside of the wrist.
26. ROWEL - The revolving star on the back of a cowboy's spurs.
27. SADDLE - The rounded part on the top of a matchbook.
28. SCROOP - The rustle of silk.
29. SNORKEL BOX - A mailbox with a protruding receiver to allow people to deposit mail without leaving their cars.
30. SPRAINTS - Otter dung.
31. TANG - The projecting prong on a tool or instrument.
32. WAMBLE - Stomach rumbling.
33. ZARF - A holder for a handleless coffee cup.

wow,

enque - nice post

Please can i be pleased to meet you?

thanks iku,
well, am here on nairaland!!

@Poster, this is awesome. More discoveries to you

iku:

enque - nice post

Please can i be pleased to meet you?

I take your Mama name beg you, please do not meet 'Iku' oh , hope you know that that name means in Yoruba.

cashoggy:

@Poster, this is awesome. More discoveries to you


I take your Mama name beg you, please do not meet 'Iku' oh , hope you know that that name means in Yoruba.

thanks dear, well i am aware of wat IKU means na! trust me, i know wat to do

Very funny, I'm sure Iku himself isn't ready to die.

well, let DEATH speak for himself

I don hear u.

IS
THAT
ALL
come on mennn
i meant MOREeeeeeeeee

nice.

Post more please. It'll do good for us writers.

@poster

nice one theere
but most of those words are not in d dictionary
or probably u did not spell most of dem well

thanks y'all

Nice trend.

Nice post all!

Iku is a nice poster. It might not mean what we all think.

iku may simply mean- Care or Happiness in his world.


Get it clear- yorubaism

ok, duly noted

Really educating

good but wat am i gonna do wt al dis big big grammar?

^^learn it

May I add to this list the word PHILTRUM?

The philtrum is the grooved area of the upper lip just beneath the nose.