Top 10 Things You Won't Believe Have Names

The Top Ten Things You Won't Believe Have Names

1 Something that resembles a butt - Natiform
2 Misheard song lyrics - Mondegreen

The image shows misheard lyrics from Metallica's Fuel
(actual lyric: Gimme fuel, Gimme fire, Gimme that which I desire) - Metal_Treasure

Like some lyrics from Lacrymosa (dias alla, Lachrymosa)
And another one from Whisper
(Servatis a periculum, Servatis a malifico)

3 The way it smells outside after rain - Petrichor

I heard of this word for the first time thanks to the song "Of Petrichor Weaves Black Noise" by Ne Obliviscaris.
Yup, extreme metal lyrics are... educational. And poetic. - Metal_Treasure

4 ?! - Interrobang

Interrobang?! What?! - Britgirl

Why do you use interrobangs so often?! - Metal_Treasure

I'm very pleased and surprised that I'm using interrobangs so much?!?!?! - Kevinsidis

Why I can't stop using Interrobangs so much?!?! - Kevinsidis

5 Unreadable handwriting - Griffonage

I've never heard of this but I think I suffer greatly from it. - Britgirl

My dyslexic friend Charles has one of the complex griffonage that one joked that it looks like Japanese! - Kevinsidis

6 The pound (#) button on a telephone - Octothorpe

Every time I go onto a user's profile, the URL says "#Username". I hope that's not an instruction. - PositronWildhawk

Octothrope was invented by an octopus. - TeamRocket747

"To repeat this message, press the octo... octotho...octothorpe key".
Oh, come on, just press the pound key. - Metal_Treasure

7 The state of finding it hard to get out of the bed in the morning - Dysania

Dysania happens to me on school mornings. Luckily I'm on summer break and I will be in 6th in August. - TeamRocket747

Now I know how to make my condition sound more serious. - PositronWildhawk

8 The space between your eyebrows - Glabella

Hmm? It's a pretty usual term.

I'm familiar with this term. It is used for the part of the exoskeleton between the eyes of trilobites. Now I've learned that it's also used for humans. - Crwth

Rainbow's album Straight Between the Eyes can be renamed to Straight Into the Glabella - Metal_Treasure

I hope that the Cia won't put a red dot on my Glabella which they consider me an evil genius - Kevinsidis

9 A disorder characterized by an uncontrollable urge to dance - Tarantism

I used to suffer from tarantism but got cured ;-) - Metal_Treasure

10 The "you are here" sign - Ideolocator

Yep. That's true!

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11 The white, crescent shaped part of the nail - Lunule

"Luna" plus a diminutive suffix, so it means "little moon". That's so cute! - Crwth

12 When your second toe is bigger than your big toe - Morton's toe

My 2nd toe is almost the same size as my big toe lol

13 The "na na nas" and "la la las" in song lyrics - Vocable

That most meaningful part of the lyrics... - Metal_Treasure

14 The metal part at the end of a pencil - Ferrule
15 The day after tomorrow - Overmorrow
16 Fear of being watched by a duck - Anatidaephobia

I'm lucky I don't suffer from this, LOL - Metal_Treasure

17 When you separate a word into two for effect - Tmesis

That's fan-bloody-tastic! - Metal_Treasure

18 Non-gender specific term for a niece or nephew - Nibling
19 The plastic coating on a shoelace - Aglet

Oh yeah! Like that one Phineas and Ferb episode about aglets, lol!

20 The bottom of a wine bottle - Punt
21 To throw out a window - Defenestrate
22 Man-boobs - Gynecomastia
23 The cardboard sleeve on a coffee cup - Zarf
24 The dot on the letter i and j - Tittle
25 The feeling of romance brought on by the spring weather - Vernalagnia
26 The cry of a newborn baby - Vagitus
27 The outer part of a pizza crust - Cornicione
28 Beer foam - Barm
29 Infinity symbol - Lemniscate
30 To Throw from a Window - Defenestrate
31 The fleshy skin around a turkey's throat - Snood
32 Division Sign - Obelus
33 Silent letter - Aphthong
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