I'll save ya the effort, mon. Here my short list of sesquipedalian words beginning with P:
pantagruelian marked by extravagant and coarse satire
paragnosia misunderstanding
pararthria incoherence
paranomasia rhetorical art of punning
paranym euphemism; word whose meaning altered to conceal evasion
paromoeon alliteration
parvanimity smallness of mind
parvipotent having little power
parviscient having little knowledge
pasquilant lampooner
pasquinade to lampoon; a lampoon
peculation embezzlement
perscrutation thorough search
persiflage banter; flippancy; idle chatter
pervicacious very obstinate
piacular expiatory; atrociously bad
pleonectic greedy; covetous
pleonexia greed; avarice
polyphiloprogenitive very fertile; very imaginative
pornogenarian dirty old man
prate to talk foolishly or sententiously; to tattle
promulgate make known; disseminate
pseudologia lying in speech or writing
pseudologue pathological liar
pseudology art or science of lying
pseudomania irrational predilection for lying
ptochogony production of beggars; pauperization
pundigrion play on words; pun
pysmatic questioning; interrogatory[/pre]
Back in the day on Raging BS, I collected obscure words with which to taunt the touts, so many in the list are useful to describe scoundrels.
Here are a few other goodies in no particular order:
[pre]rectalgia pain in the butt
anacathartic causing vomiting or expectoration
supercherie deception; hoax; fraud
sequacious ready to follow a leader or authority; compliant
querulist one who complains
furciferous bearing a forked appendage; rascally
mumpsimus view stubbornly held even when shown to be wrong
mattoid person on borderline between sanity and insanity
fooliaminy collective term for fools
fanfaron an empty boaster
calumniate to slander; misrepresent; besmirch
zoilism carping and unjust criticism
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Some words are completely useless other than to wonder why they exist at all. For example:
[pre]blype piece of skin that peels off after a sunburn
rhinotillexomania compulsive nose picking
You might describe Biden's performance last night as a display of anencephalic agonistic fleer.
[Note to Bob: There's a bug in the implementation of the pre attribute where it doesn't recognize the closing tag.]
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