Words

upright=1.5|thumb|Sign of a New Zealand hill with an unusually long one-word name: [[Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu| (85 characters)]]

thumb|upright=1.3|A comparison of prepositions and directional prefixes in Greek, Latin, English, and German.

thumb|upright=1.25|Punch (magazine)|Punch, 25 February 1914. The cartoon is a pun on the word "Jamaica", which pronunciation is a [[homonym to the clipped form of "Did you make her?" ]]

word that occurs only once in a language's written record, an author's corpus, or a text

thumb|Artist Tavar Zawacki painted a site-specific wordplay painting in Lima, Peru, commenting on the [[cocaine crisis and exportation.]]

A ' ( , sometimes pluralized as ', usually capitalized following German practice) is a word that has spread as a loanword among numerous languages and cultures, especially those that are far away from one another. As such, are a curiosity in historical linguistics and sociolinguistics within a wider study of language contact. At a sufficient time depth, it can be very difficult to establish in which language or language family a originated and into which it was borrowed.

In BDSM, a safeword is a code word, series of code words or other signal used by a person to communicate their physical or emotional state, typically when approaching, or crossing, a physical, emotional, or moral boundary. Some safewords are used to stop the scene outright, while others can communicate a willingness to continue, but at a reduced level of intensity.

word that expresses a property it also possesses

A philomath () is a lover of learning and studying.