sesquipedalian
- n a very long word (a foot and a half long)
- s given to the overuse of long words
sesquipedalian orators
this sesquipedalian way of saying one has no money - s (of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables
sesquipedalian technical terms
- The hippopotamus, which looks like its sesquipedalian name, is actually so called because a Greek traveler thought it resembled a "horse of the river.
- A new school with a sesquipedalian name this week sent its first alumnus to work in the State Department.
- The range of his sesquipedalian verbal achievements spread from masterly Johnsonian periods on the occasion of "Remarks of Senator Ashurst on the Steamship President Grant on .