While proofreading the rough draft of the novel I am working on, I have come across a boatload of words in my book that aren’t in my spellcheck. Here are a dozen of my favourites, some of them surprising.

1. glossolalia

2. androgyne

3. Meth

4. nutballs

5. Bardo

6. SpaghettiOs

7. hobosexual

8. Aryurvedic

9. metamorphosize

10. cantrip

11. synesthesia

12. Robotussin

13. sinopia