(To build your own links to words, simply link to the page they are on, and add an anchor to the URL with the word, like this: http://www.kokogiak.com/logolepsy/ow_l.html#luciferous )

The letters in the menu above link to separate pages with words listed in alphabetical order. Click here to start with the letter "A", or choose any of the others above. The 'search' link leads to a basic search page, where you can search for a term in the many word definitions here - give it a try, it's a great way to discover new words related to a single subject.

The name of this project is also its description: Luciferous [adj. - illuminating, literally and figuratively] Logolepsy [n. - an obsession with words], in other words: 'an illuminating obsession with words'. For those with a thirst for even more interesting words, be sure to visit some of the sites on the list below.

Corrections, additions or comments? Send them here.

Outside Links:

 The Online Plain Text English Dictionary

based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

 Hutchinson Dictionary of Difficult Words

 Forthright's Phrontistery

International House of Logorrhea

 World Wide Words

International English from a British Standpoint

 A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia

 Wordsmith.org's A.Word.A.Day

 Dictionary.com's "Word of the Day"

 Mavens' (Formerly Jesse's) Word of the Day Archive

 Oxford English Dictionary Word of the Day

 Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day

 Worthless Word For the Day archive

 They Have a Word for It (book review)

words and concepts in various foreign languages that do not exist in the English

