What David Foster Wallace Circled in His Dictionary
by Slate Magazine and the Harry Ransom Center
- Ablative absolute
- Ablaut
- Abulia
- Acephalous
- ACTH
- Adit
- Adumbrate
- Agrapha
- Ailanthus
- Aleatory
- Alfresco
- Algolagnia
- Alpestrine
- Ament
- Anecdotage
- Androsterone
- Anemone fish
- Anneal
- Antiphon
- Antipode
- Apathetic
- Apercu
- aphagia
- Aphotic
- Apocarpous
- Appoggiatura
- Aquavit
- Arc-boutant
- Archimedean screw
- Archine
- Arcuate
- Argon
- Armamentarium
- Arrière-ban
- Arris
- Ascites
- Asco-
- Aspheric
- Astrolabe
- Athabasca/Athabaska
- Atony
- Auscultate
- Autolysis
- Azygous
- BAL
- Banderole/banderol
- Banquette
- Bathyscaph
- Benthos
- Bespoke
- Bialy
- Bibulous
- Bisque
- [Bonded warehouse](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/Bonded warehouse)
- Bregma
- Cachexia
- Cachinnate
- Cairngorm
- Caisson
- Calenture
- Caliposis
- Caparison
- Carbinol
- Carpophagous
- Cartouche/cartouch
- Cassis
- Catachresis
- castellated
- Catarrhine
- Catastasis
- Cecum
- Cete
- Chalcedony
- chatelain
- Chatoyant
- Chthonic
- Citronella
- Clastic
- Clavate
- Climbing irons
- Clinometer
- Clinquant
- Cobnut
- Coir
- Collective bargaining
- Conchoidal
- Condonation
- Confluence
- Contredanse
- Corporation
- corvée
- corvine
- coryphaeus
- couvad
- coxcomb
- crasis
- cunctation
- curettage
- deadeye
- debouch
- decalcomania
- decrepitate
- deforce
- delectation
- delft
- deliration
- delitescence
- demotic
- demulcent
- deracinate
- descant
- desiderate
- desinence
- desuetude
- diadem
- dicast
- digitate
- dihedral
- diopter
- dioptometer
- dioptric
- dioptrics
- diriment
- dissimulate
- distichous
- divaricate
- domino
- double-tongue
- durbar
- edema
- ejecta
- Elaine
- elan
- emulous
- entrepôt
- enucleate
- eparchy
- epopee
- eruct
- eructation
- esker
- espadrille
- espalier
- estovers
- esurient
- etiolate
- euhemerism
- exergue
- [facial index](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/facial index)
- fastigiate
- fauces
- fazenda
- feculent
- fibroin
- fictile
- fiduciary
- fisc
- flagitious
- flense
- flitch
- fluvial
- foamflower
- folium
- forensic
- fornication
- fossorial
- fourfold
- fraktur
- fraxinella
- fulgurant
- gallimaufry
- gallinaceous
- garniture
- gavage
- gerent
- girasol
- glans penis
- Glengarry
- glycine
- gnosis
- gnostic
- Gnosticism
- graminivorous
- gravid
- guttate
- hagiarchy
- haik
- Havelock
- Heliogabalus
- hematuria
- heterodox
- heterogeneous
- heteroplasty
- horripilation
- hyperopia
- hyperplasia
- hypnagogic
- hypocaust
- hypocorism
- iatric
- illation
- imbricate
- imperforate
- inanition
- indene
- indurate
- inextirpable
- internecine
- intinction
- intussuscept
- invidious
- kakemono
- kala-azar
- Kallikaks
- karabiner
- kohl
- laciniate
- lamia
- landau
- legatee
- leptosome
- litotes
- logical positivism
- longeron
- lordosis
- lucubrate
- lugubrious
- luxate
- macaronic
- mage
- Mahabharata
- maieutic
- mammillate
- mansuetude
- mantic
- mantua
- manumit
- marcescent
- mare clausum
- massif
- mavourneen
- mazurka
- meatus
- meninx
- mercer
- meretricious
- meristem
- mesomorph
- metacenter
- metagenesis
- misericord
- misogamy
- misology
- misoneism
- mitzvah
- moiré
- moke
- Molly Maguire
- molybdenum
- monel metal
- monitory
- monody
- monoplegia
- morganatic
- motile
- mucronate
- multipara
- mures
- murra
- nacelle
- nappe
- narghile
- nekton
- neroli
- névé
- nevus
- nictitating membrane
- niddering
- nigrosine
- obsequy
- ocarina
- officinal
- omasum
- ombudsman
- ommatophore
- onyx
- opalescence
- ophidian
- ornithosis
- orology
- orpine
- orrery
- ort
- orthochromatic
- orthoepy
- orthogonal
- oscitancy
- Osiris
- osmic
- osmium
- osteophyte
- oviform
- ovine
- paillette
- parotitis
- parturient
- parvenu
- peccant
- pedalfer
- pedicel
- pelf
- pellicle
- penumbra
- peplum
- pepo
- perdition
- perfidy
- pergola
- periodontics
- periotic
- peripeteia
- periphrasis
- periphrastic
- peripteral
- permittivity
- pertussis
- petroglyph
- petrolatum
- phlox
- photogravure
- phylactery
- piaffer
- pilose
- pinchbeck
- pinnate
- planation
- pleach
- pleasance
- pleonasm
- plethoric
- plication
- plimsoll
- plissé
- polder
- pons asinorum
- pons varolii
- poplar
- portcullis
- prebend
- preferment
- premonition
- preterition
- pronate
- pronephros
- proptosis
- prosopopeia
- puerperal fever
- quinate
- quondam
- raga
- ramulose
- realgar
- rebarbative
- rebec
- rebus
- recrudesce
- recruit
- rectus
- recurvate
- recusant
- red lead
- relaxin
- relict
- reliction
- remarque
- replevin
- réseau/reseau
- rete
- revetment
- rogation
- ruth
- salient
- saliferous
- saprophagous
- sarcastic
- sarcoptic mange
- sassafras
- sateen
- saturnalia
- saturnine
- scabrous
- scarious
- scholium
- seborrhea
- sedilia
- sepsis
- serous
- shako
- shinplaster
- sibilate
- sibyl
- siphonophore
- skirl
- [slime mold](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/slime mold)
- sociometry
- socle
- Sogdian
- soke
- solander
- sordino
- soubrette
- spavin
- splendent
- spline
- sprachgefühl
- Stabat Mater
- stative
- stato–
- steatopygia
- steatorrhea
- stipule
- stochastic
- stoup
- strickle
- stridulate
- suborn
- succussion
- sudd
- sudorific
- suint
- sumptuary
- supernatant
- surcingle
- sylph
- sylphid
- symposiarch
- syntax
- sypher
- tabanid
- tabes
- tabla
- taiga
- talapoin
- talion
- tanist
- Tantalus
- tartuffe
- telium
- tenesmus
- tennis
- tepefy
- tercel
- [tertium quid](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tertium quid)
- tetrastichous
- thigmotaxis
- thymus
- timbale
- tontine
- tr.
- trabeated
- traduce
- traducianism
- trepan
- trephine
- trews
- tropophyte
- tympanites
- Tyr
- tyro
- urticant
- urticate
- urushiol
- uxorial
- uxoricide
- uxorious
- valgus
- vang
- varletry
- varve
- veloce
- venule
- vernier caliper
- versant
- versicolor
- vinculum
- virilism
- vitelline
- vivandière
- viva voce
- viviparous
- volant
- volar
- votary
- witenagemot