21 Everyday Things You Never Knew Had Names

21 Everyday Things You Never Knew Had Names
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Do you know there’s a word for the space between your thumb and forefinger? Or for the feeling you get after eating or drinking too much? Okay, leave this aside tell us what does the dot on the letter i or j is called? Don’t know? We didn’t either. But now we do and you shall too. Wait no more, scroll through the list of the things you know exist but not their names. Find out now!?

By the way, there’s a word for a combination of exclamation and question mark too. Scroll now.

1. Tent

The tiny plastic table placed in the middle of a pizza box. 

2. Overmorrow

The day after tomorrow. 

3. minimus

The smallest finger or toe. 

4. Agraffe

The weird cage that holds the cork in bottle of champagne. 

5. Vocables

The ‘na na na’ and ‘la la la’ which don’t really have any meaning in the lyrics of a song. 

6. Interrobang

When combine an exclamation mark with a question mark (i.e. ?!).

7. Columella nasi

The space between the nostrils. 

8. Dysania

The condition of finding it difficult to get out of bed in the morning. 

9. Griffonage

Illegible handwriting.

10. tittle

The dot over an “i” or a “j”. 

11. Purlicue: 

The space between the thumb and forefingers.

12. Barm

The foam on a beer.

13.  Rasceta

The lines on the inside of your wrist.

14. Rectal Tenesmus

The feeling of incomplete defecation

15.  Morton’s toe

When your second toe is bigger than your big toe.

16. Nibling

The non-gender-specific term for a niece or nephew — like sibling.

17.  Lemniscate

The infinity symbol.

18. Zarf

The cardboard sleeve on a coffee cup.

19. Lunule

The white, crescent-shaped part of the nail.

20. Crapulence

The utterly sick feeling you get after eating or drinking too much. 

21. Phosphenes

The sheen or light that you see when you close your eyes and press your hands on them. 


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