Favorite rare words, D-F

Logolatry

Dasyure -- flesh-eating marsupial.

Davit -- device for hoisting and lowering a boat.

Delf -- drain, ditch, excavation.

Delope -- to fire one's gun into the air during a duel.

Demersal -- subaqueous, living underwater, sinking to the bottom.

Deray -- to go wild, to derange.

Diallelus -- circular argument.

Dinomania -- mania for dancing.

Disagio -- fee charged for exchanging foreign or depreciated currency.

Disomus -- monster with two bodies.

Dodoism -- stupid remark.

Duende -- power to attract through personal charm.

Dysania -- having a hard time waking up in the morning.

Dysteleology -- doctrine of purposelessness.

Dystopia -- place where all is as bad as possible.

Eagre -- sudden rise of tide in a river.

Ebberman -- one who fishes under bridges.

Ecdysiast -- striptease performer.

Eellogofusciouhipokunurious -- good.

Elaphine -- like or belonging to a red deer.

Eldritch -- horrifying, arcane, strange.

Elydoric -- painted with both oil and watercolor.

Engastration -- stuffing of one bird inside another.

Engrailment -- ring of dots around edge of a coin.

Epanadiplosis -- sentence beginning and ending with same word.

Epenthesis -- insertion of extra sound into a word (common in Dutch).

Epeolatry -- worship of words ("Plead guilty, your Honor.").

Ephemeron -- creature that lives for only one day.

Esker -- ridge of sandy soil.

Estrapade -- horse's attempt to throw its rider.

Euripus -- arm of the sea with strong currents.

Eyot -- small island in a lake or river.

Fagottist -- bassoon player.

Falderal -- nonsense.

Fanal -- lighthouse or beacon.

Fanion -- small flag used in surveying land.

Ferule -- cane or rod used for punishment.

Fimicolous -- living in dung.

Flapdoodle -- gross flattery, nonsense.

Flews -- drooping or pendulous lips.

Flumen -- the right to direct excess rainwater into neighbor's yard.

Fontinal -- growing near springs.

Footle -- to waste time, act foolishly (from French foutre, I'd guess).

Frantling -- mating call of a peacock.

Frogmarch -- to carry an uncooperative drunkard or prisoner.

Frowst -- to luxuriate in hot stuffiness and stupefaction.

Fug -- hot, close, smoky state of atmosphere.

Futtock -- rib of a ship.

Frantling is famously from the wonderful, celebrated line in Finnegans Wake: "no chare of beagles, frantling of peacocks, no muzzing of the camel, smuttering of apes."--frantling is the word that actually caused me to find the phrontistery site. Indeed, a google search gives only two meaningful hits: James Joyce and the phronistery site.

Selected from Steve Chrisomalis's wonderful Forthright's Phrontistery site.