The English language contains approximately one million words, learning all of which can be intimidating. It would appear that we should all be able to sum up anything with a single word, given our extensive vocabularies. The plastic on the end of your shoelaces is an everyday item that we all trip over, as is the metal part of a pencil. But most of these things actually do have words that describe them – you just don’t know them.

These are the words for everyday items you didn’t realize had official names 👇🏾🤔

1. Aglets – the plastic or metallic coating at the end of the shoelaces

2. Apricity – the warmth of the sun on a cold day

3. Armscye – the shape or outline of the armhole

4. Brannock device – the thing they use to measure your feet at the shoe store

5. Biblioklept – a book thief

6. Caret – used by proofreaders to insert punctuation or missing letters

7. Cornicione – the outer part of the crust on a pizza

8. Crapulence – the sick feeling you get after eating or drinking too much

9. Drupelets – any of the small individual drupes forming a fleshy aggregate fruit such as a blackberry or raspberry

10. Dysania – the condition of finding it difficult to get out of bed in the morning

11. Earworm – the song you cannot get out of your head

12. Ferrule – the metal part at the end of a pencil

13. Glabella – the space between your eyebrows

14. Griffonage – illegible handwriting

15. Hamburger button – the button to click or tap on to get access to the menu options. The three line navigational icon is named hamburger button because it looks like a hamburger:

16. Interrobang – when you combine a question mark with an exclamation point like this:

17. Keeper – the loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed through the buckle

18. Lemniscate – the infinity symbol

19. Lunule – the white, crescent-shaped part of the nail

20. Mononymous – A person known by one name like Adele, Madonna or Voltaire

21. Morton’s toe – when your second toe is bigger than your big toe

22. Muntin – the strip separating window panes

23. Nibling – the non-gender-specific term for a niece or nephew — like sibling

24. Nurdle –  tiny dab of toothpaste

25. Obelus – the division sign, the one with the dots above and below a dash

26. Overmorrow – the day after tomorrow

27. Petrichor – smell of rain after a dry spell

28. Philtrum – the fold of skin between your nose and upper lip

29. Quincunx – the five dot pattern found on dice

30. Rasceta – the lines on the inside of your wrist

31. Rhinotillexomania – obsessive nose-picking

32. Snood – the fleshy thing around the neck of a turkey

33. Souffle cup – a ketchup/condiment cup

34. Tartle – a Scottish word to describe the hesitation caused from forgetting a person’s name

35. Tittle – the dot over an “i” or a “j”

36. Ullage – the amount by which a container falls short of being full

37. Vibrissae – whiskers

38. Vorfreude – the joy you feel thinking about good things that will happen

39. Wamble – the rumbling sound that the stomach makes

40. Zarf – the cardboard sleeve on a coffee cup

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