Word of the Day: unusual words you may not have heard of

[THX1138]

Wardcorn: Payment of corn in place of military service.
AND
Ward-Corn: The duty of keeping watch and ward, with a horn to be blown upon any occasion of surprise.

There seems to be more than one meaning of this word, depending on the time period and use.

 

[Guttersnipe]

Decuman: The largest in a series; the tenth wave in a series of waves, thought to be the largest.

 

[THX1138]

Ullagone: Cry of lamentation; funeral lament.

 

[Alex The G and T]

Prosopagnosia, also called face blindness, is a condition where you have difficulty recognizing people's faces.

I picked this up from a bit in National Geographic. Never heard of such a thing. The author compared her affliction to trying to identify an individual bird in a giant horde of sand hill cranes.

 

[THX1138]

Good one @Alex The G and T!

I thought of your pre groomed self on this one.
Ulotrichous: Having woolly hair

 

[Pyan]

Crwth - a Welsh lyre played with a bow.

 

[Guttersnipe]

Eideteker: Someone who has an eidetic, or visually perfect, memory.