Unusual or rare words

[Saint-Just]

Susie again today: For those who don’t know it and might need it (I think we all do), ‘apricity’ is the warmth of the sun on a chilly day.

 

[E. By Gum]

Chubbings. Off cuts, fallen wood, dead fall or wind fall.
Chubbing, going chubbing. Which means collecting the chubbings.

 

[Juttle]

Chubbings. Off cuts, fallen wood, dead fall or wind fall.
Chubbing, going chubbing. Which means collecting the chubbings.

unless, of course, you’re an angler and then it would mean going in pursuit of chub!

 

[noddy]

Not a lazy lob-on then?

 

[E. By Gum]

Nore. Something along the lines of joy at a babies birth.

 

[Saint-Just]

Pangram: A phrase that uses every letter in the alphabet.
The best known one is the typists' "the quick brown fox jumped over a lazy dog" but I like the following one better because it's only 26 letters long: "Mr. Jock, TV quiz Ph. D., bags few lynx", although it's more difficult to include in a casual conversation.

Lipogram: Type of constrained writing in which a particular letter is excluded

In Rebeccah Giltrow's Twenty-Six Degrees, each chapter, narrated by a different character, deliberately excludes one of the twenty-six letters while using the other twenty-five at least once. And each of the twenty-six letters is excluded from one and only one chapter (for instance, one chapter excludes A, one chapter excludes B, one chapter excludes C, etc.).