The 100 Most Beautiful Words in EnglishThe 100 Most Beautiful Words in EnglishThe 100 Most Beautiful Words in EnglishThe 100 Most Beautiful Words in English

No. Word Meaning 1. Ailurophile a cat lover 2. Assemblage a gathering 3. Becoming attractive 4. Beleaguer to exhaust with attacks 5. Brood to think alone 6. Bucolic in a lovely rural setting 7. Bungalow a small, cozy cottage 8. Chatoyant like a cat's eye 9. Comely attractive 10. Conflate to blend together 11. Cynosure a focal point of admiration 12. Dalliance a brief love affair 13. Demesne dominion, territory 14. Demure shy and reserved 15. Denouement the resolution of a mystery 16. Desuetude disuse 17. Desultory slow, sluggish 18. Diaphanous filmy 19. Dissemble deceive 20. Dulcet sweet, sugary 21. Ebullience bubbling enthusiasm 22. Effervescent bubbly 23. Efflorescence flowering, blooming 24. Elision dropping a sound or syllable in a word 25. Elixir a good potion 26. Eloquence beauty and persuasion in speech 27. Embrocation rubbing on a lotion 28. Emollient a softener 29. Ephemeral short-lived 30. Epiphany a sudden revelation 31. Erstwhile at one time, for a time 32. Ethereal gaseous, invisible but detectable 33. Evanescent vanishing quickly, lasting a very short time

34. Evocative suggestive 35. Fetching pretty 36. Felicity pleasantness 37. Forbearance withholding response to provocation 38. Fugacious fleeting 39. Furtive shifty, sneaky 40. Gambol to skip or leap about joyfully 41. Glamour beauty 42. Gossamer the finest piece of the thread, a spider's silk 43. Halcyon happy, sunny, care-free 44. Harbinger messenger with the news of the future 45. Imbrication overlapping and forming a regular pattern 46. Imbroglio an altercation or complicated situation 47. Imbue to infuse, instill 48. Incipient beginning, in an early stage 49. Ineffable unutterable, inexpressible 50. Ingénue a naïve young woman 51. Inglenook a cozy nook by the hearth 52. Insouciance blithe nonchalance 53. Inure to become jaded 54. Labyrinthine twisting and turning 55. Lagniappe a special kind of gift 56. Lagoon a small gulf or inlet 57. Languor listlessness, inactivity 58. Lassitude weariness, listlessness 59. Leisure free time 60. Lilt to move musically or lively 61. Lissome slender and graceful 62. Lithe slender and flexible 63. Love deep affection 64. Mellifluous sweet sounding 65. Moiety one of two equal parts 66. Mondegreen a slip of the ear 67. Murmurous murmuring 68. Nemesis an unconquerable archenemy 69. Offing the sea between horizon and the offshore 70. Onomatopoeia a word that sounds like its meaning 71. Opulent lush, luxurious 72. Palimpsest a manuscript written over earlier ones 73. Panacea a solution for all problems

74. Panoply a complete set 75. Pastiche an art work combining materials from various sources 76. Penumbra a half shadow 77. Petrichor the smell of earth after rain 78. Plethora a large quantity 79. Propinquity an inclination 80. Pyrrhic successful with heavy loses 81. Quintessential most essential 82. Ratatouille a spicy French stew 83. Ravel to knit or unknit 84. Redolent fragrant 85. Riparian by the bank of a stream 86. Ripple a very small wave 87. Scintilla a spark or very small thing 88. Sempiternal eternal 89. Seraglio rich, luxurious oriental palace or harem 90. Serendipity finding something nice while looking for something

else 91. Summery light, delicate or warm and sunny 92. Sumptuous lush, luxurious 93. Surreptitious secretive, sneaky 94. Susquehanna a river in Pennsylvania 95. Susurrous whispering, hissing 96. Talisman a good luck charm 97. Tintinnabulation tinkling 98. Umbrella protection from sun or rain 99. Untoward unseemly, inappropriate 100. Vestigial in trace amounts 101. Wafture waving 102. Wherewithal the means 103. Woebegone sorrowful, downcast