20 Unusual Words You Can Play on Scrabble to Crush (Or Annoy) Other Players
Here's a bunch of words you'll never use, except to show off that you know them. You're welcome.
![20 Unusual Words You Can Play on Scrabble to Crush (Or Annoy) Other Players](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/0/771460_320x180.jpg)
We know you love Scrabble. We mean, you're a Cracked reader. It's a given that your thing is impressing your friends and family with useless bits of knowledge (and shocking them with dirty words). That's why we have prepared here a quaint, small lexicon to expand your already bountiful vocabulary; an undertaking optimistically conducive to your aspiration of electrifying your fellow participants in the aforementioned merrymaking activity. Just don't, you know, talk like a douchebag.
![AA A rough kind of lava. Don't be surprised if the other players are also roughly annoyed after you pull this, though.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/3/771443.jpg)
![AQUAFABA The liquid that results when beans are cooked in water. You can use it for cooking, and also for winning. Isn't it great?](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/4/771444.jpg)
![ATIGI A type of Inuit parka. Everyone will need parkas, considering how cool you'll be when you play this word.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/5/771445.jpg)
![BIBIMBAP A dish of cooked rice and vegetables. IF you serve the other players a bowl of the stuff, they'll be happier to accept that you didn't just make up the word.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/6/771446.jpg)
![BOKEH The blurred quality of a photograph. You thought your pics were blurry? No, they had bokeh. Way cooler.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/7/771457.jpg)
![CONIINE A poisonous alkaloid found in hemlock. Here you have a nice chemical word, worth niine- sorry, nine points.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/8/771458.jpg)
![COTIJA A Mexican cheese. Really, is there anything that cheese doesn't make better?](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/9/771459.jpg)
![DUDGEON feeling of indignation. Not a dungeon for dudes, sadly. (Which is itself a cause for indignation.)](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/7/771447.jpg)
![GHERKIN A kind of small cucumber. Yeah, that's the way to do it. Keep workin' that gherkin and win the game!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/8/771448.jpg)
![MUZJIK Russian peasant. Also moujik, mujik, and muzhik. Resist the urge to say musjik to my ears. Just don't do that.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/9/771449.jpg)
![PAHOEHOE Hardened lava with a smooth surface. Smooth, you say? Playing this word is smooth. Smooth as hell.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/0/771450.jpg)
![QAPIK A monetary unit of Azerbaijan. Also gopik. We don't know how much a gapik is worth but we do know that the word is worth 20 shiny points.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/2/771452.jpg)
![QAT An evergreen shrub. Also kat and khat. Let's just take a moment here to consider how every spelling of cat is a real word. This has to mean something.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/1/771451.jpg)
![SAIN To make the sign of the cross. Vampires are at an unfair advantage, because of how many old words they know. Play this to banish them.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/4/771454.jpg)
![SYZYGY The Earth, Moon, and Sun lying in a straight line. The planets must really align for you to be able to play this, as you'll be one short. (Or just use a blank tile. -whichever is easier).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/3/771453.jpg)
![XYST A roofed area where athletes trained in ancient Greece. Also xystos and xystus. Yes, the word xyst does exist - and it will also make you an athlete in Scrabble.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/6/771456.jpg)
![ZA Slang for pizza. Yes, of course this is legal in Scrabble. What kind of monster would outlaw pizza in any shape or form?](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/5/771455.jpg)
![ZAX A tool for cutting roof slates. Just remember that if you don't say, Look, I'm playing zax, you'll be a disappointment to dads everywhere.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/2/771442.jpg)
![ZOMBOID Resembling zombies. Zomboid sounds like a word a zombie movie slightly embarrassed to be a zombie movie would use. Anyway, it's Scrabble-legal.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/1/771441.jpg)
![ZYMURGY A branch of physics dealing with fermentation. The fermentation part might explain your feeling drunk with power after playing this word.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/0/771440.jpg)