Epic Words for Winter

Sometimes you just need some new words to get your creative juices flowing. Today we’re offering you some EPIC words for winter. See if you can work these juicy bits of vocab into your next chapter, short story, or essay.

• niveous: snowy; resembling snow.
• izles: sparks or embers floating out of a chimney
• icedrake: a dragon that breathes ice or has a low body temperature
• brumal: occurring in winter; wintry
• psithurism: the sound of wind in trees or of rustling leaves; a whispering sound.
• psychrophilia: loving the cold; a disposition to thriving in cold temperatures [synonym: cryophilia].
• welkin: the visible regions of the air; the vault of heaven; the sky; the firmament; the region above the clouds.*

*The original first line of “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing” was “Hark, How All the Welkin Rings.”