10 Aglet
The piece of plastic covering the ends of your shoelace, so you don’t have to moisten them with spit to thread them through your shoelace holes.
9 Bollard
The posts in the parking lot let that lets wheelchairs and shopping carts go through, but not your car.
8 Dingbat
Non-alphanumeric, non-punctuation characters, usually used when you want to write something that you don’t want your children to read.
7 Ferrule
The metal band that connects the pencil eraser to the end of the pencil.
6 Keeper
The leather loop in your belt or watch strap that keeps the end in place after it has been fastened through the buckle.
5 Kerf
The groove made by a sawblade, ie, the width of a cut. In the image above we see a 2.5 micron kerf.
4 Punt, or Kick
The small indentation at the bottom or a wine bottle, designed to give the bottle extra strength, and also, to make it look like it has more wine than it really does.
3 Philtrum
The vertical groove between your lip and nose that separates your left and right mustache, unless you’re Hitler, then it’s the part that your mustache covers.
2 Phosphenes
The points of light that you see behind your eyelids when you shut your eyes really hard.
1 Tragus
The little piece of cartilage that sticks out at the front side of your ear.
Contributor: Beatrice Adams
