Odd Russian words?

[archaicos.livejournal.com]

How about some oddities and peculiarities of Russian words?

Like with 3 е's in a row?
длинношеее

Or 3 у's?:
усугубить

Or 7 о's?:
обороноспособность

Or something else that jumps into your eyes? Are there any words in your opinion that you'd never imagine to exist until you actually saw them? Something like complicated spelling, pronunciation or with lack of connection between these two, or anything?

UPDATE: I'm not asking for swearing, slang or words distorted in some stupid (or you may consider clever) way. Or invented words (some examples from literature/poetry: любенок, могатырь). I could write examples like that myself, though I did not do that because the intent was different. Please restrain to normal language, unless you know Russian poorly and unsure what's normal and what's not.

Comments

[quadro.livejournal.com]

first one could never be used, it's just a wordplay
and hate you for the second 8)

[tau-lj.livejournal.com]

змееед

[asklepij.livejournal.com]

All the words you've listed are OK.

[archaicos.livejournal.com]

Sure they are. I wasn't clear at first that I meant valid/proper/normal/etc words and offered a few as an example. I'm not sure how good is something like a foreign name or word written in Russian or borrowed from other language, because that itself doesn't really apply to Russian (e.g. Мкртчян as opposed to those made up words from the deleted comments).

[asklepij.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see. Sorry, I didn't get the question then

[asklepij.livejournal.com]

"Something like complicated spelling"

Защищающиеся, взрывающиеся, вылавировать etc.

[mivlad.livejournal.com]

It was "zashtsheeshtshayoutshtsheekhsya" :-)

[asklepij.livejournal.com]

Right you are!

[towarysc.livejournal.com]

Выкарабкивающиеся

[asklepij.livejournal.com]

палатализирующиеся :))

[towarysc.livejournal.com]

недовыкарабкавшиеся
перепалатализировавшиеся
контрзащищающиеся

[amoniak.livejournal.com]

Здравствуйте =)
This word has 4 consonants in a row and 9 consonants per 3 vowels =)

[zhirafov-nyet.livejournal.com]

But if I remember my pronunciation rules correctly, the first в isn't pronounced in a -вств- cluster.

[ondrean.livejournal.com]

всплеск - six consonants and only one vowel
контрвстреча - seven consonants in a row

[asklepij.livejournal.com]

контрвстреча

I've never heard it. Nor have gramota.ru (http://dic.gramota.ru/search.php?word=%EA%EE%ED%F2%F0%E2%F1%F2%F0%E5%F7%E0&lop=x&gorb=x&efr=x&ag=x&zar=x&ab=x&sin=x&lv=x&pe=x&az=x) and yandex.ru (http://slovari.yandex.ru/search.xml?text=%EA%EE%ED%F2%F0%E2%F1%F2%F0%E5%F7%E0).

[ondrean.livejournal.com]

Me too;)
It's a word invented to show the capabilities of Russian.

[inoctiluci.livejournal.com]

Curiously enough, an English equivelant of "всплеск" has five consonants and one vowel: splash.

[ondrean.livejournal.com]

Ehm, yes, curious))

[shlema.livejournal.com]

"Агентство" is more common word - but only five consonants in a row in it.

[archaicos.livejournal.com]

of which 1st т is silent.

[ex-roumor.livejournal.com]

"взбзднуть"
^____^
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D1%81_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BC_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85_%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8_%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85_%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B2

[yurka-spb.livejournal.com]

There is also a joke, which sounds like
лань - животное длинношеее, но жираф еще длинношееее
with four e in a row. It is gramatically correct, but a bit artificial, and it is better to say более длинношеее here.

[archaicos.livejournal.com]

OK, some more to shift the trend:
женщина (нщ in this word is normally pronounced as *нь*щ)
мужчина (жч here is normally pronounced as щ)
здравствуй(те) (в is silent)

[stephan-nn.livejournal.com]

"масс-спектрометрия" подходит?

[archaicos.livejournal.com]

More or less. Эксцентриситет is good too. Though both have foreign origin.