SPENDIER, as in "more expensive."  Slang, I know, but perhaps uncommon?

Apologies if this has been discussed before, but...

Alan, how do you choose which words are standard fare and which deserve to be challenge words?  It's usually terrifically accurate - I typically get the standard 9-letter in three seconds or so, but the challenge 9-letter often takes a long while, or even eludes me altogether.

Alan -

I was surprised to find that ICKLE was rejected.  Webster's 1913 dictionary lists the obsolete definition of 'an icicle,' and it's also recognized as childish slang for 'little' these days.

I was a little less surprised to find CHICKLET unknown.  It's a rare word for a baby chick, and I believe it also has a minor technological use the details about which I'm clueless.

I was shocked --- shocked! --- to discover that the obsolete form of "to reduce," REDUCT, was not accepted in Monday's challenge puzzle.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Reduct

It seems to be used occasionally today in the phrase "salary reduct."

it also exists as a very abstruse noun:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduct

I looked in the archives, but didn't see this; if it's been raised before, I spologize.

The slangy epithet TARD is not allowed?  Really?

Another in the interminable list of suggestions....

Thursday's challenge puzzle doesn't include HIPE, which is in the Free Dictionary, listed as a wrestling throw.  It's not a common word at all, indeed archaic, but Googling "hipe" and "wrestling" together gets, among other online dictionaries, a citation in an 1890 book about wrestling and a mention in a BBC story.

So, Alan, care to grapple with the question of whether it's included?

_{Haw!  see what I did there}

I hope this subject is not old hat around here.  I've been pleased and enlightened scanning some of these word suggestions and I thought some logophiles here might want to chime in with some of their own favorite interesting or amusing words, regardless of whether they're included in the game or not.

Most words that tickle my fancy are archaic, some are of the "didn't know there was a word for it" variety:

pinguid - fat, oily (makes me think of plump penguins waddling)
callipygian - having finely shaped buttocks
pismire - archaic term for ant.  (also, emmet.)
calque - a literal translation of a loan word (ie Superman for Ubermensch)
stultiloquy - babbling, foolish talk
valetudinarian - someone overly concerned with their health, a hypochondriac
uxorious - overly devoted to one's wife
accismus - feigned indifference, coyness
ennead - a group of nine
niddering - archaic term for a coward - i like this because it's a noun disguised as a gerund


...but I didn't start this thread to show off.  I'm really hoping I can learn a few interesting, if not readily useful in every day conversation, words from you amateur (or perhaps professional) wordologists.  (For example, I loved hearing about "lored" from the ornithologists out there.)