"Sines, tangents, secants, radius, cosines
Subtangents, segments and all those signs;
Enough to prove that he who read 'em
Was just as mad as he who made 'em."
Not that I mean to be disrespectful to mathematical terms: they are short and easily explained, and compete favorably with those of most other subjects: for instance, with
"Horse-pleas, traverses, demurrers,
Jeofails, imparlances, and errors,
Averments, bars, and protestandos,
And puis d'arreign continuandos."