gobbledygook
Gobbledygook is unintelligible nonsense, often a bunch of big words that you can't comprehend. The mechanic might try to explain what's wrong with your car, but to you it just sounds like gobbledygook.
Like gibberish, gobbledygook is essentially meaningless to the person listening to or reading it. What distinguishes gobbledygook is that it includes technical terms or overblown, complicated words that aren't necessary. A good editor will take a technical writer's gobbledygook and translate it into ordinary English that anyone can understand. The inventor of this term was a Texas politician who used "activation" and "implementation" as examples of gobbledygook.
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incomprehensible or wordy jargon of specialiststype of:jargonspecialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject
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Vocabulary lists containing gobbledygook
An apathetic teacher is assigned to a class of unruly misfits — with surprising results.
After a heart transplant, Sunny St. James resolves to reinvent herself — but she must navigate complicated relationships with her new best friend and with the mother who abandoned her.
Moving back to California from Hong Kong, ten-year-old Knox, his older brother Bowen, and younger sister Lea, must deal not only with the coronavirus but also the separation from their father and fearful suspicions of their background.