Okay, I remember coming across a word that meant roughly: using a vocabulary too complicated so as to obscure the meaning of the writer's message. And I cannot find this word now (oh the irony). It's not "prolix" or "sesquipedalian" or "highfalutin" or even "logorrhea" (none of the synonyms listed here for that matter). The word denotes using an overwrought vocabulary, using words too big/obscure that the average person would not know what the devil you were talking about. Help?
Recondite? Abstruse? Orphic? Acroamatical? Arcane?
Hmmm... Don't ring a bell, though I do like "recondite" and "abstruse" and "Orphic." I feel like it referred specifically to a writer's vocabulary. I'm starting to feel like I hallucinated this word.
Circumlocution?
Buckleyesque (as in William F.)?