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translated by Razilee Mary Purdue and edited by Michael Joseph Halm copyright 1978-2014 Hierogamous Enterprises
aagram: [anagram with second letter deleted] (13, 31, 143, 314, 341, 413, 431, etc.) word formed from another by deletion of second letter and transposition -- dream = dame = made = mead aagram string: string made from aagrams -- dream + mead + dam = dreameadam aangram: [anagram with second and third letters exchanged] (132, 1324, 4321, 13245, 13254, 43215, 43251, 53214, 53241, etc.) anagrams -- satin = stain aapa: [ad astra per aspera] to the stars through troubles abbrhyme: [abbr. + rhyme portmanteau, abbreviated form of Willard R. Espy's abbreviated rhyme] synthetic rhyme using abbreviation, e. g., "A Mrs. kr. Mr., then how her Mr. kr. He kr., kr., kr., until he raised a blr." acrosstic: [across + acrostic portmanteau, Poe] acrostic variation in which nth letter in nth line is significant adad: [aut disce aut discede acronym] learn or leave aeioi: [adj. and sing. aeious from Dmitri A. Borgman's aeiou word] words with all of the 5 vowels, a, e, i, o and u -- dialogue, equation, sequoia afaik: [acronym] as far as I know agenarian: [nonagenarian backformation] person under 90 or over 99 agamemnonym: [Edward R. Wolpow's Agamemnon word] word with three or more palindromic trigrams agmenonym: [Agamemnon backformation + -nym] word transformed into agamemnonym by adding appropriate letter after bigrams to form palindromic trigrams aibohphobiac: anchored palindrome like aibohphobiac that has an extra final letter and so is not actually a palindrome, demonstrating itself a morbid fear of palindromes aibohpphobia: fear of palinddromes, "double-yolked" palindromes aip: [ab Iove principium] start with the most important AIQ: [AI + IQ portmanteau acronym] measurement of "artificial intelligence" as in the results of a Turing test alindrome: [beheaded palindrome] near-palindrome that lacks initial letter albanecktross: [albatross around neck wordle] burden Aldhelmian: like Aldhelm, saintly Anglo-Latin riddlemaster (c. 640-709) alphabit: [alphabet bit] alphabet transformation rebus -- abcdfghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz = cut e = cute, abcdefhijkltnopqrstuvwxyz = g out = gout, abcdefghijkltnopqrstuvwxyz = for m a t = format, abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz = no l = noel, abcdfghijklmnopqrtuvwxyz = no s, e = nose, abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxzy - shift y = shifty Amish: [Percy Moore Manx + -ish] describing poem form variation with final two lines left unwritten andrest reversed ampa: [Ad multos annos prosperos!, "To many prosperous years!", acronym] live long and prosper anany: [curtailed ananym] describing transdeletion in which word is reversed and final letter deleted -- anany(petal) = late anatonym: aka body part name -- areola (nipple area), canthus (where eyelids meet), coccyx (tail bone), coxa (hip bone), diaphysis (bone shaft), dorsum (top of tongue), epiphysis (bone head), fovea (blind spot on retina), frenulum (thin muscle under tongue), hallux (big toe), ischium (back of hip bone), maxilla (upper mouth bone), nasopharynx (passage between nose and throat), opisthenar (back of hand), oropharynx (passage between mouth and throat), patella (kneecap), phalanx (finger or toe bone), philtrum (indentation between nose and upper lip), pinna (external ear), pollex (thumb), popliteal (hollow in back of knee), pubis (front of hip bone), sclera (white of eye), thenar (fleshy pad below thumb), tragus (fleshy bump between face and ear cavity), vomer (slender bone between nostrils) ananum: body part that designates a number in counting, fingers, toes, nose, etc. angram: transdeletion with third letter deleted and rest moved antu: [abusus non tollit usum acronym] inexcusable abuse Anx: [beheaded Manx] with initial and terminal lines deleted apae: [a posse ad esse, "from possibility to actuality", acronym] actualition apostronym: [Dave Morice's apostrophe word] word that becomes another word with apostrophe deletion -- can't, he'll, I'll, she'll, we'd, we'll, we're appmae: [Adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit. acronym] add little by little and there will be a big pile aqa: [Age quod agis. acronym] do what you do (well), pay attention to what you are doing. ard: [beheaded ord with phonetic r-] word that has been doubly beheaded Ardunian: [beheaded Erdunian with phonetic r-] with first two and last four lines unwritten arithmonym: number name armups: [up in arms wordle] aroused to action arrational: [beheaded irrational with phonetic r-] between rational and irrational astroillogical: [astrological + illogical portmanteau] demonstrating the logically extrapolated illogicalness of astrology astronumby: [numb + astronomy portmanteau] mind-numbing gee-whiz astronomy autophone: [automobile sound] one of the seven car noises or combinations
autoshiftgram: word which is its own shiftgram, tanger + 13 = gnatre, emblazonry + 13 = rzoynmbael ava: [ad vitam aeternam acronym] for eternity avav: [a verbis ad verbera acronym] from words to blows avera: [amicus verus est rara avis acronym] a true friend is rare avo: [amor vincit omnia acronym] love conquers all backwords: birr (what a bird has done to it, stalked by predators), daught (what daughter does, akin to dote), featherb (what featherbed has done to it, stuff), maie (corn kernel, origin of plural maize), noth (small hole, pl. nose), oggin (small melon, origin of noggin), toolsh (fill to overflowing as is toolshed), weath (what weather does, change), wellf (fatten for slaughter as are the wellfed) balweighedance: [weighed in the balance wordle] found wanting ban ana: [split banana charade wordle] baseggsket: [eggs in one basket wordle] overdependance bebious: ["I b(elieve) e(veryone) b(elieves) i(t)."] believing that all others believe bebushat: [beat around the bush wordle] delay beggeer: [egg in beer wordle] out-of-place object belbatsfry: [bats in belfry wordle] insanity b-est: [extrapolated from Aronson numbers] number described in Latin statement, "B est prima littera in hic sententiam, non seconda, . . . ." bi-inary: refering to number system based on 2i bibious: ["B(elieve) I b(elieve) i(t.)” acronym acronym] believing that another should believe that you believe bidbious: ["B(elieve) I d(on't) b(elieve) i(t)."] believing that another should believe that you do not believe bidious: ["B(elieve) I d(isbelieve) i(t.)” acronym acronym] believing that another should believe that you disbelieve bious: ["B(elieve) i(t!)"] believing that another should believe blorunsod: [runs in the blood] genetically inherited blueoncemoon: [once in a bluemoon wordle] rarely bofeelnes: [feel in bones wordle] feel deeply bonnbet: [b(ee) in bonnet wordle] angry bosbandton: [banned in Boston wordle] obscene by local standards boustrophedonym: word divisible into two letter strings one alphabetical, one zyxical bradoubless: [double in brass wordle] bubious: ["B(elieve yo)u b(elieve) i(t.)” acronym] believing that another should believe that they believe buckdropet: [drop in bucket wordle] something seemingly negligable budbious: ["B(elieve yo)u d(on't) b(elieve) i(t.)” acronym] believing that another should believe that they do not believe busillis: baffling puzzle or difficult point cafeatherp: [feather in cap wordle] something to be proud of cahul: [Cave ab homine unius libri. acronym] Beware of anyone who has just one book. Calembaurnus: [James Joyce] patron saint of pun (calembour) candonym: [can do word] n-letter word like can which can be transformed into another word by adding pairs of letters' values (3, 1, 14) to get those for an (n - 1)-letter word, like do (4, 15) cardevilnate: [devil incarnate wordle] very evil person cawithhoots: [in cahoots with wordle] co-conspirator of cehe: [Cur etiam hic es? acronym] Why are you still here? cev: [Credere est videre. acronym] Believing is seeing. chee: [cujusvis hominis est errare] every human can err chetongueek: [tongue in cheek wordle] not seriously chiclé: [Spoonerized cliché] e. g., tacitest (from acid test) chinabullshop: [bull in china shop wordle] very accidentally destructive Chiteana: [tea in China wordle] something very valuable ciscendentals: [trans-: cis-::transcendental:?] surreal numbers derived by enversion from reals, below transcendentals circtalkles: [talk in circles wordle] obfuscate citoi: [see eye to eye wordle] mutually agree cloheaduds: [head in clouds wordle] out-of-touch with reality clolivever: [live in clover wordle] live happily ever after closkeletonset: [skeleton in closet wordle] still hidden scandal coao: [claude os, aperi oculos] shut mouth, open eyes coutold: [out in cold wordle] miserable and alone Crep: [Percy Perc] reversed, curtailed and then reversed again Crewesque: [Crewe + -esque] poem variation with last 3 lines missing -- There was a young lady of Crewe Whose limericks stopped at line two. She was not done, after line one, but one more's all she could do. cwot: [acronym] complete waste of time d'heuesque: [Mots d'heues + -esque] Anglo-French macaronic daese: [Dum anima est, spes esse. acronym] As long as there is life, there is hope. debious: ["D(oesn't) e(veryone) b(elieve) i(t!)" acronym] believing that another should believe that all others believe deca: [Dum excusare credis, accusas. acronym] When you believe you're excusing yourself, you're accusing yourself. decinary: referring to number system based on 10i, not 1/10 dedil: [Dulce est desipere in loco. "It is sweet to relax at the proper time." acronym] timely R & R defriended: [friend in deed, friend indeed wordle] true friend delsda: [Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem. acronym] break-up trauma DENEAT: [Michael Ecker] operation that transforms number by counting its “digits, even, not even and total”, yielding 123 in a finite number of steps -- googol = 10^100 = 1001101 = 437 = 123 (3 steps), googolplex = 10^googol = 10^201 + 10^101 + 10^100 + 1 = 1,974,201 = 347 = 123 (4 steps) dennff: [Deus et natua non faciunt frusta. acronym] God and nature do not work together in vain. des: [Duco ergo sum. acronym] I calculate therefore I am. detqane: [Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas. acronym] It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. dibious: ["D(on't) I b(elieve) i(t!)" acronym] believing that another should disbelieve that you believe didbious: ["D(isbelieve) I d(on't) b(elieve) i(t!)" acronym] believing that another should disbelieve that you do not believe didious: ["D(on't) I d(isbelieve) i(t!)" acronym] believing that you disbelieve dihsch: [Dum inter homines sumus, colamus humanitatem.] As long as we are among humans, let us be humane. dillasegui: [looped illaseguid] poem with 7, 5, 5, 7, 5, 7, 5 syllables dimetre: [3:2::trimetre:?] modified Alexandrine line with 12 syllables and caesara dious: ["D(isbelieve) i(t!)" acronym] believing that another should disbelieve disblessingguise: [blessing in disguise wordle] unrecognized blessing dom: [Deo Optimo Maximo acronym] to God, the Best, the Greatest dothepe: [the inside dope wordle] insider information dropalme: [pal-in-drome wordle] palindromic wordle dudbious: ["D(isbelieve yo)u d(on't) b(elieve) i(t!)" acronym] believing that another should disbelieve that they do not believe dudious: ["D(on't yo)u d(isbelieve) i(t!)" acronym] believing that another should not disbelieve duidecimal: [Dewey decimal, duodecimal pun] refering to complex number system based on 12i dudownumps: [down in the dumps wordle] depressed Dunian: [Erdunian ard] with first three and last four lines unwritten dyzzy: [from Douglas Hofstadter's dyz, dizzy answer to the analogy, abc:abd::xyz:?] “although insightful, so implausible and simple-minded as to invoke laughter” eac: [Efructu arbor cognoscitur. acronym] The tree's known by its fruit. eacol: [Ex abundancia cordis, os loquitor. acronym] From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ealphome: looped alphome, anagram with last letter moved to head Ebban: [Abbess Ebba of Coldington (d. c. 870), patron saint of palindromes] palindromic ecnalg: [backward glance wordle] short look behind eens: [Extra ecclesiam nulla salus. acronym] Outside the Church [there's] no salvation. efla: [Eheu fugaces labuntur anni. acronym] Alas, the fleeting years slip by. eep: [esse est percipi] to be is to be perceiving efregehefre: [ABCD:EFGH::abracadabra:?] nonsense word like abracadabra or ijrikilijri ehe: [Errare humanum est.] To err is human. eheadment: [beheaded beheadment] double beheadment -- brat, rat, at eighty-eights: 8[10^80/9] elemenym: [elemental + -nym] word transformable into another word by substitution of element name for symbol or vice versa -- aged = silvered, fey = irony, hate = hydrogenate, nous = nitrogenous, Oates = oxygenates, set = sulfuret, sic = sulfuric, size = sulfurize elementary: word with element letters -- B (boron), C (carbon), F (flourine), H (hydrogen), I (iodine), K (potassium), N (nitrogen), O (oxygen), P (phosphorus), S (sulfur), U (uranium), V (vanadium), W (wolfram), Y (ytterbium) -- boon, chin, Confucius, finch, incubus, nippy, oops, phony, snoopy, soupy, subconscious, succubus, unconscious, vision, who, you eletion: [beheaded deletion] transformation of word by deleting initial and one other letter -- cache to ace elev: [Emitte Lucem et Veritatem.] Send out Light and Truth elphomea: [plooed homealp with phonetic l-] alphabetic anagram with last six letters moved to head ellogical: [beheaded "illogical" with phonetic l-] between logical and illogical ellusionist: [beheaded illusionist with phonetic l-] between an illusionist and a lusionist emaginary: [beheaded imaginary with syllablic m-] not quite 100% nonce words emmaterial: [beheaded immaterial with phonetic m-] between material and immaterial emohpla: [alphome ananym] zeewyexical anagram emtallage: metallage with first two letters exchanged, aka aangram endend: [end to end wordle] completely start to finish enfinite: [nfinity with phonetic n-] between finite and infinite surreal numbers Enian: [beheaded Unian with phonetic n-] with first five and last four lines unwritten enigmoid: puzzle that begins like an enigma but ends with obvious answer -- “What did one carrot say to the other?” “Nothing, because carrots can't talk.”, “ What was Pontius Pilate's great-grandmother's hat maker's name?” “Nobody knows.” enloopu: [unloop unloop with phonetic n-] form (21, 231, 2341, etc.) anagrams by moving initial letter to tail enrationals: [phoentically spelled nrationals] nverted unrationals entelligence: [phonetically spelled ntelligence] between intelligence and telligence enversion: [beheaded inversion with phonetic n-, 1/x:inversion::1\x:?] mathematical operation symbolized by the backslash that turns a decimal on its radix Epongliposh: opposite of Turkey Irished English, English with -po- after vowels, aka closed Glopish [Openglopish backformation] epu: [e pluribus unum acronym] from many one Erdunian: [beheaded Verdunian] with first and last four lines unwritten Er: [Manx Ero] poem doubly curtailed, reversed and then triply curtailed Ero: [Manx Eroo] poem doubly curtailed, reversed and then doubly curtailed again Eroo: [Manx Eroom] poem doubly curtailed, reversed and then curtailed again Eroom: [Percy Moore] poem doubly curtailed and then reversed evenum: number with all even digits evenym: [even letter word] vowelless word with only the even letters, b, d, f, g, j, l, n, p, r, t, v, x, z -- brr, DLXV, grr, nth, phfft, xth, zzzz exa: [8:mega::20:?] 2^20 = 1,048,576 existron: [mega:exa::megistron:?] 10^^20 Exna: [Manx with phonetic x-] curtailed, reversed then curtailed again Exnam: [Percy Manx with phonetic x-] curtailed and then reversed feen: [Joseph Bowden] 15 (base 10) in base 16 fehomi: [Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit. acronym] Perhaps even this will one day be pleasant to look back on. feminym: [feminine + -nym] M2F (male-to-female) pseudonym -- Crystal Croftangley (Sir Walter Scott), Mrs. Silence Dogoody (Benjamin Franklin), Michael Joseph Halm (Michael Joseph Halm), Dorothea Julia Ramsbottom (William Makepeace Thackery), Fiona MacLeod (William Sharp) feoc: [Fames est optimus coquus. acronym] Hunger is the best cook. fericomplexority: [in-feriority complex wordle] inferiority complex fif: [Fabas indulcet fames., "Hunger sweetens the beans." acronym] Hunger makes everything taste good! fifatre: [fat in fire] sometime that makes situation more intense, more uncontrollable fifty-fives: 55,555,555,555,555,555,555,555,555,555,555,555,555,555,555,555,555 = 5[10^50/9] filthynym: [tic-tac-toe board word] word with only letters in, F, H, I, L, T -- fill, filth, flit, hi, hill, hilt, hit, I, if, iff, ill, it, lift, lit, tilt, tit firsim: [Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo. acronym] Resolutely in action, gently in manner; do unhesitatingly what must be done, but accomplish it as inoffensively as possible. fiufio: [Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus. acronym] False in one thing, false in all. fooniferism: [foonerism + kniferism portmanteau] switching of non-clustered final and initial consonants and initial vowel clusters, as "defghij" to "jifghed" forkerism: [spoon:spoonerism::fork:?] exchange of final consonant clusters of syllables or words, as "defghij" to "dejghif" forkniferism: [forkism + knifism portmanteau] switching both final consonant and vowel clusters, as "defghij" to "dijghef" fourty-fours: 4,444,444,444,444,444,444,444,444,444,444,444,444,444 = 4[10^40/9] fratrinym: brothered word -- Br. Ave (brave), Bro. Ken (broken), Br. Uised (bruised) fron: [Joseph Bowden] 14 (base 10) in base 16 fuv: [Fac ut vivas. acronym] Get a life galmadri: [oploed madrigal] poem rhyming (aa)aabcdbcd(bcd) or (a)abcbcac(bcaa) gammagon: [gamma + -gon] polygon formed from gamma-like right angles, including two-gamma square, three-gamma irregular hexagon, four-gamma concave irregular hexagon, five-gamma stellated pentagon ghotism: [from Bernard Shaw's "ghoti"] antiphonetic spelling in which f = gh, ff, ft, ph, pph, ugh (enough, off, soften, physics, sapphire, laugh), i = ai, e, ee, ei, ia, o, u, ui, y (villain, pretty, been, forfeit, marriage, women, busy, guilt, hymn), sh = ce, chsi, psh, sci, sch, si, ss, ti (ocean, fuchsia, pshaw, conscience, schwa, pension, issue, nation), yielding 432 spelling for "fish" giga: [8:mega::11:?] g(2, 11, 2) = 2048 gigillion: [gig(a)- + -illion] g(2, 3000000003, 10) gigastron: [mega:giga::megistron:?] g(3, 11, 2) Gilbalmead: [balm in Gilead wordle] panacea Glopish, Closed: [Openglopish (Turkey Irish) antonym] secret language formed by adding -po- after vowels, aka Ireland Turkish gnibbur: [back rubbing wordle] massaging of back gongorrhea: [Gongorism + gonorrhea] chronic obscurancy googologist: mathematician active in large number theory googologue: dissertation of googology, especially a long and confusing one in idiomatic nomenclature googology: [googo- + -ology] branch of number theory dealing with googols, googolplexes and related large, yet finite numbers googomania: obsessive, compulsive googolologizing googonaut: a lurker or fan of googology without actually being a googologist googophiliac: person who loves large numbers, see googonaut, googologist googophobia: variety of math anxiety manifesting as fear of large numbers googoscopic: combining art and science together via googology googosophy: the philosophy of large numbers, including the syntactic and the abstract branches grafootve: [one foot in grave] nearly dead grammanym: [letter word] word (or phrase) expressable as acronymic homonym -- anemone (NMNE), are (R), be, bee (B), cue (Q), cutie (QT), devious (DVS), empty (MT), enemy (NME), essay (SA), ex (X), excellency (XLNC), expediency (XPDNC), obediency (OBDNC), okay (OK), pea (P), see (C), tea (T), why (Y), Why are you empty? (YRUMT), you (U), You are you and I am I. (URUNIMI) grasnakess: [snake in the grass wordle] hidden danger gred: [blue:grue:::red:?] green of a leaf which will be turning red grellow: [blue:grue:::yellow:?] green of a leaf which will be turning yellow grorange: [blue:grue:::orange:?] green of a leaf which will be turning orange grown: [blue:grue:::brown:?] green of a leaf which will be turning brown grueberry: [blue:grue::blueberry:?, with from grue (Nelson Goodman, 1946)] still green, unripe blueberry, expected to turn blue Gwetrustod: ["in God we trust" wordle] once and future motto of US ha'ir: [split hair charade wordle] ultrafine point haneedleystack: [needle in haystack wordle] something found with extreme difficulty heaholed: [hole in head wordle] touch of insanity heamarriagemadeven: [marriage made in heaven wordle] hierogamy herocksad: [rocks in head wordle] crazy ideas hesnowballck: [snow ball in heck wordle] very slim kind of chance hiddenym: [hidden + -nym] word hidden in end of one word and the beginning of the next -- nine, do, new, Dan, go, hen hil: [hinc illae lacrimae acronym] therefore these tears hoacele: [ace in the hole wordle] unsuspected resources homi: [Haec olim meminisse ivvabit. acronym] Time heals all things. hommonym: [homonym + m] word which becomes its own homonym when an interior letter is deleted -- aunt, boulder, hoarse, mooed, reign, too, two homony: [curtailed homonym, hominy pun, aka curtailment homophone] describing words which becomes their own homonym when a new final letter is added -- ad, be, bell, bloc, born, but, by, canvas, cast, dam, flu, for, in, laps, or, pleas, so, to, we hyphenym: [hyphen + -nym portmanteau] word transformed into another by having hyphen deleted, see hyphe-nym hyphe-nym: word transformed into another by having a hyphen added -- coop, recover, recreate, see hyphenym iatronym: [Virginia R. Hager's doctored name] Dr./dr- pun -- Dr. Awbridge, Dr. Eamland, Dr. Inker, Dr. Ugola ibebious: ["I b(elieve) e(veryone) b(elieves) i(t)." acronym] believing that all others believe ibibious: ["I b(elieve) I b(elieve) i(t.)” acronym acronym acronym] believing that you believe ibidbious: ["I b(elieve) I d(on't) b(elieve) i(t)." acronym] believing that you do not believe ibidious: ["I b(elieve) I d(isbelieve) i(t.)” acronym acronym acronym] believing that you disbelieve ibious: ["I b(elieve) i(t!)" acronym] believing, especially enthusiastically ibohphobia: [beheaded aibohphobia] fear of alindromes ibubious: ["I b(elieve yo)u b(elieve) i(t.)” acronym acronym acronym] ibudbious: ["I b(elieve yo)u d(on't) b(elieve) i(t.)” acronym acronym acronym] idbabious: ["I d(on't) b(elieve) a(nyone) b(elieves) i(t.)” acronym acronym acronym] disbelieving that other believe idbebious: ["I d(on't) b(elieve) e(veryone) b(elieves) i(t.)” acronym acronym acronym] disbelieving all others believe idbibious: ["I d(on't) b(elieve) I b(elieve) i(t.)” acronym acronym acronym] disbelieving that you believe idbubious: ["I d(on't) b(elieve yo)u b(elieve) i(t.)” acronym acronym angram] disbelieving another believes idgi: [acronym] Huh? idnea: [In dubiis non est agendum. acronym] When in doubt, don't. iede: [Interfice errorem, diligere errantum. acronym] Hate the sin, love the sinner. ieqha: Ita erat quando hic adventi. acronym] It was that way when I got here. ifbe: Ira furor brevis est. acronym] Anger's a brief insanity. ihhp: [phhi ananym] ciscendental enverted from phhi, i. e., ...001,643,338 ihp: [phi ananym] ciscendental enverted from phi, i. e., ...889,330,816.1 ijrikilijri: [ABCD:IJKL::abracadabra:?] nonsense word like abracadabra or efregehefre ilne: [ignorantia legis nom excusat] ignorance of he law is no excuse imti: In medio tutissimus ibis., "In the middle of things you will go most safe." acronym] moderation inamania: [beheaded ainamania] mania for alindromes inary: [2:binary::i:?] referring to number based on i, including the improper kinds with A = 10, B = 11, C = 12, etc. , Z = 35, j = 2i, k = 3i, etc. , z = 18i, etc., h = 26i, e. g., Joyce = 19(i) + 7i + 16i(-i) + 20i(-1) + 22i = (19 + 7 - 20 + 22)i -16 = 28i -16 inoe: [Impossibilium nulla obligatio est. acronym] You don't have to do the impossible. inuidlioc: [in necessariis unitas, in dubis libertas, in omnibus caritas] in the necessary unity, in the doubtful liberty, in all charity insec: [pun on "insect", AU:parsec::inch:?] 3.255442 mi = 5.239127 km iottco: [acronym] intuitively obvious to the casual observer ip: [pi ananym] ciscendental enverted from pi, i. e., etc. ...356295141.3 ispe: [ipsa scientia potestas est] knowledge is power issippus: [backformed from Mississippi, pl. issipi] backword from word beginning with mis- pronounced mis-, see ourus -- iversal: [universal backformation] referring to outside the universe iykwim: [acronym] if you know what I mean jhonestun: [honest injun wordle] extremely honest jic: [acronym] just in case joac: [justitia omni auro carior acronym] justice is more precious than gold jootsy: [“jumping out of the system” acronym + -y, Dzu Tse] referring to mathematics which can switch from Roman numerals to words to numbers at any time or literature in which a character can switch to the writer or reviewer (Van Veen in Ada or John Ray in foreword of Lolita both by Vladimir Nabokov) kazillion: [Mayan ka- (20) + zillion] g(20, 3z + 3, 10) knighted word: Sir/ser-, sir-, sur- pun, Sir Loin, Sir Pentine, Sir Prize latinym: [Latin + -nym and la + ti + -nym] word formed from another by substituting so-fa syllables for alphabetical notes, i. e., a = la, b = ti, c = do, d = re, e = mi, f = fa, g = so -- favor = flavor, grabs = gratis, mad = mare, see pianonym lif: [lupus in fabula] the someone just talked about limatherick: mathematical limerick -- (12 + 144 + 20 + 3(√4))/7 + 5(11) = 92 + 02 [“A dozen, a gross and a score Plus three times the square root of four Divided by seven Plus five times eleven Is nine squared and not a bit more.”] limatherick chain: [math + limerick chain] y =2tan(π) + (4/6 + 1/3)(2(2z)/4 + e2πi; 2!z = (2(20) - 20)(3,000,0002)/(9x1012) + 3431/3 ["The unknown quantity, y, Equals twice the tangent of pi Plus four-sixths and a third Times twice two z quartered Plus e raised to double pi i, Where two factorial z Equals two score less twenty Times the square of three million Divided by nine trillion Plus the cube root of three forty-three.", so z = 10 and y = 11] lindrome: [beheaded alindrome] near-palindrome that lacks first two letters looping: anagram formed by moving the final letter to the initial position, e. g., ploo loopun: [unloop enloopu] form (312, 3412, 34512, etc.) anagrams by moving initial letters 2 times to tail lusionist: [illusionist backformation] user of artistic techniques to create a state of true perception of actual nature, to lead aright, to cause to accept as true or valid what is true or valid mammothicle: [mammoth + icicle portmanteau] frozen mammoth, used as evidence for catastrophism mandogger: [dog in manger wordle] memnonyms: [Agamemnonym frag + -nym] n-letter word containing two palindromic trigrams or corresponding (n - 2)-letter word without them metalalge: [metallage metallage] metallage with sixth and seventh letters exchanged metallaeg: [metallage metallage] metallage with eighth and nineth letters exchanged metlalage: [metallage metallage] metallage with fourth and fifth letters exchanged metallgae: [metallage metallage] metallage with seventh and eighth letters exchanged microkan: [milli-:micro-::millikan:?] probability = 0.0001% millillion: [centi-:milli-::centillion:?] 10^3,003 millneckstone: [millstone around neck wordle] execution Mnax: [Manx aangram] without tail and with first and second line exchanged Mo: [Manx Moo] quintuply curtailed modownuth: [down in mouth wordle] not well mofootuth: [foot in mouth wordle] unretractable faux pa Moo: [Moorean Moorean] quadruply curtailed Moor: [Manx Moore] triply curtailed Moorean: [Moore + -an] Manx Manx, like Moore's limericks, doubly line-curtailed morsynonyms: [Morse + synonym] words that translate into the same Morse code dot-dash sequence, dash-dot-dot-dash-dash-dash = do = neo = team mrevest: [Magna res est vocis est silentii temperamentum. acronym] The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet. munonum: [mynonym + -num(ber)] palindromic number munoonum: palinddromic,double-yolked palindromic number mynonym: [Mynos + -nym] palindromic portmanteau made by combining a prefix or suffix and its ananym naagram: [anagram metallage] anagram with first and second letters exchanged naav: [Natura abhorret a vacuo acronym] Nature abhors a vacuum. nade: one of the words making up an alternade, binade, trinade, quaternade, quinade, e. g., "shoe" or "cold" in "schooled", see frag nagram: [beheaded anagram] transdeletion with a letter deleted and rest transposed, see andagram nan: [nunt aut numquam acronym] now or never nany: [beheaded and curtailed ananym] describing transdeletion in which word is terminally deleted and reversed -- rebirth = tribe nanym: beheaded ananym -- stinky = knits neid: [Nullus est instar domus.] There's no place like home. nedid: [Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.] Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. nefriended: [friend in need wordle] helpmate neltmunapp: [Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit.] No book's so bad that it's not profitable on some part. neontology: [paleontology antonym] study of young-earth fossils nepainck: [pain in neck wordle] nuisance Nepalese: describing poem variation with last 5 lines missing as in limerick described by: “There once was a man from Nepal Whose limericks had no lines at all. Since no space they took, He published a book With an infinite number in all.” nir: [Nihil ad res.] Nothing to do with the point ninety-nines = 9[10^90/9] nixonym: [Nixon + -nym] word, like NIXON, with only upside-down letters, i. e., H, I, N, O, S, X, Z -- hi, his, hiss, I, in, inn, is, no, on, Oz, shin, sis, six, son, zoo nonyms: [Agamemnonnym frag] n-letter word containing one palindromic trigram or corresponding (n - 1)-letter word without it -- fife, fie nopo: [Non omnia possumus omnes] Not all of us're able to do all things; we can't all do everything. noqnae: [Non omne quod nitet aurum est.] Not all that glitters is gold nugon: [nu + -gon] polygon formed from N-like triple line segments nurae: [Non uno die Roma aedificata est.] Rome wasn't built in a day. nushellt: [in nut shell wordle] summarized oel: [ora et labora] work and pray oholene: [hole in one wordle] rare accomplishment ointflyment: [fly in ointment wordle] one flaw that spoils whole Omish: [Percy Mo + -ish] quintuply curtailed and reversed ommp: [Omnia mea mecum porto. acronym] All that's mine I carry. omnivia: [3:all:trivia:?] connection between everything omonym: [beheaded homonym] word that becomes its own homonym when an initial letter is added -- cent, hole, isle, lama, nap, nave, need, new, nickers, night, nit, Nome, not, our, salter, rap, rest, retch, right, rite, rote, see shomonym oneare: [in one ear wordle] unlisteningly onna: [acronym] oh no! not again! oogol: [10^100:googol::10^00:?, beheaded googol] name for the angelic number, one followed by an infinite number of zeroes Oomish: [Percy Moo + -ish] quadruply curtailed then reversed oopunling: [enloopuing:loopuning::loopuning:?] forming (51234, 561234, 5671234, . ..) anagrams by moving 4 times the initial letters to tail oopling: [ploo:oplo::oplo:?] forming (23451, 345612, 4567123, etc.) anagrams by 4 times moving the final letter to the initial position Oor: [Percy Roo] triply curtailed, reversed, curtailed again, then reversed again oploing: [loop:ploo::ploo:?] forming (2341, 34512, 456123, .. .) anagrams by 3 times moving the final letter to the initial position opunlo: [loopun:oopunl::oopunl:?] form (612345, 6712345, 67812345, etc.) anagrams by moving initial letters 5 times to tail oproqoropro: [ABCD:OPQR::abracadabra:?] nonsense word like abracadabra oqeiri: [O quantum est in rebus inane! acronym] O, how much futility in the world! Or: [Percy Ro] triply curtailed, reversed, doubly curtailed and then reversed again ord: beheaded word Ore: [Percy Ero] doubly curtailed and reversed, then double curtailed and reversed again oss: [O sancta simplicitas! acronym] Oh, holy simplicity! otom: [O tempera, o mores! acronym] grief over declining morals otoh: [acronym] on the other hand ouijanym: word like ouija divisible into bilingual homonyms -- Andy, demisemi, fisnoga, heel, lathe, mime, oro, pillicock, reindeer, toad, yet ouroboronym: [ouroboros + -nym] word with identical ends -- Church, claustrophobic, deride, edified, edited, educated, enliven, entertainment, enticement, entrancement, escapes, esquires, estates, fireproof, gerrymandering, growing, halleluiah, headache, illuminati, ingesting, ingrowing, insulin, knapsack, logical, memorandum, orator, photograph, restores, sense, shellfish, teammate, temperate, terminate, that, verve, yesterday ourus: [backformed from missouri, pl. ouri] backword from word beginning with mis- pronounced ms- [miz-], see issippus ovaenca: [omnia vincit amor et nos cedamus amori] love conquers all, let us yield to Love ownstewjuice: [stew in own juice wordle] reap the rotten fruits of one's deeds pale-eontology: [pale + paleontology] study of fossils recognizing how woefully meager they are paleologism: [neologism antonym] once but no longer used word -- afterclap, agruw, badand, beek, bellibone, blench, bletched, brinch, brool, brownswine, calenture, chank, chantpleure, codswallop, crizzles, croodle, dilling, eigne, excarnify, felth, fleerer, flosh, foolosopher, fribble, gleekmen, glop, glox, graking, grubble, gumble, gwenders, hotch, hurkle, inkhornish, inkshed, lib, lubberwort, misenglish, mocteroof, mung, murlimews, muskin, nesh, noonscape, nuddle, nurt, paskudnak, pingle, prangle, quatch, quetch, raff, ravary, sciologist, scork, seelihead, shandygaff, singing-bread, slurg, snirp, snirtle, snool, solonist, spuddle, squiddle, stoo, thrid, tifle, tsitser, trombenik, twissle, twychild, ug, unsnod, uzzle, vult, whitch, wowf, wrox, wurp, yack, yex Panamaramic: refering to tha many variations of Leigh Mercer's Panama palindrome -- A lab, a crab, a bar: cabala. A man, a petal, a parade, cedar, a palate: Panama., A man, a post, a fare, salad, a laser, a fatso: Panama. pantonym: palindromic antonym, like eye pandagram: palindromic andagram pantitular: [all-title] nothing but the title repeated over and over -- Ron Padgett's “Nothing in That Drawer” Nothing in that drawer. Nothing in that drawer. Nothing in that drawer. Nothing in that drawer. Nothing in that drawer. Nothing in that drawer. Nothing in that drawer. Nothing in that drawer. Nothing in that drawer. Nothing in that drawer. Nothing in that drawer. Nothing in that drawer. Nothing in that drawer. Nothing in that drawer. pantsants: [ants in pants wordle] fidgety papallege:[pataphysics::patallege::papaphysics:?] anagram with four-letter exchnge papaphysics: [metaphysics:pataphysics::pataphysics:?] science of the unobservable, unthinkable, unimaginable, beyond physics, metaphysics, pataphysics, theology, e. g., God the Father (Papa) paradoxy: [paradox + orthodoxy] belief system based upon paradoxes patallege: [metaphysics:pataphysics::metallege:?] anagram with three-letter exchange Pe: [Moor Percy] reversed and then triply curtailed pebtib: [prejor est bello timor ipse belli] worse than war is the fear of war Per: [Moorean Percy] reversed and then doubly curtailed Perc: [Manx Percy] reversed and then curtailed Percyan: [Persy + -an] line-ananym, as in J. A. Lindon's limerick: "That things were not worse was a mercy! You read bottom line first Since he wrote all reversed. He did every job arsy-versy. A very odd poet was Percy!" perverb: portmanteau of two proverbs, as in "All roads ... gather no moss." petede: [primum ego, tum ego, deinde ego] first I, then I, thereafter I pfalindrome: word that would be a palindrome if not for the second letter -- blob pfapostronym: apostronym that would have also been a palindrome but for its second letter -- id, shes phalindrome: [phonetic palindrome] word pronounced the same backward as forward -- babe, known, mime, rare phananyms: [phonetic ananym] words that are ananyms phonetically, though not literally -- fleshpot = top-shelf, nowhere = Erewhon (Samuel Butler), oat = toe, scoops = spooks, proto-Tibetan (Smynanaph) phapostronym: apostronym that would have also been a palindrome but for its second letter, id, shes phemisms: [euphemism backformation] either "good" euphemisms or "bad" dysphemisms pheph: [post hoc ergo propter hoc] after this therefore because of this pheresis: [beheaded apheresis] bigrammic beheadment phhi: [pi:phi::phi:?] ϕ2π = 0.833346100... phie: phi's and e's digits alternating, 1.267118802383198... phinary: [2:phi::binary:?] referring to ambiguous number system based on phi, ϕ, the golden ratio phi-osophy: [phi + philosophy portmanteau] the study of the beauty and truth in the golden ratio, ϕ phalindrome: [phonetic palindrome] word that sounds the same backward and forward, babe, known pheph: [Post hoc ergo propter hoc. acronym] After this, therefore because of this fall acy pho: [fi:fie:fo::phi:phie:?] phie2/ϕ = 0.99230922... pholynyms: [polynyms + h] words except for an extra second letter are like ones with two or more of the characteristics of allonym, ambinym, ananym, anatonym, antonym, apostronym, aptronym, arithmonym, boustrophenym, capitonym, consonym, contronym, domunym, exonym, euonym, feminyms, grammanym, heteronym, homonym, iatronym, liponym, malonym, meronym, morsonym, ouijanym, pianonym, retronym, roonym, synonym, tautonym, telephonym, toonym phomeal: looped homealp, alphabetical anagram with last five letters moved to head phum: [fi:fie:fo:fum::phi:phie:pho:?] pho2/phie = phie3/phi = 1.2573368... pianc: [Pecuniain arbotis non crescit.] Money doesn't grow on trees. pianonym: word limited to piano key letters, A, B, C, D, E, F or G -- age, bag, beg, dad, gab, gag, acceeded, baggage, cabbage, defaced, effaced pianonum: number in hexadecimal limited to piano key letters, A, B, C, D, E, F or G pie: pi's and e's digits alternating, 3.271148125891... piep: [Purgamentun init, exit purgamentum] Garbage in, garbage out pilck: [in a pick L wordle] in a bad situation pit: [pacem in Terra] peace on Earth plipogram: [palindronic lipogram portmanteau] passage both lipogrammic and palindromic plaemoh: [homealp ananym] zeewyexical anagram with first four letters moved to tail plooing: [looped "loop"] anagram formed by moving the final letter to the initial position poar: [Paupertas omnium artium repertrix.] Poverty [is the] inventor of all the arts; necessity is the mother of invention. polynyms: words with two or more of the characteristics of allonym, ambinym, ananym, anatonym, antonym, apostronym, aptronym, arithmonym, boustrophenym, capitonym, consonym, contronym, domunym, exonym, euonym, feminyms, grammanym, heteronym, hiddenym, homonym, iatronym, liponym, malonym, meronym, morsonym, mynynym, omonym, ouijanym, pianonym, retronym, roonym, synonym, tautonym, telephonym, toonym polysingular: refers to words with same plural but different singular forms -- axes (ax, axis), bases (base, basis) polythink: [2:n::doublethink:?] to hold many thoughts, particularly contradictory ones, simultaneously poolnu: [unloop ananym] word unlooped and then reversed -- flatcar = fractal popigke: [pig in poke wordle] purchase made aziz with minimal information postronym: [apostronym backformation] word which becomes another word with apostrophe addition, cant, ill, hell, shell, well postsemi: [Dmitri Bergmann's last-half word] word with only letters between n and z -- nonsupport, not, or, poppy, two, zoo presemi: [Dmitri Bergmann's first-half of alphabet) word] word with only letters between before n -- fiddle-faddle, half, like procundrum: [conundrum antinym] punning question that goes with straight-sounding answer, ala Carnac the Magnificent psa: [puri sermonis amator] lover of pure speech psem: [Proximus sum egomet mihi. acronym] I am closest to myself pshiftgrams: words that are both palindromes and shiftgrams, eye/gag, dud/ere punloo: [oopunl:opunlo::opunlo:?] form (7123456, 78123456, 789123456, etc.) anagrams by moving 6 times initial letters to tail qaca: [Quique amavit, cras amet.] May he love tomorrow who's never loved before. qah: [quo ad hoc] as much as this qam:
[Quid
agis, medice?] What's
up, Doc? qed: [quod erat demonstratrandum acronym] that which was to be demonstrated qic: [Quod incepimus conficiemus.] What we've begun we'll finish. quartersibling: half-sibling's half-sibling raa: [reductio ad absurdum] reduction to the absurd, proving the truth of a proposition by proving the falsity of all its alternatives raios: [Risus abundat in ore stultorum. acronym] Laughs are abundant in the mouth of the foolish. ralflagly: [rally around flag wordle] behave patriotically ralucric:[circular ananym] describing words that are readable clockwise and counterclockwise when written circularly ransposition; [beheaded transposition] transformation of word by combined transposition and deletion -- sonnet = notes + n = steno + n = stone + n = tones + n = nonet + s = tonne + s = nones + t, see aagram, angram, nagram, ransposition string: string formed by ransposing -- sonnetonestenonestone = sonnet + tones + steno + nones + stone Re: [Percy Er] doubly curtailed, reversed, then triply curtailed and reversed again reen: [blue:bleen::red:?] Rep: [Percy Per] reversed, doubly curtailed and then reversed again rhating: [hat in ring wordle] made bid for political office rodiamondugh: [diamond in rough wordle] unfinished masterpiece Ro: [Manx Roo] triply curtailed, reversed, then doubly curtailed romantic chain: chain of romantic number name, embedded Roman numeral, Roman numeral's number name, etc. -- seventy-eight, vi, six, ix, nine, i, one romantic ring: romantic chain that links back to original number -- [Fren.] cent = c, [Germ.] eins = i; fünfhundert = d, [Ital.] cientouno = ci, [Span.] cento = c romanym: [Roman + -nym] word with only Roman numeral letters, c, d, i, l, m, v, x -- did, mild, minim, mix, romec: [Radix omnium malorum est cupiditas.] Love of money's the root of all evil. Romwhene: [when in Rome wordle] call to conformity Roo: [Manx Room] triply curtailed, reversed then curtailed again Room: [Percy Moor] triply curtailed and then reversed roonym: [kangaroo word] word with another word hidden inside rubugg: [bug in rug wordle] comfortable RUMT: [grammanym] Are you empty? sameallboat: [all in same boat wordle] together in a predicament sasne: [Sine ars scienta nihil est. acronym] Without art science is nothing. sbuttky: [buttinsky wordle] kibitzer schmalindrome: word(s) that would be palindromic if not for the first four letters schmanagram: word resulting from transaddition, adding four letters to and rearranging letters of original word schpalindrome: word that would be a palindrome if initial three letters were deleted sea: [Scribere est agre.] To write is to act. secondary: [elementary antonym] word with non-element letters -- A, D, E, G, J, L, M, Q, R, T, X, Z -- aggregate, amalgamate, axe, dead, deeded, degree, delete, delegate, elated, exaggerate, extralegal, extreme, grade, greater, greed, jade, later, mate, Qatar, regret, trader, zeal sep: [Sapientia est potentia. acronym] Knowledge is power. sesquation: [4:3/2::tetration:?] intermediate operation between addition and multiplication shalindrome: word(s) that would be palindromic if not for the first two letters shanagram: word resulting from transaddition, adding two letters to and rearranging letters of original word shmalindrome: word(s) that would be palindromic if not for the first three letters shmanagram: word resulting from transaddition, adding three letters to and rearranging letters of original word shpalindrome: word that would be a palindrome if initial two letters were deleted shetaordlu: [etaoin shrdlu wordle] more pronounceable version of 12 commonest letters shkickins: [kick in shins wordle] painful, though minor, wounding shomonym: word which becomes its own homonym when beheaded -- aisle, Gnome, llama, knap, knave, kneed, knew, knickers, knight, knit, knot, hour, psalter, scent, whole, wrap, wrest, wretch, wright, write, wrote sien: [Stultorum infinitus est numerus.] Infinite is the number of fools. sigmagon: [sigma + -gon] stellated polygon formed from sigma-like quintuple line segments sisi: [Summum ius summa inuria. acronym] The more law [there is] the less justice. sithornde: [thorn in side wordle] seemingly incurable pain sol: [Sol omnibus lucet.] The sun shines upon us all. spalindrome: word that would be a palindrome if initial letter were deleted, aka fore-anchored palindrome spiky: [pi in sky wordle] mathematical eucatastrophe spolynyms: words except for an extra initial letter like ones with two or more of the characteristics of aannym, allonym, ambinym, ananym, anatonym, antonym, apostronym, aptronym, arithmonym, boustrophenym, capitonym, consonym, contronym, domunym, exonym, euonym, feminyms, grammanym, heteronym, homonym, iatronym, liponym, malonym, meronym, morsonym, naanym, ouijanym, pianonym, retronym, roonym, synonym, tautonym, telephonym, toonym sponsible: [Lat. spons- ] having the ability to sponse or espouse spooniferism: [spoonerism + kniferism portmanteau] switching of both initial consonant and vowel clusters sporkniferism: [sporkism + knifism portmanteau] switching of clustered final and initial consonants and vowel clusters sprhyme: [spelling rhyme portmanteau] rhyme made by spelling out word rather than pronouncing it -- "Mary had a c-a-t with fur r-e-d and everywhere that Mary'd go the cat would t-o-o." sta: [Subucula tua apparet. "Your slip is showing.] You're exposing a flaw. stanyportorm: [any port in storm wordle] less than ideal refuge suplacen: [place in sun wordle] pleasant location surregular: overly irregular conjugations -- bathtubim (bathtub), beeth (booth), beleption (believe), bote (bite), chost (choose), cose (cat), dra (drum), flang (fling), foxen (fox), greption (grieve), hice (house), loke (leak), lood (land), lynges (lynx), meese (moose), mid (moo), photographim (photograph), plew (play), praught (preach), smold (smell), son (sin), tew (tie) susu: [Semper ubi sub ubi.] Always where under where. (Always wear underwear everywhere.) svaa: [Si vis amaria, ama] If you wish to be loved, love. tall division: [antonym of antonym of long division] hypermathematical division of numeral, not number, vertically or horizontally, as in 18 transformed into 10, see Jootsy Calculus tallying: operation which lists number of times a digit is used as in autobiographical or biographical numbers or DENEAT tapallage: [patallage patallage] patallage with first and third letters exchanged teau: word fragment used to form portmanteau teauport: [teauportman backformation] form a portmanteau by linking two words anagrammarly by moving a word fragment to the end of a word teauportman: [portmanteau syllable anagram] one who teauports technillogical: [illogical + technological] having to do with illogical technology like the manufacture of weapons of mass destruction, environmentally destructive telananyms: [Dave Morice's telephone reversal] words with reversed telephone number equivalents -- films (34567) and solid (76543) telephonyms: [Dmitri Borgmann's telephone word] word with only traditional telephone letters, that is, without q or z telesynonyms: [telephone synonym] words with same telephone number equivatents -- 228 = Abu, act, bat, cat telligence: [intelligence backformation] inability to learn teotwawki: [acronym] the end of the world as we know it terbangro: [interrobang wordle] combination interrogatory and exclamation mark tetempestapot: [tempest in teapot wordle] threnodials: words using only eleven most frequent letters (those in threnodials), one, but not two, four, five, six, seven, eight, eleven thehangre: [hang in there wordle] encouraging word to persevere thrun: [Joseph Bowden] 13 (base 10) in base 16 timstitche: [stitch in time wordle] apropos correction toonym: two-tailed homonym like too, or add, bee, belle, block, borne, butt, bye, canvass, caste, damn, flue, fore, inn, lamb, lapse, ore, please, sow, wee TQ: [telligence quotient, IQ backformation] measure of inability to learn tri-inary: refering to a number system based on 3i trinade: [2:3::binade:?] word divisible into three smaller words, together = to, get, her tulp: [Transit umbra, lux permanet. acronym] The shadow passes, the light remains (on the sun dial.) ubious: ["(Yo)u b(elieve) i(t!)" acronym] disbelieving that another believes ubebious: ["(Yo)u b(elieve) e(veryone) b(elieves) i(t)." acronym] not believing that another believes that all others believe ubibious: ["(Yo)u b(elieve) I b(elieve) i(t!)" acronym] not believing that another believes that you believe ubidbious: {"(Yo)u b(elieve) I d(on't) b(elieve) i(t!)" acronym] not believing that another believes that you do not believe ubidious: ["(Yo)u b(elieve) I d(isbelieve) i(t!)" acronym] not believing that another believes that you disbelieve ubious: ["(Yo)u b(elieve) i(t!)" acronym] not believing that another believes ububious: ["(Yo)u b(elieve yo)u b(elieve) i(!)" acronym] not believing that another believes that they believe ubudbious: {"(Yo)u b(elieve yo)u d(on't) b(elieve) i(!)" acronym] not believing that another believes that they do not believe ubudious: {"(Yo)u b(elieve yo)u d(isbelieve) i(!)"] not believing that another believes that they disbelieve udabious: ["(Yo)u d(isbelieve) a(nyone) b(elieves) i(t!)" acronym] not believing that other disbelieves that any disbelieve udbabious: ["(Yo)u d(isbelieve) a(nyone) b(elieves) i(t!)"] not believing that another disbelieves that any others believe udbebious: ["(Yo)u d(on't) b(elieve) e(veryone) b(elieves) i(t!)" acronym] not believing that another does not believe that all others do believe udbibious: ["(Yo)u d(on't) b(elieve) I b(elieve) i(t.)” acronym acronym acronym] not believing that another does not believe that you do believe udbubious: ["(Yo)u d(on't) b(elieve yo)u b(elieve) i(t!)" acronym] not believing another does not believe that they believe udebious: ["(Yo)u d(on't) b(elieve) e(veryone) b(elieves) i(t!)" acronym] not believing that another does not believe that all others do believe udibious: ["(Yo)u d(on't) b(elieve) I b(elieve) i(t.)” acronym acronym acronym] not believing that another does not believe that you do believe udubious: ["(Yo)u d(on't) b(elieve yo)u b(elieve) i(t!)" acronym] not believing another does not believe that they believe uf: [uberrimae fidei] of utmost good faith uheible: Ubicumque homo est, ibi benefici locus est - Wherever there is a man, there is a place of/for kindness/service uheiblity: ability to be kind or serve ufii: [Ubi fumus ibi ignis. acronym] Where there's smoke there's fire. umeo: [Usus magister est optimus. acronym] Practice makes perfect. umia [Ubi mel ibi apes. acronym] Where there's honey, there's bees (and/or apes); if you want support, you must offer something in return. UMO: unaccountably moving objects acronym, like moving statues, walking trees, productive bureaucrats upno: [Ultra posse nemo obligatur. acronym] Beyond one's ability nobody's bound., see inoe Unian: [beheaded Dunian] with first first and last four lines unwritten] urtailment: [Dmitri Borgmann's terminal deletion, beheaded curtailment] removal of both ends of a word -- heart = ear, magenta = agent, revolver = evolve urunimi: ["you are you and I am I" pseudo-acronym] principle of undependance which appreciated la difference between people, especially between I AM (God) and everyone else usece:
[Ubi
Spiritus est cantus est. acronym] Where
there's
the
Spirit
there's
song uvruwuxuvru: [ABCD:UVWX::abracadabra:?] nonsesnse word like abracadabra Verdunian: truncated poem with with all but first line unwritten, but implied, as in limerick: "There once was a man of Verdun (Whose limericks ended at line one. He'd only begun To rhyme something with -un, When his limericking was done.) vov: [Vincit omnia veritas. acronym] Truth conquers all Wendhamian: [from J. A. Lindon's Wendham poet's limerick] with final rhyme unwritten, but implied wordling: transformation of word into letter sequence rebus by transdeletion in which frags are taken literally -- inches = in c, h es = cesh wordling, nested: wordling with multiple transformations -- atgastrostl (gastrointestinal), ecdisld (disinclined), eepephrs (epinephrines), egard (ingrained), eocrls (crinolines), etmaad (maintained), etstes (intestines), gdrekls (reinklings), gdwowdresss (windowdressings), gnwgds (wingdings), gksprls (sprinklings), gktwls (twinklings), oeantutrs (antineutrinos), tfskls (skinflints), tgfer-pas (finger-paintings), tgferprs (fingerprints), tppos (pinpoints) words square: [word:words::word square:?] n-square words arranged in square -- if magic -- to form sentence(s) --
wud: [acronym] What's up, doc? wunty: [Joseph Bowden] 16 (base 10) in base 16 WYDSIWYG: [“what you don't see is what you get” acronym] principle that faith concerns things unseen xonym: [Dave Morice's tic-tac-toe word] 3-or-less-letter word with only x or o, as used in tic-tac-toe -- o, oo, ooo, ox, oxo, oxx, x, xo, xoo, xox, xx, xxx ygology: study of palindromes YRUMT: [gammaym] "Why are you empty? zoonym: [aka animalgram] zoological ananym -- act (cat), alpines (spaniel), arm (ram), bare (bear), cabaret (bearcat), Californian (African lion), canter (tanrec), chained (echidna), clot (colt), corona (raccoon), crumble (clumber), emanate (manatee), ester (steer), evict (civet), flow (fowl), God (dog), gun (gnu), holed (dhole), kay (yak), leaning (eanling), lee (eel), lesions (lioness), loin (lion),love (vole), orchestra (cart horse), orange (onager), outhears (house rat), paroled (leopard), pausation (sapi outan), pelter (petrel), piratess (tarsipes), protein (pointer), rath (hart, tahr, thar), ream (mare), reed (deer), retirer (terrier), salver (serval), senators (starnose), shore (horse), someday (samoyed), tab (bat), toga (goat), trailing (ringtail), wallows (swallow), wee (ewe) zygophrenia: personality disorder, opposite to schizophrenia, as in the case of the Chaplin twins of York, Eng., described by Dr. David Westbury as one person in two bodies, evidenced to a lesser degree in the telepathy-like twin effect zyxical: [Z, Y, X] referring to reversed alphabet, as in words -- spiffed, spoofed, spooked, spoon-feed |
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