Fortean Mysteries SIG     |   index.htm André Joyce Fan Club   |   GAMES   |   Chi Xi Digamma   |   Googology   |   Hierogonometry   |   Jootsy Calculus   |   links   |   Merology   |   neologisms   |   Oogology   |   Pataphysics   |   Sequences "In the beginning was the Word." (John 1:1)   Here are some of the words Joyce coined.  THEY COULD BECOME EXTINCT WITHOUT YOUR IMMEDIATE HELP!!! translated by Razilee Purdue C1978-2003 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 -- dreameadame aangram: [anagram with second and third letters exchanged] (132, 1324, 4321, 13245, 13254, 43215, 43251, 53214, 53241etc.) anagrams -- satin = stain abbrhyme: [abbr. + rhyme portmanteau, 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] acrostic variation in which nth letter in nth line is significant -- Poe aeioi: [adj. and sing. aeious, Dmitri A. Borgman's aeiou word] words with all of the 5 vowels, a, e, i, o and u -- dialogue, equation, sequoia 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 andso is not actually a palindrome aibohpphobia: fear of palinddromes, double-yolked palindromes 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 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] anany: [curtailed ananym] describing transdeletion in which word is reversed and final letter deleted -- petal = late angram: transdeletion with third letter deleted and rest moved Anx: [beheaded Manx] with initial and terminal lines deleted apostronym: [Dave Morice's apostrophe word] word that becomes another word with apostrophe deletion, can't, he'll, I'll, she'll, we'll ard: [beheaded ord with syllabic r-] word that has been doubly beheaded Ardunian: [beheaded Erdunian with syllabic r-] with first two and last four lines unwritten arithmonym: number name armups: [up in arms wordle] aroused to action arrational: [beheaded irrational with syllabic 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           grind     hiss     knock      rattle     scrape      squeak      thump  grind              griss    grock      grattle    grape        greak        grump  hiss     hind               hock       hattle   hape           heak         hump  knock  knind   kniss                knattle    knape       kneak        knump    rattle   grindle  hissle   knockle               scraple      squeakle    thumple  scrape  scrind  scriss   scrock    scrattle                  screak       scrump  squeak   squind  squiss   squock  squattle squape                   squump  thump  thind    thiss     thock     thattle     thape     theak       rattle                 grissle    grockle                grapel     greakle    grumple autoshiftgram: word which is its own shiftgram, tanger + 13 = gnatre, emblazonry + 13 = rzoynmbael 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 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 bazillion: [Mayan ba- (400) + zillion, see merology] 15999879000 or 639951600000 or 4083477338000 or 1402332030690000 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] 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, etc. ." 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 sequences one alphabetical, one zyxical bradoubless: [double in brass wordle] bryo: [post-em bryo, Dmitri Bergmann's last-half word] word with only letters between n and z -- nonsupport, not, or, poppy, two, zoo bubious: ["B(elieve yo)u b(elieve) i(t.)” acronym 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 acronym] believing that another should believe that they do not believe cafeatherp: [feather in cap wordle] something to be proud of 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 chicle: [Spoonerized cliche] e. g., tacitest (from acid test chetongueek: [tongue in cheek wordle] not seriously 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 nversion from real numbers, 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 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. debious: ["D(oesn't) e(veryone) b(elieve) i(t!)" acronym] believing that another should believe that all others believe decinary: refering to number system based on 10i defriended: [friend in deed, friend indeed wordle] true friend d'heuesque: [Mots d'heues + -esque] Anglo-French macaronic 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 = G(2, 100, 10) = 1001101 = 437 = 123, googolplex = G(2, 100, G(3, 2, 10)) = G(2, 201, 10) + G(2, 101, 10) + G(2, 100, 10) + 1 = 1974201 = 347 = 123 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 dious: ["D(isbelieve) i(t!)" acronym] believing that another should disbelieve disblessingguise: [blessing in disguise wordle] unrecognized blessing 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: [dyz, dizzy answer to the analogy, abc:abd::xyz:?] “although insightful, so implausible and simple-minded as to invoke laughter” [Douglas Hostadter] Ebban: [Abbess Ebba, patron saint of palindromes] palindromic ecnalg: [backward glance wordle] short look behind efregehefre: [ABCD:EFGH::abracadabra:?] magic (nonsense) word like abracadabra eheadment: [beheaded beheadment] double beheadment -- brat, rat, at eighty-eights: 8[G(2, 80, 10)/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, C, F, H, I, K, N, O, P, S, U, V, W, Y -- 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 = ace ellogical: [beheaded "illogical" with syllabic l-] between logical and illogical ellusionist: [beheaded illusionist with syllabic l-] between an illusionist and a lusionist emaginary: [beheaded imaginary with syllablic m-] not quite 100% nonce words emmaterial: [beheaded immaterial with syllabic m-] between material and immaterial endend: [end to end wordle] completely start to finish enfinite: [nfinity with syllabic n-] between finite and infinite surreal numbers Enian: [beheaded Unian with syllabic 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 syllabic n-] form (21, 231, 2341, etc.) anagrams by moving initial letter to tail enrationals: [phoentically spelled nrationals] nverted unrationals entelligence: [syllabically spelled ntelligence] between intelligence and telligence enversion: [beheaded inversion with syllabic n-, 1/x:inversion::1\x:?] mathematical operation symbolized by the backslash that turns a decimal on its point Epongliposh: opposite of Turkey Irished English,, English with -po- after vowels, aka closed Glopish [Openglopish backformation] 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 evenym: [even letter word] vowelless word with only the 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:?] G(2, 20, 2) = 1048576 existron: [mega:exa::megistron:?] G(3, 20,10) Exna: [Manx with syllabic x-] curtailed, reversed then curtailed again Exnam: [Percy Manx with syllabic x-] curtailed and then reversed feminym: [feminine + -nym] M2F (male-to-female) pseudonym -- Crystal Croftangley (Sir Walter Scott),  Mrs. Silence Dogoody (Benjamin Franklin), Razilee Mary Purdue (Michael Joseph Halm), Dorothea Julia Ramsbottom (William Makepeace Thackery), Fiona MacLeod (William Sharp) fericomplexority: [in-feriority complex wordle] inferiority complex 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[G(2, 50, 10)/9] filthynym: [tic-tac-toe board word] word with only letters in tic-tac-toe boar, i. e., F, H, I, L, T -- fill, filth, flit, hi, hill, hilt, hit, I, if, iff, ill, it, lift, lit, tilt, tit fooniferism: [foonerism + kniferism portmanteau] switching of non-clustered final and initial consonants and initial vowel clusters forkniferism: [forkism + knifism portmanteau] switching both final consonant and vowel clusters fourty-fours: 4,444,444,444,444,444,444,444,444,444,444,444,444,444 = 4[G(2, 40, 10)/9] 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 -- 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) giga: {8:mega::11:?] G(2, 11, 2) = 2048 gigillion: [gig(a)- + -illion] G(2, 3000000003, 10) gigastron: [mega:giga::megistron:?] G(3, 11, 10) Gilbalmead: [balm in Gilead wordle] panacea gineer: [pre-en gineer, Dmitri Bergmann's first-half word] word with only letters between before n -- fiddle-faddle, half, like 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 googology: [googol + -ology] branch of mathematics dealing with googols, googolplexs and related numbers 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), okey )OK), pea (P), see (C), tea (T), why (Y), Why are you empty? (YRUMT), you (U) grasnakess: [snake in the grass wordle] hidden danger great googol: [gross:great gross::googol:?] G(2, 3, G(3, 2, 10)) = G(2, 1000, 10) great googolplex: [gross:great gross::googolplex:?] G(2, 3, G(3, 3, 10)) 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 hoacele: [ace in the hole wordle] unsuspected resources 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 homphone] 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 hyp-henym: word transformed into another by having hyphen deleted hyphenym: word transformed into another by having a hyphen added -- coop, recover, recreate, see hyp-henym 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 ihhp: [phhi ananym] ciscendental nverted from phhi, i. e., etc. 001,643,338 ihp: [phi ananym] ciscendental nverted from phi, i. e., etc. 889,330,816.1 ijrikilijri: [ABCD:IJKL::abracadabra:?] magic (nonsense) word like abrakadabra inamania: [beheaded ainamania] mania for alindromes inary: [2:binary::i:?] refering 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 insec: [pun on "insect", AU:parsec::inch:?] 3.255442 mi = 5.239127 km ip: [pi ananym] ciscendental enverted from pi, i. e., etc. 356295141.3 issippus: [backformed from Mississippi, pl. issipi] backword from word beginning with mis- pronounced mis-, see ourus -- iversal: [universal backformation] referring to outside the universe Janumolassesary: [molasses in January wordle] very slow moving jhonestun: [honest injun wordle] extremely honest jootsy: [“jumping out of the system” acronym + -y] 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] 799993950 or 1595946740 or 4295114,020 or 20417,866900 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 alphabetical notes for sol-fa syllables, i. e., a = la, b = ti, c = do, e = mi, f = fa, g = so(l) -- flavor = favor, gratis = grabs, mare = mad, see pianonym limatherick: mathematical limerick -- (12 + 144 + 20 + 3(G(2, 1/2, 4)) /7 + 5(11)  = G(2, 2, 9) + 0 [“A dozen, a gross and a score Plus three times the square root of four Divided by seven Plus five time eleven Is nine squared and not a bit more.”] limatherick chain: [math + limerick chain] y                                   (2!)z = 2tan(p)                     = 2(20) - 20                   + 4/6 + (1/3)               G(2, 2, (3,000,000)   2(2)z/4,                       /(9,000,000,000,000) + G(2, pi, e)                    + 3G(2, 1/2, 343) ["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 initail 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] megillion: [meg(a)- + -illion] G(2, 300003, 10) memnonyms: [Agamemnonym frag + -nym] n-letter word containing two palindromic trigrams or corresponding (n - 2)-letter word without them -- microkan: [milli-:micro-::millikan:?] probability = 0.0001% millillion: [centi-:milli-::centillion:?] G(2, 3003, 10) 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 mynynym: palindromic word-ananym portmanteau naagram: [anagram metallage] anagram with first and second letters exchanged 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 nany: [beheaded and curtailed ananym] describing transdeletion in which word is terminally deleted and reversed -- rebirth = tribe nanym: beheaded ananym -- stinky = knits nefriended: [friend in need wordle] helpmate 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.” n-est: [Aronson numbers extrapolation] number described by Latin sentence, "N est prima, etc. quinta ab ultimum littera in hic sententiam." ninety-nines = 9[G(2, 90, 10)/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 nugon: [nu + -gon] polygon formed from N-like triple line segments nushellt: [in nut shell wordle] summarized 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 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 oogol: [G(2, 100, 10):googol::G(2, 00, 10):?, beheaded googol] name for the angelic number, G(2, 00, 10) 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 ooqol: [see Oogology] name for a surreal number, Q(00) 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:?] magic (nonsense) word like abracadabra 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 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 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 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!" p-est: [Aronson numbers extrapolation] number mentioned in Latin sentence, "P est prima, quinta, etc. littera in hic sententiam." peta: [8:mega::17:?] G(2, 17, 2) = 131072 petistron: [mega:peta::megistron:?] G(3, 17, 10) 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 phemisms: [euphemism backformation] either "good" euphemisms or "bad" dysphemisms pheresis: [beheaded apheresis] bigrammic beheadment phhi: [pi:phi::phi:?] G(2, 2pi, phi) = 0.833346100 etc. phie: phi times e = 4.398272389 etc.. phinary: [2:f::binary:?] refering to ambiguous number system based on phi phi-osophy: [phi + philosophy portmanteau the study of the beauty and truth in the golden ratio, phi pilck: [in a pick L wordle] in a bad situation phalindrome: [syllabic palindrome] word that sounds the same backward and forward, babe, known pho: [fi:fie:fo::phi:phie:?] phi/e = 0.59524144etc. phum: [fi:fie:fo:fum::phi:phie:pho:?] phi/(G(2, 2, e) = 0.218977088 etc. pianonym: word limited to piano key letters, A, B, C, D, E, F or G -- age, bag, beg, dad, gab, gag piplex: [googol:googolplex::pi:?] G(2, pi, 10)  = 13854557 etc. plexing: [googolplex backformation] raising ten to a given number plipogram: [palindronic lipogram  portmanteau] passage both lipogrammic and palindromic plooing: [looped "loop"] anagram formed by moving the final letter to the initial position 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 ps-ain't: palindromic s-ain't 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 quartersibling: half-sibling's half-sibling 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 reprep: [replicated replication] [G(2, r, 10)/s] 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, 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: "Are you empty?" grammanym s-ain'ts: any Aronsonian numbers generated by the sentence, "'S' ain't the second, third, fourth, fifth, etc. eighth, tenth, etc. letter in this sentence.": 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, etc., 30, 32, etc. sameallboat: [all in same boat wordle] together in a predicament sbuttky: [buttinsky wordle] kibitzer schmalindrome: word(s) that would be palindromic if not for the beginning schmanagram: word resulting from transaddition, adding to and rearranging letters of original word 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   sesquation: [4:3/2::tetration:?] intermediate operation between addition and multiplication seventy-sevens: [7(G(2, 70, 10)/9)] 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 sigmagon: [sigma + -gon] polygon formed from sigma-like quintuple line segments s-inners: [non-s-ain'ts] numbers not among the s-ain'ts: 1, 9, 31, 36, etc., generated by the inner s in the generating sentence, "S ain't the second, third, fourth, fifth, etc. letter in this sentence." sithornde: [thorn in side wordle] seemingly incurable pain sixty-sixes: [6(G(2, 60, 10)/9)] 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 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) tall division: [antonym of antonym of long division] division of numeral, not number, vertically or horizontally, see Jootsy Calculus 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), 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 tera: [8:mega::14:?] G(2, 14, 2) = 16384 terbangro: [interrobang wordle] combination interrogatory and exclamation mark terillion: [ter(a) + -illion] G(2, 3000000000003, 10) teristron: [mega:tera::megistron:?] G(3, 14, 10) tetempestapot: [tempest in teapot wordle] thehangre: [hang in there wordle] encouraging word to persevere thirty-threes: 333333333333333333333333333333 = 3[G(2, 30, 10)/9] 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 TOSCOD: [t(riple) o(r) s(um) c(ubes) o(f) d(igits)] operation which either triples a number or sums the cubes of its digits, which if repeated a sufficient number of times results in 153 (John 21:10), the sum of the first 17 integers toscodicity: quality of a number indicated by the number of TOSCOD steps it needs to reach 153 TQ: [telligence quotient, IQ backformation] measure of inability to learn tri-inary: refering to a number system based on 3i trinade: [2:3::binade:?] worddivisible into three smaller words twenty-twos: 22222222222222222222 = 2[G(2, 20, 10)/9] 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 UMO: unaccoutably moving objects acronym, like moving statues, walking trees, productive bureaucrats umpteen: [M:ump::M + 10:?] 1010 umpty: [M:ump::10M:?] 1,000 umpty-ump: [M:ump::11M:?] 11000 Unian: [beheaded Dunian] with first first and last four lines unwritten] unproper fractions: fractions in which improper cancellation of digits results in a proper reduction, see Jootsy Calculus unrationals: numbers that transform a rational into an irrational or vice versa, p/q - [G(2, 1/2, G(2, 2, p/q)) or G(2, 1/2, p) - [G(2, 1.2, G(2, 2, pq))]/q uple: [nonuple backformation] indivisible by 9 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 uvruwuxuvru: [ABCD:UVWX::abracadabra:?] magic (nonsesnse) word like abracadabra Verdunian: poem with with last four lines 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.) 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:?] n2 words arranged in square -- if magic -- to form sentence(s) -- my         dog           is           weak. dog         the       fighting     man is        fighting     good         will weak      man         will         fall   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 yotta: [8:mega::23:?] G(2, 23, 2) = 8388608 yottistron: [mega:yotta::megistron:?] G(3, 23, 10) YRUMT: "Why are you empty?" grammanym zillion: [see merology] 3999697.5 or 2147557151 or 10208693345 or 3505830076725 depending on merological system 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: refering to reversed alphabet root words abracadabra    alphome ananym ballad     ballade       bergette       billion        binary      Burns stanza            cantar      casbairdne          choka        clerihew         clogyrnach         cossante         decima              dizain droighneach       dubious       Eckenstrophe          gayatri           ghazal          googol          googolplex gwawdodyns        haikai           huitain         inch         katauta        limerick         madrigal        Manx mega       muwashshah         muzdawij          nonina           pantoun         pantun           parsec pentapaul           phi           pi             portmanteau              qasida            quattordicina            renga roundle           sedoka              sequidilla            sestina           sijo           tanka             trimetre triolet             undicina               villanelle