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Filibuster

1. A pest control agency founded by one of the characters from LoTR.
2. Part of a car engine.

Vertigo

A dizzying shade of green.

Exterminate

Divorce with extreme prejudice.

Circumspection

Audit at a bris.



One of the many things I learned from reading Terry Pratchett:

Peer

Someone who suffers from incontinence.



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Terabyte: a bite from a pteradactyl (which of course is pterrable :biggrin: )



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Petabyte

What occurs when you anger PETA.

Catastrophe

Disaster caused by a feline posterior.

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Worsification

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Worsification

A word usually ascribed to bad poetry but can also be used to define a spate of bad luck.
from the Alley Catalmanac (1956)

Due to a worsification of sales this year the following publishing catteries have gone out of business [...]
Flax

An Amish rudimentary communications machine.

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Cation: the title under a picture of a man with no hat on (or, alternatively, of a man wearing a cat on his head instead of a hat).

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Ructions

Equipment used by highrise window washers.


Susurrus

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Susurrus: a large store where you can buy lots of different types of suss

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Serendipity: an exceedingly calm fondue restaurant

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Circumambulatory: a bow-legged walk necessary after a certain specifically male operation


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Bilirubin

1. A country singer.
2. A type of brittle quartz, usually reddish in color.


Extraneous

Pertaining to a defunct railroad.


Defunct

Removal of a strong odor.


Eclaircise

Calisthenics after consuming too many pastries.


Onomatopoeia

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Onomatopoeia

In the SRDU
1. the highlight of a Nomfest; a convergence of twisters.
2. a Haruchai wrestling manoeuvre.

Pursuit

A suit made entirely from cat's purr.

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Snollygoster n. an unusually loud and explosive sneeze. You cracked my credenza with that snollygoster - Gesundheit.

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Teliferous

Pleasant-sounding. The teliferous melody of songbirds.


Ratified

Gnawed by rodents.


Egalitarian

Some kind of fad diet.


That site that Wayfriend linked continues to fascinate me. There are words in there that cannot be improved on.

Tiromancy = divination using cheese

But what kind of cheese? I would guess a veined cheese would work best - perhaps somewhat akin to reading a palm. Under that theory, wouldn't one be telling the cheese's fortune? Is... is there a market for that?



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Tormentum: the impetus gained from rolling down a rocky peak


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antipathy - a place ants go
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Rickety

Moonshine brewed in a MacGyver-esque contraption.


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Ubiquitous - a termination order from your employer

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Rebus

Mass transit déjà vu.


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Adversaria

your female nemesis


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Ganja: a slacker wizard who smokes waaay too much Longbottom Leaf


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