words in script

nelwords: the neologisms of Ted Nelson

Cisferrocaballatio: Staying this side of the tracks.

Diaphane: Name for undiscovered sheer fabric. Manufacturer must pay me royalty.

Ethnostyle: Pillar of society.

Goldenstrong: Adjective imputing both virtue and power.

Headhead: State of being head of something.

Heliopractor: Man who sets the Sun.

Katzplotz: How you walk when you get back from the Catskills.

Megalothegm: An impressive statement.

Pogonophone: Any device for listening to beards; or a musical instrument incorporating a beard.

Pseudotriskaidekic: As if pertaining to the number thirteen.

Rum: Odd, tough or excellent. (Not to be confused with "rum-bullion," a beverage.)

Runch: Wild radish. Presumably, anything tangy which is found wild, rather than eked by cultivation.

Savioress: girl savior.

Stegomancy: Divining the future from patterns in roofs. On contemplation of the new fallout shelters, for example.

Thonk: Chief thought, main thesis, motivating belief. (Anglo-Saxon. Now ripe for revival.)

Tyroscope: Any device for watching cheese.

Urpferdschmerz: Literally "Primal-horse-sorrow."

Xylothete: A putter of wood. That is, one who puts wood, presumably somewhere. Anyone so behaving. Also, anyone thought to so behave. People who do jigsaw puzzles are xylothetes, among other things.

Maidenrod: Wand for May Queen.

Anastrophe: Something very large and very nice, happening all at once.

Apicovacantism: Theory that there's always room at the top.

Autopotent: Needing no help.

Beginning: The process of cotton-cleaning.

Benthodule: One who venerates narrow depths e.g. Francoise Sagan

Biggening: Enlargement.

Blencifact: An object hastily or poorly constructed.

Cismogrify: Change back.

Contrapolation: Negative thinking. May result in contraptions.

Crackdown: Pantscuff lint.

Eaveslifter: One who speaks so loudly as to be easily overheard.

Exstrument: The sought; an end in itself.

Extravene: Butt out.

Footstrong: Conservative.

Ghollomeisne: A stiff tuft.

Hypodeictic: Not quite capable of being derived from self-evident principles.

Innervation: Pepping-up.

Inquisite: Footsome.

Inviscerate: To stuff things into somebody; to supply details.

Irregardless: Not regardless.

Lingerie: Dalliance.

Macrognostic: Pertaining to the long view.

Minify: To ensmall.

Parthenomonarcheology: The study of Elizabeth Tudor, and those like her.

Pedophage: Dimunitive of "cannibalism."

Phasmoclasm: Destruction of illusions.

Propolation: Positive thinking, usually practiced in an antiskeptic atmosphere. May result in conniptions.

Superside: To abound. Distinct from supercide, killing of overseers.

Tautophony: Repetitious music or sound.

Tous-puissant: Highly capable.

Turpojet: Stream of evil.

Welcomize: To make to feel at home.

Xerologue: A dull speaker.

Zusammenheit: Togetherness; opp. of "Apartheid."

Anapult: A grabbing engine; apple-picker.

Aphibian: Pertaining to God.

Archetexture: Extreme texture.

Argasm: The end of a good discussion.

Artiform: Semblant of having been made by an intelligence.

Backright: Inspoken.

Birthsake: Somebody born on the same day as somebody.

Bonor: Good luck.

Cacography: Illegible writing.

Celeritonic: About the dynamic dimensions of hurry.

Circumcede: To withdraw from surrounding.

Coldhead: Stick-in-the-mud.

Contribulation: Irrelevant suggestion.

Credenza: Ecstatic belief.

Disquantify: To extirpate from scientific social science.

Diumph: 2/3 of a triumph.

Downstanding: Depraved.

Eosophy: Wisdom of the dawn.

Excelibate: Most successfully continent.

Extraloper: Escapee.

Forthwrong: Stupidly domineering.

Geniosyncratic: Of a trait had in common.

Gligent: Careful.

Halitognosticate: Predict about bad breath.

Handicrafty: At once available and shrewd.

Idearrhea: Continuous inspiration.

Immediate: In the town of Media; as, the nearest State Store.

Inquisite: Footsome.

Impex: Important example or experiment.

Implex: That which is implicit.

INFODEP: Department of Information.

Ininfrable: Not capable of being ducked beneath.

Keepstakes: For real.

Kinespeliological: Dealing with caves in motion.

Laughbaby: A giggler or thinwit.

Libertygibbet: A republican gallows.

Littleotry: Postjudice.

Longcoming: Talent.

Metatation: Thinking about thinking.

Moby: No such word, luckily.

Murphilinear: With respect to the kind of line that Murphy draws. (Murphy is a girl some of us knew.)

Nemetic: Pertaining to final creeping downfall.

Nominogenesis: The creation of something, by naming it.

Nonsequence: Unpredictable result.

Oblivia: Name of forgetful girl.

Preminiscence: Daydream.

Prepone: Get at.

Proceptive: What helps.

Quadrivial: Of import.

Quadrubed: Fourposter.

Seesay: Eyewitness testimony.

Skyscaper: One who paints the sky; cherub.

Stereophoria: That solid feeling.

Substitious: Very realistic.

Superstitute: To replace with the better.

Umpward: In an interesting or superlative direction.

Upstop: An inoffensive young person.

Vimpex: A very impex.

Vouloir-faire: "Want-to."

Zax: The end.

originally published in his Swarthmore College newspaper column "We Need a Sociology Department"

a nelswag doodad by james risberg