# Cool words that don't exist **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 7, 2021, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391 "2021-02-07T20:40:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/21 "2021-02-09T00:12:30Z")
Yeah, I grok Vonnegut. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/22 "2021-02-09T08:21:03Z")
Infundibulum is a real word. Google it. I worked with cash registers, and had a real supermarket PLU file (database listing all the products, their descriptions, prices, and UPC codes) to work with. One of the fresh produce products listed was: Pomefrasnate. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/23 "2021-02-09T09:45:06Z")
I was ordering some products online a week or two ago and I stumbled across a product on a website called ‘mkjk’ - no description, and with a price of zero, so I added it to my order - I got a confirmation that my order had shipped, and mkjk was listed on it, but when it arrived, there was no mkjk. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/24 "2021-02-09T09:59:10Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > but when it arrived, there was no mkjk. You can’t _see_ the mkjk, but you can feel if the mkjk is there. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/25 "2021-02-09T10:22:42Z")
You’d miss it if it were gone ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/26 "2021-02-09T12:22:34Z")
A friend back in high school — in the 80s! — would occasionally talk in spontaneous nonsense words. I still remember one: rehebusnirt ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/27 "2021-02-09T14:11:35Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > From an episode of Family Ties involving a Scrabble game: > > ZOQUO = to engage in water sports > USHNUU = to towel off (e.g. after water sports) There was a Seinfeld episode where Jerry was playing Scrabble with his mother, and Kramer kept trying to get her to play QUONE. “You know, to _quone_ something!” ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/28 "2021-02-09T14:23:06Z")
I offer up … Neo-fictitious !! So much of what we considered in the past to be pure fiction has actually come to fruition and, in some cases, even been surpassed. The original Star Trek personal communicator is a good example. “Neo-fictitious” is a new kind of fiction, a fiction that is so far out there that it is virtually impossible for it to become reality any time in the foreseeable future if ever. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/29 "2021-02-09T19:10:51Z")
rashomondegreen ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/30 "2021-02-10T00:45:49Z")
My BIL once tried to get “cawp” in a Scrabble game. He said, “You know, you pick up the phone and cawp someone.” ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/31 "2021-02-10T08:36:32Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > “Neo-fictitious” is a new kind of fiction, a fiction that is so far out there that it is virtually impossible for it to become reality any time in the foreseeable future if ever. Star Trek, in all its incarntations, had a lot of that too. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/32 "2021-02-10T08:51:27Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > No mention of the notorious Chronosynclastic Infundibulum? > [@Senegoid](#): > > Infundibulum is a real word. Google it. I noted earlier that “infundibulum” is a real word. However, I can’t find any mention of “chronosynclastic” other than references to Vonnegut. But “synclastic” is a real word. It refers to a geometric surface that curves in the same direction at every point. (Loosely speaking, a curved surface that is convex everywhere with the same side as its interior, I think.) If you imagine a curved space-time surface with such a geometry, you could call it “chronosynclastic”. The prefix “chrono” means “time”. (Cite: Our Doper Chronos, whose avatar is an hourglass.) Vonnegut may have fabsnabated that word himself, but it makes sense. An “infundibulum” is anything funnel shaped. So a chronosynclastic infundibulum is a space-time funnel, in which all children’s daddies can converge in a space-time continuum where they can all be right all the time, just as Vonnegut described it. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/33 "2021-02-10T11:13:35Z")
These are some “words” that stumped my email spell-check: “No replacement found.” apicite bolradt caisym dolufe eppive fivoly gremesh hoyastic irretonic jolpine kertaline lacurric murtory murtorable nintrope opplism platridian quebane rauldete sedaugh taracore ullidet valapish weyaff xabbine yerral zoiret ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/34 "2021-02-10T12:41:41Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Star Trek, in all its incarntations, had a lot of that too. Not as much as one might think. Several years ago, I read a small paperback entitled, [**“The Physics of Star Trek”**.](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2104.The_Physics_of_Star_Trek) Much of the technology postulated is, in fact, actually possible. The catch is the amount of energy needed to make a lot of that stuff happen. The transporter, however, is truly impossible if for no other reason than the “Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle”. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/35 "2021-02-10T14:04:19Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > The transporter, however, is truly impossible if for no other reason than the “Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle”. That’s why they have _Heisenberg Compensators_ > **[Heisenberg compensator](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Heisenberg_compensator)** > > The Heisenberg compensator was a component of the transporter system. The compensator worked around the problems caused by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, allowing the transporter sensors to compensate for their inability to determine both the... > [@](#): > > _When asked by_ Time _magazine in [1994](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/1994_(production)), "_ How do the Heisenberg compensators work? _" [Michael Okuda](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Michael_Okuda) replied, "_ They work just fine, thank you. _"_ ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/36 "2021-02-10T14:10:57Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > That’s why they have _Heisenberg Compensators_ - I’ve sometimes wondered if those need regular adjustments. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/37 "2021-02-10T14:11:45Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I’ve sometimes wondered if those need regular adjustments. How would you be able to tell? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/38 "2021-02-10T14:13:13Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > > [@running\_coach](#): > > > > I’ve sometimes wondered if those need regular adjustments. > > How would you be able to tell? - The plot runs more smoothly. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/39 "2021-02-10T14:46:56Z")
Minger ale. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/40 "2021-02-12T06:13:08Z")
Every time I try to type “suburbia”, it comes out "_suburbis"_. So to hell with it, that’s my word now. Derived from /sub+urbis/, the genitive singular of “urbs”. Don’t nitpick it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391.md?page=3)