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| New Word | Original Word | Definition | Name |
| Your Word | Its origin | Clever is better… | Don’t be shy ! |
| Paladroit | Maladroit | That awkward friend | Mike Harcrow |
| Bolshevicks | Bolsheviks | Cold remedy used by Russian revolutionaries | Geoff Williams |
| Falsyhood | Falsehood | Plush cashmere sweater | Jackin Yow |
| Emergencry | Emergency | In politics, climate, sexuality, colour, public health, language, employment, voting, etc., etc., “It’s not fair!” | Jackin Yow |
| Transmatable | Transmutable | Chacun à son goût! | Jackin Yow |
| Prepperoni | Pepperoni | One item in a doomsday survival kit | Mike Harcrow |
| Importank | Important | Mechanized cavalry purchased from another country | Mike Harcrow |
| Consommate | Consummate | When a groom in his dotage makes a potage of his stewardship | Doug Langmead |
| Cargohydrates | Carbohydrates | A shipload of organic compounds | Geoff Williams |
| Orgiental | Oriental | Hot times in Shanghai | Geoff Williams |
| Veteranarians | Veterinarians | Old soldiers who have gone to the dogs | Geoff Williams |
| Dimosaurs | Dinosaurs | Why they went extinct | Geoff Williams |
| Blaseball | Baseball | 39000 Texans who could not care less about contracting a serious disease so long as they can watch a baseball game and drink beer in public | Geoff Williams |
| Perpetractor | Perpetrator | Miscreant farm vehicle | Mike Harcrow |
| Suspicnicious | Suspicious | A questionable outdoor meal | Mike Harcrow |
| Airwhorthy | Airworthy | Mail-order inflatable “companion” | Jackin Yow |
| Excement | Excrement | Support payments that bind | Jackin Yow |
| Rifft-rafft | Riff-raff | Many a marital bed | Jackin Yow |
| Femurl | Femur | The underpinning of a hippy chick | Doug Langmead |
| Palitics | Politics | Elected work for pals not their constituents | Carole Marantz |
| Equinot | Equinox | Equal, we are not ! | Carole Marantz |
| Jockularity | Jocularity | A Scottish sense of humour | Geoff Williams |
| Admenistration | Administration | The business and financial side of the advertising trade | Geoff Williams |
| Splinth | Plinth | A statue erected in honour of a man with a lisp and a broken arm | Geoff Williams |
| Dentropy | Entropy | So, your average lay-about man-cave? | Jackin Yow |
| Intertitial | Interstitial | Er, cleavage? | Jackin Yow |
| Blockdown | Lockdown | Bricklayers’ calls for strike action | Jackin Yow |
| Pigmeant | Pigment | Wrong color | Emile Ouellette |
| Forrest | forest | A place far away you go to for rest | Donna Di Paolo |
| Queery | Query | Verb: To ask a friend if they are lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, queer or questioning. Noun: The question being asked to learn a friend’s sexual orientation. |
Jerry Steinberg |
| Jourknee | Journey | Joint issues from tourist walking | Mike Harcrow |
| Misprison | Misprision | Parole | Geoff Williams |
| Compactibilty | Compatibilty | Learning to drive in a small car | Geoff Williams |
| Gharish | Garish | Where a drunkard parks his car | Geoff Williams |
| Diswillery | Distillery | An establishment that produces less than palpable Spiritus Frumenti | Mary Ellen Quigley |
| Insurgeonts | Insurgents | Rebel doctors | Mike Harcrow |
| Conglamerate | Conglomerate | A large group of flamboyant people | Mike Harcrow |
| Patternoster | Paternoster | Delivering a sermon by text message | Geoff Williams |
| Dignosed | Diagnosed | Someone with a proboscis like a shovel | Geoff Williams |
| Flootball | Football | A team game wherein one has to control a soccer ball while playing a musical instrument | Geoff Williams |
| Amorpheous | Amorphous/Morpheus | A dream lover on a malleable matrix | Doug Langmead |
| Porkmanteau | Portmanteau | A pigskin brief case | Geoff Williams |
| Shiitaker | Shiitake | Kept-in-the-dark kowtower | Jackin Yow |
| Subpeony | Subpoena | Not quite a peony (that is, not showy enough) | Mike Harcrow |
| Crudition | Erudition | Covering up your high intelligence by using foul language | Geoff Williams |
| Tumoresque | Humoresque | Suffering from a severe condition but keeping a cheerful attitude | Geoff Williams |
| Dearthbed | Deathbed | Marital sleeping arrangement in one-bed dysfunctional family | Jackin Yow |
| Bumbskull | Numbskull | Cranio-rectal inversion | Jackin Yow |
| Peregrinotions | Peregrinations | So wasted, you think you’re actually capable of flight | Jackin Yow |
| Revaricate | Prevaricate | The practice of habitual liars | Mike Harcrow |
| Bandemic | Pandemic | Covid 19 hoaxers | Carole Marantz |
| Urgery | Surgery | Operating on desire | Mike Harcrow |
| Porcinema | Porcine | Pig movies | Mike Harcrow |
| Ergotic Hypothesis | Ergodic Hypothesis | The assumption that everyone will eventually touch your Joules at an orgy | Name Witheld |
| Prognostrilcate | Prognosticate | Foretell by smell | Mike Harcrow |
| Capriolet | Cabriolet | Cry sent up by a Spaniard seeing a beautiful Island off the Italian West coast for the first time | Geoff Williams |
| Arabale | Arable | Egyptian beer made from grass clippings | Geoff Williams |
| Hindfast | Handfast | Constipated | Jackin Yow |
| Belaborate | Elaborate | Skewer to exhaustion | Jackin Yow |
| Duporable | Deplorable | Capable of being duped | Carole Marantz |
| Ninentity | Nonenity | Ninety year old person of worth | Carole Marantz |
| Plebean | Plebeian | The pedestrian pinto, the lowly lentil, the common cannelini | Anne DelCampo |
| Usquelaugh | Usquebaugh | A wee giggle after a wee nip | Anne DelCampo |
| Consniption | Conniption | Hysterics in the wake of a horrible haircut | Anne DelCampo |
| Pimpotent | Impotent | Procurer’s temporary office | Jackin Yow |
| Sassquatch | Sasquatch | A mouthy bigfoot | Mike Harcrow |
| Carporeal | Corporeal | Attributes of your automobile | Mike Harcrow |
| Slarch | Starch | A stiff conifer | Mike Harcrow |
| Curiocity | Curiosity | An entire metropolitan area of flea markets, souvenir shops, and side shows | Mike Harcrow |
| Adiosyncratic | Idiosyncratic | Weird, but not really giving a damn what people think | Jackin Yow |
| Archestra | Orchestra | A grouping of partial circles | Mike Harcrow |
| Elangation | Elongation | A state of prolonged panache | Mike Harcrow |
| Lootenant | Lieutenant | A renter who can only afford the bathroom | Mike Harcrow |
| Assoon | Bassoon | A short-lived bass instrument of the woodwind family that never sounded any better than gassy | Mike Harcrow |
| Altrustic | Altruistic | A farm worker who stands in for another who is absent | Geoff Williams |
| Pigmeant | Pigment | Pork substitute | Geoff Williams |
| Daffydils | Daffodils | Jokester jonquils | Mike Harcrow |
| Yoncrete | Concrete | Pavement, but over there | Mike Harcrow |
| Hornery | Ornery | Not getting any; not pleased | Jackin Yow |
| Findow | Window | View into a fish | Mike Harcrow |
| Sausafe | Sausage | Chastity belt for men | Mike Harcrow |
| Funkempt | Unkempt | Brazilian, Landing Strip, etc. | Jackin Yow |
| Polterheist | Poltergeist | A robbery committed by a noisy ghostly apparition | HR White |
| Barbohydrates | Carbohydrates | Thorny starches | Mike Harcrow |
| Serendipoty | Serendipity | Seat up; perfect aim | Jackin Yow |
| Contemprate | Contemplate | To think out loud | Mike Harcrow |
| Peritinkle | Periwinkle | The ringing of small, blue-violet bells | Mike Harcrow |
| Fourlorn | Forlorn | One fewer than fivelorn | Mike Harcrow |
| Peninsulk | Peninsula | A landmass that’s sad because it’s not an island | Mike Harcrow |
| Zenouement | Denouement | Peaceful conclusion | Mike Harcrow |
| Egreasious | Egregious | Bad AND oily | Mike Harcrow |
| Slalome | Slalom | A skiing seductress | Mike Harcrow |
| Curflew | Curlew/Curfew | A daylightful bird | Doug Langmead |
| Draggadocio | Braggadocio | Vainglorious cross-dressing | Jackin Yow |
| Optimoistic | Optimistic | Salivating at the prospect of imminent success | Jackin Yow |
| Fratulence | Flatulence | Gaseous emissions emanating from a brother | HR White |
| esprit de corpse | esprit de corps | a French ghost | HR White |
| Hindkerchief | Handkerchief | Half a loincloth | Jackin Yow |
| Stacky | Tacky | Comically over-endowed | Jackin Yow |
| Rublish | Publish | Defame in print | Jackin Yow |
| Clarifiction | Clarification | The attempt to make a matter more clear, transparent, or generally understandable foiled by the provision of faulty information invented by one’s imagination, feigned, or otherwise untrue | Emmaline Barnhill |
| Syndicrated | Syndicated | Mob disposal option | Jackin Yow |
| Trainslate | Translate | Regular sign seen at British Railways stations | Geoff Williams |
| Lowbotomy | Lobotomy | Time for a visit to Weight Watchers | Geoff Williams |
| ROMnants | Remnants | Bytes left over – scraps of memory | Doug Langmead |
| Justifry | Justify | A single french fry all by itself | Wayne Price |
| Nopen | Open | When WPM is unavailable to accept your entry | Wayne Price |
| Nearbour | Neighbour | A friend/acquaintance that doesn’t strictly live next door, but near by | Adam Grace |
| Maestroso | Maestro + maestoso | Pompous, arrogant, haughty, and condescending, as in the attitude and demeanor of an orchestral conductor | Mike Harcrow |
| Oreness | Soreness | Miner malady | Mike Harcrow |
| Maburka | Mazurka | A lively central-European dance with faces covered | Mike Harcrow |
| Reduncle | Peduncle | A sunburned relative | Mike Harcrow |
| Batcoin | Bitcoin | Currency in use by certain denizens of Gotham City | Geoff Williams |
| Translute | Translate | Stringed instrument played by a person undergoing a sex change | Geoff Williams |
| Hen Pen | Bull Pen | The area where female baseball pitchers warm up | Anne DelCampo |
| Promiscuity | Promiscuity | The reason for chaperones at the senior dance | Anne DelCampo |
| Limperial | Imperial | “No heir…no spare” | Anne DelCampo |
| Lassitide | Lassitude | A wave of weariness | Anne DelCampo |
| Satisfiction | Satisfaction | Unreal satisfaction | Emile Ouellette |
| Ventriloquest | Ventriloquist | The time it took to get Charlie McCarthy to speak | Mike Harcrow |
| Mutterance | Utterance | Bark of a mixed-breed dog. | Noah Bond |
| Decallogue | Decalogue | The 10 Commandments on a sticker | Michael de Silva |
| Chaphazard | Haphazard | Nude Barrel Racing | Michael de Silva |
| Spair | Pair | Two extra | Michael de Silva |
| Fartificial | Artificial | The character of unnatural flatulence | Mike Harcrow |
| Dribaldry | Ribaldry | Obscene slobber | Mike Harcrow |
| Flyingpan | Fryingpan | Hero of a J M Barrie book | Geoff Williams |
| Plongtitude | Longitude | An elaborate but obvious lie, neither an antonym or synonym of platitude , but rather the worlds first use of a rangonym due to the right angle aspects | Nicholas Ashton |
| Missletoe | Mistletoe | A North Korean game invented by Kim Jong Un wherein if he kisses you on both cheeks you survive and if he does not you get stuffed into the nose cone of the next missile leaving town | Geoff Williams |
| Verdisimilitude | Verisimilitude | A new opera written in the style of Verdi | Geoff Williams |
| Biscults | Biscuits | Fanatical followers of carb-only diets | Mike Harcrow |
| Canapea | Panacea | Legume seeds in a tin cylinder (in Little Italy) | Mike Harcrow |
| Carsimonious | Parsimonious | Owns a Yugo | Mike Harcrow |
| Bajaar | Bazaar | A container market | Mike Harcrow |
| Curtlery | Cutlery | Terse tableware | Mike Harcrow |
| Ruefuel | Rueful | Fanning the flames of one’s sorrow, shame, or regret | Mike Harcrow |
| Sexylogist | Sexologist | That cute chick in Shipping | Jackin Yow |
| Pantoply | Panoply | A display of trousers | Mike Harcrow |
| Monopolo | Monopoly | A horseback game for one | Mike Harcrow |
| Deficcant | Desiccant | A laxative | Mike Harcrow |
| Prescrimption | Prescription | Generic drugs | Mike Harcrow |
| Browery | Brewery | Manufacturer of paste-on body hair | Mike Harcrow |
| Octopuns | Octopus | Jokes where the teller always substitutes the word “Testicles” for “Tentacles” and laughs uproariously | Geoff Williams |
| Gnuslinger | Gunslinger | A paid killer operating in South Africa | Geoff Williams |
| Cadillack | Cadillac | Arriving at the posh golf course on your bicycle and finding no one will carry your clubs for you. | Geoff Williams |
| Chambra | Chambray | Falsies | Jackin Yow |
| Zoomerang | Boomerang | To suddenly leave a webinar and then shortly return | HR White |
| Sex | Six | One Seff Efrican less than sivin | Doug Langmead |
| Wornrows | Cornrows | When your braids need a re-do | Mike Harcrow |
| Pawcity | Paucity | A metropolitan area for cats and dogs | Mike Harcrow |
| Oxercise | Exercise | The best way to enhance your bisons | Doug Langmead |
| Dickotomy | Dichotomy | A very serious male operation whose efficacy is in doubt | Geoff Williams |
| Maltadroit | Maladroit | Clumsily drink beer, i.e., runs down one’s chin | Jackin Yow |
| Dialatribe | Dialatribe | Smoke signals | Doug Langmead |
| Catalysm | Catalyst | Doctrinal impetus | Mike Harcrow |
| Dragonian | Draconian | The character of a cruel, mythical flying lizard | Mike Harcrow |
| Chimperty | Champerty | Dressing up a monkey as a politician and expecting the voted peanuts to stream your way | Jackin Yow |
| Munity | Unity | Dissension in the ranks | Doug Langmead |
| Immutiny | Mutiny | Steadfast loyalty | Doug Langmead |
| Bluzzard | Buzzard | A bird of prey that is well adapted for flying in very high winds | Geoff Williams |
| Petrochomical | Petrochemical | Belief that one can sustain a 21st century economy on PV and fans | Jackin Yow |
| Cameow | Cameo | Garfield’s only scene | Michael de Silva |
| TVdium | Tedium | Daytime content | Michael de Silva |
| Indingo | Indigo | Blue dog | Michael de Silva |
| Coop d’etat | Coup d’etat | to upset the pecking order of a hen house. | HR White |
| Vaccinity | Vaccine + Vicinity | Proximity in location to vaccine distribution site, or proximity in time to receiving vaccine. | Samantha Outcalt |
| Astrolave | Astrolabe | Toilets at the Kennedy Space Centre | Geoff Williams |
| Syrip | Syrup / Syria | A sticky diplomatic situation in a turbulent Middle Eastern country | Geoff Williams |
| Cowfound | Confound | A lost bovine no longer lost | Mike Harcrow |
| Sparkinsons | Parkinsons | A neurological brain disease characterized by fiery outbursts | Mike Harcrow |
| Cantelope | Canteloupe | When the bolting couple gets caught by her dad | Mike Harcrow |
| Gneissly | Nicely | How rocks are supposed to play together | Mike Harcrow |
| Condomnation | Condemnation | Strong disapproval concerning the use of contraceptives | Mia Debidin |
| Gnuanced | Nuanced | Subtly resembling a wildebeest | Mia Debidin |
| Adminept | Administration Department (Admin Dept) | The SNAFU Gurus | Doug Langmead |
| Apexitif | Aperitif | The very best liqueur | Mike Harcrow |
| Conquitador | Conquistador | The conqueror who didn’t go | Mike Harcrow |
| Hunchman | Henchman | Cwhiminal minion | Doug Langmead |
| Longlevity | Longevity | Laughing off the years | Doug Langmead |
| Discrapancy | Discrepancy | A messy inconsistency | Kenneth Grinnell |
| Mobivation | Motivation | A reason to run | Mike Harcrow |
| Flague | Plague | A contagion of banners | Mike Harcrow |
| Tannoying | Annoying | Causing irritation over a public address system | Mia Debidin |
| Boastmistress | Toastmistress | I only use silk in ‘my’ whips and ties | Jackin Yow |
| Totalifarian | Totalitarian | A Jamaican dictator | Geoff Williams |
| Acapilliaries | Capilliaries | Singing too much and making your blood vessels rupture | Geoff Williams |
| Intercorpse | Intercourse | Necrophilia | Geoff Williams |
| Impottent | Impotent | When your instant pot, after age and years of use, is unable to achieve a pressure; resulting in an inability to perform in the kitchen. | Kent Benton |
| Vaccinity | Vaccine + Vicinity | Proximity in location to vaccine distribution site, or proximity in time to receiving vaccine. | Samantha Outcalt |
| Muteiny | Mutiny | When people in your Zoom meeting won’t leave themselves muted, and it wrecks the meeting for everyone else. | Beth Winnowski |
| Deposhition | Deposition | The giving of false information under oath | Kitty Valence |
| Stevadores | Stevedores | Romantic longshoremen | Alan Phillips |
| Dietribe | Diatribe | A primitive community of picky eaters | Alan Phillips |
| Solitairey confinement | Solitary confinement | Locked in a cell with nothing but a deck of cards | Alan Phillips |
| Nevertitti | Nevertiti | Flat chested Egyptian Empress | Geoff Williams |
| Tsarcissism | Narcissism | Caveat emperor – the ne plus ultra of inflated self-esteem | Doug Langmead |
| Exclustive | Exclusive | Pining for the previous Mrs. | Jackin Yow |
| Black-Outs Matter | Black outs matter | Power to the people! | Michael Brawley |
| Camopers | Campers | Bored kids in a tent | Michael de Silva |
| Gintellectual | Intellectual | Rummy | Michael de Silva |
| Embyronic | Embryonic | Before it was known he’d be Lord or Lady B | Jackin Yow |
| Esteamed | Esteemed | How clams are served in Spain | Michael de Silva |
| Blandishmint | Blandishment | Candy for good behavior | Michael de Silva |
| Venomouse | Venomous | Mickey’s Ex | Michael de Silva |
| Clairvoyain’t | Clairvoyant | Normal | Michael de Silva |
| Civilant | Sibilant | Hissing politely | Mike Harcrow |
| Dylsexic | Dyslexic | One who finds adult content in places where it doesn’t exist | Mike Harcrow |
| Spanxer | Spanner | Compression wear for pipe repair | Mike Harcrow |
| Emews | Mews | Rowstriches | Doug Langmead |
| Castroenteris | Gastroenteritis | A stomach ailment that causes the sufferer to keep making speeches of interminable length | Geoff Williams |
| Pygmites | Pygmies | Short-tempered stunt-men | Doug Langmead |
| Denisovain | Denisovan | The guy Carly bitched about | Jackin Yow |
| Cessnation | Cessation | A small plane crash | Mike Harcrow |
| Freudenstein | Frankenstein | A sapient creature with the head of a scientist and the mind of an analyst | Doug Langmead |
| Jobster | Lobster | Employment service for crustaceans | Mike Harcrow |
| Creoche | Brioche + creole | Caribbean bread rolls | Mike Harcrow |
| Wivalry | Rivalry | Problems with polygamy | Mike Harcrow |
| Nappenstance | Happenstance | The ability to sleep while standing upright | Geoff Williams |
| Verbesity | Verbosity | Talking too much makes you fat | Geoff Williams |
| Sliquid | Liquid | Better-designed pound note | Jackin Yow |
| Paranorman | Paranormal | Elite group of French troops sent ahead by William the Conqueror to test out Harold’s defences | Geoff Williams |
| Indepedant | Independant | The person who sits next to you during the local Film Festival and tells you all about the plot nuances and the directors personal life story | Geoff Williams |
| Tatare | Tatar | Weight of a Turk – sans luggage – about to board an aircraft | Jackin Yow |
| Schyster | Shyster | Porta-potti along Unter den Linden | Jackin Yow |
| Disdrain | Disdain | Down which the last ounce of respect was flushed | Jackin Yow |
| Disrapt | Disrupt | No longer impressed by the rhetoric | Jackin Yow |
| Galamari | Calamari | A festive squid | Mike Harcrow |
| Broquette | Coquette | A flirty guy | Mike Harcrow |
| Branstorm | Brainstorm | A bad post-breakfast experience in the restroom | Mike Harcrow |
| Sailient | Salient | The relevance of boating | Mike Harcrow |
| Equipmen | Equipment | Tool vendors | Mike Harcrow |
| Sheepskip | Sheepskin | Missing graduation | Mike Harcrow |
| Jarvest | Harvest | Gleaning jam containers | Mike Harcrow |
| Whors-de-combat | Hors-de-combat | Camp followers | Jackin Yow |
| Bugpipe | Bagpipe | Doodlesack with a defective chanter | Jackin Yow |
| Bonas | Bolas | Extra pay granted to an Argentinian Gaucho for his skill with his lasso | Geoff Williams |
| Glammer | Glimmer | A movie star whose beauty is beginning to dim | Geoff Williams |
| Fatotum | Factotum | An underling who got fat on the job, tum reinforcing the meaning | Vali Jamal |
| Ruedimentary | Rudimentary | Basic regret or a basic French street | Ridley Odonnell |
| Oxy-Moron | Oxymoron | Someone who regularly uses street drugs. | Michael Brawley |
| Innoculous | Innocuous | An inoffensive jab | Doug Langmead |
| Humorlesque | Humoresque | A written or musical composition completely devoid of capriciousness, fantasy, or whimsy | Mike Harcrow |
| Conquistadorm | Conquistador | The campus gigolo | Mike Harcrow |
| Theoretipal | Theoretical | Studying the practice of friendship | Mike Harcrow |
| Obease | Obese | Mobility for the large | Mike Harcrow |
| Monstrocity | Monstrosity | Tokyo | Mike Harcrow |
| Abalonely | Abalonely | A mollusk without a date | Mike Harcrow |
| Presipitation | Precipitation | Indecision over using a drinking straw or not | Mike Harcrow |
| Verisimiltune | Verisimiltude | A song that borrows most of the music from a well known old tune | Geoff Williams |
| Paceship | Spaceship | In the near future the Indianapolis Annual Car Race will be held in orbit and in front of all the vehicles will be the Paceship | Geoff Williams |
| Bangst | Angst | Great fear of sexual encounters | Geoff Williams |
| Dialettante | Dilettante | Personal who refuses to use “those new fangled thingies” and sticks to their ancient telephone set | Geoff Williams |
| Centaurians | Centurians | Bridled Roman shock troops | Jackin Yow |
| Parliamentardy | Parliamentary | The slow wheels of the legislative body | Vali Jamal |
| Dogsology | Doxology | Reverent canine howling | Mike Harcrow |
| Dragonian | Draconian | Fire breathing law enforcement | Anne DelCampo |
| impeasment | impeachment | The act of irrefutably proving to a three year-old that peas are good to eat yet having them rejected nevertheless. | Daniel Sherman |
| Bravadog | Bravado | The Alpha of the litter | Anne DelCampo |
| Perudites | Erudite | Learned Limans | Anne DelCampo |
| Curtesy | Courtesy | Impoliteness | Mike Harcrow |
| NOVID | COVID | The theoretical state of health that one enters after getting the second shot | Wayne Price |
| Clammer | Slammer | Prison for miscreant mollusks | Mike Harcrow |
| Spuffer | Sputter | To falter on one’s first cigarette | Mike Harcrow |
| Stuba | Scuba | Underwater bass brass instrument | Mike Harcrow |
| Comepuppance | Comeuppance | A grouchy dog for a grouchy guy | Mike Harcrow |
| Scrubles | Scruples | Misgivings about cleanliness | Mike Harcrow |
| Briars | Bras | Hedging your breasts | Gillian Manolis & Doug Langmead |
| Confluenza | Confluence + influenza | One possible result of neglecting social-distancing | Mike Harcrow |
| Concurrant | Concurrant | A fresh jam berry | Mike Harcrow |
| Constapation | Constipation | The state of being perpetually bound up | Jen Green |
| Deckimate | Decimate | Companion on a cruise liner | Geoff Williams |
| Pie coefficient | Pi | Result of a late-night mathematical exercise, commonly using a fork, to straighten the sides of the uneaten portion of dessert, to form two radii | Steve Coz |
| Platytude | Platitude | The collective noun for “a multitude of Duck-billed Platypuses”. | H.R. White |
| Billingualism | Bilingualism | Your utility charges in English and Spanish | Balazs Monoki |
| Coolaunt | Coolant | Your favorite parental sibling | Mike Harcrow |
| Flip-flog | Flip-flop | To beat on both sides | Mike Harcrow |
| Curlside | Curbside | A drive-up salon | Mike Harcrow |
| Cuddlefish | Cuttlefish | An affectionate squid | Mike Harcrow |
| McLarkey | Malarkey | Scottish balderdash | Mike Harcrow |
| Fundertaker | Undertaker | Extortionist | Mike Harcrow |
| Walwuss | Walrus | A feeble-minded cousin of the seal | Mike Harcrow |
| Apollogize | Apologize | What the manufacturers of the faulty oxygen tank did after the Apollo 13 astronauts returned to earth. | Gayle Knutson |
| Cementery | Cemetery | The last resting place for many a failed mobster | Geoff Williams |
| Camusflage | Camouflage | Disguise for a French philosopher | Geoff Williams |
| Anacondo | Anaconda | No place to keep a giant pet snake | Geoff Williams |
| Billigrams | Milligrams | Online bible quotes from the late Mr. Graham | Geoff Williams |
| Calasthenics | Calisthenics | Exercises for opera Divas | Geoff Williams |
| Briggadocio | Braggadocio | Prison pretense…slammer swagger | Anne DelCampo |
| Centrarian | Contrarian | A medieval maverick | Anne DelCampo |
| Sourbet | Sorbet | Lemon sherbet without sugar | Mike Harcrow |
| Melanchory | Melancholy | Pertaining to gloomy texts in vocal music | Mike Harcrow |
| Kenk | Ken | A twist in one’s knowledge | Mike Harcrow |
| Surreptittious | Surreptitious | Clandestine breast-feeding | Mike Harcrow |
| Whyperbole | Hyperbole | Questionable exaggeration | Mike Harcrow |
| Conqueso | Conquest | The winning cheese | Mike Harcrow |
| Cygnical | Cynical | Of a doubting swan | Mike Harcrow |
| Juristdiction | Jurisdiction | Lawyer-speak | Mike Harcrow |
| Apathycary | Apothecary | Disinterested druggist | Mike Harcrow |
| Methargy | Lethargy | Drug-induced apathy | Mike Harcrow |
| Optimisticanny | Optimistically | Positively perspicacious | Mike Harcrow |
| Quipotic | Quixotic | Whimsical witticism | Mike Harcrow |
| Compunctuation | Compunction + Punctuation | Penitent reference marks | Mike Harcrow |
| Unintimimated | Unintimidated | Unconsummated | Jackin Yow |
| Smutation | Mutation | Art evolving beyond erotica | Jackin Yow |
| Pollusk | Mollusk | A shellfish canvasser | Mike Harcrow |
| Justifly | Justify | Evade warranted incarceration | Jackin Yow |
| Hecclesiastic | Ecclesiastic | The lout in the congregation jeering the sermon | Jackin Yow |
| Suprabundant | Superabundant | 1) Transcendent booty 2) Synonym for Fanytastic and Bunpleasant |
Jackin Yow |
| Conestogie | Conestoga | An overland cigar | Mike Harcrow |
| Mornose | Morose | Proboscisally blessed | Jackin Yow |
| Lizardry | Wizardry | The practice of being a magical reptile | Mike Harcrow |
| Simulacrumb | Simulacrum | Accurate representation of a contemptible louse | Jackin Yow |
| Punderwear | Underwear | Skivvies for wordsmiths | Mike Harcrow |
| Slopstyle | Slopestyle | Extreme winter sport for unskilled skiers | Mike Harcrow |
| Game_Stop | GameStop | End game for stock shorters | Michael Brawley |
| Coyalty | Royalty | Reticent Rulership | Doug Langmead |
| Vastula | Vistula | Flooded river in Eastern Europe | Geoff Williams |
| Custardy | Custard | Prison fare | Geoff Williams |
| Cattleship | Battleship | Heavily armed Naval ship that fires cow pats from all its guns | Geoff Williams |
| Palimentation | Alimentation | By-the-hour companionship service – delivered, usually through cab driver, to lonely out-of-town business men | Jackin Yow |
| Herd Impunity | Herd Immunity | Safety in numbers | Michael Brawley |
| Synlapses | Synapses | Those odd times you’re faithful to your spouse | Jackin Yow |
| Blearney | Blarney | Lies told at last call | Michael de Silva |
| Extirpastor | Extirpator | The one who finally drove you to abandon the flock | Jackin Yow |
| Typowriter | Typewriter | Dyslexic stenographer | Michael de Silva |
| Brobdignagiant | Brobdignagian | Bigger than big | Michael de Silva |
| Weekness | Weakness | Characterizing a half-fortnight of infirmity | Mike Harcrow |
| Cadavert | Cadaver | Coming “this” close to being labelled a reprobate | Jackin Yow |
| Pandaloons | Pantaloons | Trousers for bamboo-eaters | Mike Harcrow |
| Belliclose | Bellicose | Missionary position | Jackin Yow |
| Prestitute | Prostitute | Journalist (m/f) with questionable ethical compass | Jackin Yow |
| Macknowledge | Acknowledge | Devoid of broader gustatory exposure | Jackin Yow |
| Bifurcoated | Bifurcated | A foxy faux pair | Doug Langmead |
| Hoverwhelm | Overwhelm | What helicopter parents do to kids’ creativity | Jackin Yow |
| Instuperable | Insuperable | Dumb beyond redemption | Jackin Yow |
| Cabtina | Cantina | Concession stand in a taxi | Mike Harcrow |
| Giggle | Giggle | Fun party for geese | Judy Scherrenberg |
| Numberic | Numeric | Ancient Viking explorer arrives on shores of Greenland for the first time and wishes he had brought his sheepskin underwear. | Geoff Williams |
| Uptight piano | Upright piano | A tense, jittery hammer-struck keyboard | Mike Harcrow |
| Cyclods | Cyclods | Monocular idiots | Jackin Yow |
| Seenager | Teenager | A senior who behaves like a teenager. | Michael Brawley |
| Pulpchritude | Pulchritude | Beauty reduced to pulp as the make-up melted under the tropical sun | Vali Jamal |
| Laxicography | Lexicography | Please don’t be too lax in posting the winners for 2020! (Coming soon! – WPMI) | Vali Jamal |
| Plese-majesty | Lese-majesty | Exalt the sovereign | Jackin Yow |
| Mandifest | Manifest | What Rice-Davies and Keeler used to have with Profumo | Jackin Yow |
| Whiatus | Hiatus | Wha’, we done sumptin’ wrong? | Jackin Yow |
| Alconol | Alcohol | Non alcoholic beverage | Judy Scherrenberg |
| Schorts | Shorts | Lederhosen | Jackin Yow |
| Poigrant | Poignant | Touching tirade | Jackin Yow |
| Col-de-sac | Cul-de-sac | A ridge too far | Doug Langmead |
| Consterbation | Consternation | Confusing only yourself | Mike Harcrow |
| Eruction | Eruption | Heightened commotion | Jackin Yow |
| Parfunctory | Perfunctory | Careless golf | Mike Harcrow |
| casamity | Calamity | Household disaster | Mike Harcrow |
| Matriphony | Matrimony | Marriage of convenience for the purpose of gaining permanent immigrant status. | Michael Brawley |
| Polemice | Polemic | Little creatures that inhabit the frozen tundra | Geoff Williams |
| Dugang | Dugong | Cousins of the Manatee who gather in large unruly groups | Geoff Williams |
| Dierama | Diorama | A group of miniature figures representing a funeral ceremony | Geoff Williams |
| Plagenta | Placenta | A dark red membrane | Mike Harcrow |
| Koyalty | Loyalty | King of the Goldfish | Mike Harcrow |
| Tattoon | Tattoo | Comic book body ink | Mike Harcrow |
| Neutraility | Neutrality | The path to peace | Mike Harcrow |
| Skinherd | Skinhead | Shorn sheep | Mike Harcrow |
| Perikinkle | Periwinkle | Lavender with a twist | Mike Harcrow |
| Splarge | Splurge | A sizable extravagance | Mike Harcrow |
| Spantaneity | Spontaneity | An impulsive stretch | Mike Harcrow |
| Cadavert | Cadaver | Coming “this” close to being labelled a reprobate | Jackin Yow |
| Antegone | Antigone | Greek babe who has lost it all at Las Vegas | Geoff Williams |
| Importaunt | Important | Seriously razz someone | Jackin Yow |
| Glissandoh! | Glissando | An accidental pause | Michael de Silva |
| Eponymouse | Eponymous | Mickey | Michael de Silva |
| Rafterword | Afterword | Joist | Michael de Silva |
| Cramp-on | Crampon | P.M.S. | Michael Brawley |
| Playthong | Plaything | A slingshot | Mike Harcrow |
| Flateau | Plateau | Reaching the age where your feet go flat | Wayne Price |
| Regiffer | Regifter | The act of taking a gif that has been received and sending it to somebody else, sometimes in the guise of a new gif. | Samantha |
| Miniac | Maniac | A toddler. Any toddler. Go ahead, pick one. | John Carbone |
| Barrometer | Barometer | A device for measuring your wheelbarrow to determine that it is exactly 1 inch too wide to get through your back gate | Geoff Williams |
| Cartlidge | Cartridge | A tendon that is truly shot | Geoff Williams |
| Extravert | Extrovert | The leader of the Green Party | Geoff Williams |
| Freuds | Freud | Friends that really don’t quite get you, but, with help, would like to. | Jackin Yow |
| Fanytastic | Fantastic | Synonym for “bunpleasant” | Jackin Yow |
| Brodice | Bodice | Game of craps among male friends | Jackin Yow |
| Sibtracting | Subtracting | Fratricide | Jackin Yow |
| Lablution | Ablution | Cleansing the Petri dishes and Erlenmeyer flasks | Jackin Yow |
| Pichotomy | Dichotomy | 22/7 or 3.14159265…? | Jackin Yow |
| Gondolences | Condolences | Sad note to Venetian friends | Geoff Williams |
| Bitcon | Bitcoin | Being duped into the delusion that an imaginary currency has real intrinsic value. | Michael Brawley |
| Frightliner | Freightliner | Scriptwriter for Alfred Hitchcock | Geoff Williams |
| Gno | Gnu | Present tense of “Gnu” | Geoff Williams |
| Fourplay | Foreplay | Sexy bridge games | Geoff Williams |
| Meatior | Meatier | Flash-pie in the sky – cf shooting tarts | Doug Langmead |
| Bumbletweeds | Tumbleweeds | Poorly enunciated country walking trousers | Doug Langmead & Gillian Winter |
| Panicea | Panacea | How you feel when you realise what you thought was the solution is in fact a recipe for disaster | Doug Langmead |
| Ephemoral | Ephemeral | A strange feeling you get after a hip replacement | Geoff Williams |
| Procticable | Practicable | Urologists’ skills | Jackin Yow |
| Evisberate | Eviscerate | REALLY tear a strip off someone | Jackin Yow |
| Thoughtfulmess | Thoughtfulness | A carefully worked out plan to thwart someone else’s ideas | Geoff Williams |
| Manyfactured | Manufactured | Diversity in production | Geoff Williams |
| Pichotomy | Dichotomy | Cherry or blueberry? | Jackin Yow |
| Pierless | Peerless | De-Wharfed; Off-Quay; Jettysoned; Marinada | Doug Langmead |
| Posthumouse | Posthumous | Recognition on death for a life lived in holes | Vali Jamal |
| Voiciferous | Vociferous | Expressing one’s opinions loud and clear | Vali Jamal |
| Tieghts | Tights | All else being equal, snug drawers | Doug Langmead |
| Instaglam | Posting photshopped images of yourself on social media | Judy Scherrenberg | |
| Rescussion | Recission | Retraction of an epithet | Jackin Yow |
| Hellix | Helix | A downward spiral | Andy Wright |
| Duozen | Dozen | Twenty-four | Doug Langmead |
| Chromorsome | Chromosome | DDNA | Doug Langmead |
| Poperwork | Paperwork | The letters only Francis can sign | Jackin Yow |
| Rattorney | Attorney | The other guy’s legal counsel | Jackin Yow |
| Ofters | Otters | Frequently-sighted otters that can’t hold their breath | Doug Langmead |
| Sinergy | Synergy | The interaction of two or more people to produce a transgression or immoral act that is greater than the sum of their individual efforts; an orgy | H.R. White |
| Medievil | Mediaeval | Gothic malevolence | Jackin Yow |
| Tuttoo | Tattoo | Verbally reinforce someone’s disapproval of something | Jackin Yow |
| Incrudulous | Incredulous | Cleaned up; spiffy | Jackin Yow |
| Ambilextrous | Ambidextrous | Ability to read upside-down text | Jackin Yow |
| Singlelarity | Singularity | The spot in town where singles tend to gravitate. | Michael Brawley |
| Thiatus | Hiatus | A break from using the step fitness machine | Jackin Yow |
| Skedawdle | Skedaddle | The answer to the age old question. ”Should I stay or should I go?” | Anne DelCampo |
| Facilidate | Facilitate | Arrange a tryst | Anne DelCampo |
| Hairassment | Harrassment | “Tress Stress”…dying, blow drying, teasing, etc. | Anne DelCampo |
| Permentation | Permutation | Preserving one’s curl | Mike Harcrow |