It’s been a full 10 years since we started WPMI as a fun way for wordplay fans to share some of their favorites. In honor of the anniversary – we’ve compiled the top 10 for the past 10 years (all 100 words!) right here. Enjoy!
2019
| Word | Definition | Name |
| Knewledge | All that stuff you’ve ever forgotten | JackinYOW |
| Lugeubrious | Wallowing in misery and going downhill fast | Doug Langmead |
| Cerebrawl | A battle of wits | Anne DelCampo |
| Plodcast | A boring online interview | Michael de Silva |
| Typerbole | Billions of unwanted texts | Callum O’Ciarin |
| Oblituary | Written out of history | Gillian Winter |
| Dismangled | The result of taking something apart and realizing you can never reassemble it | Mary Raab |
| Suburbane | Not quite suave, courteous, or refined in manner | Robert Mangas |
| Procrastimate | Someone who encourages your tardiness | Vali Jamal PhD |
| Nanarchy | An environment in which grandma rules the roost | Wayne Price |
2018
| Word | Definition | Name |
| Calmity | Serenly moving towards total disaster | Tom Lloyd |
| Tspunami | A long, high, and cataclysmic wave of water caused by the washing of an eating utensil under a faucet | Glenn Heath |
| Tunesia | Inability to remember a melody you once knew | Evan Zucker |
| Lyeperbole | Lying with great exaggeration | Galen Cortina |
| Puber | Taxi ride service for young adolescents | Michael Koplen |
| Deafinitely | Said vehemently when he didn’t hear a thing | Vali Jamal PhD |
| Pregret | Knowing you’ll later wish you hadn’t | Mia Debidin |
| Retweat | Retwact in 140 letters or less | Doug Langmead |
| Recadavism | Repeated relapse into choosing the wrong man | Anne DelCampo |
| Herbibore | Someone who can’t stop talking about their vegan diet | Shari Rosenbloom |
2017
| Word | Definition | Name |
| Neurapathy | You’ve lost feeling in your extremities and just don’t care. | David Topel |
| Destingy | When life doesn’t give you what you want. | Steph Sala |
| Realastic | A flexible view of reality | Mia Debidin |
| Perflunctory | Taking a test you know you will fail | Ronald C Hamm |
| Typochondriac | A person who is abnormally anxious about their spelling. | Ryan Mottershaw |
| Serendipiteous | Something that was supposed to go pleasantly went terribly sour | Vali Jamal |
| Entertrain | Letting the iPad raise your kids. | Erik Rye |
| Damnesia | You can’t remember what the h*** happened. | Chris Branks |
| Girthright | Survival of the fattest | Doug Langmead |
| Goofle | When you make a typo when performing an internet search and accidentally google the wrong thing | Reilly Selmser |
2016
| Word | Definition | Name |
| Spinister | A very evil, very old, unmarried woman | Howard Brody |
| Momeries | The warm and fuzzy feeling a mother gets looking back at her kids early years | Katharine Lang |
| Posthumorus | Dead funny | Doug Langmead |
| Asshaole | An obnoxious tourist in Hawaii | Ron Joyal |
| Baroquen | Damaged 17th century antiques | Caroline Zobac |
| Abracus | An instrument used to calculate the size of a woman’s breasts | Anne DelCampo |
| Mediochre | Yellow pigment that just isn’t trying hard enough | Matthew B. Winkel |
| Omnimpotent | Unable to do anything whatsoever | Michale Rofkar |
| Vociferrous | Knife-edge strident | Vali Jamal |
| Satisfiction | Belief in the myth that that candy bar you are eating will satisy your nutritional needs until your next meal. | Todd Bricker |
2015
| Word | Definition | Name |
| Carnil | Celibacy | Anne DelCampo |
| Cornicate | to cock an ear | Tom Bracken |
| Invorce | The email received from a former spouse demanding an alimony payment of a certain amount by a certain date. | Dan Greenberg |
| Poltergist | The ghost of an idea | Doug Langmead |
| Audity | Something that sounds odd and has financial implications | Tony Dal Molin |
| Damnesia | Cursed forgetfulness | James Marshal Broder |
| subterfume | These e-cigarettes | Vali Jamal |
| carioki | singing along to the radio during a drive – often with the wrong words | Dave Easby |
| Umpure | An umpire who actually follows the rules | David Spharler |
| Bathroam | wandering aimlessly in search of a toilet | Bruce Dillon |
2014
| Word | Definition | Name |
| meanderthal | A lazy ancestor known for wandering around doing nothing while others hunted and gathered | Jim Shamp |
| boath | solemn promise made by two people | Pablo Dominguez |
| carmudgeon | a person who treats their automobile with more care than they treat people | Emma Schaeffer |
| Striangulation | Smothered by Geometry | David Spharler |
| romains | The tiny little leaves in the middle of a head of lettuce that no one wants to eat | Kris Wolff |
| drauma | Drama borne of trauma | Kelsey Ishimoto |
| mysterectomy | an act which takes the joy out of a situation by over-analyzing or unnecessarily trying to “debunk”it. | r. ecarg |
| Fournication | Melange a quatre | Keith Lawrence |
| Dispenchant | Taking a spell by leaning the other way | Doug Langmead |
| Luxurinate | Go tee tee in a really nice restroom | Karen Twait |
2013
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Word
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Definition
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Submitted By
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| Niagra | (n): a new drug for men; it’s a diuretic | David Rose |
| Ergotica | Thereforeplay | Doug Langmead |
| calumni | People who lie about having been graduated by University of California – Berkeley | David Spharler |
| predundant | on the cusp of repeating yourself | Don Laybourne |
| vortical | a spinning jump | Jeff Jackson |
| Hetour | The unnecessarily long and meandering route taken by a male driver after refusing to ask for directions. | Scott Pollak |
| stragedy | A plan with calamitous results | Alissa T. |
| Sarcaustic | Sarcastic to the point of causing severe burns | Jeremy Fornier-Hanlon |
| doury | dad’s countenance when he finds out what daughter’s wedding is going to cost | Bar Lowenberg |
| unimpreachable | insermontable | Doug Langmead |
2012
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Word
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Definition
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Submitted By
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| Stinkle | What you do after eating asparagus | Cheryl Jacques |
| Leadersh*t | The result of promoting a person with no management skills to a management position, especially if that person is your idiot cousin | Kevin Sutherland |
| travelsty | a dreadful occurrence while on vacation | Stuart Hagmann |
| emaelstrom | A swirling state of affairs in one’s inbox that relentlessly sucks one deeper and deeper into email, with no regard for time and space | Brendan Walsh |
| chloroform | The shape of green, according to synesthetes | Alex Bond |
| vagilante | a woman who takes the law into her own hands | James Kipling |
| tauntology | n., an insult repeated many times in different forms. | Derek Rogers |
| placego | A false sense of self-esteem developed through years of earning “Participant” ribbons in competitions | Frank Rytkonen |
| Turbotox | noun. An enhancer that will allow you to smooth out the wrinkles in your tax return | Claire Dunnington |
| Baggravation | When you are carrying a paper grocery bag and one of the handles rips off | Gary Goodman |
2011
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Word
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Definition
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Submitted By
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| asculate | (v.) The act of conducting niceties in order to gain the favor of a person in a perceived position of authority (i.e., butt-kissing) | Roxanne Pearson |
| eblaborate | The act of babbling on incessantly in an attempt to provide excessive amounts of information, often useless minutiae, about a particular topic. | Phyllis Sakole |
| footbull | What sports announcers say to fill air time See also: basebull, basketbull | Wayne Hoit |
| Twired | Really fatigued yet jacked up. | Mary C. Ford |
| carcolepsy | the chronic inability to stay awake while riding in a car | Lynn DuPree |
| Elephont | Really BIG type | Gayle Knutson |
| Epiphony | the dramatic realization that the person you are with is not who they seem to be | Kim Robinson |
| omnimpotent | all powerless | Derek Rogers |
| afflicionado | a hypochondriac | Dave Ufford |
| vignorant | Being vigorously stupid. | Bill Neurohr |
2010
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Word
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Definition
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Submitted By
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| Presidental | A wide grin emanating from the Oval Office | Gayle Knutson |
| ussues | Issues shared or inherited by virtue of being in a commited relationship. | Michael Bertani |
| placebow | clip-on tie | Timothy Cree |
| Analize | To make something crappy by studying it too much. | Wayne Hoit |
| homogenius | my very smart gay friend | Rick Starr |
| caranoid | paranoid but correct | Chloe O’Connor |
| bicicle | ice that goes both ways | Emily Hempel |
| pollutico | politics polluted by industrial dominance resulting in global imbalances | stephan Tychon |
| adnoying | Causing annoyance to internet users with the bombardment of pop-up advertisements. | Deborah Rowland |
| Nogotiation | A losing-losing policy-making strategy often employed by elected officials most recently and most noticeably during health care reform or equally as recently, but less noticeably by me unsuccessfully with my spouse (to be read as partner). | Name Withheld by Request |
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