Preposterous Pangrams

Words that should be pangrams for the NYT spelling bee, but aren't real.

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PICOMILE

From pico- (SI prefix for 10^-12) + mile

Noun

1. A rare unit of distance equal to one trillionth of a mile (about 1.6 nanometers)

"A strand of DNA is just over one picomile in diameter"

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PIRATICAL

From pirate + ical

Adjective

1. Of or relating to pirates

2. In a manner resembling a pirate

"The captain bellowed 'avast, matey!' in his classically piratical manner."

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WINGWOMEN

From wing + women

Noun (plural of wingwoman)

1. A (female) pilot offering support as part of a flying formation

2. A (female) friend offering support in flirting and romance

"My sisters are terrible wingwomen. Whenever I try to flirt with someone, they tell embarrassing stories about me."

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GROOVILY

From groovy + ily

Adjective

1. In a groovy way

"Austin Powers strolled groovily into the room."

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LANDGOING

From land + going

Adjective

1. Traveling by land, as opposed to sea or air

"The ostrich is a landgoing bird."

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TITTYGIFTED

From titty (slang, breast) + gifted

Adjective

1. Endowed with an impressive chest; buxom

"She's got a serious pair of knockers. I've never met someone so tittygifted."

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WINEHAND

From wine + hand (worker, as in e.g.stagehand)

Noun

1. A worker who stands nearby, ready to provide additional wine at a moment's notice

"I'm running low on chardonnay! Where is my winehand?"

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NONHAGGLING

From non- + haggle

Adjective

1. As a store or market, with fixed prices that can't be haggled over.

"This is a nonhaggling store - you pay the price on the label!"

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LLAMATICITY

From llama + -icity (suffix used to form nouns from adjectives)

Noun

1. The quality of being a llama

2. The quality of resembling a llama in some way, without literally being one

"Emporer Kuzco acquired a high level of llamaticity in 'The Emperor's New Groove'"

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MEATBAGGY

From meatbag, a combination of meat + bag

Adjective

1. Demonstrating inferiority or weakness due to being a human, as opposed to a robot or AI

"Your puny, meatbaggy limbs are no match for a robot's metallic strength when it comes to arm wrestling!"

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CULTICIDE

From cult + -cide (killing, Middle French)

Noun

1. Killing, literally or metaphorically, of an entire cult

"Jonestown was the site of a famous culticide"

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TAXPENCE

From tax + pence (cents, British plural of penny)

Noun

1. Small fractions of a penny that are gained or lost when calculating tax (such as sales tax) on a price that does not end up with a round number.

"My sales tax was rounded up from 16.7 to 17 pence! This extra 0.3 taxpence will bankrupt me!"

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PARAHANGING

From para- (prefix indicating parachute, as in paragliding) + hang

Noun

1. A sport, similar to paragliding. However, instead of gliding through the sky, the participant just sort of hangs awkwardly under a stationary parachute that is suspended from a crane.

Verb

1. Engaging in the sport of parahanging

"Parahanging may look fun, but it's actually really boring and awkward. You don't even go anywhere."

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BIKELOX

From Bike + lox (salmon, Yiddish).

Noun

1. A modified bicycle, combined with a fish tank, for transporting salmon upstream to the top of a dam. Used in locations where fish ladders or salmon cannons are not feasible.

"It's time to jump on the bikelox and bring another batch of salmon up to the top of the dam"

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OMNITUMULT

From omni- (all) + tumult

Noun

1. A state of overall, overwhelming chaos or pandemonium.

"Since the last election, the country has been in a state of omnitumult."