2020 was a bumper year for submissions. The lockdowns seem to have given both time and inspiration to the contributors, so we have expanded the list of winners to include the traditional Top 10 plus another 20 “Best of the Rest”, a selection of “Ringers” that don’t meet the rules but are worthy of recognition and marking the year by a section devoted to wordplay on the theme of the Coronavirus/Covid 19 pandemic.
Top 10 awards are restricted to one per contributor, which wasn’t actually a factor this year – the list emerged all by itself. Congratulations to the winners!
Winners from previous years (2011-2019) are featured on the “Decacedents” page.
| Word | Definition | Name |
| WINNERS | ||
| Jesture | Jokes in Sign Language | Patricia Walsh |
| Coptimism | The irrational hope that the police car behind you is pulling over someone else | Charles Abbott |
| Xanadud | Not the utopia you expected | Mike Harcrow |
| Juggersnaut | Flat-chested | Anne DelCampo |
| Nubiquitous | The Next Big Thing | Gillian Winter |
| Palondrome | A private airstrip for friends who fly in. You can land and take off in either direction, regardless of the wind. | Doug Langmead |
| Indivisual | Selfie | Steve Cozzetto |
| Relephant | Hugely appropriate | Mia Debidin |
| Godsmacked | Having had an epiphany | H. R. White |
| Threatbare | Naked aggression | Geoff Williams |
| BEST OF THE REST | ||
| Myhopia | Short-sighted optimism | Steve Cozzetto |
| Nitprick | A jerk who finds minor faults with everything | Mark Summers |
| Boxtrot | Running with a late parcel delivery | Charles Abbott |
| Notarious | Rather shady paralegals | Geoff Williams |
| Smittens | Fingerless glovers | Doug Langmead |
| Blogorrhea | Excessive talkativeness in an online journal | Anne DelCampo |
| Comodian | An entertainer whose repertoire consists mainly of potty jokes. One of low humor. | H. R. White |
| Swoollen | A bloated sheep | Doug Langmead |
| Saging | The process of storing wisdom in wrinkles | Doug Langmead |
| Vapids | Maelstroms of insipidity | Doug Langmead |
| Derfraud | Das artifice | Jackin YOW |
| Pouchsafed | How a baby kangaroo feels after making the long post natal climb into its Mummy’s pouch | Geoff Williams |
| Toreadoor | How the bullfighter gets out of the bullring | Geoff Williams |
| Phantasmajoria | Dream scenes prior to one’s promotion to lieutenant colonel | Mike Harcrow |
| Serendopity | A chance meeting between two idiots | Geoff Williams |
| Discobobulate | To dance in an awkward and confused manner | Mike Harcrow |
| Tweaty | An agreement made by two politicians via Twitter | Geoff Williams |
| Manopoly | When one woman attracts all the men | Carol Philipson |
| Squalord | Rent collector in slums | Mike Harcrow |
| Nundane | Ophelia | Geoff Williams |
| RINGERS | ||
| Portlymanteau | Luggage designed for large-sized males | Steve Cozzetto |
| Gentrifugal Force | The outward-expanding unaffordability of a previously modest neighborhood after the first house has been remodeled and sold for five times the amount it was worth the previous year | Amacker Bullwinkle |
| Applelexy | The fit one has when their cell phone battery goes dead in the middle of a conversation | H R White |
| Ginko Balboa | Explorer who was lost to history as he could not remember where he’d been | Mona J. Shapiro |
| Lacu na | Gap analysis | Doug Langmead |
| Out-of-sink | Bad timing, as when the water stops when you put your hands under an automatic faucet and restarts after you’ve pulled them away | Steve Cozzetto |
| Rancorman | Resentful or malicious newscaster | Mike Harcrow |
| Tourvill’s Syndrome | An intellect that skates effortlessly over the frozen ponds of everyday discourse. | Doug Langmead |
| Wells Phargoah | An Egyptian pyramid scheme | Doug Langmead |
| Carpe Diemo | Seize the angst | Michael de Silva |
| Caviar Emptor | Fine print seen on a seafood menu | Steve Cozzetto |
| Club Med-icare | An all inclusive senior assisted living Resort | Carol Philipson |
| Disavowel | The disdain felt by the British towards Americans for removing the letter “U” from many of their best words | John du Manoir |
| Specifishity | One’s seafood preference | Mike Harcrow |
| Out-of-sink | Bad timing, as when the water stops when you put your hands under an automatic faucet and restarts after you’ve pulled them away | Steve Cozzetto |
| COVID | ||
| Croonavirus | Frank Sinatra Syndrome | Doug Langmead |
| Covicted | Sentenced to endless quarantines | Elaine Baran |
| Pundemic | Uncontrollable wordplay | Andrew Innes |
| Baggravation | The inability to open a plastic bag in the produce section of a supermarket because you are wearing a mask | Wayne |
| Corona-fide | A credible COVID-19 test | Steve Cozzetto |
| Perspextive | The view of many shopkeepers during Covid | Geoff Williams |
| Pisitivity | Taking the piss for positivity, a 2020 phenomenon. | Ruth Krause |
| Quaranroutine | When the act of quarantine becomes a consistent way of living | James B Neff |
| Elergy | A poetic lament for one’s excessive immunological response to seasonal, entomological, or pharmacological antigens | Jeffrey Krueger |
| Shituation | A crappy place to be, most likely in 2020 | Ruth Krause & Lindsay Sunter |
| Strepidation | The fear that your sore throat might be Stage 1 Coronavirus | Doug Langmead |
| Masqueraid | A new line of work where you help people put on their Covid masks as they enter a store | Geoff Williams |
| Ebowla | Online cricket | Geoff Williams |
| Choregraphy | Keeping daily statistics during the Covid crisis as you do endless meaningless little bits of work around your steadily shrinking abode so you can show your partner that you are actually doing something other playing dumb word games | Geoff Williams |
| ThanksLiving | A “New” holiday: The Day After Thanksgiving, to celebrate and give thanks for living through a pandemic | Carol Philipson |
2020 Submissions
| Definition | Name | |
| YOUR WORD HERE | Clever is better… | Tell us who you are; amaze your friends and family |
| Threatbare | Naked aggression | Geoff Williams |
| Thiatus | A break from using the step fitness machine | Jackin YOW |
| Skedawdle | The answer to the age old question, ”Should I stay or should I go?” | Anne DelCampo |
| Facilidate | Arrange a tryst | Anne DelCampo |
| Hairassment | “Tress Stress”…dying, blow drying, teasing, etc. | Anne DelCampo |
| Pierless | Jettysoned | Doug Langmead |
| Pisitivity | Taking the piss for positivity, a 2020 phenomenon. | Ruth Krause |
| Shituation | A crappy place to be, most likely in 2020 | Ruth Krause & Lindsay Sunter |
| Instagran | A cool senior | Geoff Williams |
| Gentriflying | Traveling first class on an airplane | Anne DelCampo |
| Aficionada | A person who is a devotee of…nothing | Anne DelCampo |
| Juggersnaut | Flat-chested | Anne DelCampo |
| Lachrymoose | Bullwinkle’s Boohoos | Anne DelCampo |
| Coldrums | Seasonal affective disorder | Anne DelCampo |
| Politricks | Candidates making promises but with intentions of deceiving voters | Carol Philipson |
| Unfortumate | Your soon to be advised, and hapless, ex-spouse | Jackin YOW |
| Clandestiny | When one is born to work undercover | Mike Harcrow |
| Spanache | When a supremely confident manner goes a long way | Ruth Krause |
| Attenumate | Change up positions during amorous encounters | Jackin YOW |
| Pianoply | Mozart’s Concerto for two pianos in E-flat major | Jackin YOW |
| Expediment | A shortcut that wasn’t | Michael de Silva |
| Sputs | Muddied spatterdashes | Jackin YOW |
| Brandicoot | The Australian equivalent of seeing Pink Elephants | Geoff Williams |
| Lexulousy | Getting bad words in a certain online Scrabble type game | Geoff Williams |
| Potrified | Stoned | Jackin YOW |
| Foulsome | Abhorrent gushiness | Jackin YOW |
| Hacknowledge | Break into the NSA database | Jackin YOW |
| Racknowledge | Prerequisite to work in ladies’ fitting departments | Jackin YOW |
| Beer Wellington | Suds to wash down three-day-old Napoleon pastry | Jackin YOW |
| Hardbinger | Predictable elbow-bender | Jackin YOW |
| Derfraud | Das artifice | Jackin YOW |
| Lipstink | The after affect of kissing someone with bad breath | Carol Philipson |
| Parmaphernalia | Stuff you need for a trip to Italy…or suburban Cleveland | Mike Harcrow |
| Caramelt | Candy in a hot car | Mike Harcrow |
| Corntest | Rural contest | George Garrett |
| Aftidavits | The ones to rush toward when the ship’s going down by the pointy end | Jackin YOW |
| Intermydiary | The last line of Samuel Pepys’ Will | Geoff Williams |
| Exjasperated | Frustrated tourists who have just been kicked out of one of Canada’s most popular National Parks | Geoff Williams |
| Constervation | Wanting to be part of the green movement but confused by its hypocrisy | Mike Harcrow |
| Pouchsafed | How a baby kangaroo feels after making the long post natal climb into its Mummy’s pouch | Geoff Williams |
| Polterguest | A noisy mischievous ghostly visitor | Carol Philipson |
| Marguartini | A cocktail made with gin, vermouth, and an olive with a splash of tequila | Carol Philipson |
| Colone | The one and only man in the crowd who’s wearing fragrance | Carol Philipson |
| Slowmobile | Vehicle used by Inuit Pensioners | Geoff Williams |
| Globalisolation | A worldwide group providing for the needs of hermits | Geoff Williams |
| Phantasmajoria | Dream scenes prior to one’s promotion to lieutenant colonel | Mike Harcrow |
| Sea anenemy | A bottom-dwelling adversary | Mike Harcrow |
| Democritic | Judging the merits and faults of those not in the Party | Carol Philipson |
| Marguartini | A cocktail made with gin, vermouth, and an olive with a splash of tequila | Carol Philipson |
| Lipstink | The after affect of kissing someone with bad breath | Carol Philipson |
| Colone | The one and only man in the crowd who’s wearing fragrance | Carol Philipson |
| Freudulent | deception and misrepresentation driven by an excess of libido | H.R. White |
| Uncontinent | An ocean | Mike Harcrow |
| Importinent | Insolent with attitude | Mike Harcrow |
| Comodian | An entertainer whose repertoire consists mainly of potty jokes. One of low humor. | H. R. White |
| Nadire | The lowest of the lows, so low that one is looking up at a previous low. | H. R. White |
| Wimpervious | Incapable of timidity | Mike Harcrow |
| Sobriquit | A nickname for someone who has “fallen off the wagon”. | H. R. White |
| Lachrimost | A competition to see who can shed the most tears | Geoff Williams |
| Apocalyspe | A really big dithathter | Mike Harcrow |
| Manattee | Golfer | Geoff Williams |
| Boblical | Unscriptured | Doug Langmead |
| Overisimilitude | Hype | Michael de Silva |
| Pastramix | Powdered sausage (just add water) | Mike Harcrow |
| Gnatitude | The place your temper(ament) goes after swatting at the little buggers around your eyes and face for several hours. | Rusty McInroy |
| ThanksLiving | A “New” holiday: The day After Thanksgiving, to celebrate and give thanks for living through a pandemic | Carol Philipson |
| Cornucapia | Binge watching Superman movies | Geoff Williams |
| Knowlodge | Library | JackinYOW |
| Shudder | VT dairy cows left outside in the winter, is how ice cream is made | Patricia Walsh |
| Satellate | Runner up in The Space Race | Anne DelCampo |
| Kitteen | An overgrown kid who enjoys playing with balls of string | Doug Langmead |
| Pettifrogging | Paying no attention to details – minor or not; just jumping over them like that creature | Vali Jamal PhD |
| Matrimany | Polygamy | Geoff Williams |
| Custoadian | Pond caretaker | Anne DelCampo |
| Rueminate | Contemplating if the sauce is too lumpy or not | Patricia Walsh |
| Artiface | The layers of makeup required to fool a prospective date | JackinYOW |
| Veeracity | A measure of the degree to which a politician WILL lie to you | JackinYOW |
| Concraption | A privy | Anne DelCampo |
| Jesture | Jokes in Sign Language | Patricia Walsh |
| Predemption | A draft ruling on that request for absolution | JackinYOW |
| Travestine | A poor job on the marble counters in your new bathroom | Geoff Williams |
| Compreclusive | Computer geeks who hide behind social media communication in fear of real people and the real world | Carol Philipson |
| Purpletrator | A violet miscreant | Mike Harcrow |
| Casterwaul | Noise emitted from an ungreased swivel wheel | JackinYOW |
| Ampervious | Resistant to electrical shock | Mike Harcrow |
| Garnage | That dreadful mess in the carport | Geoff Williams |
| Wactivate | Initiate an assassination | Anne DelCampo |
| Functual | The enjoyment of perfect timing | Mike Harcrow |
| Coallmine | Buying up the remaining shares in your business | Geoff Williams |
| Gruesame | What to expect from a horror film sequel | Anne DelCampo |
| Misk | Why your glasses fog up when you put on your Covid protection | Geoff Williams |
| Verbivore | A writer who prefers action to description | Mike Harcrow |
| Inclementation | Cloud seeding | Geoff Williams |
| Equivodate | A social outing marked by exceptionally poor conversation | Mike Harcrow |
| Selectrician | A journeyman who works only on the finest dwellings | Geoff Williams |
| Cavaliar | One who is given to offhand and disdainful untruths | Anne DelCampo |
| Petalance | Becoming upset at losing in a flower competition | Geoff Williams |
| Veneeration | Fake praise | Michael de Silva |
| Pugracious | When a boxer who has successfully clubbed his opponent into semi consciousness helps him up and takes him to his corner | Geoff Williams |
| Dasband | Eins, zwei, drei … oompah-pah, oompah-pah | JackinYow |
| Racketship | Clandestine shipments of drugs and laundered cash | Geoff Williams |
| Apologuy | A remorseful dude | Mike Harcrow |
| Somnambalance | Trying not to fall over when sleepwalking | Geoff Williams |
| Flavorite | The tasty thing you like best | Mike Harcrow |
| Contemptlation | Thinking about someone or something with utter contempt | Vali Jamal PhD |
| Egoad | Social media provocation | Anne DelCampo |
| Perfunktory | Describing one’s routine dejection | Mike Harcrow |
| Serenude | Singing in the shower | Geoff Williams |
| Demuralized | Degraffitied | JackinYOW |
| Speckious | microscopically superficial | Mike Harcrow |
| Gambition | Young chess player aims to become a World Champion | Geoff Williams |
| Fieftdom | Lizard colony | Michael de Silva |
| Bottlegrounds | Woodstock after the show | Geoff Williams |
| Prostidigitation | The one-fingered, latex-encased salute to maintaining male medical health | JackinYOW |
| Palinrome | The Pope’s Twitter handle | Geoff Williams |
| Halcyan | Calm and blue | Mike Harcrow |
| Ulitany? | First question asked of new members joining Arsonists Anonymous | Geoff Williams |
| Divanity | Characteristic of a sofa | Mike Harcrow |
| Henpicked | Roosters first choice | Geoff Williams |
| Cabstraction | Tires | Michael de Silva |
| Praternatural | Motor-mouth | JackinYOW |
| Bozone | A circus | Mike Harcrow |
| Moonfighting | Joining the Militia as an adjunct to your day job | Geoff Williams |
| Frugall | A cheeky degree of cheap | Anne DelCampo |
| Flabrication | “No, they don’t make you look fat.” | Michael de Silva |
| Crustrated | Upset with one’s bread baking skills | Mike Harcrow |
| Corraption | Enamored with one’s own skills at circumventing honourable behaviour | JackinYOW |
| Lawnmoower | Recent Canadian news item ” cattle being used to graze potential forest. fire sites in order to reduce conflagrations”. | Geoff Williams |
| Catasonic | A state of unresponsive rigidity brought on by having to listen to your teenager’s playlist while driving | Mike Harcrow |
| Cybar | Pub for Techies | Anne DelCampo |
| Vehickle | How drunks get to jail | Michael de Silva |
| Cerdainty | The assurance of being delicate | Mike Harcrow |
| Nubiquitous | The Next Big Thing | Gillian Winter |
| Consliderate | Giving careful thought and attention to the eating of small hamburgers or cheeseburgers in front of others | Barbara O’Neal |
| Stuperstitious | Becoming extra sensitive to superstitions while under the influence | Name Withheld |
| Culpagility | Able to avoid blame | Mike Harcrow |
| Sunction | Ultimate opprobrium | JackinYOW |
| Paleoncology | The science of looking for reasons for the death of the dinosaur | Geoff Williams |
| Androit | A nimbler automaton | Mike Harcrow |
| Smittens | Fingerless glovers | Doug Langmead |
| Providents | Good fortune from a fender bender | Mike Harcrow |
| Reeferee | Most senior (highest?) quality control inspector at a cannabis grow-op | JackinYOW |
| Dysinterest | Stomach ailment caused by falling interest rates | Geoff Williams |
| Camoraderie | Esprit de corps | Michael de Silva |
| Squandary | Predicament caused by overspending | Mike Harcrow |
| Swoollen | A bloated sheep | Doug Langmead |
| Ampliflying | The act of yelling to try to make a false statement true | Robert Butler |
| Regorgitate | Gourmandize with vigour, once more | JackinYOW |
| Filminate | A short documentary | Geoff Williams |
| Brunchitis | A severe ailment brought on by missing breakfast | Geoff Williams |
| Acaholic | One addicted to good grades who will sacrifice normal activities to study | Name Withheld |
| Schadentfreude | Joy at seeing the driver who cut you off get in a fender bender | Michael de Silva |
| Cabooze | The “Bar Car,” located at the end of the train | Anne DelCampo |
| Plugnacious | Broadly tout one’s belligerence | JackinYOW |
| Mesmorable | Magically notable | Mike Harcrow |
| TPOTUS | National stockpile of latrine supplies | Anne DelCampo |
| Saxonophist | A horny Viking | Doug Langmead |
| Prohensile | Right man with the right tools | JackinYOW |
| Toreadoor | How the bullfighter gets out of the bullring | Geoff Williams |
| Ginstitute | Bar | Michael de Silva |
| Gradulate | Seniors finally getting their grade 12 certificates | Geoff Williams |
| Cloonier | Georgia | Doug Langmead |
| Incomprehensile | Still useless after millions of years | Michael de Silva |
| Gainland | Profit on the sale of acreage | Geoff Williams |
| Bostard | Reprobate boss | JackinYOW |
| Bureaucrate | From Ikea | Michael de Silva |
| Peltdown | Monsoon | Geoff Williams |
| Taxration | The refund | Michael de Silva |
| Stratagym | How to work out the best exercise program for your long term health | Geoff Williams |
| Lappuccino | When you’re clumsy with your coffee | Mike Harcrow |
| Blogorrhea | Excessive talkativeness in an online journal | Anne DelCampo |
| Sockrates | Greek footwear | Geoff Williams |
| Celluvoid | Overexposed or unused film | Mike Harcrow |
| Stratigems | Seeking favours from young ladies by offering them fabulous trinkets over an extended period | Geoff Williams |
| Apprehendsion | Anxiety felt by those who are “on the lam” | Anne DelCampo |
| Activest | Those yellow jackets they wear in Paris when protesting | Geoff Williams |
| Potlight | A lamp projecting a narrow light that makes a mundane object appear fascinating | Kim Stevenson |
| Crostacean | Angry lobster | JackinYOW |
| Turfines | Engines that run on grass based fuel | Geoff Williams |
| Peeking Duck | A fowl voyeur | Mike Harcrow |
| Scurrilouse | Fast moving vermin | Geoff Williams |
| Flabricate | Put on weight | Anne DelCampo |
| Cratcheting | A type of knitting prevalent in Dickensian times | Geoff Williams |
| Gutso | The hearty relishing of gastronomic delights | Mike Harcrow |
| Palondrome | A private airstrip for friends who fly in. You can land and take off in either direction, regardless of the wind. | Doug Langmead |
| Euphlegmism | Harrumph | Michael de Silva |
| Flamboydance | Flashy performance by a “Guy Band.” | Anne DelCampo |
| Falaxy | Disappointment for an astronomer | Geoff Williams |
| Fumergate | To expel someone by smoking in his presence | Mike Harcrow |
| Felodious | Descriptive of a particularly repulsive criminal | Mike Harcrow |
| Mallcontent | A happy days shopping | Geoff Williams |
| Spinnacle | The best hyperbole | Michael de Silva |
| Vacumen | Skill required for a house keeper | Anne DelCampo |
| Exhoneration | Removing a judge from the bench | Geoff Williams |
| Pandephonium | Sonic chaos | Mike Harcrow |
| Zennui | Tired of reality | Michael de Silva |
| Hindfullness | The state of being conscious of derrières | Anne DelCampo |
| Collaric | Angry that you got arrested | Steve Cozzetto |
| Minificent | A donation barely qualified to achieve Patron status | JackinYOW |
| Christendome | A monk’s tonsure | Geoff Williams |
| Numble | Incapable of sensing a need for modesty | Mike Harcrow |
| Pretinacious | A young girl who is bent on achieving her goals | Vali JamalPhD |
| Dromedairy | Camel Milk | Geoff Williams |
| Envoice | When the first contact is the service charge | Lorien |
| Celibrate | To celebrate one’s celibacy | Vali Jamal PhD |
| Blouffant | A certain hair style and tint that only the most “seasoned ladies“ can achieve | Anne DelCampo |
| Perspextive | The view of many shopkeepers during Covid | Geoff Williams |
| Flawnt | To show off one’s imperfections | Mike Harcrow |
| Assterisk | Dating website alert | Michael de Silva |
| Scottage | A bungalow in the “Highlands” | Anne DelCampo |
| Sextemporaneous | Descriptive word for “A Quickie“ | Anne DelCampo |
| Verdunce | The state of being green and not overly aware of it | Mike Harcrow |
| Padios | With the colder weather coming Spaniards have to move indoors | Geoff Williams |
| Carpe Diemo | Seize the angst | Michael de Silva |
| Specifishity | One’s seafood preference | Mike Harcrow |
| Allegatory | A crock of similes | Doug Langmead |
| Oopsimath | One who begins their education so late in life that they do not recall the knowledge learned | Anne DelCampo |
| Sneezons | Year-round allergies | Mike Harcrow |
| Commutists | Fellow Travellers | Geoff Williams |
| Cignominy | Smoker shame | Michael de Silva |
| Filibluster | Filibuster | Anne DelCampo |
| Poserful | Maintaining control by deception | Mike Harcrow |
| Debactle | When old men harangue each other with the whole world watching | Doug Langmead |
| Manufracture | The machinery has broken down again | Geoff Williams |
| Defermination | Deciding not to decide yet | Mike Harcrow |
| Dunderestimated | Thought they were smarter | Michael de Silva |
| Practimal | A type of unworkable solution that, once in practice, proves us to be ill considered | Charles Abbott |
| Covicted | Sentenced to endless quarantines | Elaine Baran |
| Communify | To have a block party | Mike Harcrow |
| Punctural | I am usually on time but I blew a tire | Geoff Williams |
| Hypocracy | An elected government which acts in its own interests | Mike Harcrow |
| Bier Garden | Cemetery | Michael de Silva |
| Cramifications | The consequences of waiting to study until the last minute | Mike Harcrow |
| Plastor | An inebriated cleric | Geoff Williams |
| Forelorn | Golf widow | Michael de Silva |
| Corona-fide | A credible COVID-19 test | Steve Cozzetto |
| Humavoid | A hermit | Mike Harcrow |
| Rumbunctious | Full of energy imparted by the Caribbean drink | Vali Jamal PhD |
| Histormians | People with nothing better to do than read old weather reports | Doug Langmead |
| Stubmission | Walking barefoot past the coffee table in the dark | JackinYOW |
| Missbigoten | When someone is a chauvinist and a racist | Steve Cozzetto |
| Cannelonli | Pasta for the shutins | Geoff Williams |
| Recidivistick | Billy club | Michael de Silva |
| Coptimism | The irrational hope that the police car behind you is pulling over someone else | Charles Abbott |
| Misscommunication | When women speak and men fail to hear the correct meaning of their words | Carol Philipson |
| Fakery | The source of that eye-catching display of desserts at the buffet, supermarket or restaurant case that end up in your mouth and are sadly lacking in flavor | Amy Duckett Wagner |
| Paster | Deceased cleric | Geoff Williams |
| Winderkind | A flatulent child | Mike Harcrow |
| Fogyhorn | An automobile accessory used excessively by an elderly driver ( usually a man wearing a hat} | Geoff Williams |
| Apocalypso | Jamaican swan song | Geoff Williams |
| Automagic | A really great mechanic | Mike Harcrow |
| Initiaction | Hazing | Michael de Silva |
| Hautism | Dissociation with an air of superiority | JackinYOW |
| Perfumigate | Extermination by fragrance | Mike Harcrow |
| Angiostura | A libation that caused heart trouble | Geoff Williams |
| Asideswipe | Indirect insult | Michael de Silva |
| Gentrifugal Force | The outward-expanding unaffordability of a previously modest neighborhood after the first house has been remodeled and sold for five times the amount it was worth the previous year | Amacker Bullwinkle |
| Spendulum | The measure of vacillation between excess and thrift | Mike Harcrow |
| Memeh | Boring graphic image | Michael de Silva |
| Pandemonic | When all the kids are dressed as devils at Halloween | Mike Harcrow |
| Nitprick | A jerk who finds minor faults with everything | Mark Summers |
| Mockaroni | Imitation pasta | Mike Harcrow |
| Elonsgate | A scandal involving Tesla fuel readings | Geoff Williams |
| Expoximate | The handle of a broken coffee mug that stays glued on | Steve Cozzetto |
| Permnfrost | Two hair treatments at once | Mike Harcrow |
| Alimoany | Sound in divorce court. | Michael de Silva |
| Polyglop | A cheap buffet | Mike Harcrow |
| The Ha! Drone Collider | A demolition derby for modern tiny robotic aircraft, it is a pastime that can only be enjoyed by those with far to much (literally) disposable income, as well as free time | Veronica Ledford |
| Mandelin | Mandelin | Geoff Williams |
| Sphinux | Egyptian computer operating system | Michael de Silva |
| Diasposition | A tendency to scatter | Mike Harcrow |
| Iconomics | What Rock stars do with their money | Geoff Williams |
| Marathong | 26 miles in a string bikin | Michael de Silva |
| Reconnloiter | Taking your sweet time submitting a completed intelligence report | JackinYOW |
| Curtive | Briefly covert | Mike Harcrow |
| Concantenation | A whole country joined in song, all on the same page– beautiful music | Name Withheld |
| Strepidation | The fear that your sore throat might be Stage 1 Coronavirus | Doug Langmead |
| Genervate | The stand-by power supply failed | JackinYOW |
| Launderomat | A place for cleansing illegal cash | Geoff Williams |
| Idiotsyncrasy | A self-aggrandizing person’s behavioural traits, like counting “likes” on Facebook as a vindication of their IQ | Vali Jamal |
| Dequest | Retract the question | JackinYOW |
| Grinaced | The opposite of having a poker face | Geoff Williams |
| Dimmolate | Use a match to check your remaining fuel | JackinYOW |
| Trendezvous | The IN place | Geoff Williams |
| Phlogmatic | Punishment meted out dispassionately | JackinYOW |
| Arabisque | A soup using lobsters from the Red Sea | Geoff Williams |
| Perfromance | A soap opera or Hallmark movie | Mike Harcrow |
| Bombattic | Where shady fictional spies are traditionally working | Geoff Williams |
| Blabbergasted | Overwhelmed by gossip | Mike Harcrow |
| Post-Moldern | Exhumed | Michael de Silva |
| Gasino | A service station with slot machines | Mike Harcrow |
| Comrades-in-Alms | Teams of beggars | Doug Langmead |
| Club Med-icare | An all inclusive senior assisted living Resort | Carol Philipson |
| Grandola | A very expensive canal boat ride | Geoff Williams |
| Saging | The process of storing wisdom in wrinkles | Doug Langmead |
| Eidetick | A much too vivid memory of this blood sucking insect | Charles Abbott |
| Ediborial | Uninteresting opinion | Mike Harcrow |
| Gonola | A boat hijacking in Venice | Geoff Williams |
| Dripples | Ripples caused by a drip | Mike Harcrow |
| Gastration | Intestinectomy | Mike Harcrow |
| Dimplomat | A cute ambassador | Geoff Williams |
| Altar-ego | Preaching in vain | Doug Langmead |
| Menace-a-trois | Three guys with baseball bats | Geoff Williams |
| Quagmile | 1.6 km of swamp | Mike Harcrow |
| Leadenship | Skewardship | Doug Langmead |
| Evacucation | When a hurricane ends your holiday early | Mike Harcrow |
| Taddler | People who are a tad older and unsteady on their pins | Doug Langmead |
| Curtesy | Passive-aggressive customer service | Mike Harcrow |
| Unaltared | Living together but not married | Geoff Williams |
| Xanadud | Not the utopia you expected | Mike Harcrow |
| Stringulation | Death resulting from the tedium of developing arduous text processing code | Allen Nugent |
| Masqueraid | A new line of work where you help people put on their Covid masks as they enter a store | Geoff Williams |
| Silliloquy | Saying goofy things to yourself | Mike Harcrow |
| Stratagerms | Infectious artifices | Doug Langmead |
| Decrepet | A scruffy dog | Geoff Williams |
| Shabitat | When your dwelling needs maintenance | Mike Harcrow |
| Maid Off With | Stealing little soaps from the cart in the hotel hallway | Steve Cozzetto |
| Goldflinch | That uneasy feeling you get after you have invested all your savings in a goldmine and the price of gold plummets | Geoff Williams |
| Punytive | A punishable weakness | Mike Harcrow |
| Banctimonious | How CEOs of major financial institutions look down on those of the lower classes and other minorities | Geoff Williams |
| Parfection | 18 holes of golf without a single bogey or eagle or birdie | Geoff Williams |
| Beehave | The command for humans to reverse the dwindling population of pollinating insects | Steve Cozzetto |
| Matchrimony | The act of being married as a result of meeting on Match | Carol Philipson |
| Communest | A hidden group of Russian spies | Geoff Williams |
| Carcinergy | Merger of two tobacco companies | Steve Cozzetto |
| Handroid | Robotic cowboy | Doug Langmead |
| Idiotsyncrasy | The idiotic eccentricity or peculiarity of an halfwitted nincompoop | Carol Philipson |
| Farsical | Making an ass of yourself | Doug Langmead |
| Concushion | Those little neck support things they put around your neck after a car crash | Geoff Williams |
| Lisping | Leaning to thleft or thright | Doug Langmead |
| Santamount | Reindeer | Geoff Williams |
| Pantamount | When you hang up your trousers and all the change drops out of your pocket | Geoff Williams |
| Taintamount | Bribery payment or laundered money | Geoff Williams |
| Corespondence | Letters to ones mistress that are introduced in court in support of a decree nisi | Geoff Williams |
| Clurk | A creepy cashier or furtive office keeper | Mike Harcrow |
| Nincomperp | a foolish suspect | Mike Harcrow |
| Piqwant | Desiring provocation or stimulus | Mike Harcrow |
| Scraples | The dusty residue of morality | Mike Harcrow |
| Skedawdle | To depart slowly | Mike Harcrow |
| Frivolust | Carefree desire | Mike Harcrow |
| Skortch | When she over-irons her culottes | Mike Harcrow |
| Paramourmal | An atmosphere of ghostly love | Mike Harcrow |
| Peckuliar | Describing an odd light kiss | Mike Harcrow |
| Idiotsyncracy | Rule by politicians-anywhere of any stripe | Geoff Williams |
| Fandingo | Dance of the wild dogs | Mike Harcrow |
| Venletta | A Feud that started with a written insult | Geoff Williams |
| Ebulliaunt | An enthusiastic female relative | Mike Harcrow |
| Daialect | How a Welshman speaks | Geoff Williams |
| Zolleague | A colleague whom you have only ever met on Zoom video calls | Name Withheld |
| Langmeal | A choice offering from a regular WPM entrant | Geoff Williams |
| Cornucopier | When the xerox machine overfloweth | Mike Harcrow |
| Portlymanteau | Luggage designed for large-sized males | Steve Cozzetto |
| Permafroth | More foam than coffee | Mike Harcrow |
| Lepadoptery | Falling in love with a butterfly and taking them into your family | Geoff Williams |
| Squalord | Rent collector in slums | Mike Harcrow |
| Sycophrantic | Going crazy because the one you spend all your time sucking up to will no longer take any notice of you | Geoff Williams |
| Rancorman | Resentful or malicious newscaster | Mike Harcrow |
| Pretrusion | what it is before it sticks out | Mike Harcrow |
| Sphinxter | A significant tightening felt in certain parts of the body when first viewing the wonders of Ancient Egypt | Geoff Williams |
| Flortilla | A fleet of taco shells | Mike Harcrow |
| Out-of-sink | Bad timing, as when the water stops when you put your hands under an automatic faucet and restarts after you’ve pulled them away | Steve Cozzetto |
| Tartamount | 1. Your bill from the bakery
2. An item on your business credit card that will never be claimed on expenses |
Geoff Williams |
| Prepperoni | Oily sausages for disaster stockpilers | Mike Harcrow |
| Dratitude | The feeling of gratitude towards a doctor (dr) who saved your life from a serious illness | Name Withheld |
| Lieability | A new type of Insurance that is needed worldwide to protect politicians | Geoff Williams |
| Prototypo | The first misspelling | Michael de Silva |
| Irrigtation | A farmer who gets mad because his water has been cut off | Geoff Williams |
| Hospitalination | vast social quarantine | Mike Harcrow |
| Rumpa | A Latin dance with extra hip action | Mike Harcrow |
| Orbligato | An additional melodic element that may be played as a round | Mike Harcrow |
| Bipoler | One who walks using two ski poles | Geoff Williams |
| Progsnoticate | To foretell a messy sneeze | Mike Harcrow |
| Incontinents | Leaky land masses | Mike Harcrow |
| Flatulance | Particularly penetrating gassiness | Mike Harcrow |
| Slumberjack | A logger who will not last long in the business | Geoff Williams |
| Quid pro quorantine | An isolated exchange | Mike Harcrow |
| Balkonisation | Building verandas in Serbia | Geoff Williams |
| Accelerave | Gradual increase in tempo of the dance party play list | Mike Harcrow |
| Fuddy Daddy | An old-fashioned or crotchety father | Mike Harcrow |
| Gradiator | A swordsman with a thermal lance | Doug Langmead |
| Fewd | A vendetta involving only two people | Geoff Williams |
| Percollate | To organize through filtration | Mike Harcrow |
| Pugilisp | Mike Tyson | Mike Harcrow |
| Waferine | A feral biscuit | Doug Langmead |
| Indeslicive | I cant decide whether to have the big piece of cake or the little one | Geoff Williams |
| Requiremint | Necessary breath freshener | Mike Harcrow |
| Ginsurrection | Bar fight | Michael de Silva |
| Flaternity | The concept of time being 2-dimensional | Doug Langmead |
| Maptime | Sleeping for flaternity | Doug Langmead |
| Polygot | Just bought a parrot | Geoff Williams |
| Spurnious | Of insincere disdain | Mike Harcrow |
| Quislingo | Dialect of traitors | Michael de Silva |
| Deffluent | The outpourings of an eloquent dactylologist | Doug Langmead |
| Pawnmower | Things are getting tough in the suburbs | Geoff Williams |
| Columnbine | Very tall, supportive wildflowers | Mike Harcrow |
| Recalcitruant | A disobedient pupil who moreover truants from school often | Vali Jamal PhD |
| Naplomb | Self-assured destruction | Doug Langmead |
| Notarious | Rather shady paralegals | Geoff Williams |
| Bullogna | 1. an all-beef sandwich meat; 2. redundant political promises |
Mike Harcrow |
| Durabble | A tough crowd | Michael de Silva |
| Gineric | Anything alcoholic other than gin | Doug Langmead |
| Farcenous | A burglar who specializes in stealing scripts of old Feydeau plays | Geoff Williams |
| Hammuck | When your swinging bed drags in the mud | Mike Harcrow |
| Placebro | Fake friend | Michael de Silva |
| Bleef | Bovine provenance | Doug Langmead |
| Dethamphetamine | A really lethal drug | Geoff Williams |
| Fortknight | How long on average king’s men live after a battle injury | Mike Harcrow |
| Minitia | Small army | Michael de Silva |
| Axent | Heavily clipped speech | Doug Langmead |
| Lapinary | Carvings of rabbits | Geoff Williams |
| Felonee | A crime committed by the bride | Mike Harcrow |
| Vanillials | Generation that has no moral opposition to faking it (i.e., born between 1989 and 1990) | Steve Cozzetto |
| Hornest | A conclave of veracious wasps | Doug Langmead |
| Liverpuddlian | Splashing around the backstreets of a large British city after a rainstorm | Geoff Williams |
| Umbrelluh | One’s exclamation when the pop-up rain shield has been left behind | Mike Harcrow |
| Lachrymost | Just cant stop crying | Geoff Williams |
| Chordial | Musically welcoming | Mike Harcrow |
| Alphabent | Italics | Geoff Williams |
| Skeptacular | Magnificently capable of disbelief | Mike Harcrow |
| Metallurge | Just gotta listen to those noisy rock bands | Geoff Williams |
| Whippersnacker | A cheeky between-meal eater | Mike Harcrow |
| Coshort | Five centuries | Doug Langmead |
| Discobobulate | To dance in an awkward and confused manner | Mike Harcrow |
| Exponental | A degree of skill | Doug Langmead |
| Fourlough | Leave of absence given to two pairs of employees | Mike Harcrow |
| Iconoclash | Disagreement over the merits of statuary | Doug Langmead |
| Flippaunt | Insolent parental sister | Mike Harcrow |
| Quaranroutine | When the act of quarantine becomes a consistent way of living | James B Neff |
| Syllygism | Faulty logic | Deb Fourlas |
| Eternil | Nothing, forever. | Michael de Silva |
| Disavowel | A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y | Dave Hineman |
| Fesstune | What a stool pigeon sings | Steve Cozzetto |
| Ledgerdemain | Sleight of hand with company ledger | Vali Jamal PhD |
| Emui | Bored ostriches | Doug Langmead |
| Falawfel | Bad fried chickpea balls | Mike Harcrow |
| Tenderloan | When a railway is short of rolling stock and has to borrow from a rival | Geoff Williams |
| Tubadour | A travelling trombonist | Doug Langmead |
| Nernia | After reading C.S.Lewis’ “the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe” you get a serious pain in the lower reaches of your stomach | Geoff Williams |
| Phlebotomissed | The blood tech who keeps stabbing you over and over and over… | Mike Harcrow |
| Unbiblical cord | Inference found in art depicting Adam and Eve as having navels | Steve Cozzetto |
| Parsimoney | Sparse in spending money | Vali Jamal PhD |
| Zox | A dormant buffalo | Doug Langmead |
| Speflunker | one who fails at cave exploration | Mike Harcrow |
| Subterfuse | A booby trap | Geoff Williams |
| Baggravation | The inability to open a plastic bag in the produce section of a supermarket because you are wearing a mask | Wayne |
| Legerdeman | A person who excels in telling light lies | Vali Jamal PhD |
| Abbacus | The words uttered when your kids play the Mama Mia DVD for the tenth time | Derek Farr |
| Castogate | Practicing fishing technique within the limits of your yard | Steve Cozzetto |
| Alackrity | Regret over a hasty decision | Doug Langmead |
| Tantramount | Having a fit because you did not reach the summit of Everest after paying a king’s ransom to have a chance | Geoff Williams |
| Golfiath | A really big golfer | Mike Harcrow |
| Twitterpatter | Obsessively typing a series of tweets on social network | Cecilia W Riegert |
| Canvenient | Wine that is sold in six packs | Wayne Price |
| Pundit | Pundit: V. To create a new definition for a word in order to make a clever wordplay. Example sentence: “I took that word and I pundit.” | Dave Hineman |
| Perpetulant | Continuously irritable | Mike Harcrow |
| Absteamious | I exercised so hard my chest muscles burst into flame | Geoff Williams |
| Luxuriaunt | A female relative whose husband left her very comfortably off when he died | Derek Farr |
| Sangwynne | The happy disposition of Herman Munster | Steve Cozzetto |
| Zex | Falling asleep whilst making love | Doug Langmead |
| Mapestry | Geographical and travel details on a wall hanging | Mike Harcrow |
| Vannalism | What Pat Sajak does when he gets mad on “Wheel of Fortune” | Geoff Williams |
| Pudantic | Excessive concern for the use of correct ingredients and precise measurements in production of desserts | Derek Farr |
| Youfemism | When someone tries to force their own definition of what’s “womanly” | Steve Cozzetto |
| Visigoethes | Germans who essayed into Spain | Doug Langmead |
| Choregraphy | Keeping daily statistics during the Covid crisis as you do endless meaningless little bits of work around your steadily shrinking abode so you can show your partner that you are actually doing something other playing dumb word games | Geoff Williams |
| Floorentine | Describing dropped spinach | Mike Harcrow |
| Creamatorium | Last stop for the very best people | Geoff Williams |
| Caviar Emptor | Fine print seen on a seafood menu | Steve Cozzetto |
| Extramaritail | Trouble | Michael de Silva |
| Anschlusst | Coercive conjugation | Doug Langmead |
| Congloperate | a messy or ill-advised business amalgamation | Mike Harcrow |
| Kindnapper | A man who takes people hostage and gives them presents and takes them to movies and then lets them go home | Geoff Williams |
| Abrascadabra | Incantation used in a magic act to make the female assistant’s bikini top suddenly disappear | H R White |
| Heirbrush | Oldest son just got disinherited | Geoff Williams |
| Fourlorn | Really really really really sad | Mike Harcrow |
| Locksdown | The passage of months since the last haircut | Doug Langmead |
| Litterature | Trashy novels | Michael de Silva |
| Configurate | To calculate how much one spends on food at Christmas | John McIntyre |
| Adjunkt | Garbage added to other trash as a supplementary rather than essential part | Bill Goodwin |
| Sackharine | The unreal sweetness of seeing the opposing team’s quarterback flattened | Steve Cozzetto |
| Creton | A stupid biscuit | David Bunney |
| Phlegmattic | Upper-most sinus area | Steve Cozzetto |
| Incoherant | Believer of nonsense | Michael de Silva |
| Heditate | To pause and reflect prior to making a poor decision | Doug Langmead |
| Smorgasbored | When you get tired of all the buffet options | Mike Harcrow |
| Mallisthenics | Getting exercise while shopping | Geoff Williams |
| Disavowel | The disdain felt by the British towards Americans for removing the letter “U” from many of their best words | John du Manoir |
| Messrage | Text message conveying annoyance | David Bunney |
| Propiety | Megachurch | Michael de Silva |
| Mountybank | Where Canadian policemen deposit their paycheques | Geoff Williams |
| Verisimilidude | He was just a fakey, try hard as he could to pass off as a professor | Vali Jamal PhD |
| Perambulate | To refer to paramedics stuck in traffic | John McIntyre |
| Lacu na | Gap analysis | Doug Langmead |
| Superflumous | Descriptive of an unnecessary water declination | Mike Harcrow |
| Loudge | Frat house | Michael de Silva |
| Sartrial | An existentialist who wears good clothes | Geoff Williams |
| Divorcity | When your lover looks different than your spouse | Steve Cozzetto |
| Scurrilouse | A nasty bug hastening away from biting a human | Geoff Williams |
| Filligreed | An overwhelming desire for Crème Cheese | Geoff Williams |
| Arbytrary | Irrational, sudden craving for fast food | Steve Cozzetto |
| Paenal Code | Lyrics | Michael de Silva |
| Pilates | Low-impact buccaneers | Doug Langmead |
| Existstencil | When you read a sign and find deeper meaning that permits you to either obey the sign or ignore it | Steve Cozzetto |
| Bravity | A counterforce to Nature, ensuring that what’s gone down appears to stay up | Doug Langmead |
| Fauxcet | Movie prop sink fixture | Michael de Silva |
| Pinkles | Guava slices in vinegar | Mike Harcrow |
| Targot | Slang words used in big box store ads | Geoff Willams |
| Pettery | Kiln-baked lap animals that cost nothing to feed | Mike Harcrow |
| Proliterate | A movement set up to counteract the dying art of good writing engendered by social media | Geoff Williams |
| Gobsnacked | Having eaten between meals as a result of astonishment | Mike Harcrow |
| Incestor | The reason why Granny Smith apples don’t fall far from the tree | Doug Langmead |
| Racketears | An on court breakdown at Wimbledon | Geoff Williams |
| Dromedairy | Milk from a camel | Geoff Williams |
| Metaparsals | Honking big packages sent by FedEx | Geoff Williams |
| Incestors | Your great-grandparents were first cousins | Steve Cozzetto |
| Approxymate | Approxymate | Geoff Williams |
| Magmanimous | Describing a noble and generous volcano | Mike Harcrow |
| Pandemi | A bad review for movie actress Moore | Geoff Williams |
| Avalunche | Buffet meal on a cruise ship | Steve Cozzetto |
| Viruslence | The quietitude of self-isolation | Doug Langmead |
| Nundane | Ophelia | Geoff Williams |
| Reskeptive | Wary, but open to trying | Steve Cozzetto |
| Fartitude | One’s power to empty a room | Mike Harcrow |
| Alascar | Counterinuitive | Doug Langmead |
| Heliotripe | Trashy articles in the Sun newspaper | Geoff Williams |
| Hydroplants | Water lilies | Geoff Williams |
| Blissando | Sliding gleefully between pitches | Mike Harcrow |
| Elergy | A poetic lament for one’s excessive immunological response to seasonal, entomological, or pharmacological antigens | Jeffrey Krueger |
| Prioritees | The spot from which the top golfers hit their drives | Geoff Williams |
| Leige | A word that’s hard to master | Doug Langmead |
| Schtupefied | The amazement you feel when you discover the young age of your cheater’s new conquest | Mona J. Shapiro |
| Hydroplan | The Three Gorges Dam project | Geoff Williams |
| Coquetiquette | Manners regarding how soon one can text after spending the night together | Mona J. Shapiro |
| Canondrum | Confusion on interpretation of easing the lockdown regulations | Doug Langmead |
| Quacksilver | Fake precious metal | Geoff Williams |
| Advherb | Word qualifying plants used for perfume | Pablo Dominguez |
| Myhopia | Short-sighted optimism | Steve Cozzetto |
| Presippatation | Drinking in anticipation of a nice big snow storm | Mona J. Shapiro |
| Indignorant | Angry and clueless | Steve Cozzetto |
| Honcologists | Doctors who specialise in chronic diseases among geese | Geoff Williams |
| Llemur | A spitting monkey | Doug Langmead |
| Calumnist | Journalist who publishes difamatory material | Pablo Dominguez |
| Amorkised | Robin Williams dressed up for a TV series | Geoff Williams |
| Cognocentic | Overeducated | Doug Langmead |
| Applelexy | The fit one has when their cell phone battery goes dead in the middle of a conversation | H R White |
| Bootique | Shop that specializes in ladies’ footwear | Pablo Dominguez |
| Lispsom | Flexthible | Michael de Silva |
| Ginko Balboa | Explorer who was lost to history as he could not remember where he’d been | Mona J. Shapiro |
| Circumsides | Love-handles surgery | Steve Cozzetto |
| Sequintially | Gliterally | Doug Langmead |
| Cellolite | Legs that are dimpled and bowed | Doug Langmead |
| Bandmaiden | Virgin Groupie | Michael de Silva |
| Indivisual | Selfie | Steve Cozzetto |
| Dosorganised | Music composed by Juan Bautista José Cabanilles to be played on two Spanish organs | Doug Langmead |
| Gaul bladder | The organ which becomes inflamed after eating too much French food | Mona J. Shapiro |
| Buttesses | Nanny goats | Geoff Williams |
| Beknighted | Related to a noble man who is an ignoramus | Pablo Dominguez |
| Arcanadian | The dialect of Vancouver argot cults | Doug Langmead |
| Obstreporous | Noisy and difficult to control but shallow nevertheless | Vali Jamal PhD |
| Cinnanom | A spice that tastes like another spice | Mona J. Shapiro |
| Advacate | Recommend ceasing to occupy some place or post | Pablo Dominguez |
| Perpetraitor | One who perpetrates a treasonous act against his own country | Vali Jamal PhD |
| Meanderthal | Early man who wandered the earth | Mona J. Shapiro |
| Imbecillin | The cure for common idiocy | Steve Cozzetto |
| Disingenuflect | Paying lip service to one’s religious beliefs | Laura Pretto |
| Abracatdabra | You have looked everywhere, no trace of the cat. Suddenly, noiselessly, the cat appears, coming from an area that you had searched thoroughly | Dave Hineman |
| Choregraphy | Contriving to do everywhichthing to avoid attending to chores | Vali Jamal PhD |
| Flok | A woolly definition of something that’s unceen and unherd | Gillian Winter & Doug Langmead |
| Costomize | Raising the price based on greed alone | Charles Abbott |
| Bachanalia | The festival that celebrates the fecundity of J.S. Bach who produced 1128 pieces of music and 20 children | H R White |
| Quarnatime | The indefinite continued progress of existence in a state, period, or place of isolation in which people or animals that have been exposed to infectious or contagious disease are place | Elaine Gates |
| Abdominable | Unpleasantly obese | Pablo Dominguez |
| Esplanader | Drunken teacher | Michael de Silva |
| Binister | Person who becomes head of a government department for the second time | Pablo Dominguez |
| Shrivelization | The dwindling of a town or city after the primary economic or industrial source has been removed | Dave Hineman |
| Lackluster | Tinder-hearted | Doug Langmead |
| Beleave | Cease to have faith in something | Pablo Dominguez |
| Malfeaseance | A medium to expose corrupt politicians | Michael de Silva |
| Drosophiliac | A hippie fruitfly | Doug Langmead |
| Utokia | Canada | Geoff Williams |
| Multimate | Polygamy | Geoff Williams |
| Adequote | Acceptable citation | Pablo Dominguez |
| Acclamotion | Meeting proposal passed unanimously | Pablo Dominguez |
| Eviceration | Dropping the Vice Squad from the Police Force | Geoff Williams |
| Parslimony | Saving money on the vegetables during the Covid19 Pandemic | Geoff Williams |
| Pyroclassic | Stephen King’s “Carrie” | Geoff Williams |
| Curbmudgeon | Driver who loves driving through deep curbside puddles in order to spray unwitting pedestrians with cascades of water | Geoff Williams |
| Hostelity | Picketing the YMCA | Geoff Wiliams |
| Malpeasant | A sick yokel | Geoff Williams |
| Bivouached | Not used to sleeping in a tent | Geoff Williams |
| Mobotomy | Getting rid of the brains of the Mafia | Geoff Williams |
| Cantankerus | Sorry Captain the water is too deep | Geoff Williams |
| Genoarosity | The well known kindness of Northern Italians | Geoff Williams |
| Serenery | A landscape or scenic view that instantly makes you feel calm, peaceful and relaxed | Dave Hineman |
| Hearingbones | The Malleus, Incus and Stapes | Geoff Williams |
| Effusieve | Hype filter | Michael de Silva |
| Orcaestrate | To direct the killer whale show at a marine theme park | H. R. White |
| Helpicopter | Also known as the Care Flight Chopper, the vehicle that flies the seriously injured to the nearest care facility | Dave Hineman |
| Andaunte | My rather pedestrian aunt | Geoff Williams |
| Moondocks | A deserted area where rockets will assemble on the moon once colonisation begins | Geoff Williams |
| Belaboration | Too much information again | Michael de Silva |
| Redumbdant | Repeating the same stupid thing over and over hoping it will eventually sound intelligent | Dave Hineman |
| Etceterra | Uncharted land | Michael de Silva |
| Dogmatric | There’s a clever dog | Geoff Williams |
| Frenchiladas | Crepes | Dave Hineman |
| Impoolite | Faescetious | Doug Langmead |
| Clurk | Shoplifting watcher | Michael de Silva |
| Struckture | Building hit by an earthquake | Geoff Williams |
| Godsmacked | Having had an epiphany | H. R. White |
| Evaluration | Critique of an MRE | Michael de Silva |
| Pignoble | Someone of stylish taste | Doug Langmead |
| Chappenstance | A gentleman of unexpectedly good standing | Doug Langmead |
| Orchastration | Shortening a piece of music by cutting out vital parts. The result is often delivered in a high pitched voice. | Geoff Williams |
| Deligatessen | A small food service at the United Nations building | Geoff Williams |
| Craveyard | Smoking in a cemetary | Geoff Williams |
| Mischef | A bad chef | Geoff Williams |
| Traminacious | Little bits of grass growing through unused tram tracks in a city | Geoff Williams |
| Epitombe | A monumental success | Doug Langmead |
| Intermittenly | Describing an irregular manual activity taking place while wearing mittens, e.g., she made snowballs intermittenly | Steinar Cramer |
| Stunburnt | Subdued by the police | Geoff Williams |
| Sextinguished | When the flame of love has died and she says “not tonight dear I have a headache” | Geoff Willams |
| Semaphone | When you lose the signal on your mobile and the conversation flags | Doug Langmead |
| Saducer | Someone to be wary of when they approach women cup in hand | Doug Langmead |
| Petticat | A kitten | Geoff Williams |
| Bathematics | Where Archimedes did his best work | Geoff Williams |
| Autoimpune | Saying nasty things about someone’s car | Geoff Williams |
| Streepcar | How a certain movie star gets around town | Geoff Williams |
| Oldfactory | A fading sense of smell | Geoff Williams |
| Luber | Ride share for mechanics | Michael de Silva |
| Exodust | What remained | Michael de Silva |
| Exenophobia | Fear of divorced strangers | Michael de Silva |
| Entrophy | Award for everything | Michael de Silva |
| Citadeli | Where Cadets buy lox | Michael de Silva |
| Indepedant | Rogue teacher | Michael de Silva |
| Ginterferometer | Breathalyzer | Michael de Silva |
| Brenellation | A castle that has been updated by placing rapid fire guns on the battlements | Geoff Williams |
| Leopardy | A joint venture by Alex Trebek and National Geographic to present a quiz show in the jungle | Geoff Williams |
| Iconoplastic | Being critical of cheap shoddy knockoffs | Geoff Williams |
| Cusstody | Explosive argument about who gets the kids, the dog, the BMW, in a legal dispute that involves verbal abuse | Pamela Harvey |
| Autodidact | Self-taught self-driving car | Sam Chaim |
| Litterall | A garbage dump | Geoff Williams |
| Tendrill | A group of dentists | Geoff Williams |
| Microloft | A large room at the top of Bill Gates’ home | Geoff Williams |
| Baria | Happy Hour solo | Michael de Silva |
| Sandi Arabica | Very gritty middle eastern coffee | Geoff Williams |
| Kimchen | A culinary area set aside specifically for Korean food | Geoff Williams |
| Remaine | When eating lettuce these are the little brown bits at the end of the leaf that you throw away | Geoff Williams |
| Alcohowl | The sound of isopropyl | Michael de Silva |
| FadeTime | Inevitably just when you have got all your family together on screen the power cuts out | Geoff Williams |
| Rugly | A game played by a group of fearsome looking men with broken noses and cauliflower ears | Geoff Williams |
| Traysh | In-flight meal leavings | Michael de Silva |
| Nerde | French math wizard | Michael de Silva |
| Outmaneuveered | Avoided a collision | Michael de Silva |
| Deniabaility | What judges have | Michael de Silva |
| Coniference | Meeting in the woods | Michael de Silva |
| Bullionaire | A rich man who made it all by buying and selling gold | Geoff Williams |
| Mersy Bat | Infectious Beatles tunes | Doug Langmead |
| Serendopity | A chance meeting between two idiots | Geoff Williams |
| Advergency | Life threatening situation brought on by adverse conditions | Pamela Harvey |
| Taxplayer | CPA | Michael de Silva |
| Fratulence | What you get with a roomful of college fellows drinking beer | Geoff Williams |
| Inslurance | Libel protection | Michael de Silva |
| Manopoly | When one woman attracts all the men | Carol Philipson |
| Typostrophe | Misuse and abuse of the single quotation mark | Pamela Harvey |
| Pandemitation | Herd mentaliity | Doug Langmead |
| Checkmote | What an optometrist does | Geoff Williams |
| Flaternities | Male College Undergrad societies living in constrained circumstances | Geoff Williams |
| Articulame | Verbal expression that is halting, stumbling or weak, having to do with insufficient knowledge, wit or intelligence | Penny Waters |
| Pixiles | Little tiny beings that crowd together on your TV and camera screens | Geoff Williams |
| Gradulate | Not making it to your convocation in time | Geoff Williams |
| Punthouse | Where to keep your flat bottomed boat | Geoff Williams |
| Guillotune | Calming music played during the French Revolution | Geoff Williams |
| Flightened | Fear of flying | Geoff Williams |
| Elf-isolation | Away with the fairies after a month of home-alone cerebral pixielation | Doug Langmead |
| Profix | Sports events you should never bet on | Geoff Williams |
| Pundemic | Uncontrolable wordplay | Andrew Innes |
| Lugubrio | Vervelessness | Doug Langmead |
| Veternity | I have been working with cats and dogs for many years | Geoff Williams |
| Burgarized | During a pandemic to have fast food delivered to your home | Wayne Price |
| Shenaniguns | The illicit trade in firearms | H R White |
| Wreconnoiter | To scout out a junk yard looking for spare parts | H R White |
| Cellophame | Status achieved by few men-for example Yo Yo Ma | Geoff Williams |
| Rintinnabulation | Having the constant sound of a dog barking in your ears | Geoff Williams |
| Meetless | Social distancing | Geoff Williams |
| Pillegible | A doctor’s signature | Geoff Williams |
| Veronacrisis | The China Crisis Italian Tour 2020 | Doug Langmead |
| Romanx | Caesar’s cat | MIchael de Silva |
| Ewreka | Realizing what stinks | MIchael de Silva |
| Pestuary | Mosquito infested waterway | MIchael de Silva |
| Sadentary | Sitting around feeling sorry for yourself | MIchael de Silva |
| Groutesque | Shoddy tile work | MIchael de Silva |
| Europeon | Serf | MIchael de Silva |
| Exculpastory | Alibi | MIchael de Silva |
| Sinthetic | A fanatical believer in unnatural sinthesis, or is that just hearesy ? | Doug Langmead |
| Synonymouse | Rodelent | Doug Langmead |
| Respertoire | Songs from an iron lung | Doug Langmead |
| Aspirrational | The impossibility of having meaningful conversations with snakes | Doug Langmead |
| Egotesticle | Ultimate conceited, self-centered Male | Carol Philipson |
| Collaberation | An anomalliance | Doug Langmead |
| Manufractured | A famous English soccer team that is being broken up because of its great success | Geoff Williams |
| Tagetherness | Social groups of people who matter the most to you in your isolation on the long march back to normality | Doug Langmead |
| Portnight | Stuck at the dock for two weeks | Charles Abbott |
| Codforsaken | Iceland’s fishery industry dries up | Geoff Williams |
| Checkfate | Born to lose at chess | Charles Abbott |
| Gadmother | My Mum’s run away with a sailor | Geoff Williams |
| Onomatopoeiar | Someone who delights in holding it in | Susan Hans |
| Slopstick | What happens when you are cooking something glutinous on the stove top and it boils over | Geoff Williams |
| Squibble | Drawing by someone with a lisp | Geoff Williams |
| Apocalypstic | VERY dark red make up | Geoff Williams |
| Deathcharge | The order given by Lord Cardigan to the Light Brigade at Balaclava during the Crimean War | Geoff Williams |
| Bratworst | And you thought your kids were rotten ! | Geoff Williams |
| Wasailing | Did not feel well | Geoff Williams |
| Anaphylattic | A house with a cozy room upstairs owned by a young couple | Geoff Williams |
| Brohemian | Artistic meathead | David Pipkin |
| Nagmanimous | Harassment mistaken for generosity | Charles Abbott |
| Cartailing | Driving too close to the next car | Geoff Williams |
| Vintriol | An outpour of sour grapes | Doug Langmead |
| Spittering | What those who spray it while saying it are guilty of | Kathryn Thomas |
| Exstatic | Mobile | Geoff Williams |
| Annualment | Calling off everything of significance for at least a year | Doug Langmead |
| Prepitaph | Clearing your throat, nowadays | Doug Langmead |
| Banshhee | A silent ghost | Doug Langmead |
| Quarterhorde | Genghis Khan’s Mongolian army after the latest government Defense budget cuts | Geoff Williams |
| Akliterd | The angst-ridden dream a Scot has that their tartan skirt is falling down and they are wearing nothing underneath. | H R White |
| Leme | A lame meme | H R White |
| Tonato | A glossy red edible fruit flying out of your blender taking the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud, advancing all over your kitchen | Giordano Miguel Perez |
| Disctending | Taking care of your precious vinyl collection | Geoff Williams |
| Bangaroos (and) Bombats | Australian secret weapons | Geoff Wiliams |
| Poordination | The act of making all the people involved in a plan or activity fail to work together in an organized way | Giordano Miguel Perez |
| Crasswords | A popular pastime using only words found in political discussions around the world | Geoff Williams |
| Pubarty | Pictures on the walls of drinking establishments | Geoff Williams |
| Spandemic | A run on Lululemon products | Geoff Williams |
| Poutrage | The Silent Treatment | Michael de Silva |
| Malarkia | Liars virus | Michael de Silva |
| Platocracy | A nation ruled by philosophers | Geoff Williams |
| Plutocat | A feline foil for a Disney cartoon dog | Geoff Williams |
| Overwhelked | English vendor of shellfish with an oversupply of product | Geoff Williams |
| Jereboa | A large snake trapped in a gas can | Geoff Williams |
| Blinkmanship | A form of negotiating where each party stares at the other until one gives in | Geoff Williams |
| Promisorry | To apologize for not paying a note on time | Ramsey White |
| Flatypus | Australian road kill | Geoff Williams |
| Rexclusivity | Having an exclusive relationship with someone with whom you are self-quarantined, i.e. mutually reclusive | Name Withheld |
| Boxtrot | Running with a late parcel delivery | Charles Abbott |
| Slocked | This is your front door when you arrive home drunk | Geoff Williams |
| Basketleaving | How foundlings used to make it to the doorways of churches etc. | Geoff Williams |
| Constipration | Nature’s way of conserving toilet-paper during a crisis | Doug Langmead |
| Pandemonicum | A breakdown of decorum in supermarkets | Doug Langmead |
| Famouse | Somebody claiming fame on Facebook from “likes” | Vali Jamal PhD |
| Hulabaloo | The uproar caused by a Hawaiian dancing bear in a grass skirt. Pandamonium | Doug Langmead |
| Baggauge | A receptacle no larger than an aircraft’s overhead locker | Doug Langmead |
| Nepalm | A Himalayan Flame Tree | Doug Langmead |
| Pomegranites | Stone fruits | Doug Langmead |
| Retailiation | Price wars | Geoff Williams |
| Photoes | What a podiatrist takes | Michael de Silva |
| Libidoc | Sex therapist | Michael de Silva |
| Gumbol | To pant, and jump and dance around after taking a large sip of a Cajun soup that was seasoned with a super-abundance of hot peppers | H R White |
| Coughting | Avoiding all contact with potential partners whilst self-quarantined | Doug Langmead |
| Phantome | Ghostwritten book | Michael de Silva |
| Caddiction | Weakness for philanderers. | MIchael de Silva |
| Preincarnation | Flower seeds. | Michael de Silva |
| Acclimmate | The guide who accompanies you on a tricky mountain ascent | Geoff Williams |
| Gintrification | The state of having had too many martinis | H R White |
| Stuffocation | Death by hoarding | Michael de Silva |
| Sargasm | When sarcasm hits the spot | Michael de Silva |
| Cropulate | What farmers do to celebrate an especially good harvest | Geoff Williams |
| Cloonies | Very good looking madmen | Geoff Williams |
| Ebowla | Online cricket | Geoff Williams |
| Mysterectomy | A divorce | Geoff Williams |
| Cannabism | The act of eating marijuana | H R White |
| Hondaminium | Living in one’s car | Geoff Williams |
| Huemiliation | To be told inpublic that your socks don’t match | H R White |
| Ozprey | What giant Australian alligators hunt for | Geoff Williams |
| Hearthfelt | A longing for hearth and home | Vali Jamal PhD |
| Tweaty | An agreement made by two politicians via Twitter | Geoff Williams |
| Toxts | Toxic texts | Nancy Tyler |
| Belliclose | Getting very close to your partner while dancing | Geoff Williams |
| Holicopter | Upgrade for the Pope | Geoff Williams |
| Entreepreneur | The owner of a growing chain of fine dining restaurants | H R White |
| Condominimum | A beret | Doug Langmead |
| Dispenstation | The prescriptions counter in a chemist shop | Doug Langmead |
| Agorant | A public fulminator | Doug Langmead |
| Ficdishes | When someone has already emptied the dishwasher | Jeff Dalton |
| Aggrestive | That atmosphere in the malls at Christmas, with festive decorations, music, and people willing to stampede their fellow man for a bargain on electronics | Nancy Tyler |
| Atheliticism | Being at the top of your game | Doug Langmead |
| Socopath | In a British Police procedural novel when there is a murder the soco ( Scene of Crime Officers) lay down an area that no one should tread upon | Geoff Williams |
| Setellite | Arsonist | Geoff Williams |
| Flourted | A dust-up in a baking tray | Doug Langmead |
| Sintillate | Do bad things throughout the night | Geoff Williams |
| Verneacular | Common words used by a French science fiction writer | Geoff Williams |
| Adelescent | New perfume from popular UK singer for the younger crowd | Geoff Williams |
| Coronadiarist | A communicable treatise | Doug Langmead |
| Acanemia | That tired listless feeling one gets at exam time | H R White |
| Zygoat | A superstar in the making | H R White |
| Guestation | The period of time allowed for hosting visitors before they are induced to leave | Craig McGann |
| Erudate | A college professor spending the evening with one of his favorite students | Geoff Williams |
| Kidnaped | Taken by the scruff of the neck | Doug Langmead |
| Gasfighting | The psychological bickering between two people who are trying to drive each other crazy | H R White |
| Troad | A frog flattened by a car | Geoff Williams |
| Eproxy | Tearing a voting form to pieces then gluing it back together | Geoff Williams |
| Deaferential | Being kind to the hard of hearing | Geoff Williams |
| Repercurssion | A cursed repercussion | Vali Jamal PhD |
| Pairents | Progenitors of twins | Doug Langmead |
| Gyroscape | Painting raffled off by a service club | Geoff Williams |
| Paragilding | Falling like a leaf | Doug Langmead |
| Antihisstamine | Antidote for snake bite | Geoff Williams |
| Autocrapy | A country run by a despot – very badly | Geoff Williams |
| Wanderlist | The names on a piece of paper on a clipboard carried by volunteer membersof a Search and Rescue group | Geoff Williams |
| Croonavirus | Frank Sinatra Syndrome | Doug Langmead |
| Tourvill’s Syndrome | An intellect that skates effortlessly over the frozen ponds of everyday discourse. | Doug Langmead |
| Alibigility | Ability to change your alibi quickly and easily | Hannah Collins |
| Delugation | A crowdburst of economists that turns out to be little more than a shower of fools | Doug Langmead |
| Celection | Do I buy and Apple or should I buy a Nokia? | Geoff Williams |
| Bralance | When both are the same size | Michael de Silva |
| Inhabitabale | Living in a haystack | Doug Langmead |
| Mallcontent | A good days shopping | Geoff Williams |
| Scabdinavian | A Swede who goes to work through a picket line | Geoff Williams |
| Smurfeit | A large gathering of small blue creatures | Geoff Williams |
| Bridesmad | Sorry dear not tonight I have a headache | Geoff Williams |
| Savoirdupois | Knowing you’re overweight without needing to get on the scales | Doug Langmead |
| Notsocomial | Having nothing to do with hospitals in case you come out sicker than you went in | Doug Langmead |
| Boxidisation | Cartonisation on a grand scale | Doug Langmead |
| Eightlifting | After their Olympic victory in the 8 oared rowing final the crew picked up their boat and held it over their heads in triumph | Geoff Williams |
| Cluckold | A rooster with a cheating hen | Michael de Silva |
| Idleology | Lazy thinking | Michael de Silva |
| Emogional | A sincere written expression of deep feelings that incude a generous sprinkling of emogis | Wayne Price |
| Dinvoice | Receiving a bill from your landlord because of those noisy parties you keep having | Geoff Williams |
| Petitle | Nickname | Michael de Silva |
| Chatnap | Lapse in conversation | Michael de Silva |
| Edwordian | Baroque dialect | Michael de Silva |
| Emaskulation | Finally we reveal the true identity of Zorro | Geoff Williams |
| Stagecroach | A horse-drawn litterbug; The winged chariot of the apocalypse; A scuttlebus | Doug Langmead |
| Wells Phargoah | An Egyptian pyramid scheme | Doug Langmead |
| Prettifogging | On dating apps, the act of placing undue emphasis on a woman’s appearance | Wayne Price |
| Humangous | A large body of humans | Vali Jamal PhD |
| Giraffle | Sweepstakes with an unusual prize operated by National Geographic | Geoff Williams |
| Crumpet | A musical instrument that you’ve run over with your car | Joshua Vasquez |
| Detriteus | Discarded cliches | Michael de Silva |
| Marritime | A wedding on board a ship | Geoff Williams |
| Squintessential | Corrective Spectacles | Geoff Williams |
| Indigonation | Nuclear fuchsian | Doug Langmead |
| Frognostications | Tadpole premonitions | Doug Langmead |
| Plethorax | Pot-belly | Doug Langmead |
| Wordfighting | School spelling bees | Geoff Williams |
| Glandson | An overdeveloped adolescent | Geoff Williams |
| Poxymoron | A scar faced idiot | Geoff Williams |
| Freightters | Potato ships | Doug Langmead |
| Vapids | Maelstroms of insipidity | Doug Langmead |
| Impecurious | Lacking in inquisitivity | Doug Langmead |
| Maltimeter | A gauge to determine the height of all things bad | Charles Abbott |
| Udderground | Cattle ranch | Geoff Williams |
| Embryonice | A frozen notion | Doug Langmead |
| Paradigmy | Small, but perfectly formed | Doug Langmead & Gillian Winter |
| Obnoxenious | A person who is toxic-ally obnoxious | Chris Domres |
| Ambivalance | Moody drapery | Doug Langmead |
| Cancelabra | Removing ones underwear in protest | Geoff Williams |
| Appertunity | (there’s a hole there, surely) | Gillian Winter |
| Philandearing | Endearing oneself to several women with a horizontal intent! | Vali Jamal PhD |
| Decayde | Ten years down the drain | Vali Jamal PhD |
| Gourney | Travelling by hearse | Doug Langmead |
| Ambulantce | The walking wounded | Doug Langmead |
| Philanthrowpy | Philanthropy in small amounts. | Vali Jamal PhD |
| Hoyperbolic | Anything that goes over the heads of the hoi polloi | Doug Langmead |
| Epicanter | That equestrian discipline’s champion | Charles Abbott |
| Relephant | Hugely appropriate | Mia Debidin |
| Tantramount | Zen position | Michael de Silva |
| Anarschism | Dilemma over how to destroy everything | Michael de Silva |
| Malignain’t | Benign | Michael de Silva |
| Maleodorous | Well..a bad-scented male | Vali Jamal PhD |
| Physiognohmy | Too much botox | Michael de Silva |
| Medgy | Nervous about prescriptions | Michael de Silva |
| Iresponsibility | Anger self-management | Doug Langmead |
| Krouac | A deadbeat poet | Doug Langmead |
| Deadful | Notice at cemetery “sorry full up-please try later” | Geoff Williams |
| Gerounding | Noun-verbal communication | Doug Langmead |