And the tide rises, the tide falls.

I wrote this program today to find what I’ve been calling “combo words”. Basically, you find one word that ends with a certain sequence of letters and then another word that begins with that same sequence of letters and it smushes them together into a fancy, new word. I’ve found that there are plenty of really dumb and boring examples of this, for example, “daydreaming” (daydream + dreaming). However, there are quite a few very amusing ones:

elephantoms
circumspectroscopy
bittersweetener
floundertaking
transpacification
permissionary
benedictionaries

etc, etc. Come up with your own! It’s fun! You can also run my program to get a big list and cheat, like me. :)

  1. tyrsalvia says:

    Oh! This is SOO cool! I love the words you came up with.

  2. do_not_lick says:

    Palindromedary

  3. starlightforest says:

    A camel with one head on each end and a hump in the middle?

  4. do_not_lick says:

    How would it poop?

  5. gorillashaman says:

    We need to run the algorithm with a phonetic dictionary. I seem to recall CMU having a free one, back when I was research speach synthesis.

  6. do_not_lick says:

    Frankly, I find the results are more interesting they they don’t match phonetically. Not sure why.

    Also, psychedelicatessen.

  7. zunger says:

    Carefully.

  8. indigoskynet says:

    I would like a big sandwich from the psychadelicatessen.

  9. indigoskynet says:

    alligatorade?

  10. pharminatrix says:

    my webdomain is http://www.delicatesseract.net (not that it’s up yet)

    I’m a big fan of these kind of word combos.

  11. kshandra says:

    Dude, how many more times are you going to change your username? *laughs*

  12. pharminatrix says:

    apothecarebear
    phantomfoolery
    painterrarium
    laptopography

  13. kshandra says:

    Alligatornado.

  14. do_not_lick says:

    I think that the actual origin of the name “Gatorade” is that it was developed at a college in Florida whose team was called the alligators.

    Also, broadcasteroids.

  15. do_not_lick says:

    xylophonetics

  16. pharminatrix says:

    pteradactylenol

  17. daoistraver says:

    wow.

  18. do_not_lick says:

    vaudevillegitimate

  19. colubra says:

    psychosahedron
    villainelle

  20. pharminatrix says:

    illiteratogen

  21. mactavish says:

    I can’t help but think that this would make Scrabble more fun.

  22. do_not_lick says:

    Are the illeterato anything like the literati?

    Also, literationing

  23. indigoskynet says:

    peacocksure
    poisonorous
    strainwreck
    abberational
    matriculatency

  24. do_not_lick says:

    ITYM, “poisonerous”.

    That’s an interesting one cause it can either be a 2 or a 4 overlap.

  25. gorillashaman says:

    Every time I get bored with the one I’ve got. :)

  26. indigoskynet says:

    Unfortunately I can’t get the java app to run. :/

  27. indigoskynet says:

    That’s my Potterfanism discombobulating my proper spelling. *sheepish*

  28. colubra says:

    threnodysprosium
    loversatility
    bisexualimony
    importerror
    jellowdown
    elasticityscape
    Hitchcockerel
    bollockdown

  29. felisarcanum says:

    flingrate: One who is unappreciative of being tossed?

  30. bayushi says:

    Actually, the team is the ‘Gators, no alli about it.

  31. somebodyelse says:

    A Pushmepullyou!

  32. indigoskynet says:

    vermicellist
    drossification
    evadecadence
    morningstarvation
    omnibusybody [this one scares me]

  33. vvvexation says:

    decadenticulated
    velocityscape
    complinearity
    goslinguistics
    geriatrickle
    concoctahedron
    bulboustrophedonic
    carnivoroustabout
    rainbowdlerize
    cloveranalyze

  34. vvvexation says:

    But “poisonorous” is perfectly legitimate as well–it’s a 3-letter overlap.

  35. do_not_lick says:

    Wow, you’re absolutely right. I didn’t see that at all.

  36. indigoskynet says:

    That’s a relief, thanks.

    Glad to know I am still spelling right.

  37. indigoskynet says:

    carnivalence
    carnivoral
    boredlined
    anagrammophone [i want one of these!]

  38. indigoskynet says:

    concoctogenarian
    cupolarization
    velveterinarian

  39. vvvexation says:

    automaterial
    straddlepated
    boredomesticate
    masticategory
    footballocate
    gamblender
    parasolitude
    chasteeple

  40. valdelane says:

    Stop it! You’re going to make me pee my pants!

  41. jabberwockyme says:

    prespajewian?? i dont get what we’re doing

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