Favourite words found

[Spike1007]

Good finds both of you. I'm growing a fondness for what I think of as "Frankenstein words." It's when you throw a bunch of word fragments together that seem highly unlikely to work and it comes to life! On a board last month I spotted PERFECTIBI-. That's where it ended though. I thought it would end in -ibilities. So I tacked on -lian instead. , PERFECTIBILIAN was accepted! Yesterday I spotted latitudin-. I had played PLATITUDINALISMS, SOLITUDINARIANS ALTITUDINAL successfully before. So I threw everything in the pot and came up with LATITUDINARIANISM and it worked. lol

I like those too, obviously, and "Frankenstein words" is a great way to describe them. (One of my favorite found words was FUTILITARIANISMS (or some form of that, anyway).) As for assembling parts, I think it was erakis (with the old forums gone, it's hard to be sure) who did an analysis of about a zillion boards, looking at different pieces (like HYPER, INTER, TRANS, MICRO, GRAPH, etc.) and had statistics for how often those were contained in the longest word. I wish I had copied & kept that list. Anyway, it was very useful in terms of deciding whether something could easily be a red-herring spare part, or might help something come to life.

[lalatan]

Good finds both of you. I'm growing a fondness for what I think of as "Frankenstein words." It's when you throw a bunch of word fragments together that seem highly unlikely to work and it comes to life! On a board last month I spotted PERFECTIBI-. That's where it ended though. I thought it would end in -ibilities. So I tacked on -lian instead. , PERFECTIBILIAN was accepted! Yesterday I spotted latitudin-. I had played PLATITUDINALISMS, SOLITUDINARIANS ALTITUDINAL successfully before. So I threw everything in the pot, came up with LATITUDINARIANISM and it worked. lol

kate, I recall your find of SPHAEROCOBALTITE. I did not know sphaero- was a prefix nor had I ever heard of cobaltite. Amazing find.
I remember you and I used to have a dread of -logy and medical words. Now I actually enjoy the challenge of finding them. You, Spike and I have come a long, long way since then.

[fasteddieb]

Nice finds!

[Jamie_Pi]

I found Quasar, no records or anything but I loved seeing it.

[crazykate]

Starting this thread again in the new forum.
Share some of your best or favourite words here!

I just found WARMONGERING for two new records in a 4x4 that had been played 20 times before. Would have been happy to find it even if it hadn't been for the records, every time I see that word I hear it in my head, spoken in the voice of Karl Urban as Éomer in the LOTR movies.