Gallant Efforts

[Boulevardiere]

No seafood sausages on the menu... EELWURST and SEALWURST don't exist. (Maybe because both of those animals are already basically sausages.)

[the cryptogram keeper]

There's PORTABLENESS, but "PORTABLENESSES" is apparently not a thing - even in a puzzle where "TRANSPORTABLENESSES" was found.

[DrPlacebo]

Being a pyromaniac doesn't make you ARSONHEADED.

Being DAFTHEADED isn't a thing either.

(Also tried adding -NESS and -NESSES to both. No points.)

[bwt1213]

Man, deserved points for at least half of those. If I'd encountered those in a novel, I wouldn't have blinked. If I'd written them, I would have told the spell-checker to take a break.

[DrPlacebo]

SUPERWONK didn't count -- even though, living in a state capital, I know several of them.

[Somervillain]

If something can be Supersymmetrized, why can we not Supersymmetrize it?

[JedMedGrey]

I found Best word: SCINTILLATES (14 pts.) New record!
Longest word: SCINTILLATES (12 letters) New record!

[bwt1213]

Good! I probably wouldn't have seen it, even though I know the word.

[crazykate]

I didn't really expect SENATORIUM to be a word (and it isn't), but it feels like it could be, no?

[Boulevardiere]

I didn't really expect SENATORIUM to be a word (and it isn't), but it feels like it could be, no?

Fairly certain it refers to U.S. Congress—the branches of which are the Mad House and the Senatorium.