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The visual matches the meaning.

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This is extremely challenging, which explains why there are so few. The idea is that the word looks like a picture of what it says: "bed" looks like a side view of a 4 post bed. "gun" looks like a gun (depending on the font used) because the tail of the "g" is the trigger and the "un" is the barrel.

PLEASE contribute if you know of any more.
Words 1 through 7 of 7
shark   has been listed 17 times with 2 comments
wienerdog   has been listed 1 time with 0 comments
i   has been listed 38 times with 4 comments
eye   has been listed 22 times with 0 comments
word   has been listed 71 times with 6 comments
gun   has been listed 9 times with 0 comments
bed   has been listed 15 times with 3 comments
Words 1 through 7 of 7
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3 months ago whichbe said:

I love the idea for this list, it's sort of like a calligramme. Don't abandon it!

8 months ago michaelchang said:

shArk (probably better)

8 months ago DesiluTrek said:

droMedary
feces
Valley

8 months ago michaelchang said:

scrubbery

8 months ago mollusque said:

How about sereneness (or serene), undulate and fidgety? They're on my Reflexive list along with a few others because the pattern of their letters above or below the line.

8 months ago michaelchang said:

fence

8 months ago michaelchang said:

a scientist looking at a string of dna from a monkey

8 months ago michaelchang said:

bench

8 months ago michaelchang said:

hammock

8 months ago michaelchang said:

centimeter

8 months ago michaelchang said:

initials

8 months ago DesiluTrek said:

a slight exaggeration for effect ...
milllllllllllllipede

8 months ago michaelchang said:

i can't find my socks - oh there they are

8 months ago michaelchang said:

peopleataconcert

8 months ago michaelchang said:

look four giggling snowmen out of line

8 months ago bilby said:

PEAK, if you turn the page 90 degrees to right, looks like a tallish guy with a peaked cap that is turned sideways, rapper-style. He even has 2 little legs poking out from under his baggy trousers.

8 months ago michaelchang said:

mobydick

8 months ago michaelchang said:

houseboat

8 months ago michaelchang said:

weight

8 months ago mollydot said:

tall
sesquipedalian (in the same way as word)
bumpy?
four

8 months ago michaelchang said:

mom

8 months ago michaelchang said:

shark

8 months ago michaelchang said:

hehe no problem arcadia, i really like your list (now one of my favorites)

8 months ago arcadia said:

Keep these suggestions coming, they are all really amusing, even the ones that are too much of a stretch to actually appear in this list. Basically, if you have to explain how the word applies to my heading, it probably doesn't. That being said, I'm still loving the "two giraffes in the horizon", and happy to have it as a comment. And "wienerdog" goes in because, common, how often does one get to use that term?

8 months ago michaelchang said:

hey did anyone see the new logo for the olympics 2012??? is it just me going nuts or can you also see marge simpson blowing a dude?

8 months ago michaelchang said:

subway staircase (the y)

8 months ago michaelchang said:

two citybirds (the dots)

8 months ago michaelchang said:

stepped on doggypoop

8 months ago michaelchang said:

look two giraffes in the horizon

8 months ago michaelchang said:

wienerdog (layingdown with raised ears and his tail in front of the little guy at the end)

8 months ago michaelchang said:

feet (pointing toward each other)

8 months ago michaelchang said:

four (having four letters)?

8 months ago uselessness said:

The capital I kind of stands out like a proud individual, even calling to mind a torso with (stubby) limbs. Of course, Wordie makes everything lowercase so the effect is slightly lost, though the dot makes a keen neckless head.

8 months ago bilby said:

I think eye kind of matches the meaning because it has something that resembles an ocular apparatus on each side (with a bag underneath, which is unkindly realistic) and a sort of dribbly nose in the middle (ok, ok, it's winter where I am now). So I can see a face with the eyes to the left and right. Perhaps I'm a mangosteen.

8 months ago jennarenn said:

What a neat idea!

8 months ago skipvia said:

Jeez--you're right, U. "Word" looks exactly like...ummm...word.

8 months ago uselessness said:

Hmm, how about word? ;-)

8 months ago skipvia said:

"Loop" looks pretty loopy when written in cursive.

Someday you'll have to explain "boob" to me...

8 months ago arcadia said:

skipvia, I should have been more specific, maybe. I'm looking for words that make a little picture of the meaning. Loop has the loops IN it, but doesn't resemble one in it's totality. Just like "boob".

I realized that "gun" works better with certain fonts, too, which is limiting.

Thanks, though.

8 months ago reesetee said:

Curl?

8 months ago skipvia said:

How about loop?

8 months ago rolig said:

nice!

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