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on mavericky, mollusque said:
“She didn't know if you could object to a statement by co-counsel, but she was loving being unorthodox. And unorthodox was a better adjective than...” more...
on presimulator, mollusque said:
“The transfer effectiveness ratio . . . estimates simulator effectiveness as the difference between presimulator training performance and...” more...
on the list Panvocalic euryvocalic, mollusque said:
“I should have said close but no cigar.” more...
on thestreen, mollusque said:
“*Munch*” more...
on the list Panvocalic euryvocalic, mollusque said:
“No, it has an extra "o".” more...
on the list Panvocalics, mollusque said:
“Thanks, yarb!

Do you have other favorite panvocalics?” more...
on ecoviaduct, mollusque said:
“Three types are related to the landscape outside cities: the open agricultural landscape, the ecoviaduct and the Bali-type.
--Hein van Bohemen,...” more...
on the tag eoiau, mollusque said:
“Whoops, thanks bilby.” more...
on chained_bear's profile, mollusque said:
“Thanks c_b! Next up, a baker's kilodozen.” more...
on the tag eoiau, mollusque said:
“Three types are related to the landscape outside cities: the open agricultural landscape, the ecoviaduct and the Bali-type.
--Hein van Bohemen,...” more...
on semibungalow, mollusque said:
“One investigator reported a semibungalow in Highland Park housing four families in three bedrooms. When one renting couple reported to a Ford...” more...
on 6 bottles, mollusque said:
“What if we discover a discovery of bottles, rather than the bottles themselves, as I just did (11 October 2008)?” more...
on zeugma, mollusque said:
“Yes, we know you have bananas.” more...
on badgeration, mollusque said:
“But what is one divil, or twenty divils, to the badgeration I have suffered ever sin I put my nose into it?
--T. D. Lauder, 1825, Lochandhu,...” more...
on contumaceous, mollusque said:
“See contumacious for the definition.” more...
on posterior, mollusque said:
“How about fundament?” more...
on mibble, mollusque said:
“A mega-nibble.” more...
on bugs, mollusque said:
“That means that you visit the random word page more often than any other on Wordie.” more...
on wisha, mollusque said:
“I don't remember saying that.” more...
on inscribbling, mollusque said:
“But what takes place between the mouth and the page? Spitting, vomiting, seething, scratching, craving, stabbing in the dark—these are the tics and...” more...
on fearnoughting, mollusque said:
“After the wool has been teazed and saturated with the oil or compound, it should then go through another process termed fearnoughting, as a...” more...
on chained_bear's profile, mollusque said:
“Hey c_b, you blew past 10,000 comments today! Conflagrations!” more...
on camoufletting, mollusque said:
“In Soviet Russia bearing piles formed by camoufletting or by special boring, as well as with vibrated concrete, are widely used. Screw piles are...” more...
on a beach nerd, mollusque said:
“No i.” more...
on coup-de-main, mollusque said:
“Also coup de main.” more...
on galangal, mollusque said:
“Thanks, yarb!” more...
on phalanx, mollusque said:
“Only two vowels, but phalangar works. Thanks, c_b!” more...
on sanscullotic, mollusque said:
“1. Pertaining to the sansculottes or to sansculottism; revolutionary.
2. Improperly or inadequately clothed.” more...
on sansculotterie, mollusque said:
“The principles, spirit or behaviour characteristic of sansculottes; sanscullotes collectively.” more...
on 55 bottles, mollusque said:
“Discovered 9 October 2008. See 55 bottles of beer on the wall.” more...
on gesegen, mollusque said:
“Pronounced "guess again".” more...
on sytytys, mollusque said:
“Ignition.” more...
on ryyppy, mollusque said:
“(n). Drink, dose, gulp.” more...
on myrkytys, mollusque said:
“Poisoning.” more...
on jyrkkyys, mollusque said:
“Steepness.” more...
on Prolagus's profile, mollusque said:
“Hey, you stole my mustache!” more...
on blunderbus, mollusque said:
“I was standing on the coroner, waiting for the blunderbus...” more...
on the list Panvocalics, mollusque said:
“Whichbe, I look forward to your report.

Yarb, I agree, the most pleasing panvocalics aren't composed of standard prefixes and suffixes. They just...” more...
on sans-culottes, mollusque said:
“Sanscullotize on the other hand...” more...
on deauthoring, mollusque said:
“The self engages as much in deauthoring as in reauthoring.
--Ronald R. Irwin, 2002, Human Development and the Spiritual Life, p. 153” more...
on preauthoring, mollusque said:
“Table 15.1 summarizes the tradeoffs associated with implementing either end-to-end server-side preauthoring or proxy-based real-time...” more...
on the list OIEAU's list, mollusque said:
“Have some Cointreau. While sitting on a moineau.” more...
on the list Panvocalic polyglot, mollusque said:
“Oops! Thanks Prolagus!” more...
on the tag overtagged, mollusque said:
“Note that nimravid is "hideously overtagged".” more...
on the tag overtagged, mollusque said:
“C_b, I meant the earworm page. By the way, tagging isn't anonymous. Overtagged has been used by bilby and plethora.” more...
on funcionare, mollusque said:
“Should I remove the Italian tag, Prolagus? I do see a couple of older Italian examples in Google books. "Funcionare" also appears to be a word in...” more...
on gas, grass, or ass, mollusque said:
“A triad! Haven't seen a new one of those in a long time.” more...
on the list Wordie's first half million, mollusque said:
“Gangerh, you could also delete the whole list after we pass 500,000 so we get a second shot at it.” more...
on the list Please Add These Words, mollusque said:
“It's somewhat random at the moment. Several words at 102 are cycling in and out of the top 100. I wonder how John determines which will be listed...” more...
on the tag overtagged, mollusque said:
“By the way, earworm will be the tag leader once someone gets around to tagging it as overtagged.” more...
on the tag overtagged, mollusque said:
“What about ビール, which on its tag pages is said to have 12 total tags, but has only 10 showing? Or guttiau, supposedly having 15 tags, but...” more...
on bugs, mollusque said:
“Why doesn't è link to "è"?” more...
on the list Intriguing places, mollusque said:
“Sorry, didn't mean to gazump you...” more...
on 'twill, mollusque said:
“'twon't.” more...
on the list Learned (or Encountered) in Reading, mollusque said:
“I have some words on several lists as well c_b. My miscellaneous list is a holding pen until enough related words accumulate to transfer to a new...” more...
on perigallo, mollusque said:
“To dance around like a chicken?” more...
on the list Learned (or Encountered) in Reading, mollusque said:
“Fortunately, c_b, you did not wait as long as yarb did before seeking help, so the situation is not yet augean. There is, however, a strong...” more...
on peenywally, mollusque said:
“A click beetle in Jamaica, similar to a firefly in flashing at night, but with longer flashes and somewhat greener light.” more...
on boonoonoonoos, mollusque said:
“Beautiful, wonderful, excellent.” more...
on syllogistic, mollusque said:
“Yes, but Google shows someone else got there <a...” more...
on syllogistic, mollusque said:
“Time waits for no man.
No man is an island.
Therefore time waits for islands.” more...
on the list My Porches, mollusque said:
“Porcheous weather we're having this weekend, dontcry (here in New Jersey).” more...
on pterodactyl's profile, mollusque said:
“Ptero, in making your presentation, you might want to mention words created in dictionaries. I have a list, Dictionary...” more...
on the list range change, mollusque said:
“My family used to play a guessing game during long car trips where one of us gave a definition for a rhyming pair (called a hink-pink) and the...” more...
on nictation, mollusque said:
“Also nictitation.” more...
on the list a blob of glup, mollusque said:
“I detect a prejudicial trend here.” more...
on dumbcane, mollusque said:
“A tropical American plant Dieffenbachia that causes swelling of the tongue when chewed.” more...
on dumbcain, mollusque said:
“A proteolytic enzyme found in dumbcane.” more...
on unruthful, mollusque said:
“On Fortune eke he railed, he called her deaf and blind, Unconstant, fond, deceitful, rash, unruthful, and unkind.
--Arthur Brookes, 1562,...” more...
on unpushful, mollusque said:
“But because they are unobtrusive and unpushful, and flatten themselves in doorways for less intelligent men to go by, less honest and less kind...” more...
on unlustful, mollusque said:
“She left, and Cyn took the time to force control onto his body. He took some calming breaths and thought cold, unlustful thoughts.
--Jo Beverley,...” more...
on unhurtful, mollusque said:
“O! you hope the duke will return no more, or you imagine me too unhurtful an opposite. But, indeed, I can do you little harm: you'll forswear this...” more...
on unjustful, mollusque said:
“It was the most unjustful accusation that had ever been made against me by anybody, friend or foe.
--Bernard Wolfe, 1963, Come on Out,...” more...
on unblushful, mollusque said:
“. . . it is time, I say, to read again the stigma of infamy which the Apostle branded for ever on the unblushful forehead of the paganism which he...” more...
on plumiped, mollusque said:
“Pheasants are common in Maralbashi, the beautiful plumiped sand-grouse appear in great numbers on the steppes, the rock ptarmigan frequents the...” more...
on do do, mollusque said:
“Deep deep.” more...
on catalog house, mollusque said:
“She navigated out to Farview, where Mark had bought a catalog house just months after their father's death with his portion of the meager...” more...
on gruntwork, mollusque said:
“Past thirty, she had no more time or pride to risk on ambition. Nothing wrong with honest gruntwork for a secure company that lacked all...” more...
on manavilins, mollusque said:
“Also manavelins.” more...
on manavelins, mollusque said:
“Also manavilins.” more...
on fruitwood, mollusque said:
“Citation on reveneered.” more...
on wrestplank, mollusque said:
“The board in a piano bearing the pegs around which the wires are wrapped. (Citation on reveneered.)” more...
on nameboard, mollusque said:
“A board fitted across the back of the keyboard on a piano or similar instrument that usually bears the maker's name. (Citation on reveneered).” more...
on reveneered, mollusque said:
“The original Couchet nameboard has been thickened in the Taskin sloping style. The wrestplank has been partially reveneered with fruitwood...” more...
on rememberedness, mollusque said:
“Citation at curanderismo.” more...
on curanderismo, mollusque said:
“The prayers are for vision, for strength and for wholeness, meaning a kind of rememberedness. In Curanderismo, dreams do offer assistance and...” more...
on schmata, mollusque said:
“Schmatte is the spelling used in OED2 and RHD2. Schmata is the commonest spelling in a Google search, although some of the hits are for...” more...
on 38 bottles, mollusque said:
“Discovered 2 October 2008. See 38 bottles of beer on the wall.” more...
on 10 bottles, mollusque said:
“Discovered 2 October 2008 (during the Palin/Biden debate). See 10 bottles of beer on the wall.” more...
on siakra, mollusque said:
“A different translator might have rendered these as om and chakra. Pro, what's the Italian edition say?” more...
on curtsying, mollusque said:
“Who's counting?” more...
on the list A Wall Of Bottles, mollusque said:
“And 38 bottles, 20 minutes later.” more...
on the list A Wall Of Bottles, mollusque said:
“I just found 10 bottles, bilby.” more...
on batida, mollusque said:
“Agliè invited me to a place where some ageless men still made a batida in the traditional way.
--Umberto Eco, 1988, Foucault's Pendulum, p....” more...
on siakra, mollusque said:
“If the syllable um is properly pronounced, it becomes a powerful mantra and produces fluid currents of harmony in the psyche through the...” more...
on kundalini, mollusque said:
“Tell cuts his arrow from a branch of mistletoe, a plant of Aryan mythology, and he hits an apple, symbol of the third eye activated by the serpent...” more...
on quintal, mollusque said:
“Bramanti cited one Kiesewetter, who demonstrated in the late nineteenth century that the Rosicrucians had manufactured four quintals of gold for...” more...
on statuette, mollusque said:
“The office was in a side street; its plate-glass window contained plaster statuettes of Cheops, Nefertiti, the Sphinx.
--Umberto Eco, 1988,...” more...
on lusus, mollusque said:
“Short for lusus naturae; citation at ludibrium.” more...
on ludibrium, mollusque said:
“Andreae spent the rest of his life swearing he hadn't written the manifestoes, which he claimed were a lusus, a ludibrium, a prank.
--Umberto...” more...
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