"Nychthemeron is a period of 24 consecutive hours. It is sometimes used, especially in technical literature, to avoid the ambiguity inherent in the term day." from Wikipedia.

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Resistentialism is a jocular theory to describe "seemingly spiteful behavior manifested by inanimate objects." from Wikipedia.

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"The Alot is an imaginary creature that I made up to help me deal with my compulsive need to correct other people's grammar."

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Welcome to the new version of the Oxford English Dictionary's science fiction words site. The base project was originally set up so that knowledgeable aficionados could help the OED find useful examples of words in their fields of interest. This first project, and still the only public one, is devoted to science fiction.

The Times has great data on the words that send readers in search of a dictionary.

An ongoing project devoted to discovering all the words and everything about them.