September 11, 2005

Reverse Dictionary gives a list of words and phrases based on the user's input descriptive terms. Can't think of a word, but know what it means? Reverse Dictionary probably can help.
posted by Chyren 18 years ago
  • One of the best links ever. I probably would have said the same about the HTML link the other day if I had understood it. I thought HTML stood for "Hotmail" for a few years. I still don't know what it stands for or what it means, but I have a vague idea. Anyway, this link is so simple that even I can understand it.
  • I find this aglitterp site somewhat entomophilous, although it engenders an arriere-pensee about possible catachresis.
  • I agree with Bernockle. This link has changed my "living things collectively".
  • Also good for insults - you damned mattoid! Margites! Coprophage!
  • Oh sacchariferous Chyren - thou mirific and pygophilous sylph!
  • I entered the term "not jenna", no bush family link came up btw, (this is good)
  • Apparently, an elephant can be 'found in a toilet'. Who'd a thunk it!
  • Proficious and effulgent. Zingiberales musaceae!
  • Awesome, I was just trying to figure out the word "cognate" last night. One search here for "word borrowed from another language" brought it up. Thanks.
  • onelook is great
  • Neat -- thanks! I lose words often enough so that it really, really annoys me. This should help!
  • Speaking as someone with a wide vocabulary, but who has begun to feel the effects of middle age on my ability to quickly recall the "right" word, this could be very useful...if I can remember where to look for it when I need t.
  • Excellent. Thanks.
  • Elegant, as usual, Chyren. Bookmarked.
  • Wanted one of these for years! -- thanks, Chy!
  • Wanted one of these for years! -- thanks, Chy!
  • Now you just need to work on those stubby fingers mashing the keyboard ;)
  • Bee feet may be too light to be sure that one depressed the right keys. Maybe he should have done it with his butt ;)
  • Oh, god marvelous! SOP at the Kitty household when you can't recall a word is "What does it do?!" Nice find, Chy!
  • Archy the Cockroach used to dive headfirst onto each key of Don Marquis' manual typewriter. This made his head hurt, I'm sure. Bees have a different technique -- we hover above the chosen flower or key and then fold our wings and bee-fall, as it were, onto the key. The pratfall is not is not a recommended landing procedure for those with stings. Anatomically speaking, bees lack buttocks.
  • I fuckin' love Archy & Mehitabel!
  • Bookmarked, thanks.
  • *applauds wildly*
  • Beautiful. Both the reverse dictionary and the Archy link.