Did you possibly mean one of these? crypted, cryptic
Definitions
Etymologies
- From crypt + -id (English usage 1983; coined by John E. Wall in the ISC Newsletter). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“After previously reading the reliable not "cryptid" information that the 18th century French "Beast of Gevaudan" attacks were potentially caused by miraculously late-surviving Eocene predators called mesonychids, such as Andrewsarchus, I featured this in July.”
“The only "cryptid" I really believe in is the ominpresence of the cougar / mountain lion in much of the eastern United States.”
“Particular interest is in any information that adds to our factual understanding of all things 'cryptid'.”
“I have had an interest in the, as of yet, unexplained and all things on the fringe of the "norm" since I was little, so postings on every kind of cryptid are always appreciated.”
“March 20th, 2009 at 9: 19 pm подробнее cryptid. ru zollzoll Says:”
Matthew Yglesias » John McCain Repeats Vegas HSR Lie, Adds New Non-True Details
“In short: the world of late has gone cryptid crazy.”
“The Pine Barrens is just the type of place for a cryptid, and boy does it have one.”
“It is a cryptid, an unknown animal, until it is identified, of course, and that makes for a great story for the mainstream media, when they have a photo or even a few.”
New Montauk Monster Pics and Cryptid Marketing | Disinformation
“Interesting post over at a blog called Great Dinosaur Mystery about some wacky “Young Earth Creationist” claims of a cryptid supposedly spotted in Papua New Guinea.”
Wacky Creationist Crypto Reports from Papua New Guinea « Skid Roche
“The short version: Australian Creationist Brian Irwin claims indigenous people in PNG saw a cryptid and reported it to him.”
Wacky Creationist Crypto Reports from Papua New Guinea « Skid Roche
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cryptid’.
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science fact or fiction
pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction
tachyon, mecha, dropship, wetware, meatspace, nanobot, cloned meat, asteroid mining, hyperdrive, wormhole, parallel universe, distributed intel... and 464 more...
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pseudoscience
craniology, craniometer, cranioscopy, phlegmatic, sanguine, melancholic, choleric, homeopathy, allopathy, metoposcopy, panacea, catholicon and 24 more...
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Sci-tech
cicatrix, senescence, varicose, gestalt, glossolalia, synesthesia, hypolactasia, hemoglobin, ametabolic, eutrophic, eutrophication, cryptid and 35 more...
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Not quite love
prolix, pleonastic, senescence, autochthonous, loup, pronk, onomatopoeia, magisterial, rixatrix, esurient, blowsabella, crapulence and 69 more...
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Monsters
The names aspects or categories of the twisted and terrible that we dredge up from our own minds.
draugr, nuckelavee, dullahan, cryptid, thunderbird, bunyip, kongamato, atmospherics, cloudbeast
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Manji's Random Wordlist
The title says it all
velour, vivacity, subterfuge, sable, divination, gentry, vindication, compendium, pistons, metamorphosis, methodology, polyphony and 91 more...
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Miscellany, pt. c
chokedamp, clitter, circumbendibus, catmint, cacoëpy, co-feoffee, caribou, conturbation, chalicothere, calamus, cochineal, cincture and 168 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
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Englische Kuriositäten
glasshole, waffle, wonky, corpsicle, obamarama, monkeypox, brazilianisation, privatopia, metallurgy, fwap, zombiefied, bric-a-brac and 8 more...
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bestiary
Cryptids and fabulous monsters...
wendigo, chupacabra, bunyip, cryptid, fury, harpy, siren, kraken, ouroboros, satyr, sileni, jackalope and 11 more...
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brundlefly's Words
shrike, afghan, spelunking, scuttle, boatswain, eschatological, merkin, sassafras, etruscan, doppelganger, trench, cromulent and 43 more...
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Othernessence
Odd or mysterious beings.
Also check out the automachine list by drusky.ancients, elemental, familiar, cryptid, muse, otherkin, golem, interdimentional, lynx, ghost in the machine, gaia hypothesis, rods and 58 more...
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madsimian's list
recently interesting words
autotomy, pareidolia, hyperthymesia, senescence, erstwhile, hyponetremia, onager, suture, spendthrift, suppuration, hypodescent, haptic and 37 more...
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Esoteric
sibylline, arcane, skathe, hylozoism, phronesis, metapsychology, mager rosette, jnana, cryptid, sideromancy, nooplasm, mammetry and 14 more...
Tweets
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whichbe In the study of cryptozoology, any animal or creature whose existence has been reported but not proven. Their presumed existence is often derived from anecdotal evidence and/or other evidence insufficient to prove their existence according to normal scientific standards. The term cryptid applies to creatures such as the Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Mokele-mbembe. It is also applied by cryptozoologists to animals whose existence is accepted by the scientific community, but which are considered of interest to cryptozoology, such as the coelacanth, which was once presumed extinct, and the okapi, once thought to be a fictional animal. (Wikipedia) May 30, 2008