Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. science fiction A Y-shaped electronic device that is essential to time travel.
Etymologies
- Introduced in the 1985 movie Back to the Future. (Wiktionary)
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘flux capacitor’.
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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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Words that shouldn't be used on a fir...
probation, trekkie, wart, unemployed, fetish, suspended driver'..., felon, aerophagia, undies, debt collector, girlfriend, boyfriend and 272 more...
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The Universal Calculator
Obviates the need for other devices or calculations--it will have a button for everything, and it will solve everything.
qwerty keyboard, shift key, control, home, end, pause, log, sin, space, enter, plus, numb and 241 more...
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Blippets
Time~sphere phenomena, manipulations, fluctuations, processes, measurements, and oddities. For use in building my machine.
microfortnight, transilient, instant, flash, breath, blink, beat, momentary, nimesha, truti, second, centisecond and 120 more...
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In Cars
I've never learned how to drive or care for a car, but I recently inherited one that probably needs some work. Here's a list of vocabulary words I'll need to learn.
wheel, axle, steering wheel, seat, engine, windshield wiper, stick shift, limited slip diff..., catalytic converter, exhaust, trunk, window and 55 more...
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seventhspice's Words
supine, distaff, lest, janissary, articulator, chaos, scrumptious, charlatan, alacrity, papyrus, corollary, funicular and 106 more...
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Gaw
Words for things both tangible and anthropic. I'm in the process of spinning off hardware into ute, and people into oofy.
cum-twang, naumachia, yngling, juggernaught, bliss ninny, iliac crest, moistened bint, slumlord, spondoolies, classy lady, charnel house, electrodoméstico and 334 more...
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Tickles my humerus
I find these to be inherently funny.
cow tipping, bumblebee, homoscedasticity, seattle, wagga wagga, booby, pants, guacamole, poodle, fanny pack, nincompoop, svenborgia and 161 more...
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Skip The Light Fontastic
Fonts whose names are wacky, powerful, intriguing, whimsical, exotic and so on.
buttzilla, consolas, trebuchet, chanticleer, earthpig, dwarves, ciao, ghost town, goodfish, i still know, gorilla milkshake, immoral and 212 more...
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Nerd Factor 5!
Some of my favorite science and sci-fi related terms
hoverboard, holodeck, space elevator, apogee, flux capacitor, parsec, grok, phrenology, serpo, eben, cosmonaut, seti and 23 more...
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Technical Terms for Fictional Concepts
A thing doesn't have to be real to develop its own scientific jargon.
metahuman, empath, teleportation, telepathy, telekinesis, somatic component, material component, verbal component, healing factor, narrativium, thaumometer, thaum and 15 more...
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taiwandroo's Words
ennui, aquarian, angst, vacuum, loquacious, queasy, wordie, capricious, whimsical, abscond, metropolis, boob and 63 more...
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ElmoAli's Words
rubbies, sarcoidosis, lupus, behcets, pizzle, flutterby, seepy, hungy, ermies, luff, pippy, ribby and 22 more...
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redloki's Words
shenanigans, alphanumeric, pneumonoultramicr..., banana, bamf, snikt, prestidigitation, defenestration, quixotic, indubitably, sasquatch, bigfoot and 80 more...
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