Did you possibly mean one of these? proliferating, protuberant
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Examples
“It seemed that the ricocheting bullet had grazed the old woman's nose, neatly slicing off at the base the tiny Chinese mountain of horn flesh, the violet viral cauliflowerette, the double-dipped God-wart that for many decades had been protuberating there.”
“He stood over her, his shirt, open at the neck, protuberating over his stomach, his short thick legs swaying.”
“Small cooking bowl with small protuberating handles.”
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Wordnik Challenge
A place to catalogue Wordnik Challenges. Defining words, making games, eliciting trivia, etc.
mibble, siddle, mathelode, oedden, frell, pthalo, bloomern, yablon, giznank, phethera, humpidorsus, xerolac and 85 more...
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Panvocalics
Panvocalics are words that contain all the vowels. Listed here are "euvocalics": words that have each of the five vowels only once. (These are also a kind of supervocalic.) Words that also have a "...
subcontinental, unoriental, ultraviolet, tourmaline, sequoia, jacqueminot, milquetoast, xenosaurid, thunderation, adenovirus, accoutering, absolutive and 2777 more...
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Probe~ation
An obnoxious and ridiculous madlib list where verbish '-ing' words fill in the blank wherein the blank is a call for a beating.
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"You're ________in' for a brus...searching, looking, hunting, seeking, questing, exploring, asking, inquiring, snooping, poking, probing, scouting and 262 more...
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mcbaine's Words
surficant, vicissitude, erinaceous, battousai, himura, wang, pedagogical, pedantic, immure, tertiary, tetrahedron, widget and 104 more...
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Unanswered
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amu, protuberating, orangest, plethora, strengthlessness, nonce-word
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bilby Dontcry's comment reminds me of the dangers of what my mother used to describe as fallout. May 20, 2008
reesetee Just wearing a tube top is kind of embarrassing, isn't it? ;-) May 20, 2008
recombinantdna said professor says he is not aware of any such term -- you are probably safe to coin.
May 20, 2008
dontcry Sounds like what often happens when you wear a tube top. Kind of embarassing. May 19, 2008
recombinantdna I've contacted my Writing Systems professor with reference to this -- if he gets back to me, I'll get back to you. May 17, 2008
mollusque Sometimes misspelled as "protruberating", probably under the influence of "protruding", which is similar in meaning: "swelling out" versus "jutting out". This reminds me of stream capture. Perhaps the phenomenon could be called spelling capture. Or is there already a word for it? Nov 12, 2007