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| noun. A word formed from the initial letter of a name or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words: WAC for Women's Army Corps. |
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| noun. a. A word element, such as a prefix/suffix. that is attached to a base, stem, or root. b. Something that is attached, joined or added. |
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| noun. a. The invention of new words. b. An invented word/phrase. c. The process of making coins: coinage of silver. |
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| adjective. a. Used in or suitable to spoken language or to writing that imitates speech; conversational. b. Informal in style of expression. |
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| noun. The use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but humorously wrong in the context: "polo bear" rather than "polar bear." |
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| noun. The formation or use of a word that imitates/resembles what it stands for. |
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| noun. A word, phrase, or sentence that reads the same backward/forward. |
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| compound noun. A word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words; blend. |
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| noun. A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by "like" or "as." |
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| noun. An accidental but humorous distortion of words in a phrase in a phrase formed by interchanging the initial sounds "the tons of soil" rather than "the sons of toil." |
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