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Nate 10-02-2012 08:24 PM

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Commissariat.

Been catching up on the old Gilbert & Sullivan, have you?

Mr. Bungle 10-02-2012 09:28 PM

Mongoloid.

MeechMunchie 10-03-2012 12:20 AM

Proletariat.

enchilado 10-03-2012 01:03 AM

Agnosticism.

Phylum 10-03-2012 03:01 AM

Cucumiform.

Nepsotic 10-03-2012 12:00 PM

Googolplexian.
I prefer Plexian.

OddjobAbe 10-03-2012 12:09 PM

Yokel.

MeechMunchie 10-03-2012 02:39 PM

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Cucumiform.

Can't beat a good -form, especially if it's actually useful. Match up these fun-sounding words with their common shapes!

Acorn-shaped
Arrow-shaped
Bell-shaped
Belt/girdle-shaped
Boat-shaped
Bunch-of-grapes-shaped
Claw-shaped
Cloud-shaped
Comb-shaped
Cup-shaped
Dart-shaped
Egg-shaped
Fan-shaped
Flowerpot-shaped
Fork-shaped
Funnel-shaped
Hatchet-shaped
Helmet-shaped
Hood-shaped
Horn-shaped
Horseshoe-shaped
Jellyfish-shaped
Kidney-shaped
Ladder-shaped
Needle-shaped
Nose-shaped
Oyster-shaped
Palm-leaf-shaped
Pincer-shaped
Pine-cone-shaped
Pouch-shaped
Ribbon-shaped
Roof-shaped
"S"-shaped
Sausage-shaped
Saw-shaped
Screw-shaped
Shark-shaped
Shield-shaped
Sickle-shaped
Slug-shaped
Spade-shaped
Sword-shaped
Teardrop-shaped
Thorn-shaped
Tongue-shaped
Tree-shaped
"U"-shaped
Wedge-shaped
Worm-shaped

Acicular
Aculeiform
Allantoid
Annodated
Arborescent
Balanoid
Belemnoid
Campanulate
Cassideous
Chaonoid
Cheliform
Corniculate
Cteniform
Cuculate
Cymbiform
Drepaniform
Flabelliform
Furcular
Hellicoid
Hippocrepian
Hyoid
Lachrymiform
Limaciform
Linguiform
Ooidal
Ostreiform
Palaceous
Pelecoidal
Pineal
Medusiform
Nasutiform
Nephroid
Nubiform
Poculiform
Sagittal
Scalariform
Scaphoid
Scrotiform
Scutiform
Serriform
Spadicious
Sphenoid
Squaliform
Taenoid
Tectiform
Unguiform
Uvelloid
Vasculiform
Vermiform
Xiphoid
Zosteriform


For 10 bonus points, which two forms mean the same shape?

OANST 10-03-2012 02:41 PM

You can go fuck yourself.

MeechMunchie 10-03-2012 02:44 PM

You should see the size of the list I took those from.

Bullet Magnet 10-03-2012 04:28 PM

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Been catching up on the old Gilbert & Sullivan, have you?

I learned the entire song by heart and ended up practising conic sections, which my own education missed.

Ravelin.

enchilado 10-03-2012 11:49 PM

Mamelon. Which is a hill shaped like a breast, by the way.

Bullet Magnet 10-04-2012 01:08 PM

There was also a fort called Mamelon

enchilado 10-04-2012 02:09 PM

That's not nearly as interesting.

Phylum 10-04-2012 08:32 PM

Dichotomy

Nepsotic 10-05-2012 07:49 AM

Leukocyte

Bullet Magnet 10-05-2012 10:13 AM

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That's not nearly as interesting.

Well, it was built on a mamelon.

Nepsotic 10-09-2012 01:05 PM

Apex

Crashpunk 10-25-2012 04:08 PM

Terroristic

Go thank Holy Sock for that one.

enchilado 10-25-2012 04:54 PM

Hebetude.

Phylum 10-25-2012 10:10 PM

Glode.

Mr. Bungle 10-25-2012 10:16 PM

Tomultuous.

Steamer_KING 10-26-2012 02:43 AM

Antidisestablishmentarianism.

MeechMunchie 10-26-2012 03:24 AM

Unctious & Rambunctious.

Mr. Bungle 10-26-2012 03:47 PM

Rhetoric

Takeshi 10-27-2012 03:02 PM

Hyena

Phylum 11-03-2012 05:17 AM

Puny.

MeechMunchie 11-03-2012 07:21 AM

Pernicious.

Steamer_KING 11-14-2012 03:59 PM

Denouement.

Mr. Bungle 11-14-2012 04:26 PM

Climactic.