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Nevergreen [adj.] of or resembling a permanently defoliated tree.

Nondescriptor [n.] used instead of a descriptor to avoid description.

Nugatorium [n.] 1. a place where things become useless. 2. a repository
for objects of no utility.

Numskullduggery [n.] chicanery attempted by dimwits.

Obliterati [n.] members of the short-lived anarcho-nihilist movement.

Obscurantism [n.] doctrine proclaiming the beauty of veiled truth.

Obtusion [n.] injury incurred by making a stupid remark.

Ornithocular [adj.] from an avian perspective.

Ostretch [v.] struthiously deny the existence of danger.

Paraphernaliac [n.] person obsessed with carrying enough equipment.

Parrotphrase [v.] sequentially repetitious use of cliché.

Pharmapseudical [n. & adj.] preparations resembling known drugs.

Photoclastic [adj.] can break a camera by being photographed.

Plethoritis [n.] inflammation of the acquisitive organs.

Polyglottis [n.] rare condition affecting a linguist’s larynx .

Porphavore [n.] a polite purple eater.

Psychodietetics [n.] theory and practice of alimentary hypnosis.

Psychophant [n.] one who curries favor by pointing out neuroses.

Punintended [adj.] purposefully paronomasiac.

Purplexical [adj.] using or displaying ornate or extravagant language.

Queasoning [n.] herbs and spices that make a recipe disgusting.

Queryless [adj.] not having, or having run out of, questions.

Quondam physics [n.] theory that something and nothing alternate.

Recaf [n.] reheated day-old coffee.