An elemental word is a word made from a row of chemical element symbols

Thorpe, Susan

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THE WORLD OF ELEMENTAL WORDS  SUSAN THORPE Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England   thorpeds@hotmail.com  An elemental word is a word made from a row of chemical element symbols.   The word NA.TI.O.N.AL is made from the symbols for sodium (NA), titanium (TI), oxygen (O), nitrogen (N) and aluminium (AL) respectively.  ELEMENTAL ELEMENTS  These 10 elements are themselves made from elemental symbols.  AR. SE. N. I. C  AS.TA.TI.NE  C.AR.B.O.N  IR.O.N                                 NE.O.N  P.HO.S.P.HO.RU.S  SI.LI.C.O.N  SI.LV.ER  TI.N                                                         XE.N.O.N    ELEMENTAL 2-WORD PHRASES, ONE WORD BEING THE NAME OF AN ELEMENT  C.AR.B.O.N     C.O.P.Y  SI.LI.C.O.N   C.H.I.P  SI.LV.ER    S.P.O.O.N  AR.SE.N.I.C    P.O.I.S.O.N  IR.O.N     LA.DY  TI.N   H.AT  CO.P.P.ER   PA.N.S  ELEMENTAL PALINDROMES  AR.I.I.RA (a tumulus -Tunisia)  B.O. B  B.O.O.B  C.I.V.I.C  ES.SE (existence)  F.I.N.N.I.F  G.I.G  H.U.H  I.B.O.B.I (in Bolivia)  K.I.N.I.K (a town in Turkey)  LA.V.AL  N.O.N  or  NO.N    NO.O.N  or  N.O.O.N     O.H.O  P.O.O.P or PO.O.P   RE.F.ER  RE.V.I.V.ER  RE.V.V.ER  SE.ES  SE.XE.S  TA F.AT (farm in Algeria)  U.AR.AU (East Timor)   V.O.V (9th letter of the Yiddish alphabet)  W.O.W  Y.O.Y.O.Y (a lake in Ontario, Canada)  ELEMENTAL WORD TRANSPOSALS  AC.RE.S     S.CA.RE     CA.RE.S     RA.CE.S                 B.O.RE.S     B.O.ER.S     S.O.B.ER  CA.P.ES      P.AC.ES     S.PA.CE  DY.AL (a place in Bulgaria)    LA.DY  ES.TH.ER     TH.RE.ES  F.AR.CE   F.AC.ER  F.ER.AL      F.LA.RE  GE.AR.S    RA.GE.S  H.AT.ER.S      HE.AR.TS  I.C.O.N.S    CO.IN.S     S.O.N.I.C                       K.I.S.S.ER    S.K.I.ER.S  LI.S.P.ER      P.LI.ER.S     MO.NI.ES      SI.MO.NE  N.ER.V.ES   SE.V.ER.N (a river in UK)   O.P.I.NE.S     P.O.NI.ES  P.AL.I.S.H     P.H.I.AL.S  RA.P.I.ER   RE.PA.IR  S.H.ER.PA     P.H.RA.SE  TI.ER.S    TI.RE.S  U.NI.O.N.S     U.NI.S.O.N  V.ER.SE.S   SE.V.ER.S   S.ER.V.ES  W.AR.N.ER    W.AR.RE.N  Y.O.B.B.O    B.O.O.B.Y  ELEMENTAL PHRASES  AC.O.RN   C.U.P     BA.N.K   RA.TE  CR.AS.H    PR.O.O.F  ES.SE.N.TI.AL   W.AT.ER  FL.O.W.ER    S.H.O.W  GE.TS    AR.O.U.ND  H.O.V.ER   MO.W.ER  I.N.N.ER    H.O.U.SE  K.I.C.K   O.F.F  LA.W.N   MO.W.ER  MO.TH.ER   LA.ND  NI.NE   LI.V.ES  O.F.F.I.CE   BE.AR.ER                                                                   PR.IN.CE    BI.S.HO.P  RA.IN   GA.U.GE  SE.RB.O   CR.O.AT  TA.P.ER   O.F.F            TI.DY   U.P  U.P.P.ER   CL.AS.S  V.I.C.H.Y   W.AT.ER  W.AT.ER   BA.BI.ES  Y.O.U.TH  CL.U.B  ELEMENTAL  REVERSALS  AT.O.N (= Aten, god)    N.O.TA (Bene)  B.O.N.S   S.N.O.B           C.AT.S    S.TA.C (= stack)           ER.O.S   S.O.RE     F.IR.ES   S.ER.I.F            GA.S    S.AG                                                                            H.AR.P.O    O.P.RA.H                               I.C.O.N    N.O.C.I (a city in Italy)  K.N.I.TS   S.TI.N.K                                                                   LA.Y.ER   RE.Y.AL (real)        N.O.W   W.O.N  O.AT    TA.O               O.N    N.O  P.AT   TA.P  RA.P.S    S.P.AR  S.LA.V   V.AL.S  TA.N     N.AT  U.RE (a river in UK)     ER.U (in Estonia)  V.AL    LA.V  W.AR   RA.W  Y.ES   SE.Y (a surname)  ELEMENTAL MIAMI WORDS  (pattern 12312)  AL.H.AL (a hill in Morocco)    BA.I.BA (a first name)    CA.S.CA (surname)       ER.B.ER (surname)       FE.O.FE     GA.N.GA (another name for the Ganges)     H.I.S.H.I (a place in Japan)    LA.I.LA (first name)  NA.U.NA (an Oceanic language)     O.N.I.O.N    PA.I.PA  (a place in Colombia)      RA.S.RA (a place in the Punjab)      SE.N.SE      TA.H.TA  (a place in Egypt)     U.P.S.U.P       W.NI.W.N (Welsh ‘onion’)  ELEMENTAL WORD LADDER    (WINS - RACE)   W.I.N.S                         W.I.NE                         LI.NE                           LI.CE                        LA.CE                     RA.CE   ELEMENTAL OPPOSITES  AC.CE.PT     RE.F.U.SE  CE.N.S.U.RE    P.RA.I.SE  ES.SE.N.TI.AL     IN.ES.SE.N.TI.AL  F.AT   TH.IN           F.AM.O.U.S   U.N.K.N.O.W.N         F.AT.H.ER   MO.TH.ER  GA.U.DY     P.LA.IN  H.U.GE      TI.N.Y              H.U.S.BA.ND   W.I.FE  IN.I.TI.AL     F.IN.AL  LA.V.I.S.H     P.AR.S.I.MO.N.I.O.U.S  MO.TH.ER    F.ATH.ER  N.O   Y.ES  O.B.SC.U.RE     F.AM.O.U.S  PA.IR      SE.V.ER  RA.RE     U.S.U.AL  SC.AR.CE     C.O.P.I.O.U.S  TH.I.C.K   TH.IN  U.ND.ER    O.V.ER  V.I.O.LA.TE    O.BE.Y  W.I.SE    F.O.O.LI.S.H  ELEMENTAL H.O.MO.P.H.O.N.ES  Those marked with an asterix* are also transposals  AR.C    AR.K  BA.RE*     BE.AR*  BA.SE     BA.S.S  BE.AU    B.O.W  BE.ER      B.I.ER  B.ER.TH     B.IR.TH  B.O.AR    B.O.RE  B.O.Y     B.U.O.Y  B.RE.W.S     BR.U.I.SE  BR.O.AC.H      BR.O.O.C.H  B.U.Y      B.Y    B.U.Y.ER    B.Y.RE     CA.C.HE     CA.S.H  CA.C.H.O.U     CA.S.HE.W  CA.N.NO.N    CA.N.O.N  CE.RE.AL    S.ER.I.AL  C.H.I.C    S.HE.I.K.H  C.HE.W.S    C.H.O.O.SE  C.I.TE    SI.TE  C.O.O    C.O.U.P  C.RE.W.S    CR.U.I.SE  C.U.RB     K.ER.B  F.AR.TH.ER     F.AT.H.ER  F.IN.I.S.H     F.IN.NI.S.H  F.I.S.H.ER    F.I.S.S.U.RE  F.LA.IR       F.LA.RE  FL.O      FL.O.W  F.RA.N.C     F.RA.N.K  F.RA.N.CE.S   F.RA.N.C.I.S  GA.GE     GA.U.GE  HE.AR    HE.RE  H.ER.O.IN     H.ER.O.I.NE  HO.AR     W.H.O.RE    H.O.ES*     H.O.SE*  I.N     IN.N  I.O.N      IR.O.N  K.NO.W.S      N.O.ES*      N.O.SE*  LA.IN    LA.NE  MO (wait a mo)   MO.W  NO.NE     N.U.N  O.AR     O.RE  PA      PA.H    P.AR  PA.IN    PA.NE  PA.IR   PA.RE  PA.U.SE     PA.W.S  PA.W     P.O.RE   PA.W.N     P.O.RN  P.LA.CE    P.LA.I.CE  P.LA.IN    P.LA.NE  PO.S.ES     P.O.SI.ES  P.RA.I.SE    P.RA.Y.S   P.RE.Y.S  PR.I.ES*     PR.I.SE*  PR.O.S     PR.O.SE  RA.C.K    W.RA.C.K  RA.I.SE     RA.Y.S  RA.P    W.RA.P  RE.C.K    W.RE.C.K  S.AC      S.AC.K  SE.AR    SE.ER*     SE.RE*  SE.AS    SE.ES  SE.W     S.O      S.O.H     S.O.W  S.HE.AR     S.HE.ER  S.H.I.ER*   S.H.I.RE*   S.H.YER  SI.C    S.I.C.K  S.O.N      S.U.N  S.TA.IR    S.TA.RE  S.TA.TI.O.N.AR.Y     S.TA.TI.O.N.ER.Y  TE.AR   TI.ER  TE.AS    TE.ES  TI.C     TI.C.K  W.AR      W.O.RE    W.H.O.RE  W.AR.N      W.O.RN  W.AR.P    W.H.AU.P (a curlew or peewit)  W.H.I.N (gorse)   W.IN  W.H.I.NE    W.I.NE  W.H.I.TH.ER    W.I.TH.ER  W.H.Y.S    W.I.SE  ELEMENTAL COUNTRIES  AR.GE.N.TI.NA  BE.LA.RU.S  BE.N.I.N  BR.U.NE.I  B.U.RU.ND.I  C.AM.ER.O.O.N  C.H.I.NA                             C.O.C.O.S   I.S.LA.ND.S  C.U.BA  C.Y.PR.U.S  F.IN.LA.ND  F.RA.N.CE  GA.B.O.N  HO.ND.U.RA.S  I.CE.LA.ND  I.RA.N  I.RE.LA.ND  K.IR.I.BA.TI  LA.O.S  NA.U.RU  NE.P.AL  NE.TH.ER.LA.ND.S  PA.LA.U  P.ER.U  P.O.LA.ND   SI.N.GA.P.O.RE  S.PA.I.N  ELEMENTAL PLACES  AR.U.BA      BA.H.RA.IN  BE.LA.RU.S  BE.N.IN  B.H.U.TA.N  BR.U.NE.I  C.AM.ER.O.O.N  C.O.C.O.S   I.S.LA.ND.S  C.U.BA  C.Y.P.RU.S  GA.B.O.N  H.O.ND.U.RA.S  H.O.W.LA.ND   I.S.LA.ND  I.CE.LA.ND  I.RA.N  I.RE.LA.ND  LA.O.S  MO.N.AC.O  N.AU.RU  NE.P.AL  NE.TH.ER.LA.ND.S  P.AL.AU  P.ER.U  P.O.LA.ND  RE.U.NI.O.N  S.IN.GA.P.O.RE  S.PA.IN  U.K.RA.I.NE  ELEMENTAL SENTENCES   (a character file!)                                                                           H.I.S   H.O.U.SE   I.S   U.ND.ER    F.I.RE  HE   I.S   NE.V.ER   S.U.P.ER.S.TI.TI.O.U.S    HE   H.AS   NI.NE   O.RA.N.GE   SH.IR.TS  HE   VI.S.I.TS   H.I.S   NE.AR.B.Y   LI.BR.AR.Y  HE   RU.N.S   I.N   RE.LA.Y   RA.C.ES  HE   H.AS   TI.ES   W.I.TH   C.A.LA.I.S  HE   GE.N.TL.Y   PA.TS   H.I.S    P.O.N.Y  HE   I.S   K.I.ND   U.ND.ER.NE.AT.H   HE   U.ND.ER.TA.K.ES    C.H.O.RE.S  HE   I.S   V.ER.Y   CA.PR.I.C.I.O.U.S  HE   H.AS   LI.N.K.S   W.I.TH   SE.V.ER.AL   U.NI.V.ER.S.I.TI.ES  O.N  V.AC.AT.I.ON,  H.I.S  W.I.FE  V.I.S.I.TS  SE.V.ER.AL  O.F  AM.ER.I.CA’S   S.TA.TE.S  ELEMENTAL RUSSIAN DOLLS  The elemental symbol B (Boron) embedded in the symbol AL (Aluminium), and the whole (ABL) embedded in the symbol SE (Selenium) - like Russian dolls -  makes the word SABLE.    The central embedded elemental symbols are given in their atomic number order: H = 1, HE = 2 etc.  ASHES  1 in 34 in 33      SCHEME  2  in 96 in 34     RELISH  3 in 99 in 45   CABERS  4 in 18 in 55    FABLE   5 in 13 in 26     ORCAS   6 in  88  in 76    SENSE   7 in 99 in 34      ATOLL  8 in 81 in 13                                                                                                                                DAFTY  9 in 85 in 66   DINERS  10 in 77 in 110  CANALS  11 in 13 in 55    BAMGRE  12 in 18 in 4                                                                                                                                 (surname)    STALER  13 in 52 in 38    RISING  14 in  49 in 111    COPSE 15 in 76 in 58    BASLE  16 in 13 in 4   SACLUM 17 in 79 in 62   COARSE 18 in 76 in 58   IRKER 19 in 75 in 77   RECASE  20 in 99 in 75 (place in Mexico)                                                        (surname)  RESCUE  21 in 63 in 75 ACTING  22 in 112  in 47  REVUE  23 in 63 in 75  SACRUM  24 in 79 in 62   CAMNUE 25 in 79 in 58 OFFERS  26  in 87 in 76  DICORY 27 in 77 in 66   BANISH  28 in 33 in 107     (surname)                                                                 (a place in Senegal)  SECURE  29  in 68 in 34  ENZNER 30 in 10 in 68  ORGANS 31 in 86 in 76   TAGELE  32 in 13 in 52                                               (surname)                                                                    (surname)  ERASES  33  in  75 in 99 ASSENT  34 in 50 in 85  AMBROS 35 in 42 in 33  ACKREL 36 in 58 in 13                                                                                     (surname)                          (surname)  GARBLE  37 in 13 in 32  BASRUR  38 in 79 in 35  CRYER  39 in 75 in 24  NAZRUE  40 in 79 in 10                                             (place in India)                                                          (a first name)                                                   CANBLE 41 in 13 in 58  RAMOSE 42 in 33 in 75 ARTCAM  43 in 88 in 95 THRUSH 44 in 108 in 90     (surname)                                                              (a computer program)  CARHUE 45 in 79 in 58   BEPDUE 46 in 63 in 4  STAGER 47 in 52 in 38   MECDUN  48 in 63 in 25 (a place in Ireland)           (a brand name)                                                        (a first name)  BRINGER 49 in 111 in 35  ARSNER  50 in 75 in 18  CASBLE 51 in 13 in 58 ASTERS  52 in 38 in 33                                             (a first name)                     (surname)   NOISE 53 in 76 in 10     FAXERE 54 in 18 in 26   RACSLE 55 in 13 in 75   RIBANE  56 in 49 in 75                                       (a place in Spain)               (surname)                          (surname)  SALAMI  57 in 95 in 14  DICERS  58 in 77 in 110   TEPRUE  59 in 63 in 52   HANDLE 60 in 13 in 2                                                                                     (a first name)  BAPMUR 61 in 79 in 35 SESMUN  62 in 63 in 50 CHEUSE 63 in 108 in 58  NIGDRE 64 in 77 in 10       (a place in Iran)                (surname)                         (surname)                        (a first name)  BETBUR 65 in 63 in 35  HADYLE 66 in 13 in 2  ECHOER  67 in 58  in 68     OPERAS 68 in 91 in 76 (a place in Germany)       (surname)  CATMUR 69 in 79 in 24   BAYBLE  70 in 13 in 4   SALUTE  71 in 85 in 34  ASHFER 72 in 34 in 18     (surname)                          (a Scottish island)                                                     (a first name)   BATASH 73 in 33 in 107   HAWLS  74 in 13 in 108    CARESS  75 in 33 in 55    CHOSEN 76 in 2 in112 (town in Turkmenistan)    (surname)  CHIROS 77 in 67 in 55 78  SEPTUM 78 in 63 in 62  TRAUBE 79 in 37 in 52   HAHGLE 80 in 13 in 2                                                                                          (surname)                          (surname)   ANTLER  81 in 10 in 18  ESPBER  82 in 34 in 68   HABITS   83 in 85 in 108  REPOSE 84 in 99 in 75                                         (a farm in Yorkshire UK)  CRATES  85 in 75 in 55  DERNUS 86 in 63 in 110 SAFRUN 87 in 79 in 50 THRASH  88 in 108 in 90                                          (surname)                          (a first name)  GRACED 89 in 75 in 64   ARTHUR 90 in 44 in18     BEPARE  91 in 68 in 4   HOUSE   92 in 76 in 2                                                                                       (surname)   HANPLE  93 in 13 in 2   RAPULE  94 in 13 in 75   STAMEN 95 in 52 in 50  BECMUR 96 in 63 in 35 (surname)                        (a first name)                                                                (surname)  TABKUM 97 in 79 in 69 ERCFER  98 in 75 in 68  CRESER  99 in 75 in 24  SAFMUR 100 in 79 in 38 (surname)                         (surname)                         (surname)                         (surname)   BAMDRE101 in 18 in 4  LENORA102 in 68 in 57   TELRUC103 in 63 in 43    MERFUD 104 in 63 in 101 (surname)                                                                 (an island off Brittany)      (a first name)                                    RADBLE 105 in 13 in 75  BASGLE 106 in 13 in 4  CABHUR 107 in 79 in 24  TAHSLI 108 in 13 in 22                                (surname)                         (surname)                         (surname)                           (a first name)             CAMTLE 109 in 13 in 58   REDSUN  110 in 63 in 86  GARGLE  111 in 13 in 32  LACNUR  112 in 79 in 103     (surname)                         (surname)                                                             (a firm’s name)  The surname ASBRE, when pluralized, produces three successive  numbers in descending order:                                                             ASBRES  35 in 34 in 33  Introducing a 4th element             SARCASM   6 in 88 in 33 in 62  ORANGES   7 in 47 in 75 in 76  HARNESS   7 in 75 in 33 in 108  PHANTOM   7 in 85 in 67 in 61  HASTINGS   22 in 50 in 47 in 108   GERVASE   23 in 88 in 99 in 32  CHORUSES   44 in 76 in 2 in 55                                                                                                HORTENSE    52 in 86 in 76 in 2  AMBIENT   53 in 4 in 25 in 85  PRAISED   53 in 33 in 75 in 46  ACTIMEL   53 in 69 in 58 in 13  DISPRINS   59 in 14 in 49 in 110           SALTAIRE (in Yorkshire UK)   73 in 3 in 18 in 34  CRAWLER   74 in 13 in 75 in 24  BRAWLER   74 in 13 in 75 in 35  COMATOSE   85 in 42 in 76 in 58  AROUSES   92 in 76 in 75 in 33  HANDBAGS  105 in 11 in 47 in 108  Introducing a 5th element:  CAROUSELS  92 in 76 in 75 in 13 in 55  The full names of certain elements themselves may act as elemental Russian Dolls:  CESIUM   14 in 63 in 96     CALCIUM   6 in 3 in 79 in 96  ACTINIUM   49 in 22 in 29 in 95  TELLURIUM    92 in 103 in 3 in 63 in 69   With 6 elements, pride of place must surely go to CALIFORNIUM  8  in  87 in  49  in  3  in 79 in  96  MISCELLANEOUS  W.H.I.C.H     H.O.W    W.HE.N    W.HE.RE   and   W.H.Y are all elemental words  FE.BR.U.AR.Y   is the only elemental month  C.H.AR.I.O.TS   O.F   FI.RE  is  the name of an elemental film  O.NE   NI.NE  and  TE.N   are elemental numbers   

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