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| 100% | ACATAMATHESIA | Afflicted Can't Apprehend That Anything Means Anything, Though Has Every Sense - It's Absurd! |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | ACHE | Anybody Can Hurt Everywhere |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | ACNE | Adolescents Can Not Escape |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Beauty & Hygiene |
| 88% | ANTHRAX | A New Terror Has Reached America... [a] Xenobiotic. |
Angela Brett Military:War & Terrorism |
| 100% | ANTHRAX (2) | And Now The Human Race ... Aaaaaarrrrggghh... Xpires |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | ANTHRAX (3) | And Not Two Heads Rolled - All Xaggeration! |
Angela Brett, when only one person had died of anthrax in the USA but the whole world was paranoid about it. Military:War & Terrorism |
| 89% | APOPLEXY | Angry Passionate Outburst & Purple Look - Eyes Xcitedly Yo-yoing |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 89% | APOPLEXY (2) | Arterial Palpitations Often Precipitate Letting Experts X-ray You |
Melanie Merswolke |
| 92% | APPENDICITIS | A Popular Pain, Expensive Nowadays, Doctors Insist Cutting It, Though It's Stomach-ache |
M.S.Prabhakar |
| 100% | AZOTURIA | Animal's Zone Of Trouble, Urine Really Is Abnormal |
Dustan Dowsing |
| 100% | BARF | Blasting Away Regurgitated Food |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | BARF (2) | Begetting A Rainbow Fountain |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | BEEF | BSE Endangered English Farms |
Angela Brett Food & Drink |
| 100% | BELLYACHE | By Eating Loads & Loads, You Ache Catastrophically, Heavy Emissions |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 90% | BIG BUTTER | Butter Increases Glutton's Buttock, Unless They Take up Exercising Regularly |
Angela Brett Food & Drink |
| 100% | BLIND | Blighted Lifetime In Neverending Darkness |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | BLOCKAGE (2) | Bottom's Lack Of Clearance Keeps All Garbage Enclosed? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | BOTH BRAINCELLS KILLED | Bump On The Head Brings Really Awful Injuries, Now Can't Even Lift Legs. Some Knowledge Is Lost - Longterm Effect's Death. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | BREAST CANCER | Bad Results, Endanger Adventures, Seizes Tomorrows. Cells Attacked, Never Ceasing, Enters Radiation. |
Jan Morgan - Lost a friend to it |
| 90% | BURNED OUT | Broken, Used, Really Not Equal (to) Doing One's Usual Tasks |
Patricia Rix |
| 100% | BURN OUT | Become Useless; Requires No Official, Unusual Training |
Patricia Rix |
| 100% | CANCER (2) | Cell Apoptosis? Never! Choke Every Rival. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | CANCER (3) | Cells Attacked, Never Ceasing, Enters Radiation |
Jan Morgan |
| 100% | CANCER (5) | Cancer Avoidance Needs Clever/Comprehensive Educational Resources |
Tony |
| 100% | CAN'T SEE | Cannot Actually Notice Things, Sadly 'Empty' Eyes |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | CAVITY | Causes A Variation In Troubles, Yuck |
Jan Morgan |
| 100% | CELL SITE | Children Exhibit Lack-Lustre Scores In Their Exams |
Steve Keate, thinking about the effect of cell sites being near schools. Communication |
| 93% | CEREBRAL PALSY | Can't Exactly Run Energetically, Breathless Reaction Always Lingers - Perhaps Allowing Lowlife to Survive Yet |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, trying to find the faults of MacGirl |
| 100% | CHUNDER | Could Have Used Normal Digestive Enzymes, Really. |
Steve Keate |
| 100% | CLINICAL INFORMATION | Complete List (Including Nurses' Input) Chronicling A Lifetime's Illnesses, Notated For One's Resourceful Medical Ailment Team, Is Obviously Necessary |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | CONSTIPATED | Can One Not Shift This Impacted Pile And Take Energising Dump? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | CORN | Chiropodist's Obviously Really Needed |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | CORN (3) | Callous Often Requires Nursing |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | CRIPPLE | Corporeally Restricted Individual's Parts' Performance Lack Evenness |
TMcCO'G |
| 100% | CYST | Cavity - Yet Sore & Tender |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | DIABETES | Disease Is Awful. Body Excretes (Tragically) Excess Sugar |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | DIARRHOEA | Dashing In And Running Repeatedly, Hogging Outhouse, Evacuating Again. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | DISABILITY | Doesn't Imply Stupidity... Affected Brain Isn't Limited In Thought, Y'know. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | DISEASE | Damn I'm Sick! Excruciating Aches & Soreness Everywhere |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | DISEASE (2) | Direly Incapacitated Situation - Each Ache Seems Endless! |
Patricia Rix |
| 100% | DYSLEXIA | Do You See Letters Extremely Xenotime In Appearance |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | DYSLEXIA (2) | Don't You Switch Language Even Xeroxed Interchanging Abilities |
Jan Morgan -- Transposes things in Reading, Spelling and Numbers like a mirror numbers and letters are switched or interchanged |
| 100% | DYSPEPSIA | Did Your Special Potluck Explode Perchance Soaking In Acid? |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | DYSPHASIA | Disturbs Your Speech Patterns - Has A Significant Impact, Apparently. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | DYSTOCIA | Delivering Your Sprog Takes Obstetric Care In Abundance |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | EARACHE | Expensive Affair Requiring A Consultation - How Exasperating! |
Angela Brett, when she had to go to a doctor to get a prescription for her recurring ear infection. |
| 93% | EAR INFECTIONS | Each Application Requires Inactivity... Not Fun, Except C Text Instructs (me) On Necessary Syntax. |
Angela Brett, on realising that the 20 minutes of lying on her side necessary for applying ear drops for her ear infection could be utilised by reading about how to program in C. Computers:Programming |
| 100% | EPSOM SALT (3) | Everyone Please Stay Off My Salted, Aching, Little Toe |
Charlie Drugs |
| 100% | FAINT | Feel(s) As If Not There |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | FROG IN THROAT | False Ribbits One Gets If Needing The Health Resources Otorhinolaryngologists Assent To |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | FUZZY | Felt Unduly Zig-Zaggy Yesterday |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | FUZZY (2) | Food Undergoing Zippy Zymurgy Yesterday |
Rico Leffanta |
| 90% | GAS ATTACK | Got Aerated Stomach? Alka-seltzer Tablets Taken Are Chemical Key. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | GIMP | Gait Isn't Mighty Pretty |
Tony McCoy O'Hyphen |
| 100% | GLASS (3) | Get Lacerated As Some Shatters |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | HANGOVER | How Agonizing! Not Good! Oh, Vengeful Elixir Residue! |
Roger Williams Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic |
| 91% | HEALTHCARE | Habitually Eating A Large T-bone Has Caused Arteriosclerosis, Requiring Electrocardiograms |
Patricia Rix |
| 100% | HEARTBURN | Having Eaten Amazingly Rapidly, Then Begrudgingly Undergo Restless Night |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | HELP ME GO PEE | Have Especially Large Prostate? Maybe Envisioning Gently Oscillating Pond'll Ease Embarrassment. |
Angela Brett, after somebody searched for that phrase on the website. Other unsuccessful searches are now listed at http://acronyms.co.nz/cgi-bin/searches |
| 100% | HERNIA | Hurts Excruciatingly! Really Needs Immediate Attention |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | HERNIA (2) | Hurtful Erruptions Requiring Nursing, In Abdomen |
Bern Dell |
| 100% | HOSPITAL | House Of Sick Patients Itching Their Amputated Limbs |
Angela Brett Places:Buildings |
| 100% | HURT | Have Undiagnised Repugnant Troubles |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | HURTS TO BE A CARRIER | However Unafflicted, Relaying This Sickness To Others Becomes Equally A Curse... Always Remembering Risk, I'm Etiologic Recluse. |
Angela Brett, when somebody searched for that phrase on the Acronyms website. |
| 100% | ILL | Invalid Lies Lethargically |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | ILL (2) | Is Laid Low |
Roger Williams |
| 100% | IMPOSSIBLE (2) | Insomniac Mrs. Pleads, "Oh, Stop Snoring!" Instead Bringing Louder Explosions. |
Angela Brett (some people won't stop snoring no matter what you do!) Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | IMPOTENT | I Mightn't Perform On Time Every Night, Temptress! |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | INDIGESTION | Ignore Nutty Diets. If Good Eating Suggestions Taken, It's Obviated Normally |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink |
| 100% | INSOMNIA | I Need Sleep! Obviously My Nocturnal Inability's Annoying. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | INSOMNIA (2) | I Never Slept One Minute - Now I'm Awake! |
Melanie Merswolke and Patricia Rix |
| 100% | ITCH | Irritation That Craves Hurt |
Angela Brett, since we get rid of an itching sensation by scratching and making it hurt instead. |
| 100% | ITCH (2) | Incredibly Troubling Cutaneous Hypersensitivity |
Word Nerd |
| 100% | LARYNGITIS | Lacking A Roundy Yoke Necessitates Gaps In Transmission - I'm Silenced. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after a teasing gap in a message. |
| 100% | LIMP | Lost Insert Member Prostrate |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | LIMP (2) | Leg In Much Pain. |
Roger Williams |
| 0% | LISP* | Locution Ith Thingularly Problematic |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after seeing AT & T (with apologies to anyone with a lisp - I myself still have the remnants of a childhood stammer) Communication:Talking |
| 100% | MAMMOGRAM | Manipulate And Mash Melons - Oncologists Gather 'Round And Murmur. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | MIGRAINE | My Insides Grumble Repeatedly And It Never Ends! |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | NAUSEA | Not Another Uneasy Seatrip, Evacuate Abdomen |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | NAUSEA (2) | Nursing An Unhappy Stomach... Eaten Aasleagh. |
Angela Brett (see AASLEAGH) |
| 100% | OBESE | Oversized Bodies Exercising Seldom Enough |
Edwin Hermann |
| 100% | OOS | Out Of Service |
Angela Brett (OOS usually stands for Occupational Overuse Syndrome) |
| 100% | OSMIDROSIS | One Shower Monthly Isn't Decent... Remember, Our Sweat Is Smelly! |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | PACKRATITIS | Person Accumulating Crap; Keeps Really Ancient Things Indefinitely, Taking Infinite Storage. |
Gavin Lambert, explaining why he has so many old computers. Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words |
| 100% | PAIN | Prescribe Anaesthetic, It'll Numb. |
Angela Brett |
| 80% | PAIN (2) | Pulsations At Irritated Nerve-ending |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | PAIN (3) | Palpitations Ache In Neglect |
Jan Morgan |
| 100% | PAP SMEAR | Precaution Against Papilloma - Some Must Endure A Retest. |
Angela Brett, after reading http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992601 |
| 100% | PENGUIN | Pending Extinction - Not Going Up In Numbers |
Angela Brett, thinking of the Yellow-Eyed Penguin, although I don't know whether the numbers are going up or not. Science:Biology:Animals:Birds |
| 100% | PIMPLE | Please Ignore My Pained & Lumpy Epidermis |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Beauty & Hygiene |
| 100% | PLAGUE | People Lying About Grotesquely... Uncountable Expiries. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | PLANTARS WART | Painful Lesion Attacks Nascent Terrible Arch Region, Sponsors Worry As Reason, Tension |
Jan Morgan |
| 60% | PMS | Putting up with Mens Shit |
wishes, referring to Pre-Menstrual Syndrome Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | PMS (2) | Pardon My Snippiness |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to PMS Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | PMS (3) | Pleasantness's Mighty Scarce |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to PMS Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 75% | PMS (4) | Pregnancy May Stop it |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to PMS Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | PMS (5) | Pugnaciousness's My Speciality |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to PMS Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | POISON | Potion Once Ingested Surely Occasions Necrosis |
Roger Williams Drugs |
| 100% | PUKE | Partially Undigested Kilojoules Ejected |
Angela Brett |
| 86% | PYURIA | Pus (in) Your Urine Readily Indicates Affliction |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | QUEASY | Quite Uneasy Emotion Assails Stomach, Yes? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | RASH | Reaction Allergics Sometimes Have |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | RETARD | Really Exhausting To Attempt Reading Dictionary. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | ROAD TRIP (2) | Result Of A Desire To Retch In Public? |
Angela Brett, thinking about carsickness Transport |
| 100% | SARS | Suddenly Airway's Restricted Somewhat |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 80% | SARS (2) | Scheduled Airlines Ramp-up Security |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | SARS (3) | Stop Agent's Rapid Spread! |
Angela Brett, referring to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | SARS (4) | Scientists Are Rapidly Strategising |
Angela Brett, referring to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 80% | SARS (5) | 'Side-effects' Are Rather Severe |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, explaining that Patti Rix has had a tough time recently due to precautions about SARS in her part of the world. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | SICK | Stomach Is Curdled & Kaput |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 89% | SICK BABY | So Ill... Can't Kiss it Better. Another Belching Yawn. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | SMELLY | Something Malodorous Exudes.... Lice'll Love You |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SNEEZE | Snotty Nose Effortlessly Energising, Zinging Everywhere. |
Mary Carr |
| 100% | SNIFFLES | Stuffy Nose Initiates Feeling Fatigued, Leaking Excess Snot. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | SOLICITING | Seeking Out Lustful Intercourse Can Induce Terrible Infections Near Genitals |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | SORE | Some Organ's Reddened & Excited |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SPASMS | Sharp Pain As Some Muscle Seizes |
Tony |
| 100% | SPASTIC | Slightly Palsied Athlete Specially To Intrigue Competitors |
Carl Brett |
| 100% | SPASTIC (2) | Slightly Palsied Athlete Specifically To Irritate Carl |
Carl Brett, probably referring to Angela |
| 100% | SPASTIC (3) | Such People Are Surely Talented... It's Cerebral! |
Angela Brett, on Cerebral Palsy. |
| 0% | STAMMER* | Some Strange Sickness Sometimes Sets Traps And Makes Me Enunciate Repetitively |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Communication:Talking |
| 100% | SUNBURN | Shoving Unprotected Nude Bodyparts Under Rays. Nasty! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SWEET PEE | Sugary Wees Equals Endocrine Trouble... Pancreas's Effectiveness Ebbing |
Angela Brett, when Tony apologised for mistyping an 'a' instead of an 'e' in his SWEET PEA expansion. |
| 100% | THROW UP | Tummy, Having Rejected Offering, Will UpChuck Promptly |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | THROMBOSIS | The Heart Rarely Outlives Massive Bloody Objects Stuck In Stream |
Bern Dell |
| 100% | THEATRE | The Hospital's Experts Amputate Threatened / Ruined Extremeties |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Buildings |
| 100% | VENEREAL DISEASE | Victim Enjoyed Numerous Erotic Relationships Evidently - And Long-Dreaded Itch Sometimes Ensues After Sexual Encounters |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | VIRII | Violently Invasive - Readily Initiating Illnesses |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 83% | VIRUS (2) | Virulent Infection Results in Unpleasant Symptoms. |
Angela Brett |
| 83% | VOMIT | Violent Outpouring of Meal Into Toilet |
Angela Brett and Dustan Dowsing |
| 100% | VOMIT (2) | Viscous Odorous Mess - Ill Tummy |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | WARTS | Where A Rubbed Toad Shows |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Old wives tales talk of catching warts from touching toads) |
| 100% | WART VIRUS | Worry Assures Rough Tags, Vicious Indignant Rough Ugly Surface |
Jan Morgan |
| 100% | WASP | Will Anaphylactic Shock Prevail? |
Angela Brett, thinking again of people who are allergic to wasp stings. Science:Biology:Insects |
| 100% | WASPS (2) | When Allergies Strike, People Suffer |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Insects |
| 100% | WASPS (3) | Without Adrenaline, Some People Succumb |
Angela Brett, thinking of people allergic to wasp stings. Science:Biology:Insects |
| 100% | WRYNECK | With Robin You Never Ever Come Kissing |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | YOU ARE SO HOT (2) | You Oughta Use Antibiotics... Reducing Every Symptom Obviously Helps One's Temperature. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | TUBERCULOSIS | The Uneasy Breathing Erodes Resilience, Causing Unhurried Loss Of Strength In Sufferer. |
Angela Brett, when it was thought that Steve might have tuberculosis. |