Apt Phrases, Redolent Of Novel Yet Meaningful Sense
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| 100% | LEMON | Liquid Excitement Makes One Numb |
wishes Food & Drink |
| 100% | LE MORTE D'ARTHUR | Legend Endures, Malory's Ode Recalls The Enemy Defeated And Resolving To Have Ulitmate Revenge |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Art & Literature:Myths & Legends:Arthurian Legend |
| 100% | LEMUEL | Laggard Entity Mainly Used Evil Lavishly |
Jan Morgan -- Book of Mormon Character -- another mean sibling Names:Book of Mormon Characters |
| 100% | LEND A HAND | Looks Easy, Needs Doing, Anyway - Have A Nice Day! |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Advice |
| 100% | LENS | Light Experiences New Shaping |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts Science:Physics |
| 100% | LENS (2) | Lets Eyes Now See |
Roger Williams Science:Biology:Body Parts Science:Physics |
| 100% | LENT | Let's Eat Next Tuesday |
Rico Leffanta Religion Time:Special Occasions |
| 100% | LEO | Lapses Easily Overlooked |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion:Astrology |
| 100% | LEO (2) | Lets Ego Overindulge |
Jan Morgan Religion:Astrology |
| 100% | LEONA | Lady Endures Own Necessary Adventure |
Jan Morgan - someone I know Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | LEONARD SLYE | Likes Enemies On Nooses And Riding Damp Saddles Leaves You Exhausted |
Rico Leffanta (Leonard Slye is better known as Roy Rogers) Names:Famous people:Actors & Actresses:Little known real names |
| 100% | LEONATO | Largely Enjoys Organizing Novelties And Tricking Others |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Much Ado About Nothing |
| 100% | LEONTES | Loses Everything Over Naivete - Then Enlivens Statue |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:The Winter's Tale |
| 100% | LEPTON | Like Electron, Positron, Tau Or Neutrino |
Angela Brett Science:Physics:Particles |
| 100% | LEPTONS | Light Elementary Particles, They Orbit Neutrons Sometimes. |
Angela Brett Science:Physics:Particles |
| 88% | LESBIAN | Lady Enjoys Sexual Behaviour Involving Another Non-male |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust:LGBTQIA |
| 100% | LE SILENCE | Ladies Enthusiastically Seeking Intense Love Experiences Never Come Easily |
Rico Leffanta Entertainment:Movies |
| 100% | LESLEY HORNBY | Let's Eat Sugar Ladies! Eat Yummy Helpings Or Repast Near By You! |
Rico Leffanta (Lesley Hornby is better known as Twiggy) Names:Famous people:Actors & Actresses:Little known real names |
| 100% | LESLIE | Lady's Exceedingly Slim Look Is Emulated |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (The 60s fashion model Twiggy was called Leslie Hornby) Names:Famous people |
| 100% | LESLIE WEIR THE PHOTOGRAPHER | Letting Engine Search Look Into Entire Web, Eventually I Received The Hard Evidence, Phrase Has Only The One Genuine Result - Apronyms Page Has Exact Requirement |
TMcCO'G, who did a websearch for the phrase "Leslie Weir the photographer" and got only this query (on the Unsuccessful Searches page) returned. Now there may be two results! Names |
| 100% | LESOTHO | Large Expanses Still Open To Horses Only. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| 100% | LESOTHOSAURUS | Light, Extra Small One That Had Open Skeleton And Usually Ran Under Shrubs |
Sean Lamb (DinoDictionary says that this small dino 'was probably an agile, two-legged runner based on slender, hollow, thin walled bones, a light skull with many openings, a short neck and forelimbs and the absence of armor.') Science:Biology:Animals:Dinosaurs |
| 100% | LESSER SANITARIA | Lost Every Sensible Strand? Enter Rob's Stupendous Asylum! Nonsense Is There; Any Reasonableness Is Absent. |
Rob Rix, when Angela challenged him to acronymise it after he suggested that the custard-extracting nets of UNDILUTED GRADE A CANADIAN NONSENSE CONCENTRATE would be the primary export of Lesser Sanitaria. Art & Literature:Fictional Places |
| 89% | LESS ROOM | Lots Enter, So Standing Room Only in Overcrowded Mall. |
Angela Brett Places |
| 91% | LETHAL DOSE | Louts Enjoying The Hallucinogenic Attraction of LSD Die Of Scandalous Excess. |
Angela Brett Drugs |
| 100% | LET'S GET HITCHED | Life Enjoyed Together - So Good! Expect To Have Impulse To Cuddle Him/Her Every Day. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce |
| 95% | LET SOMEONE ELSE DO IT | Late Evening Tiredness Shows On My Expansion - Other, Non-Exhausted Expanders Left Some Exercise. [I'll] Do One In Time. |
Angela Brett, when Jeff wanted help with an apronym but she was about to go to bed. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 94% | LET'S VISIT HOLY APES | Long Excursion To See Very Important Spiritualist's Incarnation, Though He's Only (Like You) A Primate (in Every Sense!) |
Angela Brett, after someone searched for that phrase on the website. I hadn't realised that primate could mean bishop before. Religion |
| 100% | LETTER | Little Envelope Tries To Elicit Reading |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Communication |
| 100% | 7 LETTERS | L Extra - That's The Emptying Rack Score |
Angela Brett (in Scrabble, when you use all seven of your letters in a single word you get a bonus 50 points - L is 50 in Roman numerals.) Entertainment:Games |
| 82% | LEVITICUS | Lend an Ecclesiastical Volume... Is This Imperative to Christian's Ultimate Salvation? |
Angela Brett, wondering if she really ought to know what happened in Leviticus. Religion:Bible books |
| 100% | LEVITICUS (2) | Laws Encompassing Votive Intentions, Then Instructions Concerning Uncleanliness & Sin |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion:Bible books |
| 100% | LEWINSKY | Licking Elite Willy Is Nearly Sex! Kenneth Yells. |
Angela Brett Names:Famous people Politics |
| 100% | LEWIS | Loves Extra Warmth, Involves Sun |
Jan Morgan Names:First names:Male |
| 100% | LIAHONA | Leads In Absolute Honorable Obedience, Nephite Adventures |
Jan Morgan -- Book of Mormon compass given to LEHI. Leads to Promised Land Religion |
| 100% | LIAR | Lacking In Absolute Reliability |
Leo Boyes People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 100% | LIBBY | Lying Is Best By You! |
Rico Leffanta Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | LIBERAL DEMOCRATS | Lacking In Basic Educational Resources And Learning Damaging Engineering, Manufacturing, Opportunities, Confidence, Reputation And Tainting Success |
John Richard Jones -- Thoughts in the run up to the General Election 2005 Politics:Parties |
| 100% | LIBERATION OF IRAQ | Looking Innocent, Bush Employs Rhetoric, Attempting To Imply Outrage - Nevertheless, Oil Field Income Really American Quest! |
Chris Kjelgaard Military:War & Terrorism |
| 100% | LIBERIA | Launched Initially By Emancipating Regine In America. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| 100% | LIBERTY | Lady, I Bestow Every Right To You |
Angela Brett People & Relationships |
| 100% | LIBRA | Let's Ignore Brain-Rotting Astrology. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion:Astrology |
| 100% | LIBRA (2) | Lets Impartial Balance Reveal Attribute |
Jan Morgan Religion:Astrology |
| 100% | LIBRARIANS | Love Interesting Books, Read Any Recently? I Admire Novels Sometimes |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
| 100% | LIBRARIANS (2) | Live In Book Rooms And Respond (If Any Noise) "Shhh!" |
Angela Brett, who's never met a librarian who just walks around saying 'Shhh!' but apparently that's the stereotype. People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
| 100% | LIBRARIES | Lend Interesting Books (Rare And Recent) In Eerie Silence |
TMcCO'G Art & Literature Places:Buildings |
| 100% | LIBRARY | Life In Book Room Always Relaxes You |
Angela Brett Art & Literature Places:Buildings |
| 100% | LIBRARY (2) | Let's Investigate Books, Readers All Round You |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Art & Literature Places:Buildings |
| 100% | LIBRARY (3) | Listings Involve Books, Reaching All Readers Yearly |
Jan Morgan Art & Literature Places:Buildings |
| 100% | LIBYA | Lo, I Blacklist You, America. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| 100% | LICE | Little Insects Crawl Everywhere |
Steve Keate Science:Biology:Insects |
| 100% | LICORICE | Liver Infections Cleared - Oriental Records Indicate Clear Evidence |
Tony Food & Drink:Condiments:Herbs |
| 100% | LIE | Love Is Eternal |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Love & Lust People & Relationships:Thoughts:Misconceptions |
| 100% | LIECHTENSTEIN | Little Independent Entity. Companies Have Tax Exemptions Now Superior To Europe's Independent Nations. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| 100% | LIEUTENANT | Low-Initiative-Endowed, Used To Examining Nothing And Not Thinking |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Military:Ranks |
| 100% | LIEUTENANT COLONEL | Long In Experience - Unsung Technical Expert Needs A New Title. Command Of Legions Of Newly Enlisted Looms |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Military:Ranks |
| 100% | LIFE | Likely Isn't For Ever |
Angela Brett People & Relationships |
| 100% | LIFE (2) | Lasts If Food's Effective |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships Food & Drink |
| 100% | LIFE (3) | Lives In Full Effort |
Jan Morgan -- Rank in Boy Scouts Sports & Recreation:Scouts |
| 100% | LIFEBOAT | Lucky Indeed For Everyone's Brought Onboard After Tragedy |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Transport People & Relationships:Disaster |
| 100% | LIFELESS | Lying In Floppy Entropy - Lived, Expired, Sleeping Soullessly |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Death |
| 95% | LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS | Life Is Feasible Exterior to Our Norms, Over The Heavens Expanse Reside "Peoples" Lacking Anthropoidal Natures, Eating Toxic Substances |
Bones McCoy O'Grady Science:Astronomy Science:Biology |
| 100% | LIFER | Locked In For Ever - Revenge! |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order:Criminals |
| 100% | LIFER (2) | Left Inside, Forget Eventual Release |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Law & Order:Criminals |
| 100% | LIFESTYLE | Lets Ignore Financial Efficiency, Spend 'Til You Lose Everything |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Ordinary poor people have 'lives', foolish rich people have 'lifestyles'!) People & Relationships |
| 100% | LIFF | Look Inside For Facts |
Angela Brett - Liff is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'A book, the contents of which are totally belied by its cover...' Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| 100% | LIFFLESS | Lacking In Funny & Frivolous Literature, Erase Smile Signs |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, because he doesn't have a copy of 'The Meaning of Liff' or 'The Deeper Meaning of Liff' Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| 100% | LIFT | Lazily Into Floor Twenty |
Angela Brett Places:Buildings |
| 100% | LIFT (2) | Levitating Interior, For Transportation |
Gavin Lambert Places:Buildings |
| 100% | LIGHT | Lamp Is Generating Heat Too! |
Angela Brett Household Objects Science:Physics |
| 100% | LIGHT (2) | Lightbulb, If Glowing, Has This. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Household Objects Science:Physics |
| 100% | LIGHTEN UP! | Less Intensity! Getting Heated Too Easily Normally Upsets People. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Advice |
| 88% | LIGHTER | Look - Inhaling Git - How Tobacco-smoke Enfuses Room |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Drugs:Tobacco |
| 100% | LIGHTNING | Little Ions Get Humming Then... Nailed! It's Not Good |
Roger Williams Science:Meteorology |
| 100% | LIGHT YEAR | Lightspeed Information Gets Here To Yonder Each Annual Rotation |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Measurement |
| 83% | LIMBO | Lasting Internment (if) Missed Baptism Occurs |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion |
| 100% | LIME IMAC | Licking It Made Evident It Maybe Ain't Citrus. |
Angela Brett Computers:Do Not Eat:iMac Fruit Salad |
| 100% | LIMERICK | Less Is More Except Rhymes In Celtic Knots |
Rico Leffanta Art & Literature |
| 100% | LIMP | Lost Insert Member Prostrate |
Rico Leffanta Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | LIMP (2) | Leg In Much Pain. |
Roger Williams Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 83% | LINDA | Lovelace In New Deep-throat Adventures |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:Famous people:Actors & Actresses |
| 100% | LINDA (2) | Lives In Nurturing Domain, Actually |
Jan Morgan - someone I know Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | LINDSAY | Lazy In Nature, Dull, Snobbish Actually. Yuppie |
Jan Morgan -- combo of 2 people Names:First names |
| 100% | LINE | Left Impregnated, Not Estimable |
Angela Brett (Line is HANS THOMAS's grandmother, who became pregnant to a German soldier and was hated for it) Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Solitaire Mystery |
| 100% | LINEN | Living In Nuptials Enhances Nookie |
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the linen (4th) wedding anniversary. Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries |
| 100% | LINEN (2) | Lust? It Never Exists Now. |
Angela Brett, giving a different slant to the 4th wedding anniversary. Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries |
| 100% | LINGUA LATINA | Latin Is Not Gone -- Used 'AM' Lately? Also There's Information Not Anglicizable. |
Jeff Anonymous, expanding the Latin language's name for itself -- and noting its continued relevance, even in daily conversation where in abbreviated form 'ante meridiem' its head rears, in addition to the fact that there are many literary works that do not translate terribly well into English -- the meter of Virgil, for example, cannot be preserved well in a translation out of Latin. Science:Linguistics |
| 100% | LINK | Locates Internet Networked Knowledge |
Gavin Lambert Computers:Internet |
| 100% | LINKIN PARK | Lyrical Individuals Negotiate Kismet In Notes, Pleasing Adolescents, Reaching Kids |
Jan Morgan - musical group Entertainment:Music:Artists |
| 100% | LINKS | Last Inventive 'Nym? Keep Surfing! |
Angela Brett, because if you ever manage to read all the acronyms at http://acronyms.co.nz, you can still go to the Links page at http://acronyms.co.nz/links.html and view some related websites. Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website:Page Titles |
| 100% | LINUS TORVALDS | Let's Invent New Unix System, To Overthrow Redmond's Vacuuming All Licenses & Decent Software |
delt Names:Famous people Computers:Linux |
| 100% | LINUX | Lovely... If Not Using Xwindows! |
Angela Brett Computers:Linux |
| 100% | LINUX (2) | 'Life'less Incurable Nerds Use Xchat |
Angela Brett Computers:Linux |
| 100% | LION | 'Lunchtime' Is Often Nighttime |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | LION (2) | Lair Is On Ngorongoro |
Patricia Rix Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | LIP | Lick If Parched |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | LIPS | Lively If Person's Speaking |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | LIPS (2) | Lovely If Pursed Sweetly |
Patricia Rix Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | LIPS (3) | Luscious In Pearly Sheens |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Body Parts People & Relationships:Beauty & Hygiene |
| 100% | LIPS (4) | Licking Indicates Passionate Sexuality |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | LIPS (5) | Luscious, Irresistable, Person-Smoochers |
Kenny Roy & Tamaryn Roy Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 89% | LIPSTICK | Lusty, Intense Pink Shades To Increase Colour of Kisser |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Beauty & Hygiene:Beauty Products |
| 100% | LIPSTICK (2) | Loves Inciting Peckers She Tattoos In Cold Kisses |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Beauty & Hygiene:Beauty Products |
| 100% | LIPSTIK | Long Island Princess Sporting Tacky Industrial Klothing |
Diva Jeri. Developed to describe women with fake blond hair, black eyebrows, and grating voices who wear clothes with designer names publicly displayed. People & Relationships:Personality Traits People & Relationships:Beauty & Hygiene |
| 100% | LIQUOR | Liquid I Quaff Unceasingly, Often Refreshing. |
Angela Brett Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic |
| 100% | LIRA | Loot Italians Rapidly Accumulated |
Tony -- The defunct Italian currency was worth very little and one cashed large notes to buy the cheapest items and received a large quantity of near-worthless coinage. Commerce:Money |
| 100% | LISA | Lone Intelligent Simpson Artiste |
Angela Brett and Tony McCoy O'Grady (there are other intelligent female Simpsons, but they're not on TV often) Entertainment:TV shows:The Simpsons |
| 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) Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments Communication:Talking |
| 100% | LIST OF ACRONYMS | Look - Index.html's Sitemap Tells Of Full Alphabetical & Categorised Records. Obviously Now You've Merely Searched. |
Angela Brett, when someone searched the Acronyms website for 'list of acronyms'. The site map at http://acronyms.co.nz/index.html links to full alphabetical listings and lists of acronyms by category. Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website |
| 100% | LIST OF TWELVE ACRONYMS | Look, I Should Tell Of Feature That Will Eventually Let Visitors Easily Add Collections, Regardless Of Number You Might Seek. |
Angela Brett -- I don't know why someone searched for this phrase, but no category listing is guaranteed to have only twelve acronyms, even the months and zodiac signs have had more added. However, I am considering putting in place a system so that people can compile their own lists of related acronyms (which wouldn't otherwise be together in category lists) and one could be made which includes twelve apronyms only. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 100% | LITHIUM | Lightens Internal Tensions, Happily Is Useful Medicine |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry:Elements |
| 100% | LITHUANIA | Locked Into That Horrid Ussr, And Now Into Autonomy. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| 100% | LITTERBOX | Like Infectious Toxic Tornado, Emanations Render Breathing Only Xperimental |
Patricia Rix Household Objects |
| 100% | LITTLE BO PEEP | Loss Is The True Lesson Exemplified By Old Poem: Ewes Escape Paddock |
Patricia Rix Art & Literature:Nursery Rhymes |
| 100% | LITTLE BOY BLUE | Lad Is Tired, Tries Lessening Effort But -- Oh Yikes! -- Boy Lets Ungulates Escape |
Patricia Rix Art & Literature:Nursery Rhymes |
| 100% | LITTLE BROTHER | Life Is Terribly Tough. Look, Everyone's Big Relative Often Tries Heavyhanded 'Exactive' Relationship |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who knows that elder brothers often try to 'blackmail' younger brothers (he's both a younger and an older brother!). People & Relationships:Family |
| 100% | LITTLE JACK HORNER | Lad Is Taking To Licking Extremities: Just At Christmas, Kid Has Own Rich Nosh; Eats Ravenously. |
Patricia Rix Art & Literature:Nursery Rhymes |
| 100% | LITTLE MISS MUFFET | Lass Is Terrified That Leggy Encroachment Means Itsa Spider! She Makes Undignified Flight From Eeky Terrestrial! |
Patricia Rix Art & Literature:Nursery Rhymes |
| 100% | LITTLE ROOM | Leg It To Toilet - Liquid Egestion's Rarely Obliging, Often Messy. |
Angela Brett Places:Buildings:The 'Little Room' |
| 100% | LIVE | Life Is Visually Evil |
Rico Leffanta Religion |
| 100% | LIVE (2) | Love Immensely/Innovatively Violent Enemies! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. People & Relationships |
| 100% | LIVID | Losing It, Very Intensely Distressed |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Emotions |
| 100% | LIVID (2) | Lead Isn't Vivid, It's Dull |
Angela Brett, thinking about how livid rhymes with vivid despite having almost the opposite meaning. Assorted Adjectives:Colours |
| 100% | LLANELLI | Limp-Limbed After Natation - Essay Loosening Liquid Involuntarily |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Llanelli is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'Descriptive of the waggling movement of a person's hands when shaking water from them or warming up for a piece of workshop theatre.') Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| 100% | LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH | Love Lost And Never Found Again Is Really Pitiful! When Love Lapses, Going Where You've Never Gone, Your Love Life Grows Onerous, Gilding Every Reason You Chose Heartache, When You Really Need Desirable Romantics Opening Borders Which Lady Luck Lets Love Align Neatly To Your Senses. Inviting Love In Over Grief Opens Galaxies; Only Going Out Cultivates Healing! |
Rico Leffanta, who mentions that the website of this tiny village in Wales can be found at http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk/say.htm. Places:Towns & Cities:UK |
| 100% | LMAO | Likely Mildly Amused... Overexaggerating |
Angela Brett (LMAO usually stands for Laughing My A*se Off) Laughter Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational |
| previous apronyms beginning with L | more apronyms beginning with L |