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ANTELOPEAnimal Naturally Travels Ecosystem Loping Over Pastures, Endurance Jan Morgan -- beautiful animal also called a speed goat
APE"Ancestral Primate" -- Evolutionists Angela Brett
APE (2)Are People Evolved? Angela Brett (many people object to the theory of evolution simply because they don't like the thought of being related to apes.)
APE (3)Actually Practically Extinct. Roger Williams
AYE AYEAre You Even Aware You're Endangered? Angela Brett, referring to the rare species of lemur.
BAABleating, Audible Announcement Dustan Dowsing
Assorted Nouns:Noises
BAA (2)Bleat Among Animals Jan Morgan
Assorted Nouns:Noises
BEARSBig Endearing Animals, Rough & Shaggy Tony McCoy O'Grady
BEAVERBarrier Erecting And Very Energetic Rodent Patricia Rix
BESTIALITYBeing Enslaved Sexually To Indecent Animal 'Loving' Is Totally Yucky Tony McCoy O'Grady
People & Relationships:Love & Lust
BEWARE OF DOGBelieve Exhortations! Woofs And Roars Echo Over Fence. Don't Open Gate! Roger Williams
BLACK CATBrings Luck (Alternately Calamity) Keep Crossing A Trail Tony McCoy O'Grady
BLACK SHEEPBlackguard Lamb Actually Caught Knitting Sweaters Heartlessly Earning Extra Profit Rico Leffanta
BOVINEBeasts Obscuring View In Nature's Environment Tony McCoy O'Greenspace
BROCKBadger's Rare (Or Cant?) Knickname Tony McCoy O'Grady - Brock is a rare word for a badger in England (I'm not really sure if it qualifies as a 'cant' term but the lettering was inviting)
BUNNIESBreeding Unstoppably - Not Neatly In Exact Seasons. Angela Brett
CATCute And Tame Angela Brett, while designing the icon for the 'Export Acronym' button.
CAT (2)Conceited And Temperamental Tony McCoy O'Grady
CAT (4)Creatures Are Terrific! Patricia Rix
CAT (5)Cuddly And Treasurable Tony McCoy O'Grady
CAT (6)Cute At Times Gavin Lambert - My cat can look quite cute sometimes -- when she feels like it :)
CAT (7)Cuddly Adult/Adorable Tabby Jan Morgan
CAT (8)Canines Attack These Kenny Roy
CAT SCANCanine Attempt To Sniff & Calculate Adversary's Nearness Tony McCoy O'Grady
CLARUSComputer Launched Animal Rendering Useful Service Tony McCoy O'Grady, when I suggested that KEYBOARD could fly to earth on CLARUS the DogCow, and he wondered how CLARUS could fly.
Computers:Macintosh & Newton
MacGirl & KeyBoard:Other Characters
COBChestnut Or Bay? Tony McCoy O'Grady
COCKATIELCaptured Ones Can Keenly Attempt To Imitate English Language Angela Brett
COUGARCat Of Unusual Grace And Rapacity Tony McCougar O'Grady
COWCuddly Over - Weight Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
COWSCreators Of White Stuff Angela Brett, who saw lots of cows on her bus trips from Auckland to Palmerston North and back.
COWS (2)Common On Wanganui Soil Angela Brett
COWS (3)Creators Of Wholemilk Sustenance Angela Brett
COWS (4)Calcium - Osteoporosis Withstanding Substance Angela Brett
COWS (5)Coloured Often With Splotches Angela Brett
COWS (6)Cohabitate Often With Sheep Angela Brett
CUBSCute Ursine Babies, Sometimes Tony McCoy O'Grady
DACEDid A Carp Evolve? Angela Brett, in a 2a.m. attempt at the first D acronym.
DACHSHUNDDogs And Cats Have Sometimes Had Unusually Nice Dealings Angela Brett
DEERDoe's Experience Ever Replayed Angela Brett, referring to Bambi
Art & Literature:Fictional Characters
DEER (2)Dawn/Dusk Eats, Evironmental Ritual Jan Morgan
DOEDeer - Oestrogen-Enhanced. Angela Brett
DOGDull Organism. Growls. Steve Keate & Angela Brett
DOG (2)Disgusting Odour - Gross! Steve Keate & Angela Brett
DOG (3)Dependable, Obedient Guardian Angela Brett
DOG (4)Drools On Groin Steve Keate
DOG (5)Defecates On Garden Steve Keate
DOG (6)Disgusting Old Growler Roger Williams
DOG (7)Digital Office Guard cheater200227 -- got the idea when I found the description of a mechanical dog on the internet
Science:Electronics
DOGGYDoberman's Obviously Gonna Get You Tony McCoy O'Grady
DOGSDefinitely Odorous Greedy Sods Mary Carr
DUMB ASSDonkey's Unusually Mute - Brays Are Strangely Silent. Angela Brett
DUMB ASS (2)Doesn't Use Mouth/Mind, But Always Saying Something! Angela Brett (with Mouth, this describes expressive donkey body-language... with Mind, a thoughtless human.)
People & Relationships:Insults
DZIGGETAIDeceives Zoologists, Is Generally Graded 'Equus', Though Ass Indubitably Tony McCoy O'Grady
DZODomestic Zoological Oddity Angela Brett
DZOMOSDomestic Zoological Oddity - Milk Offers Sustenance Tony McCoy O'Grady, as an extension of Angela's DZO.
DZOSDoes Zigzags Over Slopes Tony McCoy O'Grady
ELEPHANTExtremely Large, Extremely Ponderous, Has A Nice Trunk Tony McCoy O'Grady
ELKEmerges Large Kin Jan Morgan -- a kin to DEER
FAWNFrisky Almost Weaned Native Rico Leffanta
FEMALE DOGFrom Every Mammy Alsation's Litter, Extract & Develop One Guidedog Tony McCoy O'Grady
FERRETFurry Entity Rootles Rabbits & Eats Them Tony McCoy O'Grady
FISHFins In Saline Habitat Tony McCoy O'Grady
GIRAFFEGigantic, If Ridiculous, Animal Feeds From Elevation Tony McCoy O'Grady
GOATGnaws On Any Thing! Angela Brett
GOAT (2)Gamboling Over A Tor Patricia Rix
GRIZZLY BEARGiant Runs In Zig Zags, Leaving Your Body Eaten And Rotting Patricia Rix
GROUNDHOGGluttonous Rodent Opens Underground Nest, Digs His Own Grave Patricia Rix
GUARD DOGGet Up And Run... Dogs Don't Only Growl! Roger Williams
HEDGEHOGHe'll Eat Disgusting Garden Entities, Helping Out Gardeners TMcCO'G
HELP ME FIND THE CATHopefully Every Lost Pet May Eventually Find Its Next Dinner (The Human's Emotions Clearly Aren't Topmost!) Angela Brett, when someone searched for that phrase on the website.
HORSEHumans Often Race Speedy Equines. Angela Brett. (Tony replied 'I've never raced a horse in my life! I'm (just about) smart enough to know it would win ;-)')
HORSE (2)Here's One! Relentlessly Sheep Elsewhere. Angela Brett, who saw a lot of sheep but very few horses on her way from Auckland to Palmerston North.
HORSE (3)Harry Only Rides Sally East Uniasus
Transport
HORSE (4)Her Owner's Really Supreme Equestrienne Tony McCoy O'Grady
HORSE (5)His Owner Races Steeplechasers Excellently Tony McCoy O'Grady
HORSESHumans' Overiding/Overall Resource Speed Earthshakin' Steeds! Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
Transport
HUMAN (2)Hands Used Mainly Affecting Neighbourhood Gavin Lambert - After all, our hands are our primary means of manipulating our environment.
People & Relationships
I LOVE MY CATSIntelligent-Looking Only Very Exceptionally -- Mostly Yowling, Careening Around Tired Sleepers Patricia Rix
KITTEN (2)Keepsake Ignores Totally Till Effectively Nestling Jan Morgan
KITTEN (3)Keepsake Impacts Total Territory Effectively Neutral Jan Morgan
KITTYKittens Intend To Tempt You Patricia Rix
LAMBLittle Animal Might Baa Angela Brett, who saw lots of lambs on her bus trips from Auckland to Palmerston North and back.
LAMB (2)Little And Moving Blissfully Niki Widdowson
LAMBSLittlies Adore Most Baby Sheep Angela Brett
LEMMINGLittle, Excitable Mammal Masses In Numberless Groupings Tony McCoy O'Grady
LION'Lunchtime' Is Often Nighttime Tony McCoy O'Grady
LION (2)Lair Is On Ngorongoro Patricia Rix
MAMMALMother Animal Makes Milk And Lactates Angela Brett
MANDARINMany Admit Nibbling Duck And Roasting Is Nice Tony McCoy O'Grady
Food & Drink
MANDARIN (2)Many A Nice Duck Appears Rooted In Nostalgia Patricia Rix (we had Mandarin ducks on the farm when I was a kid)
MONKEYMankind's Other Near Kin Entertain You Tony McCoy O'Grady
MOOSEMoose Often Occupy Swamps, Eating Patricia Rix
MOOSE (2)Mostly Oversized, Obviously Slow Eater Jan Morgan
NOAHNegotiated Original "Animal House" Roger Williams
Names:First names:Male
Religion
PANDAParticular About Native Diet, Apparently Tony McCoy O'Grady
PANTHERProwls Around Nature Trails, Heartily Enjoying Raccoons Tony McCoy O'Grady
PIGPork Is Good! Angela Brett
Food & Drink
PORCUPINEPrickly Old Rascal Climbs Up Pines, Is Noisy Eater Patricia Rix
PRIDE (5)Predators Relish In Devouring Elands Tony McCoy O'Grady
PUMA ATTACKS ZEBRA Pertinent Unto Mainland America, Apparently This Terrible Animal Can Kill Skilful Zoological Entity Based Round Africa Tony the Tiger, after somebody on the forums said 'puny puma pit their skills against zebras.'
PUPPIESPeople Usually Prefer Pets If Extra Small Angela Brett
PUSSPretty, Unusual, Silky, Sleeping Patricia Rix
PUSSY CATPurring Under Suzy's Sweet Yellow Cardie - Absolute Tranquility Mary Carr
QUAGGAQuippers Usually Are Going, 'Great Ass!' Angela Brett
QUAGGA (2)Quite Unusual Animal Genetically Gone Away Patricia Rix
RABBITRandy As Bejaysus, Big Incisor Teeth Tony McCoy O'Grady
RED FOXRusset Earth Denizen Finds Offal Xcellent Patricia Rix
REINDEERRudolph's Exceptional In Nasal Department - Easily Enabling Routefinding Tony McCoy O'Grady
Time:Special Occasions:Christmas
RHINOSRhino Horn Is Not Orgasmically Stimulating Tony McCoy O'Grady
People & Relationships:Love & Lust
SALAMANDERSever A Limb, And Miraculously A Near-Duplicate Emerges. Radical! Angela Brett
SCORRIERSnuffling Canine - Often Revolting - Rootles In Embarrassing Regions Tony McCoy O'Grady (Scorrier is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'A small hunting dog trained to snuffle amongst your private parts.')
Words & Wordplay:Liffs
SHARKSwimming Hazard - A Real Killer TMcCO'G
SHEEPSexually Harassed - Evidently Entertaining People. Angela Brett, who saw lots and lots of sheep on her bus trips from Auckland to Palmerston North and back.
SHEEP (2)Stupid, Helpless, Edible. Eat Pasture. Angela Brett
SHEEP (3)Shearers Help Extract Everyday Product Angela Brett
SHEEP (4)Sexually Harassed, Evidently Enthralling Perverts An anonymous alteration of Angela's SHEEP
SHREWShe Hurls Retribution Entirely Willingly Word Nerd
People & Relationships:Insults
SLOTHSlow, Lumbering, Otiose Tree Hanger Sean Lamb
SQUIRRELSmall Quiet Unique Interesting Rodent Really Enjoys Land Jan Morgan
STUDStable's The Usual Dwelling Angela Brett, after passing a stud farm during a bus trip.
TIGERSThey Inhabit Grasslands Eating Reckless Stragglers Tony McCoy O'Grady
THE DOG HATES THE CATThey Have Enmities Developed Over Generations, Huge Antipathies That Exceed Specification - They Have Eternally Chased And Tumbled TMcCO'G
TABBYThey Are Banded, Braceleted Yowlers Patricia Rix
UAKARIUlulating Anthropoid - Keep Away, Remain Isolated Tony McCoy O'Grady
WHO LET THE DOGS OUT?We Had Our Labradors Especially Tethered... Then How Ever Did One Get Scent Of Unsuitable Territory? Angela Brett (Scent Of could be replaced with Sent Off without changing the meaning much.)
WOMBATWarm Omnivorous Miniature Bear Australians Treasure Rico Leffanta
TROGLODYTEThe Result Of Generations Living Or Dying, Yearning To Evolve Angela Brett
TROGLODYTE (2)This Reeking Old Geezer Lived On Dinosaurs Yet Triumphantly Evolved Patricia Rix
TROGLODYTE (3)This Reeking Old Geezer Lived On Dinosaurs Yesterday: Tomorrow's Epicurean George Rix, as a modification of Patricia's TROGLODYTE (2)
TUNATheir Unknown Numbers Abate Angela Brett
Food & Drink
TUNA (2)The Undiscriminating Netting Abandoned Angela Brett
Food & Drink
TUNASThey're Usually Nice Accompanying Salad Angela Brett
Food & Drink
TURTLEThey Unerringly Return To Lay Eggs TMcCO'G referring to how the females of many breeds of turtle return to the beach where they hatched out, to lay their eggs. After many years of wandering all over the ocean this indicates an uncanny sense of direction.