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Hellatine Dictionary of Bureaucratese
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abbrevate;
v., To shorten text or reduce font size such that reader comprehension is reduced as an unintended consequence.
(contracted form: abbreviate)

abmure;
v., To make absurd suggestions, esp. during brainstorming sessions; to fill silences with idiocies. Also abmurancy, abmurant.
(L. ab mura: off the wall)

abrevision;
n., Deleterious supervisory alterations to a project which are beyond appeal or mitigation. Work made worse by revision.
(L. rarum res re ab viseo: a circus act made more dangerous by use of a blindfold )

absentiment;
n., A statement made by silence.  "Chris ignored the invitation to Cheryl's baby shower, as an absentiment -- a third child, sired by a third boyfriend was just too much."
(L. ab sentimentis: without statement)

abvice;
n., Incompetent help from others, especially superiors.
(L. ab victo: away from success)

abvisce;
v., to render powerless or meaningless. Also abviscete, abviscent.
(L. ab: without + viscera: guts)

abvise;
v., to give bad council or counterproductive assistance.
(L. ab viseo: blindfolded)

accretiate;
v., To praise excessively and indiscriminately.
(comb. accrete + appreciate )

acronism;
n., The subconscious belief that the name or acronym of a project or project team can confer special protection or guarantee of success.
(Engl. acronym: the initials of a phrase presented or used as a word)

acrost;
n., The right word in the wrong place, or the wrong word in the right place.
(jargon, crossword puzzle design: a word which fits the definition and allotted space, but ruins the puzzle)

additative;
n., An internal redundancy of syllables inserted solely to improve the perceived importance or credibility of a word or the speaker, as in preventivebecoming preventative.
(Eng. corrupt.: additive)

addometer;
n., (anat.) that portion of the cerebral cortex dedicated to mental calculation. (Brit. var.: addometre)  Not to be confused with adometer.
(Gr.: addomos metor: estimator)

adheur;
v., To test by experiment or subject to verification.
(G. heuriskein: to discover)

adminocrap;
n., Policy, rules, regulations, or laws promulgated soley to demonstrate to power and authority of an adminocrat.
(comb. adminocrat +crap)

adminocrat;
n., An autocratic administrator known for producing adminocrap.
(comb. adimistrative+autocrat)

administrivia;
n., Regulations or requirements which are beyond challenge or revision because they predate the employment of the officials that uphold them.
(comb.: administrate + trivia)

adminutia;
n., Elements of administrivia which routinely generate protests answered by, "I don't make the rules, I just enforce them."
(comb.: admistrate + minutia)

adnegate;
v., To render a proposal anorchile specifically by an ammendment or ammendments which contradict the original purpose.
(L. ad negatum: to nothing)

adometer;
n., An instrument designed to measure just how much ado is being made over a particular nothing.
(engl.: ado + meter)

affectuate;
v. to dress something up with inappropriate attributes to mask a less than acceptable subtext.  Not to be confused with effectuate.
(comb. affect + actuate)

agreance;
n., A state of mistaken concordance, where both parties erroneously interpret the position of the other to be in line with their own.
(L. ad grea: toward collision)

aggrement;
n., Hostility or opposition to an idea which has built up over time, such that there will be no discussion or decision, irrespective of merit.
(L. aggrementum: bue)

agonate;
v., To torture a subject and those damned to discussing it by the repeated reopening of previously settled elements.
(inverbiative: agony)

aholibate;
v., To bring both sides in a campaign to equal levels of small-minded meanness of spirit.
(contraction: a-holes debate)

akaphma;
n., A statement or document which is universally consistent in interpretation.
(mythol. akaphma: a magic jewel that affords the bearer universal language)

akse;
v., To offer a question of such brutal stupidity that it stuns the listener.
(Norw. akse: a stone used to pound okum into the seams of wooden boat hulls. )

alievski;
n., A loyal and indispensible yet unsung assistant, usually assigned to an affable but completely disorganized functionary. See also criznomski.
(mythical character from Soviet bureaucratic lore)

Alphachromatology;
n., The science of classification by symbolic colors or auras of printed or written textual and numeric characters; the basis for color selection in pie charts.
(Gr. alphabeta: letters + chromo: color)

alpeaux;
n., Boilerplate text passed off as original or unique.
(Fr. alpeaux: horseflesh used for dogfood)

alternotive;
n., A counter-recommendation made to advance the unstated interests of the speaker.
(L. rerum alternotarum: unwritten things)

alzino;
n., A microunit of comprehension or understanding approximately equal to half of a standard IQ point.
(after Dr. Masin Alzino, founder of the School of Conundral Logic)

ambolic;
adj., Phrases inserted in order to give power to a statement, often intended to become soundbites.
(pharm. Ambolerol: a naturally occuring steroid used in oriental herbal medicine.  Derived from the plant, Macrotestis draconis.)

amdegate;
v., The use of special letterhead or the inclusion of proprietary symbols in a document in order to lend wieght or credence.
(from the jesuit acronym, AMDG: Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam.)

amny;
n., Convenient memory; the ability to forget one's own missteps, errors, and criminal activities.
(L. ab mnea: without memory)

ampular;
see empule

anachronym;
n., An acronym misapplied in temporal terms, such as calling the Russian federal police the KGB, or referring to Russia as the USSR, etc.
(comb. acronym + anachronism)

anhingant;
adj., Unexpectedly well suited to a task. Seemingly ill-designed yet efficient.
(Tupi. anhinga: snakebird)

anjouant;
adj., Describing the body habitus of the seasoned bureaucrat; a proportion of lower to upper body mass approximating the Golden Mean.
(Fr. anjou: pear-shaped)

annat;
n., a grunt or verbal tic expressed automatically at intervals, to give the false impression that the listener is still listening.
(Scot. annat: a small wood duck, known for continuing to utter noises after dead.  A bane of highland fowlers.)

anorchile;
adj., Powerless; futile; impotent. Also anorchistry.
(L. an orchis: without testicles)

anoxymoron;
n., a transipidate pairing of terms, where even the dullest of comparisons seems bright.
(Gr. anoxy: without air + moron: air-head)

apricate;
v., To reduce a statement to absolute brevity without loss of context.
(L. aprica: peach pit )

apsody;
n., Irrational fear of repeating an error.
(Gr. psodos: stammering)

ardnass;
n. an impossibility plausibly presented, as is good science fiction. Also ardnassic.
(orig. unknown)

arostrate;
adj. Blunt or dull; without distinguishing characteristics.
(L. ab rostrum: without nose)

arpiture;
Any component designed to fail under stress in order to halt further progress, with the intention of limiting further damage.
(orig. uncert.)

asskey;
n., Any keystroke struck in frustration, most typically in an attempt to revive a frozen system.  The group secretary could be heard asking Tech Support, "so
where's the asskey"?
(orig. Southern US dial., ASCII)

attitone;
n., A verbal communication which cleverly conveys non-verbal clues.  "The comptrollers attitone made it clear that the Sisyphus Project would continue."
(comb. attitude + tone)

aunic;
adj. Having the properties of, or resembling an aun. adv., In an aun-like fashion.
(Aun. aun: aun)

automissivity;
n., The level of indwelling risk of or proclivity toward being or becoming a loose cannon. The tendency to go off half-cocked.
(Gr. auto: self + L. mitto: to send)

azaphic;
adj., Rubelike; guiless by virtue of ignorance. Innately or congenitally defective.
(Gr.a: without + zaphos: pinch or short measure. Refers to a facial defect associated with incestuous origin)


barbative;
adj., Presenting a cold, negative manner, e.g. when faced with an interview, and clamming up, and becoming reserved, monosyllabic, difficult.
(botany. barbate: covered in short stout spikes or sharp scales.)

barmstrong;
adj., Unshakable in an erroneous conviction or belief.  also barmstrength
(Brit. slang. barmy: crazy + Eng. strong )

barshamana;
n., An innocuous nonesense reply used to gently dismiss the statement or opinion of someone that does not realize the meaniningless nature of the reply. "James routinely countered the impossible requests from his ignorant manager with eloquent barshamana, which was always accepted simply as technical jargon."
(Yid. barshamana: sheep manure)

beable;
v., to consider a decision only under immediate duress.
(OE, beable: the deaf and mute guard traditionally stationed at the door of the torture chamber)

bebaism;
n., Ingrained mediocrity or laziness jealously defended by the corporate culture.
(Malout Beba, 14th century cult leader espousing sleep as the highest form of active meditation.)

bedreaded;
adj., Overgrown; weedy; a xygency of neglect.
(Rastafarian: b'dread'd: with superlative dreadlocks)

beel;
n., A bouscent, jenking bureaucrat; one that constantly annoys and alienates all his co-workers.
(OE: beele: an inferior rat dog.)

bissenstein;
n., An unpleasant but necessary action which has no alternative.   "It was a bissenstein for Dave to proose the amended legislation."
(Ger: bissenstein or bissen stein: a kissing stone or to kiss stone)

blage;
v., To strigulate or halt a process by focus on unimportant detail or details. n., the element of a discussion or negotiation which, without merit, forms the basis for impasse or filibuster. Also blagery.
(It. blaggio: a stomach cramp.)

blilb;
v., To come in while the worker isn't there and alter a project he's been working on so that it no longer works. To surreptitiously remove an essential part of a device. "Wood blilbed the aluminum prism out of René Blondlot's N ray device. Blondlot saw no change, thus proving that N rays were a figment of his imagination."
(Hebr. bli leb: with the heart missing)

bobwork;
n., Work innocently performed off-book; untraceable items added to or removed from a file or document without any authorization, paper trail, supporting research, or fraudulent intent.  The hallmarks of bobwork are twofold: 1.) the file or document establishes troublesome precedent, and 2.) The precedent cannot be rescinded or ammended, since its source is obscured.
(Orig. in blame of generic unavailable person:  "I think Bob handled that case before he went into the nursing home.")

bohica;
n., A state of resigned paranoia.
(Bohic:  the historically most frequently conquered people in Europe)

bonzonize;
v., To dress up or improve a mediocre product by use of a showy presentation or slick marketing; the use of flarbage.
(L. bonus: good + Gr. girdle)

bosnog;
n., A seemingly ironclad proposal with a purposely built-in achilles heel.  Software which later allows the developer inappropriate access to customer data.
(Sipanyi mythol, Bos Nog: the Bull with a hollow horn)

bosquare;
n., The boss of one's boss.
(deriv. math.: boss squared)

bourbose;
adj., Long winded, disjointed speech; given to frequent changes in direction or apparent intent.
(OE. bourbor: a sodden chronic alcoholic)

bousce;
v., To occupy a position for the sake of occupation or out of habit. n., a stand taken without conviction. Also bouscent.
(Fr. boisce: a large, plain shirt)

bress;
v., To quickly iron or press one's no-iron clothing; to make last minute changes which neither enhance nor detract, but kill time.
(Dutch. beeress: to dust )

browl;
v., To complain with false bravado, especially after public humiliation.
(OE. the owner of the losing rooster in a cockfight.)

bubbaform;
adj., Lowbrow; oversimplified; idiotproofed.
(Amer. slang. bubba + L. forma: shape )

bucoleric;
n., an angry country person.
(Eng. comb: bucolic+choleric )

bue;
n., Palpable tension during official proceedings which stem from unrelated hostility between two or more participants.
(from a metal trades acronym: Built Up Edge)

buildiness;
Descriptive yaddage used to enhance the image of an institution in its prospectus.
(Ger. bildnis: portrait)

bumbative;
adj., Disguised as colloquial or provincial  in appearance or manner, in order to disarm a potential adversary.  "Mary took a bumbative tack in her opening remarks to the jury, but her real target was opposing counsel."
(orig. uncert.)

Bureaucratology;
n., The study of bureaucrats and bureaucracy.  Arguably a grim fascination rather that a true field of study.

butonic;
n., Any political view or ideology reduced to a slogan designed to fit on a pin, button or other small clothing accessory, as either a symbol or as text. adj.. Describing a political stand which has been reduced, ad absurdam, to fit the limted intellectual or philosophical capacity of its proponent. Also butonism.
(Fr. boutonier: a decorative element worn in a buttonhole)

carabudug;
n., A false act of penetence, intended to deflect further scrutiny or punishment.
(Hebr. kara: kneel + Mongol. ebedug: unbended knee)

caryblairic;
adj., Bearing bad news or an awful truth.
(medicine. cary blair: a sample container used for fecal material )

casp;
n., Self-serving and self-perpetuating stagnation, through the embrace of perceived victimhood.
(acronym, psychol.: Chronic Acute Self Pity)

castigrate;
v., To punish by brutal public humiliation which goes beyond public non-support or scapegoating; to throw to the wolves.
(L. castigrere: to catapult [a person] over the battlements)

centeral;
adj., Being at the core of a false memory; corruptionof the probability concept holding that the more times a place is visited, the more it becomes real to the visitor.  "My work has been centeral to the success of this program."
(comb. form: central+ integral)

chank;
n., A lower level manager, a supervisor, a lieutenant; a continuously irritating person with whom one must contend as a direct consequence of accepting employment. v., To harrass by constant challenge or questioning of mode, method or means. To maliciously derail another's train of thought.
(corr. Fr. chancre: an unhealing sore)

chariman;
n., A leader too timid to lead.  One hamstrung by an overblown fear of offending others.
(OE chary man: a simpleton frightened by everything)

chetotic;
adj., Nit-picking by nature; obtuse.
(Gr. cheto + tomy: to split a whisker)

ciliment;
n., a troubling detail; a sticking point. Also cilimentary, cilimence.
(L. cili-: hairs, hairy)

cimorifia;
n., A display of gestures and body language which unintentionally contradict a speaker's text or intent, possibly a form of Turet's syndrome.
(It. cimifiori: signal flags)

cinchion;
n., That attribute or connection which makes impossible the removal of an incumbant officeholder.
(Sp. Cinchon: knot)

circuma;
n., Peripheral spin-offs of a proposal or project which only divert, dilute or disguise the central concept;
(L. circuma: weedy suckers arising from the base of a tree )

circumvade;
n., a well-choreographed maneuver, artfully executed so as to duck responsibility.  True practicioners can do this reflexively, without thinking. v., to perform such a maneuver.
(comb. circumvent + evade)

cissic;
adj., Forming a natural junction or break point. n., a detachable part. Also cissism
(L. cisso: to cut off)

civicorb;
n., A subergate blue collar public sector employee which enjoys immunity from responsibilities work requirements by a combination of wits, union affiliation, and venomous disposition.
(L. Corvis civicus: a city crow)

clabberation;
n. The muddle produced by a team when the members are at loggerheads with each other or lack essential skills or knowledge for the project.
(Gael. clabar: churn)

cladofenes;
n., naysayers
(Gr. clado: to throw + fenes: out the window)

clafir;
n., A public information officer especially gifted in the art of "spin."
(Turk. clafir: lierally, a royal clothier; a valet or personal assistant to an emir)

clafiricate;
v., To successfully sell setbacks as progress.
(Turk. clafir: lierally, a clother; a valet or personal assistant to an emir)

cleidokakism;
n., the intentional concealing of defects or faults. Also cleidokakist,-ry.
(Gr. cleido: to hide + kakis: the worst)

coapt;
v., Any word, phrase or material copied or lifted to better use elsewhere. Also: co-apt.
(comb. co-opt + apt)

cofidance;
n., A doomed alliance between two or more incompetents.
(L. cum fide dunce: with faith in folls)

cognosticate;
v., To, with calm exterior, internally struggle to remember someone's name while in conversation with that person.
(Cognostics. applied study of nmemonics)

cognought;
adj., Incapable of seeing incompetence in a colleague, particularly one's own nominee or appointee; blinded by pride or misplaced loyalty.
(L. cogna nullat: seeing nothing)

cohurt;
n., Fellow victims of a specific layoff.
(comb. cohort + hurt)

collention;
n., A strategy of shared pain.  "Collention from the Engineering Department soon had the Sales Division in an uproar, which led to a suspension of outsourcing."
(L. collentii: prisoners chained together)

colial;
adj., Layered or with a tendency to form layers or strata.
(L. colere: to repaint)

comboberate;
v., To actively complicate something in order to fortify it against audit.
(Swahalo-French pidgin. com bobo: the work of monkeys)

combolete;
adj., Structurally or contextually obtuse or distorted. N., An element of an argument which untintentionally defeats or discredits the argument.
(L. combolus: an object choked upon)

commisherate;
v., To placate with false empathy for an imagined wrong, usually so as not to aggravate an insane or drunken person.  "We all commisherated with Jim, it was clear that he'd been drinking all morning and no one wanted a reprise of last year's incident."
(slurred form of commiserate)

compulcate;
v., Unnecessary addition of details, driven by lack of confidence.
(L. compulchrae: face paint or make-up used by prostitutes)

concortion;
n. anything rendered inflexible as a direct result of an attempt to simplify or make it more user friendly.
(Medicine. side effect of cortisone overdose)

condise;
v. To redefine by sheer force of confident delivery.
(L. con que de se: with what of this)

confest;
v., To waste or steal resources under the cover of a far more wasteful or corrupt entity. "The draining of the social fund was a cleverly confested scheme, with the stock inflation scandal taking the limelight."
(contraction: co-infestation)

confurcation;
n., pathological habitual hairsplitting.
(L. con furcus addendum: forks added)

congrestion;
n., The paralysis of process, intentionally inflicted or not.
(comb.: Congress + congestion.)

considertion;
n., Lip service paid with a show of pained magnanimity.
(L. considion: a criminal serving a term of temporary enslavement.)

consolidarity;
n., Agreement among individuals usually intolerant of one another; grassroots polodomy.
(comb. consolation + solidarity )

cont;
n.,  The next-to-last added detail.  "Bailey threw in his last cont just before the vote was taken.  It was doomed, and everyone knew it."
(contraction: continuum)

contragarious;
adj., repellent in nature; unfriendly.
(L. contra: against + gregaricus: group or gathering)

coolerant;
adj., Outwardly mildly prejudiced while inwardly rednecked, as a result of social or legal pressure. BR>(comb. cool + tolerant)

cormal;
adj. offered in the nature of a decoy, to test for risk
(Botany: after the first shoots from a bulb or corm, which may regrow if killed by late frost)

cormorous;
adj., Superficially functional; occupying a position which appears far more influential or important than it is. Harmless or politically captive.
(OF. coer merant: a trained bird used for fishing)

corporated;
adj., Fleshed out; fattened up; packaged for presentation.
(L. corpora: body )

corsh;

corvilling;
n. The grumbling background sound of discontent or rising protest from a mob approaching irrational action.
(L. corvis: raven)

cosmotic;
adj., From an alternate plane of existense or spirituality.  As a pejorative: flaky.
(comb. cosmic + osmotic: seepage from the universe)

coughter;
n., A ripple of audience noise which punctuates and underlines a gross public misstatement or gaff.
(comb.: cough + laughter)

coun;
n., A micromanager in denial. One that while professing faith in underlings, snares them in a safety net.
(L. semper com unem: always with one)

covality;
n., A single shared passion which bonds two or more otherwise incompatible people.  "The covality which held the Bell-Spewicks' marriage together was their dedication to the Green Party."
(medicine, covalent twin: conjoined twins sharing an arm or hand)

crappenstance;
n., an occurance of bad luck, which as part of a trend, exceeds statistical expectations.
(comb. crappy + happenstance)

criznomski;
n., The bureaucratic equivalent of a court jester, derived from a mythical mid-level bureaucrat whose combination of jaded humor, clever deviousness, and big heart manage to keep a bloated but critical agency from collapse; a mythic lowercase hero, anonymous and faceless, about whom many jokes and tales developed within the soviet system, a direct descendant of the czarist era Lieutenant Kieje. See also alievski
(Soviet Russian argot, a fictitious surname roughly meaning "nameless")

croquane;
adj., Leading to unintended consequences which should have been obvious ahead of time.
(Fr. croquet: the strike of the mallet on ball)

Crumbach's method;
n., a method employed by some writers to conserve all ideas, irrespective of merit.  The keeping of text fragments edited from documents for potential use in other documents.  Akin to the way bakeries save stale product which is ground, toasted and used to coat some donuts.

cuada;
n., A direct and expedient political action, without pretense of tact; usually concerned with self-preservation at any cost.
(Arabic. Q'ada: the assassin's blow)

cupate;
v., to become a funtional employee by drinking coffee.
(comb.: cup + pupate)

curantee;
n., A cleverly worded and often susquasyllabic disclaimer which seems to guarantee or embellishes the claimed value of an item or idea.
(L. curanto: a curse)

cution;
n., The excessive managerial worrying, nagging, or obsession with a task which inspires resistance in the ranks to its completion.
(It. cutio: to shake violently)

cutnose;
n., A stubborn, vindictive sort who would "cut off his nose to spite his face".
(comb. Cut + nose)

Cyclomethod, Cyclomethodics;
n., A training scheme based on the maxim that any behavior may be extinguished by repeated failure.  Cycomethodics dictates that the negative reinforcement must be neutral and beyond the apparent control of any person, and therefore best administered via software interface.  Published as Cyclomethodics: the Principles of Applied Rundancy by Dr. Snow just before his last dissappearnce.
 

czil;
n., A person that speaks the truth or elicits it from the timid or reluctant, regardless of the consequences.
(Gr. via Russian. xylon: wooden mallet used for striking clapperless bells during religious services)

dayness;

decateur;
n. A person proficient in the use of defective or obsolete technology or software.
(Fr. decature: ploughman)

deffo;

delabrose;
adj., Patently and unabashedly false or treacherous.
(L. without lips)

delegrate;
v., Spucery for the sake of spucery; delegation of useless or demeaning tasks in order to maintain appearance of superiority.
(comb. delegate + denigrate)

delamerous;
adj., Strange and unexpected; unpredictable; capricious.
(Fr. de la mer: from out of the sea)

delide;
v. To cry at someone or something, especially one who did not expect to be cried at.
(Láadan. delishe: cried or wept)

dellaishment;
n., Mental anguished suffered after attempting to complete a mundane task complicated by interaction with administrative support personnel.
(It. morta della assimenta: death from overwork)

demdedose;
adj., Lost in the details; hung up on details.
(Scot. demdedo: a tool used to incise the most intricate scrollwork)

demerolize;
v., Too placate a workforce by use of insubstantial rewards, such as employee-of-the-month parking spaces, casual dress days, and parking lot barbecues after hours.
(pharm. demerol: a widely used anti-anxiety drug)

depure;
v., To add elements or language to a project which lend the appearance of long standing, and thereby credibility.
(Chem.: to add a contaminant known to enhance the desired reaction)

derulation;
n., an increasingly risky strategy or activity.
(L. de rulata ab rulata: from one narrow ledge to another)

deteriogeny;
The natural and inevitible entropy or decay of bureaucracy; malignant fuzziness of purpose.
(L. deterio genesis: the end starts from the beginning)

despiction;
n., the image formed in the air in front of a speaker by his or her hand gestures.
(comb.: description + depiction)

dessimilate;
v., To expel gradually; to passively ignore or shun an individual in order to drive them away.
(L: undo + simila: sameness)

dictoral;
n., Procedure or instruction informally communicated to new manager/supervisor, typed up and distributed by same without attribution.
(contraction: dictatorial)

didadid;
n., A no-win situation; bureaucratic or political quicksand.
(Aboriginal Austral. a drowning person)

digilent;
adj., Attentive to distractions; easily misled or thrown off.
(Dyslexic corruption: diligent + vigilant)

digm;
n., A poorly defined or undefined concept. Also digmal.
(Gr. digmo: eel)

digret;
v., To interrupt a conversation with a string of unwarranted apologies.
(Eng. comb: digress+regret )

dinano;
n.,  A paranoid state wherein the sufferer suspects that they are the only one that does not know a vital secret
(Indones. dinano: a dust devil )

dintrul;
n., a devious and often counterproductive partial restoration of a revute through administrative rulemaking.
(Partial retetion: aDmINistrative RULe)

dipid;
adj. Vetted to blandness; so inoffensive as to insult intelligence.  "The last draft was dipid before it got to the final review committee, but was sent back for a full rewrite nonetheless."
(Gr. dipido id: without personality)

diptine;
adj., Potentially hazardous to credibility; with potential to embarrass. Also diptic, diptinous.
(Gr. dipso, diptino-: drunken; swaying)

diption;
n., The self-amusing ramblings of [most often] engineers and archeologists, full of jargon and arcane esoterica of no interest or value to anyone other than the speaker; a form of bourbosity.
(comb.: diptine + dictation)

discomboberate;
v., To undo bobwork. See also comboberate
(Eng. dis+Swahalo-French pidgin. com bobo: the work of monkeys )

disdose;
n., Acceptance or resignation to one's lot in life or career stagnancy; a benign mental numbness. Also disdosition.
(R. Cathol.: St. Disdo, an accidentally martyred fourth-century half-wit, the patron saint of the ignorant)

disentraist;
n., One for whom the compassion for individuals has obliterated the sense of compassion for the community.
(L. disentra spectabilis, a garden favorite)

disgression;
n., Sanctioned profligacy;  "Headley's six month training abroad was unabashed disgression, but then being married to the chairman's daughter has its rewards."
(L. dis gresso camino: to go off the path)

disnotation;
n., An error which corrupts associated data such that the original data set cannot be reconstructed by regressive steps; any plausible yet erroneous concept which goes undetected or unchallenged.
(chess: an error,or combination of errors in the record of a game or illegal moves which go unnoticed during play.)

disotic;
n., One zealously and resolutely opposed to an idea or argument such that compromise, sanction or reason will dissuade them.
(Gr. dis + oto: he that will not hear it)

distinguinate;

dormal;
adj., The usual or expected state of an audience during a post-lunch presentation.
(L. dormare: to sleep)

downlote;
n., A cyber-opportunist. v., To hide flaws behind flashy computer or internet jargon.
(comb. download + coyote )

drection;
n., Guidance provided in a manor in accordance with the systems of jerrynomics and/or lasbinomics.  Seemingly basic policies are expanded to detract from any final decisions being made.  Any useless or misleading instruction set which nonetheless fully conforms to the style and grammatical guidelines constraining the author and editors.
(L. drexo, drexare: to  misthrow [a spear])

dreponify;
v., To viciously turn upon one's colleagues in a transformation of personality fueled by ruthless ambition. To make allied subordinates into rivals of one another by restriction of resources or promotional opportunities.
(Gr. harma dreponyphor: a scythe bearing chariot)

drign;
n., A tool for boring a progressively widening hole. A belief repeated as fact. v., to bore a hole of increasing diameter.
(Finn. ijd rign: a tapered chisel used in boat building)

drox;
n., One that convincingly professes the company line, while inwardly despising it.
(orig. uncert., possible reference to creme filled wafer style cookie )

duflagate;
v., To alter or larify a process with minutiae. adj., That which creates a blage.
(Orig. uncert.)

dupelcation;
n., Accidental or unwitting plagiarism.  Writing or speech claimed or believed to be original, but actually lifted from subconscious memory.  "The editor flagged the manuscript as outright fraud until he interviewed the author, and found it to be a dupelcation
(comb. duplicity + duplication)

duplicious;
adj., Wonderfully evil or diabolical.
(comb. duplicity + delicious)

duretic, duretics;
n., Any lengthy monolog or diatribe engaged in by official spokespersons with fragile egos in order to prove that they posess more knowledge than their audience.
(OF. du retior chien: from a barking dog)

dymology;
n., The theory, philosophy, and practice of continuous omniflagacy without product, marked by colial planning sessions; a permenant state of prevolution.
(Gr. dymos: a spinning top)

dysaudic;
adj., Suffering from dysaudia, a hearing form of dyslexia. Describing someone that "never gets it."
(Gr. dys + audio: hearing wrongly)

dysphonesis;
n., Chronic malapropism due to stupidity.
(Gr. dys phono: wrong sound )

dystesis;
n., a condition of continuous transition between two mutually exclusive states. Also dysteses, dystetic, dystetory
(Gr. dys: against + stetos: stillness)

ebess;
v., To reduce the pressure of the whole by collapsing one compartment or interior section without a net release of content. In bureaucracies, the committee process by which tasks or personnel are eliminated from work plans with no change in productivity.
(OE yfess, OD ehpiss.)

ebix;

effectuate;
v. to use flashy multimedia technology for the sake of using flashy multimedia technology.  Not to be confused with affectuate.
(comb. effect + actuate)

effitism;
n., habitual quitting or giving up.  Astrategy of cultivated helplessness.
(Amer. slang: "F--- it!" + ism)

egmunch;
n., Junkfood for thought.
(orig. uncert.)

egomorphic;
adj., Dillusionally conceited to the point where the ego has become separated from the individual. Often accompanied by feelings of persecution or lack of appreciation.
(Gr. ego morphos: taking the shape of oneself)

eilian;
adj., The antiphone of Aeolian, drawing dischord from the winds.  Capable of souring any conversation.
(origin undocumented)

ejact;
n., Any gaff, malapropism, or outrageous statement which becomes the only part of a meeting or conference remembered beyond a few days. v., to utter an ejact.  also ejactor, ejaction.
(comb. ejaculation + extract)

ejuct;
v., (grammar) To change meaning through change of word order.  (bureaucracy) To change status by changing positions with another.  "Chris and Pat were ejucted in the re-org, and both were miserable and far less effective."
(L. ex + jucta)

electromagnecute;
adj. pertaining to the very real physiologic effects from secret exposure to low-level, non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation by unnamed government agencies. v., to foster a belief in a person that they have suffered , or will suffer mental contusions due to the willful exposure to low-level, non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation, especially where a govenrnment cover-up is likely.
(comb. electrocute + electromagnetic)

Elmonia;
n., One country under discussion, whose name is arbitrary or not important. Also Elmonian. see fusterus, Pelonia.
(Heb. ploni elmoni: such and such)

emergant;
adj., Unwashed, raw, animal, or of questionable sanitary state.  "She observed, with repulsion, the surgeon's emergant fingers, coated with powder.  Discarding his gloves casually to the floor, he approached her, his eyes filled with..."
(Fr. emerge a gant: to unglove)

emeritis;
n., The condition of resentment among peers and subordinates caused by someone that should have retired but hangs on and on and on.
(L. e meritus pro detritis: from greatness to decay )

emeroid;
n., A company official or board member retained long past usefulness.
(comb. emeritus + hemorrhoid)

empathetic;
adj., Begging for pity while deserving less.
(Eng. [addiditive corruption]: empathic.)

empiriclast;
n., One who distrusts or rejects mainstream science or the scientific method in favor of unproven, exotic, or "New Age" alternatives.
(Gr. empiri clast: to break the truth)

emplical;
see implical

empule;
v., to disdain publicly by active indifference. Also empular, Brit.: ampular
(L. im: toward +pulere: to discard or abandon.)

encabsulate;
v., To strategically share a taxi in order to influence the other passenger; to buttonhole someone temporarily captive in any enclosure, such as vehicles, elevators, aircraft, hunting lodges and queues.
(comb. encapsulate + cab)

encapitate;
v., To tie together a poorly organized presentation by use of catchy titles, headers or captions.
(L., in plus capito: with a head stuck on )

endon;
n., An interjected summary statement made in effort to move discussion from one agenda item to the next.
(molecular genetics.  endon: a subsequence of nucleotides which signals a boundary between active genes and "nonsense DNA")

engonulate;
adj., Not quite right; an inaccurate or ineffective approximation.  v., to create such an approximation.
(geometry: a circle is approximated by an n-gon)

ennerate;
v., To weaken perceived power; to demoralize.
(L., ex nerro: to drain away from )

enpassanation;
n., A comment made as a naked ploy to distract attention from or direct attention to a situation.
(Fr. en passant: in passing)

entemanure;

epete;
adj., Overbearing; aggressively boorish; finding an argument in anything and everything.
(Fr. "vous epee, te!":  "Your sword, you!" )

episodomize, episodomy;
v., Purposeful corruption, for better or worse, of text, language, titles or names, just for the fun of it.  "Until the first year seminarian's ejact, Father Rector was oblivious to his well-known episodomized title, Father Rectal."
(Gr. epi sodom: to bring corruption upon)

epitotic;
adj., endlessly appended; rambling.
(L., epi toto extra: one more thing)

eriend;
n. a marginally justifiable distraction; any task prolonged in order to avoid a more important one.
(Fr. eriende: a side path)

eruse, erusion;
v. to experience an involuntary and narrowly defined tic; erusion: a behavioral disorder found in those who respond to questions by turning their heads towards the nearest computer screen and engaging nervous, twitchy keyboard action.  First discovered by researchers into Human-Computer interaction, who think it's caused by numerous momentary disconnects between the optic nerve and the brain.   Found only in underlings, i.e., help desk personnel, and never in supervisors, who often declare, "We are not erused."
combinatve: L. eradere: to scrape, [see also: rasor], and ME ruse: to repulse in battle, or to make a detour as a hunted animal.

eritible;
adj. Having the potential for immortality, as in a project or problem that will never completely end; extremely larifiable.
(L. erit: it will be. )

escavate;
 

esculate;
v., To expound with decreasing accuracy and increasing tone of authority on any subject with which one is barely acquainted.
(L. escula: a slope)

espressive;
adj., Speaking in a hyperactive way, bordering on nonsensical.
(Ital. espresso: a concentrated coffee drink)

ethier;
n., The dull speaker usually placed on the agenda in order to numb the audience in advance of a potentially troublesome presentation.  "Dr. Freundlich thought he'd look better if he gave his talk right after Wigbright's colorless report.  Instead, his audience had been rendered dormal by his choice of predecessor, a notorious ethier."
(Fr. ethier: anaesthesiologist)

etidorial;
n., A document that changes in content overnight with no explanation. This phenomenon usually occurs where no one claims final responsibility for the body of work, and is the result of one or more independent clandestine revisions by members of the group that produced it.
(It. etidore allia ablia: to rinse a stain on borrowed clothing.)

eudiotic;
n., An absurd truth. adj., True while seemingly contradictory. Also eudiocy, eudiot.
(Gr. Eu: true, truly + idios: moronic)

eunimbic;
adj., Intentionally sesquipedalian in order to obfuscate content.
(Gr. Eu: true, pure + nimbos: clouds)

euphasia;
n., a delusional state where the sufferer willingly suspends the knowledge that he or she has lost touch with reality. Also euphasic.
(Gr. eu phasia: chosen condition)

eustanous, eustaneity;
adj. obsolete, esp. technology or its use.  "Crockett remained on call for years, owing to the board's unwillingness to replace the mainframe.  Hus eustanous code would not allow migration to another system."
(Gr. Eu stannos: pure tin)

Evans Orb;
n., Theoretical perfection attained by fortitous addition of an unforeseen component.  "Every member of the project team was secretly counting on some sort of Evans Orb event, knowing that their continued employment was at stake."
(Archit. Evans Orb Theory: Existing structures, features, and spaces around a site always predifine design limits)

exalate;
v., To yield out of frustration to an unyielding yet inferior argument.  To capitulate.
(corr. exhalation)

excalate;
v., To harden one's position in the face of an unyielding yet inferior argument.
(L. Ex calcalare: to harden like stone)

excapit;
adj., Without forethought or planning.
(L. ex capitis capita: off the top of the head)

excessory;
adj. Uninvited and unnecessary assistance, generally well intended and useless.
(L. ex cessoram: beyond the stopping place)

ex cetera;
adj. in a fashion typical of a former spouse, especially where reinforcing the propriety of the divorce. abbr: ect.
(L. outside that which would logically follow)

exdystic;
adj., Curmudgeonly. n., A devil's advocate.
(Gr. ex dystos: from the opposing view)

exholibate;
adj., Bereft of positive value; reduced to the most negative form. Also Aholibate.
(L. ex holibare: after digestion)

expact;
n., The damage left by the sudden departure of a key employee; a gaping hole in the organizational chart. "The expact of Irene's  was evident throughout Engineering -- all of the old rivalries came back with a vengence.'
(L. ex pacto: to punch outward)

expecial;
adj. passe; out-of-fashion. Where public acceptance of a topic fades into bored tolerance. Also ecspecial, exspecial, exspecially.
(L. formerly + special)

expension;
n., The unforeseen debt incurred on company business, which must later be justified and documented to an onerous degree.

extablish;
v., To remove or expell abrubtly, often with real or impied violence.
(L. ex tabula: crossed off the list)

exter;

extrapetent;
adj., untouched by proximate scandal, problem or error; unwittingly or luckily beyond danger. n., a lone survivor or one of few survivors of a disaster, spared by dumb luck alone.
(L. extra: beyond + Gr. bdein: to break wind)

extraploitation;
n., The use of another project's budget or resources toaugment your own, often accomplished through intramural billing
(Eng. comb: extra+exploit )

extrapulate;
v., To convert data into a form credible to the public it is meant to mislead.
(L. extra + pulare: to twist further )

exquithent;
adj., burned out. Also quithent.
(Turk. qitta: cold ashes)

exstriction;
n., An on-the-fly interpretation of legal code, passed off as exact text from legal document or regulation in question. Also exstrict, exstrictly.
(L. ex + stricta: without limitation)

fanuc, fanuck;
n., An unpleasant subject whose time has come, often an item that has had an agenda of non-issues formulated around it .
(Turk. fanuk: a washed-out bridge)

fecule;
n., An item which draws significance only from it's repellent nature, such as an insulting epithet bearing no correlation with the actual character of the impugned party. Also feculate, feculant.
(L. fecula: a speck of dried excrement)

fedorate;
v., To dress up an old, tried-and-true technology in order to sell it.  "Once the book, Just Sound It Out was fedorated and republished with its flashy New-Age name, Limbic Spelling and Cortex Reading: A Literacy Revolution, the publisher could not keep up with demand."
(Eng. fedora: a utilitarian felt hat of cyclical popularity since the early twentieth century.)

ferion;
n., A messenger bringing old or unimportant news; an announcement which is delivered after the event it announces. Also ferionic, ferionism.
(Span. ferione: a scrap metal dealer)

fermentortion;
n., A calculated delay meant to torment one's opponent with uncertainty.
(comb. ferment + torsion )

ficure;

fiditure;
n., Any core belief which underlies and validates the world view of an individual or group; a philosophical lynchpin. Also fiditive.
(L. fide: faith)

fimant;
adj. Obnoxiously self-righteous. Also fimancy.
(Fr. fimant: snob)

fixity;
n., An illusion of veracity or expertise, tendered by incompetents and frauds, often by means of hellatinism, graming, inaptacy, and yaddage.
(Biology: fixity: the seeming animation of a corpes by the movementss of maggots under the skin)

flaccus;
n., a condition of lack of meaningful facial expression, without physiological basis, which reflects a state of emotional ambiguity.
(L. flacidus: limp; lifeless)

flarbage;
n., discarded material from flower shops; any perfumed refuse. Any worthless offer superficially enhanced with equally worthless inducements.
(Engl. flower + garbage)

fleric;
n., A monks chasuble containing forcefully obtained loot or alms. The container of "Gods' tax". adv., capriciously abusive, such as the servicing obtained from lower classmen during hazing initiation.
(orig. uncert.)

fleskible;
 

flister;
see phlystre

flustrate;
v., To make a bad situation worse by reactive incompetence.
(orig. uncert.)

folostitude;
n., A silent but very public suffering of real or imagined injuries to pride, esteem or reputation; maudlin stoicism.
(Gr. folostos: a loud silence)

frabney;
n., the word used to designate any object for which the speaker does not know or cannot remember the name. See also fusterus.
(Frabney's U-Need-It Stores, famous for their slogan, "If Frabney's don't got it, you didn't need it!")

frickly;
adj., Well suited only to a single narrow task or usage.
(enology: a set of parallel screens of dissimilar mesh, mounted on a long pole, used to remove submerged materials of a specific size range from primary fermentation vats)

frivia;

frust;
n., Undeserving survivors of any reorganizion or corporate purge.
(Janitorial jargon for the line of dirt or dust left at the edge of a dustpan.)

fulhask;
v., To predictably escalate a tantrum or outburst to socially innappropriate levels, in reaction to specific triggers.  "Everyone knew the CEO would be fulhasking by the time the minutes of the last meeting were read."
(Gaelic. f'ulhagh: squall or hailstorm)

funative;
n., A statement which, although grammatically correct, does not seem so. Logic: the most technically correct form.
(L. funatum: off balance)

fundulent;
adj., Pencil-necked; geeky or nerdy. Having the will and disdosition of a njidvaark.
(L. fundula: a little neck)

fusterus;
n., the word used to designate a second object for which the speaker does not know or cannot remember the name, now used only in cominbation with "frabney" qv, as in "There was a frabney mounted at the inner corner of the stair with a fusterus poking up through it."
(corruption of  Foster S, ref. to Foster S. Frabney, founder of Frabney's U-Need-It Stores)

fwah;
n., An unmistakably dismissive gesture made with the eyes.
(Tibetan. fwah: the only negative utterance allowed by Buddhist monks)

fystic;
n., A doomsayer with a good track record of accuracy.
(comb. fatal + mystic)

garfle;
v., to stall or kill a project by means of an impossible requirement beyond one's control.
(acronym: Get A Ruling From Legal Experts)

gecche;
n., A hardened slime or gurry of unknown organic origin. Boilerplate verbiage used in official documentation where a series of related subjects are treated separately; necessary but cumbersome supporting material in official documentation.
(It. gecchio: to gag or choke)

gerbate;
adj., doomed or predestined to failure. v., to embark upon or accept responsibility for a spuctant. Also gerbation, gerbative.
( Engl. gerbil, orig. Xhosa: xerbi: digs blindly)

ghual;
v. to choke from excessive emotion while speaking.
(orig. uncert.)

gigobyte;
n., A block of orphaned or corrupted data which wastes space on a computer drive, often the result of useless downloads from the internet.  Unwanted hard drive clutter such as cookies, unsolicited applets, history files.
(comb. GIGO: garbage in garbage out + byte)

gither;
n., A project halted and neither restarted or eliminated. v., To suspend or terminate a process due to loss of purpose or focus.
(OE gaether: to become lost)

glerg;
n., The silence that follows a combolete statement, often caused by a ghualing incident. Any telling silence or pause.
(Lap: a gag made from a bolus of moss; reindeer cud)

gnathage;
n., The unedited physical output of a focus group or brainstorming session. Any disorderly heap of outsized or odd-sized sheets of paper.
(Gr. gnathatos: cud)

gradue;
n., Top of line equipment or technology acquired through special funding of a project, ostensibly justified, which is retained long after the project or funding has expired. As in,"Cool, huh? It's my gradue from the Wright-Ritter study. It gets lousy mileage, though!"
(Fr. gras doux: sweet fat; refers to oil glands adjacent to the tails of waterfowl)

grame;
n., An aural treadmill. That portion of a lecture which only serves to thicken the tympanic membranes of the hearer; anything said after the listener has tuned out or passed out.
(Fr. Grame etenite: the eternal speech)

grampf;
n., a sharp, loud exhalation or snort meant to demand attention from an individual who is ignoring, or inattentive to, the snorter; hence, an unwanted but irresistable interruption of productive work.
(ME grampus: killer whale, poss. corrupt. L. craasus: fat + piscis: fish)

greht;
adj., Advantageous to one's opponent.
(Scot. greht: a sword dropped during battle which is then used against its owner.)

gription;
n., Mental and emotional unflappability; that fraction of one's shit which is "together."
(Eng. comb: grip, grit, traction)

gutch;
n., The first budget forecast for a fiscal cycle, often portending layoffs, cutbacks and organizational misery.
(Eng. corrupt. contraction: gut shot)

habble;
n., A serial dwelling place not associated with a single culture; a natural shelter used by transients or sojourners; modern usage: an office cubicle to which interns or new hires are initially assigned.
(corr. L. habere: to live)

halebopp;
n. an inopportune idea or suggestion that glances off the perception of the intended audience, leaving no mark; fatally ahead of its time.
(naval radar term: unidentified but insignificant object)

halk;
v., To clear one's throat or otherwise audibly signal without words one's disapproval. Also halker, halkery.
(Samoan. haalaka: to big to swallow)

haplogy;
n., The shortening, abbreviation or intentional slurring or distortion of a word, phrase or name in order to impart disdain, disrespect or dishonor.
(Gr. haplo: to halve)

hattle;
v., To deny ownership of one's work after the experiment failed or the data was found to be useless.
(OE. hattel: a neighbors livestock)

havile;
 

heddle;
v. to issue empty threats, especially those involving legal or administrative actions.
(Welsh. [mispronounced] heddlu: police)

hellatine;
n., a person who coins or habitually uses words of inappropriately mixed derivation, often Greek and Latin, and usually in an attempt to impress the listener or reader.  Hellatines are often afflicted with susquasyllabism. Also hellatinism, hellatinize.
(Gr. hellen: a Greek + L. latinus : a Latin)

henessity;
n., Something you cannot abide in a place that you must be in.
(Gael. h'endagh cael: refering to the place of a clans' last place of defense.)

heop;
 

herck;
v., To attempt to manipulate an unwieldy or extremely heavy object. Also herc, herk, hurk, hurkk, herkh, hercking, herkingly.
(corrupt. of Gr. Hercules)

hodge;
v., to delay a meeting by claiming that every speaker misunderstands your point.  "The ineffectual chariman was unable to prevent the meeting from being hodged, and John had once again averted a vote.
(OE. hod; a load of wet mortar, transported on a board between the mixer and the mason. At a construction site, the hod-carrier has right of way owing to the weight and timeliness of his delivery.)

hornerc;
n., A simple computer error easily corrected.
(Serb. Hrnerc: stumble)

hornrec;
n., A simple computer error once easily corrected, irretrievably compounded by panicked action.
(corrupt. Serb. Hrnerc: stumble)

houk;

howaresis;
n., A litany of health problems recited in response to a simple, well-meant greeting; often a casp prodrome.
(psychol., self identity derived from poor health)

hyphenite;
n., a devotee of excessive, occasionally obsessive hyphen usage.  The practice is a form of verbal pack-ratting or hoarding. Also hyphenism.
(Roman Cath. St. Hyphenia: patron saint of chain makers)

hyponym;

hystericate;
v., To whip up fear or hysteria for one's own purposes --usually to draw attention to oneself.  Media: to grossly overinflate a small story on a slow news day.
(comb.: hysteria + fabricate)
 

ichnology;
n., The study of bureaucratic system dynamics.
(Gr. ichnecos: school of fish)

ictify;
v., To mistakenly deem an object or individual part of a group featuring some common character or form.
(L. ex locus ictus: out of proper place)

ificate;

iffle;
n. A unique ability or act which, although impressive, has no possibility of practical application, As in: "Grandad Upton's famous iffle, touching the tip of his nose with his tongue, both revolted and fascinated his assembled grandchildren."
(corrupt. reduct.: trifle)

ilrelevant;
adj., Supporting the opinions without supporting the facts;
(comb. illogic + relevant)

Imbureficate;
v.,  The process by which bright, competent individuals are rendered more and more incompetent within the workplace. The Imburefication Theorem states that three factors are involved. 1. the starting IQ of the individuals. 2.  the size of the bureaucracy, and 3. the cumulative length of service of the individuals. A fourth factor has been proposed by some bureaucratologists, and that is the reach of the bureaucracy. i.e. how many people does the agency have the power to impact. Thus a federal agency would have a greater reach than a state agency, and so forth. However, the fourth factor remains an unproven, though promising, factor. The Imburefication Theorem can be written as a formula.  IQb= [*(IQ1)/n] - [*(YS1) * n], where IQb is the Bureau's IQ and IQ1 is an individual's pre-imburefication IQ and n is the number of bureaucrats in the agency or department and YS1 is years of service of each individual. The fourth factor, as proposed, would be calculated by dividing n by the population "served",  then dividing above formula by the result. As previously stated, this is controversial.
comb.:  imbecile + bureaucracy)

imbimbate;
adj., Degraded. v., To degrade or cheapen; to make light of in a vulgar way.
(It. bimbina: a young and inexperienced prostitute)

imbule;
v., To artificially inflate value or importance; to pad a budget, especially by use of ambiguous arithmetic factors. Also imbular, imbulate.
(L. bulere: to forcefeed)

immity;
n., A helpless knowing what is about to happen or be said..
(L. immito: the next)

implical;
adj., dislodged only with difficulty or force; intransigent. Also
(archaic) implictal or
(Brit.) emplical.
(L. plictere: to floss teeth)

imploy;
v., To assign to a bottomless project or nire; stellenbosch; to render anorchile by assignment.
(L. implicare: to involve)

impneum;
v., to inflate or enlarge artificially.
(L. im: into + pneumare: to blow air)

impulcate;

inaptacy;
n., a eudiotic nonsequitur; a true statement or utterance which is completely unrelated in context, form or content to the discussion within which it is made. Also inapticular, inapticularity.
(L. in apta: not suited)

incalcitrant;
adj., Unable to stand firm or hold a position; spineless.
(L. In calcalare: crumbling)

incibe;
v., To stash or cache items of dubious or esoteric value.
(L. in ciborium: in the pantry)

inconsciable;
adj., Pseudoscientific quackery; intentionally presented in scientific format without science, in order to mislead.
(L. in conscio: without knowledge)

indative;
adj., Having no other function than to distract.
(Gr. Indata: shiny)

inducula;
n. An illogical statement intended to serve as a bridge between to logical statements; the leap of faith which falls short.
(L. intro ducto; lead up to)

ineffitible;
adj., Noble or charismatic, so as to unspire fierce loyalty.
(in+effit+ible: not subject to effitism)
 

inexorbitant;
 

infidial;
see invidial

infraspecular;
adj., dubious; warranting closer inspection. Meant to deceive by ambiguity or obscurity.
(L. Proverb: Infraspecule hippo ante emptorendat! Look under the horse before you buy it!)

infurcate;
adj., Pinned down; trapped. v. To entrap or catch red-handed.
(L. in tinam furcam: on the tines of a fork)

inine;

innare;
v., To gloat or to publish the failings or foibles of another.
(L. in nares: into the nostrils)

inobticular;
Broadly related but not pertinent to a context. Also obticular.
(L. in: not + ob: of + ticula: detail)

insensial;
 
 

insipe;
v. to mock or tear down by inconsciable argument.  "The snake oil industry may be counted on to insipe regulatory science, using the argument that their own technology is superior.
(L. insipio: getting worse)

inspicious;
adj. probing, scrutinizing, penetrating with evil intent.  "Among special prosecutors, Judge Gatmon was one of the most inspicious; feared on both sides of the aisle."
(L. in spicia fraxis: to rip into pieces)

institutional amnesia;
n., The polar opposite of institutional memory; how institutions continually repeat the same mistakes
(source: Weinstein's Theory of Corporate Pathology)

instrictive;
adj., that facet of an argument which defines or identifies an opinion as extreme.
(combination: instruct + restrict)

instring;
n., An item mentioned only in passing which is worthy of expansion or deeper study; diamond in the rough. v., to include such an item within text while omitting elaboration.
(computer programming jargon: inner segment of a string variable

intentive;
n., An obvious goal, mission, or mandate needlessly and redundantly stated as part of a slogan.
(periaddititive form: intent)

interantelar;
adj., Blunt, tactless, and deadly accurate.
(L. inter antelarum: between the horns)

interoperationale;
n., The construct of sham in-house transactions used to justify project design flaws.
(comb.: inter + operation + rationale)

interrate, reinterrate;
v., To smother a project or idea with words, particularly words from a fool.  "Once old Kelnwick got started rambling about the potentialities of the Booksure grant proposal, everyone present mentally wrote it off."
(Eng. inter: to bury the dead)

intoduce, intoduction;
v., To introduce a third party to an unpleasant conversation or situation as a means to extricate oneself.  "Chris intoduced Tony to the Safety Committee at their weekly meeting and thought to himself, 'Free at last!'"
(L. into ducto forcare: to drag in by force)

intracopiate;
adj., In the enviable position of excessive, duplicate and redundant funding; within a predictably generous series of funding cycles.
(L. intra situ copia: in the lap of plenty)

intradent;
adj., An annoying concession, given in haste, which does not impede the intent or outcome of negotiations, but rankles nonetheless.
(L. intra dentum: between the teeth)

intrepulant;
adj., Possessing great sousciance in the face of overwhelming apathy. The mental status achieved before a last misguided self-trepanation attempt.
(L. intra pula: between vacancies)

inverbiate;
v., To create a previously nonexis