List of portmanteaus

This is a partial list of portmanteaus or "blends" — words formed by combining two other words, in the English language.

General

• affluenza, from affluence and influenza
• anacronym, from anachronism and acronym
• anecdata, from anecdote and data
• Amerind peoples, from American and indigenous peoples
• Amerithrax, from American and anthrax attacks
• automobilia, from automobile and memorabilia
• avionics, from aviation and electronics
• backronym, from backwards and acronym
• banjitar, a combination musical instrument of a banjo and a guitar
• bankster, from banker and gangster
• beurgeois, from beur and bourgeois
• bicurious, from bisexual and curious
• blaccent, from black and accent – used of non-blacks who try to sound black
• blaxploitation, from black and exploitation
• bleen, from blue and green (coined by Nelson Goodman to illustrate Goodman's paradox)
• bodacious, from bold and audacious, it was made popular during the 80's
• Bootylicious, from booty and delicious
• brainiac, from brain and maniac
• breathalyzer, from breath and analyzer
• bromance, from brother and romance
• brony, from brother and pony - the fanbase for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
• brostache, from brother and mustache – an app created by GEICO for a commercial
• bullycide, from bullying and suicide
• brunch, from breakfast and lunch
• camcorder, from camera and recorder
• carjack, from car and hijack
• celesbian, from celebrity and lesbian
• cheeseburger, from cheese and hamburger
• chillax, from chill and relax
• chuggers, from charity and muggers
• Chunnel, from Channel and tunnel.
• chavtastic, from chav and fantastic (meaning, 'having many characteristics of a chav', rather than a 'fantastic chav')
• Chinglish, English and Chinese mixed up to humorous effect (cf. Spanglish, Franglais)
• chortle, from chuckle and snort (coined by Lewis Carroll)
• Circumscheiße (possibly antisemetic?)
• clopen, from closed and open
• cocacolonization, from Coca-Cola and colonization
• coopetition, from cooperation and competition
• cremains, from cremate and remains
• cryptex, from cryptology and codex
• cyberdelic, from cybernetics and psychedelic
• cyberpunk, from cybernetics and punk
• cyborg, from cybernetic and organism
• Diamat, from Dialectical Materialism
• digerati, from digital and literati
• digipeater, from digital and repeater
• Ebonics, from ebony and phonics
• ecoteur, from ecological and saboteur
• edutainment, from education and entertainment
• employagility, from employ and agility
• endorphin. from endogenous and morphine
• escalator, from escalate and elevator
• faction, from fact and fiction
• fantabulous, from fantastic and fabulous
• femdom, from female and dominance
• feminazi, from feminist and Nazi
• fertigate, from fertilize and irrigate
• foon, from fork and spoon (see spork, below)
• flavorite, from flavor and favorite
• fluidram, from fluid and dram
• Franglais, French and English mixed up to humorous effect (cf. Chinglish, Spanglish)
• frankenfood, from Frankenstein and food
• Frappuccino, from frappé and cappuccino
• fracket, a jacket worn to a fraternity
• fratire, from fraternity and satire
• frenemy, from friend and enemy
• fugly, from fuck and ugly
• gaydar, from gay and radar
• Gerrymander, from Elbridge Gerry and salamander
• ginormous, from gigantic and enormous
• greenwash, from green and whitewash
• grue, from green and blue (see bleen, above)
• guesstimate, from guess and estimate
• guitarlin, combination musical instrument of a guitar and mandolinu
• guyliner, from a guy and eyeliner, a guy who wears eyeliner
• hasbian, from has been and lesbian
• hamwich, a ham sandwich
• Homocaust, from homosexual and Holocaust
• homoerotic, from homosexual and erotic
• hotac, from hotel and accommodation
• imagineering, from imagination and engineering
• incognegro, from incognito and negro
• irregardless, from irrespective and regardless
• jazzercise, from jazz and exercise
• jcrewpon, from jcrew and coupon
• jeggings, from jeans and leggings
• jorts, from jeans and shorts
• keytar, from keyboard and guitar
• kidult, from kid and adult
• linner, from lunch and dinner
• lupper, from lunch and supper
• manbag, from man and handbag
• mangina, from man and vagina
• manscaping, from man and landscaping
• mathlete, from math and athlete
• mechatronics, from mechanical and electronics
• meld, from melt and weld
• Merkozy, from (Angela) Merkel and (Nicolas) Sarkozy
• metrosexual, from metropolitan and heterosexual
• mizzle, form mist and drizzle
• mobeload, from mobile and upload
• mobisode, from mobile (phone) and episode
• mockney, from mock and Cockney
• mocktail, from mock and cocktail
• mockumentary, from mock and documentary
• moobs, from man and boobs
• moped, from motor and pedal
• motel, from motor and hotel
• murse, from man and purse, or alternatively, male and nurse
• napalm, from naphthene and palmitate
• neither, from not and either
• newscast, from news and broadcast
• nuyorican, from New York and Puerto Rican
• Oxbridge, from Oxford and Cambridge
• paratrooper, from parachute and trooper
• Pastafarian, from pasta and Rastafarian; from Pastafarianism or The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
• P'Zone, from pizza and calzone (popularized by Pizza Hut)
• plarn, from plastic bags and yarn
• pleather, from plastic and leather
• plumcot, a fruit hybrid of a plum and apricot
• Plytanium, brand of plywood from titanium and plywood
• posistor, from positive and thermistor
• positron, from positive and electron
• prangry, from pregnant and angry
• prosumer, from either producer or professional and consumer
• radome, from radar and dome
• redox, from reduction and oxidation
• rockumentary, from rock and documentary (also mockumentary, from mock and documentary)
• scromlette, from scrambled eggs and omelette
• serpantalón, (French) from serpent and pantalón
• sexercise, from sex and exercise
• sexpert, from sex and expert (refers mainly to people who give advice about sex and sexual matters)
• sexploitation, from sex and exploitation
• sexting, from sex and texting
• shart, from shit and fart
• simulcasting, from simultaneous and broadcasting
• skort, from skirt and short (as in short pants)
• skyjack, from sky and hijack
• Skyjack™, from sky and jacklift
• smog, from smoke and fog
• snark, from snide and remark
• snatiation. from sneeze and satiation
• soccasin, from sock and moccasin
• soundscape, from sound and landscape
• spange, from spare and change
• Spanglish, Spanish and English mixed up to humorous effect (cf. Chinglish, Franglais)
• spork, from spoon and fork
• squiggle, from squirm and wiggle
• stagflation, from stagnation and inflation
• staycation, from stay and vacation
• surfactant, from surface active agent
• swapportunity, from swap and opportunity, an opportunity to swap
• swaption, from swap and option
• tangelo, from tangerine and pomelo
• taxicab, from taximeter and cabriolet
• televangelist, from television and evangelist
• terrist, from Terra and terrorist
• thermistor, from thermal and resistor
• threepeat, from three and repeat
• tofurkey, from tofu and turkey
• toonie, from two and loonie
• transceiver, from transmitter and receiver
• transistor, from transfer and resistor
• transponder, from transmitter and responder
• turducken, from turkey, duck, and chicken
• urinalysis, from urine and analysis
• vomitrocious, from vomit and atrocious
• vitamer, from vitamin and isomer
• vitamin, from vital and amine
• wigger, from white and nigger
• woon, from wooden and spoon (flat wooden things for eating dished ice cream)
• yestergay, from yesterday and gay

Internet and computing

• alphanumeric, from alphabetic and numeric
• ASCIIbetical, from ASCII and alphabetical
• balun, from balanced and unbalanced
• bit, from binary and digit
• blog, from web and log
• brogrammer, from brother and programmer
• codec, from coder and decoder
• Darwine, from Darwin and WINE
• datacasting, from data and broadcasting
• digerati, from digital and literati
• emoticon, from emotion and icon
• freeware, from free and software
• Hackintosh, from hack and Macintosh
• Jython, from Java and Python
• knowledgebase, from knowledge and database
• malware, from malicious and softwarehic
• mothic, from mod and gothic
• mozilla, from "mosaic killer" + godzilla
• modem, from modulator and demodulator
• nanotech, from nano and technology
• netizen, from (Inter)net and citizen
• netiquette, from (Inter)net and etiquette (similarly, wikiquette)
• pixel, from picture and element
• podcast, from iPod and broadcast
• qubit, from quantum and bit
• serdes, from serialize and deserialize
• shareware, from share and software
• skype, from Sky and peer-to-peer
• spamdexing, from spam and indexing
• sporgery, from spam and forgery
• sysop, from system and operator
• sysadmin, from system and administrator
• treap, from tree and heap
• voxel, from volume and pixel
• vlog, from video and blog
• webcast, from World Wide Web and broadcast
• webinar, from World Wide Web and seminar
• webisode, from World Wide Web and episode
• Wintel, from Windows and Intel

Marketing

• advertainment, from advertising and entertainment
• advertorial, from advertising and editorial
• biopic, from biographical and motion picture
• cineplex, from cinema and complex (building)
• docudrama, from documentary and drama
• docusoap, from documentary and soap opera (serialised drama)
• dramedy, from drama and comedy
• edutainment, from education and entertainment
• infomercial, from information and commercial
• infotainment, from information and entertainment
• multiplex, from multiple and complex - this word has a different meaning in telecommunications
• shockumentary, from documentary and shock
• spicedictive, from spicy and addictive

Art, literature and entertainment

• Turbriskafil, A mix of the words turkey, brisket and gelfite fish, from The TV show The Big Bang Theory. It's a dish that Howard Wolowitz's mother makes every Thanksgiving.
• Animatrix, from animated and Matrix
• arfé, from art and café
• Bollywood, from Bombay and Hollywood
• Brangelina, from Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
• britcom, from British and comedy (see also: sitcom)
• californication, from California and fornication
• cassingle, from cassette and single
• cosplay, from costume and play
• dramedy, from drama and comedy
• dubtitle, from dub and subtitle, for subtitles transcribed, from dubbed soundtrack, especially in anime
• fanon, from fan and canon
• Kilogram Parsons, for kilogram and musician Gram Parsons, heavy drug user and victim of morphine overdose
• Kripkenstein, from Kripke and Wittgenstein, coined to describe a philosophical position that Kripke argued one could read into Wittgenstein's work, but which neither he nor Wittgenstein accepted.
• literotica, from literature and erotica
• machinima, from machine and cinema
• Marquis De Sadie Hawkins dance
• mockumentary, from mock and documentary
• Nintendogs, from Nintendo and dogs.
• Orgasmatron, from orgasm and electron(ic) - from Woody Allen's Sleeper
• Policenauts, from police and astronaut
• Pornograffitti, from the 1990 album by the band Extreme.
• prequel, from pre- and sequel
• Religulous, from religion and ridiculous
• sacrilicious, from sacrilege and delicious, used by Homer Simpson
• scanlation, from scan and translation, used for unofficial internet-distributed translations of manga
• sitcom, from situational and comedy (related(?): SITCOM as backronym, meaning 'Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage')
• slurve, form slider and curve (baseball pitches)
• smark, from smart and mark - professional wrestling slang for fans who recognize the scripted nature of the business, but still enjoy the in-ring entertainment
• spife, spoon and knife
• spork, spoon and fork
• squake, squirrel and cake
• streetball, from street and basketball
• TomKat, from Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes
• Waluigi, from Japanese warui (bad) and the name Luigi.
• Wario, from Japanese warui and the name Mario.

Organizations and companies

• Accenture, from accent and future (accent on the future)
• Alstom, from Alsace and Thompson-Houston. First spelled "Alsthom", the h is removed in 2008 (the company was named GEC-Alsthom at the time)
• Amtrak, from American and track
• Bakerloo Line, from Baker Street and Waterloo Railway, coined by London's Evening News in 1906.
• Carborundum, from carbon and corundum
• Cinedigm, from a new paradigm in cinema
• Clamato, from clam and tomato juice
• Comcast, from communication and broadcast
• Compaq, from compatibility and quality
• CONMEBOL, from Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (Spanish for "South American Football Confederation")
• CONELRAD
• ConDem, from Conservative and Democrats. A collective name for the 2010 UK coalition government between the Conservative and the Liberal Democrat Party
• Copa, from compania and Panamena
• Debian, from founder Ian Murdock and his wife Debra
• Edexcel, from educational and excellence
• FedEx, from the company's original name, Federal Express
• Fluidrive, from fluid and drive
• Groupon, from group and coupon
• Imagineering, from Imagine (or Imagination) and Engineering
• Intel, from integrated and electronics
• Latam, from Lan Airlines and TAM Airlines
• Mattel, from founders names Harold "Matt" Matson and Elliot Handler
• Microsoft, from microcomputer and software
• Mitel, from founders names Michael Cowpland and Terry Matthews and Lawnmowers after the company's original business plan
• Travelocity, from travel and velocity
• Palmolive, from palm and olive
• Pinterest, from pin and interest
• Prancercise, from prance and exercise
• Prevacid, from prevent and acid
• Sony, from sonus (Latin for sound) and sonny (slang for youngster)
• Verizon, from veritas (Latin for truth) and horizon
• Victorinox, from Victoria (the company founder's mother) and inox (stainless steel)
• Waitrose, from founders' names Wallace Waite and Arthur Rose
• Wikipedia, from wiki and encyclopedia

Animal

• beefalo, from beef and buffalo (progeny of)
• Brangus, from Brahman and Angus breeds of cattle (progeny of)
• cameleopard, from camel and leopard (old name for giraffe)
• geep, from goat and sheep (progeny of)
• sheeple, from sheep and people
• Labradoodle, from Labrador Retriever and Poodle
• liger, from lion and tiger (progeny of male lion and tigress) cf. tiglon/tigon below
• tigon, from tiger and lion (progeny of tiger and lioness) cf. liger above
• turducken, from turkey, duck, and chicken (a culinary dish)
• zeedonk, from zebra and donkey (progeny of)
• wallaroo, from wallaby and kangaroo
• wholphin, from whale and dolphin

Places

• Benelux, from Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg
• Budapest, from Buda and Pest
• Calexico, from California and Mexico
• Cotai, from Coloane and Taipa
• Czechoslovakia, from Czech and Slovakia
• Delmar, from Delaware and Maryland
• Delmarva Peninsula, from Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia
• Florala, from Florida and Alabama
• Illiana, from Illinois and Indiana
• Marydel, from Maryland and Delaware
• Mexicali, from Mexico and California
• Michiana, from Michigan and Indiana
• Monterey, from the Spanish words "monte" (hill) and "rey" (king)
• Pennsyltucky, from Pennsylvania and Kentucky
• Tanzania, from Tanganyika and Zanzibar
• Texarkana, from Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana
• Texmex, from Texas & Mexico (generally a reference to a type of food)

Others

• austerical, from austerity and hysterical
• Autopia, from Automobile and Utopia
• Boxrec, from boxing and records
• Chokebreaker, from chokeslam and backbreaker
• tomacco, from tomato and tobacco
• workaholic, from work and alcoholic

See also

• List of acronyms