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Microsoft Word is a word processor developed by Microsoft. It was first released on October 25, 1983, under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems...

A word is a basic element of language that carries meaning, can be used on its own, and is uninterruptible. Despite the fact that language speakers often...

autological word (or homological word) expresses a property that it also possesses. For example the word "pentasyllabic" has five syllables, and the word "writable"...

references to nigger have been increasingly replaced by the euphemism "the N-word", notably in cases where nigger is mentioned but not directly used. In an...

pejorative term for mentally disabled people R-word, another euphemism for Redskin, a pejorative term describing Native Americans in the United States and...

In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and...

names. In 2011, a dictionary broke this record with a 1909-letter word describing the trpA protein (P0A877). John Horton Conway and Landon Curt Noll...

Fisher wrote in a 2022 BBC Family Tree article that he thinks a new word describing young people between childhood and adulthood should be coined due to...

additional features. Early word processors were stand-alone devices dedicated to the function, but current word processors are word processor programs running...

Rizz is a colloquial noun, used when describing possession of charisma. As a verb, rizz can be used to describe using charisma to attract someone, as...

Categories is a word game where players attempt to list words that fit into particular categories, all starting with the same letter. Players start by...

WordPerfect (WP) is a word processing application, now owned by Alludo, with a long history on multiple personal computer platforms. At the height of its...

to describe a type of grammatical acceptability judgement by native speakers, and in computer programming to describe textual randomization. Word salad...

the word eureka since its original design by Robert S. Garnett in 1850; the official text from that time describing the seal states that this word's meaning...

In linguistics, a nonce word—also called an occasionalism—is any word (lexeme), or any sequence of sounds or letters, created for a single occasion or...

The L Word: Generation Q is an American drama television series produced by Showtime that premiered on December 8, 2019 and ran for three seasons, ending...

The word asshole (in North American English) or arsehole (in all other major varieties of the English language) is a vulgarism used to describe the anus...

It has been the subject of several allegations describing it as a cult and accusing it of abuse. Word of Faith Fellowship began in 1979, when Jane Whaley...

hardware of the processor. The number of bits or digits in a word (the word size, word width, or word length) is an important characteristic of any specific...

describing Word Lens: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". The New York Times journalist David Pogue included Word...