Continuing with Sanskrit based suggestions (after bahuvrihi ) we have dharna (from the Freedictionary ): n. A fast conducted at the door of an offender, especially a debtor, in India as a means of obtaining compliance with a demand for justice, such as payment of a debt. Etymology: Hindi dharn , fro...

I consider myself an expert on involuntary sculpture, movement of liquid down a vertical surface, cut-up technique and automatism. The last two are excellent for writing pointless reports.

Hi Katy, I am not sure about the answer. Actually I came across this word while waiting to see the doctor, where I was reading a copy of National Geographic . There was an article about the brain/mind and an example of hypergraphia. This woman had very intense episodes of hypergraphia following, fir...

From Wikipedia: Hypergraphia is the uncontrollable urge to write. It is not a formally-recognized disorder, although it has been embraced by neurologist Alice Weaver Flaherty in her book The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain. It is sometimes associated with...

Thanks for the link M. Henri Day.

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Mmm, tasty. Last week I prepared a plum sauce sirloin steak with Chinese vegetables. I feel hungry now.

As a non-smoker, I can't understand how would you prefer a cigar!

From Greatest Films : a broad form of comedy in which the humor comes from physical acts or pantomime, frequently harmless violence and pratfalls intended to produce laughter. The name was derived from a device called a slapstick, two boards that slapped together with a loud crack when used to strik...

I was reading my copy of Diccionario de dudas de Manuel Seco , looking for the use of preferir in Spanish. He is adamant that the correct use is with A. For example, 'preferir una cosa A otra'. Then he states that the sentence must not use QUE, giving as example 'A veces prefería demorar ...

Michael Quinion explains: The most probable solution—though unprovable because slang is so rarely written down—is that it comes from London street slang for money. This may well derive from Romany posh, half, originally applied to a halfpenny, then to any small sum of money, and then to money in ge...

Looking for any reasonable explanations for this idiom.

From Bartleby and Encarta : NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. ba·hu·vri·his A compound word functioning as an adjective whose last element is in origin a noun. For example, in the phrase high-fiber diet, the compound high-fiber is a bahuvrihi modifying diet that ends in the noun fiber. A compound word in w...

From Answers.com an·te·bel·lum (ăn'tē-bĕl'əm) adj. Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

Etymology: Latin ante bellum : ante, before + bellum, war.

I think that the problem is that you are establishing a link over several lines broken by a carriage return.

This will not work:
one line
another line

but this will: text in one line.

From Answers.com:
brux·ism (brŭk'sĭz'əm) n.

The habitual, involuntary grinding or clenching of the teeth, usually during sleep, as from anger, tension, fear, or frustration.

Etymology: From New Latin brūxis, a gnashing, from Greek brūkein, to gnash.

The verb is to brux.