planemo
n.— «The debate over the definition of planethood has been simmering for years—and it bubbled up again this week, thanks to new research into free-floating planemos, or planetary-mass objects.» —“Planet-Sized Problems” by Alan Boyle Cosmic Log June 7, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
The words tough, through, and dough all end in O-U-G-H. So why don’t they rhyme? A lively new book addresses the many quirks of English by explaining the history of words and phrases. And: have you ever been in a situation where a group makes...
Throwing cheese and shaky cheese are two very different things. In baseball, hard cheese refers to a powerful fastball, and probably comes from a similar-sounding word in Farsi, Urdu, and Hindi. Shaky cheese, on the other hand, is the grated...