telenuisance
n.— «Bulmash started his business in 1988 as a way to fight the telemarketing (“telenuisance,” as he calls it) industry and has since branched out to address junk mail as well.» —“Sunk by junk” by Melissa Heckscher Whittier Daily News (California) Feb. 21, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Brian from Lafayette, Indiana, wonders why chicken is abbreviated CHX in the restaurant industry. Using X as a substitute or shortener has a long history. Medieval scribes sometimes drew a line through the final stroke of an abbreviated word. This...
Samantha Harvey’s novel Orbital is a sensuous, exhilarating meditation about the strangeness of life on a space station, with its mix of tedious tasks and jaw-dropping views. And: a musician who rode the rails in his youth shares the slang he...