Wikipedia: List of portmanteaus

List of portmanteaus
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This article lists examples of portmanteaus or "blends"--words formed by combining two other words, in the English language.

General

blaxploitation from black and exploitation
blaccent from black and accent - used of non-blacks who try to sound black
bleen from blue and green (coined by Nelson Goodman to illustrate Goodman's paradox)
brunch from breakfast and lunch
chortle from chuckle and snort (coined by Lewis Carroll)
cocacolonization from Coca-Cola and colonization
ebonics from ebony and phonics
ecoteur from ecological and saboteur
faction from fact and fiction
fantabulous from fantastic and fabulous
frankenfood from Frankenstein and food
frankenword from Frankenstein and word
ginormous from gigantic and enormous
greenwash from green and whitewash
grue from green and blue (coined by Nelson Goodman to illustrate Goodman's paradox)
guesstimate from guess and estimate
liger from lion and tiger
mantastic from man and fantastic
meliatria from melia and patria
melodrama from melody and drama
mockney from mock and Cockney
motel from motor and hotel
Oxbridge from Oxford and Cambridge
Republicrat or Demopublican from Republican and Democrat (or vice versa)
rockumentary from rock and documentary (also mockumentary, from mock and documentary)
sexcellent from sex and excellent
sexploitation from sex and exploitation
skort from skirt and short (as in short pants)
smog from smoke and fog
soundscape from sound and landscape
spork from spoon and fork
squiggle from squirm and wiggle
stagflation from stagnation and inflation
tangelo from tangerine and pomelo
televangelist from television and evangelist
tigon from tiger and lion

Internet and computing

apronym from appropriate and acronym
ASCIIbetical from ASCII and alphabetical
automagic(al) from automatic and magic(al)
backronym from back and acronym
bit from binary and digit
codec from coder and decoder
digerati from digital and literati
emoticon from emotion and icon
Internet from inter and network
freeware from free and software
knowledgebase from knowledge and database
modem from modulator and demodulator
netizen from (Inter)net and citizen
netiquette from (Inter)net and etiquette (similarly, wikiquette)
pixel from picture and element
qubit from quantum and bit
shareware from share and software
smudgemate from smudge and estimate
spamdexing from spam and indexing
sporgery from spam and forgery
voxel from volume and pixel

Marketing

advertainment from advertising and entertainment

advertorial from advertising and editorial
cineplex from cinema and complex (building)
docudrama from documentary and drama
docusoap from documentary and soap opera (serialised drama)
dramality from dramatic and reality (television)
edutainment from education and entertainment
infomercial from information and commercial
infotainment from information and entertainment
multiplex from multiple and cineplex! - this word has a different meaning in telecommunications

Art, literature and entertainment

arfé from art and café
Bollywood from Bombay and Hollywood
dancercise from dance and exercise
dancersize from dance and circumsize, coined in jest on Fry and Laurie
mathercise from mathematics and excercise, used by Mr. Morales to describe group aerobics involving shaping one's body into the specified equation.
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.
machinima from machine and cinema
newrun from new and rerun - episode from a talk-show wherin old subjects are rehashed.
Orgasmatron Orgasm and Electron(ic) - from Woody Allen's Sleeper
sacrilicious from sacrilege and delicious, used by Homer Simpson

Organizations

Compaq from computer and pack (to denote a small integral object)
Intel from integrated and electronics
Microsoft from microcomputer and software
Sony from sonus (Latin for sound) and sonny (slang for youngster)

Created by Lewis Carroll in Jabberwocky

beamish
brillig
burbled
callay
callooh
chortled
frabjous
frumious
galumphing
maxomome
mimsy
mome
slithy
tulgey
uffish
vorpal
wabe
whiffling