Reclone

noun
A reconstruction of a deceased person, cloned from their DNA and implanted with their scanned memories.
Origin
Portmanteau of ‘reconstruction’ and ‘clone’.
Source
A Borrowed Man

Terrorartist

noun
A person who uses terrorism as a medium for artistic expression.
Origin
Portmanteau of ‘terrorist’ and ‘artist’.
Source
Neom

Embryomech

noun
A technology that can build any object from surrounding matter.
Origin
Portmanteau of ‘embryo’ and ‘mechanical’.
Source
Neom

Legemat

noun
An optical character reader and universal language translator for text.
Origin
Derived from legere (to read) and Automat (machine).
Source
Changing Planes

Translatomat

noun
A universal language translator for speech.
Origin
Pairing of ‘translate’ and Automat (machine).
Source
Changing Planes

Nocturnalia

noun plural
Life that wells up in unexpected ways whenever darkness falls on the city.
Origin
Pairing of ‘nocturnal’ with the Latin suffix -alia (nominalization/intensification).
Source
Borne

Recipriversexclusion

noun
A number whose existence can only be defined as being anything other than itself.
Origin
Portmanteau of ‘reciprocal’, ‘reverse’, and ‘exclusion’.
Source
Life, the Universe and Everything

Tempophone

noun
A telephone able to place calls across time and space.
Origin
Derived from tempus (time) and phone (sound).
Source
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Relastatic

noun
A device that holds the area within static, relative to the universe without.
Source
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Frood

noun informal
A really amazingly together guy.
Source
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Pattiducking

noun
Pattern generation by deductive and inductive reasoning.
Source
Stand on Zanzibar

Eptification

noun
A training process in which the student is medicated into a trance-like state that results in perfect recall.
Origin
Derived from the acronym EPT (‘education for particular tasks’).
Source
Stand on Zanzibar