Pastorpreneur

noun
A spiritual leader primarily engaged in moneymaking activities.
Origin
Portmanteau of ‘pastor’ and ‘entrepreneur’.
Source
Godmother

Brainlock

noun
A behaviour alteration procedure that uses hypnosis to induce an extreme aversion to certain stimulus.
Source
Dogfight

Psychocybernetics

noun
A scientific field concerned with digitizing the personality of an individual.
Source
The Beast Has Died

Atavachron

noun
A device used to prepare a time traveller’s cellular structure and brain patterns for survival in their selected time period.
Origin
Derived from atavus (ancestor) and khrónos (time).
Source
Star Trek: The Original Series

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

Flippo

noun informal
An an urbmon resident who commits non-social acts.
Origin
“They flip; they thwart.”
Source
The World Inside

Antimeme

noun
An entity or phenomenon which harvests and consumes information, particularly information about itself.
Origin
Meme, a unit of cultural information transmitted from one mind to another.
Source
There Is No Antimemetics Division

Grosstopical

adjective
Crudely physical; not taking into account the topography of Cleavage.
Origin
Formed from gross (without deductions) and topical (related to a particular place).
Source
The City & The City

Topolganger

noun
The alternate identity of a place co-located in the Cleaved cities of Besel and Ul Qoma.
Origin
Portmanteau of ‘topography’ and ‘doppelganger’.
Source
The City & The City

Wormword

noun
A word, which when spoken inveigles its way into the mind of the speaker and manifests itself in his flesh.
Origin
Named for the parasitic manifestation caused by the word.
Source
Entry Taken from a Medical Encyclopedia

Frelk

noun informal
A person who is sexually attracted to spacers.
Origin
Abbreviation of ‘free-fall-sexual-displacement complex’.
Source
Aye, and Gomorrah…

Farfetch

verb
The intuitive perception of a moral entirety.
Source
The Left Hand of Darkness