Letter Symmetry

Words that have symmetrically distributed letters:
*WIZARD
*HOVELS
*BEVY
*GIRT
*GRIT
*VOLE
*WOLD
*BY
*LO

"Symmetrically distributed letters" means that the letters are equidistant from the center of the alphabet, or the same distance from their respective ends (similar to what you would see in a reverse alphabet cypher code).

The longest word with horizontal symmetry (if you held a mirror to the word, along a horizontal line across the middle, you would see the whole word between the reflection and the word half it was reflecting) is COCCIDIOCIDE.
Other words with horizontal symmetry:
*BEDECKED
*CHECKBOOK
*CHOICE
*CODEBOOK
*COOKBOOK
*DECIDED
*DIOXIDE
*EXCEEDED
*HIDE
*ICEBOX
*OBOE

Words with vertical symmetry:
*MOM
*WOW
*TOOT
*TAT
*TIT
*TOT

Upper case "BID" is horizontally reflective while lower case "bid" is vertically reflective.

"SWIMS" has 180-degree rotational symmetry.
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Chiasmus..es

The OED defines "chiasmus" as, "A grammatical figure by which the order of words in one of two of parallel clauses is inverted in the other."
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Some fine examples:
“Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.”- Jefferson Davis

“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”- George Orwell

“Life creates order, but order does not create life.”- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”- Percy Bysshe Shelley

“People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.”- Edmund Burke

“By the way, I heard an answer today to the platitude: ‘There's no money in poetry.’
It was: ‘There's no poetry in money, either.’”- Robert Graves

“In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.”- Lenny Bruce

“People in cars cause accidents and accidents in cars cause people.”- Garrison Keillor

“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.”- Ray Bradbury

Anagrams For Digits - Numbers Can Have Fun, Too

Phone Anagrams
I'm trying to find out some stuff for my old phone number, since I had that one the longest, but all I'm getting is TEH LAME. Is there anything more sad? Well, probably the fact that - carnivore that I am - the other option is VEG LAND.

Next: trying it on my new number.. Wait - it's got a lot of 0's. Nothing comes of 0's! :(=

Word Fragments

Some word fragments that you can add letters to the end and/or beginning of (but not the middle) in order to create real, fairly recognizable words.
Ones I didn't need to check to ID (among the first 25, at least):
* llel - parallel
* atula - spatula
* thom - fathom
* alibr - calibrate
* wkw - awkward
* athem - mathematics
* rogl - hieroglyphs
* hep - shepherd
* aa - aardvark
* tegr - integrate
* caj - cajole
* illili - milliliter
* nhu - inhumane

Antagonyms

An antagonym is defined as a single word that has [at least two] meanings that contradict each other.

Favorites:
* Anxious: Full of mental distress because of apprehension of danger or misfortune [in effect, seeking to avoid] (We were anxious about the nearby gunshots.) vs. Eager or looking forward to (Until you returned, I was anxious to see you.)
* Apparent: Not clear or certain (For now, he is the apparent winner of the contest.) vs. Obvious (The solution to the problem was apparent to all.)
* Bound: Moving ("I was bound for Chicago") vs. Unable to move ("I was bound to a post", or less literally, "I was bound to my desk")
* Buckle: to hold together (e.g. buckle your belt) vs. to fall apart (e.g., buckle under pressure)
* Cleave: To adhere tightly vs. To cut apart
* Clip: to attach vs. to cut off
* Last: Just prior vs. final
* Left: To remain vs. to have gone
* Practiced: Experienced, expert (I am practiced in my work) vs. Inexperienced effort (The child practiced coloring.
* Presently: Now vs. after some time
* Root: To establish (The seed took root.) vs. To remove entirely (usually used with "out", e.g., to root out dissenters)
* Secreted: Having put out, released vs. Placed out of sight
* Transparent: Easily seen ("His motives were transparent.") invisible
* Trim: To add things to (trim a Christmas tree) vs. or take pieces off (trim hair)

Anagram Genius Server

The Anagram Genius Server can vary in the success of its returns, but I was sold on it from the moment that, after trying a bunch of different friends whose middle names I know, I got:

"Oh man! Sex-mad, hot twit!"

'Cause damn but that's accurate, for this guy. :p

My sister, the jeweler, had return for her name:

"I'm aberrancy artist." Not bad.

Try your name a few different ways. It will, at the very least, kill a few minutes.