I learned an interesting new word from the radio yesterday – sniglet – which is defined as “any word that doesn’t appear in the dictionary, but should”.

It was apparently popularized by the comedian/actor Rich Hall while he was working on Not Necessarily the News, an HBO comedy series from the 1980s, who has also published a number of collections of sniglets [source].

Examples include:

• Aquadextrous: possessing the ability to turn the bathtub tap / faucet with the toes
• Blamestorming: sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.
• Egosurf: to search for yourself on Google or another search engine
• Ohnosecond: that very short moment in time during which you realize that you have pressed the wrong key and deleted hours, days, or weeks of work.
• Percussive maintenance: the fine art of whacking the crap of of an electronic device to get it to work again.
• Treeware: documents made out of paper, as opposed to electronic documents.

Here are some collections of sniglets:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniglet
http://grammar.about.com/od/rs/g/Sniglet-term.htm
https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/Sniglet-Words-that-should-be-in-the-dictionary-but-arent