Palindromes are words, sentences, numbers that are the same forwards and backwards. Is there a term for words that are one word forwards but a different word backwards? For example, star backwards is rats, or god is dog.
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I'm aware of what a palindrome is. What do you call words that, when reversed, form other words, such as ton (not) and part (trap)?
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There are a few words which I blank on quite frequently. Perhaps my "advanced" age has something to do with it. I don't know. One such word for me is euphemism.    There is another word I am blanking on right now. In my answer to  I also blanked on the same word.   It is a word which describes the power of a quotation, or memorable words, or a theory to stimulate further thought and perhaps research. The word is similar in meaning to prolific, which can denote having the power to generate many further thoughts and ramifications of the original quotation, words, or theory.  If you would be so kind as to supply this word for me and perhaps give me a mnemonic device to make it accessible to me, I'd be very grateful.
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Words like cleave and egregious have meanings that are completely opposite to other meanings of the same word. How did such a bizarre, confusing state of affairs ever develop?   I mean, I just can't work out how one and the same word could come to mean two distinct things that are completely opposite! Is it the same root? What did the root mean and how did it come to be used to mean the opposite?
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Exceed is commonly used, but when I found myself wanting to use the opposite I couldn't really find a single word that would do it.   fall short of and inadequate are a little off. How about deceed?
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The number I am thinking of is 80808. This is a palindrome. However, it is more than a palindrome, because it can be flipped or mirrored and will still read the same way.  Is there a word for this?
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What is the term for words that sound alike but have different spellings and meanings? For example, there and their.
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English has a lot of pangrams, which are short sentences that use every letter of the alphabet at least once.  has several examples. But is there a similar thing that is designed to use (almost) every phoneme of the English language?  I know it would be nearly impossible to come up with something that uses all of them (and it is mostly likely going to be a paragraph, and not a sentence, given the amount of phonemes), but still, my question remains: is there such a thing? (And what is it called?)
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For example, I saw someone just now. I thought he was Jack, but turned out he was not. Or, I saw something and recognized it as something else incorrectly.  Is there a word for such situations?  I know if I read something wrongly, I could say "I misread it".  and if I hear something wrongly, I could say "I misheard it".  But I cannot find the word "missee" in any dictionaries.  Is there something else people use?
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Sorry for asking such a basic question - but is there an actual term for the numbers that appear before and after the decimal point?  Example:  25.18  I know the 1 is in the tenths position, the 8 is in the hundredths position. are there singular terms which apply to all of the numbers that appear both before and after the decimal point?  I'm building a billing system, storing dollars and cents as integers (in separate columns), but for other currencies "dollars" and "cents" are not the correct terms = ).  Thanks!
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I find it very interesting that Judge /dʒʌdʒ/ is pronounced the same backwards as forwards while it is not a palindrome. Does this phenomenon have a name?
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As an adverb, what is the difference between forward and forwards?
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Ten different letters of alphabet are given, words with $5$ letters are formed from these given letters. Then, what is the number of words which have at least one letter repeated?    Well I do understand some part of the question. The only confusing thing is that if we had chosen different letters of alphabet, how can we form words which have the letters repeated.  For the record, I am new to permutation and combination, so please put the explanation to the most basic level.
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Sometimes, more in some languages than in others, a word is spelled using one or more numbers instead of letters. Is there a term for this?  The only example I can think of in English is se7en (seven).   Therefore,     The number se7en was not spelled entirely with letters; it was written in   ______.
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How do I check if a number is a palindrome?  Any language. Any algorithm. (except the algorithm of making the number a string and then reversing the string).
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How do you classify a permutation as odd or even (composition of an odd or even number of transpositions)? I somewhat understand the textbook definition of it but I'm having hard time conceptualizing and determining how it is actually determined if it's odd or even.
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One of my friends argues that princessship is the only word which has 3 identical letter comes together (s) ,but I think there is no word such as princessship.  Can anyone tell me whether this is a real word, and if there are any more English words which have 3 letters consecutively?
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In  we learn that toward and towards are interchangeable, but that the former is somewhat more typical of U.S. English and the latter of British English, although there is some indication that this does not always hold true.  But how about actual use? Being a non-native speaker, I cannot completely trust my intuition about what "sounds right". Is it true that toward sounds more formal than towards to a native English speaker? Does it vary between different variants of English? Should I use one in academic text and the other in casual communication? What are the nuances? In summary, how should I choose which one to use if I want to be consistent in my writing style? I'm looking for intuition for different kinds of situations.