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This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
Name Origin Creator Comments Basic English: 1925 Charles Kay Ogden: Seek to limit the language to a given list of common-use words and terms in order to make it simpler to foreign learners or other people who may have difficulties. Special English: 1959 Voice of America: Globish: 2004 Jean-Paul Nerrière E-Prime: 1940s D. David Bourland Jr.
The word adamant is the basis for fictional materials such as Adamantium and Adamantite (see below), Adamantle in The Sims, and Adiamante in L. E. Modesitt Jr.'s 1996 novel of the same name. Adamantite: Various A metal ore in many fictional universes.
English. "Blackacre" and "John Doe" or "Jane Doe" are often used as placeholder names in law. Other more common and colloquial versions of names exist, including "Joe Schmo", "Joe Blow", and "Joe Bloggs". "Tom, Dick and Harry" may be used to refer to a group of nobodies or unknown men.
This list of generic names of political parties includes only generic party names, not overviews of parties, e.g., liberal and green parties. Action Party. National Action Party; People's Action Party; Agrarian Party; Alliance Party. National Alliance; New Alliance Party; American Party; Blue Party; Centre Party; Christian Party
R.A.S. ( R escue A id S ociety), from the movies The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under. R.E.D. ( R eliable E xcavation (and) D emolition), a front for one of the warring companies in Team Fortress 2. Red uniforms. S.A.B.R.E., a fictional agency representing the UK, Australia, and India in the video game Evil Genius.
This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the scientific names of organisms. The binomial nomenclature used for animals and plants is largely derived from Latin and Greek words, as are some of the names used for higher taxa , such ...
This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as we know it – as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.