Names

Coup de foudre; a sudden unforeseen event, in particular an instance of love at first sight.

John Galt Dennis the Menace Mr.Kobayashi Pliny the Liberator The Terminator Obduracy. Fulfilled Lividity Codefellows Nuihc ("Chiun" reversed) Sinanju martial art (the 'Sun Source' of all martial arts) Enrico Palazzo  Sightholders Mittwochsgesellschaft

Wulf

• Ulf = the animal itself.
• Varg = the dangerous, outlaw, taboo version — the wolf as a social threat.
• Ulv — Norwegian/Danish.
• Varg — Swedish (but politically loaded due to wolf‑hunting debates).
• Vargur — Faroese.
• Úlfur — Icelandic.
• Garmr — sometimes a wolf, sometimes a hell‑hound; guardian of Hel.
• Hrafnás — “raven‑food”; a kenning meaning “wolf”.
• Járnglófi — “iron‑glove”; poetic wolf name.
• Grár — “grey one”; used for wolves in poetry.
• Wulf (Old English) — source of English wolf.
• Wolfa (Old High German) — ancestor of German Wolf.
• Ulv (Old Swedish/Norwegian) — still used today in Scandinavia.
• Úlfur (Icelandic) — modern reflex of ulf.
• Varg — “wolf” and also “outlaw”; a dangerous, antisocial figure.
• Vargr — the older form; used in law codes to mean a person outside society’s protection.
• Ulf — the neutral, everyday word for “wolf”; ancestor of modern ulf/ulv/ulfur.
• Fenrir — the mythic wolf; name likely from fen (marsh) + rir (dweller).
• Hati — “the hater”; a wolf who chases the moon.
• Sköll — “the mocker”; a wolf who chases the sun.

The name "Sylvester" is a play on Felis silvestris, the scientific name for the European wildcat (domestic cats like Sylvester are in the species Felis catus).

Aquatic deities         - Poseidon         - Oceanus         - Ceto         - Nereus         - Glaucus         - Thetis         - Amphitrite         - Tethys         - Triton         - Ophion         - Proteus         - Phorcys         - Pontus         - Oceanids         - Nereids         - Naiads

Eierlegende Wollmilchsau

Oisín O Malley

Xalxo or Chalco is pronounced Khal-koh, not Salso

Ruairidh (ruari, rory)  "red king, great king"

Keyser Söze

Dorcas - Dorkas - Tabitha (gazelle)

Andrew de Moray; Scottish leader allied with William Wallace

Sulaco

Skeletor, Battle Cat, and Orko. The Latin inscription translates as “I am the master of the world!”

Anaximander

Rikka: Japanese rust en reinheid

Furio

Kaiser Soze

Kaiser willie, King Georgie, Tsar Nickie

Sub rosa: secret

XALXO, how to pronounce this? Salso? Khal-koh it is Indian

Tactical hell

Strategic heaven

Sloika - Layer Cake

Thales of Miletus (600BC) Olive press options

Tribola; a man that will do anything to get what he wants

Percussor, percussores: strike or pierce through (Roman)

Alberich was a legendary sorcerer who originated in the mythology or epic sagas of the Frankish Merovingian Dynasty of the 5th to 8th century AD, and whose name means king of the elves (elbe "elves" reix, rex "king"), who possessed the ability to become invisible.

When your middle name is 'The', it means you're it. The only one. The one that defines the category. I think that focus is a choice, and that the result of appropriate focus is you earn the middle name.

Le Chiffre, alias "Die Nummer", "Mr. Number", "Herr Ziffer" and other translations of "The Number" or "The Cipher" in various languages, is the paymaster of the "Syndicat des Ouvriers d'Alsace" (French for "Alsatian Workmen's Union"), aSMERSH-controlled trade union.

The Theophylacti were powerful secular noblemen in the area surrounding Rome during the 10th - 12th century. They, in fact, had a few popes come from their ranks. Their reign was known as the "pornocracy," a period wherein powerful female members of the family were able to influence papal decisions.

The name Obaku itself comes from a branch of traditional Zen Buddhism, which helps describe the designers vision for simple, basic living.

Acedia: "negligence", "lack of care" has been variously defined as a state of listlessness or torpor, of not caring or not being concerned with one's position or condition in the world.

Titus Pomponius Atticus

Elyesa Bazna, sometimes known as Ilyaz and Iliaz Bazna, was a secret agent for Nazi Germany during World War II, operating under the code name Cicero.

Ish Kabibble

The griffin, griffon, or gryphon is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings an eagle with it's talons on the front legs.

Endurance (“Volharding”); Fortitudine vincimus: Door volharding overwinnen wij

Porphyrios: The Sea Monster that Terrorized the Late Roman Empire

Bakufu: shogun council

Ōmugai - nautilus in Japanese

Ataraxia: freedom from disturbance

Citadel the core fortified area, diminutive of "city", meaning "little city". Can have Bastions on the outside.

Barbarossa: Redbeard [Italian]

Yutani (湯谷) [jɯ.ta.ɲi] is a Japanese surname. It literally means "hot spring valley".

LUSTY Luftwaffe Secret Technology

Acropolis: high city

STENDEC Flight CS-59 last message

Skraeling Viking name for Indians

The Frumentarii: Assassins of Rome

Valthjof Viking name

Sonderbevollmächtigter, plenipotentiary

Rote Nelke: Erich Mielke secret archive

Grozny - Terrible

Streltsi - first russian army

Zemski Zabor - first russian parlement

Boyars - nobels from northern territory

Oprichniki - secret police force

Marines in Alien

• Frost
• Crowe
• Wierzbowski
• Drake
• Spunkmeyer
• Ferro
• Hudson
• Vasquez
• Gorman
• Dietrich
• Apone
• Hicks

Skraelingar: barbarians (Norse name for indians)

Ashton-Gwatkin

Kobold; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobold

Takumi: vakman

Funkabhörstation (auch: Funkabhörstelle, Horchposten oder Lauschstation Die Objekte trugen die Tarnnamen „Jenissej“ und „Urian“, letzteres im Volksmund auch „Stasi-Moschee“ genannt.

Proverka: ‘dry-cleaning’ (KGB jargon)

Gedankenexperiment

Weltanschauung

Anton Chigurh

Princeps Civitatis First Citizen

Dr Okun

Simply Complicated

Veridical (paradox); provably true but seems false

Kido Butai

Sympatheia, the idea that “all things are mutually woven together and therefore have an affinity for each other

Curmudgeon (bad tempered old man)

Pig-ignorant - Pignornant

Taqiyya: caution, fear, prudence, guarding against (a danger), carefulness, wariness

Lucius Fox; purveyor of Batman's tools from Wayne Enterprises

Norþmenn

Gaëlle

Uncertainty - Incerto

Führer-Prinzip

Flâneur 

Plenipotentiary = Sonderbevollmächtigter

Amor Fati - The Love of One's Fate

Vacillated = indecisive

Chefsache

Philistines

Humblebrag

Meravigliosa - marvellous

Sorprendente - amazing, surprising, astonishing, startling

Meraviglioso - wonderful, marvelous, wondrous, marvellous

Eccezionale - awesome, exceptional, outstanding, extraordinary, terrific

Fantastico - fantastic, wonderful, fantastical, marvelous, incredible

Eccellente - excellent, super, superb, fine, choice

Brillante - brilliant, bright, shiny, smart, diamond

Delizioso - delicious, delightful, delectable, scrumptious, yummy

Magnifico - magnificent, glorious, superb, splendid, gorgeous

Favoloso - fabulous, spectacular, terrific

Svengali; fictional character in George du Maurier's 1895 novel Trilby. Svengali is a man who seduces, dominates and exploits

Auric; adjective meaning "of gold"

Modi; son of Thor (meaning: brave)

Yeti, Nyalmo, Mirka, Chuchuna

Menk; forest spirit

Saitori; a member on the Tokyo Stock Exchange that matches buy and sell orders with each other in order to facilitate trading and promote liquidity on the exchange. Unlike specialists on the NYSE, however, they are not allowed to trade on their own accounts.

Pelorus; keeping on course

XALXO; Not Salso, but ‘Khal-koh [Indian]

Kao Gong Ji, the oldest known technical encyclopedia, was written around 300 BC and is part of a larger text called The Rites of Zhou.

Vincenzo Coccotti, consigliere to mobster "Blue Lou Boyle"

Bellicose

Manimal

Japanese, ‘Tsundoku’,leaving a book unread

Hari Seldon; scientist who could foretell the future mathematically (Isaac Asimov Foundation trilogy)

Arado plow

Via Negativa All I Want to Know Is Where I'm Going to Die So I'll Never Go There

Okhotnik Hunter

Lagado (academy); filled with mathematical instruments (Gulliver's travels)

Flappers; servants in Lagado

Epistemology

Velocita, eccelenza en Passione

Villanelle / villanella / villanesque (Smart Funny Rude)

Shinobi; shadow ninjas are the guardians

Rai-zing; Thunder of God

Atrahasis; The exceedingly wise. http://www.atrahasis.com is for sale. Has a link with Hammurabi.

Matriculate: be enrolled at a college or university / record (arms) in an official register.

Kiasu: scared to lose

Belisarius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisarius

Probus, "the Valiant" - boldly courageous; brave; stout-hearted, worthy; excellent.

Plenipotentiary Sonderbevollmächtigter

Sonderfahndungsliste

Portnoi (russian the tailor)

Exegesis: Critical explanation or interpretation of a text

Vanguard: A group of people leading the way in new developments or ideas.

Wags: wild-ass guesses

Sharashka The Experimental Design Bureau (Russian: Опытное конструкторское бюро, Opytnoe konstruktorskoe bûro; ОКБ), commonly known as sharashka (Russian: шара́жка, [ʂɐˈraʂkə]; sometimes sharaga, sharazhka) was an informal name for secret research and development laboratories in the Soviet Gulag labor camp system. Etymologically, the word sharashka is derived from a Russian slang expression sharashkina kontora ("Sharashka's office", which in its turn comes from the criminal argot term sharaga (шарага) for a band of thieves, hoodlums, etc.[1]), an ironic, derogatory term to denote a poorly organized, impromptu, or bluffing organization.

Almaz Russian for raw diamond, secret space station

Weyland or Wayland the Smith, a legendary smith in Germanic and Norse mythology Völundarkviða, the Lay of Weyland, a Norse epic poem about the smith

Yutani (湯谷?) [ju͍.ta.ni] is a Japanese surname. It literally means "hot spring valley".

The Wizard of Us

Nathan Muir

Kodawari: pursuit of perfection

Conrad Brean (Brien)

DrOkun

Chaos Cabal

Hiallt (Hauteville family founder)

Plenipotentiary (plenipotenziario)

Cantankerous

in·sou·ci·ance: Casual lack of concern; indifference.

Unalike They’re different. Not the same.

Alethea

Stul·ti·fy Cause to lose enthusiasm and initiative, especially as a result of a tedious or restrictive routine.

Lipizzaner; born black, turn white

Sang·froid: Composure or coolness, sometimes excessive, as shown in danger or under trying circumstances.

Pas·tiche An artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period.

Syneidesis; ancient Greek meaning conscience

Jamming the stub of the Greek word for “knowledge” into the Greek word for “rule,” Estlund coined the word “epistocracy,” meaning “government by the knowledgeable.”

Jagdverbände

• Raubgraf
• Stürmer
• Dränger
• Falke
• Landsknecht
• Hammer
• Kurfürst
• Raubritter
• Eisteufel

Mulciber after the Roman god of fire (Mulciber (Hephaestus), meaning "smelter")

Conversazione Society (Cambridge apostles)

Praxeology is the science of human action

ōkami ("wolf") is regarded as a messenger

Mironovich

Evgeny Rysin

Evgueni Ryssine

Artem (Armenian)

Pop Arkroksky

Elena

Olenka Rysin

Mieczyslaw (through glory) Mieszko

Zbigniew (to dispel anger)

Crocker

Dieter

Einer

Scharnhorst

Tirpitz

Bismark

Pinz Eugen

Saoirse

Una

Semantic Institute

Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez

Calogero

Bereitschaftspotential, or readiness potential,

Tancred of Hauteville (Altavilla)

Ranulf II of Alife

Grimoald, Prince of Bari

Sprezzatura: Italian word originating from Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, where it is defined by the author as "a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it

Mjǫllnir Mjölnir

Verschlimmbessern

The wendigo or windigo (also wetiko) is a mythological man-eating creature or evil spirit from the folklore of the Native American Algonquian tribes based in the northern forests of Nova Scotia, the East Coast of Canada, and Great Lakes Region of Canada.

He Ho Shou - Has no equal

Peter Wayland

Nathan Muir

Putamen: A brain region that does lots, including using dopamine to contribute to learning and estimation. It’s also involved in the hate circuit, but we won’t get into that.

Everynone

Desperately Seeking Symmetry

Rurik (viking Kiev Rus) related to Ivan the Terrible

Oleg

Igor

Fly fishing

Apricity. It means the warmth of the sun in winter

Glyptodon**:** _t_he most heavily armored mammal of all time. About the size of a VW Beetle.

Rendez (Hungarian for organizing)

Baldr- Balder: (Norse mythology) god of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature; son of Odin and Frigg and husband of Nanna; killed by Hoth

Oriana Fallaci

Akazonae (red arms) is a kind of military organization in the Sengoku period

Nicoletta Strambelli aka Patty Pravo

Montagu

Unpossible

Emanator

Cholmondeley pronounced Chumley

St John Smith pronounced Sintjohnsmyth

Gravy

Koo- koo- ka- choo  / Kuekuatsheu / the Wolverine

Ridley Crocker

Tifosi (pronounced [tiˈfoːzi]) is an Italian word to describe a group of supporters or fans, especially in sports. Tifosi is used for a mixed gender or an all-male group; masculine singular tifoso, feminine singular tifosa, feminine plural tifose.

The Lernaean Hydra or Hydra of Lerna (Greek: Λερναῖα Ὕδρα, Lerna__î__a H__ý__dra), more often known simply as the Hydra, was an ancient serpentine water monster with reptilian traits in Greek and Roman mythology. Its lair was the lake of Lerna in the Argolid, which was also the site of the myth of the Danaids. Lerna was reputed to be an entrance to the Underworld[1] and archaeology has established it as a sacred site older than MycenaeanArgos. The Hydra served as a kind of guard. According to Hesiod, the Hydra was the offspring of Typhon and Echidna.[2] It possessed many heads ("more than the vase-painters could paint") and, each time one was lost, it was replaced by two more. It had poisonous breath and blood so virulent that even its scent was deadly

Dolos or Dolus (Ancient Greek: Δόλος "Deception") is the spirit of trickery and guile. He is also a master at cunning deception, craftiness, and treachery.

Rattleback

Sui generis—one of a kind

Weyland Yutani

Zugzwang

Kikashi: taking advantage of the opponent's plans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Go_terms "honne and tatamae," or "tatemae," which according to Wikipedia is a Japanese expression that describes "the contrast between a person’s true feelings and desires" and "the behavior and opinions one displays in public."

AtrejuAtreyuMammon material wealth or greed, most often personified as a deity

Morale also known as esprit de corps Greek mythological character Hydra, who sprouts two new heads each time one is cut off.

Ulfberht VLFBERHT +ULFBERH+T +VLFBERH+T "Ulfberht" is a Frankish word whose meaning is not known.[1] The inscription "+VLFBERH+T" used Latin letters. The most common hypotheses are that it was the name of a swordsmith who passed his craft on to apprentices or family members, or that it was the name of a group of craftsmen.[1] The word is possibly a compound of the elements Ulfr 'wolf' (old Norse) and beraht 'light, bright, shining' (old high German, old Saxon)

Trainers, known as magistri, themselves retired survivors of gladiatorial combat

Tesuji means something like “clever play,”

Kiai, or fighting spirit.

POSIWID (the purpose of a system is what it does)

Polonius

Apostles Disciples Heretics Marters

Keyser Söze

La posta del falcone

Ettore Majorana

IL-2 Stumovik

Room 39 of the Old Admiralty Building (Ian Fleming)

Timeshift

Seikousa; the house of superior workmanship

Tachyon

Isenstadt legion

Foibles (minor weakness or failing of character, weaker section of a sword blade)

Nihtgenga

Ruairi (O'Connell)

Cleromancy (casting bones)

Amaranth—mythological Greek flower that never wilts Senkou (Sentaka) (Japanese: 潜高, from Sen, abbreviation of 潜水艦,

Sensuikan, "Submarine", and kou, abbreviation of 高速,

Kousoku, "High speed"). Navigator 

Sfumato (in the manner of smoke, no distinct edges or lines) [Leonardo da Vinci] 

Punctum caecum (blind spot) Striatum (connection between logical thought, action and achievement of goal) 

Shibui [quality of design] simplicity, elegance, beauty, functionality, restraint, reserve, refinement, and quitetude.

We sit between the R and the D

Ecksor; phonetic spelling of XOR

Intelligentsia

Humbert/Hubert

Introspective

Pangolin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin

The spacecraft was known as Polyus-Skif. "Polyus" is Russian for "pole," as in the north pole. Skif referred to the Scythians, an ancient tribe of warriors in central Asia—and the European equivalent of "barbarian."

Kaskad (Cascade)

Pyrrhic A casual revolution Word Herder Uacari "wuk-oh-ree"

Xibalba: Place of fear

Mundaneum (Paul Otlet)

Red herring****http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring_(idiom) 

Arminius (Germanic leader)

Sprezzatura : a certain nonchalance Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier_

Reflective introspection by transcending rules La posta di Falcone (Hayabusa - in Japanese) In Sweden we are afraid of the Bjärv, it is a fearsome creature that is born if a Bear and a Wolverine mate under the full moon. It has the strength of the bear and the ferociousness of the wolverine.

A MacGuffin is a term that Alfred Hitchcock popularised in reference to the item of value that drives the plot forward. 

Seanchai (Irish); the keeper of legends and oral traditions Hybrid Thinking 

Noesis/cognition; the functioning of the intellect; the exercise of reason (-ium/associated status or office)

Michelagnolo Bvonarroti

Gorlacon (Pict king)

Cohort mode (lock shields)

Panopticon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

Bumf: printed information, such as an advertisement or official document, that is usually unwanted and not interesting

Roman emperor Commodus (successor Pertinax), son of the emperor Marcus Aurelius was strangled in his bath by a wrestler, Narcissus

Ikebana: traditional Japanese floral arrangement

Karlamagnus Saga