Codenames

• Ankonian
• The codebreakers and analysts in Room 40
• Inner Citadel
• Areté (AH-reh-TAY) ideal of peak performance/excellence (goddess of knowledge and wisdom)
• Sage; a perfectly wise and virtuous person
• Deuxième Bureau
• The Kundschaftsbüro, tasked with monitoring foreign states, was subordinate to the Evidenzbureau. Now Heeres-Nachrichtenamt
• RSHA Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA)

• Seigaiha’ (blue sea & waves) pattern. Historically, 'Seigaiha' symbolised resilience and fortune.
• Kampfgruppe (KG or KGr)
• Obdurate - stubborly refusing
• wabi-sabi (侘寂) is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection
• Tolkachy: pusher
• Draufganger
• Sintashta: inventors of spoked wheels, hi tech metalworking and modern horse
• Satori: enlightenment
• deictic flux; The field of pointing—commonly known as the deictic field
• Equanimity: the quality of being calm and even tempered; composure
• Specter: a ghost
• Ad lucrum per scientia (toward wealth through science)
• Ex Nihilo
• Phynance
• Declan: a Dutch book is made when a clever gambler places a set of bets that guarantee a profit, no matter what the outcome of the bets.
• Frumentarii were officials of the Roman Empire, originally wheat collectors, who also acted as the secret service of the Roman Empire in the 2nd and 3rd centuries.
• Phaedra: in Greek mythology, Phaedra is the daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë, wife of Theseus, sister of Ariadne, and the mother of Demophon of Athens and Acamas. Phaedra's name derives from the Greek word φαιδρός, which meant "bright". 
• In Norse mythology, a valkyrie is a minor female deity whose purpose is to choose the most heroic of those who have died in battle and to carry them off to Valhalla
• Psychogeography is an approach to geography that emphasizes playfulness and "drifting" around urban environments.
• Precipice: a very steep rock face or cliff, typically a tall one.
• Bonhomie: good-natured easy friendliness
• Trompe-l'œil (French for "deceive the eye", pronounced, which can also be spelled without the hyphen in English as trompe l'oeil, is an art technique involving realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions. Forced perspective is a comparable illusion in architecture.
• Wobble
• Setec astronomy <> TooManySecrets
• Darkstar (Awacs)
• Dragnet
• Synonyms: abyss - cliff - chasm - gulf
• Scavenge
• Zaharoff, "le systeme" was the strategy of playing all sides against each other in order to maximise financial profit.
• Tempestuous; strong and turbulent (conflicting) emotion
• Perennial
• Lemniscate (infinity)
• Shkval (supercavitating torpedo)
• Superkavitierender Unterwasserlaufkörper
• Supercavitating underwater running body
• Hoot (Whale) [Iran]
• drear·y; Dull, bleak, and lifeless; depressing  
• Aloysius Lilius (ca. 1510 – 1576), also variously referred to as Luigi Lilio, Luigi Giglio
• Saoirse (Sur-sja) meaning freedom
• ominous; giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen.
• Synonyms: sinister - portentous - inauspicious - threatening
• frazzled; cause to feel completely exhausted; wear out.
• Event Horizon
• Point of no return
• Not sure if you've noticed, but in the last twelve months, the social internet is emphasizing twitch more than ever before. All that smart phone checking and checking in and name checking and instant rejoindering is amplifying the work of those that are just a little quicker than everyone else. Twitch skills used to be rarely needed in the business world. There were certainly people on trading desks or in air traffic control towers who had to have the ability to shoot first and ask questions later, but generally, we rewarded those that could find and stick to the long line.
• Sprezzatura (Italian pronunciation: sprettsaˈtura(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_Italian)) is an 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".1(http://en.wikipedia.org/#cite_note-0) It is the ability of the courtier to display "an easy facility in accomplishing difficult actions which hides the conscious effort that went into them".2(http://en.wikipedia.org/#cite_note-1) Sprezzatura has also been described "as a form of defensive irony: the ability to disguise what one really desires, feels, thinks, and means or intends behind a mask of apparent reticence and nonchalance".3(http://en.wikipedia.org/#cite_note-2) The word has entered the English language; the Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "studied carelessness".[
• Gimball
• Hoi polloi
• Technicolor strategy (used in high energy physics)
• F9 model monkeys
• detriment: The state of being harmed or damaged, A cause of harm or damage.
• harm - damage - injury - disadvantage - hurt - mischief
• Yakuza members who do something they shouldn't are forced to atone in a brutal way—by chopping off part of their own finger. They start with the tip of their pinkie, but further transgressions require further utilation. This is known as yubitsume
• present at all seasons of the year
• persisting for several years usually with new herbaceous growth from a perennating part
• persistent, enduring
• continuing without interruption: constant, perpetual
• regularly repeated or renewed: recurrent
• perennially  adverb
• obtuse annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand
• Gerolamo Cardano (Milanese gambler) wrote first paper on probability and chance in games.
• His strategy was to bet on dice. A 6 would appear in four throws, above average chance of appearing. 
• Rumor Ex Machina
• In Greek mythology, Nemesis (Greek, Νέμεσις), also called Rhamnousia/Rhamnusia ("the goddess of Rhamnous") at her sanctuary atRhamnous, north of Marathon, was the spirit of divine retribution against those who succumb to hubris (arrogance before the gods). Another name was Adrasteia, meaning "the inescapable."1(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_\(mythology\)#cite_note-1) The Greeks personified vengeful fate as a remorseless goddess: the goddess of revenge. The name Nemesis is related to the Greek word νέμειν [némein], meaning "to give what is due".2(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_\(mythology\)#cite_note-2)
• debauchery excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures; intemperance
• bum-fluffery (a lovely word employed in "sexy beast")
• A cabal is a group of people united in some close design together, usually to promote their private views or interests in a church, state, or other community,
• rambunctious   
• Uncontrollably exuberant; boisterous.
• The vanguard is the leading part of an advancing military formation. It has a number of functions, including seeking out the enemy and secur
• Pricking of thumbs (something wicked this way comes)
• Room 40 (GCHQ)
• palaver: Prolonged and idle discussion  - hisshou, meaning certain victory
• Darting in the dark (if you hit the ackpot you don't even deserve it)
• TSHTF The shit hits the fan, the fit hits the shan, the facies hit the airconditioner
• verisimilitude
• proclivity
• Being in a river of excrement inside a Native American water vessel without any means of propulsion."
• TEOTWAWKI is "The End Of The World As We Know It"
• Department B1A ww2 control turned spies
• Run by Thomas Argile Roberts TAR
• Double cross commitee (XX) twenty committee.
• Seeing around corners
• Amsel (Blackbird)
• Blitz
• Blutrausch
• Burggraf
• Drachen (Kites)
• Dragoner (Dragon)
• Draufgänger (Daredevil)
• Drossel (Thrush)
• Dränger (Pusher)
• Endrass
• Haudegen (War horse)
• Hinein (Let's go!)
• Isar (4 boats)
• Isegrim (Wolf)
• Keil (Wedge)
• Knappen (Shield Bearer, Squire)
• Kurfürst (Elector)
• Landsknecht (Soldier, Mercenary)
• Löwenherz (Lion heart)
• Markgraf (Markgrave)
• Mordbrenner (Arsonist)
• Rasmus (God of wind (also known as Erasmus))
• Raubgraf (Robber Baron)
• Raubritter (Robber Baron)
• Raufbold (Brawler, Rowdy)
• Regenschirm
• Ritter (Knight)
• Schlagetot (Hooligan)
• Seeräuber
• Seeteufel (Sea Devil)
• Seewolf (Sea wolf)
• Stosstrupp (Assault Team)
• Strauchritter
• Streitaxt (Battle Axe)
• Sturmbock
• Stürmer (Forward)
• Störtebecker
• Ulan (Lancer)
• Ungestüm (Vehemence)
• Unverzagt
• Vorwärts (Let's go!)
• Zorn (Fury)
• Meiko (Japanese for "well-engineered")  "excellent engineering"
• Sandcorn a pearl starts with sandcorn in an oyster
• In medias res; in the midst of things
• Interlocutor (music), the master of ceremonies of a minstrel show
• Interlocutor (politics), someone who informally explains the views of a government and also can relay messages back to a government
• Interlocutor (law), an order of any Scottish Court.
• Interlocutor (linguistics), a participant in a discourse.
• space-time continuum
• chivalric code d'honneur
• knave a dishonest or unscrupulous man
• Chancer a likable conman and rogue
• Sangfroid; composure or coolness shown in danger or under trying circomstances (from the French Sang Froid: cold blood)
• A rout is a chaotic and disorderly retreat or withdrawal of troops from a battlefield, resulting in the victory of the opposing party, or following defeat, a collapse of discipline, or poor morale. A routed army often degenerates into a sense of "every man for himself" as the surviving combatants attempt to flee to safety.
• Hammurabi's Code", a 3,800-year-old Babylonian law that stipulated that if a building collapses and kills someone, the builder should be put to death
• Squall: sudden hust of wind
• Gimball
• Triage 
• Going nuclear; sell everything
• Jester
• Hard yakka; Australian rural slang for hard work. Dervied from the very tough yakka wood.
• Narwhal
• APRIRE is an ITALIAN word which means 'to unlock'. 
• Cognitive dissonance
• Reilly
• Fothergill
• Cummings
• Zaharov
• Colorons
• "Irojiten" is the Japanese expression for "colour encyclopedia"
• Occam's razor Latin lex parsimoniae is the law of parsimony, economy orsuccinctness. It is a principle urging one to select from among competing hypotheses that which makes the fewest assumptions.  entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem (entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity)
• De eenzaamheid van de priemgetallen = 
• The Solitude of Prime Numbers
• La solitudine dei numeri primi
• Barge Pole
• Colorons
• Technicolor
• Induction (The derivation of general principles from specific instances
• Constellation
• Rapunzel
• Artifex (artist, craftsman, designer, mastermind, skilled, creative)
• Repartee
• Cibola [i met streepje voorwaards] (city of gold)
• Ironclad
• javelin
• Stupendous
• Extortionate
• Ehrmantraut
• The name "Datura" is taken from an hallucinogen plant used by the Yaqui tribe to see and talk with the gods in a "visionary trip".
• Rocketfuel
• Tap Dance
• Salga a bordo cazzo (#salgaabordocazzo)
• The map is not the territory
• Ladle (serving spoon)
• Eidetic
• Hoi Poloi
• Frenetic
• Scuffles
• Juggler
• Lawerence (Private Pyle)
• Schoe
• Jostler
• Rout
• Ply
• Slices of eight
• HAL
• Viceral
• Bandit
• Profane
• Indecorous
• Jedi reflex
• Spock logic
• medulla oblongata: Brain region at the stem of the brain
• Use bahavior monitoring (like Blade Runner Voight Kampff test) to spot xxxx 
• highly-reflexive autopoietic conception
• Thermite
• Conundrum
• Apoptosis (aka, programmed cell death)
• Brobdingnagian (tremendous size)
• Arroganto
• Cornucopia
• Malicious
• Cobbler
• Tora tora tora
• Appledore
• Mind Palace
• Benevolence
• Mycroft
• Moriarity
• Stampede
• Blackbriar
• Threadstone
• Rinse and repeat
• “Eos” (Greek God of Dawning light)
• “Velosus” (Norse God of Speed
• Prima nocta!
• Satisficing
• Emaciated" means extremely thin, weak, and wasted away
• Hupomnemata: important subjects (greek)
• Mefistofeles, Mephistophilis, Mephostopheles): niet van het licht houdend
• Surly: bad-tempered and unfriendly.
• MO5(G)
• Attention (prosochē)
• Practice (meletē)
• Progress (prokopē)
• Oiêsis; false conceptions
• Apophenia, the perception of patterns or connections between unrelated or random data, objects, and ideas where no such patterns actually exist
• Premeditatio malorum; what can go wrong
• Mefistofeles, Mephistophilis, Mephostopheles): niet van het licht houdend 
• Daimon; who are you at your highest level
• Caldron a situation characterized by instability and strong emotions.
• Epiphany 
• Kongsi;  groep met een gezamenlijk, algemeen belang. Ook gespeld als kongsie
• Kampfgruppe
• Phantasia kataleptike: objective representation or apprehensive impression
• Heaviside; transmission kine algebra with LaPlace
• Chefsache
• Somersaulting: acrobatic movement where landing upright again
• Invincible: incapable of being defeated, overcome, or subdued.
• Imperturbable: unable to be upset or excited; calm, impossible to disturb
• Interlinked. Interlinked. Cells
• Fugazi: adjective: not genuine; bogus or false.
• Petit bleu (télégramme/carte pneumatique ) - lightweight blue paper for fast messages
• Benefactor file
• Pensées - Cogitationes Privatae
• Precepts: a general rule intended to regulate behaviour or thought.
• Akelei
• Jackal
• Keyser Söze
• OUTATIME
• IN-N-OUT strategy
• Impermanence - annica: nothin lasts foreverthe state or fact of lasting for only a limited period of time. The state or fact of lasting for only a limited period of time.
• Skonk Works, skunk works
• Peroration; the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration or a highly rhetorical speech
• Ardor; great enthusiasm or love, excitement, interest, energy and enthusiasm. adrenalin rush. Alacrity; brisk and cheerful readiness.
• Isengard; fortress in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, famous for its central black tower, Orthanc
• Speranza is an Italian word meaning "hope," a beautiful term signifying optimism, faith, and expectation for the future
• Wolf pack - Rudel tactic
• Deuxième Bureau
• DoubleXX
• Gedankenexperiment
• Cashiering (degradation)
• Schräge Musik
• Bordereau (Frans voor 'lijst' of 'rekening') is een gedetailleerd rapport of overzicht, vaak gebruikt om grote hoeveelheden data te consolideren. Essentieel voor het bijhouden van financiële status, risico's.
• Pensées, ponderings
• Comtemplation
• Confident Falsehoods
• Les ramasseurs de mégots = gathering cigarette butts
• Outflanking
• Paragon; particular quality
• Emollient; someone who is calming, soothing, and aims to reduce conflict or harshness, making things peaceful, like a gentle lotion softens skin. 
• Leviathan; dragon symbolizing chaos and a metaphor for immense, threatening power,
• Sepulchral (adjective) describes something related to tombs or burial, often evoking a feeling of gloom, solemnity, or death,