@amWhy OREOS

@quid ORFEOS (two operas!)

@XanderHenderson :P Cheater!! :P

@Xander ORES, and ORS, as in, "there are to ORS in $p\lor q\lor r$!"

If we had another E and an X, we'd have EXPRESS and EXPRESSO!!

@Brahadeesh You're always welcome to join us!! :-)

@XanderHenderson the one by Gluck is called "Orfeo et Euridice" though. ;D

chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/55409499#55409499 Their words that can be formed by EX-PROFESSOR!

@Brahadeesh See you soon!

@amWhy darn! I should have thought of those.

espresso does not contain an x :\

@XanderHenderson But it has one too many s's! Sorry for my ignorance. But we get SEX and SEXES and POX and OX and EXPRESS if we work with EX-PROFESSOR, as well as FEE, FEES, SEE, SEES, EXPO, EXPOSE ...

There's not such thing as an ex-professor. Only faculty emeritus. :P

...**EXPOS** and EXPOSES, SEEP, SEEPS, PEE, PEES

I inadvertently just inserted a nonexistent A, but was able to edit the words using it, out.

@XanderHenderson Microsoft's CEO was a former Professor at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, when he was hired as the current CEO.

Once a professor, always a professor. Even if no longer employed as such.

:P

@XanderHenderson Okay, I admit, I'm down ONE word!!

There's a user on our site that insists the same holds true for Moderators. He does not consider himself an ex-moderator, @Xander.

Heh.

@amWhy I cannot speak to that.

;)

@XanderHenderson Just hypothesizing here! ;D

@Brahadeesh: thanks man! I feel flattered.

But I guess interest in my post might be primarily due to the the fact that it deals with Ramanujan. Add that mystery figure Ramanujan in your writings and you increase the value of your post by a large margin.

@Brahadeesh: for those who do happen to read my blogs, the posts on elliptic and theta functions are the ones that were written with great enthusiasm. The blog was created as a means to sum up my understanding of these topics. Ramanujan had to be there because he was the master of this topic way beyond others could dream of.

@amWhy: all the possible words have been identified so lets use the MSE lingo REP

POSSE

@amWhy PRESS ROOF

@amWhy ROOF EXPRESS

@ParamanandSingh: We haven't yet made words from your name. Should we start? =P

Yes we can give it a try. Just note that it contains lot of A's. I start with GASP (ahhh)!

And HARD, HAND, HANDS

@user21820: forgot to ping

PING, MIND, MAN, PAN, GIN, DIN, HIM, DIM

@ParamanandSingh Haha I'm trying to find funny anagrams for your name like ANAGRAM HANDPINS...

No one beats you in anagrams

Where are the other players, in particular @amWhy (expert of word games)?

Here are a few more. =P

PARADING SHAM NAN

DARING SHAMAN NAP

DANG PIRANHAS, MAN!

@user21820 A HAND AND PINS

PING PANG, HANG, PIN, HIP, SHIP, PAIR, HAIR, SHIN, GAIN, DARN,

MAIN SPAIN

SIN

RAIN PAIN AN AND SAND MAID SAID IN ID PANDA

SING RING

SAGA

NIP SNIP SPIN MESH HIS SNAP

RIP RAN

DIG DIM MID MAD ARM DAM DAMN

HAG NAG RAG RIG

GASH DASH MASH RASH

(Also, for @Xander: we have NIPS, SNIPS, PINGS, PANGS, HANGS, HIPS, PAIRS, GAINS, DARNS, SINS, RAINS, PAINS, MAIDS, PANDAS, SINGS, RINGS, SPINS, RIPS, DIGS, DIMS, ARMS, DAMS, DAMNS, HAGS, NAGS, RAGS, RIGS)

Also SPRING

AIM (AIMS) ,SPAM, AGAIN, MISH-MASH,

GRAIN SHAG

GRIM, GRIN GRAM HAM GRAND

@amWhy you sure you aren't an anagramming robot? :P

GRIND RIND HIND, GRIP SHIP

SAHARAN

OOPS: my MISH-MASH doesn't work, and my PING was already identified by our namesake @ParamanandSingh

RASP RAP HARP SHARP

I second @Safdar comment about @amWhy

I think SHRIMP also works here.

@ParamanandSingh Good one!

And RAMP, RAMPING, PRAM, MARSH

Also I am not sure if GNASH is a valid word, if it is then it works

PRIM GAS

@ParamanandSingh I think so, as in "the gnashing of teeth""

Ok right

GASP, GRASP

Also HANGAR

@ParamanandSingh Indeed!

Long names do make for interesting word games

I, AM, IAN*, **AMISH, MA, NAH NIM

@ParamanandSingh Yes, that's for sure, but yours was fun because there is no e in it, which is the most common vowel in the English language!

Right, allowing an 'e' would lead to enormous amount of words

Anyway IS AS also count

Also HAS, I already mentioned HIS, And you mentioned HIM

AGING

SPARING SHARING PARING

SNARING SPRAIN

SPRIG

PAGAN

PIG and PIGS!!

@amWhy: you have given so many words that people here will repeat some

@ParamanandSingh I know. It's kind of a perseveration issue with me... Turning off the mental search for words. ;D

@ParamanandSingh Don't tell us your middle name(s), right now! ;D That would just get my mind going again!

Just to let you know I don't have a middle name.

When your name is already long you don't want to make it any longer

@ParamanandSingh Whew!!! That helps! My username seems to form only eleven English words, 12 if you count a first name.

Most of my friends shorten my name to (I won't tell here)

@ParamanandSingh ;-)

PARADING!!

Someday we need to figure out @user21820 real name (or invent one by imagination) and then play the word game.

@ParamanandSingh You can try "JUST ANOTHER USER". =P

@ParamanandSingh Indeed. We'll get him during happy hour on Friday!!

@user21820: you never appeared like "just another user" but for words games it is ok.

@user21820 Anagram: JUST ANOTHER USER! =P

Hahahah

@amWhy Sure! Let's have everyone else try it but me. =P

Anagram: JOHN RUST ATE USER (Maybe I should flag a moderator about John Rust!!)

A slight and quick digression. There is some real hype around this new movie Tenet from director Christopher Nolan. Have you seen it or in general prefer watching his movies?

@amWhy JUST HORN ATE USER =D

I suppose that implies that USER is unjust. =P

@user21820 John Rust sounds more like a name, than does Just Horn!

Ban John rust at all costs

@ParamanandSingh Indeed! Eating a user must certainly be against the Code of Conduct!!

I think @XanderHenderson will take care of this John rust

@ParamanandSingh John Rust must be an old, weathered robot, given his rust!

We might want to expand @quid 's name to aptly describe him: QUIDERATOR!! E.g., QUAINT

QUIET QUITE QUIT I'll keep my hands off for now!!

Quiderator was rather funny combination!

@ParamanandSingh It came to me instantaneously... I remember when quid was considering names for this chatroom. I think @quid should rename this room "The quiderator"!

@quid We're just considering your new username: quiderator, which very aptly describes you!! ;D

@quid You can keep quid, but this room could use some re-branding: Whatever, quiderator!

@amWhy I see. I am just catching up on the transcript.

Words that rhyme with QUIDERATOR:: LIQUIDATOR, ALLIGATOR, MODERATOR, GENERATOR ...

TERMINATOR

REFRIGERATOR

I'll be back.

INCINERATOR PROCRASTINATOR

AVIATOR

MUST end in **ATOR, so PROFESSOR doesn't count, e.g..

EXTERMINATOR

Would CURATOR count

@ParamanandSingh Sure!!

And NUMERATOR, DENOMINATOR

@ParamanandSingh How on topic!! Good ones!!

RESPIRATOR

COORDINATOR

SPECTATOR

ORATOR

INSTIGATOR

AGITATOR

@quid Do you have someone in mind? ;D

@amWhy I thought it's about me?

@quid Absolutely!

TRAITOR

COMMENTATOR SPECULATOR

@user21820 good ones!

ELIMINATOR

I hope no one here is a DICTATOR

@ParamanandSingh Indeed.

PROLIFERATOR

And neither a PREDATOR

DECAPITATOR YIKES!

ACTIVATOR

ELEVATOR

We can go for REGULATOR

@ParamanandSingh Good one!

SPECULATOR

Where is @XanderHenderson? I guess he is getting real busy with Calculus teaching

@ParamanandSingh Precalculus today.

EQUATOR

We don't have this precalculus in India. Students are just started with calc

But calculus teaching in India is in shambles. I never really understood what's going on in subject until I read it from Hardy's A Course of Pure Mathematics which contains proofs which usually lie beyond the scope of many textbooks.

APPLICATOR

CALCULATOR

NAVIGATOR

@quid Good One!!

CREATOR

@quid: reminds me of Netscape Navigator of which Firefox is a modern descendant

ASPIRATOR

In times of Covid we hear the term VENTILATOR often

@ParamanandSingh Ah, yes... I thought of RESPIRATOR earlier, but your word is good too.

RUMINATOR

Is someone who obsesses about challenging integrals called an INTEGRATOR ?

ANIMATOR

ACCLIMATOR

And INSULATOR

SENATOR But this might not work because the accent is on the SEN part of the word, lik sen'-ah-tor

@ParamanandSingh Good one!

CAPTIVATOR

ADVOCATOR

@quid erator, How is your week going, thus far?

@amWhy quite charged.

@quid Charged? Like intense??

@amWhy yes with lots of things to do.

@quid Do what you need to do. It is great that your stop in when you can, but when you let us know you've got a charged week, thus far, we can understand.

@quid By the way, there are 12 users, each with >10 problematic posts that I want you to deal with NOW!! ;D :P Totally joking here!!

@amWhy I heard @Xander is bored ;D

@quid Hah! ;D

TRANSLATOR

ESCALATOR

^^^ Okay... I'm perseverating!!

Just checking @quid, are you also involved in academic profession? I sometimes feel like odd one out here as almost everyone else is a professor

@ParamanandSingh yes I'm in academia.

ACCELERATOR CONSPIRATOR MEDIATOR

@quid: Ok, I was guessing that but wasn't sure. Your profile page is about an air of mystery. I don't know where from stackexchange picked up that line about keeping an air of mystery

COMPENSATOR GENERATOR COORDINATOR LEGISLATOR

@ParamanandSingh it created some debate when it was rolled out

@amWhy self-plagiarism is still plagiarism!!! ;-)

Good catch @quid

ANNIHILATOR

OH... GENERATOR was a DUPE (Give me 20 lashes with a wet noodle!)

INSINUATOR

@amWhy it is not for you to decide the punishment. The quiderator will see to that when time permits. Maybe you luck out and time won't permit this time. ;-)

@quid Hah! ;D

FUMIGATOR

It is already past midnight here in India. Time for bed! Bye bye

@ParamanandSingh Sleep well! See you! o/

DONATOR

ANNOTATOR

OKAY, I must stop now!!

Just one more, for @quid's sake: IRRITATOR

@amWhy yes and DETONATOR

@quid Good one!!

@amWhy BOOM

To make a tractable word search, which I will allow others to complete, List the words formed by the union of my username: amWhy, and my real middle name, Jo. So you've got amwhyjo to work with.

You must not touch the detonator....

@quid I'm still alive!!

JOY

@quid ;D!!

The first word that came to mind in relation to you. :-)

JAM HAM WHO AM HOW

Of course also WHY

There's also a name in all that!

WHAM! MAY WAY YAM WHOM

OHM

@quid Classic!

Actually, I just learned YAW is a word, too!

HAY JAY (as in Blue Jay). JAW

And the simplest of words A, and perhaps OH

Then also YO

I guess I'll leave now.

@quid Indeed!

AHOY!!

How fitting for my depart. :-)

See you!

@quid See you!!

MOW!!

Also, WHAM works.

FABRICATOR ILLUSTRATOR PERCOLATOR EXCAVATOR

@quid Is there any means to create tutorials, even if only in print and graphics, for users about various problematic areas: E.g. "How to create an effective title for a question?" Maybe these would be FAQ's, or available in the help center, but the help center seems to be network wide, and very general. I'm tired of seeing titles like "A question about linear algebra" in titles. So I'm wondering if math.se can collect some "help" tutorials relevant to this site?

@quid I guess this concern could likely be under the umbrella of "How to ask a good question" (meta.math.se post).

LOCATOR

Yikes, @quid, Politics.se seems to be rather heated of late. I voted on 5 separate flags generated from a chatroom there. I don't think I'd touch that chatroom with a 100 ft. pole!!

Sorry, @quid I initially commented and pinged you when I saw you within 10 minutes of your last "activity" on this site. Nothing urgent.

ACTIVATOR

RADIATOR

MEDIATOR

MATADOR ?

No, the last word doesn't work :-(

FORNICATOR!!

Party of one is no longer fun! (mini-poem)

GLADIATOR LITIGATOR

@quid You might need to ban me from this chatroom for an hour or so, or I won't stop!! :(

What is the means: "kick mute"?

@amWhy in theory yes

But initially it is very brief.

@amWhy we can edit parts of the help center. To start creating it on meta is a good idea.

@quid Well, I will put to rest this line of thought. At any given time, I'm percolating a handful of lines of thought.

That said the main problem is really that user won't read, not that there is nothing to read.

@amWhy like a PERCOLATOR?

Oh you just said that.

@quid chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/55419287#55419287 Yup!

For the documentation, it could also make sense to somehow make a synthesis what is said where.

Sometimes one loses track.

@quid Indeed!

@amWhy they can. We do block some things.

It's not clear though how much we want to block.

We saw it with the HNQ block post.

@quid But that would also be an opportune time to suggest to them tips on a good title.

Some things along these lines are done.

Or at least can be done.

@quid Understood. But titles "Question about <tag>" ought to be prevented from submission until improved.

@quid That is very good to know.

@amWhy I believe we do block things that contain "too little" in addition to a word like "question"

I don't think one could ask "Question on algebra"

We could be more rigid but it's a balance.

@quid Well I saw a "Question about linear algebra" today, in a title. Hence my question here.

That's a tad surprising but maybe it slipped just past the limit

Or I don't understand what we do exactly.

I'll leave again now; See you!

@quid See you!