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List of Palindromes

A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or sequence of characters that reads the same backward as forward. Below is a list of palindromes with a brief description of the meaning. Some words also have other meanings.

1 Aibohphobia a joke word meaning “fear of palindromes”
2 Ailihphilia jokingly means the love of palindromes
3 Bib a piece of cloth or plastic secured under the chin
4 Bob to float on the surface of water
5 Boob a blunder; a breast
6 Civic relating to a city or town
7 Dad father
8 Debed to remove someone from a bed
9 Deed an action that is performed intentionally
10 Deified worship or regard as a god
11 Deked draw (a player) out of position by performing a deke
12 Deleveled past tense and past participle of “delevel”, to demote or be demoted to a lower level.
13 Denned past tense of to den, meaning to live in a den
14 Detartrated past tense of “to detartrate”, a chemical term meaning to remove tartrates;
15 Dewed meaning to cover with dew
16 Did past tense of the verb “do”
17 Dud something that doesn’t work or succeed
18 Elihphile another joke to mean a person who loves palindromes
19 Esse essential nature or essence
20 Eve the period immediately preceding a certain event
21 Evitative a grammatical case indicating fear or aversion
22 Ewe a female sheep
23 Eye the usual organ of sight
24 Gag a piece of cloth put in or over a person’s mouth to prevent them from speaking
25 Gig a light two-wheeled carriage pulled by one horse.
26 Heh-Heh snigger
27 Huh used to express interrogation, surprise, contempt or indifference
28 Kaiak an Eskimo canoe with a skin cover on a light framework (alternative spelling of kayak)
29 Kayak a canoe of a type used originally by the Inuit
30 Kazak an Oriental rug in bold colors with geometric designs
31 Lemel metal filings
32 Level having a flat, horizontal surface.
33 Madam used to address or refer to a woman in a polite or respectful way.
34 Minim musical note having the time value of two crotchets or half a semibreve
35 Mum Mother
36 Murdrum in old English law, a secret killing
37 Naan a type of Indian bread
38 Noon twelve o’clock in the day; midday
39 Nun a clergywoman who practices celibacy
40 Peep look quickly and furtively at something
41 Pip-Pip an old-fashioned British word for good-bye
42 Poop the aftermost and highest deck of a ship
43 Pop make a light explosive sound
44 Pup the young of any of various mammals
45 Put-Up deceitful, as in a put-up job
46 Racecar Racecar is a noun
47 Radar a system for detecting the presence, direction, distance, and speed
48 Redder more red
49 Redivider someone or something that redivides
50 Refer mention or allude to
51 Repaper to apply new wallpaper to a wall or the walls
52 Reviver one who revives
53 Revver one who revvs an engine
54 Rotator a thing which rotates or which causes something to rotate
55 Rotavator a type of machine for breaking up soil (trademark)
56 Rotor Rotor, the moving part in an alternator.
57 Sagas plural of a long story of heroic achievement, especially a medieval prose
58 Sexes either of the two main categories (male and female) into which living things are divided.
59 Shahs plural of shah, a former name for the king of Iran
60 Solos This is the plural of an act that is performed by one person.
61 Tattarrattat a door knock
62 Mom mother (USA)
63 Tenet a principle or belief
64 Terret a metal ring on a harness, through which the reins pass
65 Testset a group of tests that belong to specific tasks
66 Tit a breast (slang)
67 Toot the sound made by a horn or whistle
68 Tot a small child
69 Tut-Tut a disapproving sound
70 Wow expressing astonishment or admiration
71 Yay expressing triumph, approval, or encouragement

Is it crazy how saying sentences backward creates backward sentences saying how crazy it is?