Recurring alphabet thread

I

Infiltration/Outfiltration

outfiltration is a clandestine attempt to undermine a group by leaving it so that it gets smaller.

See also: infiltration

J

Jay

"So much of the badness would just go away if the two leaders of the wartorn countries went skinny dipping together and smoked a couple of jays."

Someone's trying too hard.

@suzianne said
Someone's trying too hard.

K

Knuckle ball

An illegal delivery in cricket

L

Lingerie

Specialized clothing that is screaming out to be removed because it is so good.

M

Meateorology

The study of when it's raining cats and dogs

N

Node

The feeling of being rejected when one was expecting a 'yes'.

O

Orneration

The process of becoming bad-tempered and combative.

P

Phil Lesh

A great bass guitar player who's still going strong

Q

Quoits

72% of the rubber rings and 68% the pegs they were thrown onto were smuggled onto one of the Titanic's lifeboats.

R

Realism

Steven Spielberg, for all his commitment to realism, replaced the British navy officers who, in 1944, steered the landing boats onto Omaha beach with Americans for the purposes of filming the opening scene.

See also: U-571 (film)

S

Seven months

As in: "British sailors from HMS Bulldog captured the German navy's Enigma machine from U-110 in the North Atlantic in May 1941, seven months before the United States entered the war."

T

Triggernometry

Triangulating the precise circumstances or factors that set someone off on a rant or make them run amok.

U

Umbilical

The ties are cut.