List of portmanteaus

Examples of portmanteaus in the English language:

• smog from smoke and fog
• motel from motor and hotel
• chortle from chuckle and snort (coined by Lewis Carroll)
• blaxploitation from black and exploitation
• Oxbridge from Oxford and Cambridge
• infomercial from information and commercial
• rockumentary from rock and documentary (also mockumentary, from mock and documentary)
• squiggle from squirm and wiggle
• flare from flame and glare
• flounder from flounce and founder
• glimmer from gleam and shimmer
• glitz from glamour and ritz
• guesstimate from guess and estimate
• liger from lion and tiger
• melodrama from melody and drama
• tigon from tiger and lion
• tangelo from tangerine and pomelo
• smash from smack and mash
• brunch from breakfast and lunch
• frankenword
• faction from fact and fiction
• soundscape[?] from sound and landscape
• fantabulous[?] from fantastic and fabulous
• ginormous[?] from gigantic and enormous
• stagflation from stagnation and inflation

Internet and computing portmanteaus:

• spamdexing from spam and indexing
• emoticon from emotion and icon
• knowledgebase[?] from knowledge and database
• netizen from internet and citizen
• netiquette from internet and etiquette. Similarly, Wikipetiquette
• freeware from free and software
• shareware from share and software
• Backronym
• Automagic
• modem from modulator and demodulator
• pixel
• bit from binary and digit
• smudgemate[?] from smudge and estimate
• qubit from quantum and bit
• ASCIIbetical[?] from ASCII and alphabetical

Marketing portmanteaus

• infotainment[?] from information and entertainment
• edutainment from education and entertainment
• advertainment[?] from advertising and entertainment
• advertorial[?] from advertising and editorial
• infomercial[?] from information and commercial
• dramality[?] from dramatic and reality (television)
• docudrama from documentary and drama
• docusoap from documentary and soap opera (serialised drama)
• cineplex[?] from cinema and complex (building)
• multiplex from multiple and cineplex! - this word has a different meaning in telecommunications

Portmanteau coined in Art, Literature and Television

• dancersize from dance and circumsize, coined in jest on Fry and Laurie[?]
• sacrilicious[?] from sacrilege and delicious, used by Homer Simpson
• Orgasmatron[?] Orgasm and Electron(ic) - from Woody Allen's Sleeper
• Kripkenstein[?] from Kripke[?] and Wittgenstein, coined to describe a philosophical position that Kripke argued one could read into Wittgenstein's work, but which neither he nor Wittgenstein accepted.

Portmanteau created by Lewis Carroll in the Jabberwocky

• brillig[?]
• slithy[?]
• wabe[?]
• mimsy[?]
• mome[?]
• frumious[?]
• vorpal[?]
• maxomome[?]
• uffish[?]
• whiffling[?]
• tulgey[?]
• burbled[?]
• vorpal[?]
• galumphing[?]
• beamish
• frabjous[?]
• callooh[?]
• callay[?]
• chortled[?]