Wordmerge

Very fun, but also a prime candidate for a little casual Perl golf for the bored. I've got 463 bytes not counting the hashbang and when piped the linux shared dictionary (admittedly not the best choice of input) and a command line argument for prefix/suffix matching length.

  #!/usr/bin/perl 
  $PRESUF=@ARGV?$ARGV[0]:5;while(<STDIN>){chomp;($_=lc($_)) =~ s/'.*//;next if(length($_)<$PRESUF);$BYSUF{substr($_,length($_)-$PRESUF,$PRESUF)}{$_}=1;$BYPRE{substr($_,0,$PRESUF)}{$_}=1;$D{$_}=0;}foreach $pre (keys %BYPRE) {if(exists $BYSUF{$pre}) {foreach $w1 (keys %{$BYPRE{$pre}}) {foreach $w2 (keys %{$BYSUF{$pre}}) {next if($w1 eq $w2 or $w1 =~ m/$w2/ or $w2 =~ m/$w1/);my $o = $w2.substr($w1,$PRESUF);print "$o (from '$w1' and '$w2')\n" if(++$D{$o} == 1);}}}}

So something like this would do it: cat /usr/share/dict/words | ./FILENAME.pl

Some nuggets:

chiropracticalities (from 'practicalities' and 'chiropractic')

welcomedians (from 'comedians' and 'welcomed')

foregonians (from 'oregonians' and 'forego')

peppercornstalk (from 'cornstalk' and 'peppercorn')

popcornerstone (from 'cornerstone' and 'popcorn')

microchipmunks (from 'chipmunks' and 'microchip')

confidentists (from 'dentists' and 'confident')

rodentine (from 'dentine' and 'rodent')

decadentistry (from 'dentistry' and 'decadent')

How on earth do you write an app like this and not come up with a way for me to buy a domain from you through it?!

Y'all had better watch out for my awesome new Socially Curated Vegan Recommendation Engine: saladdiction!

Edit: I want someone to build this... I registered the domain to avoid squatters, so if you want to be the one to build it get in touch with me.

Why would I buy an app when I can just use http://werdmerge.com/ directly?

Travelanche is perfectly plausible as something you'd come across on TechCrunch.

A bunch more blends from a similar program I wrote a few years ago: http://wry.me/blog/2011/03/09/words-words-words.html

I guess I should've posted it! Unlike the OP (AFAIK) it ranks the results by interestingness, where 'more interesting' means more-common words and greater overlap.

i'm still partial to stupidestrian.

my favorites so far have been: gourmaniac, barbequephoria, and japanimal

Cool. The first Java program I ever wrote was actually to solve this problem (name my envisioned website/company), but your execution yields much better results.

Not sure if featuring "retard" in an official screenshot is a great PR move.

crosswauction is pretty good too, though i couldn't imagine a user figuring out how to spell that...

im going on vacation to kangaruba

And this is an "iApp" because...?

this thing is great for smack talk

"he's really into dicksploitation"

i think a cspanda is a type of japanimal

Next version should add logic to add "ly" to the end of most names.