There are a variety of reasons why your eyes may be irritated, and weâre arming you with the info you need to spot and treat the differences. Eye Allergies. Eye allergies (also referred to as allergic conjunctivitis) are the most common cause (link is external) of eye redness, itching, and excessive tearing.
The longest palindromic word in the Oxford English Dictionary is tattarrattat, coined by James Joyce in Ulysses for a knock on the door. The Guinness Book of Records gives detartrated, the past tense of detartrate, a somewhat contrived chemical term meaning to remove tartrates.
What is the term for a word which is another word spelled backwards? There's no generally accepted term. The simplest way of referring to such words (e.g. lap/pal, dog/god) is probably semi-palindrome or half-palindrome. Some other suggestions have been made, including heteropalindrome, reversgram (or reversible anagram), and semordnilap (i.e. palindromes written backwards). See other Vocabulary Questions.