List of portmanteaus

Examples of portmanteaus in the English language:

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

Internet and computing portmanteaus:

• ASCIIbetical from ASCII and alphabetical
• Backronym from back and acronym
• bit from binary and digit
• emoticon from emotion and icon
• Internet from inter and network
• freeware from free and software
• knowledgebase from knowledge and database
• modem from modulator and demodulator
• netizen from internet and citizen
• netiquette from internet and etiquette. Similarly, Wikipetiquette
• pixel from picture and element
• qubit from quantum and bit
• shareware from share and software
• smudgemate from smudge and estimate
• spamdexing from spam and indexing
• sporgery from spam and forgery

Marketing portmanteaus

• advertainment from advertising and entertainment
• advertorial from advertising and editorial
• cineplex from cinema and complex (building)
• docudrama from documentary and drama
• docusoap from documentary and soap opera (serialised drama)
• dramality from dramatic and reality (television)
• edutainment from education and entertainment
• infomercial from information and commercial
• infotainment from information and entertainment
• 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
• 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.
• machinima from machine and cinema
• Orgasmatron Orgasm and Electron(ic) - from Woody Allen's Sleeper
• sacrilicious from sacrilege and delicious, used by Homer Simpson

Portmanteau created by Lewis Carroll in the Jabberwocky

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