Name my company

I could use your help. I need a name for my company and rather than trying to come up with one myself I think it would be more effective if ideas were thrown at me and then I filter down the ones I like.

I believe people are more creative under constraints, so let's try these:

1. The name must be two words, at least one of which is a noun.
2. No more than two syllables per word.
3. The concept should be interesting or surprising. It's best if the two words are conceptually opposed (see, for example, Scott Adam's post on Lady Gaga's language).

Bonus points if the name is pleasant-sounding and easy to spell. The name needn't have anything to do with the company (I struggle to explain it in a couple of sentences so I've given up on explaining it in a couple of words).

PLEASE DON'T CENSOR YOURSELF. Whatever comes to mind, I want it. The more names you come up with, the better.

Below I have listed a slew of adjectives and nouns just to get your brain moving. I find it a lot of fun to chaotically combine words (which I am pretty sure is the secret to surrealist writing).

Regardless of whether I choose one for my company's name, I will post a list of the ideas I found most interesting. Thanks for your participation!



Adjectives: abandoned, abstract, affable, amiable, astute, ballooning, basket of, batch of, bearded, bed of, blistering, cagey, candid, chipper, chivalrous, chocolatey, colloquial, colorless, confiding, congenial, consonant (harmonic), constant, cordial, courteous, cracked, craddling, crooked, cross-fertilized, cross-hatched, cultured, dainty, dancing, dapper, decaying, dense, devout, diagnostic, dignified, discerning, disingenuous, dividing, drooling, dry, dual-use, East Asian, entrusted, ephemeral, etched, exploratory, fluid, foul, freeze dried, fresh, frolicking, fruitful, fruity, gaggle of, garbled, genial, genteel, gentle, glass, glowing, gradual, groomed, half-assed, hamburglered, heedful, hidden, inquiring, keen, languid, lead, loose, makeshift, multiplying, natural order of, neighborly, new wave, noble, observant, occupied, odorless, ordered, orderly, overdressed, overgrown, paleo, parceled, passing, perceptive, pigeonholed, pile of, pioneering, piped, pompous, portable, pre-packaged, prim, processed, reams of, refined, river of, rotten, rusted, rustic, sea of, search engine optimized, self-aware, shipshape, shriveled, shrunken, smooth, speculative, sprightly, spry, sputtering, squirrely, stagnant, stone, strange, sun-baked, swanky, sweet, tabbed, tasteless, tender, timid, tin, transient, translucent, truncated, trusty, turbulent, underdressed, vegan, vessel of, violent, watchful, watery, witty, yearning

Nouns: Admiral, air, baby food, ballcap, banana peels, blankets, Bugles, candor, chimes, cliches, crackers, death, department stores, dots, drool, embers, etchings, fire hydrants, fish finder, fog, fruitbowl, furniture, grouper, harpsichord, hotspot, indicator light, Japanese game show hosts, junipers, kale, kumquat, labs, Labtec machine, ladies' room, lens, load, mildew, molecules, nerves, nobility, observations, Old Fart, pamphlet, paraplegic, pellets, pen caps, Pioneer, port wine, prose, retinas, Sailor, sausages, scientific method, search engine optimization, shoelaces, shrapnel, shutes, Sigmund Freuds, Sin Curve, skin(s), sleeves, sprinkler systems, squirliness, staircase, sugarbowl, telephone wire, theories, trailor hitch, troubadour, trout, turbulence, vegan hotspot, vegetables, veggies, vessel, walleye, whiskers, wind, zealots