Non-word

The non-word of the year 2011 is "Kebab murders".

The non-word for the year 2011 is "Döner murders".

This linguistics textbook, like many others, precedes nonwords with an asterisk; for example, *narbletome.

[…] trashola prose features regular dollops of sub-literate laziness (including non-words like "arousement" and "assertation").

In their glossary, they were using a convention where the words were in blue font and the abbreviations and other nonwords were in purple font.

All this was revealing and encouraged our work to proceed with a less lofty aim than initially, but with a more practical one, namely, to inform authors, reviewers, and especially desk or copyeditors about the recommendations in different areas of biology and to imbue these persons with the need for some rules and guidelines on the use of "nonwords" in science. Clearly, authors and editors are free to use symbols and abbreviations of their choice as long as they are defined and conform to basic rules of scientific nomenclature in their fields.