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Here's a big list of words that relate in some way to the minions of Nurgle. There are terms relating to decay, disease, ruin, as well as other characteristic features such as horns, bells, bodily functions, vermin, twilight, swamps, fog, and the two extremes of joy and despair, all of which are present among Nurgle's favoured children. Use these as inspiration for naming your own units and individuals.
Try playing around with different forms of the words, or finding interesting contrasts. For example, I particularly like the homophones "tocsin"/"toxin" and "retch"/"wretch", the various meanings of "humour", contrasting "infect"/"infest", "grim"/"grime", "lesion"/"legion", "septic"/"septimal", or considering that "weep" may relate to crying in despair as well as seepage from an infection.
For ease of use, here are three words randomly generated from the list below; refresh the page to generate a new trio:
Each word below is hyperlinked to its corresponding definition at Wiktionary, in case there are some terms here that are unfamiliar to you. British English spellings are used throughout, since that is the language of Games Workshop and Warhammer.
aberrant, abetalipoproteinemia, acedia, acerbic, acrid, abide, abscess, abnormal, absorb, acne, acrid, acromegaly, adamant, adenoma, adenopathy, adipose, aegilops, aerugo, afflicted, ague, ailment, alastrim, alphos, amurcous, ancient, anergy, angina, angst, anguish, ankylosis, anomalous, anthrax, anus, apathy, apoptosis, appalling, arse, arthralgia, arthrosis, atrabilious, atrophy, atter, awful, bacillus, bacteraemia, bacterium, baleful, bane, banjax, bariatric, barren, batrachoid, bedraggled, bejel, belch, beldame, belesh, bell, belly, bile, biliverdin, biostratinomy, bitter, blackhead, blackleg, blasé, blasted, bleak, bleb, blemish, blight, blister, bloat, blob, blotch, blubber, boak, bog, bogalosha, bogey, boil, bordetella, boredom, borrelia, botfly, bottom, botulism, bowels, brackish, brucellosis, bruise, brume, bubble, bubo, bug, bulbous, bulk, bulla, bum, burble, burp, burrow, buttocks, cachexia, cadaver, caecotroph, caliginous, campane, campylobacter, cancer, canker, capsid, carbuncle, carcass, carcinogenesis, carcinoma, carillon, carrion, catarrh, catatonia, certain, cesspool, chancroid, charnel, cheerful, cheerless, chigger, chiggoe, chikungunya, chime, chlamydia, choke, cholera, chondrosarcoma, chronic, chthonophagia, churn, chyme, cicatrix, cimmerian, ciron, clammy, cloaca, clonus, clostridium, clot, cloud, cloy, coagulate, coagulopathy, coccidiosis, coccus, cockroach, codon, coleopter, colonic, colorectal, coma, comedo, commode, condemned, congeal, constipation, consumption, contagion, contaminate, convulse, coprophage, cornigerous, coronach, corpse, corpulent, corrigiunculum, corrosion, corruption, cough, cramp, crap, crawl, creep, crepuscular, crisis, crusty, cry, cryptococcosis, curdle, curmur, curse, cyanobacterium, cyanopathy, cycloplegia, cynic, cyst, cytopathy, damned, dank, dark, deadly, death, debased, decay, decompose, decrepit, defecate, defect, defile, deformed, degenerate, degrade, dehiscence, dejection, deleterious, deliquesce, depression, dermatophyte, desolate, despair, despondency, deteriorate, determined, detrimental, detritus, detritovore, devour, diabetes, diaphoretic, diarrhoea, dichuchwa, diehard, dilapidated, dim, dingy, diphtheria, dirge, dirt, discharge, disease, disfigured, disgorge, disgust, disheartenment, dismal, disorder, disrepair, distasteful, distemper, distended, distorted, diuresis, dogged, doldrums, doleful, dolorous, doom, dour, draff, drain, dreary, dregs, dribble, drip, drone, drool, dross, drudgery, dull, dump, dung, dusk, dysbiosis, dysentery, dysfunction, dysplasia, dyspnea, ebullient, ecchymosis, echinococcosis, ecthyma, eczema, effluent, effluvium, elegy, elephantiasis, embolus, emesis, emission, empty, encephaloid, encephalopathy, enchondroma, encrusted, end, endometrioma, endurance, energetic, engulf, ennui, enterococcus, enthusiasm, entrails, entropy, epidemic, epizootic, erosion, eruct, erysipelas, erythema, eurysome, evenfall, excrement, excrete, execrable, expectorate, expire, extrusion, exuberance, exudate, faeces, famine, fart, fat, fatal, fatberg, father, fatigue, fault, favus, febrile, feculent, feist, fen, fester, fever, final, filariasis, filth, fissiped, fissure, flab, flatulence, flatus, flaw, flea, fleshy, flu, flukeworm, fly, flyblown, flystrike, foetid, foetor, fog, fomite, forlorn, forsaken, fossor, foul, frambesia, fug, funereal, fungus, furuncle, futility, gadfly, gag, gaiety, gall, gangosa, gangrene, gape, gas, gasp, gassy, gastropodous, gel, generosity, germ, ghastly, ghoulish, giardiasis, girus, glaucoma, glisten, gloaming, globule, gloom, gloop, glop, glut, glutinous, gluttony, gnarled, gobble, goitre, gold-finder, gongfermor, gonorrhoea, goo, gorged, gound, gout, granuloma, gravedigger, grease, green, grief, grim, grime, gripe, grobian, gross, grotesque, grotty, growth, grub, grubby, grumble, gulp, gunge, gunk, gurgle, guts, haemorrhage, haemorrhoid, hag, happiness, hardheaded, hardship, healless, heave, hebdomad, helicobacter, helminthiasis, hepatoma, hepatoptosis, hepatosis, heptad, herpes, hideous, hidrotic, hirudine, hives, hoary, hollow, hopelessness, horned, horrid, horrible, horsefly, humour, ichor, ichthyosis, icterus, ill-fated, ill-omened, illness, immoveable, impetigo, implacable, impure, inannihilable, inauspicious, incurable, indifferent, indolent, ineradicable, inevitable, inexorable, infect, infest, infirmity, inflamed, influenza, innards, insalubrious, insect, intestines, intractable, inveterate, irksome, irritant, ischemia, jaded, jaundice, jollity, jovial, joy, karoshi, karyorrhexis, kedani, khazi, knell, knurled, konzo, koro, kuru, laggard, lament, languor, lassitude, lasting, latrine, lavatory, laxative, lazar, leak, leech, legionella, leprosy, leprous, leptospire, lesion, lethal, lethargy, lethera, leukaemia, leukopenia, lice, lich, lichenification, listeria, listless, livedo, loathsome, lockjaw, loimic, loo, lord, lost, louse, luetic, lugubrious, lumbering, lumbricine, lumpen, lurgy, lymphoma, lysis, macabre, maggot, malady, malaise, malakoplakia, malaria, malefic, malformed, malfunction, malignant, malodorous, mange, mar, marcid, marsh, maw, measles, melancholy, melanoma, mephitic, mere, merry, mesel, metastasis, miasma, microbe, micturate, midden, midge, mildew, miliaria, misery, misshapen, mist, mire, mirth, mite, moan, monstrous, morass, morbid, morbilli, moribund, mormal, morose, morphea, morphew, mortality, mortification, mossy, mould, mourn, mucilaginous, muck, mucopurulent, mucus, mud, mulish, mumps, murky, muscid, musty, mutter, mycelium, mycobacterium, mycoplasm, myiasis, myolysis, naegleriasis, nausea, necrology, necrophore, necrotic, neglect, neutropenia, nightbreak, nightfall, nightman, nightsoil, nigua, nihilistic, nisus, njovera, nodule, noisome, noma, noxious, obdurate, obesity, obnoxious, obscene, obstinate, obstipate, odious, odour, offal, ominous, oncogene, ooze, ordure, ort, outbreak, outcast, outflow, overripe, overweight, pale, pall, pallid, palsy, pandemic, panus, papule, parasite, paroxysm, pasty, paternalistic, pathogen, pathosis, peal, pébrine, perish, persistent, perspiration, pertinacious, pestilence, petasius, petechia, phage, phlegm, phlegmon, phrynoderma, phthisic, phyma, pica, pimple, pinta, piss, pitted, plague, plaque, pleiad, plethoric, plodding, plop, plumbism, pneumonia, poikiloderma, poison, pollute, polycythemia, polyp, polyuria, ponderous, pong, poo, porphyria, pox, preternatural, privy, prodrome, profane, propionibacterium, protuberant, prurigo, pruritus, pseudomonad, pseudovariola, psoriasis, puke, pulsate, pungent, purge, purpura, purulent, pus, pustule, putrefaction, putrescence, putrescible, putrid, pyknosis, pyogenic, pyometra, pyorrhoea, pyrexia, quag, queasiness, quinsy, rabble, rabies, rachitic, raddled, ragged, ramshackle, rancid, rank, rankle, rash, rat, rectum, reek, regret, regurgitate, relentless, remorseless, repellent, repugnance, repulsive, requiem, residue, resilient, resolute, retch, reviling, revolting, rheum, rickettsia, ringworm, ripe, roiling, roseola, rot, rubeola, rue, ruin, rupture, rust, sad, saliva, sallow, salmonella, sappy, saprobe, saprophyte, saprotroph, sarcoma, scab, scabious, scabies, scabrous, scat, scathel, scatophage, schistosomiasis, sclerosis, scorbutus, scourge, screwworm, scrofulous, scrumpox, scum, scurvy, scuzzy, sebaceous, seborrhoea, sebum, secrete, seep, sennight, septic, septimal, sepulchral, serous, sewage, shabaroon, shamble, shigellosis, shingles, shit, shrivel, sibbens, sickness, signum, skitters, slaver, slime, slob, slobber, slop, sloth, slough, slovenly, slow, slubberdegullion, sludge, slugabed, sluggish, slummock, slurry, smear, smell, smokefall, snail, snot, sob, soiled, solemn, sombre, sordid, sore, sorrow, sour, spasm, spavin, spawn, spew, spinnbarkeit, spit, spittle, splanchnic, splat, spoil, spore, sputum, squalor, squat, squilla, squirm, stagnant, stain, stale, stalwart, stamina, staphylococcus, staunch, steadfast, steatopygian, stench, stenocardia, sticky, stillness, stink, stodge, stoic, stool, strain, strangury, streptococcus, stress, stricken, strongyloidiasis, struma, sty, stye, stygian, sudor, suffer, sullen, sully, sunset, sump, suppurant, swallow, swamp, swarm, sweat, swell, swill, symptom, syphilis, tabanid, taciturn, taint, tally, tapeworm, taphonomy, tardigradous, tarnish, tatterdemalion, tatters, tedium, telangiectasia, tenacious, tenebrous, tentacular, testudineous, terminal, terrible, tetanus, thole, threadworm, threnody, thrombocytopaenia, thrombus, tic, tick, tinea, tinniolum, tinnitus, tintinnabulum, tiresome, toad, tocsin, toilet, toll, torsalo, toughness, toxin, toxoplasmosis, trachoma, treponema, trichina, trichomoniasis, trichuriasis, trismus, trypanosome, tsetse, tsutsugamushi, tubercle, tularemia, tumbledown, tummy, tumour, tungiasis, turbid, turd, twilight, typhoid, typhus, tzaraath, ugly, ulcer, unclean, undying, ungulate, unhappiness, unhealthy, unholy, unhygienic, unimpressed, uninterested, unkempt, unnatural, unpleasant, unrelenting, unshakeable, unstoppable, unwashed, unwell, unwholesome, unyielding, urine, urticaria, vaginosis, valetudinarian, vapour, varicosity, variola, vector, vehement, verdant, verdigris, vermian, vermiculation, vermin, verruca, vesicate, vesper, vibrio, vigour, vile, virescent, virid, virion, virosis, virulence, virus, viscera, viscid, vitiligo, void, vomit, vulgar, wail, wallow, wan, warped, wart, waste, wasting, weary, weed, weep, weltschmerz, wheal, whimper, whine, whipworm, whitehead, whitlow, wilful, wind, wither, witkop, wizen, woe, worm, worn, wretch, wriggle, writhe, yaws, yersinia, yuck, zika, zit, zoster
Inspiration | |
Warhammer Setting | The Dark Tongue; Daemonic Names; Lexicon; Short Stories; Cut-ups; Cool Stuff |
Painted Models | Golden Demon |
Speculation | Chaos God Correspondence; Seven Deadly Sins; Sevenfold Path |
Real World References | Nergal in Mesopotamian History; Symbolism of Three Circles; Symbolism of Seven |