English words that can be spelled

in the symbols of the periodic table (26812 of them) at the excellently named "Nandor's Exhaustive Chemical Words Page". Link via Language Log / MetaxuCafe. Bonus literary links: Primo Levi's The Periodic Table (one of the best books ever written, a must-read if you haven't already read it); Michael Gordin's A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitri Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Period Table (I haven't read this, but I meant to get it when it first came out, and must get hold of it now I've been reminded).