List of mathematical portmanteaus

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Students (including myself) are always fascinated when they learn words like "clopen" set for closed and open in topology, or "club" set for closed and unbounded in set theory. I also learned recently that injective/surjective were a sort of portmanteau in French.

What other portmanteaus/ fun contractions are there in math? I'm having a hard time thinking of more than a couple.