The X Glossary

ANASAZI ancestors of the Navajo.
APOCRYPHA "writings or statements of dubious authenticity."
AVATAR ": the incarnation of a Hindu deity (as Vishnu)
a: an incarnation in human form b: an embodiment (as of a concept or philosophy) often in a person
: a variant phase or version of a continuing basic entity."
BEYOND THE SEA song by Bobby Darin that plays at Scully's parents' wedding and William Scully's funeral.
"BLACK CANCER" Liquid alien that looks like oil, and gain complete control over its host by getting literally under their skin Piper Maru/Apocrypha, Tunguska Terma.
BLESSING WAY ritual performed by Albert Hosteen to heal Mulder.
COPROPHAGOUS "feeding on dung."
CSM Cigarette Smoking Man Cancer Man.
DIE HAND DIE VERLETZT the hand that wounds.
DoD Department of Defense.
DOD KALM dead calm (Norwegian).
D.P.O. Darren Peter Oswald.
E.B.E. Extraterrestrial Biological Entity.
ELEGY ": a poem in elegiac couplets
: a song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation especially for one who is dead b: something (as a speech) resembling such a song or poem
: a pensive or reflective poem that is usually nostalgic or melancholy b: a short pensive musical composition."
ERLENMEYER FLASK "a flat-bottomed conical laboratory flask."
F. EMASCULATA F. [Faciphaga] Emasculata is the disease-carrying bug mentioned in that episode.
FMU FBI's Most Unwanted (hummm... who could that be?).
GANTA The Gillian Anderson NeuroTransmitter Association
GATB Gillian Anderson Testosterone Brigade.
GETHSEMANE ": the garden outside Jerusalem mentioned in Mk 14 as the scene of the agony and arrest of Jesus.
: a place or occasion of great mental or spiritual suffering"
HERRENVOLK Master race.
IDDG Intellectually Drop Dead Gorgeous (one way to describe Scully).
KADDISH "a Jewish prayer recited in the daily ritual of the synagogue and by mourners at public services after the death of a close relative."
LGM The Lone GunMan.
MERCHANDISE Test subjects whose bodies Mulder finds in a boxcar buried in the desert Anasazi.
MIB Man in Black. Plural: MIBs.
MOTW Monster Of The Week.
MPEB Mitch Pileggi Estrogen Brigade. Contact: [email protected]
MPPB Mitch Pileggi Pheromone Brigade. Contact: [email protected]
MUFON Mutual UFO Network.
NICAP National Investigative Committee of Aerial Phenomena.
NISEI Second generation Japanese-American.
OILIENS see "BLACK CANCER"
OUBLIETTE ". a dungeon with an opening only at the top
. to forget"
PURITY CONTROL Name of the cloning project in The Erlenmeyer Flask.
QUAGMIRE ": soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot
: a difficult, precarious, or entrapping position: PREDICAMENT"
SPE SmallPox Eradication.
SYX Smart Young X-Philes
SYZYGY "the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies (as the sun, moon, and earth during a solar or lunar eclipse) in a gravitational system."
TALITHA CUMI "This is Aramaic for 'Little girl, arise!'" --Wendy Williams .
TEMPUS FUGIT Time flies.
UNREQUITED "not requited: not reciprocated or returned in kind ."
UNRUHE trouble, strife; unrest.
UST Unresolved Sexual Tension.
WMM Well Manicured Man.
YAXA Yet Another X-FILES Acronym.
X The most important letter in the alphabet.
YKYAXPW You Know You're An X-Phile When...
ZERO SUM "of, relating to, or being a situation (as a game or relationship) in which a gain for one side entails a corresponding loss for the other side"

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