Roberson's Interminable Ramble

Over on her LJ, copy editor extraordinaire Deanna Hoak has fired off her own Author Meme. Namely, for writer's to post interesting bits from the style sheets for their novels. If you don't know what a style sheet is, check out Deanna's explanation here.

I'm always game for this sort of thing, so here's mine. These are selections from the Terms section of the style sheet for Paragaea: A Planetary Romance (provided by Deanna herself, who edited the thing). This is A through D, inclusive:

accoutrements
Acoetes Zephyrus
Air Defense Forces
airdocks
air-legs
airships
All, the
Ananta
Arcan
Arcas
babel
Bacharian Polity
Battle of Calabria
Battle of Stalingrad
bicep
Black Sun Genesis
bleary-eyed (after n)
bloodlust
calif
campsite
Canid, the
caput
caravanserai
Carneol, the
cataloguing
city walls
Cloud Cutter
cloudbank
control
Convocation
cook-fire
coregent
Cosmonaut Corps, the
crystal-blue (adj)
curtsy
deckplates
demi-brothers
demiurges
dog men
Driftian
drill mater
drill pater
Dutch Protestant

I am curious, having done this exercise, just what sort of mental image these words conjure on their own, shorn of their context. Hmmm...