It helps you name things with acronyms.
pip3 install visie
By default, visie will find initialisms and acronyms that contain any subset of the provided words, in any order:
$ visie pleasing orange home noise expeller
HONE: home orange noise expeller
HOPE: home orange pleasing expeller
NOPE: noise orange pleasing expeller
OPEN: orange pleasing expeller noise
PEHO: pleasing expeller home orange
PEON: pleasing expeller orange noise
PHEON: pleasing home expeller orange noise
PHON: pleasing home orange noise
PHONE: pleasing home orange noise expeller
PONE: pleasing orange noise expeller
Wrapping words in angle brackets <...>
means that they must all occur, in order:
$ visie 'pleasing orange home <noise expeller>'
HONE: home orange noise expeller
PHONE: pleasing home orange noise expeller
PONE: pleasing orange noise expeller
Words in square brackets [...] must all occur, but can be in any order:
$ visie '[pleasing orange home <noise expeller>]'
PHONE: pleasing home orange noise expeller
Parenthesis (...) means exactly one of the contained elements will be used:
$ visie --min-length 3 'pleasing home (orange noise expeller)'
HEP: home expeller pleasing
HOP: home orange pleasing
PHO: pleasing home orange
POH: pleasing orange home
Elements in curly braces {...} can occur in any order and any quantity:
$ visie 'pleasing home ({orange noise} expeller)'
PHON: pleasing home orange noise
Elements followed by a question mark are optional:
$ visie '<diaphone is? a? [pleasing orange home noise expeller]>'
DIAPHONE: diaphone is a pleasing home orange noise expeller
Finally, you can create recursive acronyms by using a period as a wildcard:
$ visie '<. is? a? [pleasing orange home noise expeller]>'
DIAPHONE: d is a pleasing home orange noise expeller
WANHOPE: w a noise home orange pleasing expeller
The name visie was discovered this way:
$ visie '<<. is? a?>? (efficient simple magical) recursive? (acronym initialism) (name word)? (generator enumerator)>'
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