Kahn John Ellison (ed.). Reader's Digest Reverse Dictionary

Pleasantville: Reader's Digest, 1989, reprinted with amendments 1996. — 768 p. — ISBN: 0-276-49541-1.Everyone has experienced the frustration of mislaying a familiar word. You know what you want to say; you know that the precise word exists that would enable you to say it; and you know that you know this word... but when you reach for it, it’s not there. That’s when the pantomime of exasperation begins: you snap your fingers, you frown, you rummage about in your mental attic, you say "It's on the tip of my tongue” or "What’s that word — oh, you know." But the word, hovering just out of reach, continues to elude and tantalise you. Psychologists studying this phenomenon compare it to being on the brink of a sneeze. Anticipation... concentration... and — frustration. What’s needed, so to speak, is a pinch of snuff. The Reverse Dictionary provides one. It’s a linguistic snuffbox, helping to release that pent-up sneeze. The relief it affords should be considerable.