Included in GNU/Linux (and MacOSx as well) is a stan­dard file, which is just delim­ited list of dic­tio­nary words. * /usr/share/dict/words To select a ran­dom word: cat /usr/share/dict/words | shuf -n 1 Check also the other files in /usr/share/dict. Very useful! If your oper­at­ing sys­tem is miss­ing the shuf–util­ity you can use this: perl -MList::Util -e 'print...