Where's the nearest cash machine? http://kameppa.s26.xrea.com/x/keijibann/apeboard_plus.cgi buy female-rx oil ost words have a rather abstract connection to the things they describe. The word "yellow" is not actually yellow. The word "square" is not a square. Nor do we expect them to be. That's the way of the world and the arbitrary nature of language. But some words do embody the properties they denote. We call them autological words, and they are a self-centered, self-referential bunch. Here are 17 of them.