The Trademark Became Common
Instead of searching for it, you might say you'll do this for it.
What is Google?
Taking pictures, and the physics of light.
What are photography and photology?
“Five pin” and “center pin” are other names for the kingpin in this sport.
What is bowling?
Not just a credit card, you may need one of these when travelling abroad.
What is a visa ?
This word for unwanted photographers is plural, at least in its source language of Italian. When there's only one, the word properly ends with "o."
Paparazzi
Originally trademarked by Otis Elevator Co., this word takes the Latin for step and combines it with "elevator"
What is an escalator?
Someone's life story, and the life sciences in general.
What are biography and biology?
Burger King’s co-founder gave this burger its name to convey “imagery of something big.”
What is the Whopper?
It's a tool with two jaws that are closed with a screw mechanism, to hold your work stable.
What is a vise ?
Brent Spiner's android character on "Star Trek: the Next Generation" has this name, which you might not know is a plural word. The singular ends in "-um."
Data
I'll stop by this place to use a coin-operated washing machine, though its name was originally registered as a trademark by Westinghouse in the 1940s.
What is a laundromat?
The shape of land, and the mathematics of shapes.
What are topography and topology?
In a classic nursery rhyme, Old King Cole called for this many fiddlers.
What is 3?
This word can be used to refer to a liquid that's thick and sticky.
What is viscous ?
Robin Williams, and maybe Shaq (but definitely not Sinbad) could tell you this loan word for a magical being is close to homophonic to its plural in Arabic; the singular just ends at the -n sound.
Genie
This adhesive product is often used in protecting cuts and scrapes while they heal, and the name was trademarked by Johnson & Johnson in 1920.
What is a Band-Aid?
A list of references to other literature, and the study of Christian holy texts.
What are bibliography and bibliology?
He’s the “king of the countdown” who was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1992.
Who is Casey Kasem?
From the French, this refers to a person's countenance.
What is a visage ?
This factor in decision-making ends in -ion when singular.
Criteria
This trademark became synonymous with an agent to help you buy or sell a house
What is a realtor?
Printing with heavy etched plates, and the material science of stone.
What are lithography and lithology?
The red king crab is heavily fished in this sea between Alaska and Russia.
What is the Bering Sea?
This is a British title for a person ranking below an earl and above a baron.
What is a viscount ?
You need this mythical condition like you need holes in your hands. At least it isn't something to be frowned upon, like its singular.
Stigmata