inkle
v. to attend a party to which one has not been invited

American philologist Revilo P. Oliver had a palindromic name — it reads the same backward and forward. In his family, he said, the name “has been the burden of the eldest or only son for six generations.”

And it cost him — at least one journal rejected his articles as fraudulent.

saulie
n. a hired mourner at a funeral

GATEMAN, sides reversed, is NAMETAG.

And that sentence is a palindrome.

dyscallignia
n. the dislike of beautiful women

In 1965, Dmitri Borgmann noted that this expression:

11 + 2 – 1 = 12

… is valid also when interpreted as a set of characters:

11 “+ 2” = 112; 112 “- 1” = 12

… as a set of Roman numerals:

XI + II = XIII; XIII – I = XII

… and even as a set of letters:

ELEVEN + TWO = ELEVENTWO
ELEVENTWO – ONE = LEVETW (= TWELVE)

GOLDENROD-ADORNED LOG is a palindrome.

In this sentence there are sixteen words, eighty-one letters, one hyphen, four commas, and one period.