warlord
         n 1: supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region
               especially one accountable to nobody when the central
               government is weak

English Dictionary: whorlywort	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whirl around v fly around; "The clothes tumbled in the dryer"; "rising smoke whirled in the air" Synonym(s): whirl, tumble, whirl around
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whirler n a dervish whose actions include ecstatic dancing and whirling Synonym(s): whirling dervish, whirler a revolving mechanism
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whorlywort n a tall perennial herb having spikes of small white or purple flowers; common in eastern North America Synonym(s): Culver's root, Culvers root, Culver's physic, Culvers physic, whorlywort, Veronicastrum virginicum
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whirler \Whirl"er\, n.       One who, or that which, whirls.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whorler \Whorl"er\, n.       A potter's wheel.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
warlording v.   [from the Usenet group alt.fan.warlord] The act    of excoriating a bloated, ugly, or derivative {sig block}.   Common    grounds for warlording include the presence of a signature rendered    in a {BUAF}, over-used or cliched {sig quote}s, ugly {ASCII art}, or    simply excessive size.   The original `Warlord' was a {B1FF}-like    {newbie} c.1991 who featured in his sig a particularly large and    obnoxious ASCII graphic resembling the sword of Conan the Barbarian    in the 1981 John Milius movie; the group name alt.fan.warlord was    sarcasm, and the characteristic mode of warlording is devastatingly    sarcastic praise.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
warlording          The act of excoriating a bloated, ugly or derivative       {sig block}.   Common grounds for warlording include the       presence of a signature rendered in a {BUAF}, over-used or       cliched {sig quotes}, ugly {ASCII art}, or simply excessive       size.   The original "Warlord" was a {BIFF}-like {newbie}       c. 1991 who featured in his sig a particularly large and       obnoxious ASCII graphic resembling the sword of Conan the       Barbarian in the 1981 John Milius movie; the group name       alt.fan.warlord was sarcasm, and the characteristic mode of       warlording is devastatingly sarcastic praise.          {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:alt.fan.warlord}.          [{Jargon File}]          (1994-11-29)