Word???

Someasy@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – -14 points –

I want a word to refer to words and names collectively, and a word to refer to peeing and pooping collectively (not "relieving yourself" since that is disgusting)

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Language: covers words and names

Peeing and pooping: https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/defecate

Excrete is pretty good as your collective word https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/excrete

Thank you but I'm unsatisfied with both "defecate" and "excrete" as they usually are interpreted to mean pooping, I think...

Even though that may not be technically the only use

But you couldn't say "Bob" and "throw" are both "languages". You can't say both are words either... (can you?) They're a name and a word, respectively. Is there another term perhaps for either a word/name (rather than a general concept for what they're part of)?