»char[r]ette

CMU's Architecture Librarian defines the charette as "a creative process akin to visual brainstorming that is used by design professionals to develop solutions to a design problem within a limited timeframe"; Wikipedia says it is "... pronounced [shuh-ret], often misspelled charette and sometimes called a design charrette) consists of an intense period of design activity."

salim filed this under lingo at 10h10 Wednesday, 20 June 2007 (link) (Yr two bits?)