6 letter word: D E H I S D

3 letter words
Did
Die
Dis
Hes
Hid
Hie
His
Ids - plural of the id, one's sunconscious)
She

4 letter words
Died
Dies
Dish
Hide
Hied
Hies
Ides - as in the ides of March
Shed
Side

5 letter words
Hided - an ungrammatically correct conjuntion of hide! But its in the dictionary...
Hides
Shied
Sided

6 letter word
Dished

Words with Z in them, part 3

Alizarin - a red dye

Alkalize - to cover in alkali

Amaze

Amazon - a talll, powerful woman

Amortize - to liquidate gradually

Words with Zs in them, pt 2

Agatize - cause to resemble agate

Agenize - to treat with agene

Agnize - to acknowledge

Albizia (and albizzia) - a tropical tree

Alcazar - a Spanish fortress or palace

Words with Zs in them, pt 1

Ablaze - being on fire

Abuzz - buzzing

Adoze - dozing

Adz - an axe like tool
Adze - same as above

Adzuki - edible seed of an Asian plant

Words beginning with J, pt 1

Jab, jabbed, jabbing, jabs

jabber

jabberer

jabiru - wading bird

jabot - decoration on a shirtjacal - a hut

7 letter words - As pt 1

8 letter words
Aardvark
Aardwolf
Aasvogel - a vulture
Abacuses
Abampere - a unit of electrical current
Abapical - directed away from the apex

7 letter words
Aarrgh - talk like a pirate!
Abalone
Abandon

6 letter word: I E S T I R

3 letter words
Its
Pet
Pie
Pis (plural of pi - 3.147)
Pit
Psi
Set
Sip
Sit
Tie
Tip

4 letter words
Pest
Pets
Pies
Pits
Site
Spit
Step
Ties
Tipi
Tips

5 letter words
Piste - strip on which two people fence
Spite

6 letter words
Pities

E O M B D O: 3, 4, 5, and 6 letter words

3 letter words
Bed
Bod
Boo
Deb
Doe
Med
Mob
Mood
Moo
Ode

4 letter words
Bode
Boom
Demo
Dome
Doom
Mode
Mood
Oboe

5 letter words
Booed
Demob - demobilized(as in an army)
Mooed

6 letter word
Boomed

N F O F D E: Find 3, 4, 5 and 6 letter words

3 letter words
Dee - a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear
Den
Doe
Don
Eff - euphamism for an expletive starting with f and ending with k!
End
Eon
Fed
Fed
Foe
Nod
Ode
Off
One

4 letter words
Doff - take off hat or clothing
Done
Fend
Fond
Node

5 letter words
Offed

6 letter word
Offend

U B E S S A : find 3, 4, 5 and 6 letter words

3 letter words
Abs - abdominals
Ass
Bus
Sea
Sub
Sue
Use

4 letter words
Base
Bass
Beau - girl or boyfriend
Buss - to clear tables
Seas
Subs
Sues
Uses

5 letter words
Abuse
Bases
Beaus
Buses

6 letter word
Abuses

6 letter word: M T T C O A

3 letter words
Act
Cam - a cylinder in a car
Cat
Cot
Mac - slang for "fellow" or "bud"
Mat - a piece of fabric used as protective covering
Mot - a pithy or witty remark (as in bon mot). Archaic, a note on a horn or bugle
Oat
Tam - short for tam-o-shanter, a Scottish hat
Tat - to make by tatting (a kind of one handed knitting)
Tom
Tot

4 letter words
Atom
Coat
Coma
Matt - another version of matte. Flat, lusterless
Moat
Taco
Tact

6 letter word
Tomcat

Words With Strangers

From The New York Times: Words With Strangers
by Meg Wolitzer
Meg Wolitzer is a novelist (“The Uncoupling”) who has just published a book for young readers, “The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman,” about kids who meet at a Scrabble
tournament.

MY frequent online Scrabble opponent of the last few days has sent me a message saying he’s sorry, but he can’t play right now. He has a “stomach bug/malaria,” he writes. Such are the considerations when your opponent lives in Ghana.

Though I live in an apartment in New York City, with people who are happy to challenge me at the dining room table, and though I own several iterations of the game, from a flattened maroon box whose bottom is oily with Bain de Soleil from some long-forgotten childhood beach day, to the sleek acrylic turntable board favored by really good players (a category to which I do not belong), I am happiest these days when playing electronically, and often anonymously.

Much has been written about the soullessness of today’s “Village of the Damned” isolates who sit at their laptops round the clock, playing various online games alone or with strangers. But when I log on to the Internet Scrabble Club, via isc.ro, I want not just the no-nonsense feel of playing Scrabble with someone I can’t see and will never meet, but also, strangely, the connection.

There are two kinds of players there: those who “chat,” and those who, when the game begins, shoot out an automated message that says so-and-so “does not receive tells when playing.” Though I don’t play Scrabble to make new friends, whenever I see this message I always feel slightly insulted. Come on, “scrabblerocks121,” aren’t I worthy of the most minimal chat?

The person who does not receive “tells” can’t learn that I am in “NYC,” and also can’t let me know that he or she is in “NZ” or “Galveston, TX.” Without that latter information, I can’t automatically go into pleasurable-fantasy mode, in which I picture my opponent in his or her home. It never bothers me that I’m probably way off the mark. In my mind, my NZ opponent is a retired English teacher sitting at a table eating toast and Vegemite, looking out over the Auckland skyline. The one from Galveston sits in a trailer, with a guitar tilted against the wall.

Online games usually start out the same way. I type “gl,” (good luck).

Sometimes my opponent will get a little fancy, typing “have fun!” or “enjoy yourself!” This is a little too chipper for my taste. I have no idea whom I am playing, but I worry that it might be the girl who works at the local Pinkberry. She did, after all, tell me she hoped I had “an awesome summer!”

Conversation, such as it is, tends to be limited to certain Scrabble niceties. When I “bingo” (use all seven letters), my opponent tells me “n1” (nice one). At the end of the game, regardless of whether it was exciting or glacially paced, we tell each other “gg” (good game), or even the jollier, almost Alec Guinness-sounding “wp” (well played).

Without these signifiers of politeness, I might feel that I’m playing against not the girl from Pinkberry, or a retired teacher, or a down-on-his-luck country-western singer, but instead some humanoid without a soul. Sometimes, of course, my opponent does receive “tells,” but is soon revealed to be horrible: “nice use of an anagrammer, u cheater,” my opponent sneers after I make a bingo.

And then a message comes up that so-and-so “has put you in their no-play list.” Again I feel slapped. But I just can’t bring myself to reply, “oh right, pal, INSTEAD was such an insanely hard bingo for me to make — btw, i could have also made DETAINS or STAINED or SAINTED, etc. — u think i needed an anagrammer??? Boo hoo, u sore loser, stay home and cry into your Vegemite.”

But so vivid is my image of my opponent and so intense our interaction that I do what my parents always told me to do if a stranger starts up with you: just walk away. My face is hot as I shut my laptop. I almost feel as if I’ve slammed a door on Ted Bundy.

When someone finds out that I play online, they often nostalgically describe the heyday of Scrabulous (a Scrabble knockoff) on Facebook, before it was taken down for copyright infringement reasons. The games, like some games still online, could take days or even weeks to complete. I can’t imagine playing that way; it seems to me like one of those long, long Bloomsbury correspondences, which would now, if transplanted to our era, begin inauspiciously:

vwoolf: gl

vsackvillewest: ty, u2!

Everyone is currently wild about Words With Friends, an iPhone variation in which the layout of the board is somewhat changed. This reminds me of an episode of “The Twilight Zone,” in which an astronaut returns home (or so he thinks) only to find that everything is the same but different. His house has a white picket fence that he’s never seen before, and he insists the president is John F. Kennedy, though no one else has heard of him.

To me, Scrabble isn’t about leisureliness or leniency or friendship. Occasionally, though, I do play a friendly game against my cousin Aaron in Los Angeles. When he was 13, he went on the old “Scrabble” television show, hosted by the genial, big-suited Chuck Woolery, during Teen Week and won $25,000. Never mind that that show resembled actual Scrabble as much as today’s Tea Party resembles the original one; he won first prize, and remains a nimble player.

Aaron is much younger than I am, with multitasking abilities that go well beyond mine. Though our games tend to be extremely short (six minutes per side, tops), as we play he sometimes breaks into full sentences, asking me, “So, how are things in NYC?”

“g,” I tersely type, staring at my tiles and the dwindling clock.

“I’ve been performing with my band a lot,” he types. “Are you working on a new novel?” Then he makes an extremely clever bingo for 84 points.

I have time for niceties, but not such thoughtful ones. Come to think of it, he and I haven’t played in a while, and I suspect we share a genetic love not only for Scrabble, but also for the benefits of anonymity. Sometimes when I’m on I.S.C. I am informed that Aaron is there, too, but like friends who find themselves at the same large cocktail party, neither of us necessarily feels the need to seek the other one out.

My 16-year-old son shares the Scrabble gene, too, and he started playing online when he was 9 or 10. Early on, an opponent asked him, “so what do u do?”

My son was taken aback. “i don’t do anything,” he wrote. “i am a child.”

Scrabble is an indescribably pleasurable game, and those who play Scrabblish variations feel the same way about their versions, too. Each time you play, something new happens.

Playing Scrabble with a stranger — and having brief, somewhat human exchanges along the way — lets you acknowledge the greatness of this shared game, the beauty of words, and the skill it takes to see them and place them on the board (n1!). But it also lets you keep control of your time and your privacy, and satisfies that inscrutable desire for a kind of aloneness that isn’t really aloneness at all.

It’s 2 a.m. in New York City now, and I want the buzz and fizz of a quick game before sleep. In Ghana, it’s already morning, and my sometime opponent is also online and feeling better.

“gl,” I tell him, and we begin.

When Life Depends On Scrabble

A book review from The Wall Street Journal: When Life Depends On Scrabble
By MEGHAN COX GURDON
It is becoming almost routine that novelists for adults will turn, at some point, to writing for younger readers; yet seldom does a writer pull it off with as much grace and felicity as Meg Wolitzer does in "The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman" (Dutton, 294 pages, $16.99). In this lucid and pitch-perfect story for readers ages 8 to 14, the author of "The Uncoupling" and "The Ten-Year Nap" departs from gender politics and other grown-up obsessions for the equally obsessive but considerably more amusing world of competitive Scrabble.

Ms. Wolitzer takes us to the national Youth Scrabble Tournament in the company of three 12-year-olds: Duncan Dorfman, an outcast new kid who is trying to take care of his single mother and whose fingertips have lately developed curious powers; April Blunt, a girl yearning not only to win respect from her sports-fixated family but also to find a boy she met on vacation three years earlier; and Nate Saviano, a cool urban skateboarder under pressure from his father, a failed Scrabble champion, to bring home the trophy. With sparkling dialogue, ingenious anagrams, ethical dilemmas and a daub of mystery, Ms. Wolitzer has created a wonderfully well-structured story that will be (almost) as easily relished by Scrabble neophytes as it will by aficionados.

Calling Senior Citizens for scrabble

The island of Tamil is not a location where I have any readers, nevertheless I think it's interesting that Scrabble is everywhere!

From the Daily Mirror, Tamil: Calling Senior Citizens for scrabble
The Annual All Island Senior Citizens Scrabble Tournament will be held on Sunday, October 29. The tournament is scheduled to be played at the Colombo Hilton Hotel and Sri Lankan nationals over the age of 50 will vie for the Deshabandu Clara Motwani Challenge Cup.

Entry forms are now available with Mrs. Indrani Atukorale at 102/1, Dharmapala Mawatha, Colombo 7. 2696993 and Mrs. Delryn Wijesinghe , 27. Ridgeway Place, Colombo 4. 2587094.

The entry fee is Rs. 750/- while late entries will be charged an extra fee of Rs. 50/-. The closing date for entries will be October 16.

The tournament will be conducted by the Sri Lanka Association of Senior Citizens with the Sri Lanka Scrabble League.

Registration will be from 7.30 to 8.30 a.m. on the day of the tournament and the games will commence at 9.00 a.m.

The tournament will be conducted in two categories. The ‘A’ category will be for the championship and words used will be used from Collins Scrabble Words 2007, the internationally accepted dictionary now in use.

The ‘B’ category will be for those who prefer the old style of play, using traditional words from the Oxford Dictionary.

Prizes will be awarded for the highest game score and the highest word score. Furthermore, there will be Spot Prizes or each of the five games that will be played.

6 letter wod: R C E I S K

3 letter words:
Ice
Ire
Irk
Rec
Sec
Sic
Sir
Sir
Ski

4 letter words
Ices
Irks
Rice
Rick - a stack of cordwood or logs cut to even lengths
Rise
Risk
Sick
Sire

5 letter words
Cries
Rices
Ricks - hayricks, cordwoods
Skier

6 letter word
Sicker

Scrabble Wonder How To

This is a blog cum website, or a website cum blog....devoted to Scrabble.

You have to visit it on the web,

Here's the URL for the entry that caught my eye:
http://scrabble.wonderhowto.com/blog/scrabble-challenge-7-can-you-solve-bingo-parallel-play-for-150-points-0129821/

Here's the text of the post. The various letter diagrams are impossible to reproduce here.

This is a great blog - check it out.

(Because I don't include his many word diagrams, you might not be able to make sense of what he's saying, but you do get an idea of the detailness of his posts.)

If you haven't noticed yet, I've started dishing out some "Scrabble Bingo of the Day" articles that showcase interesting and somewhat unusual seven-letter words (or longer) that could give you an extra 50-point bonus on the board, as long as you empty your rack. So, for this week's Scrabble Challenge you'll have to get your brain in gear, because it's a tough one based of high-scoring bingo plays.

When you see a bingo on your rack, it's one of the best feelings in the world, and not just because you'll get those additional 50 points attached to your turn's score. Just being able to decipher a seven-letter anagram into a legitimate play is satisfying enough. But what if you can make a word from all of the letters on your rack and can't place it on the board anywhere? That's one of the worst feelings in the world, because you're stuck with a great play and nowhere to put it.

That's why you can't just make up seven-letter words on your rack and hope you'll find a place for them on the board. Unless you're playing first, you're going to have to incorporate it into the other words on the board anyway, whether you're extending a word, hooking it with an S, or making a parallel play. So, to be great at making bingo plays, you need to think outside of your rack.

One of the easiest ways to get a bingo is by simply hooking yours onto another word with an S, maybe even an R or Y. A great thing about hooking is that you not only get the points for your word, but also for the word you hooked onto (since you added a letter to beginning or end of it). For instance, if the word JUNK was on the board, and you had ATROPHY on your rack, you can hook the Y onto JUNK to spell both ATROPHY and JUNKY.

But when you're in the middle of the game, sometimes you just have no room to do that.

Another easy way is by using one of the middle letters in an already placed word to incorporate into yours, making an eight-letter word. In this instance, you're only making one word. But with the bingo, it's well worth it. Say the word COTTON is on the board and you had FLAHEAD. Place FLA above one of the T spots and HEAD directly below it and you've got FLATHEAD.

Still, you might not have enough room.

You can also extend words already on the board, so if the word TRUE was played, and you had PENNIES on your rack, you could add it to the end of TRUE to spell out TRUEPENNIES. Another (harder) example is with the rack PITCHKS with FOR already on the board. Place the PITCH in front of FOR and KS after and you've got PITCHFORKS.

Again, this is hard to do in the middle of the game, because words are all over the place! And the longer your word gets, the harder it is to place on the board because of lack of space. That's why you need to start visualizing words that not only extend, hook, or use an open letter on the board, you need to start thinking about parallels.

When there's a bunch of words already on the board, to make a bingo play, you're going to have to squeeze your seven letters in there somehow by making a parallel play. This means you won't just be making your base word (the bingo), but you'll be creating an additional 2 to 7 words. In the below example, you'll see that you're not just spelling the word OPERATION with your tiles, but you're also making PEP, ONES, and AD.

The Challenge
Which brings us to the challenge of the week. I've designed this terribly puzzling puzzle to help maximize your bingo skills using parallel plays. Check out the board below. See if you can place the letters MABGANS onto the board to spell one nine-letter word and seven additional words, giving you a total of 153 points (which is awesome for just one turn).

** Check back next Friday for the solution.

Last Week's Solution
And here's the answer for last week's Scrabble Challenge #6:

Q: If you were the first person playing, and you had the letters AAEIRRT, what would you do? Play a word, exchange letters or pass?

A: Exchanging would be your best move. If you kept AEIRRT and got rid of the A, you have a huge possibility of drawing a seven-letter bingo rack when you exchange the letter. In fact, you're odds are greater than 51 percent, because you can make a seven-letter word from 48 of the unknown 93 tiles. In addition, there are also 64 eight-letter words you might have a shot at once your opponent plays.

6 letter word: R L A C E L

3 letter words:
Ace
Ale
All
Arc
Are
Car
Ear
Ell
Era
Lac - a resinous substance deposited on the twigs of various trees in southern Asia by the female of the lac insect: used in the manufacture of varnishes, sealing wax, etc., and in the production of a red coloring matter
Lea - tract of open ground, especially grassland; meadow
Rec

4 letter words
Acre
Call
Care
Cell
Earl
Lace
Race
Real

5 letter word
Clear

6 letter words
Caller
Cellar
Recall

6 letter words: T A B T E L

3 letter words
Alb
Ale
Ate
Bat
Bet
Eat
Eta
Lab
Lea
Let
Tab
Tat
Tea

4 letter words
Abet
Able
Bale
Bate
Beat
Belt
Beta
Late
Tale
Teal
Teat

5 letter words
Bleat
Latte
Table

6 letter words
Battle
Tablet

6 letter word: N I C E K L

3 letter words
Elk
Ice
Ilk
Ink
Ken
Kin
Lei
Lie
Nil

4 letter words
Cine
Kiln
Kine
Lice
Lick
Lien
Like
Line
Link
Neck
Nice
Nick

5 letter words
Clink
Liken

6 letter words
Nickel

7 letter word: I O V N P R G

3 letter words
Gin
Ion
Nip
Nor
Pig
Pin
Poi
Pro
Rig
Rip

4 letter words
Giro - short for autogiro - a type of plane
Gorp - a mixture of nuts, raisins, dried fruits, seeds, or the like eaten as a high-energy snack, as by hikers and climbers.
Grin
Grip
Iron
Ping
Pong
Porn
Prig
Ring
Vino - wine, especially Italian

5 letter words
Groin
Oping - an archaic term for open
Prion - a type of bird
Prong
Vigor

6 letter words
Poring
Roping
Roving

7 letter word
Proving

6 letter word: F R E A M R

I'm getting some new subscribers, so just to explain what you're supposed to do here.... look at the Table of Contents of this blog so that all you see are the 6 letters. Use a 3 minute egg timer, and in that time find all the 3, 4, 5 and 6 letter words you can find.

After 3 minutes, go back to the blog entry to find out the complete list.

So, here ya go!

3 letter words
Are
Arm
Ear
Era
Err
Far
Mar
Ram
Ref
Rem

4 letter words
Fame
Fare
Farm
Fear
Mare
Rare
Ream
Rear

5 letter words
Frame
Rearm

6 letter words
Farmer
Framer

6 letter word: E O G D D L

3 letter words
Doe
Dog
Ego
Gel
God
Led
Leg
Log
Odd
Ode
Old
Ole

4 letter words
Doge
Dole
Geld
Gold
Lode
Loge
Ogle

5 letter words
Dodge
Doled
Lodge
Ogled

6 letter words
Lodged

6 letter word: M Y L I E S

3 letter words
Elm
Ems
Lei
Lie
Lye
Mil
Sim
Sly
Yes

4 letter words
Elms
Isle
Leis
Lies
Lime
Limy
Mile
Mils
Semi
Slim

5 letter words
Limes
Miles
Slime
Slimy
Smile

6 letter words
Smiley

6 letter word: E R D E A R

3 letter words
Are
Ear
Era
Ere
Err
Rad
Red

4 letter words
Dare
Dear
Deer
Rare
Read
Reed

5 letter words
Darer
Drear
Eared
Erred

6 letter word
Dearer
Reader
Reared
Reread

6 letter word: R S T E O R

3 letter words:
Err
Orr
Roe
Rot
Set
Sot
Toe
Tor

4 letter words
Errs
Erst
Ores
Rest
Roes
Rose
Rote
Rots
Sore
Sort
Toes
Tore
Tords

5 letter words
Retro
Sorer

6 letter words
Resort
Retros
Roster
Sorter

6 letter word: R M W Y L A

3 letter words
Arm
Awl
Lam
Law
Lay
Mar
Maw
May
Ram
Raw
Ray
War
Way
Wry
Yam
Yaw

4 letter words
Army
Awry
Marl
Warm
Wary
Yawl - type of boat

6 letter word
Warmly

6 letter word: A E P S X E

3 letter words
Ape
Asp
Axe
Pas - plural of "pa" - father. Two pas
Pea
Pee
Sap
Sax
Sea
See
Sex
Spa

4 letter words
Apes
Apex
Apse
Axes
Ease
Exes
Peas
Pees
Seep

5 letter word
Pease - archaic English for "peas"

6 letter word
Apexes

6 letter word: I L U G E R

3 letter words
Erg
Gel
Ire
Lefg
Lei
Lie
Lug
Rig
Rue
Rug

4 letter words
Girl
Glue
Lieu
Lire
Luge
Lure
Rile
Rule
Urge

5 letter words
Gruel
Guile

6 letter words>Gluier
Uglier

6 letter word: A Z E H S L

3 letter words
Ale
Ash
Has
Hes
Lea
Sea
She

4 letter words
Ales
Hale
Haze
Heal
Lash
Laze
Leas
Sale
Seal
Zeal

5 letter word
Hales
Hazel
Hazes
Heals
Lazes
Leash
Shale

6 letter word
Hazels

7 lettert word: S E E D E L T

3 letter words
Eel
Led
Lee
Let
See
Set
Ted
Tee

4 letter words
Eels
Else
Lees
Lest
Lets
Seed
Sled
Teds
Teed
Tees

5 letter words
Sleet
Steed
Steel

6 letter words
Delete
Eldest

7 letter words
Deletes
Sleeted
Steeled

6 letter word: R E O D O F

3 letter words
Dee
Doe
Fed
Foe
For
Fro
Ode
Ore
Red
Ref
Rod
Roe

4 letter words
Doer
Door
Food
Ford
Fore
Odor
Redo
Rode
Rood
Roof

5 letter words
Rodeo

6 letter word
Roofed

6 letter word: E U I S F R

3 letter words
Fie
Fir
Fur
Ifs
Ire
Ref
Rue
Sir
Sue
Use

4 letter words
Fire
Firs
Furs
Fuse
Refs
Rife
Rise
Rues
Ruse
Sere
Sire
Sure
Surf
User

5 letter words
Fires
Fries
Serif - the little tag at the end of letters in fonts. There are two types of fonts - serif, with the tag, and sans serif, without the tag.

6 letter word
Furies

6 letter word: H I G T S L

3 letter words
Git
His
Hit
Its
Lit
Sit

4 letter words
Gilt
Gist
Gits
Hilt
Hist (a word used to alert someone. "Hist, someone comes!)
Hits
List
Sigh
Silt
Slit
This

5 letter words
Gilts
Hilts
Light
Sight

6 letter words
Lights
Slight