3 letter words
AIL
ALE
ALL
ELL
ILL
LEA
LEI
LIE
SEA
4 LETTER WORDS
AILS
ALES
ELLS
ILEA
ILLS
ISLE
LEAS
LEIS
LIES
SAIL
SALE
SEAL
SELL
SILL
5 LETTER WORDS
AISLE
LISLE
6 LETTER WORDS:
ALLIES
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
5 Nov 2011, Somerset New Jersey: Scrabble Event and Tricky Tray to Benefit Literacy Volunteers
From Central Jersey.com: Scrabble Event and Tricky Tray to Benefit Literacy Volunteers
Literacy Volunteers of Somerset County is hosting its second Scrabble competition and tricky tray raffle. It will be held at the PeopleCare Center, 120 Finderne Avenue in Bridgewater, on Saturday, November 5.
The Scrabble event will be a team competition with two players per team. Each team is guaranteed three games. First, second and third place prizes will be awarded. Pizza and salad will be served for dinner and everyone will have an opportunity to make your own sundae for dessert.
Each person will receive five free tickets for the tricky tray raffle.
The cost is only $80 per team ($100 after October 21). Non-Scrabble players will get food, 5 free tricky tray raffle tickets, and opportunities for other competition for $25.
Dinner begins at 6 p.m. and the first game begins at 7 p.m. sharp!
People can register for the event at www.literacysomerset.org.
Literacy Volunteers of Somerset County is hosting its second Scrabble competition and tricky tray raffle. It will be held at the PeopleCare Center, 120 Finderne Avenue in Bridgewater, on Saturday, November 5.
The Scrabble event will be a team competition with two players per team. Each team is guaranteed three games. First, second and third place prizes will be awarded. Pizza and salad will be served for dinner and everyone will have an opportunity to make your own sundae for dessert.
Each person will receive five free tickets for the tricky tray raffle.
The cost is only $80 per team ($100 after October 21). Non-Scrabble players will get food, 5 free tricky tray raffle tickets, and opportunities for other competition for $25.
Dinner begins at 6 p.m. and the first game begins at 7 p.m. sharp!
People can register for the event at www.literacysomerset.org.
Goold: The future of 'Scrabble'
From St Louis TOday: Goold: The future of 'Scrabble'
It's an article on baseball and the World Serious, but this part of it is kind of fun.
2. More than a year ago, Mattel, the maker of Scrabble, flaunted tradition and kicked the holy commandment to the curb by announcing that it would, for the first time, issue a Scrabble game that allowed proper nouns. That can mean only one thing: the 2011 World Series has put Rzepczynski in Scrabble circulation. Use it wisely. For kicks, here are the Scrabble scores on the 12 pitchers on the Cardinals' World Series staff:
Rzepczynski - 40 pts
Jackson - 20 pts
Westbrook - 18 pts
Carpenter - 13 pts
Rhodes - 10 pts
Garcia - 9 pts
Lohse - 8 pts
Lynn - 7 pts
lMotte - 7 pts
Dotel - 6 pts
Salas - 5 pts
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find the other high-scoring Scrabble names from Cardinals history. I'm thinking we could get a good game going where only Cardinals players could be used. I'll drop a Tewksbury for Triple Score ...
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/birdland/article_ec162d58-fb6c-11e0-bb75-0019bb30f31a.html#ixzz1brHB13R8
It's an article on baseball and the World Serious, but this part of it is kind of fun.
2. More than a year ago, Mattel, the maker of Scrabble, flaunted tradition and kicked the holy commandment to the curb by announcing that it would, for the first time, issue a Scrabble game that allowed proper nouns. That can mean only one thing: the 2011 World Series has put Rzepczynski in Scrabble circulation. Use it wisely. For kicks, here are the Scrabble scores on the 12 pitchers on the Cardinals' World Series staff:
Rzepczynski - 40 pts
Jackson - 20 pts
Westbrook - 18 pts
Carpenter - 13 pts
Rhodes - 10 pts
Garcia - 9 pts
Lohse - 8 pts
Lynn - 7 pts
lMotte - 7 pts
Dotel - 6 pts
Salas - 5 pts
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find the other high-scoring Scrabble names from Cardinals history. I'm thinking we could get a good game going where only Cardinals players could be used. I'll drop a Tewksbury for Triple Score ...
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/birdland/article_ec162d58-fb6c-11e0-bb75-0019bb30f31a.html#ixzz1brHB13R8
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Scrabble News: A G ThingF
From Slate: A G Thing
The real story behind the alleged cheating scandal at the Scrabble World Championships.
As soon as I saw the ubiquitous reports about the strip-search/tile-stealing allegations at the 2011 World Scrabble Championship, I cringed. Like the freak-out earlier this year over GRRL and THANG getting added to the Scrabble word list (they are, just not in North America) and last year’s “news” that the game is permitting the use of proper nouns (it’s not), I suspected that the truth was buried under a big pile of tiles. When it comes to Scrabble and the media, the most applicable letters are LCD.
As best as I can piece together from speaking to players and officials and from reading reports on the Yahoo group World-Scrabble, here’s what actually happened last week in the ballroom of the Hilton Hotel in Warsaw, Poland.
In Round 7 of the 34-game event, Edward Martin, an IT consultant from London, was playing Chollapat Itthi-Aree, a math instructor from Bangkok. Near the end of the game, Martin realized a tile was missing; instead of two tiles in the bag there was only one. How did he know this? Competitive Scrabble players “track” the 98 letters and two blanks as they are played. That way, when the bag is empty, each player will, if he has tracked correctly, know what tiles his opponent holds. This is when Scrabble turns from a game of imperfect information into one of perfect information; a player can map out the endgame with full knowledge of his opponent’s possible gambits.
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After recounting several times and concluding his tracking was correct, Martin called over the tournament director. She ascertained that both players believed they had started the game with all 100 tiles. (At the end of tournament games, players lay out the tiles in a grid, typically either four 5-by-5 squares or one 10-by-10. That way the next two players can bag the tiles knowing that they’re all there. One theory for how Martin and Chollapat—Thais often go by only first names—didn’t detect the missing letter in advance: The tiles might have inadvertently been laid out in a 9-by-11 grid.)
The director had Martin and Chollapat search for the tile—in the bag, under the board, on the floor, on their chairs—but they turned up nothing. The director then ruled that, since the players thought the game had begun with a full allotment of tiles, the missing letter—a G—should be procured from another set and placed in the bag. Chollapat was entitled to the final two letters. Since Martin had determined how the game would likely play out, it was clear the addition of the G would change the outcome from a three-point win for Chollapat to a one-point win for Martin. (The G is worth two points.)
According to John Chew, the co-president of the North American Scrabble Players Association and assistant director of the world championship, Chollapat then asked the director to check that Martin was not concealing the missing tile on his person. Martin agreed to stand up and pat down his pockets to show nothing was inside; Chew, who witnessed the exchange, told me Martin’s clothing was tight enough to make that clear. The director asked Chollapat to do the same. I’m told that Chollapat—whose spoken English is limited—did not request, as was reported in media outlets around the world, that Martin be subjected to a strip-search in the bathroom. Play resumed. Martin used all of his remaining tiles on the next turn—a bingo, EQUINES (using a blank for the Q)—and collected, per competitive Scrabble rules, two times the sum of the letters on Chollapat’s rack. Final score: 402-401, Martin.
The game occurred in the last round of the first day of play, last Thursday. Though the Thai players complained about the ruling en masse the next day, the dispute wasn’t even known to many of the 106 competitors, and it didn’t hit the media until the tournament ended on Sunday, with Nigel Richards of New Zealand solidifying a claim as Scrabble GOAT with his second world championship on top of three North American titles. So how did it become a worldwide story?
The tournament sponsor Mattel, which owns the rights to Scrabble outside of North America, no doubt recognized that a story including the words Scrabble, cheating, and strip-search would be media catnip. On Saturday, in its Twitter feed from the championship, Mattel began spreading the news: “Fuming Thai player calls on Brit Ed Martin to STRIP @worldscrabble11 as game ends with G tile missing—but judges refuse and Ed wins by 1pt.” In conjunction with the news of Richards’ victory and $20,000 first prize, Mattel’s public-relations staff mentioned the incident to reporters. (A Mattel spokesman told me a reporter for the Independent who was attending the event heard about it from players. The newspaper’s story, filed after the conclusion of the tournament, led with the tale of the G.)
The upshot? Scads of publicity, for sure. But consider the plight of poor Ed Martin, by all accounts a nice fellow and a world-class Scrabble player, who was publicly accused of suspected cheating at the game he loves despite there being no evidence that he’d done anything wrong. Martin wrote on the World-Scrabble listserv that the widespread media reports had caused him “considerable distress,” complete with reporters showing up at his house uninvited. “This has taken quite a toll on my family and me,” he wrote.
And the source of the contretemps, the missing G? Martin posted a message he received from Hubert Wee, a player from Singapore. Wee had sat at the same board as Martin and Chollapat during the previous game. Wee reported that, prior to his game, he had dropped several tiles on the floor and put them back in the bag. What he didn’t notice was that a lone tile had fallen into his jacket pocket. Wee found the missing letter at dinner, but he didn’t realize its significance until he heard the news after returning home.
The real story behind the alleged cheating scandal at the Scrabble World Championships.
As soon as I saw the ubiquitous reports about the strip-search/tile-stealing allegations at the 2011 World Scrabble Championship, I cringed. Like the freak-out earlier this year over GRRL and THANG getting added to the Scrabble word list (they are, just not in North America) and last year’s “news” that the game is permitting the use of proper nouns (it’s not), I suspected that the truth was buried under a big pile of tiles. When it comes to Scrabble and the media, the most applicable letters are LCD.
As best as I can piece together from speaking to players and officials and from reading reports on the Yahoo group World-Scrabble, here’s what actually happened last week in the ballroom of the Hilton Hotel in Warsaw, Poland.
In Round 7 of the 34-game event, Edward Martin, an IT consultant from London, was playing Chollapat Itthi-Aree, a math instructor from Bangkok. Near the end of the game, Martin realized a tile was missing; instead of two tiles in the bag there was only one. How did he know this? Competitive Scrabble players “track” the 98 letters and two blanks as they are played. That way, when the bag is empty, each player will, if he has tracked correctly, know what tiles his opponent holds. This is when Scrabble turns from a game of imperfect information into one of perfect information; a player can map out the endgame with full knowledge of his opponent’s possible gambits.
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After recounting several times and concluding his tracking was correct, Martin called over the tournament director. She ascertained that both players believed they had started the game with all 100 tiles. (At the end of tournament games, players lay out the tiles in a grid, typically either four 5-by-5 squares or one 10-by-10. That way the next two players can bag the tiles knowing that they’re all there. One theory for how Martin and Chollapat—Thais often go by only first names—didn’t detect the missing letter in advance: The tiles might have inadvertently been laid out in a 9-by-11 grid.)
The director had Martin and Chollapat search for the tile—in the bag, under the board, on the floor, on their chairs—but they turned up nothing. The director then ruled that, since the players thought the game had begun with a full allotment of tiles, the missing letter—a G—should be procured from another set and placed in the bag. Chollapat was entitled to the final two letters. Since Martin had determined how the game would likely play out, it was clear the addition of the G would change the outcome from a three-point win for Chollapat to a one-point win for Martin. (The G is worth two points.)
According to John Chew, the co-president of the North American Scrabble Players Association and assistant director of the world championship, Chollapat then asked the director to check that Martin was not concealing the missing tile on his person. Martin agreed to stand up and pat down his pockets to show nothing was inside; Chew, who witnessed the exchange, told me Martin’s clothing was tight enough to make that clear. The director asked Chollapat to do the same. I’m told that Chollapat—whose spoken English is limited—did not request, as was reported in media outlets around the world, that Martin be subjected to a strip-search in the bathroom. Play resumed. Martin used all of his remaining tiles on the next turn—a bingo, EQUINES (using a blank for the Q)—and collected, per competitive Scrabble rules, two times the sum of the letters on Chollapat’s rack. Final score: 402-401, Martin.
The game occurred in the last round of the first day of play, last Thursday. Though the Thai players complained about the ruling en masse the next day, the dispute wasn’t even known to many of the 106 competitors, and it didn’t hit the media until the tournament ended on Sunday, with Nigel Richards of New Zealand solidifying a claim as Scrabble GOAT with his second world championship on top of three North American titles. So how did it become a worldwide story?
The tournament sponsor Mattel, which owns the rights to Scrabble outside of North America, no doubt recognized that a story including the words Scrabble, cheating, and strip-search would be media catnip. On Saturday, in its Twitter feed from the championship, Mattel began spreading the news: “Fuming Thai player calls on Brit Ed Martin to STRIP @worldscrabble11 as game ends with G tile missing—but judges refuse and Ed wins by 1pt.” In conjunction with the news of Richards’ victory and $20,000 first prize, Mattel’s public-relations staff mentioned the incident to reporters. (A Mattel spokesman told me a reporter for the Independent who was attending the event heard about it from players. The newspaper’s story, filed after the conclusion of the tournament, led with the tale of the G.)
The upshot? Scads of publicity, for sure. But consider the plight of poor Ed Martin, by all accounts a nice fellow and a world-class Scrabble player, who was publicly accused of suspected cheating at the game he loves despite there being no evidence that he’d done anything wrong. Martin wrote on the World-Scrabble listserv that the widespread media reports had caused him “considerable distress,” complete with reporters showing up at his house uninvited. “This has taken quite a toll on my family and me,” he wrote.
And the source of the contretemps, the missing G? Martin posted a message he received from Hubert Wee, a player from Singapore. Wee had sat at the same board as Martin and Chollapat during the previous game. Wee reported that, prior to his game, he had dropped several tiles on the floor and put them back in the bag. What he didn’t notice was that a lone tile had fallen into his jacket pocket. Wee found the missing letter at dinner, but he didn’t realize its significance until he heard the news after returning home.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
10 Scrabble Players in Cheyenne!
In Oct 2010 I moved to Cheyenne, WY and within a few days started a scrabble club. After a year I've got 8 regular members...a couple of people have come for a couple of times and then never come again.
I had a Scrabble tourney today - and we had a nice write-up in the local Cheyenne paper on Wednesday, talking about the club and mentioning the tourney.
Result? 1 - 1! new person on Thursday, and that same new person today (who wiped the floor with the competition.) No spectators, nobody else.
Very disappointing.
Don't know if the new guy will continue to come, he's young and rather brusque, so not really fun to play even for the guys most nearly at his level...
Typical!
I had a Scrabble tourney today - and we had a nice write-up in the local Cheyenne paper on Wednesday, talking about the club and mentioning the tourney.
Result? 1 - 1! new person on Thursday, and that same new person today (who wiped the floor with the competition.) No spectators, nobody else.
Very disappointing.
Don't know if the new guy will continue to come, he's young and rather brusque, so not really fun to play even for the guys most nearly at his level...
Typical!
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Honynyms
Test V - hononyms
1. why does modern music have such a strange [a) affect b) effect] on you?
2. Most buildings have [a) stationary b) stationery] walls.
3. The [a) principal b) principle] features of Southern California are sunshine and smog.
4. Sitting contentedly by the fire, the cat licked [a) it's b) its] paws
5. His vocal [a) cods b) chords] were inflamed
6. he sat for hours [a) poring b) pouring] over the dictionary.
7. He listened with [a) baited b) bated] breath for the second shoe to fall.
8. Admiral Nelson is famous for one of the most important [a) navel b) naval] encounters in British history.
9. The scene of the accident was lighted by a huge [a) flare b) flair].
10. The boxer made a [a) feint b) faint] with his left.
And not precisely an honynym but one I see pretty often.
11. It's a [a) mute b) moot] point.
Bibliography
30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary
1. why does modern music have such a strange [a) affect b) effect] on you?
2. Most buildings have [a) stationary b) stationery] walls.
3. The [a) principal b) principle] features of Southern California are sunshine and smog.
4. Sitting contentedly by the fire, the cat licked [a) it's b) its] paws
5. His vocal [a) cods b) chords] were inflamed
6. he sat for hours [a) poring b) pouring] over the dictionary.
7. He listened with [a) baited b) bated] breath for the second shoe to fall.
8. Admiral Nelson is famous for one of the most important [a) navel b) naval] encounters in British history.
9. The scene of the accident was lighted by a huge [a) flare b) flair].
10. The boxer made a [a) feint b) faint] with his left.
And not precisely an honynym but one I see pretty often.
11. It's a [a) mute b) moot] point.
Bibliography
30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
The I's Have It, part 3
ICHOR - a watery discharge from a wound
ICHTHYIC - pertaining to fishes
ICK - used to express disgust
ICKER - a head of grain
ICTERIC - a remedy for icterus
ICTERUS - disease of the liver
ICTUS - recurring stress
IDEALITY -the state of being perfect
ICHTHYIC - pertaining to fishes
ICK - used to express disgust
ICKER - a head of grain
ICTERIC - a remedy for icterus
ICTERUS - disease of the liver
ICTUS - recurring stress
IDEALITY -the state of being perfect
Monday, October 17, 2011
The I's Have It, part 2
ICEBLINK - glare over an icefield
ICEBOAT - a vessel that sails on ice
ICEFALL - a frozen waterfall
ICEKHANA - an automotive event held on a frozen lake
ICELESS - having no ice
ICH - a disease of certain fishes
ICHNITE - a fossil footprint
ICEBOAT - a vessel that sails on ice
ICEFALL - a frozen waterfall
ICEKHANA - an automotive event held on a frozen lake
ICELESS - having no ice
ICH - a disease of certain fishes
ICHNITE - a fossil footprint
Sunday, October 16, 2011
The I's Have It, part 1
IAMB - a type of metrical foot
IAMBIC - an iamb
IAMBUS - also an iamb
IATRIC - pertaining to medicine
IBEX - a wild goat
IBIS - a wading bird
IBOGAINE - an alkaloid used as an anti-depressant.
IAMBIC - an iamb
IAMBUS - also an iamb
IATRIC - pertaining to medicine
IBEX - a wild goat
IBIS - a wading bird
IBOGAINE - an alkaloid used as an anti-depressant.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Scrabble for glory in Warsaw
From The News.PL: Scrabble for glory in Warsaw
Some 116 contestants from across the globe will be testing their linguistic brilliance in the biennial showdown, with a prize of 20,000 dollars (62,000 zloty) in store for the winner, and of course the world title.
Competitors will take part in at least 34 games each, after which the results will be totted up and the two highest scoring players will face each other in a grand final.
All games will be held in English, giving native-speakers something of an advantage, butthat hasn't dissuaded four Polish players from throwing their hats into the ring.
Bartosz Pieta, Rafal Dominiczak, Zbiegniew Wieckowski and Wojciech Usakiewicz will be attempting to do Poland proud this week, with games held at Warsaw's Hilton Hotel.
The title is being defended by Thai ace Pakorn Nemitrmansuk, who is going all out to repeat his 2009 performance.
Scrabble, which was invented by American architect Alfred Mosher Butts in 1938, is nowsold in 121 countries, and is available in 29 languages.
Although a number of Polish enthusiasts developed a cut-out version of the game in the 1980s, a full Polish version did not come onto the market until 1993,after the fall of communism.
Since then, interest inthe game has become phenomenal, hence the decision to host thecontest in Warsaw this year.
On 16 October, the last day if the event, a special Scrabble Day will be held at the WarsawHilton hotel, with workshops held by the Polish Scrabble Federation.
Some 116 contestants from across the globe will be testing their linguistic brilliance in the biennial showdown, with a prize of 20,000 dollars (62,000 zloty) in store for the winner, and of course the world title.
Competitors will take part in at least 34 games each, after which the results will be totted up and the two highest scoring players will face each other in a grand final.
All games will be held in English, giving native-speakers something of an advantage, butthat hasn't dissuaded four Polish players from throwing their hats into the ring.
Bartosz Pieta, Rafal Dominiczak, Zbiegniew Wieckowski and Wojciech Usakiewicz will be attempting to do Poland proud this week, with games held at Warsaw's Hilton Hotel.
The title is being defended by Thai ace Pakorn Nemitrmansuk, who is going all out to repeat his 2009 performance.
Scrabble, which was invented by American architect Alfred Mosher Butts in 1938, is nowsold in 121 countries, and is available in 29 languages.
Although a number of Polish enthusiasts developed a cut-out version of the game in the 1980s, a full Polish version did not come onto the market until 1993,after the fall of communism.
Since then, interest inthe game has become phenomenal, hence the decision to host thecontest in Warsaw this year.
On 16 October, the last day if the event, a special Scrabble Day will be held at the WarsawHilton hotel, with workshops held by the Polish Scrabble Federation.
Monday, October 10, 2011
6 letter word: T S W R S A
3 letter words
Art
Ass
Rat
Raw
Sat
Saw
Tar
War
Was
4 letter words
Arts
Rats
Saws
Star
Swat
Tars
Tsar
Wars
Wart
Wast
5 letter words
Stars
Straw
Swats
Tsars
Warts
6 letter words
Straws
Art
Ass
Rat
Raw
Sat
Saw
Tar
War
Was
4 letter words
Arts
Rats
Saws
Star
Swat
Tars
Tsar
Wars
Wart
Wast
5 letter words
Stars
Straw
Swats
Tsars
Warts
6 letter words
Straws
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Words with Z, part 9
baiza - montery unit of Oman
baize - green wooolen fabric
Banalize - to make banal
Banzai - Japanese battle cry
batptize
baptizer
Bartizan - a small turret
baize - green wooolen fabric
Banalize - to make banal
Banzai - Japanese battle cry
batptize
baptizer
Bartizan - a small turret
6 letter word: L E A N H I
3 letter words
Ail
Ale
Ani
Hen
Hie
Lea
Lei
Lie
Nae
Nah
Nil
4 letter words
Elan
Hail
Hale
Hel
Ilea
Lain
Lane
Lean
Lien
Line
Nail
5 letter words
Alien
6 letter words
Inhale
Ail
Ale
Ani
Hen
Hie
Lea
Lei
Lie
Nae
Nah
Nil
4 letter words
Elan
Hail
Hale
Hel
Ilea
Lain
Lane
Lean
Lien
Line
Nail
5 letter words
Alien
6 letter words
Inhale
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Words with Z, part 8
Azoth - mercury
Azotic - pertaining to azote
azotise, also Azotize - to treat with nitrogen
Azoturia - excess of nitrogen in the blood
Azuki, same as Adzuki - - edible seed of an asian plant
Azulejo - a type of ceramic tile
Azure - shade of blue
Azurite - a mineral
Azygos - one of a pair
Azygous - also one of a pair
Azotic - pertaining to azote
azotise, also Azotize - to treat with nitrogen
Azoturia - excess of nitrogen in the blood
Azuki, same as Adzuki - - edible seed of an asian plant
Azulejo - a type of ceramic tile
Azure - shade of blue
Azurite - a mineral
Azygos - one of a pair
Azygous - also one of a pair
6 letter word: E I N S N D
3 letter words
Den
Die
Din
Dis
End
Ens
Ids
Inn
Ins
Sin
4 letter words
Dens
Dies
Dine
Dins
Ends
Ides
Inns
Ninee
Send
Side
Sine
5 letter words
Dines
Nines
Snide
6 letter words
Sinned
Den
Die
Din
Dis
End
Ens
Ids
Inn
Ins
Sin
4 letter words
Dens
Dies
Dine
Dins
Ends
Ides
Inns
Ninee
Send
Side
Sine
5 letter words
Dines
Nines
Snide
6 letter words
Sinned
Words with J in them, part 1
Abject - sunk to a low condition
Abjure - to renouce under oath, also Abjurer
Acajou - tropical tree
Adjoin
Adjoint - type of mathematical matrix
Adjourn
Adjudge
Adjure - to command solemnly
Adjust, adjuster, also adjustor
adjutant - assistant, also Adjuvant!
Abjure - to renouce under oath, also Abjurer
Acajou - tropical tree
Adjoin
Adjoint - type of mathematical matrix
Adjourn
Adjudge
Adjure - to command solemnly
Adjust, adjuster, also adjustor
adjutant - assistant, also Adjuvant!
Friday, October 7, 2011
Words with Z in 'em, Part 7
Azine - type of chemical compound
Azlon - textile fiber
Azo - containing nitrogen
Azoic - pertaining to geologic time
azole - type of chemiccal compound
Azon - radial controlled aerial bomb
Azonal - type of soil geoup
azonic- restricetd to a particular zone
azotemia- excess of nitrogen in the blood
Azlon - textile fiber
Azo - containing nitrogen
Azoic - pertaining to geologic time
azole - type of chemiccal compound
Azon - radial controlled aerial bomb
Azonal - type of soil geoup
azonic- restricetd to a particular zone
azotemia- excess of nitrogen in the blood
6 letter word: D E R P E Y
3 letter words
Dry
Dye
Ere
Eye
Pee
Per
Pry
Red
Rep
Rye
Yep
4 letter words
Deep
Deer
Dyer
Eyed
Peed
Peer
Prey
Pyre
Reed
5 letter words
Reedy
6 letter words
Preyed
Dry
Dye
Ere
Eye
Pee
Per
Pry
Red
Rep
Rye
Yep
4 letter words
Deep
Deer
Dyer
Eyed
Peed
Peer
Prey
Pyre
Reed
5 letter words
Reedy
6 letter words
Preyed
Thursday, October 6, 2011
6 letter word: E S N S O A
3 letter words
Ass
Ens
Eon
Nae
Nos
One
Sea
Spn
4 letter words
Aeon
Eons
Noes
Nose
Ones
Sane
Sans
Seas
Sons
5 letter words
Aeons
Noses
Oases
6 letter words
Season
Ass
Ens
Eon
Nae
Nos
One
Sea
Spn
4 letter words
Aeon
Eons
Noes
Nose
Ones
Sane
Sans
Seas
Sons
5 letter words
Aeons
Noses
Oases
6 letter words
Season
Monday, October 3, 2011
Painting Project: Adulteration
Considering the kinds of words that are in the Official Scrabble Dictionary, it is kind of suprising that adulteration is not.
(If it were, the 7 letter suffix "eration" could be added on to adult!) That would be a 12 letter word, the scrabble board is 15 letters long and 15 letters high - plenty of room!
However, it's not a question of length of the word, even adulterate isn't in the Scrabble dictionary. But "adunc" - to be bent inward - is!
Adulteration: to debase by adding inferior material: to adulterate milk with water
(If it were, the 7 letter suffix "eration" could be added on to adult!) That would be a 12 letter word, the scrabble board is 15 letters long and 15 letters high - plenty of room!
However, it's not a question of length of the word, even adulterate isn't in the Scrabble dictionary. But "adunc" - to be bent inward - is!
Adulteration: to debase by adding inferior material: to adulterate milk with water
6 letter words: I N G E E S
3 letter words
Ens - more than one letter n
Gee - word of command which orders a horse to turn right.
Gen - "that which produces". Information obtained by study.
Gin
Ins
Nee
See
Sin
4 letter words
Gees - plural of gee
Gene
Gens
Gins
Seen
Sign
Sine
Sing
5 letter words
Genes
Genie
Seine - net
Siege
Singe
6 letter words
Genies
Seeing
Ens - more than one letter n
Gee - word of command which orders a horse to turn right.
Gen - "that which produces". Information obtained by study.
Gin
Ins
Nee
See
Sin
4 letter words
Gees - plural of gee
Gene
Gens
Gins
Seen
Sign
Sine
Sing
5 letter words
Genes
Genie
Seine - net
Siege
Singe
6 letter words
Genies
Seeing
Words with Z in them, part 6
Atticize - concise and elegant expression
Autolyze - to break down tissue
Avianize - to make less severe
Azalea - a flowering shrub
Azan - muslim call to prayer
Azide - type of chemical compound - also azido
Azimuth - angle of horizontal deviation
Autolyze - to break down tissue
Avianize - to make less severe
Azalea - a flowering shrub
Azan - muslim call to prayer
Azide - type of chemical compound - also azido
Azimuth - angle of horizontal deviation
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Painting Project: Acrylic
Another 7 letter word which allows the us of the "c" and "y".
Scrabble Dictionary: a type of resin
Painter's Dictionary: Short for Acrylic polymer emulsion. Acrylic paints are a combination of pigment, acrylic polymer emulsion, and plasticizers or similar additives to give the pigment emulsion dispersion the proper consistence for painting.
Plastic - acrylic.
Acrylic resin, one of many synthetic resins, has been in use since the 1930s in plastics such as Plexiglass and Lucite. Acrylics for painting became popular in the 1960s.
See the word?
"Plasticizer" is not in the Scrabble dictionary.
________
Bibliography
The Painter's Dictionary of Materials and Methods, by Frederic Taubes, 1971
Scrabble Dictionary: a type of resin
Painter's Dictionary: Short for Acrylic polymer emulsion. Acrylic paints are a combination of pigment, acrylic polymer emulsion, and plasticizers or similar additives to give the pigment emulsion dispersion the proper consistence for painting.
Plastic - acrylic.
Acrylic resin, one of many synthetic resins, has been in use since the 1930s in plastics such as Plexiglass and Lucite. Acrylics for painting became popular in the 1960s.
See the word?
"Plasticizer" is not in the Scrabble dictionary.
________
Bibliography
The Painter's Dictionary of Materials and Methods, by Frederic Taubes, 1971
6 letter word: E A L B E N
3 letter words
Alb - a linen vestment with narrow sleaves, worn chiefly by priests, now invariably white in the Western Church but any color in the Eastern Church.
Ale
Ban
Bee
Eel
Lab
Lea - a tract of open ground, especially grassland; meadow.
Lee
Nab
Nae
Nee - originally born as, maiden name (can also be "ne")
4 letter words
Able
Bale
Bane
Bean
Been
Elan
Lane
Lean
6 letter words
Baleen
Enable
Alb - a linen vestment with narrow sleaves, worn chiefly by priests, now invariably white in the Western Church but any color in the Eastern Church.
Ale
Ban
Bee
Eel
Lab
Lea - a tract of open ground, especially grassland; meadow.
Lee
Nab
Nae
Nee - originally born as, maiden name (can also be "ne")
4 letter words
Able
Bale
Bane
Bean
Been
Elan
Lane
Lean
6 letter words
Baleen
Enable
Words with Z in them, pt 5
Arabize - to ccause to aquire Arab customs
Archaize - to use archaisms
Arrhizal - rootlessAssize - session of a legislative body
atomize - reduce to a fine spray
atomizer
Atrazine - herbicide
Archaize - to use archaisms
Arrhizal - rootlessAssize - session of a legislative body
atomize - reduce to a fine spray
atomizer
Atrazine - herbicide
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Painting Project: Acetone
A seven letter word, which allows you to use your "C" if you're a scrabble player.
In the Official Scrabble dictionary it is defined as "a flammable liquid."
In art, it is "one of the strongest solvents and among the most versatile because it mixes with water, oil, turpentine and petroleum derivatives. Used to clean oil paintings.
Bibliography
The Painter's Dictionary of Materials and Methods, by Frederic Taubes, 1971
In the Official Scrabble dictionary it is defined as "a flammable liquid."
In art, it is "one of the strongest solvents and among the most versatile because it mixes with water, oil, turpentine and petroleum derivatives. Used to clean oil paintings.
Bibliography
The Painter's Dictionary of Materials and Methods, by Frederic Taubes, 1971
6 letter word: E F R E S V
3 letter words
Ere
Eve
Fee
Ref
Rev
See
4 letter words
Ever
Eves
Fees
Free
Reef
Refs
Revs
Seer
Sere
Serf
Veer
5 letter words
Fever
Frees
Refs
Serve
Sever
Veers
Verse
6 letter word
Fevers
Ere
Eve
Fee
Ref
Rev
See
4 letter words
Ever
Eves
Fees
Free
Reef
Refs
Revs
Seer
Sere
Serf
Veer
5 letter words
Fever
Frees
Refs
Serve
Sever
Veers
Verse
6 letter word
Fevers
Words with Z in them, pt 4
Analyze
Analyzer - one who analyzes
Anodize - ro coat by chemical means
Anodized
Apprize - to appraise
Arborize - to form many branches
Analyzer - one who analyzes
Anodize - ro coat by chemical means
Anodized
Apprize - to appraise
Arborize - to form many branches
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