ScrabList #10

General:

  1. SHOJO – (Japanese) manga intended primarily for girls
  2. AJIVA – (Sanskrit) inanimate matter
  3. CAJON – (Spanish) a steep canyon
  4. BAJRI – (Hindi) in the Indian subcontinent, pearl millet or a similar grain, also BAJRA, BAJREE
  5. EJIDO – (Spanish) a piece of land farmed communally in Mexico
  6. FJELD – (Norwegian) a high, barren Scandinavian plateau
  7. GADJO – (Romany) a non-gypsy, also GADGIE, GADJE, GAJO, GAUDGIE, GAUJE, GORGIO
  8. POLYP – an octopus or cuttlefish, also POLYPE, POULP, POULPE
  9. HODJA – (Turkish) an Eastern term of respect, a Muslim teacher or professor, also KHODJA, KHOJA
  10. OBJET – (French) an object
  11. POLJE – (Serbo-Croat) a large elliptical depression in karst regions
  12. ROJAK – (Malay) a salad dish served in chilli sauce
  13. SAJOU – (Tupi) a capuchin or spider monkey, also SAPAJOU
  14. SLOJD – (Swedish) a Swedish system of manual training by woodwork, also SLOID, SLOYD
  15. UPJET – to spout up
  16. YOJAN – (Hindi) in the Indian subcontinent, a measure of distance, also YOJANA
  17. ZANJA – (Spanish) an irrigation canal in Latin America
  18. KISMET – (Turkish) destiny, also KISMAT
  19. CAPIZ – (Tagalog) the translucent shell of a bivalve mollusc
  20. HAFIZ – (Arabic) a Muslim who knows the Koran by heart
  21. SOYUZ – (Russian) a Soviet manned spacecraft
  22. SPITZ – (German) a breed of dogs with long hair
  23. TROOZ – (Scots) close-cut tartan drawers, also TREWS, TROUSE
  24. WOOTZ – a tough sharp steel made in southern India by fusing magnetic iron ore with material containing carbon
  25. BHUNA – (Urdu) an Indian sauce, also BHOONA
  26. DHIKR – (Arabic) a Sufi religious ceremony
  27. BAYYAN – (Arabic) an official declaration in Islam
  28. GHAZI – (Arabic) a Muslim warrior who has fought the infidel
  29. GHYLL – a narrow ravine
  30. IHRAM – (Arabic) the white cotton garment worn by Muslim pilgrims to Mecca
  31. MHORR – (Arabic) a West African gazelle, also MOHR
  32. NHANDU – (Tupi) the rhea, a South American ostrich, also NANDU, NANDOO
  33. PHAEIC – (Greek) dusky
  34. UHLAN – (German) a light cavalryman in semi-oriental uniform; a Prussian lancer, also ULAN
  35. RHYTA – RHYTON, (Greek) a drinking cup with a hole in the point to drink by
  36. VARIX – (Latin) a varicose vein
  37. COXIB – a drug used in the treatment of osteoarthritis
  38. XYLIC – relating to xylem
  39. TWIXT – between, also BETWIXT
  40. ZOOEY – like a zoo
  41. JHALA – (Sanskrit) in Hindu music, part of the second movement of a raga
  42. MEJLIS – (Arabic) an assembly or council in various North African and Middle Eastern countries, also MAJLIS
  43. MVULE – (Swahili) an African tree
  44. HAIQUE – (Arabic) an Arab head covering, also HAIK, HAICK, HYKE
  45. SALLAL – (Native American) an American shrub of the heather family, also SALAL

Short words:

  1. PUJA – (Sanskrit) a Hindu worship practice, also POOJA, POOJAH, PUJAH
  2. KHAF – (Hebrew) the eleventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet, also CAPH, KAF, KAPH, KHAPH
  3. OHIA – (Hawaiian) a Polynesian tree of the myrtle family with bright red flowers
  4. UMPY – (Australian slang) an umpire, also UMPIE
  5. ULVA – (Latin) a genus of thin papery bright green seaweeds including the kinds called sea lettuce
  6. VULN – to wound; pierce with a weapon
  7. JOKY – amusing, also JOKEY
  8. YUCA – (Caribbean) a Mexican plant of the lily family, also YUCCA
  9. YAAR – (Hinglish) friend, man (as a form of address)
  10. LAIC – pertaining to lay people rather than clergy
  11. LOTI – a monetary unit of Lesotho
  12. JIRD – an African gerbil
  13. YIRD – (Scots) to bury, also EARD, YEARD, YERD, YIRTH
  14. YELM – (dialect) to prepare straw for thatching, also YEALM
  15. MUGG – to make funny faces
  16. FRIZ – to curl hair tightly, also FRIZZ, FRIZZLE
  17. CHIZ – to swindle, also CHIZZ
  18. BRUX – to grind teeth together
  19. FLOX – as in flox silk, same as floss silk
  20. BUIK – (Scots) a book, also BUKE
  21. FAIK – (Scots) to abate
  22. RUDD – a freshwater fish
  23. MOTT – (US) a clump of trees, esp. on a prairie
  24. PUPU – (Hawaiian) a dish of Asian foods served as an appetize
  25. TREF – (Hebrew) in the Jewish religion, forbidden as food, not kosher, also TEREFA, TEREFAH, TRAYF, TREFA, TREFAH, TREIF, TREIFA, TREYF, TREYFA
  26. LIRI – LIRA, (Italian) an Italian unit of currency
  27. LEVA – LEV, a unit of Bulgarian currency, also LEW
  28. ACCA – (Australian slang) an academic, also ACKER
  29. DORB – (Australian slang) a stupid or inept person, also DORBA
  30. JAXY – (slang) the posterior, also JAXIE, JACKSIE, JACKSY

8-Letter Bingos:

  1. AERATION – exposure to the action of air
  2. BARITONE – a deep male voice, also BARYTONE
  3. ACTIONER – a film with a lot of action
  4. DERATION – to free from rationing
  5. ANTIHERO – a character with qualities opposite to those of the (conventional) hero
  6. TAILERON – either part of a two-piece tailplane whose two halves can operate independently or together
  7. NARKIEST – NARKY, irritable
  8. PRISTANE – a saturated hydrocarbon oil found in the livers of some marine creatures
  9. ANOESTRI – ANOESTRUS, (Greek) a period of sexual dormancy, also ANESTRUS
  10. STRAITEN – to make strait, narrow
  11. NOTARISE – to attest to as a notary, also NOTARIZE
  12. AEROLITE – a meteorite
  13. DEBONAIR – (French) of good appearance, elegant, also DEBONAIRE, DEBONNAIRE
  14. SEAROBIN – an American fish of the gurnard family
  15. RADIOMEN – RADIOMAN, a radio operator or technician
  16. DONARIES – DONARY, a thing given to sacred use
  17. DOUANIER – (French) a customhouse officer
  18. ACROLEIN – a flammable liquid, an aldehyde of allyl alcohol
  19. FORELAIN – FORELAY, to wait in ambush
  20. KILOBASE – a length of a thousand base pairs in a DNA chain
  21. ALLERION – (French) in heraldry, an eagle displayed without feet or beak, also ALERION
  22. PELORIAN – showing peloria, an abnormal regularity in flowers, also PELORIC
  23. OVERLAIN – OVERLAY, to lay over
  24. TAILBONE – the coccyx
  25. DELATION – the act of informing against someone
  26. OLEFIANT – oil-forming, as in olefiant ethylene
  27. LEGATION – the sending of an official envoy
  28. ANTIPOLE – the opposite pole
  29. INSOLATE – to expose to the sun’s rays
  30. TONALITE – a coarse rock
  31. BORACITE – a compound of magnesium usually occurring as greyish-white cubic crystals
  32. FARINOSE – resembling or yielding flour
  33. IGNAROES – IGNARO, (archaic) an ignorant person
  34. ROMANISE – to write in the Roman alphabet, also ROMANIZE
  35. RAISONNE – (French) arranged systematically, or according to classes or subjects; as, a catalogue raisonne
  36. AVERSION – a feeling of repugnance
  37. ROSINATE – a resinate
  38. OBEISANT – showing respect
  39. CANOEIST – one who engages in canoeing
  40. MASONITE – (tradename) a kind of dark brown hardboard
  41. SAPONITE – a hydrous silicate of magnesia and alumina occurring in soft, soapy, amorphous masses
  42. ASSIENTO – (Spanish) a treaty
  43. STOVAINE – an anaesthetic cocaine-substitute, chiefly injected into spine
  44. SAXONITE – an ultrabasic igneous rock consisting of olivine and enstatite
  45. SOTERIAL – pertaining to salvation
  46. SABOTIER – (French) a wearer of wooden shoes
  47. SEPTORIA – a type of fungus
  48. ROARIEST – ROARY, noisy, garish, too bright, also ROARIE, RORIE, RORY
  49. SAUTOIRE – (French) a long necklace, or pendant on a long chain, also SAUTOIR
  50. VIATORES – VIATOR, (Latin) a traveller

7-Letter Bingos:

  1. SANTERO – (Spanish) a priest of santeria, a Caribbean religion
  2. OESTRIN – an estrogen, also ESTRIN, ESTRONE, OESTRONE
  3. ENATION – an outgrowth
  4. ARENOUS – sandy, containing much sand, also ARENOSE
  5. ROSEATE – resembling a rose; overly optimistic
  6. ORDINEE – one that is being ordained
  7. EROTISE – to give a sexual meaning to, also EROTIZE
  8. NIOBATE – a salt of niobium
  9. GENITOR – (Latin) a male parent
  10. REDTAIL – a kind of hawk
  11. RANDIES – RANDIE, a violent beggar, esp. a woman, also RANDY
  12. URANIDE – a radioactive element, also URANIUM
  13. NIDATES – NIDATE, to become implanted in the uterus
  14. AUDIENT – a hearer
  15. ASTERID – a starfish, also ASTERIDIAN
  16. STAIDER – STAID, sober and sedate
  17. SALIENT – an outward-pointing angle, esp. of a fortification or line of defences
  18. ALUNITE – a hydrous sulphate of aluminum and potassium, aka alumstone
  19. REGINAE – REGINA, (Latin) a queen
  20. ARANEID – a spider
  21. TIARAED – wearing a tiara
  22. ASTERIA – a precious stone that shows asterism when cut en cabochon
  23. ATRESIA – absence or closure of a bodily passage
  24. INEDITA – (Latin) unpublished literary works
  25. DEASOIL – (Scots) motion in the same direction as the sun, also DEASIL, DEASIUL, DEISEAL, DEISHEAL
  26. ISOLEAD – a line on a ballistic graph
  27. DOULEIA – (Greek) in Roman Catholicism, the inferior veneration accorded to saints and angels, also DULIA
  28. LADRONE – (archaic) a robber; a pirate; hence, loosely, a rogue or rascal, also LADRON, LATRON
  29. DELATOR – an accuser; an informer
  30. RETINUE – a group of attendants
  31. RONDEAU – (French) a poem of 13 lines with two rhymes and the opening words used as a refrain in two places
  32. ASTONED – ASTONE, to amaze or shock, also ASTONISH, ASTONY
  33. ONSTEAD – a single farmhouse; a steading
  34. TROADES – TROADE, (Spenser) a track, path, also TROAD, TROD, TRODE
  35. ALEURON – a protein found in some seeds, also ALEURONE
  36. ETALONS – ETALON, (French) a device used to measure wavelengths
  37. OLESTRA – (tradename) a noncaloric fat substitute
  38. TORULAE – TORULA, (Latin) a yeastlike microorganism
  39. SOUTANE – (French) a Roman Catholic priest’s cassock
  40. LENTOID – something in the shape of a lens
  41. DOILTER – DOILT, (Scots) crazy, foolish, also DOILED
  42. DONSIER – DONSIE, (Gaelic) unlucky, also DONSY
  43. SORDINE – a cone-shaped mute for a trumpet, also SORDINO, SOURDINE
  44. DOURINE – (French) a disease of horses
  45. ROISTED – ROIST, to revel noisily, carouse, also ROISTER, ROYST, ROYSTER
  46. ETOURDI – (French) foolish, thoughtless (of a male)
  47. IODURET – (obsolete) an iodide
  48. ENTOILS – ENTOIL, to entangle or ensnare
  49. ELUTION – purification or separation by washing
  50. STOURIE – (Scots) dusty, also STOURY

Threes to fours (Part 2):

  1. G-AIR – (Scots) a triangular piece (of cloth or land), also GORE
  2. M-AIR – (Scots) more
  3. S-AIR – to savour, also SAR
  4. V-AIR – squirrel fur, much used in medieval times, to line and trim robes
  5. W-AIR – to spend
  6. AIR-N – (Scots) iron
  7. AIR-T – to direct, also AIRTH
  8. D-AIS – (French) a raised platform
  9. P-AIS – (archaic) the people from whom a jury is drawn
  10. R-AIT – to soak flax, also RET
  11. T-AIT – (Scots) a small portion, a pinch, also TATE
  12. AIT-U – a Polynesian demigod
  13. H-AJI – (Arabic) a person who has made a hadj, a pilgrimage to Mecca, also HADJI, HADJEE, HAJJI
  14. H-AKA – (Maori) a ceremonial war-dance
  15. K-AKA – (Maori) a brownish-green New Zealand parrot
  16. T-AKA – (Bengali) a monetary unit of Bangladesh
  17. W-AKA – (Japanese) a Japanese verse-form
  18. H-AKE – a fish of the cod family
  19. AKE-E – (Kru) a small African sapindaceous tree; its edible fruit, often used in Caribbean cookery, also ACKEE
  20. M-ALA – (Hindi) a string of beads or knots used in prayer
  21. N-ALA – (Hindi) a ravine, a watercourse, also NALLA, NALLAH, NULLA, NULLAH
  22. T-ALA – (Sanskrit) a traditional rhythmic pattern in Indian music
  23. ALA-E – ALA, in biology, any flat winglike projection
  24. ALA-N – a large hunting dog, also ALAND, ALANT
  25. ALA-P – (Sanskrit) in Indian music, the introductory section of a raga, also ALAAP, ALAPA
  26. ALA-R – pertaining to wings
  27. ALA-Y – to quell, also ALLAY, ALEYE
  28. ALB-A – the white substance of the brain
  29. ALB-E – (archaic) albeit, also ALBEE, ALBEIT
  30. E-ALE – (Shakespeare) to ail
  31. R-ALE – (French) a rattling sound from a diseased lung
  32. V-ALE – a broad valley
  33. W-ALE – to mark with welts
  34. Y-ALE – a fabulous heraldic beast
  35. ALE-C – a herring
  36. ALE-E – toward the side of a vessel sheltered from the wind
  37. ALE-F – (Hebrew) the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, also ALEPH
  38. ALE-W – (Spenser) a greeting cry, halloo
  39. ALF-A – (Arabic) a North African esparto grass, also HALFA
  40. L-ALL – to articulate the letter R as L
  41. P-ALL – to grow wearisome
  42. S-ALL – (US) shall
  43. C-ALP – in Ireland, a dark shaly limestone
  44. P-ALP – to sense by touch
  45. S-ALP – a free-swimming small marine animal, also SALPA, SALPIAN, SALPID
  46. D-ALT – (Scots) a foster-child, also DAULT
  47. B-ALU – (Hindi) a bear, also BALOO
  48. ALU-M – a sulphate of ammonium and potassium, used as a mordant
  49. C-AMA – the hybrid offspring of a camel and a llama
  50. G-AMA – (Spanish) a kind of pasture grass found in the Western United States
  51. K-AMA – (Sanskrit) in Indian philosophy, earthly desire
  52. L-AMA – a Buddhist monk
  53. S-AMA – (Japanese) a title given to an exalted person
  54. AMA-H – (Portuguese) a native maidservant or child’s nurse, esp. a wet nurse, also AMA
  55. H-AME – (Scots) home
  56. K-AME – (Scots) a comb, also KAIM
  57. W-AME – (dialect) a womb, also WEAMB, WEM, WEMB
  58. C-AMI – (short for) camisole
  59. K-AMI – (Japanese) a Japanese divine being
  60. R-AMI – (Malay) Rhea or China grass, a plant of the nettle family, also RAMEE, RAMIE
  61. AMI-A – a freshwater fish, aka bowfin
  62. AMI-E – (French) a (female) friend
  63. AMI-N – a compound derived from ammonia, also AMINE
  64. AMI-R – (Arabic) an Eastern ruler, also AMEER, EMEER, EMIR
  65. G-AMP – a large umbrella
  66. S-AMP – (Native American) a coarsely ground maize
  67. T-AMP – to pack down by tapping
  68. N-AMU – (Maori) a black New Zealand sandfly
  69. K-ANA – (Japanese) the Japanese syllabic script
  70. L-ANA – the wood of the genipap, a large West Indian tree
  71. N-ANA – (Australian slang) an idiot, a fool
  72. R-ANA – (Hindi) a Rajput prince
  73. T-ANA – (Hindi) an Indian police station, also TANNA, TANNAH, THANA, THANAH, THANNA, THANNAH
  74. ANA-N – (to a person calling for attention) in a moment! coming, also ANON
  75. F-AND – (Scots) to try or attempt
  76. M-AND – (Spenser) manned
  77. P-AND – (Scots) the valance of a bed
  78. R-AND – to rant
  79. F-ANE – a temple
  80. G-ANE – GAE, (Scots) to go

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