ScrabList #2

General:

  1. QUIPU – (Quechua) a device of knotted cords, used by Incas of Peru to calculate or order information, also QUIPO, QUIPPU
  2. KELOID – a hard growth of scar tissue, also CHELOID
  3. ULIKON – (Native American) the north Pacific candlefish, also EULACHAN, EULACHON, OOLACHAN, OOLAKAN, OOLICHAN, OULACHON, OULAKAN, ULICON
  4. UMIACK – (Inuit) an Eskimo canoe, also OOMIAC, OOMIACK, OOMIAK, UMIAC, UMIAK, UMIAQ
  5. HINAU – (Maori) a New Zealand tree
  6. KUDZU – (Japanese) an ornamental papilionaceous plant of China and Japan
  7. CRAAL – (South African) to pen in an enclosure
  8. BRAAI – (South African) to grill or roast meat over open coals
  9. OBIIT – (Latin) he/she died
  10. YRNEH – a unit of reciprocal inductance
  11. PRAHU – (Malay) a swift Malaysian sailing vessel, also PRAU, PRAO, PROA
  12. JNANA – (Sanskrit) knowledge acquired through meditation
  13. ZIMBI – (Portuguese) a kind of shell used as money
  14. IZARD – (French) the Pyrenean ibex
  15. ZOUAVE – (French) a French infantry man who wears Arab dress
  16. GHIBLI – (Arabic) the name in Libya of the scirocco, a hot, dry, dusty wind, also GIBLI
  17. EYALET – (Turkish) a province in the former Ottoman Empire, a vilayet
  18. VOZHD – (Russian) a supreme leader in Russia
  19. AALII – (Hawaiian) a tropical tree
  20. MANOAO – (Maori) a shrub of the heath group, also MONOAO
  21. TAUIWI – (Maori) the non-Maori people of New Zealand
  22. OUREBI – (South African) an African antelope, also ORIBI
  23. YCLEPT – CLEPE, (archaic) to call, name, also CLEEP
  24. TELEDU – (Javanese) an East Indian carnivore allied to the badger
  25. MZUNGU – (Swahili) in East Africa, a white person
  26. QUOIF – to put the hair into a kind of close-fitting cap, also COIF
  27. WUXIA – (Chinese) a genre of Chinese fiction involving the adventures of sword-wielding heroes
  28. FALAJ – (Arabic) an irrigation channel, especially in Oman
  29. MOTETT – (French) a kind of unaccompanied part-song or anthem, also MOTET

Short words:

  1. DUAN – (Gaelic) a division of a poem corresponding to a canto; a poem or song
  2. SOCA – a variety of Caribbean calypso music
  3. KNUR – a knot of wood, also KNURR, NUR, NURR
  4. NIXY – a female nix or malignant water-spirit, also NIXIE
  5. CHIB – (Scots) to slash with a sharp weapon
  6. CAMI – (short for) camisole
  7. RATU – a local chief in Fiji, also RATOO
  8. WYLE – to beguile, also WILE
  9. THON – (Scots) yon
  10. SPUG – (colloquial) a sparrow, also SPEUG, SPRUG, SPUGGY
  11. GYTE – (Scots) a child, a brat, also GAITT, GEIT
  12. VAUT – (obsolete) to vault, also VAUTE, VAWTE
  13. MAYA – (Sanskrit) in Buddhist philosophy, the power to produce illusions
  14. MARM – a form of address to a woman, ma’am
  15. DOWF – (Scots) dull, heavy, spiritless
  16. SHMO – (Yiddish) a stupid or boring person, also SCHMO, SCHMOE, SHMOE
  17. YAGI – (Japanese) a type of shortwave antenna
  18. COCH – (Spenser) a coach
  19. JISM – (colloquial) energy, force, also GISM, JISSOM
  20. RIPP – (Scots) a plucked handful e.g. of grass, corn
  21. ORAD – towards the mouth
  22. EUOI – (Greek) expressing Bacchic frenzy, also EVOE, EVHOE, EVOHE
  23. ZOBO – (Tibetan) a male zo, also DSOBO, ZOBU
  24. ILEX – a tree or shrub of the holly family; the holm oak
  25. HULE – (Nahuatl) a Central American rubber tree

8-Letter Bingos:

  1. AROINTED – AROINT, (archaic) to drive or frighten away, also AROYNT
  2. ASTONIED – ASTONY, to amaze or shock, also ASTONISH, ASTONE
  3. ELATERIN – a purgative produced from elaterium, a substance found in the juice of the squirting cucumber
  4. TAENOID – like a tapeworm
  5. INORNATE – not ornate, also UNORNATE
  6. TENTORIA – TENTORIUM, (Latin) a sheet of the dura mater stretched between the cerebrum and the cerebellum
  7. EARSTONE – an otolith, a calcium concretion in the inside of a vertebrate’s ear to aid in equilibrium
  8. ATROPINE – a medicine derived from the deadly nightshade, also ATROPIN, ATROPIA
  9. ORGANDIE – (French) a cotton fabric, also ORGANDY
  10. GERANIOL – an alcohol forming a constituent of many of the esters used in perfumery, also GERANIAL
  11. ERIONITE – a mineral which occurs in white wool-like crystals
  12. DATURINE – a poison
  13. INDURATE – to make hard, callous or unfeeling
  14. RETINULA – (Latin) a neural receptor of an arthropod’s eye
  15. REINSTAL – to install again, also REINSTALL

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