ScrabList #6

General:

  1. GUANXI – (Chinese) a social concept based on the exchange of favours
  2. FLEXO – a method of rotary letterpress printing, also FLEXOGRAPHY
  3. POYNT – (obsolete) to point
  4. OKAPI – an animal like a giraffe but with a short neck and smaller
  5. BEENTO – in West Africa, a person who has resided in Britain, esp. as part of his education
  6. PAEAN – (Latin) a song of thanksgiving
  7. JUNGLY – of or relating to jungles
  8. FAUVE – (French) a member of a group of expressionist painters, also FAUVIST
  9. KUVASZ – (Hungarian) an ancient breed of sheepdog with a white coat
  10. GROSZ – (Polish) a Polish monetary unit, one one-hundredth of a zloty, also GROSZE, GROSZY
  11. ZLOTY – (Polish) a monetary unit of Poland, also ZLOTE, ZLOTYCH
  12. AJWAN – the fruit of an Egyptian plant of the caraway genus, also AJOWAN
  13. MEZCAL – (Nahuatl) a distilled liquor prepared in Mexico from a species of agave, also MESCAL
  14. NUDZH – (Yiddish) to nag, also NOODGE
  15. MAZHBI – (Hindu) a Sikh of low caste
  16. COBZA – (Romanian) a folk instrument
  17. PACZKI – (Polish) a round, filled doughnut
  18. MENINX – (Greek) any of the membranes enclosing the brain and spinal cord
  19. BONXIE – the great skua
  20. IXNAY – not!
  21. EEJIT – (colloquial) an idiot
  22. RECCO – (colloquial) a reconnoitre, also RECCE, RECCY
  23. NYANZA – (Bantu) in Africa, a lake
  24. YEOMAN – a member of a class of small farmers, usually freeholders, the next grade below gentlemen
  25. ANELLI – (Italian) ring-shaped pieces of pasta, used especially in soups
  26. SALUKI – (Arabic) a greyhound-like Arab dog
  27. ABCEE – the alphabet, also ABSEY
  28. DAYNT – (Spenser) a thing or condition that is extravagant or best, also DAINT
  29. FEIJOA – (Portuguese) a tropical evergreen shrub or small tree
  30. NILGAU – (Hindi) a kind of antelope, also NILGAI, NILGHAI, NILGHAU, NYLGHAI, NYLGHAU

Short words:

  1. ERUV – (Hebrew) a designated region within which Jewish religious rules are relaxed, also ERUVIM, ERUVIN
  2. BIOG – (colloquial) biography, BIO
  3. PHIZ – (colloquial) physiognomy, the face, also PHIZOG, PHIZZ
  4. OYEZ – a proclamation, also OYES
  5. PUTZ – to waste time
  6. ORYX – a kind of African antelope
  7. DURO – (Spanish) a Spanish silver dollar
  8. ERHU – (Chinese) a two-stringed musical instrument, played with a bow
  9. TYMP – the plate on a blast-furnace
  10. HAUN – (Scots) a hand
  11. VRIL – electric fluid represented as the common origin of the forces in matter
  12. NIRL – (Scots) to stunt, shrivel
  13. SUBA – (Hindi) a province of the Mogul empire, also SUBAH
  14. JAGA – (Malay) to guard
  15. LIRK – (Scots) to wrinkle
  16. VROT – (South African) rotten
  17. PIUM – (Tupi) a Brazilian biting fly
  18. MOFO – (US slang) an obnoxious person
  19. YOGI – (Sanskrit) one who practises yoga, also YOGEE, YOGIN, YOGINI
  20. TOKO – punishment, also TOCO
  21. HYEN – (Shakespeare) a hyena, also HYAENA, HYENA
  22. LINN – (Scots) a waterfall, also LIN
  23. TIRL – (Scots) to turn; to rattle, also DIRL, THIRL
  24. ROTL – (Arabic) a variable Levantine weight, also ROTOLO
  25. POEP – (South African) to break wind
  26. RURU – (Maori) a New Zealand owl, aka boobook
  27. JEFE – (Spanish) a chief
  28. WARK – (Scots) to work
  29. DUKA – (Swahili) in East Africa, a shop, store
  30. LILL – (Spenser) to loll the tongue

7-Letter Bingos:

  1. EOBIONT – a type of basic organism
  2. SCREIGH – (Scots) to shriek, also SCREICH, SCRIECH, SCRIKE, SCRAICH, SCRAIGH, SCRIECH, SCRITCH, SKREIGH, SKRIECH, SKRIEGH, SKREEGH
  3. UNAKITE – an igneous rock
  4. MIEVING – MIEVE, (Spenser) to move
  5. GULLIES – GULLY, to form ravines by the action of water, also GULLEY
  6. SILURID – (Latin) any of a family of catfishes, also SILUROID
  7. AGINNER – an opponent of change
  8. LINIEST – LINEY, resembling a line, also LINY
  9. ENEWING – ENEW, in falconry, to plunge the quarry into water
  10. DETUNED – DETUNE, to reduce the power of a car engine
  11. BANDITO – (Spanish) a Mexican bandit
  12. TRAIKIT – (Scots) worn out
  13. TOONIES – TOONIE, (Canadian) a Canadian two-dollar coin, also TWONIE, TWOONIE
  14. VAWNTIE – boastful, also VAUNTIE, VAUNTY
  15. RELLIES – RELLIE, (Australian slang) a relative, also RELLO
  16. IRIDIAN – relating to the iris of the eye, also IRIDAL, IRIDIAL, IRIDIC
  17. FAWNIER – FAWNY, yellowish brown colour
  18. BOATELS – BOATEL, a waterside hotel, also BOTEL
  19. INSNARE – to trap, also ENSNARE
  20. NONNIES – NONNY, a meaningless word in ballads
  21. DIATRON – a circuitry design that uses diodes
  22. DINITRO – having two nitro groups
  23. ATINGLE – tingling
  24. ANILINE – a product of coal-tar used in dyeing, also ANILIN
  25. LOBELIA – a flowering plant
  26. OPALINE – on opaque white glass
  27. OLEFINE – a hydrocarbon to the ethylene series, also OLEFIN
  28. ELOINER – one who eloins, also ELOIGNER
  29. ALSOONE – (Spenser) as soon, also ALSOON
  30. FILIATE – to bring into close association

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