ScrabList #7

General:

  1. NITROX – a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen, used in underwater breathing apparatus
  2. COQUI – a small arboreal frog
  3. SHMEK – (Yiddish) a taste or sniff; heroin, also SHMECK
  4. LUREX – (tradename) a thin glittery thread
  5. EXURB – a residential area beyond the suburbs in a city
  6. ZOOID – an organic cell capable of independent movement
  7. BHAKTI – (Sanskrit) devotion to a god, as a path to salvation, also BHAKTA
  8. QURSH – (Arabic) a monetary unit of Saudi Arabia, also GIRSH, GURSH, KURUSH, QURUSH
  9. ZORRO – (Spanish) a kind of South American fox
  10. AZLON – a textile fibre made from regenerated soybean protein
  11. JUNTA – (Spanish) a government council
  12. ILIUM – (Latin) the anterior or superior bone of the pelvis
  13. GOBIID – a fish of the goby family, also GOBIOID
  14. YARAK – (Persian) of a hawk, a fit condition for hunting
  15. XEBEC – a small three-masted Mediterranean vessel with both square and triangular sails, also ZEBEC, ZEBECK
  16. JUPON – a sleeveless jacket worn beneath a hauberk, also GIPON
  17. BOXTY – an Irish dish of potato griddlecakes, eaten with various fillings
  18. KENDO – (Japanese) a martial art, stick fighting
  19. URAEI – URAEUS, (Greek) an Egyptian symbol of kingship
  20. ZOCCO – (Italian) a plain face or plinth at the foot of a wall, column, also ZOCCOLO
  21. JOCKO – (Bantu) a chimpanzee
  22. IBRIK – the Arabic name for a cezve, a small metal pot used for preparing coffee
  23. OIDIA – OIDIUM, (Greek) a thin-walled fungal spore
  24. PULLI – PULLUS, a chick or young bird
  25. DJINNI – (Arabic) a supernatural being in Muslim mythology, also DJIN, DJINN, DJINNY, GENIE, JANN, JIN, JINN, JINNEE, JINNI
  26. MOOLI – an East African vegetable like a radish
  27. CEZVE – a small metal pot with a long metal handle used for preparing Turkish, Arabic or Greek style coffee
  28. THAIM – (Scots) them
  29. AULOI – AULOS, (Greek) an ancient wind instrument
  30. COOEE – to cry out shrilly, also COOEY

Short words:

  1. JEDI – (tradename) a person who claims to live according to philosophy based on that of the fictional Jedi in ‘Star Wars’
  2. LILO – (tradename) an inflatable mattress
  3. ANKH – (Arabic) an Egyptian symbol of life, resembling a looped cross
  4. DHOW – (Arabic) a lateen-rigged oriental craft, also DOW
  5. TAEL – (Malay) an Oriental unit of weight
  6. DIYA – (Hindi) a small oil lamp used in Hindu worship, esp. at Diwali
  7. RYOT – (Hindi) an Indian peasant, also RAIYAT
  8. MOXA – (Japanese) a soft woolly mass prepared from the young leaves of Artemisia chinensis
  9. CZAR – (Russian) an emperor or king, also TSAR, TZAR, KSAR
  10. KRAI – (Russian) an administrative district in Russia
  11. YUFT – (Russian) a kind of Russian leather
  12. KAAL – (South African) naked
  13. BOEP – (South African) a protruding belly
  14. RYFE – (Spenser) rife
  15. JASP – (Spenser) a precious stone, jasper, also JASPIS
  16. FICO – (Shakespeare) a fig, a gesture of contempt, also FIGO
  17. RIVO – (Shakespeare) a drinking cry
  18. BOHO – (short for) a bohemian
  19. FYRD – (Old English) a local militia in Anglo-Saxon times
  20. HWYL – (Welsh) divine inspiration in oratory
  21. TYPP – a unit of yarn size
  22. NAOI – NAOS, (Greek) the inner cell of a temple
  23. OGEE – an arch of two curves meeting at a point
  24. ROUE – (French) a debauched man; a lecher
  25. UVEA – the posterior pigment-bearing layer of the pupil of the eye
  26. WAKA – (Japanese) a type of shortwave antenna
  27. KEPI – (French) a legionnaire’s cap
  28. ZEBU – (French) a humped domestic ox
  29. CHEZ – (French) at the home of
  30. BANC – (French) the judges’ bench
  31. ECRU – (French) the colour or appearance of unbleached stuff
  32. CINQ – (French) the number five, also CINQUE
  33. QUEP – (obsolete) an interjection expressing remonstrance
  34. YUNX – (Latin) the wryneck, also JYNX
  35. WULL – (dialect) to will
  36. EMPT – (dialect) to empty
  37. FAIX – (dialect) faith
  38. WEMB – (dialect) a womb, also WEAMB, WEM, WAME
  39. MIRV – (slang) to provide with MIRV capabilities
  40. POMO – (colloquial) post-modernism

7-Letter Bingos:

  1. REGNANT – reigning, used post-positively, as in queen regnant
  2. PERINEA – PERINEUM, the lower part of the body between the genital organs and the anus, also PEINAEUM
  3. CAIRNED – piled into a cairn
  4. NARDINE – pertaining to nard
  5. ZONATED – divided into zones, also ZONATE
  6. ENDGATE – (US) a tailboard
  7. HEPARIN – a complex substance formed in the liver that delays clotting of blood
  8. SOSATIE – (South African) curried meat on a skewer
  9. NITRILE – any organic cyanide compound in which an alkyl group is directly attached to the carbon of a cyanide group, also NITRIL
  10. TAILARD – (obsolete) a person with a tail
  11. VARIOLA – (Latin) smallpox
  12. SUEDING – SUEDE, to finish leather with a soft, napped surface
  13. WIREMAN – one who makes or works with wires
  14. WEETING – WEET, (archaic) to know
  15. NETTIES – NETTIE, an internet aficionado
  16. OORALIS – OORALI, (Caribbean) the plant yielding curare, also OURALI, OURARI, URALI, URARI, WOORALI, WOORARA, WOORARI, WOURALI
  17. PERMIAN – relating to the last period of the Palaeozoic era
  18. RELIERS – RELIER, (Shakespeare) one who relies
  19. TEATIME – the usual time for tea
  20. ISLEMAN – an islander, also ISLESMAN
  21. MOUSMEE – (Japanese) a Japanese girl, esp. a waitress, also MOUSME
  22. TARAIRE – (Maori) a type of New Zealand tree with broad green leaves and purple fruit
  23. GAROTTE – to execute by strangling, also GARROTE, GAROTE, GARROTTE
  24. PENTODE – a type of electron tube
  25. RAMILIE – a wig with a long plait at the back, also RAMILLIE
  26. LIAISON – (French) a means of maintaining communication
  27. TRAYNES – TRAYNE, (Spenser) to train
  28. ISODONT – an animal with uniform teeth, also ISODONTAL
  29. RORIEST – RORY, (Scots) noisy, garish, also ROARIE, ROARY, RORIE
  30. BORNITE – a valuable ore of copper
  31. OVATING – OVATE, to receive with an ovation
  32. TAWNIER – TAWNY, orange-brown, also TAWNEY
  33. TOEBIES – TOEBIE, (South African) a sandwich
  34. METRING – METRE, to measure by mechanical means, also METER
  35. TRIGONS – TRIGON, a figure having thee angles; a triangle

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