ScrabList #8

ScrabList

General:

  1. CAREEN – to turn (a ship) on its side for repairs
  2. POWRE – (Spenser) to pour
  3. HERYE – (Spenser) to praise, also HERRY, HERY
  4. SYBBE – (Spenser) a blood relation, a kinsman, also SIB, SIBB
  5. BRUST – (Spenser) to burst
  6. RAYNE – (Spenser) to reign, also RAINE
  7. SWEARD – (Spenser) a sword
  8. GERLE – (Spenser) a girl
  9. RENNE – (Spenser) to run
  10. RONTE – (Spenser) a runt, also RONT
  11. KYNDE – (Spenser) to beget, also KYND
  12. VEALE – (Spenser) to veil, also VELE
  13. PROKE – (dialect) to poke
  14. CLEVE – (dialect) a cliff, also CLEEVE
  15. GELOSY – (Spenser) jealousy, also JEALOUSY, GEALOUSY
  16. CHAWK – (Cornish dialect) a jackdaw
  17. WRANG – (dialect) to wrong
  18. EVEJAR – (dialect) the nightjar
  19. JODEL – (German) to yodel, also YODEL, YODLE
  20. STIVE – (dialect) to stifle
  21. VIVER – (dialect) a fishpond
  22. CABOC – (Scots) a double cream cheese rolled in oatmeal, also KEBBOCK, KEBBUCK
  23. TICCA – (Hindi) hired
  24. PICCY – (slang) a picture
  25. SUCCI – SUCCUS, (Latin) juice, a fluid secretion
  26. VIVDA – In Shetland, meat hung and dried without salt, also VIFDA
  27. QUICH – (Spenser) to stir, move, also QUATCH, QUETCH, QUINCHE, QUITCH
  28. QUAYD – (Spenser) daunted
  29. QUOAD – (Latin) as far as
  30. FIQUE – a tough natural fibre similar to hemp
  31. MAQUI – (Spanish) a thick underbrush, also MAQUIS
  32. ROQUE – a form of croquet
  33. QUYTE – (obsolete) to quit, also QUIGHT, QUITE
  34. TUQUE – (Canadian) a knitted, cylindrical woollen cap
  35. YRIVD – RIVE, to tear apart

Short words:

  1. PIZE – (dialect) to strike someone a blow
  2. EORL – (obsolete) an earl
  3. MEVE – (obsolete) to move, also AMOOVE, AMOVE, MIEVE, MOOVE
  4. YEVE – (obsolete) to give
  5. EXUL – (Spenser) to exile
  6. GYNY – (colloquial) gynaecology, also GYNAE, GYNIE
  7. HABU – (Japanese) a venomous snake found in Japan
  8. KAON – an elementary particle of the meson family
  9. DEEV – (Persian) in Persian legend, an evil spirit, also DIV
  10. GLEI – (Russian) a sticky clay soil
  11. PAUA – (Maori) the abalone shell, also PAWA
  12. WHIO – (Maori) a New Zealand mountain duck with blue plumage
  13. CACA – (slang) faeces, also KAK, CACK, KACK
  14. ENUF – (colloquial) enough, also ANOW, ENOUGH, ENOW, NUFF
  15. MARG – (short for) margarine, also MARGE
  16. PERC – (short for) perchloride
  17. REFI – (short for) refinancing
  18. CLOU – (French) the main point of interest
  19. DEFI – (French) a challenge
  20. MARC – (French) the residue remaining after a fruit has been pressed
  21. JOUR – (French) a day
  22. IBEX – a wild mountain-goat
  23. GOJI – (Chinese) the vitamin-rich berry of a solanaceous Chinese plant; wolfberry
  24. PULU – (Hawaiian) a sily fibre obtained from the Hawaiian tree-fern
  25. DOEK – (South African) a square cloth for tying round the head, worn by African woman
  26. JONG – (South African) friend
  27. WENA – (South African) you
  28. DEBE – (Swahili) a large tin
  29. NABK – (Arabic) a prickly shrub, also NEBBUK, NEBECK, NEBEK
  30. KOHL – (Arabic) a black powder used as eye makeup

7’s and 8’s:

  1. TENURIAL – relating to tenure
  2. ELVANITE – a granular rock, also ELVAN
  3. SIDERATE – to blast or strike
  4. OBEISANT – showing respect
  5. CREASOTE – a pitch-like substance used to coat fences etc., also CREOSOTE, KREASOTE, KREOSOTE
  6. ANISETTE – (French) a cordial or liqueur flavoured with anise seeds
  7. DRAISINE – (historical) a dandy-horse, a sort of early bicycle, also DRAISENE
  8. SONATINE – SONATINA, (Italian) a short and simple sonata
  9. FLOREANT – (Latin) may they flourish
  10. LIGATURE – anything that binds; a bandage
  11. ICESTONE – another name for Cryolite, an aluminium ore
  12. POITRINE – (French) a woman’s bosom
  13. AIRWOMEN – AIRWOMAN, a female aviator
  14. GUERIDON – (French) a small ornate stand or table
  15. DETRITAL – pertaining to, or composed of, detritus
  16. EUTEXIA – the property of being easily melted, also EUTAXIA
  17. SUBIDEA – an inferior idea
  18. OUVERTE – (French) open, also OUVERT
  19. TARTANE – (French) a Mediterranean sailing vessel, also TARTANA
  20. MENORAH – (Hebrew) a candleholder used in Jewish worship
  21. MOTTIER – MOTTY, (Scots) containing motes
  22. AGEUSIA – lack of a sense of taste
  23. ONEIRIC – belonging to dreams, also ONIRIC
  24. UNCRATE – to remove from a crate
  25. LAIGHER – LAIGH, (Scots) low, also LAICH
  26. KARENGO – (Maori) an edible type of Pacific seaweed
  27. TAJINES – TAJINE, a conical clay pot used in North African cooking, also TAGINE
  28. PORNIER – PORNY, (colloquial) pornographic
  29. BEGROAN – to groan at
  30. ADVENES – ADVENE, to be added over and above
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