ScrabList #9

Assorted:

  1. KULTUR – (German) culture
  2. VEHM – (German) a mediaeval German court, also FEHM, FEHME
  3. JEHAD – (Arabic) in Islam, a holy war, also JIHAD
  4. BIRK – (Scots) birch
  5. MYNA – (Hindi) an Asiatic bird of the starling family, MYNAH
  6. LUZ – a supposedly indestructible bone in the sacrum
  7. PUBCO – a company that operates a chain of pubs
  8. BOYAR – (Russian) a member of the old Russian aristocracy, also BOYARD
  9. JOWAR – (Hindi) Indian millet, aka durra, also JAWARI, JOWARI
  10. WILJA – (Native Australian) an Aboriginal shelter or hut, also WILTJA
  11. PIONY – (obsolete) a peony, also PAEONY, PINEY, PINY, PIONEY, PEONY
  12. CLIFT – a cliff
  13. ERICK – (Irish) a murderer’s fine in old Irish law, also ERIC, ERIACH
  14. ABRAM – (Shakespeare) auburn
  15. CYLIX – a shallow two-handled Greek drinking cup, also KYLIX
  16. XYLOL – a flammable hydrocarbon, also XYLENE
  17. YOGH – the Middle English letter representing a velar or partial fricative
  18. UNAU – (Tupi) a two-toed sloth, also UNAI
  19. OTAKU – in Japan, a young computer nerd
  20. DAMAN – (Arabic) a small herbivorous mammal, the rock hyrax
  21. WHEAR – (obsolete) where, also WHAUR, WHEARE
  22. KHAZI – (slang) a lavatory, also KAZI, CARSEY, KARZY, KARSY, KARSEY

Threes to fours (Part 1):

  1. W-AAH – an interjection expressing wailing
  2. B-AAL – (Hebrew) a false god
  3. D-AAL – the pigeon pea, also DAL, DAHL, DHAL, DHOLL
  4. K-AAL – (South African) naked
  5. P-AAL – (Dutch) in the Caribbean, a stake driven into the ground
  6. T-AAL – (South African) the Afrikaans language
  7. K-AAS – a large cupboard
  8. B-ABA – (Polish) a kind of coffee-cake, also BABKA
  9. C-ABA – (French) a woman’s work basket
  10. Y-ABA – (colloquial) yet another bloody acronym
  11. ABA-C – a nomogram
  12. ABB-A – a Syrian cloth of goat’s or camel’s hair, also ABA, ABAYA
  13. ABB-E – (French) a courtesy title given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress
  14. G-ABY – (dialect) a simpleton
  15. ABY-E – (archaic) to pay the penalty for, also ABY
  16. D-ACE – a small river fish of the carp family and chub genus
  17. T-ACE – one of a series of overlapping pieces forming a kind of skirt, also TASLET, TASSE, TASSET
  18. B-ACH – a Welsh term of address
  19. G-ACH – to behave boastfully, also GATCH, GAUCH
  20. N-ACH – (Hindi) an entertainment in India consisting chiefly of dancing by professional dancing girls, also NAUCH, NAUTCH
  21. R-ACH – (archaic) a dog that hunts by scent, also RACHE
  22. TACH – (short for) tachometer
  23. ACH-Y – aching
  24. ACT-A – (Latin) official minutes of proceedings
  25. W-ADD – an earthy ore of manganese, also WADT
  26. ADD-Y – (slang) an email address
  27. D-ADO – to set into a groove
  28. F-ADO – (Portuguese) a Portuguese folk song
  29. S-ADO – (Japanese) a Japanese tea ceremony, also CHADO, CHANOYO, CHANOYU
  30. ADZ-E – to dress timber with a cutting tool, also ADZ
  31. B-AFF – in golf, to strike the ground with the sole of the club
  32. C-AFF – (slang) cafe, also CAF
  33. D-AFF – to play the fool
  34. F-AFF – (colloquial) to mess around
  35. G-AFF – to catch a fish with a sharp hook
  36. H-AFF – (German) a lagoon separated from the see by a long sandbar
  37. N-AFF – to go away
  38. R-AFF – (archaic) rubbish
  39. W-AFF – (dialect) to bark, also WAUGH
  40. Y-AFF – (Scots) to bark, scold, nag, also NYAFF
  41. AFF-Y – (obsolete) to trust
  42. B-AFT – (Urdu) a kind of coarse fabric
  43. D-AFT – insane
  44. H-AFT – a handle, especially of an axe or knife
  45. S-AFT – (Scots) soft
  46. W-AFT – to carry lightly in the air
  47. G-AGA – (French) in senile dotage
  48. J-AGA – (Malay) to guard
  49. N-AGA – (Sanskrit) a divine snake in Hindu mythology
  50. R-AGA – (Sanskrit) an Indian musical form
  51. AGA-R – (Malay) a jelly prepared from seaweed
  52. G-AGE – to pledge as security
  53. Y-AGE – a tropical vine of the Amazon region
  54. AGE-E – (Scots) off the straight; ajar, also AJEE
  55. D-AGO – (offensive) a man of Italian, Spanish or Portuguese origin
  56. K-AGO – (Japanese) a basketwork passenger litter
  57. AGO-G – in excited eagerness
  58. AGO-N – the dramatic conflict between the chief characters in a literary work
  59. M-AHA – a form of yoga
  60. T-AHA – (Zulu) the South African weaverbird
  61. R-AIA – (Arabic) a non-Muslim subject of Turkey, also RAYA, RAYAH
  62. C-AID – (Arabic) a North African chief, also CADI, KADI, KAID, QADI, QAID
  63. G-AID – a miner’s wedge, also GADE
  64. K-AID – (Arabic) a North African chief, also CAID, CADI, KADI, QADI, QAID
  65. Q-AID – (Arabic) a North African chief, also CAID, CADI , KAID, KADI, QADI
  66. W-AID – (obsolete) weighed, also WAIDE
  67. AID-A – a finely-meshed cotton fabric used for cross-stitch embroidery
  68. K-AIL – a ninepin, also KAYLE
  69. K-AIM – (Scots) a comb; a ridge of gravel or sand left by a glacier, also KAME
  70. M-AIM – to injure or mutilate
  71. S-AIM – (Scots) a seam
  72. C-AIN – (Gaelic) a tenanted farm rent paid in kind, also KAIN, KANE
  73. F-AIN – happy; pleased, also FAINE, FAYNE
  74. H-AIN – (Scots) to save, preserve
  75. K-AIN – (Gaelic) a tenanted farm rent paid in kind, also CAIN, KANE
  76. N-AIN – (Scots) one’s own
  77. S-AIN – (archaic) to make the sign of the cross over
  78. T-AIN – a vegetable gratin baked in an earthenware dish
  79. W-AIN – (obsolete) to carry, convey
  80. AIN-E – (French) of a male elder, senior

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