ScrabList Mini #3

ScrabList Mini
  1. FOEHN – (German) a warm dry wind, also FOHN
  2. OMIGOD – an interjection of surprise, dismay, pleasure etc., also MIGAWD
  3. CAUDEX – (Latin) the woody base of some plants
  4. NAKFA – the standard currency unit of Eritrea
  5. MYXOID – containing mucus
  6. AUBADE – (French) a song or poem greeting the dawn or about lovers parting at dawn
  7. BONZE – (Japanese) a Japanese or Chinese Buddhist religious teacher
  8. IPPON – (Japanese) a winning point for a clean throw in judo
  9. ZYDECO – (Creole) a popular music of southern Louisiana that combines tunes of French origin with elements of Caribbean music and the blues
  10. VOULU – (French) willed, deliberate, contrived
  11. FRIJOL – (Spanish) a bean used as food, the kidney bean, also FRIJOLE
  12. JAMBU – (Sanskrit) the rose-apple tree of Malaysia, also JAMBOLAN, JAMBOLANA, JAMBOOL, JAMBUL
  13. PANZER – (German) a German tank
  14. POWND – (Spenser) to pound
  15. RAYLE – (Spenser) to rail
  16. RIVLIN – (Scots) a shoe moulded from untanned hide
  17. ELHI – (US) pertaining to school grades 1 to 12
  18. EEVN – evening, also EVENING, EEVEN, EEVNING
  19. DIVNA – (Scots) do not
  20. SRADHA – (Sanskrit) an offering to the manes of an ancestor, also SHRADDHA, SRADDHA
  21. SVELTE – (French) slender, sleek
  22. SWARAJ – (Sanskrit) self-government, home rule, also SVARAJ
  23. MAHZOR – (Hebrew) a Jewish prayer book, also MACHZOR
  24. ILKA – (Scots) every
  25. JATAKA – (Pali) the birth-story of Buddha
  26. GWEDUC – (Native American) a large edible clam, also GEODUCK, GWEDUCK
  27. MBIRA – (Bantu) an African musical instrument played with the thumbs, aka kalimba
  28. SAYYID – (Arabic) a descendant of Mohammed’s daughter Fatima, also SAID, SAIYID, SAYED, SAYID
  29. IJTIHAD – (Arabic) the use of reasoning in Islamic law
  30. IXTLE – (Nahuatl) a strong fibre obtained from the agave, also ISTLE
  31. ULZIE – (Scots) oil, also ULYIE
  32. XOANA – XOANON, (Greek) a primitive statue
  33. LAARI – a monetary unit of the Maldives, 1/100th of a rufiyaa, also LAREE, LARI
  34. RAUPO – (Maori) the New Zealand bulrush
  35. BOLIX – to make a mess of, also BOLLIX, BALLOCKS, BOLLOCKS, BOLLOX
  36. RHIZIC – of the root of an equation
  37. QULLIQ – (Inuit) a type of oil lamp used by the Inuit, also KUDLIK
  38. MUZJIK – (Russian) a Russian peasant, also MUZHIK, MOUJIK, MUJIK
  39. FREMD – (Scots) a stranger, also FRAIM, FREMIT
  40. PLONGD – (Spenser) plunged
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