ScrabList #12

General:

  1. COCCO – the taro or other edible araceous tuber, also COCO
  2. GRUYERE – (French) a kind of cheese made at Gruyere, Switzerland
  3. MOJITO – a traditional Cuban cocktail
  4. POESY – to utter poetry
  5. SADDO – (slang) an unsociable person, also SADDIE
  6. COGWAY – a railway operating on steep slopes
  7. FLEME – (Scots) to put to flight
  8. OUTJUT – to stick out, also OUTJET
  9. EGESTA – (Latin) egested matter
  10. MULIE – a western North American deer
  11. HAULM – a plant stem, also HALM
  12. MUNSHI – (Hindi) a secretary, an interpreter, also MOONSHEE
  13. BINDHI – (Hindi) a dot worn on the forehead by women in India, also BINDI
  14. SALEWD – SALUE, (obsolete) to salute
  15. IRRUPT – to enter forcibly or violently
  16. GANEV – (Yiddish) a thief, also GANEF, GANOF, GONEF, GONIF, GONIFF, GONOF, GONOPH
  17. PAREV – (Yiddish) of food, containing neither dairy nor meat ingredients, also PAREVE, PARVE
  18. SCHAV – (Yiddish) a cold soup of leafy vegetables
  19. ENTREZ – (French) come in
  20. SUIVEZ – (French) follow (the solo part, as a direction to accompanists)
  21. SQUIZ – (Australian slang) a quick, close look
  22. CHOUX – CHOU, (French) a cabbage; an ornamental soft rosette; a cream bun
  23. TETTIX – (Greek) the cicada
  24. URBEX – (short for) urban exploration
  25. GODOWN – (Malay) an oriental warehouse
  26. AMOWT – (Inuit) a hood on a woman’s parka for carrying a child, also AMAUT, AMAUTI, AMAUTIK
  27. STOWP – a vessel for holding holy water, also STOOPE, STOUP
  28. DWANG – (Dutch) a piece of timber used to reinforce joists, a strut
  29. UPHROE – (Dutch) a block or long slat of wood, also EUPHROE
  30. NOYAUX – NOYAU, (French) a liqueur made from brandy flavoured with bitter almonds or peach-stones
  31. VERDOY – (French) in heraldry, a floral ornament
  32. FICHU – (French) a light cape worn by women
  33. FUSTIC – (French) the wood of a tree growing in the West Indies, also FUSTET, FUSTOC
  34. ROSBIF – (French) an English person
  35. BOURG – (French) a market-town
  36. DIRNDL – (German) an Alpine peasant woman’s dress
  37. KNAWEL – (German) a cornfield weed of the chickweed family, also KNAWE
  38. POTZER – (German) an inept chess player, also PATZER
  39. CATSUP – (Malay) a spicy tomato sauce, also KETCHUP, CATCHUP
  40. ZENDO – (Japanese) a place where Zen Buddhists study

Short words:

  1. PROB – (colloquial) a problem
  2. DYKE – to furnish with an embankment, also DIKE
  3. WAIN – (obsolete) to carry, convey
  4. MOZE – to raise a nap on
  5. HAAF – (Old Norse) a deep sea fishing region
  6. MOKI – (Maori) a New Zealand sea fish, aka nanua
  7. GAPO – (Tupi) in Peru, a riverside forest periodically flooded, also IGAPO
  8. KUEH – (Malay) a Malaysian, Indian or Chinese cake
  9. SAAG – (Hindi) in Indian cookery, spinach
  10. URVA – (Nepali) the crab-eating mongoose of SE Asia
  11. WYTE – (Scots) to blame, lay the blame on, also WIGHT, WITE
  12. BOAB – a tropical tree with a swollen trunk, also BAOBAB
  13. DZHO – a cross between a yak and a cow, also ZHO, DSO, DZO, JOMO
  14. KART – a small motor vehicle
  15. DELF – a type of earthenware originating in the Dutch city of Delft, also DELFT, DELPH, DELFTWARE
  16. GEUM – (Latin) a plant of the Geum genus of the rose family, aka avens
  17. TUNG – (Chinese) a kind of Chinese tree
  18. WERO – (Maori) a challenge made by an armed Maori warrior to a visitor to a marae
  19. YIRK – to draw tight
  20. RIAD – (Arabic) a traditional Moroccan house or palace with an interior garden
  21. YOOF – youth, young people
  22. PLIM – to swell, as grain or wood with water
  23. JIAO – (Chinese) a Chinese monetary unit, one tenth of a yuan, also CHIAO
  24. NOGG – an eggnog or similar drink
  25. ALEC – a herring
  26. KARO – (Maori) a small New Zealand tree
  27. YEDE – (Spenser) to go or proceed, also YEAD, YEED
  28. SLEE – (Scots) sly
  29. YOMP – to march with heavy equipment over difficult terrain; to cover a certain distance in this way
  30. JATO – a jet-assisted take off

7-Letter Bingos:

  1. TORULIN – a vitamin in yeast
  2. FLANEUR – (French) an idle man-about-town; a lounger, gossiper
  3. AMENTAL – of a catkin
  4. URODELE – one of the Urodela, tailless amphibians, including newts and salamanders
  5. BRIARED – covered with briars
  6. EPACRID – an Australian plant resembling heath, also EPACRIS
  7. FORELIE – (Spenser) to lie in front of
  8. FACIEND – (Latin) a number to be multiplied by another
  9. ALIUNDE – (Latin) from another source
  10. MANGEAO – (Maori) a small New Zealand tree with glossy leaves
  11. ATRETIC – relating to atresia, absence of, or closure of, a body passage, also ATRESIC
  12. LANGUET – (French) a tonguelike appendage or outgrowth, also LANGUETTE
  13. INGOTED – INGOT, to shape (metal) into a convenient form for storage
  14. RAUNGED – RAUNGE, (obsolete) to range
  15. ENDLEAF – an endpaper
  16. QUORATE – having a quorum
  17. ARMERIA – the generic name for the plant thrift
  18. GLEANER – one who gleans, gathers after reapers
  19. VENTIGE – (Shakespeare) a fingerhole, as in a flute, also VENTAGE
  20. PEARLIN – (Scots) a lace of silk or thread, used as edging, also PEARLING
  21. LAETARE – (Latin) the fourth Sunday in Lent
  22. ROUILLE – (French) a peppery garlic sauce
  23. CERRIAL – of or pertaining to the cerris, a species of turkey oak
  24. TWANGER – TWANGY, twanging
  25. CLOOTIE – as in clootie dumpling, a suet pudding, containing currants, raisins, etc., steamed or boiled in a cloth
  26. TOMENTA – TOMENTUM, (Latin) closely matted hair or downy nap covering leaves or stems of some plants
  27. GAUDIER – GAUDY, tastelessly showy
  28. HORDEIN – a protein found in barley grain
  29. METOPAE – METOPE, (Greek) a space between two triglyphs
  30. CLAYIER – CLAYEY, resembling clay

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