SCRABLISTmid #5

ScrabList Mid
  1. AIRSHOT – in golf, a shot that misses the ball completely but counts as a shot
  2. ACTORISH – like an actor
  3. HARICOT – (French) a kind of bean or pea
  4. TRAHISON – (French) treachery; treason
  5. APHORIST – one who makes aphorisms, also APHORISER, APHORIZER
  6. SHORTIA – a perennial herb
  7. TOVARISH – (Russian) friend, comrade, also TOVARICH, TOVARISCH
  8. HETAIRA – a Greek courtesan, also HETAERA, HETAIRAI
  9. CHARIEST – CHARY, discreetly cautious or sparing
  10. STICHERA – STICHERON, (Greek) a short hymn
  11. THERIAC – (archaic) an antidote to venomous bites, also THERIACA
  12. HAIRSTED – HAIRST, (Scots) to gather in a crop, also HARVEST
  13. FAITHER – (Scots) father
  14. TRIPHASE – having three phases
  15. THESAURI – THESAURUS, a dictionary of synonyms
  16. SWATHIER – SWATHY, in swathes
  17. WATERISH – somewhat watery
  18. HYSTERIA – uncontrollable excitement or fear
  19. IGNORAMI – IGNORAMUS, an ignorant person
  20. GOLIASES – GOLIAS, to behave irreverently
  21. OILGASES – OILGAS, a gaseous mixture of hydrocarbons used as a fuel
  22. AREACHES – AREACH, (Spenser) to reach
  23. VOTARIES – VOTARY, a person who is bound by religious vows, also VOTARIST
  24. TRAVOISE – a type of sled, also TRAVOIS
  25. VIATORES – VIATOR, (Latin) a traveller
  26. JAROSITE – a sulphate of potassium and iron occurring as yellow or brown crusts on ferruginous ores
  27. AMORTISE – to liquidate gradually, as a debt, also AMORTIZE
  28. SALIGOT – (French) the water chestnut
  29. LATIGOS – LATIGO, (Spanish) a strap used to fasten a saddle
  30. GALIOTS – GALIOT, (French) a small galley, also GALLIOT
  31. ISOLABLE – capable of being isolated
  32. LOBELIAS – LOBELIA, a flowering plant
  33. ISOBASE – a contour line of equal upheaval of the land
  34. BEGONIA – a garden plant with waxy leaves and ornamental flowers
  35. SENORITA – (Spanish) a mode of address for an unmarried woman, also SENHORITA
  36. EARSHOT – a range from which a sound can be heard
  37. ASTHORE – (Irish) darling
  38. HAROSET – (Hebrew) a condiment of chopped apples, walnuts, and wine, also CHAROSET, CHAROSETH, HAROSETH
  39. THORIAS – THORIA, an oxide of thorium
  40. SHERIAT – (Turkish) the body of Islamic religious law, also SHARIA, SHARIAH, SHARIAT, SHERIA
  41. BATHORSE – (archaic) a horse which carries an officer’s baggage during a campaign
  42. ENAMOUR – to inspire with love, also ENAMOR
  43. PELOTON – the main body of riders in a bicycle race
  44. CALIBRE – the diameter of a gun barrel, also CALIBER
  45. RATHOLE – a hole made by a rat
  46. TERAOHM – one trillion ohms
  47. TOHEROA – (Maori) a kind of New Zealand shellfish
  48. OXHEART – a large heart-shaped cherry, either black, red, or white
  49. MEARING – MEARE, (Spenser) to divide, mark off, also MEER, MERE
  50. OUTHEAR – to surpass in hearing
  51. RHEOSTAT – a resistor used to control electric current
  52. HERIOTS – HERIOT, (historical) a payment to a feudal lord upon the death of a tenant farmer
  53. TOSHIER – TOSHY, full of twaddle
  54. ROTCHIE – the little auk, also ROCH, ROTCH, ROTCHE
  55. THEORIC – (Shakespeare) theory, speculation, also THEORIQUE
  56. ISOTHERE – a line connecting points of the same average summer temperature, also ISOTHERAL
  57. MOITHER – to confuse, stupefy, also MITHER, MOIDER
  58. ORNITHES – ORNIS, (Greek) the collection of birds of a region
  59. TOOSHIER – TOOSHIE, (Australian slang) angry, upset
  60. HERITOR – a proprietor or landholder in a parish
  61. OUTHYRE – (Spenser) to hire out, also OUTHIRE
  62. SHOUTIER – SHOUTY, prone to shouting
  63. OVERHIT – to hit a ball beyond a target
  64. SEMINOMA – a malignant tumour of the testicle
  65. SENSORIA – SENSORIUM, the area of the brain that is the seat of sensation
  66. SEPALOID – of the form of sepals, also SEPALINE
  67. SERAGLIO – (Italian) a harem, also SERAIL
  68. SESAMOID – shaped like a sesame seed
  69. ANOESIS – consciousness with sensation but without thought
  70. SARNIES – SARNIE, (colloquial) a sandwich, also SARMIE, SARNEY
  71. SONSIER – SONSIE, buxom, comely, also SONSY
  72. SONERIS – SONERI, (Hindi) a cloth of gold
  73. ORNISES – ORNIS, (Greek) the collection of birds of a region
  74. VAINEST – VAIN, filled with undue admiration for oneself
  75. MISDOES – MISDO, to do wrongly
  76. ADIOSES – ADIOS, (Spanish) goodbye
  77. SOSATIE – (South African) curried meat on a skewer
  78. NOVATES – NOVATE, to substitute a new obligation for an existing one
  79. COENURE – a tapeworm larva, also COENURUS
  80. ULNARIA – ULNARE, (Latin) one of the bones or cartilages of the carpus
  81. LAIRISE – (Australian) to act like a flashy man, also LAIRIZE
  82. MARDIER – MARDY, petulant
  83. MANDREL – a bar of iron fitted to a turning-lathe on which articles to be turned are fixed, also MANDRIL
  84. GOURAMI – (Malay) a large East Indian freshwater fish, also GORAMY, GURAMI
  85. ANTICAR – opposed to cars
  86. VIREMIA – (Latin) the presence of viral particles in the blood, also VIRAEMIA
  87. BEMEANT – BEMEAN, (archaic) to make mean, debase
  88. RAMPION – a European plant
  89. TIERCET – (Italian) a triplet of lines that rhyme together or are connected with adjacent rhymes, also TERCET, TERZETTA
  90. EDENTAL – without teeth, as of anteaters, armadillos, and sloths, also EDENTATE
  91. SOAPIES – SOAPIE, (Australian slang) a serial melodrama on radio or television, also SOAPER
  92. ADIPOSE – of or pertaining to fatty substances, also ADIPOUS
  93. MIMOSAE – MIMOSA, any tropical shrubs or trees of the Mimosaceous genus Mimosa
  94. EPINAOS – (Greek) a rear vestibule, also EPINAOI
  95. LEIPOAS – LEIPOA, (Greek) any bird of the genus Leipoa of Australian moundbirds
  96. ATOPIES – ATOPY, an inherited tendency to general allergy
  97. OPIATES – OPIATE, to treat with opium
  98. ISAGOGE – (Greek) an academic introduction to a subject
  99. PAEONIC – a foot of four syllables, one long and three short, also PAEON
  100. DIAZOES – DIAZO, a type of photocopy
  101. CAPONISE – to castrate a rooster, also CAPONIZE
  102. PAEONIES – PAEONY, a showy flower, also PEONY, PINY, PIONEY, PIONY
  103. APPOSITE – appropriate
  104. DIOPTASE – a mineral, a hydrous silicate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals
  105. ECTOPIA – abnormal displacement of body parts, also ECTOPY
  106. SPOLIATE – to despoil; to plunder
  107. MELODIA – (Latin) a type of organ stop
  108. VARIOLE – a small depression resembling a pockmark
  109. LOBELIA – a flowering plant
  110. ROSEOLA – a rose-coloured skin rash
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