ScrabList #15

Assorted:

  1. NGANA – (Zulu) a tropical disease of cattle transmitted by tsetse fly, also NAGANA
  2. XERUS – an African ground squirrel
  3. BANDH – (Hindi) in India, a general strike, also BUNDH
  4. YTOST – TOSS, to throw lightly
  5. IFTAR – (Arabic) a meal eaten by Muslims to break their fast after sunset during Ramadan
  6. WAUFF – (Scots) to wave
  7. VOLVOX – (Latin) any of a genus of freshwater protozoa
  8. YIRTH – (US) earth
  9. LLANO – (Spanish) an open, grassy plain
  10. NEURULA – (Greek) an embryo at the stage succeeding the gastrula
  11. MAXIXE – (Portuguese) a Brazilian ballroom dance resembling the two-step
  12. TORII – (Japanese) a Shinto temple gateway
  13. KOPJE – (South African) a low hill, also KOPPIE
  14. MARQUEE – a large tent with open sides for outdoor entertainment
  15. SHAKO – (Hungarian) the hat usually worn by members of a marching band, also CHACO, SHACKO
  16. AHURU – (Maori) a small pink cod of SW Pacific waters, also AHURUHURU
  17. BUZUKI – (Modern Greek) a Greek long necked lute with 3 or 4 double courses of metal strings, also BAZOUKI, BOUSOUKI, BOUZOUKI
  18. CHURR – to make a vibrant sound
  19. THUJA – (Greek) a genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, with scalelike leaves, also THUYA
  20. XENIC – of a culture medium, growing with unknown other microbiota
  21. YPLAST – PLACE, to assign to a position
  22. KAROO – (Hottentot) in South Africa, a high inland pastoral tableland, also KARROO
  23. UKASE – (Russian) a proclamation by a Russian emperor or government having the force of law
  24. FLUXIVE – (Shakespeare) flowing with tears
  25. YSHENT – YSHEND, (Spenser) to scold, also SHEND
  26. MOYITY – (Spenser) moiety
  27. RADII – RADIUS, (Latin) the shorter and thicker of the two arm bones
  28. AYAYA – (Inuit) a type of singing among the Inuit
  29. SLUBB – to twist fibre after carding to prepare it for spinning, also SLUB
  30. POBOY – a New Orleans sandwich
  31. DWAUM – (Scots) to swoon, also DWAM, DWALM
  32. XYLAN – a substance found in cell walls of plants
  33. SFERICS – (short for) atmospherics, also SPHERICS
  34. FRENULA – FRENULUM, (Latin) a connecting fold of membrane, also FRENUM, FRAENUM
  35. YBOUND – BIND, to tie, fasten
  36. OJIME – (Japanese) a carved bead through which to pass the two cords attached to a Japanese inro and which when slid down keeps the cords fastened
  37. WUDJULA – (Native Australian) a non-aboriginal person
  38. OZEKI – (Japanese) a champion sumo wrestler
  39. XYSTI – XYSTUS, (historical) a long covered portico or court used by ancient Greek athletes for exercises, also XYST, XYSTOS
  40. BEFANA – (Italian) an Epiphany gift, also BEFFANA
  41. PFENNIG – (German) a German coin, also PFENNING, also PFENNIGE
  42. AJUGA – (Latin) a genus of plants, including bugle
  43. MPRET – (Albanian) a former title of the ruler of Albania
  44. BUCKU – (Hottentot) an African medicinal plant, also BUCHU
  45. MEZQUIT – (Nahuatl) a name for two trees of the southwestern part of North America, the honey mesquite, and screw-pod mesquite, also MESQUIT, MESQUITE, MEZQUITE, MUSKIT
  46. TSOTSI – (South African) a member of a black South African street gang; a young hooligan
  47. STUMM – (Yiddish) silent, dumb, quiet, also SCHTOOM, SCHTUM, SHTOOM, SHTUM, SHTUMM
  48. TSADI – (Hebrew) a Hebrew letter, also SADE, SADHE, SADI, TSADE, TZADDI
  49. RIOJA – (Spanish) a dry red wine
  50. FLAMM – (archaic) a custard, also FLAN, FLAUNE, FLAWN
  51. PTERIN – (Greek) any of a group of substances occurring in butterfly wings
  52. AZYGY – a state of being unpaired
  53. IROKO – (Yoruba) a large African timber tree
  54. IPECAC – (Portuguese) the dried root of various South American plants, used as a purgative, expectorant and emetic, also IPECACUANHA
  55. AUGUST – stately, venerable
  56. GAITT – (Scots) a child, also GEIT, GYTE
  57. YPLIGHT – PLIGHT, to make a solemn pledge
  58. EUNUCH – a castrated man
  59. YRENT – REND, to tear apart forcibly
  60. BAZOO – (US slang) the mouth
  61. PIUPIU – (Maori) a flax skirt
  62. DHOBI – (Hindi) an Indian washerwoman
  63. YBRENT – BURN, to destroy by fire
  64. NIKAH – in Islamic marriage, the contract between bride and bridegroom
  65. YBLENT – BLEND, to mix together
  66. NGAI – clan or tribe, as used before the names of certain Maori tribes
  67. BEZIQUE – (French) a card game played with two decks of cards
  68. THYRSI – THYRSUS, (Greek) a type of flower cluster, also THYRSE
  69. QUAERE – (Latin) to inquire or question
  70. NAPOO – to use up
  71. SHOTT – (Arabic) a shallow saline lake of northern Africa; the dried bed of such a lake, also CHOTT
  72. LEQUEAR – a sunken panel or coffer in a ceiling, also LACUNAR, LAQUEARIA
  73. MYALL – (Native Australian) an Australian aborigine living traditionally
  74. GLOGG – (Swedish) a hot spiced wine and liquor punch served in Scandinavian countries as a Christmas drink
  75. GHAUT – (Hindi) in India, a landing stage; a place for cremation, also GHAT
  76. URUBU – (Tupi) the American black vulture
  77. DUETT – a musical performance by two people, also DUET, DUETTO
  78. ACARI – ACARUS, (Latin) a mite, a kind of small arachnid
  79. STARR – (Hebrew) a Jewish deed or bond, e.g. of acquittance of a debt
  80. RUNDALE – (Scots) a system of holding land in single detached pieces, also RUNRIG
  81. ZHOOSH – to make more attractive
  82. GENII – GENIUS, (Latin) an exceptional natural aptitude
  83. SWOWND – (Spenser) a fainting fit, also SWOUNE, SWOWNE
  84. SYNROC – a type of synthetic rock developed esp. to fuse with radioactive waste
  85. NGAIO – (Maori) a New Zealand tree with white wood
  86. HENBIT – either of two low-growing weeds with roundish shallowly lobed leaves
  87. DHIMMI – a non-Muslim subject of a state governed in accordance with sharia law
  88. HYDYNE – a rocket-launching fuel
  89. BHAI – (Hindi) brother; a form of address for a man
  90. KVELL – (Yiddish) to be happy
  91. CNIDA – (Greek) a nematocyst, a stinging cell in jellyfish
  92. PUNJI – to fortify with punji stakes
  93. UGALI – (Swahili) an African type of stiff porridge
  94. FYLFOT – a form of cross like a swastika, also FILFOT
  95. WUSHU – (Chinese) the Chinese martial arts
  96. BHEL – (Hindi) a thorny Indian tree, also BAEL
  97. WINDAC – a windlass, also WINDAS
  98. POTOO – a kind of bird, a large South American goatsucker
  99. NGATI – (Maori) a tribe or clan
  100. CAZIQUE – (Taino) a West Indian or American Indian chief, also CACIQUE
  101. TUPUNA – (Maori) an ancestor, also TIPUNA
  102. STONN – (obsolete) to stun, also STONNE, STOUN
  103. NGOMA – (Swahili) a type of drum
  104. YPIGHT – PITCH, to throw
  105. AREDD – AREAD, (Spenser) to counsel, also AREDE, ARREEDE
  106. WAZOO – (slang) a person’s bottom
  107. KLETT – a lightweight climbing boot, also KLETTERSCHUH
  108. MODII – MEDIUS, (Latin) the middle finger

ScrabList #14

General:

  1. SADZA – a type of porridge made from maize flour
  2. WHILK – (Scots) which
  3. QUEME – (Spenser) to please, suit, fit
  4. RACINO – a racetrack that offers additional facilities for gambling
  5. QUOLL – (Native Australian) an Australian marsupial, about the size of a cat
  6. LABNEH – (Arabic) a kind of soft cheese produced by straining yogurt
  7. VOLVA – (Latin) a sac that encloses certain immature mushrooms
  8. BOKEH – the blurred quality of a photograph
  9. CEROC – a form of dance combining many styles, including jive and salsa
  10. CLARO – (Spanish) a light-coloured, mild cigar
  11. QAPIK – (Azerbaijani) a monetary unit of Azerbaijan, one hundredth of a manat, also GOPIK
  12. MULCT – to take money from, by taxation or by trickery
  13. BIZJET – a small airplane used for business
  14. EXOME – a part of the genome consisting of exons
  15. LATKE – (Yiddish) a traditional Jewish pancake
  16. FLEXI – (short for) flexitime
  17. NDUJA – (Italian) a paste of cured pork, peppers, and spices, originating in Calabria in SW Italy
  18. MUSMON – a Corsican wild sheep, also MOUFFLON, MOUFLON, MUFLON, MUSIMON
  19. CLEIK – a kind of golf club
  20. KIRRI – (Hottentot) a stick, club, also KIERIE
  21. AMENE – pleasant, offering amenity
  22. OMLAH – (Arabic) an Indian staff of officials
  23. RECULE – (Spenser) to recoil, also RECOYLE, RECUILE, REQUOYLE
  24. YOWZA – an interjection used to express surprise
  25. HEIDUC – (Hungarian) a brigand, a guerilla warrior, also HAIDUK, HEYDUCK
  26. HARIM – (Arabic) a women’s quarters in a Muslim house, also HARAM, HAREEM, HAREM
  27. PERNIO – a chilblain
  28. LORCHA – (Portuguese) a light vessel of European build, like a Chinese junk
  29. ARUHE – (Maori) the edible root of a New Zealand fern
  30. ILIACI – ILIACUS, (Latin) the flexor muscle of the thigh
  31. FROWIE – (Spenser) musty, rancid, also FROUGHY, FROWY
  32. ACMITE – a soda pyroxene whose crystals show a steep pyramid
  33. EJECTA – material ejected esp. from a volcano, also EJECTAMENTA
  34. ROTGUT – (colloquial) rough, cheap alcohol, also GUTROT
  35. ASHRAM – (Sanskrit) the dwelling of a Hindu religious philosopher, also ASRAMA
  36. COTIJA – a kind of Mexican cheese
  37. ANSATZ – a possible solution to a problem
  38. PHYLLO – (Greek) a kind of very thin pastry dough, also FILLO, FILO
  39. KLEENEX – (tradename) a kind of soft paper tissue, used esp. as a handkerchief
  40. THROWE – (Shakespeare) a throe
  41. NYAOPE – (South African) another name for the drug whoonga
  42. DONKO – (New Zealand) an informal tearoom in a factory
  43. JUGAAD – (Hindi) a resourceful approach to problem-solving
  44. GOMPA – (Tibetan) a Buddhist temple or monastery in Tibet

Short words:

  1. SOCA – a variety of Caribbean calypso music, also SOKAH
  2. BUBU – a long flowing garment worn in Mali, also BOUBOU
  3. MIFF – to annoy
  4. JOCO – (Scots) a joke
  5. LIMN – (archaic) to portray, paint or delineate
  6. FIFI – a kind of hook
  7. CALS – CAL, (short for) calorie, as in low cal
  8. BLUD – blood, in the sense of a close friend
  9. GYAN – (Hindi) knowledge
  10. MACA – a cruciferous biennial plant, native to the Peruvian Andes
  11. OWIE – an injury that is not serious
  12. PEDI – (short for) pedicure
  13. ROHE – (Maori) the territory controlled by a Maori tribal group
  14. TIFO – an elaborate organized display performed by supporters during a football match
  15. SETA – (Latin) a coarse, stiff hair
  16. PLIE – (French) a movement in ballet
  17. FROE – a cleaving tool with its blade at right angles to its handle
  18. NIEF – (archaic) the fist, also NEAFE, NEAFFE, NEIF, NEIVE, NIEVE
  19. KORA – an African musical instrument like the harp
  20. COWY – suggestive of a cow
  21. PUGH – (obsolete) an expression of contempt, also PUH
  22. LEVO – turning towards the left, also LAEVO
  23. VIRL – (Scots) a ferrule
  24. ECOD – (archaic) a mild oath, also EGAD, EGADS, IGAD
  25. HETH – (Hebrew) the eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, also CHETH, KHET, KHETH
  26. EKKA – (Hindi) a small one-horse carriage
  27. SPIF – a postage stamp perforated with the initials of a firm to avoid theft by employees
  28. COXY – self-important, also COCKSY
  29. PREX – (US slang) the president of a college, also PREXIE, PREXY
  30. PIXY – a small fairy, also PISKY, PIXIE
  31. JEAT – (obsolete) jet, the mineral
  32. ZACK – (Australian slang) sixpence, now a five-cent piece
  33. NONA – a virus disease
  34. ETAT – (French) the staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel
  35. LALL – to articulate the letter R as L

7-Letter Bingos:

  1. BHANGRA – (Punjabi) a combination of traditional Punjabi and Western pop music
  2. BHISTEE – (Urdu) an Indian water carrier, also BHEESTIE, BHEESTY, BHISHTI, BHISTI, BHISTIE
  3. CNEMIAL – relating to the shin
  4. FJORDIC – of or like a fjord
  5. LLANERO – (Spanish) an inhabitant of the llanos of South America
  6. NGARARA – (Maori) a lizard found in New Zealand
  7. MWALIMU – (Swahili) a teacher
  8. MRIDANG – (Sanskrit) a two-headed Indian drum, one head being larger than the other, also MRIDAMGAM, MRIDANGA, MRIDANGAM
  9. OKIMONO – (Japanese) a Japanese ornament
  10. OQUASSA – (Native American) a small, handsome trout, found in some of the lakes in Maine
  11. KGOTLAS – KGOTLA, (Bantu) an assembly of tribal elders in Botswana, also LEKGOTLA
  12. PTYALIN – (Greek) a ferment in saliva that turns starch into sugar
  13. SFUMATO – (Italian) a painting having vague outlines, and colors and shades so mingled as to give a misty appearance
  14. UILLEAN – (Irish) as in uillean pipes, a kind of bagpipes developed in Ireland and operated by squeezing bellows under the arm, also UILLEANN
  15. WYSIWYG – denoting the text on a computer screen that exactly corresponds to the text on a printout
  16. XEROTIC – of abnormally dry body tissues
  17. YPERITE – mustard gas
  18. YPSILON – (Greek) the twentieth letter of the Greek alphabet, also UPSILON
  19. TANTIES – TANTY, (short for) tantrum
  20. SONLIER – SONLY, pertaining to a son
  21. ARAWANA – a large tropical fish, also ARAHUANA, AROWANA, ARUANA
  22. DELUBRA – DELUBRUM, (Latin) a font; a temple or shrine having a font
  23. PILIEST – PILY, of carpets, having a pile
  24. VEGIEST – VEGIE, (colloq.) of school subjects, trivial, not taxing, also VEGGIE
  25. UPVOTED – UPVOTE, to register approval of (a post) on social media
  26. TAIHOAS – TAIHOA, (Maori) to hold on, wait
  27. SWOLEST – SWOLE, having well-developed muscles as a result of weight training
  28. PLUTOES – PLUTO, to reduce in importance
  29. SANTOKU – (Japanese) a kind of Japanese kitchen knife
  30. SOOKIER – SOOKY, (Australian slang) given to petulant complaining
  31. NUBBERS – NUBBER, in baseball, a weakly hit ball
  32. VEDUTAS – VEDUTA, (Italian) a panoramic view of a town
  33. WILDMAN – a man who lives outside civilization
  34. EGGLIKE – like an egg
  35. TUFOLIS – TUFOLI, (Italian) a large macaroni shell
  36. DANGEST – DANG, damned
  37. DADBODS – DADBOD, an untoned and slightly plump male physique, esp one considered attractive
  38. EELINGS – EELING, the practice of catching eels
  39. ANTIVAX – opposed to vaccination
  40. AGYRIAS – AGYRIA, a disease of the brain
  41. AGENDER – of or relating to a person who does not identify with any gender
  42. BITRATE – the speed of data processing
  43. CAVEOLA – a tiny pit in a cell membrane
  44. CONLANG – an invented language