Month: February 2022

Daily Scrabble Words 64

February 28, 2022

  • Today’s words are all 5 letters or less
  • The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. PLUOT

n. a hybrid fruit of plum and apricot
Also: PLUMCOT
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: PLUTO, POULT

2. GARNI

adj. (French) garnished
Anagrams: AGRIN, GRAIN, RANGI

3. HUMIC

adj. pertaining to, or derived from, vegetable mould; as, humic acid

4. FLIR

n. forward looking infrared radar, an electronic heat sensor able to detect and display on a TV.-like screen a distant scene despite darkness, smoke etc. used esp. in military aircraft
Back hooks: S, T

5. MILOR

n. (French) a term of address for a rich or aristocratic Englishman
Also: MILORD
Back hooks: S, D

6. FANON

n. (Latin) a liturgical cape worn by the Pope when celebrating a solemn pontifical mass
Also: FANO, FANUM
Back hooks: S

7. DEMOI

n. DEMOS, (Greek) the people, esp. contemptuously

8. AGAMI

n. a crane-like bird of South America
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: AMIGA

9. BRER

n. (US dialect) brother
Back hooks: E, S

10. BRERE

n. (Spenser) a briar
Also: BREARE
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: BREER

11. TINCT

v. to stain, dye
Verb forms: TINCTED, TINCTING, TINCTS

Daily Scrabble Words 63

February 27, 2022

  • The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. KERVE

v. (Spenser) to carve
Verb forms: KERVED, KERVING, KERVES

2. VENITE

n. (Latin) the 95th psalm
Back hooks: S

3. CORVEE

n. (French) labor exacted in lieu of taxes by public authorities esp. for highway construction or repair
Back hooks: S

4. VOMICA

n. (Latin) a cavity in the body containing pus
Back hooks: E, S

5. FAIENCE

n. (French) a type of glazed pottery
Also: FAYENCE
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: FIANCEE

6. CHAMFER

v. to channel or make furrows upon; to bevel
Verb forms: CHAMFERED, CHAMFERING, CHAMFERS

7. MYOTUBE

n. a cylindrical cell that develops from a myoblast
Back hooks: S

8. BUMELIA

n. a thorny tree
Back hooks: S

9. SUBAXIAL

adj. somewhat axial

10. ELUDIBLE

adj. able to be eluded

Daily Scrabble Words 62

February 26, 2022

  • The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. TABEFY

v. to waste away
Verb forms: TABEFIED, TABEFYING, TABEFIES

2. NOYADE

n. (French) drowning, esp. of many persons together as form of execution
Back hooks: S

3. ANICCA

n. (Sanskrit) the belief that everything is impermanent and constantly changing
Back hooks: S

4. SIWASH

v. to camp out using only natural shelter
Verb forms: SIWASHED, SIWASHING, SIWASHES

5. VANWARD

adj. located in the van, advanced

6. ENGAOL

v. (Shakespeare) to put in gaol
Verb forms: ENGAOLED, ENGAOLING, ENGAOLS

7. LIONCEL

n. a small lion used as a bearing in heraldry
Also: LIONEL, LIONCELLE
Back hooks: S

8. FOIBLE

n. (French) a minor weakness or failing
Back hooks: S

9. PUTLOG

n. a crosspiece in a scaffolding
Also: PUTLOCK
Back hooks: S

10. KAUPAPA

n. (Maori) a strategy or cause
Back hooks: S

ScrabList #18

4 Letter Words:

  1. MIGG – a type of playing marble, also MIB, MIG, MIGGLE [n -S]
  2. BURK – (colloquial) a fool, also BERK [n -S]
  3. JUCO – (US) junior college; an athlete at a junior college [n -S]
  4. CRIS – (Malay) a dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade, also CREESE, KREESE, KRIS [n -ES]
  5. BERG – (South African) a hill or mountain in S. Africa [n -S]
  6. PYET – (Scots) a magpie, also PIET, PYAT, PYOT [n -S]
  7. GAWP – to stare stupidly, also GAUP, GORP [v -ED, -ING, -S]
  8. ORRA – (Scots) odd, not matched [adj]
  9. NIPA – (Malay) a low-growing East Indian palm, aka attap or atap [n -S]
  10. KUDU – (Hottentot) a kind of antelope with long spiral horns, also KOODOO [n -S]
  11. KAPA – a kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry, also TAPA, TAPPA [n -S]
  12. SMIR – to drizzle, also SMIRR, SMUR [v SMIRRED, SMIRRING, SMIRS]
  13. FOUD – (Old Norse) a bailiff or magistrate in Orkney or Shetland [n -S]
  14. PADI – (Malay) a rice field, also PADDY [n -S]
  15. LEIR – (Scots) to teach, also LEAR, LEARE, LERE [v -ED, -ING, -S]
  16. TOWT – (Scots) to pout, sulk [v -ED, -ING, -S]
  17. KETE – (Maori) a basket woven from flax [n -S]
  18. TEEK – (Hinglish) well [adj]
  19. KYPE – a hook on the lower jaw of a male salmon [n -S]
  20. ODIC – of or pertaining to an ode [adj]
  21. VARA – (Spanish) a Spanish American linear measure, also VARE [n -S]
  22. MOYL – (obsolete) a mule, also MOIL, MOYLE, MULE [n -S]
  23. TYRO – (Latin) a beginner or novice, also TIRO [n TYROS or TYROES or TYRONES]
  24. UNCO – (Scots) strange; foreign; extraordinary [adj UNCOER, UNCOEST] / a stranger, a piece of news [n -ES or -S]
  25. NORK – (Australian slang) a woman’s breast [n -S]

5 Letter Words:

  1. ZAYIN – (Hebrew) a Hebrew letter [n -S]
  2. LAZAR – a leper or person with similar pestilential disease [n -S]
  3. SHIEL – (Shakespeare) to shell, husk, also SHALE, SHEAL, SHEEL [v -ED, -ING, -S]
  4. BARBE – (French) a piece of vertically pleated linen cloth worn over or under the chin, as by nuns [n -S]
  5. APOOP – on the poop, astern [adv]
  6. SMEKE – (Scots) to smoke, also SMEIK [v SMEKED, SMEKING, SMEKES]
  7. SOWAR – (Urdu) a mounted native soldier in India [n -S]
  8. REJON – (Spanish) a lance with a wooden handle, used in bullfighting [n -ES]
  9. SATYR – a Greek god of the woodlands, with a tail and long ears, represented by the Romans as part goat [n -S]
  10. STOTT – to bound with a stiff gait, also STOT [v -ED, -ING, -S]
  11. MAFIC – a generally dark-colored igneous rock with significant amounts of one or more ferromagnesian minerals [n -S]
  12. WHAUP – (Scots) a curlew, sometimes great whaup as distinct from little whaup, the whimbrel [n -S]
  13. SPAYD – a male deer in his third year, also SPAYAD [n -S]
  14. PLATT – in Scots adjectival phrase ‘scale and platt’, applied to stairs with straight flights and landings [adj]
  15. HUZZY – (dialect) a brazen girl, also HUSSY [n HUZZIES]
  16. HAUGH – (Scots) a low-lying meadow by the side of a river [n -S]
  17. AHENT – (dialect) behind, also AHINT, AHIND [adv]
  18. HIANT – (Latin) gaping [adj]
  19. WHORT – a whortleberry, also HURTLEBERRY, WHORTLE, WHORTLEBERRY [n -S]
  20. CANNA – (Latin) a tropical lily with showy red or yellow flowers [n -S]
  21. ADVEW – (Spenser) to view [v -ED, -ING, -S]
  22. STAIG – a colt or stallion, also STAGGIE [n -S]
  23. STYRE – (Spenser) to stir, also STIRE [v STYRED, STYRING, STYRES]
  24. WANZE – (obsolete) to decrease, waste away [v WANZED, WANZING, WANZES]
  25. ORIEL – a projecting bay window supported with corbel or bracket [n -S]

6 Letter Words:

  1. SIFREI – SEFER, (Hebrew) any book of Hebrew religious literature [n]
  2. MATTIN – (French) a morning prayer service, also MATIN [n -S]
  3. SAULGE – (Spenser) the plant sage [n -S]
  4. CONOID – anything like a cone in form [n -S]
  5. KUMKUM – (Hindi) a red powder used by Hindu women as a cosmetic [n -S]
  6. PHEEZE – to unsettle, also FAZE, FEASE, FEAZE, FEESE, FEEZE, PHEESE, PHESE [v PHEEZED, PHEEZING, PHEEZES]
  7. SNUBBE – (archaic) a snub [n -S]
  8. RAMADA – (Spanish) an outdoor eating area with roof but open sides [n -S]
  9. AEMULE – (Spenser) to emulate, also EMULE [v AEMULED, AEMULING, AEMULES]
  10. PHATIC – relating to a communication meant to generate an atmosphere of social relationship rather than to convey some information [adj PHATICALLY]
  11. LENIFY – (archaic) to mitigate or assuage [v LENIFIED, LENIFYING, LENIFIES]
  12. REDBAY – a small tree [n -S]
  13. DEEPIE – (colloquial) a three-dimensional cinematograph film [n -S]
  14. WHANAU – (Maori) a family, especially an extended one [n -S]
  15. RUBEFY – to redden, also RUBIFY [v RUBEFIED, RUBEFYING, RUBEFIES]
  16. SEPMAG – pertaining to synchronized sound and film [adj]
  17. CHIAUS – to cheat, swindle, also CHOUSH, CHOUSE, CHOWSE [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
  18. PROSIT – (Latin) a toast to good health, also PROST [interj]
  19. THOWEL – an oar pin, also THOWL [n -S]
  20. LARRUP – to flog or thrash [v -ED, -ING, -S]
  21. LUNYIE – (Scots) the guillemot, also LUNGIE [n -S]
  22. DREIDL – (Yiddish) a four-sided toy marked with Hebrew letters and spun like a top; a children’s game of chance played with this esp. at Hanukkah, also DREIDEL
  23. YAOURT – (Turkish) a semisolid, somewhat sour foodstuff, made from milk curdled by the addition of certain bacteria, also YOGHOURT, YOGHURT, YOGOURT, YOGURT
  24. SCAITH – (Old Norse) to injure, also SCATH, SCATHE, SKAITH [v -ED, -ING, -S]
  25. QUICKY – (colloquial) a hurried act of sexual intercourse, also QUICKIE [n QUICKIES]
  26. CURVET – to leap, frisk [v CURVETED or CURVETTED, CURVETING or CURVETTING, CURVETS]

7 Letter Words:

  1. AEONIAN – lasting for aeons, eternal, also AEONIC, EONIAN [adj]
  2. FUCHSIA – a flowering shrub [n -S]
  3. FIASCHI – FIASCO, (Italian) a wine bottle [n]
  4. DORIZED – DORIZE, (Greek) to become like the Dorians, also DORISE [v]
  5. DORTOUR – (archaic) a dormitory, also DORTER [n -S]
  6. CUPOLAR – pertaining to a spherical vault [adj]
  7. CUPULAR – cup-shaped, also CUPULATE [adj]
  8. AMORINI – AMORINO, (Italian) a cupid [n]
  9. RODSTER – (archaic) an angler [n -S]
  10. ROBINIA – a genus of leguminous trees including the common locust of North America [n -S]
  11. CROUPON – the human buttocks [n -S]
  12. WARDROP – (Milton) a wardrobe [n -S]
  13. BEWEARY – to make weary [v BEWEARIED, BEWEARYING, BEWEARIES]
  14. GODROON – to ornament with godroons [v -ED, -ING, -S]
  15. MAYBIRD – an American songbird [n -S]
  16. HOPTOAD – a kind of toad [n -S]
  17. CATFACE – a deformity of fruit [n -S]
  18. PACKMAN – one who bears a pack; a peddler [n PACKMEN]
  19. MANPACK – a pack designed to be carrier by one person [n -S]
  20. ROLLWAY – an incline for rolling logs [n -S]
  21. SKIDWAY – a platform on which logs are piled for sawing [n -S]
  22. CASEASE – an enzyme decomposing the casein in milk and cheese [n -S]
  23. TITLIKE – like a tit [adj]
  24. MISHMEE – the bitter root stock of a plant, also MISHMI [n -S]
  25. ADHARMA – (Sanskrit) unrighteousness (the opposite of dharma) [n -S]
  26. HARAMDA – (Hindi) an illegitimate male, also HARAMZADA [n -S]
  27. MEDRESE – (Arabic) an Islamic college, or school attached to mosque, also MADRASA, MADRASAH, MADRASSA, MADRASSAH, MEDRESA, MEDRESSEH [n -S]
  28. INCHPIN – (obsolete) the sweetbread of a deer [n -S]
  29. FOODOIR – a book or blog that combines a personal memoir with a series of recipes [n -S]

8 Letter Words:

  1. RANGIORA – (Maori) an evergreen New Zealand shrub with large ovate leaves and small greenish-white flowers [n -S]
  2. PIRLICUE – to summarize in conclusion, also PURLICUE [v PIRLICUED, PIRLICUING, PIRLICUES]
  3. CITYWARD – towards the city [adv]
  4. OVERRUFF – at cards, to trump with a higher card than those already played [v -ED, -ING, -S]
  5. DEPRENYL – a drug for treating Parkinson’s disease [n -S]
  6. FRUITAGE – the process of bearing fruit [n -S]
  7. BEAUFFET – (obsolete) a sideboard, also BEAUFET [n -S]
  8. MIRTHFUL – full of mirth [adj MIRTHFULLY]
  9. VEXILLAR – of or like a vexillum, the vane of a feather, also VEXILLATE [adj]
  10. AFFRONTE – (French) in heraldry, facing each other [adj]
  11. UPDARTED – UPDART, to dart up [v]
  12. GAOLLESS – having no gaol, also JAILLESS [adj]
  13. NEOBLAST – a cell important in regeneration of worms [n -S]
  14. BACKBEAT – one of the normally unstressed beats in a musical bar, used as a secondary syncopated beat [n -S]
  15. BABESIAE – BABESIA, a parasite causing cattle fever [n]
  16. SHECHITA – (Hebrew) the slaughtering of animals in accordance with rabbinical law, also SCHECHITA, SCHECHITAH, SHECHITAH, SHEHITA, SHEHITAH [n -S]
  17. INFERIAE – (Latin) offerings to the spirits of the dead [n]
  18. GEMSHORN – (German) a chamois horn used as a wind instrument [n -S]
  19. GINGIVAL – (Latin) pertaining to the fleshy tissue surrounding the teeth [adj]
  20. CANSTICK – (Shakespeare) a candlestick [n -S]
  21. HAPLOPIA – normal vision [n -S]
  22. ADULATOR – one who adulates [n -S]
  23. LANDSLIP – the fall of a mass of earth [n -S]
  24. FOOTLING – FOOTLE, the act of pottering about [n -S]
  25. LOCUTORY – a room in a monastery [n LOCUTORIES]

Daily Scrabble Words 61

February 25, 2022

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  • The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. GOUTTE

n. (French) a drop
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: GETOUT

2. UNHEWN

adj. not hewn

3. TAUPIE

n. (Scots) a foolish or awkward young person
Also: TAWPIE
Back hooks: S

4. KERMIS

n. (Dutch) in Europe, particularly in Belgium and Holland, an outdoor festival and fair; in the United States, generally an indoor entertainment and fair combined
Also: KERMESS, KIRMESS
Plural: KERMISES

5. GIRNEL

n. (Scots) a granary; a large chest or vat for storing grain
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: LERING, LINGER

6. CARFOX

n. a place where four roads meet
Also: CARFAX
Plural: CARFOXES

7. RINGTAW

n. a game of marbles
Back hooks: S

8. COENURI

n. COENURUS, (Greek) a tapeworm larva
Also: COENURE
Anagrams: NOURICE

9. MATOOKE

n. (Bantu) in Uganda, plantain used as a staple food
Also: MATOKE
Back hooks: S

10. FILAZER

n. an officer who files writs
Also: FILACER
Back hooks: S

Daily Scrabble Words 60

February 24, 2022

  • The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. VARUS

n. (Latin) a malformation of a bone or joint
Plural: VARUSES
Anagrams: URVAS

2. DOCENT

n. (German) a college or university teacher or lecturer; a person who leads guided tours esp. through a museum or art gallery
Back hooks: S

3. TZITZIT

n. (Hebrew) the tassels on the four corners of a Jewish prayer shawl
Also: TSITSITH, TZITZIS, TZITZITH, ZIZIT, ZIZITH
Back hooks: H

4. SHIVAH

n. (Hebrew) in Judaism, a period of seven days’ mourning observed after a family member’s funeral
Also: SHIBAH, SHIVA
Back hooks: S

5. JASSID

n. an insect of the leafhopper family
Back hooks: S

6. GLUEISH

adj. (obsolete) somewhat gluey
Also: GLUISH

7. MORICHE

n. (Tupi) a tall South American palm, used as a source of sago, fibre, and (from the sap) wine
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: HOMERIC, MOCHIER

8. LAMEDH

n. (Hebrew) a Hebrew letter
Also: LAMED
Back hooks: S

Daily Scrabble Words 59

February 23, 2022

  • The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. TAMANU

n. (Tahitian) an East Indian tree, yielding tacamahac, a kind of gum resin
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: MANATU, MANTUA

2. SULCAL

adj. like a sulcus, grooved
Anagrams: CALLUS

3. FAVELA

n. (Portuguese) a slum area
Also: FAVELLA
Back hooks: S

4. DROMOI

n. DROMOS, (Greek) a Greek racecourse; an entrance or subterranean passage

5. UNLIME

v. to free from lime
Verb forms: UNLIMED, UNLIMING, UNLIMES
Anagrams: LUMINE

6. WAURST

adj. (Scots) worst
Also: WARST

7. PUNKAH

n. (Hindi) a large palm-leaf fan suspended from the ceiling used esp. in India
Also: PUNKA
Back hooks: S

8. PREWYN

n. (Shakespeare) a prune
Also: PRUINE
Back hooks: S

Daily Scrabble Words 58

February 22, 2022

  • The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. QUAMASH

n. (Native American) a blue-flowered liliaceous plant of northwestern America
Also: CAMAS, CAMASH, CAMASS
Plural: QUAMASHES

2. BOSQUET

n. a thicket, a plantation
Also: BOSK, BOSKET, BOSQUE, BUSKET
Back hooks: S

3. BLAZAR

n. a type of active galaxy that is a more energetic source of radiation than a quasar
Back hooks: S

4. CUNDUM

n. a condom
Back hooks: S

5. CICELY

n. a fragrant herb
Plural: CICELIES

6. HAMULI

n. HAMULUS, (Latin) a small hook

7. HAUYNE

n. a blue mineral, found in lapis lazuli
Back hooks: S

8. CHYLDE

adj. designating a youth of gentle birth, esp. in ballads
Also: CHILDE

Daily Scrabble Words 57

February 21, 2022

  • The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. GRYKE

n. (Old Norse) a crevice in a limestone pavement
Also: GRIKE
Back hooks: S

2. SPEOS

n. (Greek) a grotto-temple or tomb
Plural: SPEOSES
Anagrams: PESOS, POSES, POSSE

3. EVZONE

n. (Modern Greek) a soldier in an elite Greek infantry regiment
Back hooks: S

4. SAXAUL

n. a low, thick, grotesquely contorted tree of the saltbush family found on the steppes of Asia
Also: SAKSAUL
Back hooks: S

5. MIHRAB

n. (Arabic) a niche or slab in a mosque marking the direction of Mecca
Back hooks: S

6. SNUBFIN

adj. as in snubfin dolphin, a species of dolphin with a small stubby dorsal fin

7. TRIPOLI

n. an earthy substance originally brought from Tripoli, used in polishing stones and metals, aka diatomite
Back hooks: S

8. TRISMIC

adj. relating to trismus, lockjaw

Daily Scrabble Words 56

February 20, 2022

  • Today’s words features at least 2 words from every part of speech
  • The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. AFARA

n. (Yoruba) a type of West African tree having a light-coloured, straight-grained wood
Back hooks: S

2. DOGFOX

n. a male fox
Plural: DOGFOXES

3. SYRINX

n. (Greek) the vocal organ of a bird
Plural: SYRINXES

4. CATCHT

v. CATCH, to capture after pursuit

5. ELTCHI

n. (Turkish) an ambassador
Also: ELCHI, ELCHEE
Back hooks: S

6. HOWBEIT

conj. notwithstanding

7. SOBEIT

conj. provided that
Anagrams: BOITES, STOBIE, TOBIES

8. VOETSAK

intej. (South African) offensive, expressing rejection
Also: VOERTSAK, VOERTSEK, VOETSEK

9. THANKEE

intej. (colloquial) thank you

10. INGLOBE

v. to form into a globe
Also: ENGLOBE
Verb forms: INGLOBED, INGLOBING, INGLOBES
Anagrams: IGNOBLE

11. GEARLESS

adj. being without gears
Anagrams: EELGRASS, LARGESSE

12. LARGESS

n. (French) generosity
Also: LARGESSE
Plural: LARGESSES

13. ATISHOO

n. an imitation of the sound of a sneeze
interj. expressing a sneeze
Also: ACHOO, AHCHOO, KERCHOO
Back hooks: S

14. GIDDYAP

intej. used to tell a horse to go faster
Also: GIDDAP, GIDDUP, GIDDYUP

15. WAESUCK

intej. (Scots) interjection used to express pity, alas
Also: WAESUCKS

16. FORNENT

adv. (Scots) right opposite to in location
Also: FERNINST, FOREANENT, FORNENST

17. FOREBYE

prep. (Scots) close by
Also: FORBY, FORBYE, FOREBY

18. CESTUI

pron. in legal phrases, he, the one
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: CUEIST, CUTIES

19. HALAKIC

adj. (Hebrew) pertaining to the halakah
Also: HALACHIC, HALAKHIC

20. ABROACH

adv. (obsolete) open, in a condition to allow liquor to run out

21. ALLYOU

pron. (Caribbean) all of you

22. WHOMSO

pron. the objective case of whoso

23. MAUGER

prep. (archaic) in spite of
Also: MALGRADO, MALGRE, MAUGRE, MAULGRE
Anagrams: MAUGRE, MURAGE
Note: MAUGRE and MAULGRE are used as verbs, and thus have verb forms.