March 31, 2022

• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. MEGAFLOP

n. a measure of computing speed in terms of number of floating point operations per second
Back hooks: S

2. WORDWRAP

n. in computing, a function that shifts a word at the end of a line to a new line in order to keep within preset margins
Back hooks: S

3. FASCINE

n. a long faggot used for engineering purposes
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: FANCIES, FIANCES

4. FLUERIC

adj. pertaining to a branch of mechanical engineering
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: LUCIFER

5. OPORICE

n. (Greek) an old medicine made from summer fruits
Back hooks: S

6. ERRHINE

n. an obsolete medicine, which caused sneezing as a treatment for nasal congestion
Back hooks: S

7. TIMOLOL

n. a relaxant medicine used to treat blood pressure
Back hooks: S

8. COMFREY

n. a boraginaceous plant, having hairy leaves often used in herbal medicine
Back hooks: S

9. DAMIANA

n. a tropical American shrub; a herbal medicine derived from this
Back hooks: S

10. ANODYNE

n. a medicine that relieves pain
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: ANNOYED

11. EXEGETE

n. one versed in the science of exegesis or interpretation
Also: EXEGETIST
Back hooks: S

12. GEODESY

n. the branch of mathematics that deals with the shape and area of the earth
Plural: GEODESIES

13. SUBFUSC

adj. duskish; moderately dark
n. dark, formal clothes worn in combination with the academic gown, esp. at Oxford University
Also: SUBFUSCOUS, SUBFUSK
Back hooks: S

14. PROVOST

n. a high-ranking university official
Back hooks: S

15. CARIERE

n. (obsolete) career
Back hooks: S

16. ULPANIM

n. ULPAN, (Hebrew) a school in Israel for teaching Hebrew

17. GYMSLIP

n. a schoolgirl’s belted tunic
Back hooks: S

18. KAROSHI

n. (Japanese) death caused by overwork
Back hooks: S

19. NETSUKE

n. (Japanese) a small Japanese carved ornament
Back hooks: S

20. MENSHEN

n. (Chinese) a Chinese door god

21. SWANPAN

n. (Chinese) a Chinese abacus
Also: SHWANPAN
Back hooks: S

March 30, 2022

• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. MESHUGA

n. a crazy person
Also: MESHUGAH, MESHUGGA, MESHUGGAH, MESHUGGE
Back hooks: H, S

2. MUGWUMP

n. (Native American) a bolter from the Republican party in 1884; a political independent
Back hooks: S

3. RUBABOO

n. (Canadian) a type of soup
Also: RUBBABOO
Back hooks: S

4. YAPOCK

n. the South American opossum
Also: YAPOK
Back hooks: S

5. QUAGGA

n. (Hottentot) an extinct South African wild ass
Back hooks: S

6. EVANISH

v. to vanish
Verb forms: EVANISHED, EVANISHING, EVANISHES
Anagrams: VAHINES

7. GLAIKIT

adj. (Scots) giddy, foolish
Also: GLAIKET

8. GUITGUIT

n. one of several species of small tropical American birds, allied to the creepers
Back hooks: S

9. BANDURA

n. a twelve-stringed instrument of the lute family
Back hooks: S

10. INTIMAE

n. INTIMA, (Latin) the innermost layer of an organ
Anagrams: MINIATE

11. EMPERCE

v. (Spenser) to pierce
Also: EMPIERCE
Verb forms: EMPERCED, EMPERCING, EMPERCES

12. BASMATI

n. (Hindi) a type of long grain rice
Back hooks: S

13. CARRECT

n. (historical) a large ship of burden
Also: CARACK, CARRACK, CARRACT
Back hooks: S

14. UNBOSOM

v. to pour out; to tell freely
Verb forms: UNBOSOMED, UNBOSOMING, UNBOSOMS

15. ANLAGEN

n. ANLAGE, (German) the first discernible rudiment of an organ

16. CORIOUS

adj. having a leathery appearance
Front hooks: S

17. SCORIAC

adj. like slag
Also: SCORIACEOUS, SCORIOUS

18. STURNUS

n. (Latin) any bird of the starling genus
Plural: STURNUSES
Anagrams: UNTRUSS

19. OSSUARY

n. a depository for the bones of the dead
Also: OSSARIUM
Plural: OSSUARIES
Anagrams: SUASORY

20. HOLLOA

v. to shout out a greeting
Also: HALLO, HALLOA, HALLOO, HELLO, HILLO, HILLOA, HOLLA, HOLLO, HOLLOO, HULLO
Verb forms: HOLLOAED, HOLLOAING, HOLLOAS
Anagrams: HALLOO

21. ETRENNE

n. (French) a New Year’s gift
Back hooks: S

March 29, 2022

• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. BEATNIK

n. a member of the beat generation
Back hooks: S

2. CUSPIDOR

n. (Portuguese) a spittoon
Also: CUSPIDORE
Back hooks: S

3. KARANGA

n. (Maori) a Maori chant of welcome by an elder female
v. to perform such a welcome
Verb forms: KARANGAED, KARANGAING, KARANGAS

4. FUCUSED

adj. painted

5. ASTATKI

n. (Russian) the residue of petroleum distillation, used as fuel
Back hooks: S

6. KANTELE

n. (Finnish) a kind of zither
Also: KANTELA
Back hooks: S

7. BATFOWL

v. to catch birds at night by confusing them with light
Verb forms: BATFOWLED, BATFOWLING, BATFOWLS

8. CACHEXY

n. general ill health
Also: CACHEXIA
Plural: CACHEXIES

9. BILSTED

n. a North American tree of the genus Liquidambar, aka sweet gum
Back hooks: S

10. OCCIPUT

n. (Latin) the back part of the skull
Plural: OCCIPUTS, OCCIPITA

11. SIRGANG

n. a green Asiatic jay-like bird
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: RAGINGS

12. CATHECT

v. to invest with psychic energy
Verb forms: CATHECTED, CATHECTING, CATHECTS

13. AMADOU

n. (French) a tinder made from fungi
Back hooks: S

14. BUCKSAW

n. a large saw in an H-frame
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: SAWBUCK

15. POLYNYA

n. (Russian) open water surrounded by sea ice
Also: POLYNIA
Plural: POLYNYAS, POLYNYI

16. MARYBUD

n. a marigold bud
Back hooks: S

17. OUTROOP

n. (obsolete) an auction sale
Also: OUTROPE
Back hooks: S

18. SYNCOPE

n. (Greek) a contraction of a word by omitting sounds from the middle
Back hooks: S

19. PINTUCK

n. a very narrow fold of fabric
v. to tuck with a pintuck
Verb forms: PINTUCKED, PINTUCKING, PINTUCKS
Anagrams: NUTPICK

20. LUCHOTH

n. LUACH, (Hebrew) an inscribed tablet of Commandments

March 28, 2022

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1. TAUPATA

n. (Maori) a New Zealand tree with shiny dark green leaves
Back hooks: S

2. CARDUUS

n. (Shakespeare) a thistle
Plural: CARDUUSES

3. RIGGISH

adj. (Shakespeare) wanton
Front hooks: P

4. CHAMPAC

n. (Hindi) an East Indian tree of the magnolia family, sacred to Hindus
Also: CHAMPACA, CHAMPAK
Back hooks: S

5. ROWLOCK

n. a device for holding an oar in place
Back hooks: S

6. KHEDIVA

n. the wife of a khedive (a Turkish viceroy)
Back hooks: L, S
See also: KHEDIVE, KHEDIVIAL

7. RONTGEN

n. (German) the international unit of dose of X-rays
Also: ROENTGEN
Back hooks: S

8. CHEWET

n. (obsolete) a kind of meat pie
Back hooks: S

9. ECLOSED

v. ECLOSE, to emerge from a pupal case
Front hooks: R

10. AMIDSHIP

adv. toward the middle of the ship
Also: ADMISHIPS
See also: MIDSHIP

11. DIEBACK

n. a gradual dying of plant shoots
Back hooks: S

12. VAUNCED

v. VAUNCE, (Spenser) to advance

13. CULICID

n. a mosquito
Also: CULEX, CULICINE
Back hooks: S

14. DAGOBA

n. (Sinhalese) a Buddhist memorial shrine
Also: DAGABA
Back hooks: S

15. TALIPOT

n. (Sinhalese) a very tall southern Indian fan palm with enormous leaves which are used as sunshades etc.
Also: TALIPAT
Back hooks: S

16. CULMINA

n. CULMEN, (Latin) the top ridge of a bird’s bill

17. BAYWOOD

n. a coarse mahogany
Back hooks: S

18. APHELIA

n. APHELION, (Greek) the farthest point of a planet’s orbit from the sun
Back hooks: N

19. PLOWBOY

n. a boy who drives or guides horses in ploughing
Also: PLOUGHBOY
Back hooks: S

20. STRAIK

v. to stroke
Also: STRAKE
Verb forms: STRAIKED, STRAIKING, STRAIKS

March 27, 2022

• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. SHIKARA

n. (Hindi) a light, flat-bottomed boat in Kashmir
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: HAKARIS, KARAHIS

2. CACHACA

n. a white Brazilian rum made from sugarcane
Back hooks: S

3. JABIRU

n. (Tupi) one of several large wading birds allied to the storks
Back hooks: S

4. CAULINE

adj. pertaining to a stem
Front hooks: A

5. HALLYON

n. (Scots) a lout or lazy rascal
Also: HALLIAN, HALLION
Back hooks: S

6. DAYLILY

n. a liliaceous plant genus, whose flowers last for one day only
Plural: DAYLILIES

7. LIGNITE

n. brown coal, a stage in the conversion of vegetable matter into coal
Back hooks: S

8. FIRRIER

adj. FIRRY, abounding in firs

9. ORRAMAN

n. (Scots) a worker, esp. on a farm, who does odd jobs
Plural: ORRAMEN
Anagrams: MARRANO

10. CHROMEL

n. an alloy of nickel and chromium
Back hooks: S

11. TACHYON

n. a theoretical elementary particle moving faster than light
Back hooks: S

12. SOUBISE

n. (French) a sauce made with onions or onion puree
Back hooks: S

13. WROUGHT

v. WORK, to toil in mind or body

14. EIRACK

n. (Gaelic) a young hen
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: CAKIER

15. LACONIC

adj. brief with words
Also: LACONICAL
Adverb form: LACONICALLY
Anagrams: CONICAL

16. ISOGRAM

n. a map line indicating points of equal value
Also: ISOLINE
Back hooks: S

17. UNCHILD

v. (Shakespeare) to change from being a child
Verb forms: UNCHILDED, UNCHILDING, UNCHILDS

18. VICTRIX

n. (Latin) a female victor
Also: VICTORESS, VICTRESS
Plural: VICTRIXES

19. MUTANDA

n. MUTANDUM, (Latin) something to be altered
Anagrams: TAMANDU

20. MANILLE

n. (French) in the card games ombre and quadrille, the highest card but one
Back hooks: S

March 26, 2022

• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. METHINK

v. it seems to me
Also: METHINKETH, METHINKS
Verb forms: METHOUGHT, METHINKS

2. CITHARA

n. (Greek) an ancient Greek musical instrument like a lyre
Also: KITHARA
Back hooks: S

3. REVEUSE

n. (French) a (female) daydreamer
Back hooks: S
See also: REVEUR

4. SUCCADE

n. a candied fruit, a sweetmeat
Also: SUCKET
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: ACCUSED

5. SWAGMEN

n. SWAGMAN, a hobo
Also: SWAGGIE

6. CROZER

n. a tool used in barrel-making
Also: CROZE
Back hooks: S

7. SEYSURE

n. (Shakespeare) a seizure
Also: SEASURE, SEISURE, SEIZURE
Back hooks: S

8. ODALISK

n. (French) a female slave; a concubine in a harem
Also: ODALIQUE, ODALISQUE
Back hooks: S

9. LEMPIRA

n. a monetary unit of Honduras
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: IMPALER, IMPEARL, PALMIER

10. HAVEREL

n. (Scots) a foolish person
Back hooks: S

11. ENOMOTY

n. (Greek) a band of sworn soldiers in the Spartan army
Plural: ENOMOTIES

12. ASPHYXY

v. to suffer defective aeration of the blood caused by failure of the oxygen supply
Also: ASPHYXIA, ASPHYXIATE
Verb forms: ASPHYXIED, ASPHYXYING, ASPHYXIES

13. BUTYRAL

n. a kind of resin
Back hooks: S

14. CILIATE

n. a member of the Ciliata, a subclass of Protozoa
adj. possessing cilia
Also: CILIATED
Adverb form: CILIATELY
Back hooks: D, S

15. PILULA

n. (Latin) a small pill
Also: PILULE
Plural: PILULAS, PILULAE
Anagrams: PILLAU

16. RETABLO

n. a shelf or ornamental setting for panels behind an altar
Also: RETABLE
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: BLOATER

17. MODIOLI

n. MODIOLUS, (Latin) a bony shaft of the inner ear

18. FOGYISM

n. an outlook like a fogy
Also: FOGEYISM
Back hooks: S

19. COWTOWN

n. a rural town or city in a cattle-raising area
Back hooks: S

20. POMATUM

v. to apply a kind of ointment to the hair
Also: POMADE
Verb forms: POMATUMED, POMATUMING, POMATUMS

March 25, 2022

• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. VERBOTEN

adj. (German) forbidden

2. VENENE

n. medicine from snake venom
Back hooks: S
See also: VENENOSE

3. SALTATO

n. (Italian) a short, bouncing bow stroke resulting in a staccato sound
Also: SALTANDO
Back hooks: S

4. HOODIA

n. an African plant whose sap suppresses appetite
Back hooks: S

5. DROUTHY

adj. dry
Also: DROUGHTY
Comparative and superlative: DROUTHIER, DROUTHIEST

6. CHEEWINK

n. an American bird of the finch family, so called from its note
Also: CHEWINK
Back hooks: S

7. OCHREATE

adj. having an ochrea, a scarious sheath round a stem
Also: OCREATE

8. INSINEW

v. (Shakespeare) to be joined as with sinews
Verb forms: INSINEWED, INSINEWING, INSINEWS

9. BRAUNCH

v. to spread like a tree branch
Also: BRANCH
Verb forms: BRAUNCHED, BRAUNCHING, BRAUNCHES

10. SYMBOLE

n. (obsolete) a cymbal
Back hooks: D, S

11. ALVEOLE

n. a small body cavity
Also: ALVEOLUS
Back hooks: S

12. PEEKABO

n. a peeping game played by small children
Also: PEEKABOO
Back hooks: O, S

13. SAKERET

n. the male saker
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: RETAKES

14. GNOSTIC

adj. knowing; wise; shrewd
n. one who knows
Also: GNOSTICAL
Adverb form: GNOSTICALLY
Front hooks: A
Back hooks: S

15. KANGHA

n. (Punjabi) a coloured cotton cloth worn as a dress
Also: KANGA, KHANGA
Back hooks: S

16. MINILAB

n. a retail outlet offering rapid on-site film development
Back hooks: S

17. CUTWORM

n. a caterpillar, esp. of the moth genus Agrotis, that feeds on the stems of young plants
Back hooks: S

18. LEISHER

adj. LEISH, (Scots) active, supple

March 24, 2022

• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. MARCATO

n. a musical passage with strong accentuation
Back hooks: S

2. DETRUSOR

n. a muscle in the wall of the bladder that contracts when the bladder is full
Back hooks: S

3. EUPNOEA

n. normal breathing
Also: EUPNEA
Back hooks: S

4. TWASOME

n. (Scots) a twosome
Back hooks: S

5. ZEMSTVA

n. ZEMSTVO, (Russian) an elected local administrative council in Czarist Russia

6. MEDUSAN

n. a jellyfish
Also: MEDUSA, MEDUSOID
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: SUDAMEN

7. ELATIVE

n. a grammatical case indicating movement away from
Front hooks: R
Back hooks: S

8. SEABLITE

n. a salt-marsh plant
Back hooks: S

9. SERAGLIO

n. (Italian) a harem
Also: SERAIL
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: GASOLIER, GIRASOLE

10. FLUIEST

adj. FLUEY, infected with the flu
Anagrams: SULFITE

11. JEMADAR

n. (Urdu) in the native army of India, an officer of a rank corresponding to that of lieutenant in the English army
Also: JAMADAR, JEMIDAR
Back hooks: S

12. BAWCOCK

n. (Shakespeare) a fine fellow
Back hooks: S

13. EMPEACH

v. (Spenser) to accuse of impropriety
Also: IMPEACH
Verb forms: EMPEACHED, EMPEACHING, EMPEACHES

14. ENCHEER

v. (archaic) to cheer or comfort
Verb forms: ENCHEERED, ENCHEERING, ENCHEERS

15. UNFILDE

adj. (Spenser) not rubbed with a file
Anagrams: UNFILED

16. DORYMAN

n. one that fishes from a dory
Plural: DORYMEN

17. STREPENT

adj. (Latin) noisy

March 23, 2022

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1. HEXAPLA

n. (Greek) a book of six (especially Biblical) parallel texts
Back hooks: R, S
See also: HEXAPLARIAN, HEXAPLARIC

2. TRESSEL

n. a support consisting of a horizontal beam and sloping legs
Also: TREST, TRESTLE
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: STREELS

3. HEMIONE

n. an Asiatic wild ass, aka kiang or dziggetai
Also: HEMIONUS
Back hooks: S

4. PIROQUE

n. (Caribbean) a dugout canoe
Also: PERIAGUA, PIRAGUA, PIROGUE
Back hooks: S

5. FADAISE

n. (French) an obvious or silly remark
Back hooks: S

6. WARMIST

n. a person, esp. a scientist, who believes in global warming and the greenhouse effect
Back hooks: S

7. FAVICON

n. a 16 x 16 pixel square icon associated with a particular website or webpage
Back hooks: S

8. INFARCT

n. a portion of dead and scarred tissue in an organ resulting from congestion or blockage of a blood vessel serving it
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: FRANTIC, INFRACT

9. CHAGRIN

v. (French) to humiliate
Verb forms: CHAGRINED, CHAGRINNED, CHAGRINING, CHAGRINNING, CHAGRINS
Anagrams: ARCHING, CHARING

10. FROGBIT

n. a kind of water-plant with roundish leaves and small white flowers
Back hooks: S

11. IGARAPE

n. (Tupi) a canoe waterway in Brazil
Back hooks: S

12. PELLACH

n. (Scots) a porpoise
Also: PELLOCK, PELLACK
Back hooks: S

13. UTOPIAST

n. one who believes in utopia
Also: UTOPIAN, UTOPIST
Back hooks: S

14. PERAEON

n. (Greek) a crustacean’s thorax
Also: PEREION, PEREON
Plural: PERAEONS, PERAEA

March 22, 2022

• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. JARKMEN

n. JARKMAN, (archaic) a vagabond who fabricates counterfeit passes, licenses and certificates for others

2. KUNJOOS

adj. (Hinglish) mean or stingy

3. JOCKNEY

n. the Scots dialect influenced by cockney speech patterns
Back hooks: S

4. JACARE

n. (Tupi) the caiman
Back hooks: S

5. JONNOCK

adj. straightforward, honest
Also: JANNOCK

6. JAMDANI

n. (Urdu) a kind of Dacca muslin
Back hooks: S

7. JARHEAD

n. an American marine soldier
Back hooks: S

8. JAYCEE

n. a member of a Junior Chamber of Commerce, an organization that promotes business skills for young people
Back hooks: S

9. JAYVEE

n. a junior varsity player
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: VEEJAY

10. JAYGEE

n. a military officer
Back hooks: S

11. JACKSIE

n. (slang) the posterior
Also: JAXY, JAXIE, JACKSY
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: JACKIES

12. JAMPANI

n. (Bengali) an Indian sedan chair bearer
Also: JAMPANEE
Back hooks: S
See also: JAMPAN

13. JALAPIC

adj. pertaining to jalap, the purgative root of a Mexican plant

14. JEWFISH

n. a large marine fish of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico
Plural: JEWFISHES