July 22, 2022

• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. AQUACADE

n. an exhibition of swimming and diving skills
Back hooks: S

2. ACAUDATE

adj. tailless
Also: ACAUDAL

3. AGUACATE

n. (Nahuatl) the avocado pear
Back hooks: S

4. PAHAUTEA

n. (Maori) a small pyramid-shaped New Zealand conifer
Back hooks: S

5. HOOPOO

n. a short-legged perching bird of Africa and Eurasia, having a prominent crest
Also: HOOPOE
Back hooks: S

6. MOOLOO

n. (New Zealand) someone from the Waikato
Back hooks: S

7. ZOOZOO

n. the wood-pigeon
Back hooks: S

8. GOOROO

n. (Hindi) a Hindu spiritual teacher
Also: GURU
Back hooks: S

9. OUABAIN

n. (Somali) a poisonous alkaloid
Also: WABAIN
Back hooks: S

10. EOLOPILE

n. the first steam engine, with a globe made to revolve by steam jets
Also: AEOLIPILE, AEOLIPYLE, EOLIPILE
Back hooks: S

July 21, 2022

• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. GARAGEY

adj. in the garage style of music
Comparative and superlative: GARAGIER, GARAGIEST

2. DRAYAGE

n. transportation by dray
Anagrams: YARDAGE
Back hooks: S

3. BEDROPT

adj. sprinkled as with drops

4. GONIDIA

n. GONIDIUM, an algal cell in a lichen
Back hooks: L

5. REPRYVE

v. (Spenser) to reprieve
Also: REPREEVE, REPRIVE
Verb forms: REPRYVED, REPRYVING, REPRYVES

6. TURLOUGH

n. (Irish) a pond that dries up in summer
Back hooks: S

7. BOFFOLA

n. a hearty laugh
Also: BOFFO
Back hooks: S

8. KAUMATUA

n. (Maori) a tribal elder
Back hooks: S

9. KAREAREA

n. (Maori) a New Zealand falcon
Back hooks: S

10. CAMAIEU

n. (French) a cameo
Back hooks: X

July 20, 2022

• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. DROICHY

adj. (Gaelic) dwarfish
Comparative and superlative: DROICHIER, DROICHIEST

2. GOSPORT

n. a communication device in an airplane
Back hooks: S

3. MEGASSE

n. (French) crushed sugarcane
Also: MEGASS
Anagrams: MESSAGE
Back hooks: S

4. PEYOTE

n. (Nahuatl) a hallucinogen derived from cactus
Back hooks: S

5. SOROCHE

n. (Quechua) mountain sickness
Anagrams: CHOOSER
Back hooks: S

6. STIEVELY

adv. STIEVE, (Scots) stiff, firm
Also: STEEVE

7. APPUY

v. (French) to give military support
Also: APPUI
Verb forms: -ED, -ING, -S

8. TRITIUM

n. an isotope of hydrogen
Back hooks: S

9. LAIRIZE

v. (Australian) to act like a flashy man
Also: LAIRISE
Verb forms: LAIRIZED, LAIRIZING, LAIRIZES

10. POLYGALA

n. any plant of the milkwort genus Polygala
Back hooks: S

July 19, 2022

• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. HOMEOSES

n. HOMEOSIS, the assumption of the character of a corresponding member of another whorl or somite
Also: HOMOEOSIS

2. DIPLONT

n. an organism with a particular chromosomal structure
Back hooks: S

3. WOODNOTE

n. (Milton) a wild musical note, like that of a songbird
Also: WOODTONE
Back hooks: S

4. TRYSAIL

n. a ship’s sail bent to a gaff and hoisted on a lower mast
Back hooks: S

5. ALAMODE

n. (French) a light glossy silk fabric
Back hooks: S

6. TUSSORE

n. (Hindi) a fawn-coloured silk made from wild Indian silkworms
Also: TASAR, TUSSAH, TUSSAR, TUSSEH, TUSSER, TUSSOR, TUSSUR
Back hooks: S

7. REPOSURE

n. (Shakespeare) repose
Back hooks: S

8. FLYBELT

n. an area infested with tsetse flies
Back hooks: S

9. MINXISH

adj. like a minx, pert

10. EUPHUIZE

v. to write in an affected literary style
Also: EUPHUISE
Verb forms: EUPHUIZED, EUPHUIZING, EUPHUIZES

July 18, 2022

• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. INDUNA

n. (Zulu) a South African tribal councillor
Back hooks: S

2. BIBASIC

adj. of acids, having two replaceable hydrogen atoms
Also: DIBASIC

3. SASANQUA

n. (Japanese) a kind of camellia
Back hooks: S

4. SKIEYER

adj. SKIEY, resembling the sky
Also: SKYEY

5. VIATICA

n. VIATICUM, (Latin) an allowance for travelling expenses
Also: VIATICUMS

6. IMMEW

v. to confine, mew up, as a hawk in mews
Also: EMMEW, ENMEW
Verb forms: -ED, -ING, -S

7. ELFLAND

n. the land of the elves
Back hooks: S

8. EDITRIX

n. a female editor
Also: EDITRESS
Plural: EDITRICES, EDITRIXES

9. ZOOGRAFT

n. animal tissue grafted onto a human
Back hooks: S

10. MACCHIE

n. MACCHIA, (Italian) a dense growth of small trees and shrubs

July 16, 2022

• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. MURAENID

n. an eel of the family Muraenidae
Back hooks: S

2. VAVASOR

n. a knight, noble etc. with vassals under him who is himself the vassal of a greater noble
Also: VALVASSOR, VAVASOUR, VAVASSOR
Back hooks: S, Y

3. MOSTWHAT

adv. (Spenser) for the most part

4. SCAZON

n. (Greek) a choliamb
Also: SCAZONTIC
Plural: SCAZONS, SCAZONTES

5. WHITLOW

n. an inflammation of finger or toe
Back hooks: S

6. PEREGAL

n. (obsolete) an equal
Back hooks: S

7. LUCUMO

n. (Latin) an Etruscan prince
Plural: LUCUMOS, LUCUMONES

8. OSCULUM

n. (Latin) a small mouthlike opening e.g. in a sponge
Also: OSCULE
Plural: OSCULA

9. TELSONIC

adj. relating to a telson, the last segment of the abdomen in many arthropods

10. ROSAKER

n. (obsolete) a bright-red monoclinic mineral, now called realgar
Back hooks: S

July 9, 2022

• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. CHABOUK

n. (Urdu) a type of horsewhip
Also: CHABUK
Back hooks: S

2. TEENYBOP

adj. pertaining to a young teenager

3. NERVURE

n. a vascular ridge on a leaf
Also: NERVULE
Back hooks: S

4. AMREETA

n. (Sanskrit) a drink which bestows immortality in Hindu mythology
Also: AMRIT, AMRITA
Back hooks: S

5. ENDLANG

adv. (Scots) endlong, lengthwise
Also: ENDLONG

6. VIDIMUS

n. (Latin) an attested copy; inspection of accounts
Plural: VIDIMUSES

7. BULIMUS

n. (Greek) an eating disorder in which binge eating is followed by depression and guilt, self-induced vomiting and purging, etc.
Also: BULIMIA, BULIMY
Plural: BULIMUSES

8. PELLMELL

n. a jumbled mass
Back hooks: S

9. OCCAMY

n. an alloy imitating gold or silver
Plural: OCCAMIES

10. WALLAH

n. (Hindi) a person who is associated with a particular work or who performs a particular duty or service – usually used in combination
Also: WALLA
Back hooks: S

11. POLYADIC

adj. of a mathematical function, taking several arguments, cf. monadic
Anagrams: POLYACID

July 8, 2022

• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. CONEPATL

n. a skunk
Also: CONEPATE
Back hooks: S

2. WATCHET

n. (archaic) a pale blue material
Back hooks: S

3. POPADUM

n. (Tamil) a thin circle of dough fried in oil until crisp
Also: PAPADAM, PAPADOM, PAPADUM, PAPPADAM, PAPPADOM, PAPPADUM, POPPADOM, POPPADUM, PUPPODUM
Back hooks: S

4. OOTHECA

n. (Greek) the egg case of certain insects
Plural: OOTHECAE

5. SPAVIET

adj. relating to a spavie

6. DRONGO

n. (Australian slang) a no-hoper
Plural: DRONGOS, DRONGOES

7. KRUBUT

n. a malodorous tropical plant
Also: KRUBI
Back hooks: S

8. OERLIKON

n. (Swiss) a type of antiaircraft cannon
Back hooks: S

9. BERBERIS

n. a flowering shrub
Plural: BERBERISES

10. INSWATHE

v. to wrap around
Also: ENSWATHE
Verb forms: INSWATHED, INSWATHING, INSWATHES

11. FLOOIE

adj. awry
Also: FLOOEY

July 7, 2022

• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. SAZERAC

n. a cocktail based on pernod and whisky
Back hooks: S

2. TARAMEA

n. (Maori) a variety of New Zealand spear-grass
Back hooks: S

3. BATTERO

n. (Shakespeare) a cudgel
Back hooks: S

4. CERVEZA

n. (Spanish) beer
Back hooks: S

5. ZEDOARY

n. the medicinal root of a tropical plant
Plural: ZEDOARIES

6. STARETZ

n. (Russian) an Eastern Orthodox spiritual advisor
Plural: STARETZES

7. ALFEREZ

n. (Arabic) a standard-bearer
Plural: ALFERECES

8. CARDUUS

n. (Shakespeare) a thistle
Plural: CARDUUSES

9. TRIDUUM

n. (Latin) a period of three days of prayer preceding Roman Catholic feasts
Back hooks: S

10. BALNEAL

adj. of or pertaining to a bath

11. ALENCON

n. (French) a needlepoint lace
Back hooks: S