February 12, 2022

• Today’s words all contain the prefix ANTI.
• Previously in various word lists, the words ANTISAG, ANTIPOT, ANTICAR, ANTIVAX, ANTIHERO, ANTIPOLE, and ANTIFOG were featured.
• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. ANTIAIR

adj. directed against attacking aircraft

2. ANTIBUG

adj. effective against bugs
Anagrams: TABUING

3. ANTIFA

n. an antifascist organization; a member of an antifascist organization
Back hooks: S, T

4. ANTIFAT

adj. designed to reduce fat

5. ANTIFLU

adj. combating the flu
Anagrams: FLUTINA

6. ANTIFUR

adj. opposed to wearing animal fur

7. ANTIGAY

adj. opposed to homosexuals

8. ANTIGUN

adj. opposed to guns

9. ANTIJAM

adj. designed to prevent jamming of signals

10. ANTIMAN

n. a homosexual man
Plural: ANTIMEN

11. ANTITAX

adj. opposed to taxes

12. ANTIWAR

adj. opposed to war

February 11, 2022

• Today’s words are all very super.
• Previously, ScrabList #17 featured several super words: SUPERLOO, SUPERSEX, SUPEREGO, SUPERBAD, and SUPERGUN.
• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. SUPERATE

v. (obsolete) to overcome, surmount
Verb forms: SUPERATED, SUPERATING, SUPERATES
Anagrams: EPURATES

2. SUPERHIT

n. something exceedingly successful
Back hooks: S

3. SUPERJET

n. a type of jet airplane
Back hooks: S

4. SUPERMOM

n. a superior mother
Back hooks: S

5. SUPERPRO

n. a superior professional
Back hooks: S

6. SUPERSPY

n. a superior spy
Plural: SUPERSPIES

7. SUPERADD

v. to add further
Verb forms: SUPERADDED, SUPERADDING, SUPERADDS

8. SUPERCOP

n. a superior police officer
Back hooks: S

9. SUPERCELL

n. an unusually large storm cell; a severe storm generated by such a cell
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: CUPELLERS

10. SUPERCHIC

adj. very chic

11. SUPERCUTE

adj. very cute

12. SUPERACUTE

adj. exceptionally acute

13. SUPERETTE

n. (New Zealand) a small local supermarket
Back hooks: S

14. SUPERGOOD

adj. very good

15. SUPERHIVE

n. a removable upper part of a beehive
Back hooks: S

16. SUPERJOCK

n. a very good athlete
Back hooks: S

17. SUPERMALE

n. an excessively macho male
Back hooks: S
See also: SUPERFEMALE, SUPERMAN, SUPERWOMAN, SUPERHUMAN

18. SUPERMINI

n. a small car with a good standard of performance and comfort
Back hooks: S

19. SUPERMICRO

n. a very small micro computer
Back hooks: S

20. SUPERSAUR

n. a very large dinosaur
Back hooks: S

21. SUPERSTUD

n. an exceptionally virile male
Back hooks: S

22. SUPERWAIF

n. an extremely thin and childlike young fashion model
Back hooks: S

23. SUPERWIFE

n. an exceptional wife who combines a career with running a home
Plural: SUPERWIVES

24. SUPERPIMP

n. a pimp controlling other pimps
Back hooks: S

25. SUPERSLICK

adj. very slick

26. SUPERBITCH

n. (offensive) a highly-placed aggressive female
Plural: SUPERBITCHES

27. SUPERBOARD

n. a board above other boards
Back hooks: S

28. SUPEREXALT

v. to exalt to a superior degree
Verb forms: SUPEREXALTED, SUPEREXALTING, SUPEREXALTS

29. SUPERHYPE

v. to subject to an exceptional degree of hype
Verb forms: SUPERHYPED, SUPERHYPING, SUPERHYPES

30. SUPEROXIDE

n. a peroxide, an oxide with the highest proportion of oxygen
Back hooks: S

31. SUPERPHONE

n. a telephone with a high-speed processor that can perform many of the functions of a computer
Back hooks: S

32. SUPERTRAM

n. a very superior tram
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: SUPERMART

33. SUPERSAVER

n. an exceptional bargain in a supermarket
Back hooks: S

34. SUPERRACE

n. a race that dominates, or thinks it has the right to dominate, other inferior races
Back hooks: S

35. SUPERMACHO

adj. very macho

February 10, 2022

• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. DUMDUM

n. a soft-nosed expanding bullet
Back hooks: S

2. VANMAN

n. a man who drives a van
Plural: VANMEN

3. AMTMAN

n. (German) in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Scandinavia, a district magistrate
Also: AMMAN
Back hooks: S

4. CAGMAG

v. to chat idly
Verb forms: CAGMAGGED, CAGMAGGING, CAGMAGS

5. FENMEN

n. FENMAN, a fen country resident

6. TAATA

n. (East Africa) a child’s word for father
Front hooks: A
Back hooks: S

7. COHOSH

n. a perennial American herb whose rootstock is used in medicine
Plural: COHOSHES

8. ALCAIC

n. (Greek) a type of verse form
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: CICALA

9. ESCROC

n. (French) a swindler
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: CEROCS, RECCOS, SOCCER

10. PYURIA

n. the presence of pus in the urine
Back hooks: S

11. OVERREN

v. (archaic) to overrun
Verb forms: OVERRAN, OVERRUN, OVERRENNING, OVERRENS

February 9, 2022

• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. CAHOW

n. a large rare petrel which breeds in Bermuda
Back hooks: S

2. FOWTH

n. (Scots) abundance
Also: FOUTH
Back hooks: S

3. ATABEG

n. (Turkish) a Turkish ruler or high official
Also: ATABEK
Back hooks: S
Anagrams: TEABAG

4. CURTANA

n. a sword without a point, symbolic of mercy
Back hooks: S

5. DALEDH

n. (Hebrew) the fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Also: DALED, DALETH
Back hooks: S

6. SAIMIRI

n. (Tupi) a squirrel monkey
Back hooks: S

7. LAUWINE

n. (German) an avalanche
Also: LAWINE
Back hooks: S

8. MOCOCK

n. (Native American) a North American bark box
Also: MOCUCK
Back hooks: S

9. PAPILLA

n. (Latin) a nipple-like projection
Back hooks: E, R

10. ROGALLO

n. a light and flexible hang glider wing
Back hooks: S

11. BAALEBOS

n. (Yiddish) master of the house
Plural: BAALEBATIM

12. OUTFABLE

v. to surpass in fabling
Verb forms: OUTFABLED, OUTFABLING, OUTFABLES

13. HAVEOUR

n. (obsolete) behaviour, demeanour
Also: HAVIOR, HAVIOUR
Back hooks: S

14. GLENOID

adj. slightly cupped; socket-shaped
n. a cup-shaped socket
Also: GLENOIDAL
Back hooks: S

15. GADOID

n. a member of the cod family
Also: GADID
Back hooks: S

16. WATCHA

interj. (colloquial) what are you, used as a greeting
Also: WHATCHA, WOTCHA, WOTCHER
Anagrams: AWATCH

February 8, 2022

• Commencing this post, the CSW21 lexicon and Zyzzyva version will be used. Older posts may not reflect this, and may contain removed words. All deletions made in CSW21 can be found here. (Some have been marked as such but I may have missed a few)
• The external links page has been updated.
• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.2.0

1. GAYETY

n. festive activity
Also: GAIETY
Plural: GAYETIES

2. AYAYA

n. (Inuit) a type of singing among the Inuit
Back hooks: S

3. GRYESY

adj. (Spenser) grim
Also: GRISY, GRIESIE, GRIESY, GRYSIE

4. WHEYEY

adj. like whey
Also: WHEYISH
Comparative and superlative: WHEYIER, WHEYIEST

5. YOWLEY

n. the yellowhammer
Also: YELDRING, YELDROCK, YOLDRING, YORLING
Back hooks: S

6. MOYITY

n. (Spenser) moiety
Plural: MOYITIES

7. GAYSOME

adj. full of gaiety

8. LADYFY

v. to make a lady of
Also: LADIFY
Verb forms: LADYFIED, LADYFYING, LADYFIES

9. DAYBOY

n. a boy who attends classes at a boarding school, but does not live in
Back hooks: S

10. BRYONY

n. a wild climbing plant of the gourd family
Also: BRIONY
Plural: BRYONIES

11. CITYFY

v. to adapt to the city
Also: CITYFY
Verb forms: CITIFIED, CITIFYING, CITIFIES

12. FOREPAST

adj. (obsolete) former, bygone
Also: FOREPASSED

July 29, 2021

• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.1.1.

1. CAJUPUT

n. (Malay) a volatile oil, distilled from the leaves of an East Indian tree
Also: CAJAPUT, CAJEPUT, KAJEPUT
Back hooks: S

2. VICUNA

n. (Quechua) a wild wool-bearing llama-like animal of the Andes
Also: VICUGNA
Back hooks: S

3. OEUVRE

n. (French) the sum of an artist’s life work
Back hooks: S

4. MEVROU

n. (South African) a title of respect for a woman
Back hooks: S

5. EVOVAE

n. (Latin) a name for a Gregorian cadence
Also: EUOUAE
Back hooks: S

6. FEHMIC

adj. pertaining to a fehm, a mediaeval German court
Also: VEHMIC, VEHMIQUE

July 28, 2021

• Today’s words all Native Australian.
• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.1.1.

1. YIDAKI

n. (Native Australian) a long wooden wind instrument played by the Aboriginal people of Arnhem Land
Back hooks: S

2. WIRRAH

n. (Native Australian) a saltwater fish with bright blue spots
Anagrams: WHIRRA
Back hooks: S

3. BROLGA

n. (Native Australian) a large grey Australian crane
Back hooks: S

4. MURREE

n. (Native Australian) a native Australian
Also: MURRI
Back hooks: S

5. KOOLAH

n. (Native Australian) a small furry Australian marsupial
Also: KOALA, COALA
Back hooks: S

6. GUNYAH

n. (Native Australian) an Australian aborigine’s hut
Back hooks: S

7. GHILGAI

n. (Native Australian) a saucer-shaped depression forming a natural reservoir
Also: GILGAI
Back hooks: S

8. EUMUNG

n. (Native Australian) an Australian acacia
Also: EUMONG
Back hooks: S

9. BUNYIP

n. (Native Australian) a fabulous monster of swamps and lagoons
Back hooks: S

10. BOGONG

n. (Native Australian) a noctuid moth eaten by Australian aborigines
Also: BUGONG
Back hooks: S

11. WUDJULA

n. (Native Australian) a non-aboriginal person
Back hooks: S

12. WONGI

v. (Native Australian) to talk or chat
Anagrams: OWING
Verb extensions: WONGIS, WONGIED, WONGIING

13. BELAH

n. (Native Australian) an Australian tree of the Casuarina genus, aka beefwood
Also: BELAR
Anagrams: HABLE
Back hooks: S

14. ADJIGO

n. (Native Australian) an Australian edible yam
Back hooks: S

June 21, 2021

• Today’s words all contain the letters J and M.
• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.1.1.

1. JACAMAR

n. (Tupi) any of various small insectivorous birds of tropical South America, with partly iridescent plumage
Back hooks: S

2. MAJAGUA

n. a forest tree of Cuba and Jamaica having variably hairy leaves and orange-yellow or orange-red flower
Back hooks: S

3. JAMBIYA

n. (Arabic) a Middle Eastern curved dagger
Also: JAMBIYAH
Back hooks: H, S

4. JAMAAT

n. (Arabic) an Islamic council or assembly
Back hooks: S

5. MOJARRA

n. (Spanish) any of various small percoid fishes of the family Gerreidae
Back hooks: S

6. MUSJID

n. (Arabic) a mosque
Also: MASJID
Back hooks: S

7. JOCKDOM

n. the world of athletes
Back hooks: S

8. LOGJAM

n. a tangled mass of logs, any blockage
v. to cause a logjam
Verb extensions: LOGJAMS, LOGJAMMED, LOGJAMMING

9. JOBNAME

n. a computer code for a job instruction
Anagrams: JAMBONE
Back hooks: S

10. MAATJES

n. (Danish) a young herring, treated, and served as an hors d’oeuvre
Also: MATJES

June 20, 2021

• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.1.1.

1. PERICON

n. (Spanish) an Argentinian folk-dance performed by couples dancing in a ring
Anagrams: PONCIER, PORCINE
Plural: PERICONES

2. PENTITO

n. (Italian) in Italy, a Mafia criminal who has become a police informer
Plural: PENTITI

3. CHAEBOL

n. (Korean) a group of businesses in Korea owned by one family
Back hooks: S

4. HAPKIDO

n. (Japanese) a Korean martial art
Back hooks: S

June 19, 2021

• Today’s words are all Japanese.
• The definitions below were obtained from Collins Zyzzyva 5.1.1.

1. SOKAIYA

n. (Japanese) in Japan, a corporate racketeer

2. CHANOYU

n. (Japanese) a tea ceremony
Also: CHADO, CHANOYO, SADO
Back hooks: S

3. DAIMOKU

n. (Japanese) a Buddhist chant
Back hooks: S

4. ZAITECH

n. (Japanese) the commercial practice of investing in financial markets to augment a company’s normal earnings
Back hooks: S

5. KIRIMON

n. (Japanese) a Japanese imperial crest with leaves and flowers
Back hooks: S

6. DOHYO

n. (Japanese) a sumo wrestling ring
Anagrams: HOODY
Back hooks: S

7. JUDOKA

n. (Japanese) one skilled in judo
Also: JUDOIST
Back hooks: S

8. OJIME

n. (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
Anagrams: EMOJI
Back hooks: S

9. RYOKAN

n. (Japanese) a traditional Japanese inn
Anagrams: KARYON
Back hooks: S

10. TANUKI

n. (Japanese) a raccoon dog
Back hooks: S

11. ZENDO

n. (Japanese) a place where Zen Buddhists study
Anagrams: DOZEN, ZONED
Back hooks: S