I'm not good at this game, but let's try.

drawerforct

wordcrafter

LOCISLION

(pondering the association that brought that word to your mind...)

ROTIADES

[Aside: pondering Kalleh's offering several posts above - what's a "rangement"? Do they come front as well as rear? ;-) ]

ROADSITES ?



FRATELLAWS

Try asteroid.

FRATELLAWS

waterfalls

RENOCIRIT

haberdasher posted:

quote:

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(pondering the association that brought that word to your mind...)

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None at all. I happened to have a newspaper open next to me with "collision" in a headline, and my eye fell on it when I was casting about for a word.

criterion

RIDERREE

With a tip of me hat to Hab.

I guess I'm always a little behind the times...

Re: Newspaper headlines...they can be inspiring. In medical school (once upon a time) in the second year everyone crams fiercely for National Board examinations. The more neurotic among us parade up and down the dormitory corridors, quizzing each other: instant flashcards, as it were. Eventually it got on my nerves, and the next time one of my classmates popped his head in the door and said "What's Waterhouse-Friedrickson syndrome?" I glanced at my desk before answering, saw Brat Farrar, one of my favorite mysteries, and a NYTimes ad for the new BOAC jet plane, the deHavilland Comet, and then I said to him "I don't know. What's Farrar-deHavilland Syndrome?"

And when he didn't know, I wouldn't tell him. No matter how much he pleaded.

[This message was edited by haberdasher on Fri Nov 14th, 2003 at 19:58.]

DERRIERE (as in "London Derriere")




ANNYBODY

Danny Boy

SLITNEASE

Great story, Hab! When my daughter was at Yale, she always said that the pre-med students were the "most obsessive of the obsessive."

SLITNEASE

Essential


YCLEPTIXOM

[This message was edited by Kalleh on Thu Nov 13th, 2003 at 21:49.]

complexity

NEENRIGENIG

YCLEPTNEAXLIO

[This message was edited by jerry thomas on Thu Nov 13th, 2003 at 23:42.]

exceptionally

BEERENGRIMM

REMEMBERING



LOVERCITYSIMPI

oversimplicity !

(Nice self-describing anagram!)

a double-dose:

MAGINE a GAMINE (one six-letter word)

Enigma? Not sure, though.

"Is a puzzlement!" the King declared.

It's still your turn.

(BTW Enigma, by Robert Harris, is a fine book, too. )

Sorry, I forgot to leave one!

HEGEMONY


"It's ZENLEPTUMZ,"the knig declared, enigmatically.


STALLIONCHICANARY

anachronistically

DISSALFICE

CLASSIFIED

EACLIF

FACILE !!



MUNDOCURN

conundrum

CALESSIPIT

Plasticise?????

Needstrip

Needstrip + a = pedestrian
Needstrip + e = predestine
Needstrip + o = interposed

NEEDSTRIP

(P.S. Specialist?)

Who's to say?

BTW, there really is a word for "needstrip."

President

HOLYTUFU

youthful

WEAVEGHITHY

heavyweight

PIGTUILS

PS Go back three spaces (or whatever):

Needstrip + a = pedestrian
Needstrip + e = predestine
Needstrip + o = interposed

PRESIDENT & VOWEL = WINED & OVERSLEPT

[This message was edited by haberdasher on Mon Nov 17th, 2003 at 13:43.]

Arnie, was "CALESSIPIT" supposed to be "specialist" or "plasticise"?

PIGTUILS

Pugilist

CAPALE

quote:

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was "CALESSIPIT" supposed to be "specialist" or "plasticise"?

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specialist

CAPALE

palace

NESENTTLIAM

Sentimental

GREYLOLA

ALLEGORY

EONTURF

Oh, Arnie, I should have known that Haberdasher had it right!

fortune

GALEGORY

(re PLASTICISE/SPECIALIST: not necessarily. In this context "right" is defined as "what is written on the piece of paper in the upper right hand drawer of my desk." I would say that "plasticise" was the more creative solution.

Makes a nice cryptic crossword clue, too:
"Doctor concentrates in one field, i.e. plastics (10)"

[This message was edited by haberdasher on Thu Nov 20th, 2003 at 7:11.]

gargoyle

LASHMEESSLY

quote:

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I would say that "plasticise" was the more creative solution.

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So would I. The fact that I hadn't thought of it makes it no less a valid solution.

The fact remains that the correct answer is the one that the poster had intended.

If you recall, Arnie, earlier here I had tried, to no avail, to find you making a mistake at some point in time. Now, I worry that Haberdasher is joining you in that elite "Wordcraft" of rank never being wrong!

And, I did think that I had Haberdasher on "plasticise" because, after all, the Brits use the "cise"!

LASHMEESSLY

Shamelessly

greruinn

[tongue firmly in cheek-e] Actually, I thought I had made a mistake once, but I was wrong.

unerring

seacube

Kalleh's answer is a perfectly valid one, and is as "correct" as haberdasher's. I probably made a mistake in posting a word that had two answers.

SEACUBE

because

USERONOER

BTW, Kalleh, thanks for posting the link to that old thread about phobias, it was good fun to read again. I thought my posts seemed rather pompous, though.

Moses supposes...
ERRONEOUSly

Is anyone stressed? (that's backwards for "desserts")

EQUPIECRUST

The 2 most confusing people to me on this site are Haberdasher....and Jerry. BTW, Hab & Arnie, Shufitz is another member of the "he's never been wrong" club, at least that I've ever found!

EQUPIECRUST

Picturesque

Arnie, no, you have never been pompous here. However, it did sadden me to see some of Morgan's old posts.

RUTHPLIM

quote:

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The 2 most confusing people to me on this site are Haberdasher....and Jerry. Confused

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Confusion is in the mind of the beholder.

Kalleh,
Please accept my best wishes for a speedy recovery.

~~~~ jerry

PS ==> I surrender .. please give us a clue as to the solution to RUTHPLIM ... thanx !!

[This message was edited by jerry thomas on Sun Nov 23rd, 2003 at 14:09.]

Oh, Jerry, I was just trying to see if you were reading this thread!

RUTHPLIM is a technical word, but it could be considered to be as plain as the nose on your face! (Well, maybe one step below that.)

P.S. "FAS" is Fetal-Alcohol Syndrome.

Hey, hab, what about the next word since you found the answer to RUTHPLIM?

Ah. Sorry. How about RUTHFLIM?

mirthful

NERBMHACK

BTW, I meant to say earlier that I don't consider "philtrum" a technical word, although I was surprised when I looked it up in Onelook that so few online dictionaries included it.

BENCHMARK



VUORYRESS

Surveyors

Now, Hab, when you say that philtrum is a technical word, I assume you don't mean technical in the medical sense. I had never heard the word used professionally. My husband is the one who introduced me to that word. He thought you might have meant technical in the linguistic sense.

AHEEDRENT

Actually, I was indeed considering "philtrum" to be medical jargon. I've never come across it in any other context.

CREMPOUT

P.S. "medical" = "claimed" = "declaim" = "decimal"

Well, to a podiatrist, this might be "crump toe" or to a cook it might be "cruet mop" or to a high school girl it might be "cute prom."

However, it must be computer.

twdiim

Here is the bonus Word Scramble for the day; I may need to give you a hint:

AADIINPISTURT

P.S. it is not medical jargon, I assure you. However, I have seen this phenonemon in a variety of health care workers!