(I came across that one by accident when I was looking for something else!)
LUSUSIRITOL
edited to correct unfortunate typographical errorThis message has been edited. Last edited by: haberdasher,
April 12, 2004, 19:05
Kalleh
I am so sorry, KHC. Are you sure that you don't want to try downloading another browser? It would at least help to diagnose the problem.
SERENDIPITY
salary pis
[edit: Hab, we posted at the same time.]
April 12, 2004, 19:44
KHC
salary pis...
paralysis
Kalleh, I solved yours... I'm still working on Hab's
I won't enter another word until his is solved..
April 12, 2004, 19:51
KHC
Hab, My best guess is Slut Iris Oil...
And I know that isn't right! Hints!?
April 13, 2004, 06:29
haberdasher
Sigh. I dood it again. Too many repeated letters and a careless transcription error. No wonder it's a problem solving it.
Should have read LUSUSIRITOL
"That was just to make it difficult."
As in Q: What's green, hangs from a tree, and squeaks? A: A herring. Q: Huh? A: Well, can't you paint a herring green? Q: Yes... A: Can't you hang a herring from a tree? Q: Yes... A: So there you are! Q: But what about the squeak? A: Oh, that was just to make it difficult!
April 13, 2004, 11:45
arnie
LUSUSIRITOL
illustrious
PORCINE STRIP
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
April 13, 2004, 11:59
jerry thomas
PRESCRIPTION
ORGANIC EMPATHY
April 13, 2004, 12:57
haberdasher
too enticing to resist: ENACT AMPHIGORY ! HYPERMANIC GOATThis message has been edited. Last edited by: haberdasher,
April 13, 2004, 14:01
haberdasher
I finally got the picture! it's
CINEMATOGRAPHY !
SUPER-ATOM one word
April 13, 2004, 17:41
KHC
Agatha Christie's mousetrap!!
big lung thing .... 2 words..
April 13, 2004, 18:38
jerry thomas
Big Lung Thing ..... LIGHTNING BUG
EMILES CONCUBINE
April 13, 2004, 19:39
Kalleh
Intriguing, Jerry. Is it one word or two? One word seems so long!
April 13, 2004, 19:43
jerry thomas
Just one word, Kalleh, and it does seem too long, but in fact it's just long enough. Think of the lively light of the lightning bug ....
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
April 19, 2004, 19:39
KHC
I'm sorry this has been so difficult for you Brainiacs..
I checked my typing... I'm okay.
Think Queen Elizabeth (Arnie!).... and her domicile..
wild ancestors - We all have a few. cloister wands - magic Harry Potter nuns. lewd croissants - I shall not go there..
April 20, 2004, 02:20
arnie
quote:Think Queen Elizabeth
Aha!
WINDSOR CASTLE
UNNOTICED ATOM (One word).
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
April 20, 2004, 07:18
haberdasher
UNNOTICED ATOM
I know there is "contumely"; does that make DECONTUMATION a word?
(Wait a minute; I'll have to look through the documentation to verify it.)
LYEBUTTS
April 20, 2004, 20:06
KHC
Oh, Hab... You are the master of subtlety....
simian toy.... one word!
April 20, 2004, 21:42
Kalleh
animosity
chum is vain one word
April 21, 2004, 01:41
arnie
chum is vain
Chauvinism
TECHIE MAVEN (One word)
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
April 21, 2004, 05:18
haberdasher
ACHIEVEMENT
WEST FARRAD one word ("false comparative" of STRAW FAD)
April 22, 2004, 20:39
KHC
Hab!
I will visit West Farrad, afterwards, I will visit East Farrad.
orbit earl... my father flew this from England to Germany in WWII
April 23, 2004, 02:46
arnie
orbit earl
Liberator
TITLIST CASA (One word).
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
April 23, 2004, 05:19
haberdasher
TITLIST CASA - STATISTICAL
(Re: "false comparative" above: --comparative = take the original, add "-er" meaning even more so, as in "big, bigger" --false comparative - same form, but not the same meaning at all! Consider "glow, glower," "flow, flower," for example. Maybe we should make a new thread and explore the form, if there's any interest?)
Meanwhile, back at the ranch: PRIVATE LUES - one word. The very best possible anagram, actually.
April 23, 2004, 06:46
jerry thomas
SUPERLATIVE
cower cow lower low mower mow power pow rower row sower sow tower tow
PENNY HOISTER (don't get too worked up! one word)
April 23, 2004, 07:59
arnie
PENNY HOISTER
hypertension
CLASSIC BEE (One word)
Continuing the "false comparative" theme:
BUG: BUGGER
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
April 23, 2004, 11:03
haberdasher
classic bee = ACCESSIBLE
I think we ought to exclude from False Comparatives pairs of words where the -er suffix means "he who...".
And I'm blocking the name of the word that is the start of the "xxxx-ive, comparative, superlative" triad. It isn't "nominative." Fill it in for me?
rid, rider
TINY TIGER
April 23, 2004, 12:47
Kalleh
Don't know about the third in the triad of comparatives and superlatives.
Integrity
tutu pride [one word] What my 4-year-old daughter used to have when she attended ballet classes.
April 23, 2004, 13:03
haberdasher
Not good for morale - TURPITUDE
and speaking of tutus, let's try
PRUNE STAND - one word
April 23, 2004, 14:32
jerry thomas
UNDERPANTS at pre-inflation prices ... in other words,