BEWILDERMENT - why am I confused?

HANG CLEAR

HANG CLEAR

archangel...

MATH TURNIP... the root of algebra

MATH TURNIP

Triumphant

CLARITIES

clarities
not AIRTICLES (those things published in Irish newspapers) or REISTICAL (which may even be a real word) but REALISTIC


BLAMES TIE - They never would have caught me if not for that bloody cravat!

BLAMES TIE .. out, out, damned spot!

Estimable ( a word very difficult to pronounce... lots of lip action)

SUBTLER LANTANA

In the South, Lantana is a beautiful, flowering cousin of the tobacco plant... red, pink orange, yellow... just lovely. If you've never seen it, it's difficult to describe.

SUBTLER LANTANA

not "Atlanta RN blues," as Kalleh might be tempted to conclude...
it's hard to express precisely, because it's really UNTRANSLATABLE.

Then there's that trendy neighborhood in San Juan - it's a NEAT BARRIO

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NEAT BARRIO

aberration...

Do you understand the MAIN TEMPO of the music there? Can you pretend you are the Leader of the Band? (Dan Fogelberg)

MAIN TEMPO

Pantomime

MULES FART

MASTERFUL !

Is there a large-scale military maneuver (manœuvre?) such as might be referred to as an

EPIC TREPAN ?

("Genius of Bismarck" and all that)


EDIT: My error. It's "Coolness of Paget" and all that. Bismarck didn't trepan, he devised plans instead.

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ERIC TREPAN

Hab, thanks for the history....

Apprentice

LEGHORN MOANS.. "I say... I say... I say..."

All well and good, but who _was_ this Paget who laid traps?

P.S. Do you realize how close noisy ol' Foghorn L. up there is to "Monongahela R." ?

PPS: And didja notice all those double-dactyls up there in the Heavy Dragoon song with Bismarck and Paget?

PPPS: Quadruple-dactyls, actually...

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LEGHORN MOANS

Longshoreman

INSTANBUL MOMS -- Obviously from Constantinople

quote:

INSTANBUL MOMS

I assume that initial N in INSTANBUL was a typo? Without it we can make
SOMNAMBULIST.

I: "NICE CLARET !" (That's a fine wine from the south of France, in my opinion)

I: NICE CLARET

Electrician

ANITA BUNION TILT - ooh my feet hurt

POEtry in motion (this is a title, not an anagram)

Sorry, I can't hear you; these bells are making too much noise.

AIR TURNS SOUR - singing out of tune?

Spelling error, I see. Can't even blame it on a typo, it's just plain wrong.

Correction:

AI TURNS SOUR - sloth leaves a bad tase in your mouth

Maybe it's not wrong. You be the judge.

Google has 10 hits for the three-R version.

And only 44,500 (about) for the two-R version.

Durn. I coulda sworn it had three Rs.

AI TURNS SOUR

susurration

Forgot to start cooking?
UNLIT ROAST

Well, there's

NOTURALIST - someone who's contrary by his very nature, and
TOURNALIST - who writes about travels to other places, and
LISTRONAUT - who knows his way around all kinds of catalogues - and the more whimsical
STRONTIAL U - the elementary institution of higher learning, and even
UNTROSTIAL - for which I couldn't find a good daffynition on short notice,

but then there's also

LUSTRATION

which I would have thought to be an example proposed by someone who doesn't draw very well (i.e. the opposite of ILLUSTRATION) but turns out to mean something else entirely. Something to do with light, lumen, illuminate, luster, lustrous, and along those lines.

Still, I have the feeling that you were thinking of a more common target word, though. I'll keep playing with it.

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NAN'S TIN TIGER

Intransigent

CURRY GENES - I love hot food!

I know INSURGENCY and RESURGENT - is there a RESURGENCY too?

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Lots of people like to pop corn, but
I POP OAT BRAN.

Well, Hab. I am stuck. I keep coming up with "brain," as in "a pop to brain," but obviously that's not right!

That's why I don't frequent this thread! I will keep trying...

I POP OAT BRAN.... regularly?

approbation

OARSMEN CLUB ME... I hide their skiffs...

quote:

approbation

Well of course!
We were simulposting (as CJ says), I see. Nice work, KHC.

OARSEMEN CLUB ME

commensurable

NURSE TAMMEE

NURSE TAMMEE

Measurement

CATCHY ALI NAP - He snores to rap

Hab,

Rather late in the day, considering all the subsequent posts, but you were right; the word I was thinking of was LUSTRATION.

Just thinking out loud...

CATCHY ALI NAP

pacchanality

tachypanical
icthypanacal

acanth-
acanthypical
typical chana

lycanth-
lycanthapaic
hyacinth-
cynthia-

pathy-, calcinapathy
-alic
cathypanalic

chaplaincy, ta?

It's a good thing there's no "s" or we'd have to think of all the variants of "psych-," too.

-ythic
calapanythic
capanythical
acanthypical

-clyptic
hypn-
cycl-
tachypniacal (going mad very quickly)
pachynatalic (giving birth to a very thick infant)

I see I'm repeating myself, so I'll put it all aside for a while.

signed,
ANALYTIC CHAP

That's quite a reaction you're having, Hab

Oh.

Gotcha.

You mean LE GARLIC. Why dincha say so!?

LE GARLIC

Allergic! Ah choo!

IN VISITS YET.... - I still see Manderley..

IN VISITS YET

sensitivity

or, contrariwise,
MEN'S BUNS -

so what happened to Anaphylactic????

quote:

so what happened to Anaphylactic????

It was translated from Greek into the English "allergic" and we then proceeded with sensitivity. (But not hypersensitivity.) One does try not to be completetly without feeling, MEN'S BUNS notwithstanding.

MEN'S BUNS are not the only parts of them which can experience numbness.......

My little kitten would be warmer if she could

AD LION PELT around the neck.

AD LION PELT

depilation

Isn't that the treatment for IRISH MUST ?

(adjective form is SURE HIT)

IRISH MUST

Hirsutism

Sure Hit - Hirsute

DARPA CIA LOX - The Defense and Intelligent departments get together for Passover.

For AD LION PELT...
I was going for POLLINATED.... Remember the sneezes?

I'm still working on DARPA CIA LOX....

Well, I will admit that CIA and Intelligence are contradictory terms.

[OOPS] WRONG WRONG WRONG.
DEPILATION has two Is and only one L. [/OOPS]

PARADOXICAL

There is a new Norwegian perfume shop, named LARS' ESSENCES

On re-reading - paradox/oxymoron/whatever, Jo, you had the answer, and it ought to have been you who posted the next anagram, not I. So consider Lars' Essences withdrawn, and it's your turn!

dear Hab,

I proposed the word, you found it. Paradoxical. You solved my puzzle. So Lars is still with us. thbbbpb

quote:

LARS' ESSENCES

Oh, that was a good one, Hab!

carelessness

Now, let's Latinize Frito

LATINIZE FRITO

fertilization.....

PEP BAH YE - 2 words

BE HAPPY !

RAMOMILE - a tea with a soothing impact

(or maybe what Mark McGuire does to a baseball?

RAMOMILE

Memorial

RAH MOO UPS - Egyptian cows delivered our packages

AMORPHOUS
Ha! Broke the "it's Greek to me" curse!

ASSPHELES - the donkey that spreads malaria*

*(FYI, if you need it - the mosquito that carries the plasmodium is "Anopheles")

Poor SHAPELESS donkey... Hee Haw!

CENSUS UNION AGO... kissing cuzzins..