INTO ATRIUM

Well, it's close to MORATORIUM but it isn't

and MICTURITION is off by a couple of letters

and it's almost MATURATION but it isn't that either

and it's swimming in almosts but it's equally not NATATORIUM

and I've been going over all kinds of possibilities again and again, but even RUMINATION doesn't quite make the grade.

I'm flummoxed also.. the best I can do is

minutia rot

and that doesn't mean anything! Help!

Whoops!

Sorry, the word I intended was MATURITION. However, when I look it up at Dictionary.com, I find it's spelt MATURATION.

Try this one instead (I checked the spelling this time!)

ENTICE COD

First thoughts:

ENTICE COD

It's OCCIDENT + E

It's also DECOCTION + E - O (but you checked the spelling. Too bad. Nice word!)

And it's CO-INDECENT - N (the couple caught in flagrante delicto)
as well as COINCIDENT with a few more pluses and minuses. This is going backwards, not ahead!

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I might get stuck up if I fool you!

ENTICE COD = Conceited.

NEAT DOMINION

Welcome, Jesse!

NEAT DOMINION is DENOMINATION. (Which is what de candidate got at de convention.)

TIN GRAMPA

PTARMIGAN

AUTO CLAIMS

CALAMITOUS

WRITE "BAGEL"

bilge water ???

BILGEWATER it is. As two words it means the (usually dirty) water found in the hold of the boat. As one word it's more like "balderdash!" or "Bah, humbug!"

I think you're up!

HOED KILO LI

(That's farming with jerry..)

Lili Hooked?

She had a hard time earning a living.

LIKELIHOOD


PLAY IT, ROBBI
POLY RABBIT, I - alas, not velveteen
(Rats, just gave away another good word!)

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What is the PROBABILITY that I could solve this?

It's a snowy, cold day.. no food, no water.. Do you see

GRIM YON OTTER?

GRIM YON OTTER?

trigonometry

Relating to the "worst jobs" thread?

ANUS CAREERS

REASSURANCE

GRAPE FILES

GRAPE FILES

persiflage

Go, Hab! I had to look that one up to see if I had a word..

Is that LABYRINTHINE (always have trouble spelling that one!)

BRENDA HALS - wife of Frans?

quote:

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Originally posted by KHC:
_GRAPE FILES_

persiflage

I had to look that one up to see if I had a word..

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... she said airily...

BRENDA HALS (not to be confused with the Hals of Montezuma)

If the Hals of Montezuma have dinner with the Schorz of Tripoli, will the menu be seafood?

BRENDA HALS

Handlebars

Who is biking and where?

Hello, Dali!

MOUSTACHE

crossthreading:

AMMONIA GLACE (the French ice cream marketed on Europa)

Ammonia glace = MEGALOMANIAC

VETOING REMNANT (MAGNET INVENTOR)

Hab,
It was MOUSTACHES... plural

The best I can come up with for VETOING REMNANT is

Anti government...

???

If it wasn't antigovernment, it should have been.

Your turn!

How's about:

POOP DA RUM?

POOP DA RUM

Pompadour

CAR TREATISE

Well, we've got TARACTERISE
and we've got CAT ARTERIES
but coming through in the home stretch it's SECRETARIAT by a length!

Can you make anything interesting out of SPRUCE, ASH ? he asked woodenly, without batting an eye.

PURCHASES

I did Nothing of the sort this day after T'giving...

DAM RAW RAIL

This is a proper noun.. though not a human!

Somehow I don't think WAR ADMIRAL is what ou have in mind...

Sorry, Hab, but it is WAR ADMIRAL..

Had just watched "Seabiscuit" again.. You're up!

INSIDER-TYPE

(acknowledgement to you, KHC)

INSIDER-TYPE

serendipity

CHEAPEN PANTS

HAPPENSTANCE

And what about the FURIOUS TOT

who couldn't make sense out of a TECNICAL AD ?

He gave us a fortuitous accidental moment!

GROUNDED
(there really should be a "drudgeon", too)

Sing an angry hymn: CANTICLE IRE

(PS. Anyone out there ever have ringworm? It also makes a lovely TINEA CIRCLE ! )

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I'm an angry "her" if my power is not on..

electrician

Oh, Hab.. you kill me.. Let's all tell ringworm stories some cozy winter eve.

BE NICE FAIRIES

BE NICE FAIRIES = beneficiaries

R NUISANCE too many fairies!
ANN CRUISE little-known wife of Tom
NUN CARIES that's what happens when Sister doesn't brush her teeth

insurance

The dullest subject ever! Unless you really need it..

MEET IN PRINT

impertinent


MEET POI Hi, Jerry! I'm hungry!

I'm sure jerry is the epitome of a host..