Word Game 1 - How many words can you make from - Page 2

9th April 2003, 08:57 PM

Plus Alfred's additional 99!

able
ablest
absolute
acid
aid
best
bestial
bis
bistable
bled
blest
bold
boldest
bolted
bombast
bombasted
bombastic
bombe
boobed
boules
build
built
bust
calm
calmed
cobbled
cod
cold
coldest
combed
combo
could
cube
cubed
cuboid
cud
custom
cute
dislocate
embolus
idol
imbued
isolate
isolated
lamb
lambed
lasted
let
locate
located
loci
loco
locus
locust
mated
met
metabolic
metal
mild
mobile
model
modest
mold
molest
mould
moult
moused
must
oblate
oldest
osculate
osculated
ousted
outmode
said
scold
slat
slated
sod
sold
stab
stabbed
stable
stabled
stead
steam
tabbed
table
tabled
talc
talcum
tamed
tea
team
tiled
tilt
tilted
timed
told

WoW!!!

Mark

9th April 2003, 10:31 PM

Mark,

>>tilt
>>tilted

These two just happened to catch my eye. I would have thought using letters twice was not allowed, although the rules did not say that specifically.

Does that disqualify you?

Just curious: did anyone think to look up what "discombobulate" meant? I've never heard it before, and while I now know what it means, I doubt it will be a word in my regular vocabulary.

Geoff Barns

9th April 2003, 10:47 PM

Geoff,

You seem to be somewhat discombobulated; "tilt" and "tilted" happen to be from Alfred's list. Disqualification, though, seems to be quite an 'awful punnishment'. Maybe we should just subtract the two offending words...he worked so hard on the rest of the list.

Mark

9th April 2003, 10:54 PM

Mark,

Generally, these types of puzzles require the letter to appear as many times in the original word as they do in any derivative.

Mike

9th April 2003, 11:18 PM

Here's the latest compilation:

able
ablest
absolute
acid
Adulate
adult
aid
aim
alude
ate
atom
babe
bade
bail
bait
bale
baste
bat
beast
beat
bedlam
best
bestial
bide
bis
bistable
bite
blame
blast
blasted
bleat
bled
blest
bloom
bloomed
blue
bob
bobs
boil
bold
boldest
bolo
bolt
bolted
bomb
bombast
bombasted
bombastic
bombe
boob
boobed
boom
boot
boules
build
built
bus
bust
cab
calm
calmed
cast
cause
cite
claim
cleat
climb
clot
coal
Cob
cobbled
cod
coil
cola
cold
coldest
cole
colt
comb
combed
combine
combo
combust
combusted
come
cool
could
cube
cubed
cuboid
cud
custom
cute
dale
dam
dame
damsel
date
dibs
dice
die
diet
dim
dimbo
dime
disable
disc
disco
dislocate
dole
dolt
dome
doom
douse
dub
due
duel
dumb
East
eat
embolus
ides
idle
idol
imbue
imbued
isolate
isolated
lad
laid
lamb
lambed
lame
last
lasted
late
let
lice
lid
lied
limbo
load
loam
lob
lobe
locate
located
loci
loco
locus
locust
lode
loom
lube
mad
made
maid
mail
male
malt
mast
mate
mated
mead
meat
melt
met
metabolic
metal
mice
mild
mile
mob
mobile
mod (?)
mode
model
modest
modulate
mold
mole
molest
molt
moo
mood
moose
mould
moult
mouse
moused
mule
must
oblate
oil
oldest
osculate
osculated
ousted
outmode
sable
said
sail
sale
same
sate
scold
seat
side
sidle
silt
simulate
site
slat
slate
slated
sod
soda
soil
sold
sole
solo
soul
stab
stabbed
stable
stabled
stead
steam
tab
tabbed
table
tabled
tad
tail
talc
talcum
tale
tame
tamed
tea
team
tide
tile
tiled
time
timed
toad
toil
told
tomb
tome
tool
tub
tube

254 words.

Mike

9th April 2003, 11:32 PM

Mike,

I understand. The list I posted was Alfred's PDF collection that had not yet been added to the main list. With the updated list I posted of 191, plus Afred's 97, (99 less tilt and tilted), there should be at least 288 words.

Mark

10th April 2003, 12:03 AM

Mark,

You're probably right. What I did was to take the original list I had compiled, added Alfred's and my additions, went through and culled double posts and used Excel to sort them. I might have missed a post or two, though - I did. I missed your 33. That brings the total to 282, after I took off five words that had already been posted.

I never would have thought that many words could be culled from the letters. In our daily paper, only one form of the word is allowed, all words have to be four letters or more (without adding an "S" and proper nouns are not allowed but even with these rules there would probably still be 200 words. Here's the latest list I have.

ablate
able
ablest
absolute
acid
Adulate
adult
aid
aim
albeit
album
alude
amble
ate
atom
babe
bade
bail
bait
bale
base
baste
bat
beast
beat
bedlam
best
bestial
bid
bide
bidet
bis
bistable
bit
bite
blade
blame
blast
blasted
bleat
bled
blest
bloom
bloomed
blouse
blue
bob
bobs
boil
bold
boldest
bolo
bolt
bolted
bomb
bombast
bombasted
bombastic
bombe
boob
boobed
boom
boot
boules
build
built
bus
bust
butane
cab
cad
calm
calmed
came
camel
cast
cat
cause
Celt
citadel
cite
claim
cleat
climb
clot
coal
Cob
cobble
cobbled
cod
coil
cola
cold
coldest
cole
colt
comb
combat
combed
combine
combo
combust
combusted
come
cool
cot
could
cube
cubed
cuboid
cud
cult
custom
cute
dab
dabble
dale
dam
dame
damsel
date
dial
dibs
dice
die
diet
dim
dimbo
dime
disable
disc
disco
disco
dislocate
dole
dolt
dome
doom
douse
dub
due
duel
dumb
East
eat
embolus
ides
idle
idol
imbue
imbued
ism
isolate
isolated
lab
lad
laid
lamb
lambed
lame
last
lasted
late
let
lice
lid
lied
limbo
load
loam
lob
lobe
locate
located
loci
loco
locus
locust
lode
loom
lube
mad
made
maid
mail
male
malt
mast
mate
mated
mead
meat
media
melt
met
metabolic
metal
mice
mild
mile
mob
mobile
mod (?)
mode
model
modest
modulate
mold
mole
molest
molt
moo
mood
moose
mould
moult
mouse
moused
mule
must
oblate
oil
oldest
osculate
osculated
ousted
outmode
sable
said
sail
sale
same
sate
scold
seat
side
sidle
silt
simulate
site
slat
slate
slated
sod
soda
soil
sold
sole
solo
soul
stab
stabbed
stable
stabled
stead
steam
tab
tabbed
table
tabled
tad
tail
talc
talcum
tale
tame
tamed
tea
team
tide
tile
tiled
time
timed
toad
toil
told
tomb
tome
tool
tub
tube

MIke

10th April 2003, 12:15 AM

Here's some words suggested by PP's Spell Check to replace words it doesn't like:
Bias
Biome
Boles
Cubit
Diem
Molt
Muse
Amuse
Laude
Aloud

Mike

10th April 2003, 02:30 AM

Awesome.

We used to use play this kind of word game when I was a kid. Helped me with my spelling it did since i refused to be outdone by my parents. LOL

Becky

10th April 2003, 05:36 AM

I did lok it up. it is not in my concise OED (1964) nor an even older Collins. However it can be found in Encarta.
Can't remember what it means so you'll have to look it up
walter

10th April 2003, 07:39 AM

Dave,

  >>> several other definitions as well! <<<

F'rinstance the cob that corn comes from. How could I have failed to think of that one?

Alfred

10th April 2003, 07:42 AM

Dave,

  >>> moo (cow noise!) <<<

How low can you get?

Alfred

10th April 2003, 10:16 PM

Walter,

I'm reminded constantly from within my family, if you want to know anything, look it up on the Net. I found the meaning at www.dictionary.com...and just now I found it listed in the World Book (Encyclopaedia) Dictionary which lists it as slang. That sounds like a good reason not to include it in my regular vocabulary.

Geoff Barns

13th April 2003, 09:38 AM

{I originally posted the following message in reply to Mike Koewler's 'Updated List' post which gives the total as 254 words. At first I couldn't understand why his total had dropped from the 282 quoted further up the page, but when I looked at the timestamps of the two posts all became clear and I decided to move this one.}

I was planning to merge the lists myself, so it's nice to find that Mike and Mark have already done it. Thanks also to Geoff for spotting "tilt" and "tilted"; I found several others when checking through my list, so I'm surprised only those slipped through!

BTW shouldn't "Adulate", "Cob" and "East" lose their initial capitals, and couldn't Becky's "mod" shed its "(?)"? (JMO, YMMV, etc.)

[Edit: Walter's "combust" and "combusted" are words I probably wouldn't have thought of, but seeing them prompts me to suggest that "combustible" should be added to the list. Becky's "alude" is still in there (which she thought it probably shouldn't be) so if you substitute the total will be unchanged.]

Alfred

13th April 2003, 06:16 PM

Firstly, although removing alude and replacing it with combustible left the total at 282, it should really be 280 because bobs and a duplicate disco are in there.

Secondly, in one of her posts Becky listed 6 words of which only limbo has been included so far. The other five were:
  cable
  limb
  lime
  sub
and the sublime
  sublime
which made me think of
  sublimate

To bring the total over the 300 mark, how about:
  bald
  baldest
  basic
  blamed
  blood
  bobtail
  busied
  busted
  coma
  costume
  double
  doublet
  doubt
  doubtable
  lust
  lusted
  mastic
  medic
  medical
  modulo
  modus
  muscle
  muse
  music
  musical
  salt
  salted
  sated
  seal
  seam
  stadium
  staid

Total 312 words.

Alfred

15th April 2003, 01:48 AM

Awesome Alfred. Now we need another word with as much ...errmmm....depth to do another one of these with.

15th April 2003, 04:56 AM

Becky,

If anyone knows it, how about the name of the place in Wales that takes up a complete page of A4! That should give some scope!

Tel Boy

PS — I've been waiting for you to floor the opposition with the extra words in that Anagram program

15th April 2003, 05:58 AM

Tell me when you give up. I cheated and there are more... some 9 and 10 long.

Patrick Connor

15th April 2003, 06:56 AM

You mean Llanfairpwyllgwyngethgogerochllantisiliogogogoch?

That, believe me, is from my schooldays memory so it's probably wrong! Isn't it officially called Llanfair PG these days?

Dave

15th April 2003, 08:40 AM

Dave,

I could immediately see that you missed out "wyrndrobwll" from the middle, but I would almost certainly have misspelled some of the rest of it too if I hadn't looked it up!

Alfred

P.S. For the benefit of "Tel Boy", the attached PDF shows the name filling most of an A4 page.

9th April 2003, 08:57 PM	#21
Mark Joyce Message imported from old Serif Forum Posts: n/a	Re:discombobulate Plus Alfred's additional 99! able ablest absolute acid aid best bestial bis bistable bled blest bold boldest bolted bombast bombasted bombastic bombe boobed boules build built bust calm calmed cobbled cod cold coldest combed combo could cube cubed cuboid cud custom cute dislocate embolus idol imbued isolate isolated lamb lambed lasted let locate located loci loco locus locust mated met metabolic metal mild mobile model modest mold molest mould moult moused must oblate oldest osculate osculated ousted outmode said scold slat slated sod sold stab stabbed stable stabled stead steam tabbed table tabled talc talcum tamed tea team tiled tilt tilted timed told WoW!!! Mark

9th April 2003, 10:31 PM	#22
Geoff Barns Message imported from old Serif Forum Posts: n/a	Re:discombobulate Mark, >>tilt >>tilted These two just happened to catch my eye. I would have thought using letters twice was not allowed, although the rules did not say that specifically. Does that disqualify you? Just curious: did anyone think to look up what "discombobulate" meant? I've never heard it before, and while I now know what it means, I doubt it will be a word in my regular vocabulary. Geoff Barns

9th April 2003, 10:47 PM	#23
Mark Joyce Message imported from old Serif Forum Posts: n/a	Re:discombobulate Geoff, You seem to be somewhat discombobulated; "tilt" and "tilted" happen to be from Alfred's list. Disqualification, though, seems to be quite an 'awful punnishment'. Maybe we should just subtract the two offending words...he worked so hard on the rest of the list. Mark

9th April 2003, 10:54 PM	#24
Mike Koewler Message imported from old Serif Forum Posts: n/a	Re:discombobulate Mark, Generally, these types of puzzles require the letter to appear as many times in the original word as they do in any derivative. Mike

9th April 2003, 11:18 PM	#25
Mike Koewler Message imported from old Serif Forum Posts: n/a	Updated list Here's the latest compilation: able ablest absolute acid Adulate adult aid aim alude ate atom babe bade bail bait bale baste bat beast beat bedlam best bestial bide bis bistable bite blame blast blasted bleat bled blest bloom bloomed blue bob bobs boil bold boldest bolo bolt bolted bomb bombast bombasted bombastic bombe boob boobed boom boot boules build built bus bust cab calm calmed cast cause cite claim cleat climb clot coal Cob cobbled cod coil cola cold coldest cole colt comb combed combine combo combust combusted come cool could cube cubed cuboid cud custom cute dale dam dame damsel date dibs dice die diet dim dimbo dime disable disc disco dislocate dole dolt dome doom douse dub due duel dumb East eat embolus ides idle idol imbue imbued isolate isolated lad laid lamb lambed lame last lasted late let lice lid lied limbo load loam lob lobe locate located loci loco locus locust lode loom lube mad made maid mail male malt mast mate mated mead meat melt met metabolic metal mice mild mile mob mobile mod (?) mode model modest modulate mold mole molest molt moo mood moose mould moult mouse moused mule must oblate oil oldest osculate osculated ousted outmode sable said sail sale same sate scold seat side sidle silt simulate site slat slate slated sod soda soil sold sole solo soul stab stabbed stable stabled stead steam tab tabbed table tabled tad tail talc talcum tale tame tamed tea team tide tile tiled time timed toad toil told tomb tome tool tub tube 254 words. Mike

9th April 2003, 11:32 PM	#26
Mark Joyce Message imported from old Serif Forum Posts: n/a	Re:discombobulate Mike, I understand. The list I posted was Alfred's PDF collection that had not yet been added to the main list. With the updated list I posted of 191, plus Afred's 97, (99 less tilt and tilted), there should be at least 288 words. Mark

10th April 2003, 12:03 AM	#27
Mike Koewler Message imported from old Serif Forum Posts: n/a	Re:discombobulate Mark, You're probably right. What I did was to take the original list I had compiled, added Alfred's and my additions, went through and culled double posts and used Excel to sort them. I might have missed a post or two, though - I did. I missed your 33. That brings the total to 282, after I took off five words that had already been posted. I never would have thought that many words could be culled from the letters. In our daily paper, only one form of the word is allowed, all words have to be four letters or more (without adding an "S" and proper nouns are not allowed but even with these rules there would probably still be 200 words. Here's the latest list I have. ablate able ablest absolute acid Adulate adult aid aim albeit album alude amble ate atom babe bade bail bait bale base baste bat beast beat bedlam best bestial bid bide bidet bis bistable bit bite blade blame blast blasted bleat bled blest bloom bloomed blouse blue bob bobs boil bold boldest bolo bolt bolted bomb bombast bombasted bombastic bombe boob boobed boom boot boules build built bus bust butane cab cad calm calmed came camel cast cat cause Celt citadel cite claim cleat climb clot coal Cob cobble cobbled cod coil cola cold coldest cole colt comb combat combed combine combo combust combusted come cool cot could cube cubed cuboid cud cult custom cute dab dabble dale dam dame damsel date dial dibs dice die diet dim dimbo dime disable disc disco disco dislocate dole dolt dome doom douse dub due duel dumb East eat embolus ides idle idol imbue imbued ism isolate isolated lab lad laid lamb lambed lame last lasted late let lice lid lied limbo load loam lob lobe locate located loci loco locus locust lode loom lube mad made maid mail male malt mast mate mated mead meat media melt met metabolic metal mice mild mile mob mobile mod (?) mode model modest modulate mold mole molest molt moo mood moose mould moult mouse moused mule must oblate oil oldest osculate osculated ousted outmode sable said sail sale same sate scold seat side sidle silt simulate site slat slate slated sod soda soil sold sole solo soul stab stabbed stable stabled stead steam tab tabbed table tabled tad tail talc talcum tale tame tamed tea team tide tile tiled time timed toad toil told tomb tome tool tub tube MIke

10th April 2003, 12:15 AM	#28
Mike Koewler Message imported from old Serif Forum Posts: n/a	Re:discombobulate Here's some words suggested by PP's Spell Check to replace words it doesn't like: Bias Biome Boles Cubit Diem Molt Muse Amuse Laude Aloud Mike

10th April 2003, 02:30 AM	#29
Becky Message imported from old Serif Forum Posts: n/a	Re:discombobulate Awesome. We used to use play this kind of word game when I was a kid. Helped me with my spelling it did since i refused to be outdone by my parents. LOL Becky

10th April 2003, 05:36 AM	#30
WalterB Message imported from old Serif Forum Posts: n/a	Re:discombobulate I did lok it up. it is not in my concise OED (1964) nor an even older Collins. However it can be found in Encarta. Can't remember what it means so you'll have to look it up walter

10th April 2003, 07:39 AM	#31
'Awful Punster' Message imported from old Serif Forum Posts: n/a	Re:discombobulate Dave,   >>> several other definitions as well! <<< F'rinstance the cob that *corn* comes from. How could I have failed to think of that one? Alfred

10th April 2003, 07:42 AM	#32
'Awful Punster' Message imported from old Serif Forum Posts: n/a	Re:discombobulate Dave,   >>> moo (cow noise!) <<< How *low* can you get? Alfred

10th April 2003, 10:16 PM	#33
Geoff Barns Message imported from old Serif Forum Posts: n/a	Re:discombobulate Walter, I'm reminded constantly from within my family, if you want to know anything, look it up on the Net. I found the meaning at www.dictionary.com...and just now I found it listed in the World Book (Encyclopaedia) Dictionary which lists it as slang. That sounds like a good reason not to include it in my regular vocabulary. Geoff Barns

13th April 2003, 09:38 AM	#34
'Awful Punster' Message imported from old Serif Forum Posts: n/a	Posted in the wrong place {I originally posted the following message in reply to Mike Koewler's 'Updated List' post which gives the total as 254 words. At first I couldn't understand why his total had dropped from the 282 quoted further up the page, but when I looked at the timestamps of the two posts all became clear and I decided to move this one.} I was planning to merge the lists myself, so it's nice to find that Mike and Mark have already done it. Thanks also to Geoff for spotting "tilt" and "tilted"; I found several others when checking through my list, so I'm surprised only those slipped through! BTW shouldn't "Adulate", "Cob" and "East" lose their initial capitals, and couldn't Becky's "mod" shed its "(?)"? (JMO, YMMV, etc.) [Edit: Walter's "combust" and "combusted" are words I probably wouldn't have thought of, but seeing them prompts me to suggest that "combustible" should be added to the list. Becky's "alude" is still in there (which she thought it probably shouldn't be) so if you substitute the total will be unchanged.] Alfred

13th April 2003, 06:16 PM	#35
'Awful Punster' Message imported from old Serif Forum Posts: n/a	Don't give up yet! Firstly, although removing alude and replacing it with combustible left the total at 282, it should really be 280 because bobs and a duplicate disco are in there. Secondly, in one of her posts Becky listed 6 words of which only limbo has been included so far. The other five were:   cable   limb   lime   sub and the sublime   sublime which made me think of   sublimate To bring the total over the 300 mark, how about:   bald   baldest   basic   blamed   blood   bobtail   busied   busted   coma   costume   double   doublet   doubt   doubtable   lust   lusted   mastic   medic   medical   modulo   modus   muscle   muse   music   musical   salt   salted   sated   seal   seam   stadium   staid Total 312 words. Alfred

15th April 2003, 01:48 AM	#36
Becky Message imported from old Serif Forum Posts: n/a	Re:Don't give up yet! Awesome Alfred. Now we need another word with as much ...errmmm....depth to do another one of these with.

15th April 2003, 04:56 AM	#37
Fünf Message imported from old Serif Forum Posts: n/a	Re:Don't give up yet! Becky, If anyone knows it, how about the name of the place in Wales that takes up a complete page of A4! That should give some scope! Tel Boy PS — I've been waiting for you to floor the opposition with the extra words in that Anagram program

15th April 2003, 05:58 AM	#38
Patrick Connor Message imported from old Serif Forum Posts: n/a	Re:Don't give up yet! Tell me when you give up. I cheated and there are more... some 9 and 10 long. Patrick Connor

15th April 2003, 06:56 AM	#39
Dave P Message imported from old Serif Forum Posts: n/a	Re:Don't give up yet! You mean Llanfairpwyllgwyngethgogerochllantisiliogogogoch? That, believe me, is from my schooldays memory so it's probably wrong! Isn't it officially called Llanfair PG these days? Dave

15th April 2003, 08:40 AM	#40
'Awful Punster' Message imported from old Serif Forum Posts: n/a	Re:Don't give up yet! Dave, I could immediately see that you missed out "wyrndrobwll" from the middle, but I would almost certainly have misspelled some of the rest of it too if I hadn't looked it up! Alfred P.S. For the benefit of "Tel Boy", the attached PDF shows the name filling most of an A4 page.

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