Glycereine Posted August 17, 2010 Report Share Posted August 17, 2010 pertain--xxo contain--o concern--oo aerobic--xxo heralds--xxo kerygma--xxo versigy--xxxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 17, 2010 Report Share Posted August 17, 2010 I must have been distracted when I submitted the last post. I don't believe 'versigy' is a word. The word was supposed to be 'versify'. But it matters little. It wasn't the answer. I am wondering now if you could be a bit versute ([adj.] crafty, wily, cunning; artful) in your word selection. But sticking to words still in (somewhat) common usage: merrily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glycereine Posted August 18, 2010 Report Share Posted August 18, 2010 yeah I haven't been picking words that are too obscure Merrily it is! Also I think you did say versify and I mispelled it! results for the word would be the same either way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 18, 2010 Report Share Posted August 18, 2010 I agree that words in obsolescence would be unfair to use, though I do like using words that are not in common usage. Let's try one of only... 4 letters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glycereine Posted August 18, 2010 Report Share Posted August 18, 2010 pour soil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 18, 2010 Report Share Posted August 18, 2010 pour - soil - o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glycereine Posted August 18, 2010 Report Share Posted August 18, 2010 was pour 0? grit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 18, 2010 Report Share Posted August 18, 2010 Yes. pour had zero matches, as does grit. pour - soil - o grit - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glycereine Posted August 18, 2010 Report Share Posted August 18, 2010 oops I was thinking of ROLLO and o being 0. I fail... toil lake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 19, 2010 Report Share Posted August 19, 2010 pour - soil - o grit - toil - lake - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glycereine Posted August 19, 2010 Report Share Posted August 19, 2010 whys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 19, 2010 Report Share Posted August 19, 2010 pour - soil - o grit - toil - lake - whys - xo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glycereine Posted August 19, 2010 Report Share Posted August 19, 2010 wyns? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glycereine Posted August 19, 2010 Report Share Posted August 19, 2010 I'm out of possibilities unless one of the words was scored wrong. every vowel but y has been eliminated and we know there is an S. So the word has to be 4 letters with only a Y as a vowel and an S somewhere other than the 1st spot. The only words I know of that fit this have a w in them as well, so if whys only scored 2 I don't have anything else. Hopefully my logic helps someone else :-p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 19, 2010 Report Share Posted August 19, 2010 pour - soil - o grit - toil - lake - whys - xo wyns - xo Have you ever heard of the saying "A, E, I, O, U, sometimes Y, sometimes W"? Though double-U's application as a vowel has long been replaced by the other vowels in Modern English, i.e., those words that retained the w as a vowel now being archaic or obsolete, there are two words that still exist - one being the plural of the other - as the base word is a "borrowed" word from the Welsh which still uses the w as a vowel. In some modern English dictionaries the word may be considered chielfly British, though it is also listed without that indication in other American English dictionaries. A definition of the word is "cirque; a steep bowl-shaped hollow occurring at the upper end of a mountain valley". A cirque sometimes resulted when a glacier would slowly toil over the soil, using the grit it would pour over to create a lake . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 19, 2010 Report Share Posted August 19, 2010 Possibly, it could be: CWMS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 20, 2010 Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 Okay, harvey45. You got it. Your turn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 20, 2010 Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 That last hint is what gave it to me. Let's see... 8 letters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 20, 2010 Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 psaltery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 20, 2010 Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 psaltery--ooo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest Posted August 22, 2010 Report Share Posted August 22, 2010 psaltery--ooo talisman--oo stirrups--ooo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 22, 2010 Report Share Posted August 22, 2010 (edited) adhesive Edited August 22, 2010 by Dej Mar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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