#9085, aired 2024-04-19 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $1600: Lovely day, nothing to do, I'll go apricate in the sun, though I don't know why when this 4-letter synonym will do fine bask |
#9084, aired 2024-04-18 | 9-LETTER WORDS $400: Fountains, Roman candles & ground spinners are types of these fireworks |
#9084, aired 2024-04-18 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: Let's take a pregnant pause for this term of 3 months trimester |
#9084, aired 2024-04-18 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1200: Found in Motrin, it's derived from propionic acid ibuprofen |
#9084, aired 2024-04-18 | 9-LETTER WORDS $2000: You could "transcend blockchain barriers" at 2023's Icon Hyperbuild, this type of event for computer programmers a hackathon |
#9084, aired 2024-04-18 | 9-LETTER WORDS $3,600 (Daily Double): This verb can mean to create through skill, or to construct a lie or forgery fabricate |
#9083, aired 2024-04-17 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $2000: A woman of stately beauty is sometimes described by this 9-letter adjective, after the Roman queen of the gods Junoesque |
#9079, aired 2024-04-11 | SOME TIMELY WORDS $1200: This 6-letter word means to go back in fictional time & rewrite the past of a character or narrative for a new work retcon |
#9070, aired 2024-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $200: From the Latin for "ask", it's the formal & systematic questioning of a suspect interrogation |
#9070, aired 2024-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the type of photo seen here; what do we gotta do, put it on a silver plate for you a daguerreotype |
#9070, aired 2024-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $600: In this type of democracy, the political party with the most legislative seats forms a government parliamentary |
#9070, aired 2024-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: This "-ism" describes the ongoing habit of judging foreign groups by the standards of one's own culture ethnocentrism |
#9070, aired 2024-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: From the Latin for "to take away secretly", it means secret or sneaky surreptitious |
#9068, aired 2024-03-27 | EQUINE WORDS $200: 3-letter word meaning to hound with continued fault-finding nag |
#9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: You might have to perform with some real dummies if you seek this stage job perfected by Edgar Bergen ventriloquist |
#9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: It's what you're doing when you're speaking aloud to no one else in particular on stage soliloquizing |
#9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SUFFIXES $1000: This 4-letter suffix goes on words for types of medical exams, or on Beatrix Potter rabbits -opsy |
#9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's another name for a bachelor's degree a baccalaureate |
#9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: If you register a domain name solely with the intention of selling it for profit, sit down, you're this type of intruder a cybersquatter |
#9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: The international museum for this in Maine has exhibits on Bigfoot & the Loch Ness Monster cryptozoology |
#9053, aired 2024-03-06 | UNUSUAL WORDS $400: Those on the Big Island of Hawaii are familiar with the basaltic lava whose name consists of just this letter twice A |
#9038, aired 2024-02-14 | TOUGH 10-LETTER WORDS $400: To shorten so that a part stands for the whole abbreviate |
#9038, aired 2024-02-14 | TOUGH 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Geometric name for an open square found on many a campus quadrangle |
#9038, aired 2024-02-14 | TOUGH 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: The artwork seen here is titled this, a weird-looking baby substituted by fairies for a newborn a Changeling |
#9038, aired 2024-02-14 | TOUGH 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: This 10-letter word for a means for producing copies comes from the Greek for "dry" & "written" xerography |
#9038, aired 2024-02-14 | TOUGH 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: "O", it means excessively compliant or servile obsequious |
#9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 13-LETTER WORDS $200: This division in men's professional boxing has an upper limit of 126 pounds featherweight |
#9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: I went down to this type of public protest to get my fair share of abuse demonstration |
#9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 13-LETTER WORDS $600: If you know what a hungry Liz is, thank Jesse Sheidlower & colleagues in this job for the "Historical Dict. of American Slang" lexicographer |
#9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: In the Army it's an officer whose job is to provide clothing & sustenance to a body of troops a quartermaster |
#9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's part of the full name of JFK, but not of LGA International |
#9029, aired 2024-02-01 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: Though it's in the Bovidae family, the musk variety of this is grouped with goats & sheep, not cattle the ox |
#9029, aired 2024-02-01 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: An aid to meditation, when spoken as 3 sounds, it can be symbolic of the 3 major Hindu gods om |
#9029, aired 2024-02-01 | RAP WORDS & PHRASES $800: On "Otis", Jay-Z claimed to have "invented" this 4-letter term defined as bold assurance or great self-confidence swag |
#9029, aired 2024-02-01 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1200: An exclamation, or an actress who has played a doctor & an MI6 agent on TV Oh |
#9029, aired 2024-02-01 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's Latin for "bone" os |
#9029, aired 2024-02-01 | 2-LETTER WORDS $2000: A major river of the Siberian lowlands, it flows more than 2,200 miles from the Altai Mountains to the Arctic Ocean the Ob |
#1, aired 2024-01-12 | LETTER PERFECT $800: This letter stands for the currency of Albania; when it comes before F in English words, it's often silent L (for the lek) |
#9014, aired 2024-01-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: Your pain & sadness from past experiences is known as your emotional this, also carried on a journey baggage |
#9014, aired 2024-01-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: A city in the Czech Republic gives this type of beer its name Pilsner |
#9014, aired 2024-01-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a place where skins & hides of animals are treated to make leather a tannery |
#9014, aired 2024-01-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: A Lil Wayne line that caused some linguistic controversy said, "Real Gs move in silence like" this pasta dish lasagna |
#9014, aired 2024-01-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: It refers to a virtuoso solo toward the end of a movement; Joseph Joachim wrote one for Brahms' violin concerto cadenza |
#9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WATERLOGGED WORDS $800: Damp means wet, as does this other 4-letter "D" word that the cool kids use to mean "excellent" dank |
#9008, aired 2024-01-03 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: Let's horse around on this far straightaway on an oval racecourse; it might also be a way to limber up your lumbar region the backstretch |
#9008, aired 2024-01-03 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: Keep up! The son of your brother's child is this relationship to you, old-timer great nephew (grandnephew) |
#9008, aired 2024-01-03 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1200: A college football player normally gets 5 years of it, & can compete in 4 seasons eligibility |
#9008, aired 2024-01-03 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1600: Flammable, but with 2 more letters, & if you even think of saying inflammable, I'm coming over there combustible |
#9008, aired 2024-01-03 | 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's--sob!--an 11-letter word for weeping, or the secretion of tears lacrimation |
#9006, aired 2024-01-01 | TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS $400: Idiomatically, you don't wanna be naked like this feathered fellow seen here a jaybird |
#9006, aired 2024-01-01 | TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS $800: There's a body part in this term for a legislative provision directing funds to specific projects an earmark |
#9006, aired 2024-01-01 | TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: Going all the way from A to C, this scientific term means not associated with living organisms abiotic |
#9006, aired 2024-01-01 | TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: This murder tool, a thin wire with handles, allows one to get up close & personal when strangulation is the goal a garrote |
#9006, aired 2024-01-01 | TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: "U" do this & you howl like a wolf or hoot like an owl ululate |
#9003, aired 2023-12-27 | 12-LETTER SCIENCE WORDS $400: In physics it's the rate of change of velocity with respect to time, not necessarily an increase in speed acceleration |
#9003, aired 2023-12-27 | 12-LETTER SCIENCE WORDS $800: This layer of the Earth's atmosphere lies between the troposphere & the mesosphere the stratosphere |
#9003, aired 2023-12-27 | 12-LETTER SCIENCE WORDS $1200: Sugars & starches are this type of organic compound with a name meaning "watered carbon" a carbohydrate |
#9003, aired 2023-12-27 | 12-LETTER SCIENCE WORDS $2000: From Latin for "heap" & "rain cloud", this mushroom-shaped cloud brings the thunder cumulonimbus |
#9003, aired 2023-12-27 | 12-LETTER SCIENCE WORDS $10,400 (Daily Double): Studies have shown that some shrews use this process, emitting high-pitched squeaks as a guide in the dark echolocation |
#8992, aired 2023-12-12 | WORDS OF PEACE $3,000 (Daily Double): When the Eagle landed in 1969, this 11-letter word of peace was mentioned tranquility |
#8990, aired 2023-12-08 | WORDS FROM ARABIC $2,000 (Daily Double): We've hit bottom with this 5-letter word from the Arabic for "opposite the zenith" nadir |
#8966, aired 2023-11-06 | ODD 4-LETTER WORDS $400: It means sad or listless; when tripled, it means "and so on" blah |
#8966, aired 2023-11-06 | ODD 4-LETTER WORDS $800: Led Zeppelin knows that this word refers to a concluding passage of a musical piece or a ballet a coda |
#8966, aired 2023-11-06 | HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS $800: 8-letter adjective meaning similar to a fake doctor or to a duck's call (26 points) quackish |
#8966, aired 2023-11-06 | HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS $1000: 8-letter adjective describing the science of animals
(20 points) zoologic |
#8966, aired 2023-11-06 | ODD 4-LETTER WORDS $1200: A symbol of life in Egypt, it's also known as an ansate cross an ankh |
#8966, aired 2023-11-06 | ODD 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: This word from Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" means "to communicate sympathetically" to grok |
#8966, aired 2023-11-06 | ODD 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: This rhyming Latin term is used to describe a judgment or decree that is not yet final nisi |
#8961, aired 2023-10-30 | NON-NAUGHTY WORDS $600: This non-naughty 5-letter "B" word means to bungle a task to botch |
#8952, aired 2023-10-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: A pig's digs a sty |
#8952, aired 2023-10-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: 40 winks a nap |
#8952, aired 2023-10-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: Anonymous John's last name Doe |
#8952, aired 2023-10-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: A small child, or a form of tater a tot |
#8952, aired 2023-10-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: Not sew, but you do this to make lace using knots & loops to tat |
#16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $2,000 (Daily Double): A 1944 Ingrid Bergman film popularized this 11-letter word of 2022, an act of psychological manipulation gaslighting |
#8928, aired 2023-09-13 | 15-LETTER WORDS $400: In Spanish ¡felicidades! is one way to say this congratulations |
#8928, aired 2023-09-13 | 15-LETTER WORDS $800: It's another name for a movie's director of photography; Conrad Hall was a great one a cinematographer |
#8928, aired 2023-09-13 | 15-LETTER WORDS $1200: Described in 3 of the gospels, it's the term for Jesus' change in appearance to divine form up on a mountain transfiguration |
#8928, aired 2023-09-13 | 15-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's the phenomenon exhibited here in waves on the California coast, caused by light-emitting organisms bioluminescence |
#8928, aired 2023-09-13 | 15-LETTER WORDS $2000: From French & Latin for "nimble finger", it's a fancy name for a sleight of hand magician a prestidigitator |
#8925, aired 2023-07-28 | WORKING WORDS $400: A good manager knows how to do this 8-letter word, transfer responsibility for specific tasks to their employees delegate |
#8916, aired 2023-07-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $200: One who's used as the tool of another, or Moe Howard the stooge |
#8916, aired 2023-07-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: In the title of a John le Carré novel, these 2 occupations precede "Soldier, Spy" Tinker & Tailor |
#8916, aired 2023-07-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $600: This wild cat seen here ranges from Argentina to South Texas an ocelot |
#8916, aired 2023-07-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: Marcel Duchamp famously displayed an autographed one of these bathroom receptacles as an artwork urinal |
#8916, aired 2023-07-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1,200 (Daily Double): This poetic name for the land of Robert Burns is in the name of a Canadian province Scotia |
#8912, aired 2023-07-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a broom's natural partner dustpan |
#8912, aired 2023-07-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: A type of lettuce, or a big object produced by a process called calving iceberg |
#8912, aired 2023-07-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: A vexing song or melody you can't get out of your head an earworm |
#8912, aired 2023-07-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: A piece of rope used to tie something to a ship, or a strap for carrying something around the neck a lanyard |
#8912, aired 2023-07-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the place where horses are saddled before a race, or an enclosed space where they're exercised a paddock |
#8907, aired 2023-07-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: I sound so much more refined when I use this 8-letter French synonym for "tushy" derrière |
#8906, aired 2023-07-03 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $2000: A word for booze has this 4-letter silver salmon inside of it coho |
#8902, aired 2023-06-27 | WORD ORIGINS $1600: 2 Greek words give us this 10-letter word meaning fear of blood hemophobia |
#8901, aired 2023-06-26 | 7-LETTER WORDS $200: It's a payment given by a feudal vassal to a lord, or a type of band such as Oasish a tribute |
#8901, aired 2023-06-26 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: Zeno's "arrow" is an example of this philosophical statement, from the Greek for "contrary to expectation" a paradox |
#8901, aired 2023-06-26 | 7-LETTER WORDS $600: Czech athlete, Barbora Spotáková holds a world record for throwing this item some 237 feet a javelin |
#8901, aired 2023-06-26 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: This delicate word is stretched out to 3 syllables by Darren McGavin in "A Christmas Story" fragile |
#8901, aired 2023-06-26 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's an oxymoronic portmanteau for a good buddy that you also sorta hate frenemy |
#8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: An 1899 Saturday Evening Post article bemoaned the "lost art of" this, with everyone reading instead of talking to each other conversation |
#8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Clean & jerk athlete a weightlifter |
#8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: Medical professional who studies & treats poisonings toxicologist |
#8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: This photographic effect reverses tones & introduces sunny highlights to images solarization |
#8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): An unlucky incident; in British law, it's a verdict of accidental death not due to crime or negligence misadventure |
#8896, aired 2023-06-19 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $200: Aesop knows it's a short narrative often making an edifying point a fable |
#8896, aired 2023-06-19 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $400: It's what someone who buys & resells stolen goods is called a fence |
#8896, aired 2023-06-19 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $600: It's a person with a habit of texting, "OMG! Sorry I can't make it! I forgot I have a thing. We should totally hang out soon though" a flake |
#8896, aired 2023-06-19 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $800 (Daily Double): It's a genus of tree that can be grown as a houseplant such as the fiddle-leaf fig Ficus |
#8896, aired 2023-06-19 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $800: "You give me" this in a song originally recorded by "Little Willie" John fever |
#8895, aired 2023-06-16 | 3-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN X $200: Suit for a formal a tux |
#8895, aired 2023-06-16 | 3-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN X $400: To dishonestly influence something to reach a predetermined outcome fix |
#8895, aired 2023-06-16 | 3-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN X $600: To bewitch someone or cast a spell upon them is to do this hex |
#8895, aired 2023-06-16 | 3-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN X $800: To disturb with minor irritations vex |
#8895, aired 2023-06-16 | 3-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN X $1000: No war, for a Roman pax |
#8893, aired 2023-06-14 | 3-, 4- OR 5-LETTER WORDS $200: A sacred oath; in Catholicism, one can be for chastity, poverty or obedience a vow |
#8893, aired 2023-06-14 | 3-, 4- OR 5-LETTER WORDS $400: Before singing "He's my brother", The Hollies noted that "He ain't" this heavy |
#8893, aired 2023-06-14 | 3-, 4- OR 5-LETTER WORDS $600: The Duke of Sussex is familiar with this verb meaning to pester a military foe with repeated attacks harry |
#8893, aired 2023-06-14 | 3-, 4- OR 5-LETTER WORDS $800: The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet, it can also mean a very small amount iota |
#8893, aired 2023-06-14 | 3-, 4- OR 5-LETTER WORDS $1000: Meaning to improve or perfect a skill, it comes from the Middle English for whetstone hone |
#8891, aired 2023-06-12 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: Like a track athlete, you might "pass" it when turning a responsibility over to another baton |
#8891, aired 2023-06-12 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: A sharp turn in a road or river can be called this body part elbow |
#8891, aired 2023-06-12 | 5-LETTER WORDS $600: The first letter is silent in this verb meaning to grind; your teeth, for example gnash |
#8891, aired 2023-06-12 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: It's a strong beam used in construction from wall to wall to support a ceiling a joist |
#8891, aired 2023-06-12 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1000: It means an heir, especially to a wealthy or prominent family a scion |
#8889, aired 2023-06-08 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $200: It's just a pterm for a ptremendous pterosaur pterodactyl |
#8889, aired 2023-06-08 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $400: Lambeth or Staten Island, for example a borough |
#8889, aired 2023-06-08 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $600: Kim Kardashian's 4th kid, or a sacred song Psalm |
#8889, aired 2023-06-08 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $800: The OED's first citation for this surfing slang for a challenging wave goes back to 1977 gnarly |
#8889, aired 2023-06-08 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $1000: This word with a rare silent "Q" can mean a resinous varnish lacquer |
#8883, aired 2023-05-31 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: General term for the official monetary unit of a nation currency |
#8883, aired 2023-05-31 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: Golf is one type of this; parasol is another umbrella |
#8883, aired 2023-05-31 | 8-LETTER WORDS $600: When a lumbering lineman talks to the referee before a play, he may be making himself this, able to legally catch a pass eligible |
#8883, aired 2023-05-31 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: Type of complete breakdown that's in the name of a bee colony disorder a collapse |
#8883, aired 2023-05-31 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: Some workplaces have this network of linked computers, sort of the company-wide web an intranet |
#8876, aired 2023-05-22 | A LOSS FOR WORDS $1600: This 11-letter word for a period of mourning after a loss comes from an old word for "steal" bereavement |
#12, aired 2023-05-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: It's totally tubular & produces patterns like those seen here kaleidoscope |
#12, aired 2023-05-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: A real humdinger of a word, in 1991 it became a music festival, now held annually in Chicago Lollapalooza |
#12, aired 2023-05-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: It's now pretty much lights out for this once-standard type of light bulb, as its filament is less efficient incandescent |
#12, aired 2023-05-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the formal term for a mapmaker cartographer |
#12, aired 2023-05-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: From Latin & Greek for "flow", it's the medical specialty for conditions of the joints & connective tissues like arthritis rheumatology |
#9, aired 2023-05-15 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $800: A tall white chef's hat has this 5-letter name that can be followed by "blanche", if you want to be fancy toque |
#9, aired 2023-05-15 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $1200: This 15-letter adjective simply means beautiful pulchritudinous |
#1, aired 2023-05-08 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: This word for any extended break from work gets its name from a day of rest sabbatical |
#1, aired 2023-05-08 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: The act of taking over someone else's computer with the goal of affecting social or political change is this portmanteau word hacktivism |
#1, aired 2023-05-08 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: There's a pair of Zs in this word for a type of musical entertainment presented between opera acts intermezzo |
#1, aired 2023-05-08 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: Pooch & pals are sitting pretty on the rock slab with this name familiar to architects & engineers Cantilever (Rock) |
#1, aired 2023-05-08 | 10-LETTER WORDS $7,000 (Daily Double): Common in French, this diacritical mark gets its name from the Latin for "bend around" circumflex |
#8861, aired 2023-05-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $200: It follows Ice & Stone Age |
#8861, aired 2023-05-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $400: Perhaps you learned to type with the phrase "Now is the time for all good men to come to the" this "of the party" aid |
#8861, aired 2023-05-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $600: In the early 2000s the Israeli army phased out use of this submachine gun the uzi |
#8861, aired 2023-05-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $800: Wrath or fury packed into 3 letters ire |
#8861, aired 2023-05-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $1000: This symbol of Australia ranks as the world's second-tallest bird the emu |
#8857, aired 2023-04-25 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: Another word for the gas pedal the accelerator |
#8857, aired 2023-04-25 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the 11-letter accessory worn here a neckerchief |
#8857, aired 2023-04-25 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1200: Musical mentor seen in the foreground the choirmaster |
#8857, aired 2023-04-25 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1600: How far is the hole or the enemy target? This will tell you a rangefinder |
#8857, aired 2023-04-25 | 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: A legally defined wine-growing area such as Médoc an appellation |
#8855, aired 2023-04-21 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $400: Food groups often left off nutritional guidelines include nougat, meringue & this sweet stuff seen with bread fluff |
#8855, aired 2023-04-21 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $800: An aspect or phase of something, it's also any of the small, polished sides on a cut diamond a facet |
#8855, aired 2023-04-21 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $1200: Proverbially, this type of "heart" "never won fair lady" faint |
#8855, aired 2023-04-21 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $1,500 (Daily Double): In its simplest form it's a sheet of paper folded in half to make 2 leaves or 4 pages; Shakespeare's had a lot more a folio |
#8855, aired 2023-04-21 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $2000: Pachelbel composed this type of composition "in D minor" & also "in F major" a fugue |
#8843, aired 2023-04-05 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: The big one consists of 2 phalanges a toe |
#8843, aired 2023-04-05 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: An expression for close but wrong is "right church, wrong" this pew |
#8843, aired 2023-04-05 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: Hey, friend! It's been so long, it's been one of these, the longest division of geologic time an eon |
#8843, aired 2023-04-05 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: The letter "A" in Morse Code is dot-dash, also called "dit" this dah |
#8843, aired 2023-04-05 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Just one letter different, these 2 rhyming words both mean to soak up spilled liquid sop & mop |
#8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORDS FROM GREEK & LATIN $3,000 (Daily Double): A letter that the pope sends around, it's from the Greek for "circle" encyclical |
#8833, aired 2023-03-22 | 4-LETTER SPORTS TERMS $600: The second half of a golf course is called this, 2 4-letter words the back nine |
#8828, aired 2023-03-15 | "F"OUR LETTER WORDS $400: From the Latin for "rage", it's a surge of violent anger fury |
#8828, aired 2023-03-15 | "F"OUR LETTER WORDS $800: Horsetail is a relative of this primitive plant a fern |
#8828, aired 2023-03-15 | "F"OUR LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a channel for conveying away smoke or gas produced by a fire or heater a flue |
#8828, aired 2023-03-15 | "F"OUR LETTER WORDS $1600: A device that "makes time travel possible" is this capacitor flux |
#8828, aired 2023-03-15 | "F"OUR LETTER WORDS $2000: In fashion, it's an ornamental braided coat fastener a frog |
#8827, aired 2023-03-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $200: It's a book collector or just a lover of books bibliophile |
#8827, aired 2023-03-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: To draw the boundaries of an electoral district in a way that gives one political party an advantage gerrymander |
#8827, aired 2023-03-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $600: This system illustrated here gets your blood & lymph going circulatory system |
#8827, aired 2023-03-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: Any imaginary ideal place, or the location of the Dumbo ride at Disney World fantasyland |
#8827, aired 2023-03-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1000: One of Abraham Lincoln's nicknames was "The Great" this Emancipator |
#8824, aired 2023-03-09 | FIRST WORDS $400: It's from the Latin for "beginning", or a letter like the L in Samuel L. Jackson an initial |
#8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ODD WORDS $1200: Pig Latin & a word for nothing are the source of this 5-letter word meaning "to reject" ixnay |
#8817, aired 2023-02-28 | 13-LETTER WORDS $200: It's the fear of spiders... multi-legged, creeping, sometimes venomous spiders arachnophobia |
#8817, aired 2023-02-28 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: In geometry this distance has been called a special case of perimeter circumference |
#8817, aired 2023-02-28 | 13-LETTER WORDS $600: This kind of doctor treats diseases of the hair & nails as well as skin a dermatologist |
#8817, aired 2023-02-28 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: This adjective means having only one color monochromatic |
#8817, aired 2023-02-28 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: From Latin, it's the science or philosophy of law jurisprudence |
#8805, aired 2023-02-10 | 5-LETTER DOUBLE Z WORDS $200: Said of liquid with many gas bubbles in it fizzy |
#8805, aired 2023-02-10 | 5-LETTER DOUBLE Z WORDS $400: Adjective for DJ Jeff, musical partner of the Fresh Prince Jazzy |
#8805, aired 2023-02-10 | 5-LETTER DOUBLE Z WORDS $600: The place was all this, filled with anticipation & nervous talk abuzz |
#8805, aired 2023-02-10 | 5-LETTER DOUBLE Z WORDS $800: To be "in" one of these is to be in a state of nervous excitement or agitation a tizzy |
#8805, aired 2023-02-10 | 5-LETTER DOUBLE Z WORDS $1000: Female singing voice between soprano & contralto mezzo |
#8785, aired 2023-01-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: If you have plenty of freedom, you've been given wide this term from mapmaking latitude |
#8785, aired 2023-01-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the feature that populates online forms with your birthdate, phone number etc. when you put in your name autofill |
#8785, aired 2023-01-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: Put an "S" in front of a 3-pronged spear to get this word meaning annoyingly assertive strident |
#8785, aired 2023-01-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1600: A "parental advisory" label created for records in the 1980s warns of this type of lyrics explicit |
#8785, aired 2023-01-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $2000: You may think of data as words & numbers, but digital images are also data & this term can mean information about an image metadata |
#8783, aired 2023-01-11 | SCIENCE WORDS $400: This term for a region of sediment deposited at a river's mouth shares its name with a Greek letter delta |
#8783, aired 2023-01-11 | SCIENCE WORDS $800: These 2 5-letter words are often paired as terms for the plants & animals of a particular region flora & fauna |
#8775, aired 2022-12-30 | 4-LETTER "X" RATED WORDS $200: Data in the form of words text |
#8775, aired 2022-12-30 | 4-LETTER "X" RATED WORDS $400: The highest part of something, especially one forming a point an apex |
#8775, aired 2022-12-30 | 4-LETTER "X" RATED WORDS $600: To persuade gently & persistently to coax |
#8775, aired 2022-12-30 | 4-LETTER "X" RATED WORDS $800: This feline carnivore is found in the northern climes of Eurasia & North America a lynx |
#8775, aired 2022-12-30 | 4-LETTER "X" RATED WORDS $1000: French word for a mixture of butter & flour used to make sauces a roux |
#8770, aired 2022-12-23 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: The 10 Commandments say not to do this to another man's house or wife covet |
#8770, aired 2022-12-23 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: There are 2 Vs in this word meaning extreme enthusiasm or spirit verve |
#8770, aired 2022-12-23 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a small, secret group of plotters & can also mean their conspiracy a cabal |
#8770, aired 2022-12-23 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: This word for the sound a bell makes rhymes with bell a knell |
#8770, aired 2022-12-23 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: This adjective meaning "full of substance" is also a punny way to describe the hat seen here pithy |
#8753, aired 2022-11-30 | THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS $400: Cymbals make this 5-letter sound, also a meeting on a battlefield a clash |
#8751, aired 2022-11-28 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: A quick look at something, perhaps the goose of the same name a gander |
#8751, aired 2022-11-28 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: Long ago important people wore fake hair, which led to this rhyming term for any person of high standing a bigwig |
#8751, aired 2022-11-28 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1200: Yes, Dan, there are 2 "P"s in the middle of this word for the snazzily attired dapper |
#8751, aired 2022-11-28 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1600: Named for a French aristocrat, it refers to pleasure felt from inflicting pain sadism |
#8751, aired 2022-11-28 | 6-LETTER WORDS $2000: It sounds Scandinavian, but this synonym for slender comes from the Latin for "to pluck" svelte |
#8736, aired 2022-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: Professional description of Edgar Degas in one way & Jay Pharoah in another impressionist |
#8736, aired 2022-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: A place where sweet treats like chocolate are prepared or sold confectionary |
#8736, aired 2022-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: This word meaning the male head of a household is borrowed from Latin paterfamilias |
#8736, aired 2022-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's the fear of old people gerontophobia |
#8736, aired 2022-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: This plural noun is a French word for a set of clothes or accessories accoutrements |
#7, aired 2022-11-06 | DOG-GONE WORDS $300: For a mixed breed dog, some say mongrel & others use this 4-letter equivalent mutt |
#8724, aired 2022-10-20 | STRONG WORDS $600: This 4-letter word is alliteratively paired with "hearty" to describe someone strong & healthy hale |
#4, aired 2022-10-16 | 7-LETTER WORDS $100: Sauerkraut is fermented this cabbage |
#4, aired 2022-10-16 | 7-LETTER WORDS $200: It can mean both clothes to wash & a place to do it laundry |
#4, aired 2022-10-16 | 7-LETTER WORDS $300: In Judaism, observance of this seventh day of the week begins just before sunset on Friday shabbat (or the sabbath) |
#4, aired 2022-10-16 | 7-LETTER WORDS $500: This pain reliever went on the market in 1899, long before ibuprofen aspirin |
#4, aired 2022-10-16 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1,300 (Daily Double): As the song says, life is a this, a restaurant with booze & live entertainment a cabaret |
#8720, aired 2022-10-14 | 9-LETTER WORDS $400: One of these "after the fact" helps commit a crime & subsequently may be charged with obstruction of justice accessory |
#8720, aired 2022-10-14 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: There's a "Q" in this word referring to any nickname a sobriquet |
#8720, aired 2022-10-14 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1200: The Goldilocks Zone refers to planets thought to be this habitable |
#8720, aired 2022-10-14 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1600: A son of Zeus tormented by fruit beyond his grasp led to this verb meaning "to tease" tantalize |
#8720, aired 2022-10-14 | 9-LETTER WORDS $2000: The Latin word for French is in this word that means to make something French in attitude or language gallicize |
#8716, aired 2022-10-10 | ONLY ONE CONSONANT WORDS $2000: Here's a gaggle of this 4-letter Hawaiian goose a nene |
#3, aired 2022-10-09 | WORDS OF LOVE $600: This word of affection opens many a letter; you'd rather not get the kind addressed to John, though dear |
#2, aired 2022-10-02 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This 4-letter word comes before "d'etat" in a governmental overthrow, or before "de grace" in a finishing blow coup |
#8705, aired 2022-09-23 | TINY 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Musically, it precedes Wayne & Uzi Vert Lil |
#8705, aired 2022-09-23 | TINY 3-LETTER WORDS $400: The Havanese & the Brussels Griffon are part of this tiny dog group the toy |
#8705, aired 2022-09-23 | TINY 3-LETTER WORDS $600: A synonym for a magical creature like a pixie, it can also refer to a mischievous person an imp (elf) |
#8705, aired 2022-09-23 | TINY 3-LETTER WORDS $800: A brief period, or an item straight from the horse's mouth a bit |
#8705, aired 2022-09-23 | TINY 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: This quick dance move using your arms was popularized by Migos & Cam Newton a dab |
#8697, aired 2022-09-13 | SYNONYMS $1200: Words for a comic entertainer at a royal court include fool, buffoon, merry-andrew & this 6-letter word jester |
#8696, aired 2022-09-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: A less serious offense, such as shoplifting, often punished with less than one year in prison misdemeanor |
#8696, aired 2022-09-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: In 1949 Joseph Sobek created this soon-popular game played within 4 walls racquetball |
#8696, aired 2022-09-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1200: Type of criminal seen here & often portrayed in heist movies a safecracker |
#8696, aired 2022-09-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1600: A homeless person may still have a place indoors to sleep; this is the term for someone sleeping on the streets unsheltered |
#8696, aired 2022-09-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: The original line of this separating 2 territories was the one dividing the New World between Spain & Portugal demarcation |
#8693, aired 2022-07-27 | ACCEPTABLE 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $200: Big bovine ox |
#8693, aired 2022-07-27 | ACCEPTABLE 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $400: An aboveground railway el |
#8693, aired 2022-07-27 | ACCEPTABLE 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $600: George Takei's 2-word catchphrase oh my |
#8693, aired 2022-07-27 | ACCEPTABLE 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $800: "Special" is one type of this short form ed |
#8693, aired 2022-07-27 | ACCEPTABLE 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $1000: COVID variant names skipped nu & this 14th Greek letter xi |
#8691, aired 2022-07-25 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: Paper container for more paper an envelope |
#8691, aired 2022-07-25 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: A formal hearing with a big shot, or a group of spectators audience |
#8691, aired 2022-07-25 | 8-LETTER WORDS $600: This adjective can mean related to debate or related to legal issues, like how somebody died forensic |
#8691, aired 2022-07-25 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: Located near a coast, like some oil rigs offshore |
#8691, aired 2022-07-25 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: Not bad, not great, just sufficient, from Latin for "equal" adequate |
#8686, aired 2022-07-18 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $400: This branch of the U.S. government makes the laws legislative |
#8686, aired 2022-07-18 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Keep your eye on the birdie, also known by this longer name the shuttlecock |
#8686, aired 2022-07-18 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: Another word for the draft, it's mandatory enrollment in the military conscription |
#8686, aired 2022-07-18 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: This word meaning "nonsense" begins with the name of a son of Odin balderdash |
#8686, aired 2022-07-18 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: This term for a tightrope walker comes from Latin for "rope" & "walk" a funambulist |
#8676, aired 2022-07-04 | SILENT CONSONANT WORDS $1000: This 6-letter synonym for self-assurance comes from the French; we hope you respond to the clue "with" it aplomb |
#8674, aired 2022-06-30 | SCIENCE WORDS $800: Created between two parallel faults, seen here is an example of this type of 4-letter valley in Africa rift |
#8674, aired 2022-06-30 | SCIENCE WORDS $1600: It's the 7-letter word for the arrangement of atoms in a crystal a lattice |
#8673, aired 2022-06-29 | WORDS DERIVED FROM BODY PARTS $800: Sometimes found before "knowledge", this sensual 6-letter word is derived from "flesh" carnal |
#8672, aired 2022-06-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Place to get a knish or a bagel (the whole word, please) delicatessen |
#8672, aired 2022-06-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: Hen night is Brit speak for this party for a bride prior to her wedding bachelorette |
#8672, aired 2022-06-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: Here's a puppy of this hybrid type--what a cutie Goldendoodle |
#8672, aired 2022-06-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: It was a scornful term for a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from Reconstruction carpetbagger |
#8672, aired 2022-06-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's not an operation on a tiny area, it's one using a magnifying instrument microsurgery |
#8659, aired 2022-06-09 | WORDS OF COMFORT $400: Brits spell this 4-letter word meaning warm & snug with an "S", Yanks with a "Z" cozy |
#8659, aired 2022-06-09 | SILENT W WORDS $1000: 10-letter job of Mamet or Pinter playwright |
#8655, aired 2022-06-03 | WORDS WITH FIENDS $400: You "go" this fiendish 5-letter word when you deviate from the expected rogue |
#8653, aired 2022-06-01 | 9-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS $400: The mathematical operation of deducting a number subtraction |
#8653, aired 2022-06-01 | 9-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS $800: If back in the day IBM made a jumbo machine that was your company's only computer, it was known as this 9-letter type a mainframe |
#8653, aired 2022-06-01 | 9-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS $1200: From Latin for "war", as a noun it can mean a nation involved in a war belligerent |
#8653, aired 2022-06-01 | 9-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS $1600: A Fellini film gave us this word for a type of photographer a paparazzi |
#8653, aired 2022-06-01 | 9-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: From German & Yiddish, it's the act of offering unsolicited advice to someone who's playing a game kibbitzing |
#8648, aired 2022-05-25 | 5-LETTER "W"s $1000: Roger, I heard your radio message & I'll use this combination of 2 words to indicate I'll do what you asked wilco |
#8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THESE WORDS MEAN NO OFFENSE $2,000 (Daily Double): This 8-letter word is made up of a prefix from Greek meaning "sharp" & another word that means someone of low intelligence an oxymoron |
#8629, aired 2022-04-28 | DOUBLE DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $400: Of course, there's a pumpkin spice version of this icy cold blended beverage from Starbucks a Frappuccino |
#8629, aired 2022-04-28 | DOUBLE DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $800: Hiccup in "How to Train Your Dragon" gives his dragon this name, but soon after gets a better look inside its mouth Toothless |
#8629, aired 2022-04-28 | DOUBLE DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $1200: Slightly different from accounting, it's the work of those that track & record money transactions bookkeeping |
#8629, aired 2022-04-28 | DOUBLE DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $1600: A tenant under contract is considered one of these a lessee |
#8629, aired 2022-04-28 | DOUBLE DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $2000: Ooh la la, chicken is sautéed & then stewed to make this French-named dish fricassée |
#8605, aired 2022-03-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: It's a tooth on a gear or on a rim of a wheel cog |
#8605, aired 2022-03-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: The flowing back of a tide ebb |
#8605, aired 2022-03-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: It describes a gradation of color, or color itself hue |
#8605, aired 2022-03-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: To regret a choice, perhaps not learning it's also French for "street" rue |
#8605, aired 2022-03-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: To cause a blemish on something that was perfect mar |
#8597, aired 2022-03-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This word that starts & ends with "U" means freedom in Swahili; it's one letter off from a classic TV character's name uhuru |
#8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BOSH $800: We hear a lot about these 2 14-letter words that differ by a letter; one is inadvertent untruths & the other, deliberate ones disinformation & misinformation |
#8592, aired 2022-03-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: This verb means to travel completely around the globe circumnavigate |
#8592, aired 2022-03-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: From words meaning "heart" & "vessel", this adjective means relating to the heart & blood vessels cardiovascular |
#8592, aired 2022-03-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: By definition this type of speech is given without preparation extemporaneous |
#8592, aired 2022-03-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: Martin Luther & John Calvin both believed in this religious doctrine that life & salvation are already decided by God ahead of time predestination |
#8592, aired 2022-03-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: I found a thousand bucks in this word that often follows "self" to mean the act of making oneself seem important aggrandizement |
#8590, aired 2022-03-04 | UNUSUAL WORDS $2000: Where you at, Yeti? This 13-letter field deals with the study of legendary creatures cryptozoology |
#8585, aired 2022-02-25 | A FEW COLORFUL WORDS $400: This 3-letter word follows "golden" in a lustrous type of paper rod |
#8585, aired 2022-02-25 | A FEW COLORFUL WORDS $800: Also the name of a big brown potato variety, this 6-letter word refers to a brownish color russet |
#17, aired 2022-02-22 | PITHY WORDS & PHRASES $1200: If fashion is your "bag", use this 5-letter designer name when you want to say something is "great" or "going well" Gucci |
#8577, aired 2022-02-15 | 6-LETTER VERBS $1,600 (Daily Double): This word meaning "to interfere" comes from the Latin for "foot" impede |
#10, aired 2022-02-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: One who puts down in words the story of another's life biographer |
#10, aired 2022-02-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: "Mortal" word describing a jury that can't reach a verdict deadlocked |
#10, aired 2022-02-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: There's one of these on Wabash Avenue spanning the Chicago River; don't try to cross when it's up drawbridge |
#10, aired 2022-02-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: 10-letter word for background music written to accompany a play, like Bizet's for 1872's "L'Arlesienne" incidental |
#10, aired 2022-02-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: This adjective for a defective argument begins with one of the 4 seasons fallacious |
#3, aired 2022-02-09 | A FEW FINAL WORDS $1200: 9-letter word for an attorney's closing argument to a jury to get their point across summation |
#8571, aired 2022-02-07 | WORDS WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $800: 7-letter adjective describing a weak grasp of a situation or a thin lead in a game tenuous |
#8557, aired 2022-01-18 | 7-LETTER ANAGRAMS $1200: Using too many words & to watch verbose & observe |
#8556, aired 2022-01-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: This synonym for knowledge is said to be dispensed in pearls wisdom |
#8556, aired 2022-01-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the container & specialty sporting good seen here a quiver |
#8556, aired 2022-01-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1200: To light a fire one can enjoy while using the same-named e-reader kindle |
#8556, aired 2022-01-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1600: A Spanish wine cellar, or a corner grocery store bodega |
#8556, aired 2022-01-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $2000: Alphabetically, this fertilized egg is darn near last zygote |
#8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WORDS & PHRASES $400: Manga refers to Japanese graphic novels; this other 5-letter word is for artistic works like "Princess Mononoke" anime |
#8554, aired 2022-01-13 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: Luxembourg's official name includes the words grand this duchy |
#8554, aired 2022-01-13 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: A Scotswoman may speak about her wee this 5-letter word for child bairn |
#8554, aired 2022-01-13 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1200: It can be a poem for the dead, shorter than an elegy, or a musical piece lamenting a passing a dirge |
#8554, aired 2022-01-13 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: Alphabetically, it's the first chemical element with a 5-letter name argon |
#8554, aired 2022-01-13 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: It can mean the wading bird seen here or take aim at verbally & criticize snipe |
#8551, aired 2022-01-10 | WORDS FROM ARABIC $1000: This 4-letter stringed instrument was brought into Europe via Spain by the Moors the lute |
#8536, aired 2021-12-20 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: This common building lumber product is made up of an odd number of veneers glued together plywood |
#8536, aired 2021-12-20 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: The name of this, red wine often mixed with fruit, comes from the Spanish for "bleeding" sangria |
#8536, aired 2021-12-20 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: Borrowed from Yiddish, it's the helping of food being added here a schmear |
#8536, aired 2021-12-20 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's a statement or proposition that, despite sound reasoning, leads to a self-contradictory conclusion a paradox |
#8536, aired 2021-12-20 | 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the punning first name of comic strip reporter Mr. Fillmore Mallard |
#8531, aired 2021-12-13 | FOSSIL WORDS $800: Once meaning to go, this 4-letter verb now mostly appears before phrases like "one's way" wend |
#8527, aired 2021-12-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Footbridge is a 10-letter word that you use if you're this kind of 10-letter traveler a pedestrian |
#8527, aired 2021-12-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Yep, people still use this handy measuring tool in math class & in certain professions a protractor |
#8527, aired 2021-12-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: This biology branch that shares a Nobel Prize category deals with the functions of living organisms physiology |
#8527, aired 2021-12-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: This word meaning "harmful" is also the name of Sleeping Beauty's nemesis maleficent |
#8527, aired 2021-12-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: From Greek for "to show through", it's used to describe a delicate, translucent fabric, perhaps a bridal veil diaphanous |
#8509, aired 2021-11-11 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: "Us" is the objective case of this pronoun we |
#8509, aired 2021-11-11 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: A snippet of it: ...288419716... pi |
#8509, aired 2021-11-11 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: It's the third note in the major scale of the sol-fa set of singing syllables mi |
#8509, aired 2021-11-11 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the garment being worn here a gi |
#8509, aired 2021-11-11 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: A moon in our solar system named for a maiden of myth Io |
#8506, aired 2021-11-08 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: What used to be called the pound sign is now known as this hashtag |
#8506, aired 2021-11-08 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: A small hotel, or a payment to a retiree a pension |
#8506, aired 2021-11-08 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: Catholic tradition says this cup used for sacramental wine should be at least part gold or silver a chalice |
#8506, aired 2021-11-08 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: A traditional 15th anniversary gift is this, perhaps from Lalique crystal |
#8506, aired 2021-11-08 | 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: An early settler of a territory, or a U.S. space probe that was launched in 1958 a pioneer |
#8503, aired 2021-11-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $400: This game whose origins go back to ancient times is played on a board with 24 narrow triangles or points backgammon |
#8503, aired 2021-11-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Knock knock--who's there? It's this noisy type of ghost a poltergeist |
#8503, aired 2021-11-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: Many health plans now cover this 12-letter practice of consulting with your doctor via your cell phone or computer telemedicine |
#8503, aired 2021-11-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: Some describe this old timey soft drink as tasting like licorice; others, like root beer sarsaparilla |
#8503, aired 2021-11-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: This adjective can describe something intricate or involved, like a certain maze from mythology labyrinthine |
#8496, aired 2021-10-25 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $200: Alpha's Greek letter opposite that means the last in a sequence omega |
#8490, aired 2021-10-15 | DIËRESIS & ÜMLAUT WÖRDS $1200: A huge fan of the dieresis, the New Yorker uses one for this 5-letter word meaning gullible, simple or unjaded naïve |
#8483, aired 2021-10-06 | DOUBLE THE SAME VOWEL WORDS $800: This 4-letter British adjective means affectedly dainty or quaint twee |
#8473, aired 2021-09-22 | ART & DESIGN $2000: Two-word phrase for the color & the resinous material seen here; both words contain the same 3-letter sequence black lacquer |
#8470, aired 2021-09-17 | WORLD OF WORDS $1200: In France, comptable is this 10-letter occupation accountant |
#8458, aired 2021-08-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: This verb means to handle something roughly, like an animal would paw |
#8458, aired 2021-08-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Portugal's national dish is salted this fish cod |
#8458, aired 2021-08-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: The British use this booze to mean "strange" rum |
#8458, aired 2021-08-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: This term for flax fiber goes before "headed" to describe kids with very light blond hair tow |
#8458, aired 2021-08-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: Term for a day on Mars--24 hours & nearly 40 minutes, so you can hit snooze a little longer there sol |
#8451, aired 2021-07-26 | TOUGH 3-LETTER WORDS $400: This word can refer to a craving or an Asian currency yen |
#8451, aired 2021-07-26 | TOUGH 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: It almost sounds like a symptom of sleepiness, but this word means to deviate from a ship's course yaw |
#8451, aired 2021-07-26 | TOUGH 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: This Latin word meaning "thus" begins Virginia's state motto Sic |
#8451, aired 2021-07-26 | TOUGH 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: A depression in the path of a mountain's summit; Hillary climbed Everest's "South" a Col |
#8450, aired 2021-07-23 | NONSENSE WORDS $400: This 4-letter word refers to a military cot, or a nonsense word bunk |
#8450, aired 2021-07-23 | NONSENSE WORDS $600: This hyphenated nonsense word begins with a word for a violin & ends with a word one letter different from the first fiddle-faddle |
#8442, aired 2021-07-13 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: Vamoose! go |
#8442, aired 2021-07-13 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: Hamlet's first choice be |
#8442, aired 2021-07-13 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: Evil King clown tale It |
#8442, aired 2021-07-13 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: 22/7,
approximately pi |
#8442, aired 2021-07-13 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: The farming equivalent of Big Pharma is not Big Farm but big this Ag |
#8436, aired 2021-07-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $200: A live performance of this musical genre that showed its "age" in the 1920s often includes improvisation jazz |
#8436, aired 2021-07-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $600: It sounds like part of a wheel, but it's a jump in ice skating with one & a half or more turns in the air an axel |
#8436, aired 2021-07-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: A human-eating giant of folklore, or any terrifying person an ogre |
#8436, aired 2021-07-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1000: This instrument has been in use since the time of the Crusades a fife |
#8436, aired 2021-07-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): This monarchical title was relinquished for good in 1917 czar |
#8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $200: In arithmetic this operation yields a product multiplication |
#8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a comment made that puts things mildly compared to what actually transpired an understatement |
#8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $600: In the 1950s, the RF-101 was the first supersonic aircraft built for this observation purpose reconnaissance |
#8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: Rich tech people buying up Oakland homes causes this issue, a focus of the 2018 movie "Blindspotting" gentrification |
#8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1000: In states with no-fault divorce, one partner just has to state a reason things can't work out, such as these "differences" irreconcilable |
#8430, aired 2021-06-25 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: It can start a campaign or a football game a kickoff |
#8430, aired 2021-06-25 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: Aristotle said about this infliction of pain: "People under its compulsion tell lies" as often as the truth torture |
#8430, aired 2021-06-25 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: This adjective for a mass of ice often describes a slow pace, like of cars in a traffic jam glacial |
#8430, aired 2021-06-25 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: The National Federation of the Blind uses this word, not "unblind" sighted |
#8430, aired 2021-06-25 | 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: An airplane's maximum altitude in sustained flight a ceiling |
#8420, aired 2021-06-11 | SKILLFUL WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Latin for "easy" gives us this 6-letter adjective for a display of smooth skill facile |
#8418, aired 2021-06-09 | SILENT-LETTER WORDS $200: A dorsal prominence of a finger joint a knuckle |
#8418, aired 2021-06-09 | BODY WORDS $400: This 3-letter region from the waist to the knees on humans only exists when one is seated lap |
#8418, aired 2021-06-09 | SILENT-LETTER WORDS $400: From Latin for "to climb", it means to rise, as in a dirigible ascend |
#8418, aired 2021-06-09 | SILENT-LETTER WORDS $600: The Romans called it dies Mercurii, the day of Mercury Wednesday |
#8418, aired 2021-06-09 | SILENT-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the "h" in the math formula 1/2 b h height |
#8418, aired 2021-06-09 | SILENT-LETTER WORDS $1000: It can follow bush, Delian or fantasy league |
#8418, aired 2021-06-09 | BODY WORDS $1600: This part of the knee begins with a 4-letter word for the top of the head patella |
#8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: The zloty, divided into 100 groszy, is Poland's unit of this currency |
#8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400 (Daily Double): One of the witches in "Macbeth" refers to it as a "charmed pot" a cauldron |
#8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: A small insect, or someone who reads a lot bookworm |
#8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: As a verb, it means to send or to kill; as a noun, it can mean speed dispatch |
#8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: This tuna, species Thunnus alalunga, can be used in a nicoise salad albacore |
#8412, aired 2021-06-01 | WORDS OF WISDOM $400: Ralph Waldo Emerson was nicknamed this 4-letter wise person "of Concord" Sage |
#8412, aired 2021-06-01 | WORDS OF WISDOM $800: Take the creature seen here, add one letter, & you have this word meaning "clever" shrewd |
#8412, aired 2021-06-01 | WORDS OF WISDOM $1600: This 7-letter word can mean wise or pertaining to the species of man sapiens |
#8412, aired 2021-06-01 | WORDS OF WISDOM $2000: It's "A" 6-letter noun meaning deftness, often in business acumen |
#8410, aired 2021-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: If you take someone into your this, you are trusting them not to reveal what's been said confidence |
#8410, aired 2021-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Laughter spreading in a crowd is often described as this, which, in a clinical sense, means transmitted by contact contagious |
#8410, aired 2021-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: "A" is for this word meaning "without concealment" , in contrast with gamblers whose hands went under the card table aboveboard |
#8410, aired 2021-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: There's a term for a lover of his country in this 10-letter word for a fellow countryman compatriot |
#8410, aired 2021-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: Shizuoka is this, a Japanese jurisdiction, partly from the Latin for "before" prefecture |
#8405, aired 2021-05-21 | PREFIXES $1,000 (Daily Double): Originally attached to a word that ended "-netic", this 5-letter prefix now fronts words dealing with futuristic concepts cyber |
#8404, aired 2021-05-20 | 5-LETTER 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $200: An expression peculiar to a language or culture, like "a different kettle of fish" idiom |
#8404, aired 2021-05-20 | 5-LETTER 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: An assumed persona, perhaps when undercover alias |
#8404, aired 2021-05-20 | 5-LETTER 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $600: Quotient is a synonym for this, a proportional relationship between 2 quantities ratio |
#8404, aired 2021-05-20 | 5-LETTER 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: A brown pigment associated with old photos sepia |
#8404, aired 2021-05-20 | 5-LETTER 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: The central administration of the Catholic church in Rome a curia |
#8402, aired 2021-05-18 | 4 OF THE SAME LETTER $1200: From old words for "one & all", today it means disreputable or undesirable people riff-raff |
#8394, aired 2021-05-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Once with 20,000 people watching from all around, this type of arena in Pompeii is the oldest surviving one in the Roman world an amphitheater |
#8394, aired 2021-05-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: In the 19th c., this lung disease caused by a mycobacterium reached near epidemic proportions in industrialized regions tuberculosis |
#8394, aired 2021-05-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: It's a part of speech that expresses emotion & is capable of standing alone, like wow! Or oh! an interjection |
#8394, aired 2021-05-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: This word for a guy who stays home & takes care of kids & chores dates back to the 19th century, but then it was a fictional idea a househusband |
#8394, aired 2021-05-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1,500 (Daily Double): Reflecting the name of a mythological youth, this adjective means self-absorbed & egotistical narcissistic |
#8383, aired 2021-04-21 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $1200: This 4-letter verb that means show off a muscle is now used to show off anything you're proud of flex |
#8382, aired 2021-04-20 | 17-LETTER WORDS $400: Legalization differs from this ac-"tion", by which a drug is still illegal but possession of a limited amount is not prosecuted decriminalization |
#8382, aired 2021-04-20 | 17-LETTER WORDS $800: Idealistic philosophy of Emerson & Thoreau transcendentalism |
#8382, aired 2021-04-20 | 17-LETTER WORDS $1200: Reduction of the body's ability to fight infection; it happens with HIV & can be done deliberately before a transplant immunosuppression |
#8382, aired 2021-04-20 | 17-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Critic Roger Fry coined this term for the late 19th century art style of Seurat & Gauguin Postimpressionism |
#8382, aired 2021-04-20 | 17-LETTER WORDS $2000: Related to a word for that little voice telling you right & wrong, it's the quality of being thorough & scrupulous conscientiousness |
#8381, aired 2021-04-19 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: To speed up quickly, like your car to make that green light to accelerate |
#8381, aired 2021-04-19 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Adjective meaning once every 100 years centennial |
#8381, aired 2021-04-19 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: Distracted mental state of being in love, like Cher in an Oscar-winning film; snap out of it! moonstruck |
#8381, aired 2021-04-19 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: You might need a chorus to repeat this interjection, from the Hebrew for "praise ye the Lord" hallelujah |
#8381, aired 2021-04-19 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1000: This object is formed by the gradual deposit of calcite a stalactite |
#8381, aired 2021-04-19 | WET WORDS $2000: It's the 5-letter word for the lowest internal portion of a ship's hull where water collects the bilge |
#8371, aired 2021-04-05 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the scientific study of language & how it works linguistics |
#8371, aired 2021-04-05 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: This ancient flying reptile had a wing span of up to 35 feet pterodactyl |
#8371, aired 2021-04-05 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1200: From the Latin for "grow to maturity", it's the period in which a child develops into an adult adolescence |
#8371, aired 2021-04-05 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1600: Attributed to Seneca is the line "Luck is what happens when" this action "meets opportunity" preparation |
#8371, aired 2021-04-05 | 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: This adjective that means esteemed, like some awards, is from the Latin for "full of tricks" prestigious |
#8367, aired 2021-03-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Where many of us start our schooling, at age 5 or so kindergarten |
#8367, aired 2021-03-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: From the Latin for "full trust", this adjective means intended to be kept secret confidential |
#8367, aired 2021-03-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: Playful & lively, kittens are often described by this 12-letter adjective that begins with the name of another animal rambunctious |
#8367, aired 2021-03-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: The official act of making someone a saint in the Catholic church canonization |
#8367, aired 2021-03-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: Often competitive, it's lifting weights & exercising to display one's physique bodybuilding |
#8362, aired 2021-03-23 | "S"IX-LETTER WORDS $400: As seen here, Uncle Sam is a real stand-up guy, standing tall on these stilts |
#8362, aired 2021-03-23 | "S"IX-LETTER WORDS $800: A burial cloth, or to conceal shroud |
#8362, aired 2021-03-23 | "S"IX-LETTER WORDS $1200: Depending how it's spelled, it can be a small perfumed pouch or to walk with a strut sachet/sashay |
#8362, aired 2021-03-23 | "S"IX-LETTER WORDS $1600: This member of the Greyhound family seen here is one of the oldest dog breeds saluki |
#8362, aired 2021-03-23 | "S"IX-LETTER WORDS $2000: This word borrowed from German means to ski straight downhill at high speed schuss |
#8357, aired 2021-03-16 | HARD-HITTING WORDS $1000: Only one letter different from "gallop", this word for a heavy blow used to mean to ride at a gallop wallop |
#8356, aired 2021-03-15 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: Scalene is one of these with 3 unequal sides a triangle |
#8356, aired 2021-03-15 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: Treatment involving the cleaning, trimming & polishing of fingernails manicure |
#8356, aired 2021-03-15 | 8-LETTER WORDS $600: Adjective for something unimportant or something written at the edge of a printed page marginal |
#8356, aired 2021-03-15 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: Emotion mentioned 7 times in "Othello" jealousy |
#8356, aired 2021-03-15 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: Just before landing, it's when the pilot lines up the plane with the runway approach |
#8354, aired 2021-03-11 | THE "OVER"/"UNDER" $3,200 (Daily Double): One of few words with the letter sequence "rwr", it means too excited or agitated overwrought |
#8352, aired 2021-03-09 | 16-LETTER WORDS $400: Moving in the opposite direction of the typical hands of a timepiece counterclockwise |
#8352, aired 2021-03-09 | 16-LETTER WORDS $800: Medical professional specializing in artificially inducing insensitivity to pain for surgery anesthesiologist |
#8352, aired 2021-03-09 | 16-LETTER WORDS $1600: From optometry, it's the condition of not looking forward in time to anticipate what might happen shortsightedness |
#8352, aired 2021-03-09 | 16-LETTER WORDS $2000: With a name that spans oceans, this global hotel brand includes London's Park Lane & the Willard in Washington, D.C. Intercontinental |
#8352, aired 2021-03-09 | 16-LETTER WORDS $3,800 (Daily Double): In a 1923 poem Robert Frost described himself as this, now meaning one who advocates for the protection of the natural world an environmentalist |
#8347, aired 2021-03-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: An additional airing of a previously broadcast TV show a rerun |
#8347, aired 2021-03-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: Candy word meaning to falsify numbers fudge |
#8347, aired 2021-03-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1200: Literally, sheep-ish ovine |
#8347, aired 2021-03-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: With lovely crystals inside, it's Iowa's state rock a geode |
#8347, aired 2021-03-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: A block of precious metal of a standard shape & weight an ingot |
#8339, aired 2021-02-18 | WORDS BORROWED FROM JAPANESE $800: Characters meaning "before" & "life" combine to make this 6-letter word for a teacher, who would usually be older than you sensei |
#8333, aired 2021-02-10 | 4-LETTER "F" WORDS $400: Comic Sans MS is a type of one a font |
#8333, aired 2021-02-10 | 4-LETTER "F" WORDS $800: David Bowie sang that this "makes a man take things over" fame |
#8333, aired 2021-02-10 | 4-LETTER "F" WORDS $1200: It's an unweaned deer a fawn |
#8333, aired 2021-02-10 | 4-LETTER "F" WORDS $1600: Any decree, or an automaker that originated in Turin a fiat |
#8333, aired 2021-02-10 | 4-LETTER "F" WORDS $2000: In feudal times it was property granted to a vassal a fief |
#8332, aired 2021-02-09 | 6-LETTER WORDS $200: As an adjective, it means secluded; as a noun, it helps get your TV going remote |
#8332, aired 2021-02-09 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: This term for any basic food item also doubles for something that keeps your papers together staple |
#8332, aired 2021-02-09 | 6-LETTER WORDS $600: It sounds kind of trash-y, but it's a governmental excursion on the public's dime junket |
#8332, aired 2021-02-09 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: This word that means to squirm in pain begins with a silent "W" writhe |
#8332, aired 2021-02-09 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1000: This word meaning "scheduled" begins with a type of metamorphic rock slated |
#8322, aired 2021-01-26 | 3- OR 13-LETTER WORDS $200: A solemn promise, like one for marriage a vow |
#8322, aired 2021-01-26 | 3- OR 13-LETTER WORDS $400: In the U.S., it's the anniversary to be celebrated in 2076 a tricentennial |
#8322, aired 2021-01-26 | 3- OR 13-LETTER WORDS $600: Really throwing her voice around, Darci Lynne won "America's Got Talent" performing as one of these ventriloquist |
#8322, aired 2021-01-26 | 3- OR 13-LETTER WORDS $800: It's Latin for "road" or "way" via |
#8322, aired 2021-01-26 | 3- OR 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: A Buddhist temple in Cambodia, like Angkor wat |
#8320, aired 2021-01-22 | 9-LETTER WORDS $200: B or C, but not A or E a consonant |
#8320, aired 2021-01-22 | 9-LETTER WORDS $400: Varieties of this citrus fruit include Murcott & Dancy tangerine |
#8320, aired 2021-01-22 | 9-LETTER WORDS $600: It's a customary code of proper behavior or formalities in society etiquette |
#8320, aired 2021-01-22 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: To take the water out of something dehydrate |
#8320, aired 2021-01-22 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1000: This chemical that makes chili peppers hot is used in pepper sprays & topical painkillers capsaicin |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | 3-LETTER "D" WORDS $200: A bear abode a den |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | 3-LETTER "D" WORDS $400: Turn down the lights dim |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | 3-LETTER "D" WORDS $600: A failure, like a movie at the box office or a shell that doesn't explode a dud |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | 3-LETTER "D" WORDS $800: A turned-up noise din |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | 3-LETTER "D" WORDS $1000: A cutting or insulting remark a dig |
#8312, aired 2021-01-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: To pull, or a big clumsy oaf a lug |
#8312, aired 2021-01-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: When you disengage mentally, you do this 3-letter verb--no broccoli or cabbage required veg |
#8312, aired 2021-01-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: This shortened word precedes "league" or "team" when it's a local sports league for fun rather than money rec |
#8312, aired 2021-01-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: There are more than 40 species of this conifer, including the 200-foot-tall noble fir |
#8312, aired 2021-01-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: To Chaucer it was the belly; now it's the gaping mouth of a hungry creature maw |
#8303, aired 2020-12-16 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $200: On commercial airlines, exit rows & bulkhead seats typically offer extra this legroom |
#8303, aired 2020-12-16 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $400: At 380 feet, the tallest living tree is a coast this in California redwood |
#8303, aired 2020-12-16 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $600: Vespa is an iconic brand of this a scooter |
#8303, aired 2020-12-16 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $800: Nickname for a person from Muncie a Hoosier |
#8303, aired 2020-12-16 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $1000: This term for a habitual object of abuse can also refer to something that invites you into a house a doormat |
#8301, aired 2020-12-14 | BLENDED WORDS $800: It's the 11-letter name for the mixed dog breed seen here Labradoodle |
#8297, aired 2020-12-08 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $800: Raven relative & 4-letter synonym for forehead crow & brow |
#8296, aired 2020-12-07 | EMPTY WORDS $200: Before "island", this 6-letter word means uninhabited, not arid & sandy desert |
#8296, aired 2020-12-07 | EMPTY WORDS $400: Tabula rasa is often translated as this 5-letter "slate" blank |
#8294, aired 2020-12-03 | 15-LETTER WORDS $400: Adjective for school activities held outside of class & after regular hours extracurricular |
#8294, aired 2020-12-03 | 15-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the act of a country taking state control of what had been a privately owned industry nationalization |
#8294, aired 2020-12-03 | 15-LETTER WORDS $1200: Someone who playfully signals romantic interest has this quality flirtatiousness |
#8294, aired 2020-12-03 | 15-LETTER WORDS $1600: The condition of 2 people so different by nature that they are not able to work or live together harmoniously incompatibility |
#8294, aired 2020-12-03 | 15-LETTER WORDS $2000: This adverb means nevertheless or in spite of; it doesn't mean fully seated notwithstanding |
#8286, aired 2020-11-23 | 6-LETTER DOUBLE G WORDS $400: To move a doorknob to & fro with short, quick jerks jiggle |
#8286, aired 2020-11-23 | 6-LETTER DOUBLE G WORDS $800: To bicker over a price haggle |
#8286, aired 2020-11-23 | 6-LETTER DOUBLE G WORDS $1200: This music style blends Calypso & rhythm & blues, mon reggae |
#8286, aired 2020-11-23 | 6-LETTER DOUBLE G WORDS $1600: Is this a short, swordlike weapon used for stabbing which I see before me? a dagger |
#8286, aired 2020-11-23 | 6-LETTER DOUBLE G WORDS $2000: It's a Scottish pudding, laddie, if ye like yer pudding wi' meat! haggis |
#8285, aired 2020-11-20 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: "Farewell" in Spanish, it derives from a term meaning "may (you) be (commended) to God" adios |
#8285, aired 2020-11-20 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the perch you proverbially "rule" when you have total control the roost |
#8285, aired 2020-11-20 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1200: Bike shorts are often made of this 5-letter fabric that DuPont began marketing in 1962 Lycra |
#8285, aired 2020-11-20 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: It means a two-footed creature a biped |
#8285, aired 2020-11-20 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: This French word means a feeling of tedium & dissatisfaction ennui |
#8282, aired 2020-11-17 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: Set your phone to quiver, or this synonym vibrate |
#8282, aired 2020-11-17 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: To grapple, Greco-Roman style wrestle |
#8282, aired 2020-11-17 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: To put a sword in its case sheathe |
#8282, aired 2020-11-17 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: The offspring of a deity & a mortal a demigod |
#8282, aired 2020-11-17 | 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: Medically this pain is otalgia an earache |
#8281, aired 2020-11-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $8,000 (Daily Double): Borrowed from German, this 5-letter word means an intense but nonspecific anxiety angst |
#8272, aired 2020-11-03 | COMPOUND WORDS $2000: It's a 10-letter word for a newbie as well as the second rank in Boy Scouts a tenderfoot |
#8271, aired 2020-11-02 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: General term for a person who trains others to obey firm rules & a strict code of behavior disciplinarian |
#8271, aired 2020-11-02 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: Something that eludes classification is said to "resist easy" this, a process of identification categorization |
#8271, aired 2020-11-02 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: A person in their 70s a septuagenarian |
#8263, aired 2020-10-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: Authority to act for another, perhaps "by" this when you permit someone to vote in your place on corporate stock proxy |
#8263, aired 2020-10-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: This yellowish brown is an eye color option on California driver's licenses hazel |
#8263, aired 2020-10-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $600: It's the instrument heard here, playing--if we may say so ourselves--a pretty nifty tune a kazoo |
#8263, aired 2020-10-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: A term for a mischievous fairy, it also precedes "cut" or "dust" pixie |
#8263, aired 2020-10-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1000: A musical composition with a repeated theme using multiple voices, or a disturbed state of altered consciousness fugue |
#8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: This abbreviated word is sometimes found before art & after photo op |
#8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: According to the Chinese calendar, 2021 will be the year of this animal the ox |
#8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: It's the name of the game being played here Go |
#8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: In the title of a Eugene O'Neill play, it precedes "Wilderness!" Ah |
#8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: Scrabble players know this 2-letter word is a type of 3-toed sloth found in Brazil the ai |
#8256, aired 2020-10-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: Once it meant a young knight; today it means an unmarried man bachelor |
#8256, aired 2020-10-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: It can mean reactions to an idea, or distortion caused by a loop in a sound system feedback |
#8256, aired 2020-10-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $600: Verb meaning to raise a body in the air & keep it afloat, as if by magic levitate |
#8256, aired 2020-10-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: A large army unit made up of brigades & regiments division |
#8256, aired 2020-10-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: An orthodontist may fit you with this external component of braces that sometimes comes with a chin strap headgear |
#8241, aired 2020-09-21 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: The name of this bird is from Maori for the shrill cry of the male bird kiwi |
#8241, aired 2020-09-21 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: It's really not that unattractive, but it is the name of the hybrid citrus fruit seen here an Ugli |
#8241, aired 2020-09-21 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's the theatrical technique of suggesting emotions without words, using only gesture & movement mime |
#8241, aired 2020-09-21 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's someone who sells hot tips at the racetrack, or a verb meaning "to praise highly" a tout |
#8241, aired 2020-09-21 | 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: 4-letter name for strong black Indian tea combined with milk, sugar & spices chai |
#8238, aired 2020-09-16 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a state of diminished consciousness, especially under hypnosis trance |
#8238, aired 2020-09-16 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: The simple habit of the Capuchin Sisters of Nazareth is a brown tunic tied with a cord, from which this string of beads hangs a rosary |
#8238, aired 2020-09-16 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a candy-filled party animal a piñata |
#8238, aired 2020-09-16 | 6-LETTER WORDS $2000: A common character flaw in ancient Greek tragedy was this, meaning excessive pride hubris |
#8238, aired 2020-09-16 | 6-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): Used to indicate whether a substance is acidic or basic, this compound is obtained from lichens litmus |
#8234, aired 2020-06-11 | "THAN" WORDS $800: In Greek mythology this 8-letter figure is the personification of death Thanatos |
#8230, aired 2020-06-05 | WORDS COINED IN THE 1920s $1600: The 8-letter name of this female sex hormone was coined in 1927 estrogen |
#8224, aired 2020-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: The act of renouncing the throne abdication |
#8224, aired 2020-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Any substance known to produce cancer, like benzene or coal-tar pitch a carcinogen |
#8224, aired 2020-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: Dive in to this, the tile on the wall behind a kitchen countertop backsplash |
#8224, aired 2020-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: One who has left his or her native land; Americans living in, say, Ecuador form this "community" expatriate |
#8224, aired 2020-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: The Greek for "stomach" gives us this word for the science of good eating gastronomy |
#8221, aired 2020-05-25 | USE YOUR WORDS $400: There's an amphibian in this 8-letter verb that means to jump over leapfrog |
#8218, aired 2020-05-20 | HIGH-SCORING 4-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $400: A synonym for slothful or idle (16 points) lazy |
#8218, aired 2020-05-20 | HIGH-SCORING 4-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $800: Similar to a vixen, or attractive (17 points) foxy |
#8218, aired 2020-05-20 | HIGH-SCORING 4-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $1200: It's a joke, especially a witty or timely one (15 points) a quip |
#8218, aired 2020-05-20 | HIGH-SCORING 4-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $1600: An act of deception (14 points) a hoax |
#8218, aired 2020-05-20 | HIGH-SCORING 4-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $2000: This humped variety of ox originated in South Asia (15 points) a zebu |
#8213, aired 2020-04-29 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS $200: To seep out in a gradual way ooze |
#8213, aired 2020-04-29 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS $400: Said of a room that's open & well-ventilated airy |
#8213, aired 2020-04-29 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS $600: Your invisible glow aura |
#8213, aired 2020-04-29 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS $800: The itty-bitty ninth letter of the Greek alphabet iota |
#8213, aired 2020-04-29 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS $1000: A blunted dueling sword for competition an epee |
#8207, aired 2020-04-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: The nutrient fluid that circulates through a plant; it's also slang for a fool sap |
#8207, aired 2020-04-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a large metal pan used in Chinese cooking wok |
#8207, aired 2020-04-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: On "Game of Thrones", Peter Dinklage's character was called this word, which means a mischievous child imp |
#8207, aired 2020-04-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: 18th century men often wore a gooseberry--a large, frizzled one of these a wig |
#8207, aired 2020-04-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: A family or group of whales is known by this term a pod |
#8203, aired 2020-04-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: A cup for java, or to forcibly rob someone mug |
#8203, aired 2020-04-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: That's right, friend, it's an enemy a foe |
#8203, aired 2020-04-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: One of these costs might be luxury or flat a tax |
#8203, aired 2020-04-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: To put on an article of clothing; it's also a male first name don |
#8203, aired 2020-04-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Before it's trimmed, this evergreen tree, popular in landscape gardening, has striking red decor a yew |
#8197, aired 2020-04-07 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $200: If you're "in the red", you're in this, not where you want to be financially debt |
#8197, aired 2020-04-07 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $400: Ships usually "drop" this when they want to stay in place an anchor |
#8197, aired 2020-04-07 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $600: Beating "Shoplifters" & "Cold War", "Roma" won the 2018 award in this Oscar category Foreign Film |
#8197, aired 2020-04-07 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $800: Claymores & scimitars are types of these swords |
#8197, aired 2020-04-07 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $1000: From the Latin for "body", the Marines are a formidable one a corps |
#8194, aired 2020-04-02 | 11-LETTER WORDS $200: A pioneer in any field, perhaps as a Portland NBA star a trailblazer |
#8194, aired 2020-04-02 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: Daniel Webster declared, "Liberty and union, now and forever, one and" this word, like lovers who can't be kept apart inseparable |
#8194, aired 2020-04-02 | 11-LETTER WORDS $600: The ninth sign of the zodiac, it's represented by a centaur Sagittarius |
#8194, aired 2020-04-02 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the act of raising someone to the position of a god to be worshipped idolization |
#8192, aired 2020-03-31 | ADD A LETTER $200: Tie a letter to a mark from a wound to get something you might wear to cover it scarf scar |
#8176, aired 2020-03-09 | FROM RAGS TO RICHES $1200: In April 2019 merriam-webster.com made this 6-letter synonym of "edit" one of its words of the week redact |
#8175, aired 2020-03-06 | POSTAL ABBREVIATION WORDS $2000: 2 states on the West Coast bookend North Dakota to form this 6-letter word for frankness candor (California, North Dakota & Oregon) |
#8166, aired 2020-02-24 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 1 VOWEL $200: Proverbially, it "is more" less |
#8166, aired 2020-02-24 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 1 VOWEL $400: You do it as a verb to your eyebrow & have one as a noun as part of your foot arch |
#8166, aired 2020-02-24 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 1 VOWEL $600: Below the correct pitch, choirboy flat |
#8166, aired 2020-02-24 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 1 VOWEL $800: Any minor legally placed in the care of a guardian a ward |
#8166, aired 2020-02-24 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 1 VOWEL $1000: Anything deceitfully false, or a type of cover for a pillow a sham |
#8163, aired 2020-02-19 | 4-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN "O" $200: A reflection of sound waves back to the listener an echo |
#8163, aired 2020-02-19 | 4-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN "O" $400: Disc of light above a revered figure a halo |
#8163, aired 2020-02-19 | 4-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN "O" $600: A short note sent to someone you work with a memo |
#8163, aired 2020-02-19 | 4-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN "O" $800: This martial art takes its name from the Japanese for "gentle way" judo |
#8163, aired 2020-02-19 | 4-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN "O" $1000: This computer command at Control-Z or Command-Z can save you from awful mistakes undo |
#8159, aired 2020-02-13 | SE"V"EN-LETTER WORDS $400: "Any port in a storm" is a popular one a proverb |
#8159, aired 2020-02-13 | SE"V"EN-LETTER WORDS $800: A brewski in Barcelona a cerveza |
#8159, aired 2020-02-13 | SE"V"EN-LETTER WORDS $1200: Pickles or ice cream for expectant mothers, for example craving |
#8159, aired 2020-02-13 | SE"V"EN-LETTER WORDS $1600: A high-ranking college officer a provost |
#8159, aired 2020-02-13 | SE"V"EN-LETTER WORDS $2000: Here's a musician, probably Handel, at this, the 18th century word for any keyboard a clavier |
#8150, aired 2020-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: The action of changing a lowercase letter into an uppercase one capitalization |
#8150, aired 2020-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: Buildings & roads are part of this, the set of features needed for running a city infrastructure |
#8150, aired 2020-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: Someone in this profession of the man seen here, from the Greek for "ancient", often works with an archaeologist a paleontologist |
#8150, aired 2020-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: If you have this condition, you see distant objects more clearly than near ones farsightedness |
#8150, aired 2020-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: Adjective for a space probe designed to travel between earth & Jupiter, for example interplanetary |
#8147, aired 2020-01-28 | NEWER NECCO CANDY HEARTS $600: In 1999 this pair of 2-letter words, a "Clueless" movie quote, was kind of a mean choice "As If" |
#8145, aired 2020-01-24 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: Bodybuilding includes a fair amount of this activity, using barbells & other resistance training devices weightlifting |
#8145, aired 2020-01-24 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: The formula for this measure of a circle is pi times the diameter circumference |
#8145, aired 2020-01-24 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's the term for repetitive echoing reverberation |
#8145, aired 2020-01-24 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: 13-letter adjective for the fluid that surrounds the brain & other parts of the nervous system cerebrospinal |
#8145, aired 2020-01-24 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: This adjective with a meaning similar to "rebellious" refers to one who won't accept the authority of a superior insubordinate |
#8139, aired 2020-01-16 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: Stick held by an orchestra conductor a baton |
#8139, aired 2020-01-16 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a group of witches a coven |
#8139, aired 2020-01-16 | 5-LETTER WORDS $600: The Carabao is a popular variety of this tropical fruit mangoes |
#8139, aired 2020-01-16 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: Unit of weight equal to 16 drams or 28.35 grams an ounce |
#8139, aired 2020-01-16 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1000: To make amends for a past mistake atone |
#8135, aired 2020-01-10 | "F"OUR-LETTER WORDS $200: It can refer to a thin sheet of any metal, not just aluminum foil |
#8135, aired 2020-01-10 | "F"OUR-LETTER WORDS $400: Something in this state is in a condition of continuous change flux |
#8135, aired 2020-01-10 | "F"OUR-LETTER WORDS $600: Pheasant or duck, for example fowl |
#8135, aired 2020-01-10 | "F"OUR-LETTER WORDS $800: A stodgy older gentleman a fogy |
#8135, aired 2020-01-10 | "F"OUR-LETTER WORDS $1000: Before "up", it means to admit to a misdeed fess |
#4, aired 2020-01-08 | 20-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the adjective used to describe a work only partially based on the writer's life semiautobiographical |
#4, aired 2020-01-08 | 20-LETTER WORDS $800: EEG for short, it's a record of some of the brain's activity an electroencephalogram |
#4, aired 2020-01-08 | 20-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a gathering of protesters to express opposition to the aims of another group of protesters a counterdemonstration |
#4, aired 2020-01-08 | 20-LETTER WORDS $1600: This "-tion" is the attribution of human qualities to something that is not human anthropomorphization |
#4, aired 2020-01-08 | 20-LETTER WORDS $2000: This adverb means in a manner not typical of a particular person uncharacteristically |
#2, aired 2020-01-07 | PHILOSOPHERS $800: In the 18th C., Hume opined on morality, "'tis impossible that the distinction betwixt" these 2 4-letter words "can be made by reason" good & evil |
#8127, aired 2019-12-31 | THE ALGONQUIAN WORD TABLE $800: This 5-letter word for a very large deer comes from words meaning "he strips off" (bark to eat, that is) moose |
#8126, aired 2019-12-30 | WORD ORIGINS $2000: This 13-letter synonym for infantile paralysis comes from words meaning "gray marrow" & "inflammation" poliomyelitis |
#8123, aired 2019-12-25 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: It means toward the rear & is also a polite word for the part you sit on posterior |
#8123, aired 2019-12-25 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1000: "S" is for "soft" in the name of this easily carved rock. It's basically talc soapstone |
#8121, aired 2019-12-23 | BIG WORDS $1600: Older than humongous, this 9-letter blended word for shockingly big goes back to WWII ginormous |
#8118, aired 2019-12-18 | PEACEFUL WORDS $1000: Often used when describing plain food, this 5-letter word means not highly flavored, maybe even tasteless bland |
#8117, aired 2019-12-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $200: Yum-yum; here's this eggy dish that's a specialty of France quiche |
#8117, aired 2019-12-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: The Latin for "of whom" gives us this word for the number of members of a group needed to legally transact business a quorum |
#8117, aired 2019-12-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $600: To rot, or the uncle on "The Addams Family" fester |
#8117, aired 2019-12-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: Oddly, this word, land overgrown with tropical vegetation, is from Sanskrit for dry ground or desert a jungle |
#8117, aired 2019-12-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1000: This word borrowed from French for "shade of color" means a small difference in many things, including colors a nuance |
#8115, aired 2019-12-13 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Partner of hither, it means farther away yon |
#8115, aired 2019-12-13 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Three-letter name for the offspring seen here a kid |
#8115, aired 2019-12-13 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: Water begins to form on plants & cars at this "point", the temperature at which the atmosphere is saturated with water vapor dew |
#8115, aired 2019-12-13 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: This 3-letter word can mean "except", especially preceding "none" bar |
#8115, aired 2019-12-13 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: A fuzzy surface on leather a nap |
#8114, aired 2019-12-12 | POLYNESIAN WORDS $1000: In Hawaii say this 3-letter word if you want an edible paste; in Tahiti, put "Po" before it poi |
#8109, aired 2019-12-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: A magician's conjuring rod a wand |
#8109, aired 2019-12-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: A verb for what you do to make porter, or a noun meaning the resulting drink brew |
#8109, aired 2019-12-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1200: In our heavenly neighborhood, Ganymede is the largest moon |
#8109, aired 2019-12-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: Business owners often keep their money in this, the cash drawer in a store the till |
#8109, aired 2019-12-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: In crossword puzzles, this state bird is often called a "Hawaiian goose" a nene |
#8107, aired 2019-12-03 | WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS $1000: Like its synonyms joking & joshing, this 7-letter non "ING" word begins with "J" jocular |
#8104, aired 2019-11-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: A maker of maps & atlases cartographer |
#8104, aired 2019-11-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: The opening of the "Mission: Impossible" TV show advised that the instructional tape would do this "in 5 seconds" self-destruct |
#8104, aired 2019-11-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: The skin of this aquatic mammal is about 2 inches thick & secretes a pinkish fluid that acts as a sunblock a hippopotamus |
#8104, aired 2019-11-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: Value-wise, it begins once you drive your new car off the lot depreciation |
#8104, aired 2019-11-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: From words meaning "life" & "difference" , it's the term for the range of species in a given environment biodiversity |
#8100, aired 2019-11-22 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: If one of these, AKA a turkey vulture, is circling overhead, call 911 a buzzard |
#8100, aired 2019-11-22 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: 2 basic types of college courses are the seminar & this, basically the professor speaking to a large group lecture |
#8100, aired 2019-11-22 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: An oubliette was a secret one of these beneath a trapdoor in a castle & a place you did not want to end up a dungeon |
#8100, aired 2019-11-22 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: A type of poker game where A-2-3-4-6 is a winning hand, or to underestimate on purpose lowball |
#8100, aired 2019-11-22 | 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: A place where metal is cast in molds a foundry |
#8097, aired 2019-11-19 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: Describing a whole order of mammals, this adjective is from the Latin for "flesh eating" carnivorous |
#8097, aired 2019-11-19 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: In 2018 a $10 million Houston mansion made news as the USA's most expensive property in this unfortunate status foreclosure |
#8097, aired 2019-11-19 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1200: An artificial mannerism, like extending the pinky while drinking tea an affectation |
#8097, aired 2019-11-19 | 11-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Someone who dislikes people in general, or the title subject of a 1666 play by Molière misanthrope |
#8097, aired 2019-11-19 | 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: This type of makeup is a symbol of acting in the theater greasepaint |
#8094, aired 2019-11-14 | TEEN-LETTER WORDS $400: Using the ocean itself to describe the crossing from Portugal to Haiti transatlantic |
#8094, aired 2019-11-14 | TEEN-LETTER WORDS $800: Mirowski & Mower developed the implantable one of these medical devices--clear! a defibrillator |
#8094, aired 2019-11-14 | TEEN-LETTER WORDS $1200: Thinking about the past, or an exhibit spanning the career of one artist a retrospective |
#8094, aired 2019-11-14 | TEEN-LETTER WORDS $1600: Ascribe human traits to that cute puppy anthropomorphize |
#8094, aired 2019-11-14 | TEEN-LETTER WORDS $2000: "V" aware it's the job of one who makes flags vexillographer |
#8078, aired 2019-10-23 | ODD WORDS $1600: It sounds like a geometric figure, but this 7-letter word means resembling the walking dead zomboid |
#8069, aired 2019-10-10 | DOUBLE "Z" WORDS $800: You've got 2 sets of double Z's in this 7-letter word! The exciting quality of an energetic personality pizzazz |
#8065, aired 2019-10-04 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: Mr. Spock was big into this, the science behind being justified by reason logic |
#8065, aired 2019-10-04 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: Pertaining to Benedict XVI or Boniface VIII papal |
#8065, aired 2019-10-04 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: This word denoting being simple or guileless is from Old French for "natural"; we hope you're not... naive |
#8065, aired 2019-10-04 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): These were 2 types of columns in Ancient Greece Doric & Ionic |
#8065, aired 2019-10-04 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1000: This block wedged under a wheel comes in handy when changing a tire chock |
#8054, aired 2019-09-19 | 16-LETTER WORDS $400: A toast of grog to Sir Francis Drake, who completed this type of round-the-world voyage on Sept. 26, 1580 circumnavigation |
#8054, aired 2019-09-19 | 16-LETTER WORDS $800: Made popular in a 1982 Spielberg film, this word means "originating outside of the Earth" extraterrestrial |
#8054, aired 2019-09-19 | 16-LETTER WORDS $1200: Type of coordinated activity designed to prevent or thwart groups like ISIS that use violence for political aims counterterrorism |
#8054, aired 2019-09-19 | 16-LETTER WORDS $1600: Regarding a new business, it means having insufficient funds for effective operation undercapitalized |
#8054, aired 2019-09-19 | 16-LETTER WORDS $2000: This method of cooling your home is pretty simple: open windows on opposite walls crossventilation |
#8048, aired 2019-09-11 | 4-LETTER WORDS $200: "Don't touch that" this, the tuning knob on a radio or television dial |
#8048, aired 2019-09-11 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: "Pick up the" this, the rate of speed at which someone walks or runs pace |
#8048, aired 2019-09-11 | 4-LETTER WORDS $600: It's a fact that this word means a collection of facts & figures to be processed in some way data |
#8048, aired 2019-09-11 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: This waterfowl breeds by lakes in the northern U.S. & Canada loon |
#8048, aired 2019-09-11 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1000: Atomic number 30, this bluish white metal is a component of brass zinc |
#8044, aired 2019-07-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH "F" $200: It's found in an idiom with "No... ands, or buts" ifs |
#8044, aired 2019-07-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH "F" $400: One of Santa's helpers, or a Keebler baker elf |
#8044, aired 2019-07-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH "F" $600: Going back to the Bible, a minor drawback is sometimes likened to one of these "in the ointment" a fly |
#8044, aired 2019-07-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH "F" $800: Towards the rear of a ship aft |
#8044, aired 2019-07-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH "F" $1000: A dandy dude a fop |
#8040, aired 2019-07-19 | COMPUTER "D"s $800: A pair of 4-letter words are in this action that moves a file, like putting a photo of an ex into the recycle bin drag and drop |
#8036, aired 2019-07-15 | GIVE ME 5-LETTER WORDS $800: It can describe a poisonous substance or a poisonous relationship toxic |
#8036, aired 2019-07-15 | GIVE ME 5-LETTER WORDS $1200: Lying flat, or having a tendency prone |
#8036, aired 2019-07-15 | GIVE ME 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: "Loveliest of trees, the cherry now is hung with bloom along" this large branch the bough |
#8036, aired 2019-07-15 | GIVE ME 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: X marks the second spot in this word that means to praise or glorify exalt (or extol) |
#8036, aired 2019-07-15 | GIVE ME 5-LETTER WORDS $2,600 (Daily Double): In medieval legend, it was the cup or plate used by Jesus at the Last Supper grail |
#8026, aired 2019-07-01 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: A funeral song, or any mournful sound a dirge |
#8026, aired 2019-07-01 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: Collective term for the style of furnishings of a home's interior decor |
#8026, aired 2019-07-01 | VILE QUOTES $1200: An 18th c. quote says, "A man who could make so vile" this 3-letter play on words "would not scruple to pick a pocket" a pun |
#8026, aired 2019-07-01 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: Worn in public by some Muslim women, it's a long, loose garment covering the body from head to feet a burka |
#8026, aired 2019-07-01 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Term for a feudal Anglo-Saxon or Scottish lord; Macbeth was one "of Cawdor" thane |
#8026, aired 2019-07-01 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's a shallow bay; there's one of Benin the bight |
#8023, aired 2019-06-26 | WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT $400: Add a letter to "raise" to get this, sure to raise your spirit praise |
#8022, aired 2019-06-25 | NAME THE GAME $800: Use letter tiles to build words in this a-peeling game with a fruit in its name Bananagrams |
#8015, aired 2019-06-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: This biblical word is often found before "& behold" lo |
#8015, aired 2019-06-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: The 2013 meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association included a paper on "The Social Meaning of" this word eh |
#8015, aired 2019-06-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: "Clumsy" in language, castrated in fact, it's a type of draft animal ox |
#8015, aired 2019-06-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: As an adjective, it denotes huge self-interest, like in describing an entire decade me |
#8015, aired 2019-06-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: Dutch for "yes" ja |
#8001, aired 2019-05-27 | 16-LETTER WORDS $400: Anything that excludes you from consideration for a job disqualification |
#8001, aired 2019-05-27 | 16-LETTER WORDS $800: Adjective meaning working the opposite way from what instinct suggests counterintuitive |
#8001, aired 2019-05-27 | 16-LETTER WORDS $1200: The paper bag method is no longer widely recommended if you find yourself doing this--learn controlled breathing hyperventilating |
#8001, aired 2019-05-27 | 16-LETTER WORDS $1600: Adjective for the part of the life & career of George W. Bush that began in January 2009 postpresidential |
#8001, aired 2019-05-27 | 16-LETTER WORDS $2000: Look at a map of the contiguous U.S. & you'll see that this 16-letter superlative adjective applies to Maine northeasternmost |
#7998, aired 2019-05-22 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $800: The dark void before creation (basically a huge mess) was called this 5-letter word chaos |
#7988, aired 2019-05-08 | ANGRY WORDS $800: "All the" this 4-letter word can mean widely popular rage |
#7966, aired 2019-04-08 | JUST YOUR AVERAGE CATEGORY $1200: This 8-letter adjective for middling effort comes from words meaning "halfway up the mountain" mediocre |
#7962, aired 2019-04-02 | 7-LETTER WORDS $200: A dangerous storm that can form over tropical waters; a hurricane is one type a typhoon (or cyclone) |
#7962, aired 2019-04-02 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: Grammatically, the song title "You Are Loved By Her, Yeah Yeah Yeah" would be in this voice passive |
#7962, aired 2019-04-02 | 7-LETTER WORDS $600: Many an old westerner packed his pistol in the Mexican loop style of this a holster |
#7962, aired 2019-04-02 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: For a standup comic, it's an overlubricated member of the audience who keeps interrupting a heckler |
#7962, aired 2019-04-02 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1000: The hazelnut is also called this, for a saint on whose feast day it is often ripe filbert |
#7951, aired 2019-03-18 | 15-LETTER WORDS $400: Don't put off naming this, the postponement of a task procrastination |
#7951, aired 2019-03-18 | 15-LETTER WORDS $800: Throwing a punch is this type of bad conduct that'll earn you a 15-yard penalty on a football field unsportsmanlike |
#7951, aired 2019-03-18 | 15-LETTER WORDS $1200: This quality of small cars makes them easy to handle, particularly in small spaces maneuverability |
#7951, aired 2019-03-18 | 15-LETTER WORDS $1600: Oxfam is this type of international voluntary organization, NGO for short nongovernmental |
#7951, aired 2019-03-18 | 15-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the propensity for asking a lot of questions, whether out of curiosity or nosiness inquisitiveness |
#7929, aired 2019-02-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a fancy word for rain, snow or sleet precipitation |
#7929, aired 2019-02-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: One-word job description of a broadcasting preacher, such as Oral Roberts televangelist |
#7929, aired 2019-02-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: A place to total up your money; "the king was" there in "Sing A Song Of Sixpence" the countinghouse |
#7929, aired 2019-02-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's named for its composition of smaller bits of wood particleboard |
#7929, aired 2019-02-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1,700 (Daily Double): Grandstanding verbally & dogmatically, almost as if you were the pope pontification |
#7904, aired 2019-01-10 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $400: A paragram is another word for this 3-letter type of humorous wordplay like "poultry in motion" a pun |
#7904, aired 2019-01-10 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $2000: Put a letter before "once" to get this type of word invented on the spot nonce |
#7902, aired 2019-01-08 | ADD A LETTER $400: Add a letter to a place you park your car to get a load of rubbish garage and garbage |
#7892, aired 2018-12-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: This word meaning to recede often precedes "& flow" ebb |
#7892, aired 2018-12-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Time Out New York says Russ & Daughters is one of the best places to get bagels & this lox |
#7892, aired 2018-12-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: 1992 is the OED's first citation for this word meaning so-so; it described "Melrose Place" meh |
#7892, aired 2018-12-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Doing this type of lively dance is synonymous with elation a jig |
#7892, aired 2018-12-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: This red, brimless cap is also called a tarboosh fez |
#7892, aired 2018-12-25 | 13-LETTER PHRASES $2000: In a saying about self-reliance, these 5 words precede "& you feed him for a day" give a man a fish |
#7885, aired 2018-12-14 | ODD WORDS $200: To Aussies, a loss by a sports favorite is a boilover; to us, this 5-letter word an upset |
#7873, aired 2018-11-28 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: In the sport of fencing, it's the term for a sudden thrusting attack forward a lunge |
#7873, aired 2018-11-28 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: One breed in this class of hunting dog is trained to pursue foxes a hound |
#7873, aired 2018-11-28 | 5-LETTER WORDS $600: It has meant a tantrum since around 1930; decades later, people started adding "fit" a hissy fit |
#7873, aired 2018-11-28 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: Kids love to shoot down this 5-letter summertime delight seen here flume |
#7873, aired 2018-11-28 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1000: A masterless samurai often forced to roam from town to town a ronin |
#7866, aired 2018-11-19 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $200: Command to Fido to retrieve a ball fetch |
#7866, aired 2018-11-19 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a story that teaches a moral, like the one about "The Tortoise and the Hare" a fable |
#7866, aired 2018-11-19 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $600: It's located between your hip & your knee the femur |
#7866, aired 2018-11-19 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $800: These 2 5-letter words are used to refer to the plant & animal life of a particular region flora and fauna |
#7866, aired 2018-11-19 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's the official language of Iran; versions of it are spoken in Afghanistan & Tajikistan Farsi |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 13- TO 17-LETTER WORDS $400: 16 letters:
Adjective for a novel based on the author's life, like Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" autobiographical |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 13- TO 17-LETTER WORDS $800: 13 letters:
Adjective for a scream that will make the fluid in your veins coagulate bloodcurdling |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 13- TO 17-LETTER WORDS $1200: 14 letters:
This sauce, gluten free & made by Lea & Perrins since 1835 Worcestershire sauce |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 13- TO 17-LETTER WORDS $1600: 13 letters:
Means by which assassin Leon Czolgosz was killed electrocution |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 13- TO 17-LETTER WORDS $2000: 15 letters:
One who doesn't eat meat but whose diet includes dairy products a lactovegetarian |
#7849, aired 2018-10-25 | WORDS WITH A "WAY" $800: 7-letter word for willful or disobedient; carry on, my son wayward |
#7846, aired 2018-10-22 | THRE"E"-LETTER WORDS $400: It can be "de luce" or "de toilette" as well as "de Cologne" eau |
#7846, aired 2018-10-22 | THRE"E"-LETTER WORDS $800: A football position or a sudden demise an end |
#7846, aired 2018-10-22 | THRE"E"-LETTER WORDS $1200: Alexander Pope wrote in 1711 that "to" do this "is human" err |
#7846, aired 2018-10-22 | THRE"E"-LETTER WORDS $1600: Glorfindel was one an elf |
#7846, aired 2018-10-22 | THRE"E"-LETTER WORDS $2000: A unit of work or energy an erg |
#7841, aired 2018-10-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: An annual celebration when graduates return to an old school for parties & football homecoming |
#7841, aired 2018-10-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: A type of ice cream, or a native of a southern Italian city Neapolitan |
#7841, aired 2018-10-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: A tightly encircling bandage used to stop arterial flow a tourniquet |
#7841, aired 2018-10-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: Christmas may be over, but this plant is still in bloom poinsettia |
#7841, aired 2018-10-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: This chemical element, symbol Mo, is used to harden steel molybdenum |
#7829, aired 2018-09-27 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: A crease in facial skin, or an unexpected development a wrinkle |
#7829, aired 2018-09-27 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: I lost by 3 votes? I demand this second tabulation! recount |
#7829, aired 2018-09-27 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's also called a seismic sea wave a tsunami |
#7829, aired 2018-09-27 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: The "under"lying message in a novel or a conversation the subtext |
#7829, aired 2018-09-27 | 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: An evergreen, such as the spruce a conifer |
#7824, aired 2018-09-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: Part of the Boy Scout law, it refers to one complying with authority, like a good dog obedient |
#7824, aired 2018-09-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: This word that also means "trifling" follows "Times" in the name of a New Orleans newspaper picayune |
#7824, aired 2018-09-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's the U.S. military's equivalent of a prison stockade |
#7824, aired 2018-09-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's the type of vehicle seen here a rickshaw |
#7824, aired 2018-09-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $4,000 (Daily Double): c. 1666 a British work used this word for a literal barrier; a 1971 text on operating system principles gave it a new sense a firewall |
#7814, aired 2018-07-26 | 15-LETTER WORDS $1200: Secrecy, or a type of agreement not to disclose details publicly confidentiality |
#7814, aired 2018-07-26 | 15-LETTER WORDS $1600: The glow of certain protozoans is the result of this natural ability to produce light bioluminescence |
#7814, aired 2018-07-26 | 15-LETTER WORDS $2000: The 1935, 1964 & 2018 State of the Union addresses used this word for the poor & needy underprivileged |
#7805, aired 2018-07-13 | PARTING WORDS $2000: Common prayer says of marriages, "Those whom God hath joined together let no man put" this 7-letter word asunder |
#7804, aired 2018-07-12 | 10-LETTER "M" WORDS $200: Soup's on! This thick Italian one with vegetables, beans & bits of pasta minestrone |
#7804, aired 2018-07-12 | 10-LETTER "M" WORDS $400: It's the Naval Academy's equivalent of a West Point cadet a midshipman |
#7804, aired 2018-07-12 | 10-LETTER "M" WORDS $600: It's a little fancier name for a bartender a mixologist |
#7804, aired 2018-07-12 | 10-LETTER "M" WORDS $800: Hark back to yesteryear to this old office machine being used here a mimeograph |
#7804, aired 2018-07-12 | 10-LETTER "M" WORDS $1000: Medically speaking it's another term for a TIA, or transient ischemic attack a ministroke |
#7803, aired 2018-07-11 | LEXICON VALLEY $2000: This 8-letter name of an L.A. suburb & a Phoenix suburb is made of 2 different words for "valley" Glendale |
#7794, aired 2018-06-28 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $200: Often charging by the pounds, some laundries offer this & fold service fluff |
#7794, aired 2018-06-28 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $400: The Geiranger, this long, narrow inlet in Norway, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site a fjord |
#7794, aired 2018-06-28 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $600: One from a palm tree is seen here a frond |
#7794, aired 2018-06-28 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $800: A proverb says this "can move mountains" faith |
#7794, aired 2018-06-28 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $1000: Heard here is a bit of Bach's "Toccata and" this "in D Minor" fugue |
#7786, aired 2018-06-18 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: From French, it can replace the word "place" in "in place of" lieu |
#7786, aired 2018-06-18 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: A tamale is usually wrapped in a corn one husk |
#7786, aired 2018-06-18 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1200: 2 vowels front this verb meaning "to remove from power" oust |
#7786, aired 2018-06-18 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: A Washington, D.C. university honors this policy expert "of the year" wonk |
#7786, aired 2018-06-18 | 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the simple bouquet seen here a posy |
#7785, aired 2018-06-15 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $600: This 5-letter verb meaning "to express feeling", maybe on stage, is an example of a back-formation emote |
#7783, aired 2018-06-13 | "S"EVEN LETTER WORDS $200: A hypodermic instrument to inject fluids into the body a syringe |
#7783, aired 2018-06-13 | "S"EVEN LETTER WORDS $400: Use this tube & enjoy a view of the threadfin butterfly & other reef fish a snorkel |
#7783, aired 2018-06-13 | "S"EVEN LETTER WORDS $600: It's a malicious computer program that gathers info about a user & then transmits it to an outside entity spyware |
#7783, aired 2018-06-13 | "S"EVEN LETTER WORDS $800: A long-handled pan used for frying food a skillet |
#7783, aired 2018-06-13 | "S"EVEN LETTER WORDS $1000: A cancerous growth of the soft tissues, usually appearing at first as a painless swelling a sarcoma |
#7782, aired 2018-06-12 | MEDICAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: Trismus, or jaw stiffness, is an early sign of this other 7-letter "T" condition tetanus |
#7771, aired 2018-05-28 | PALINDROMIC WORDS $400: An old 3-letter word meaning "before" ere |
#7765, aired 2018-05-18 | WORDS FROM SWAHILI $2000: Bob Hope was in a movie called "Call Me" this 5-letter word for "master" Bwana |
#7761, aired 2018-05-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: All toil & no play makes Jack this type of person who's addicted to his job a workaholic |
#7761, aired 2018-05-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: The opposite of "Oriental", it refers to the West Occidental |
#7761, aired 2018-05-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: They create the betting lines for the Super Bowl & other contests oddsmakers |
#7761, aired 2018-05-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: The leather shorts seen here are perfect for a trip up the Alps lederhosen |
#7761, aired 2018-05-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): Portmanteau term for the rules that apply to how one communicates online netiquette |
#7753, aired 2018-05-02 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: Proverbially, you do this to one's feathers to provoke anger ruffle |
#7753, aired 2018-05-02 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the provider of nourishment seen here carhop |
#7753, aired 2018-05-02 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1200: The return of a tennis ball before it hits the court surface a volley |
#7753, aired 2018-05-02 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1600: One who is absent from school without permission truant |
#7753, aired 2018-05-02 | 6-LETTER WORDS $2000: A visible spirit, starting with a visible but silent W a wraith |
#7736, aired 2018-04-09 | 9 (LETTER WORDS) $200: It's a swimming stroke as well as a type of wrestling, skiing & skating freestyle |
#7736, aired 2018-04-09 | 9 (LETTER WORDS) $400: In a fairy tale Jack climbs it to a magic castle in the clouds a beanstalk |
#7736, aired 2018-04-09 | 9 (LETTER WORDS) $600: Types of this, which is often unleavened, include tortilla, pita & chapati flatbread |
#7736, aired 2018-04-09 | 9 (LETTER WORDS) $800: This type of combatant is seen in the painting "Thumbs Down" a gladiator |
#7736, aired 2018-04-09 | 9 (LETTER WORDS) $1000: In math, it's the set of real numbers; in "Star Trek", the space-time one got messed with quite a bit a continuum |
#7733, aired 2018-04-04 | THE POSTMAN'S 4-LETTER WORDS $200: Solo for a soprano an aria |
#7733, aired 2018-04-04 | THE POSTMAN'S 4-LETTER WORDS $400: A single sheet of window glass a pane |
#7733, aired 2018-04-04 | THE POSTMAN'S 4-LETTER WORDS $600: Kilauea output lava |
#7733, aired 2018-04-04 | THE POSTMAN'S 4-LETTER WORDS $800: Venison & rabbit are this kind of meat game |
#7733, aired 2018-04-04 | THE POSTMAN'S 4-LETTER WORDS $1000: Lignite, for example coal |
#7731, aired 2018-04-02 | WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS $1000: Filled with mental weariness & boredom? The French have this 5-letter word for it, which we also use ennui |
#7729, aired 2018-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: Don't wait until tomorrow to tell me it means to postpone habitually rather than act procrastinate |
#7729, aired 2018-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: Yummy! This adjective means "saliva-inducing" mouthwatering |
#7729, aired 2018-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: This quality isn't just shown in being a good loser but in being a good (non-gloating) winner sportsmanlike (or sportsmanship) |
#7729, aired 2018-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: Term for a musician who plays the cymbals, drums or xylophone percussionist |
#7729, aired 2018-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the large-scale removal of trees from a wooded area, often with detrimental effect deforestation |
#7723, aired 2018-03-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: The British pronounce this office worker & account keeper to rhyme with "mark" clerk |
#7723, aired 2018-03-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: Sometimes including insults, to do this other 5-letter "T" word is meaner than just to tease taunt |
#7723, aired 2018-03-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $600: 2-syllable adjective for a comment that sums things up in a few words pithy |
#7723, aired 2018-03-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: A midwife is a medical worker who's there for the birth; this is a supportive counselor before, during & after it a doula |
#7723, aired 2018-03-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1000: Used to create little channels in the wood, it's the tool seen here--keep it away from your eye a gouge |
#7709, aired 2018-03-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: Today a secretary is often rightly called this 14-letter type of "assistant" administrative |
#7709, aired 2018-03-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: To kill the pathogenic microorganisms in milk using this process, it's necessary to heat it to at least 145°F pasteurization |
#7709, aired 2018-03-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: Can I tell you something this way, just between ourselves? confidentially |
#7709, aired 2018-03-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: Like layers of rock, it's the hierarchical division of society according to rank, caste or class stratification |
#7709, aired 2018-03-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: John Calvin wrote of this belief, "Eternal life is foreordained for some, eternal damnation for others" predestination |
#7702, aired 2018-02-20 | NEW WORDS IN 1988 $1200: The 6-letter name of this style of electronic dance music emphasized its mechanical derivation techno |
#7696, aired 2018-02-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: A stock of clothes or costumes for a play wardrobe |
#7696, aired 2018-02-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: "Annual" term for a horse just shy of 2 yearling |
#7696, aired 2018-02-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $600: Adjective preceding "care" given to mothers-to-be prenatal |
#7696, aired 2018-02-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: It means wary or ever alert; don't take the law into your own hands by adding an E to it vigilant |
#7696, aired 2018-02-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's a word from the French for a bullet's redirection after an impact a ricochet |
#7686, aired 2018-01-29 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: As a preposition it can express location or time; as a symbol it helps define your email address at |
#7686, aired 2018-01-29 | THE WORDS OF H.G. WELLS $400: Wells imagined an overwhelmingly destructive explosive called this 6-letter "bomb" more than 100 years ago atomic |
#7686, aired 2018-01-29 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: This interjection can follow "westward" or "land" ho |
#7686, aired 2018-01-29 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1200: The unconscious mind, according to Freud the id |
#7686, aired 2018-01-29 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1600: Ancient city where Abraham lived Ur |
#7686, aired 2018-01-29 | 2-LETTER WORDS $2000: This satellite, seen here on the left, is the most volcanically active body in our solar system Io |
#7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Term for an angry crowd in the street a mob |
#7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the deadly species seen here, notorious since ancient times an asp |
#7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: A church bench a pew |
#7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: This popular Jamaican music stye from the late 1950s predates reggae ska |
#7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: This verb means to fit a vessel with sails, Cap'n rig |
#7676, aired 2018-01-15 | 4-LETTER WORDS $200: To clip an animal's ears, or to trim a photo crop |
#7676, aired 2018-01-15 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: Darn! None of my numbers came up in this game Keno |
#7676, aired 2018-01-15 | 4-LETTER WORDS $600: It's a small whirlpool an eddy |
#7676, aired 2018-01-15 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the 4-letter name for the mammal seen here orca |
#7676, aired 2018-01-15 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1000: A popular type of protein powder is made from this watery byproduct of cheesemaking whey |
#7675, aired 2018-01-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the job of the player in the foreground placekicker |
#7675, aired 2018-01-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: The U.N. has an office for this, getting countries to give up their nukes disarmament |
#7675, aired 2018-01-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1200: Someone who loves computers & thinks the machines are the solution to everything technophile |
#7675, aired 2018-01-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1600: Saponaceous means "soapy"; this word means "impulsive" spontaneous |
#7675, aired 2018-01-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: In this visual defect of the eye, light is unable to focus clearly at one point on the retina, resulting in blurred vision astigmatism |
#7667, aired 2018-01-02 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $400: According to the Chinese zodiac, 2017 is the year of this barnyard animal a rooster |
#7667, aired 2018-01-02 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $800: It's another name for a solarium a sunroom |
#7667, aired 2018-01-02 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's slang for a police informant a stoolie |
#7667, aired 2018-01-02 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: A portable rocket launcher, or a brand of bubble gum bazooka |
#7667, aired 2018-01-02 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: An incompetent prizefighter, or boxer Joe of comic strip fame who hung up his gloves in 1984 a palooka |
#7665, aired 2017-12-29 | 6-LETTER WORDS $200: The mouth of a gun, or the mouth & nose of a dog muzzle |
#7665, aired 2017-12-29 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the Italian word for a city square, like St. Mark's piazza |
#7665, aired 2017-12-29 | 6-LETTER WORDS $600: Profession of George Woolf, sadly killed in a fall at Santa Anita a jockey |
#7665, aired 2017-12-29 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: The vicuña is closely related to this South American animal, prized for its fleece an alpaca |
#7665, aired 2017-12-29 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1000: In humans, this tailbone is made up of 3-5 successively smaller vertebrae the coccyx |
#7650, aired 2017-12-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: It's observing a potential military opponent to assess his position & strengths reconnaissance |
#7650, aired 2017-12-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: You can win an Oscar for this specialty, the art & science of filming a motion picture cinematography |
#7650, aired 2017-12-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: You'll follow anyone's lead because you're young & this adjective meaning easily influenced impressionable |
#7650, aired 2017-12-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: This restoration to health is the specialty of the V.A.'s polytrauma centers rehabilitation |
#7650, aired 2017-12-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): The Great Depression gave rise to this, the study of income & output on a national scale macroeconomics |
#7647, aired 2017-12-05 | 9-LETTER WORDS $200: It's the old-timey mustache seen here a handlebar |
#7647, aired 2017-12-05 | 9-LETTER WORDS $400: Got milk? One of Wisconsin's nicknames is "America's" this Dairyland |
#7647, aired 2017-12-05 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: A crime similar to kidnapping, or, medically, the movement of a limb away from the midline of the body abduction |
#7647, aired 2017-12-05 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the branch of astronomy that studies the origin & structure of the universe cosmology |
#7647, aired 2017-12-05 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1000: According to Genesis, on the second day God created this, which he called heaven the firmament |
#7644, aired 2017-11-30 | SOME CHOICE WORDS $800: 12-letter adjective for excellent "treatment" preferential |
#7632, aired 2017-11-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $200: Fear of water hydrophobia |
#7632, aired 2017-11-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: A government led by 3 co-rulers, like Caesar & pals a triumvirate |
#7632, aired 2017-11-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $600: Adverb meaning once every 2 weeks fortnightly |
#7632, aired 2017-11-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: In German Schmerz is "pain" & this is "world pain", denoting sentimental pessimism Weltschmerz |
#7632, aired 2017-11-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's grape science, especially with regard to winemaking viniculture |
#7629, aired 2017-11-09 | WORDS WITH ENEMIES $600: Batman has an enemy aptly named this, a 4-letter word for the worst thing "of your existence" Bane |
#7628, aired 2017-11-08 | WORDS FROM NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES $1,200 (Daily Double): It's the 9-letter name of the creature who is said to leave behind footprints measuring 24" long & 8" wide Sasquatch |
#7626, aired 2017-11-06 | "X"CELLENT 9-LETTER WORDS $200: In one version of the story, King Arthur obtains this from the Lady of the Lake Excalibur |
#7626, aired 2017-11-06 | "X"CELLENT 9-LETTER WORDS $400: It's an adjective describing the shape seen here hexagonal |
#7626, aired 2017-11-06 | "X"CELLENT 9-LETTER WORDS $600: It means to place side by side for comparison juxtapose |
#7626, aired 2017-11-06 | "X"CELLENT 9-LETTER WORDS $800: Any limb of the body an extremity |
#7626, aired 2017-11-06 | "X"CELLENT 9-LETTER WORDS $1000: Put 2 letters before a word for nasty fumes to get this word for nasty behavior obnoxious |
#7626, aired 2017-11-06 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $1600: Depending on the context, this 4-letter word means country or friends when paired with "kin" kith |
#7624, aired 2017-11-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: To overeat, or a deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides gorge |
#7624, aired 2017-11-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: An acronym for a confusing situation, its first 2 letters stand for "situation normal" snafu |
#7624, aired 2017-11-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a slang synonym for zero, or a brand of lighter zippo |
#7624, aired 2017-11-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: It can mean nifty or foppish dandy |
#7624, aired 2017-11-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the French name for the type of shoe seen here, carved from a single block of wood sabot |
#7622, aired 2017-10-31 | AFTER WORDS $600: urbandictionary.com defines this 4-letter word meaning "in the near future" as "when we feel like it" soon |
#7621, aired 2017-10-30 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: This type of training is for the specific skills needed for a particular job vocational |
#7621, aired 2017-10-30 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: I demand the withdrawal of your opinion, or this word that means the same thing retraction |
#7621, aired 2017-10-30 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's the compound word for the garment seen here--note the buttons a shirtdress |
#7621, aired 2017-10-30 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: Clint Eastwood in "In the Line of Fire" laments the underuse of this 10-letter word for a ludicrous scheme or idea cockamamie |
#7621, aired 2017-10-30 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: The positioning of a horn player's lips & tongue on the mouthpiece, it's from the French for "mouth" embouchure |
#7608, aired 2017-10-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: A vase bearing the ashes of the cremated urn |
#7608, aired 2017-10-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the 3-letter name for the action seen here dap |
#7608, aired 2017-10-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: Here it is, your moment of this Buddhist movement introduced in China in the 6th century Zen |
#7608, aired 2017-10-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: The point or tip on a calligraphic pen is called this nib |
#7608, aired 2017-10-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: We have great expectations you'll know it's a spot on dice pip |
#7604, aired 2017-10-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: It was once a Westinghouse washing machine trademark; now it's a place where quarters are like gold laundromat |
#7604, aired 2017-10-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Bob Marley was buried in a wig of these, his own having been lost to cancer treatment dreadlocks |
#7604, aired 2017-10-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: To summarize another person's statement in new words, shorter & clearer paraphrase |
#7604, aired 2017-10-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's the veal preparation seen here--mangia scaloppine |
#7604, aired 2017-10-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: A type of fever that's a complication of malaria, or a security firm founded by Erik Prince blackwater |
#7600, aired 2017-09-29 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $2000: In 1994 it was this 12-letter word meaning before the Biblical flood A-N-T-E-D-I-L-U-V-I-A-N |
#7593, aired 2017-09-20 | WORDS OF OPPOSITION $2000: Diametric 9-letter term meaning on the opposite side of the globe antipodal |
#7584, aired 2017-07-27 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: Adjective meaning concerning the heart & blood vessels, collectively cardiovascular |
#7584, aired 2017-07-27 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: The period of a film's creation after all the footage is shot & it's being readied for release postproduction |
#7584, aired 2017-07-27 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a large increase in a species' numbers leading to a depletion of available resources overpopulation |
#7584, aired 2017-07-27 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: Similar to hallucinations, it's a phantastic sequence of haphazard imagery as seen in dreams or fever phantasmagoria |
#7584, aired 2017-07-27 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: A quality of only judging something by the way it looks & not by what it's made of superficiality |
#7576, aired 2017-07-17 | 7-LETTER WORDS $200: A kid learning to walk, or the size of clothing that the child may wear a toddler |
#7576, aired 2017-07-17 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: This word can precede proof, stripping or bureau weather |
#7576, aired 2017-07-17 | 7-LETTER WORDS $600: As a noun, it can be a heroic act or deed; as a verb, it means to take unfair advantage of someone exploit |
#7576, aired 2017-07-17 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: From the Latin for "split", it's a long narrow crevice made by the splitting of a rock or the Earth a fissure |
#7576, aired 2017-07-17 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's the 7-letter word for the underground reservoir seen here a cistern |
#7574, aired 2017-07-13 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: This job is also called dockworker or stevedore, but it contains more letters than either longshoreman |
#7574, aired 2017-07-13 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Jesse Owens & Richard Wright were sons of this kind of rent-paying farmer a sharecropper |
#7574, aired 2017-07-13 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: Celebs open to contact from fans are called "very" this approachable |
#7574, aired 2017-07-13 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: Term for the use of agents like smallpox or Ebola to kill others bioterrorism |
#7574, aired 2017-07-13 | 12-LETTER WORDS $9,801 (Daily Double): The Latin for "cross" gives us this term for extreme pain excruciating |
#7567, aired 2017-07-04 | NEW WORDS IN THE MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY $2000: This 16-letter word refers to a person who is 110 years old or older a supercentenarian |
#7560, aired 2017-06-23 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: Those wacky Brits use this 4-letter word to mean "apartment" flat |
#7560, aired 2017-06-23 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: Sherpas gave this 4-letter name to the creature that Tibetans called Metoh Kangmi Yeti |
#7560, aired 2017-06-23 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1200: 16th & 17th century chamber music often featured this bowed instrument a viol |
#7560, aired 2017-06-23 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: "Come live with me and be my love" is an example of this 2-syllable foot an iamb |
#7560, aired 2017-06-23 | 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: This Japanese noodle is thicker than soba & usually made of wheat udon |
#7554, aired 2017-06-15 | 9-LETTER WORDS $400: Don't be this type of person who sounds like a type of pest and is a litterbug |
#7554, aired 2017-06-15 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: Impossible to erase or wash away, such as certain inks indelible |
#7554, aired 2017-06-15 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1200: While eating barbecued ribs, it helps to have this small piece of cloth that often follows "moist" a towelette |
#7554, aired 2017-06-15 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1,500 (Daily Double): Teddy Roosevelt took this term from "Pilgrim's Progress" to refer to one who digs up scandal about famous people muckraker |
#7554, aired 2017-06-15 | 9-LETTER WORDS $2000: A herbicide is used to kill weeds & this similar-sounding pesticide is specifically used to kill worms vermicide |
#7552, aired 2017-06-13 | "J" WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Change the first letter in a problem for a car tire to get this, a point in time when a decision has to be made juncture |
#7551, aired 2017-06-12 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Your girlfriend will be ecstatic if you send her a billet-doux or "sweet note", this alliterative item a love letter |
#7548, aired 2017-06-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: A 300th anniversary a tricentennial |
#7548, aired 2017-06-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: This person maintains the field of a ballpark the groundskeeper |
#7548, aired 2017-06-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: This Latin word means "father of the family" paterfamilias |
#7548, aired 2017-06-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: The equipment used in a particular activity; the "drug" type, such as pipes, are illegal as are the drugs paraphernalia |
#7548, aired 2017-06-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: This branch of medicine deals with diseases of such glands as the thyroid & pancreas endocrinology |
#7536, aired 2017-05-22 | WORDS WITH SILENT LETTERS $1000: This 9-letter type of episode involves a break from reality & may include hallucinations & delusions psychotic break |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | 9-LETTER WORDS $400: Sodom was destroyed by fire & it brimstone |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: Fiefs were part of this social system that was a big hit in the Middle Ages feudalism |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1200: A city in Iowa, or a type of sofa a davenport |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1600: For normal depth perception, the eyes work together in this type of vision binocular |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | 9-LETTER WORDS $2000: This type of belt worn by gunmen has little slots to hold extra ammunition a bandolier |
#7523, aired 2017-05-03 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Closely connected words commencing with same sounds or like letters alliteration |
#7523, aired 2017-05-03 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: This condition affecting millions worldwide is the result of a poor or insufficient diet malnutrition |
#7523, aired 2017-05-03 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: This adjective refers to moving things around, or the devious quality of controlling people manipulative |
#7523, aired 2017-05-03 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: You get an "A" if you know it's the "A" in F=MA acceleration |
#7523, aired 2017-05-03 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: A civilian in wartime, or an army member like a chaplain who doesn't actually fight noncombatant |
#7510, aired 2017-04-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: The objective case of I me |
#7510, aired 2017-04-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: It's Down Under slang for Australia itself Oz |
#7510, aired 2017-04-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: A wise movie character told us this, or this not; there is no try do |
#7510, aired 2017-04-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: 2-piece martial arts garment a gi |
#7510, aired 2017-04-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: A woman loved by Zeus turned into a heifer Io |
#7505, aired 2017-04-07 | SIMILAR WORDS $1000: Help settle a dispute, then add a letter & quietly reflect on it mediate & meditate |
#7503, aired 2017-04-05 | ROMAN NUMERAL WORDS $2000: I know we don't like each other, but can't we at least be this 5-letter word civil |
#7501, aired 2017-04-03 | NEW WAYS TO SAY CORRECT $600: I'll put together 2 4-letter words & add the English accent for this Austin Powers catchphrase "Yeah, baby" |
#7498, aired 2017-03-29 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the bottom of a sleeve a cuff |
#7498, aired 2017-03-29 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: Unemployed Brits are said to be "on" it the dole |
#7498, aired 2017-03-29 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1200: The sound when a bell or laughter rings out a peal |
#7498, aired 2017-03-29 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: A pillowcase with a tricky flap a sham |
#7498, aired 2017-03-29 | 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: A magical charm, or skill or flair you don't want to lose your mojo |
#7497, aired 2017-03-28 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: A bloodsucking worm or friend a leech |
#7497, aired 2017-03-28 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: The baker's one is actually 13 dozen |
#7497, aired 2017-03-28 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1200: Domino's Pizza ads once wanted you to rhymingly do this to the noid avoid |
#7497, aired 2017-03-28 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: In 1948 the Catholic Church published its last this "of Forbidden Books" index |
#7497, aired 2017-03-28 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: A grouping of something; there's a "very large" one watching the skies in New Mexico an array |
#7491, aired 2017-03-20 | AUTO-MATIC WORDS $600: Time to Rolls out this ghostly 7-letter term for an apparition the phantom |
#7475, aired 2017-02-24 | WORDS OF THE YEAR $1000: Oxford:
Post-truth, edging out this 4-letter adjective meaning alert to injustice woke |
#7467, aired 2017-02-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: One's partner in crime an accomplice |