Only a competitive scrabble player...

could study a word, even play it in a game half a dozen times, and still not know what it means.

My wife told me about a company website she was working on today, Etesian Technologies.. of course I said, 'wait, you mean E-T-E-S-I-A-N? cool!' I was going to explain to her that it could be formed from TISANE plus E, considered by many to be the top 6 letter bingo stem, but I don't think she shared my enthusiasm.

And then I realized I had no idea what etesian meant. So here it is:

ETESIAN an annually recurring wind. (pl. -S)

I don't think I would have known it took an S... good to learn!

-WORT words

I think I only knew two of these....

AWLWORT          

BELLWORT        

COLEWORT        

DAMEWORT

DANEWORT

DROPWORT

FANWORT

FELWORT

FIGWORT

FLEAWORT 

HONEWORT

HORNWORT

*inhales deeply*

LEADWORT

LUNGWORT

MADWORT

MILKWORT

MOONWORT

MOORWORT

MUGWORT

PILEWORT

RAGWORT

RIBWORT

SALTWORT

SANDWORT

SOAPWORT

STARWORT

time for some more flashcards...

BIDI WADI

I'm always intrigued when I find out that a word I've known (in Scrabble) for a while has another spelling, or has a group of words that are similar to it. Most recently, I was reviewing a game someone posted and found that BIDI, a word I learned early on when I was looking for ways to get rid of two I's at once, could be spelled BEEDI. Here are some BEEDIS to the right ....


On the 'similar words' note, I just learned that in addition to WADI (the bed of a usually dry watercourse) being a word, there is also:
WADDY     to strike with a thick club
WADDIE    a cowboy
WADDIED (past tense of waddy)
WADDIES (could be either one)


For a more common set of words, you could put a C on the front of these...

Another link...

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The link is also now in the 'links' section. I'm clever like that.

Dream Extension...

I'm stealing this one from a guy from my local scrabble club... he mentioned it after I emailed him a link to this entry. (He actually played that word against me, and I sort of yelled at him. Not because I was upset that he bingoed, but because I was hoping to play the word against someone first.) But I digress.

Have the word GUTTER on the board?
OK, do you have HIINPSS on your rack?

Definition of the noun form of this word is :
a person belonging to or characteristic of the lowest social group in a city

ROTL

You may think I accidentally tried to text message someone instead of typing a title for this entry, but it's actually:

ROTL  a unit of weight in Muslim countries. [n. ROTLS or ARTAL]

Of interest: the plural form, ARTAL, takes a front hook of H, and has 3 anagrams.