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Contact

For playing the game Contact, where one person tries to "defend"...

ManyPinkHats

Dec 18, 2018 18:12

c70

ManyPinkHats

Dec 18, 2018 18:12

ManyPinkHats

Dec 18, 2018 18:02

Like R with "..." could be a lazy clue for "radius" or similar

ManyPinkHats

Dec 18, 2018 18:01

I think "this" means "current letters are a word" and "..." means "current letters either are a word or are a common abbreviation starting a word, and perhaps the number is a hint"

ManyPinkHats

Dec 18, 2018 18:00

yeah "this" is a lazy clue used when the letters-so-far makes an actual word

ManyPinkHats

Dec 18, 2018 17:55

74: ARECIBO

ManyPinkHats

Dec 18, 2018 17:52

c 74

ManyPinkHats

Dec 18, 2018 17:51

c 3

Strupremum

For playing the game Strupremum, where players compete to get ...

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 22:02

Not bolding, since it's not longest

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 22:02

foot-and-mouth (12, or 14 with hyphens), as in foot-and-mouth disease

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 22:00

underfoot (9)

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:57

ambidextrous (12)

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:56

That would be 20 without the hyphen, but still nice

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:52

Ah, also some SESQUI- words with -QUADRATE, -QUARTILE, -QUINTILE

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:51

For non-Q-starts, it has HARLEQUINESQUE (14) has COLLOQUIQUIUMS (14) but I think the latter might be a typo?

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:50

also there is QUADRATOSQUAMOSAL and (a nice one) HARLEQUINESQUE

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:50

SCOWL has QUINQUETUBERCULATE as its longest, followed by a lot of other QUINQUE- words

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:47

It's not a combined prefix that can keep building, to my knowledge

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:47

? quinque- is a prefix on its own meaning 5

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:46

I'm struggling to find any other quinque- words that aren't really just quin- words but made more annoying

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:42

QUINQUENNIALLY (14)

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:42

actually, let's start basic just to get it out of the way

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:41

I know what substring I want; I'm figuring out the prefix/suffixes

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:40

SCOWL gets NONINSTINCTIVELY (16)

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:32

Seems like it

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:29

Thanks for the link; I'm cleaning mine now

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:26

though, I had to add REGENERATORY back in, since it seems like that was missing on its own

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:26

@ETHproductions Yes, I do. And now, no, I don't.

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:25

wordlist.aspell.net

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:25

I've removed PREINFERREDPREINFERRING from my copy of SCOWL

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:24

dictionary misentries are hilarious, like dord

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:23

same, I think that's a misentry that's been copied from wordlist to wordlist

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:23

along with some of those, SCOWL also has PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHICAL

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:20

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:20

Huh. I always thought the first E's were the same

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:19

Is EKG echo- or electro-?

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:19

oh nvm then

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:18

and if EKG is one word, then I'm pretty sure EEG is too

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:17

no, but ~~echoencephalogram (17)~~ ties it

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:16

thank you

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:15

I can't remember what vowel goes there, but it's certainly not U

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:15

parallelepiped (14)

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:14

shoot, I can't remember the spelling

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:14

wait

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:14

parallelogram (13)

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 21:07

Honorificabilitudinitatibus

Honorificabilitudinitatibus (honōrificābilitūdinitātibus Latin pronunciation: [ɔ.noː.rɪf.ɪk.āb.ɪl.ɪt.uːd.ɪn.ɪt.aː.tɪ.bʊs]) is the dative and ablative plural of the medieval Latin word honōrificābilitūdinitās, which can be translated as "the state of being able to achieve honours". It is mentioned by the character Costard in Act V, Scene I of William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. As it appears only once in Shakespeare's works, it is a hapax legomenon in the Shakespeare canon. It is also the longest word in the English language featuring only alternating consonants and vowels. == Use in... ==

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 20:58

except synchrocyclotrons

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 20:46

FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATIONS (30)

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 20:43

That's the intent but it's more "whenever someone remembers to say time's up"

ManyPinkHats

Dec 14, 2018 20:38

My SCOWL searcher will be of no use here in finding longer ones; I think it disallows hyphens completely, which is why it never found TETE-A-TETE in the previous round as well