# Guess the words from internal letter sequences **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 3, 2000, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-words-from-internal-letter-sequences/43855 "2000-12-03T19:55:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-words-from-internal-letter-sequences/43855/81 "2000-12-06T22:53:05Z")
KULE- ukulele. I hope I beat Ike to it. ---
**Author:** ![ren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@ren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ren)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-words-from-internal-letter-sequences/43855/82 "2000-12-07T01:24:15Z")
Let’s throw some more out… OCHI GEBO ILFI IOBI OPAC MMOX YOV Extremely obscure: XOP XACH ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-words-from-internal-letter-sequences/43855/83 "2000-12-07T02:01:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ren \* > \*\*Let’s throw some more out… > > OCHI-lochia? You’re probably looking for something more common > GEBO-pageboy > ILFI-oilfield? Usually 2 words > IOBI > OPAC > MMOX > YOV > > Extremely obscure: > > XOP-exophthalmos? > XACH \*\* ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-words-from-internal-letter-sequences/43855/84 "2000-12-07T02:10:01Z")
IOBI-biobibliography? OPAC-copacetic YOV-layover ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-words-from-internal-letter-sequences/43855/85 "2000-12-07T02:16:18Z")
OCHI- if not lochia, then perhaps cochineal? Or perhaps not. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-words-from-internal-letter-sequences/43855/86 "2000-12-07T02:20:21Z")
OCHI-smooching ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-words-from-internal-letter-sequences/43855/87 "2000-12-07T02:25:11Z")
I’m flummoxed…oh, is that one:D dumb lummox ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-words-from-internal-letter-sequences/43855/88 "2000-12-07T02:26:22Z")
biGWIg kilLJoy ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-words-from-internal-letter-sequences/43855/89 "2000-12-07T02:28:33Z")
NKG - ginkgo ---
**Author:** ![ren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@ren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ren)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-words-from-internal-letter-sequences/43855/90 "2000-12-07T02:31:07Z")
**bibliophage** , the OCHI word is more common than those, although maybe not everyday usage. I dunno, though, how often do you hear cochineal? I guess that’s not too obscure… GEB is pageboy OPAC is copacetic YOV is layover (also, apparently, flyover) ILFI is something else (I haven’t found oilfield as one word), as are the other guesses. Deos anyone know of software that you can type a partial letter combo like this into and get a list of matches? It sure would help when developing word games like this… ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-words-from-internal-letter-sequences/43855/91 "2000-12-07T04:18:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by iampunha \* > \*\*biGWIg > kilLJoy \*\* Beaten to the punch by ren and scratch. An OCHI word more common than smooching? I guess it’s not mooching, then. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-words-from-internal-letter-sequences/43855/92 "2000-12-07T04:22:42Z")
Sorry. Beaten to the punch by scratch and lurker. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-words-from-internal-letter-sequences/43855/93 "2000-12-07T04:23:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ren \* > \*\*Deos anyone know of software that you can type a partial letter combo like this into and get a list of matches? It sure would help when developing word games like this… > \*\* There is, sort of. Right now I can’t think of the URL. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-words-from-internal-letter-sequences/43855/94 "2000-12-07T04:41:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fretful Porpentine \* > \*\*NKG - ginkgo \*\* Correct. That leaves only HIEP and one more GPL word (besides gangplank) from the first 15 words of the second round. I will post the last 5 clues tomorrow morning. The American Heritage Dictionary on CD-ROM has a search function for finding letter combinations. That’s why I initially forbade electronic dictionaries, for fear that people would use this function to solve the puzzles. I don’t think I need have worried about it, after all. For the record, I have used this search function to find a few sequences for my second list and to verify the uniqueness of all the sequences in both lists. ---
**Author:** ![ren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@ren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ren)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-words-from-internal-letter-sequences/43855/95 "2000-12-07T06:18:09Z")
OK, either I’m going blind or that post with smooching in it was not here before. That was it. Anyway, it looks like there are a lot more OCHI words than I thought. ---
**Author:** ![ren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@ren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ren)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-words-from-internal-letter-sequences/43855/96 "2000-12-07T06:21:20Z")
oh, and of course **lurkernomore** found the MMOX words(s)… That leaves IOBI and ILFI from my set. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-words-from-internal-letter-sequences/43855/97 "2000-12-07T06:25:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ren \* > \*\*That leaves IOBI and ILFI from my set. \*\* IOBI is nIOBIum maILFInder? jaILFIght? ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-words-from-internal-letter-sequences/43855/98 "2000-12-07T07:03:20Z")
Yay to Mind gamer for kiCKBack, and bibliophage for caRTRidge. Little yay for iampunha for seconding kickback. BTW, good guesses on “dressdrawer” and “fairtrade”, but neither are in my Oxford. At [dictionary.com](http://dictionary.com), only “fairtrade” is there, but it’s hyphenated. So SDR is still unsolved. GPL: egGPLant ---
**Author:** ![Meleemancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@Meleemancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meleemancer)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-words-from-internal-letter-sequences/43855/99 "2000-12-07T09:01:15Z")
ren: is ta **ilfi** n what you’re looking for? Seems like I always either get these right away or not at all… anyone else experienceing this? ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-words-from-internal-letter-sequences/43855/100 "2000-12-07T09:08:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AudreyK \* > **SDR** crosSDRess or crosSDResser. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-words-from-internal-letter-sequences/43855.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-words-from-internal-letter-sequences/43855.md?page=6)