KULE- ukulele. I hope I beat Ike to it.
Let’s throw some more out…
OCHI
GEBO
ILFI
IOBI
OPAC
MMOX
YOV
Extremely obscure:
XOP
XACH
IOBI-biobibliography?
OPAC-copacetic
YOV-layover
OCHI- if not lochia, then perhaps cochineal? Or perhaps not.
OCHI-smooching
I’m flummoxed…oh, is that one:D dumb lummox
biGWIg
kilLJoy
NKG - ginkgo
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…
Beaten to the punch by ren and scratch.
An OCHI word more common than smooching? I guess it’s not mooching, then.
Sorry. Beaten to the punch by scratch and lurker.
There is, sort of. Right now I can’t think of the URL.
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.
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.
oh, and of course lurkernomore found the MMOX words(s)…
That leaves IOBI and ILFI from my set.
IOBI is nIOBIum
maILFInder? jaILFIght?
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, only “fairtrade” is there, but it’s hyphenated. So SDR is still unsolved.
GPL: egGPLant
ren: is tailfin what you’re looking for?
Seems like I always either get these right away or not at all… anyone else experienceing this?
crosSDRess or crosSDResser.