Okay, no one has got this yet (and no, it’s not Versaphone, panamajack).
sarsaparilla
CTM-enactment
archiepiscopal is correct. Eggs à la Ted breaks the six-way tie to win round two.
RMIF-vermiform
SDR-busdriver? I can’t find it as a single word, but it’s the best I can come up with.
XACH-hexachord. Also hexachloride & related words.
OCHI-besides smooching, etc., there is also parochial.
I think the XOP word is still outstanding, isn’t it? I don’t think my earlier answer of exophthalmos was not the one.
I should have enough sequences to begin round 3 tomorrow or Saturday. I find that now I can’t read a book or newspaper without the unusual sequences jumping out at me.
LTPE
LESM
DGEH
I should be able to post the first five sequences of the third round this afternoon or tonight. In the meantime, you can try these rejects. All of them are unhyphenated in the American Heritage Dictionary but hyphenated in the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
ABGR
GJ
HJ
MOER
OKEE
VEBO
saltpeter, salesman, hedgehog
crABGRass
loGJam
hoMOERotic
CherOKEE, boOKEEper
Oops. I wasn’t thinking of bookkeeper, but it does fit. The others are correct, except Cherokee (capitalized). Speaking of capitalized words, I have two more rejects. They are uncapitalized in the AHD, but capitalized in the SOED.
ILQ
SIANI
Okay, I’ve got aphrodesiac, breakfast, and blowflies. What a combination!
How about these?
HTCL
CKSTR (I'm not referring to an item of apparel,though if you must...)whoops, didn’t see the later pages. I should go to bed.
eulalia-- You and me both. It’s nearly 3am here.
nigHTCLub
baCKSTReet, baCKSTRoke
bibliophage,
SIANI = mesSIANIc
HJ = higHJack (Webster’s gives as a variant spelling)
Oh, and OKEE is not satisfied by “bookkeeper”, which has two k’s in succession.
[ul][li]MQ[/li][li]EOM[/li][li]ZIQ[/li][li]ANIG[/li][li]IRDU[/li][li]PPOD[/li][li]PPOO[/li][li]YNEC[/li][li]YSHI[/li][li]ELSTR[/ul][/li]
This is fun!
messianic yes, highjack no.
What can I say? I was tired too. Still am, as a matter of fact.
My alma mater’s seal has the words “ad utrumque paratus” in it, along with a lion holding a book and a sword. but I don’t suppose latin counts.
Geometry.
Yes you are, but you’re not the only one. The sequence was OKKE, not OKEE, so bookkeeper is right.
See, Eggs? It was “OKEE”.
Just for the record, there really is an OKEE word. When I typed it the first time I was tired but not quite tired enough to type it wrong.
Whoops.
In my defense “OKKE” was listed (post 2, page 3) but it was answered by Bibliophage not asked.