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5-Letter Words (112):
sabed (8 points)
Sabe
S·1+A·1+B·3+E·1+D·2 = 8 pts
sades (6 points)
Marquis et al.
Vic's spouse et al.
Vics spouse et al
S·1+A·1+D·2+E·1+S·1 = 6 pts
sadhe (9 points)
Hebrew letter (same as tsadi)
th Hebrew letter
Hebrew letter same as tsadi
S·1+A·1+D·2+H·4+E·1 = 9 pts
sadhu (9 points)
Hindu holy man (anagram of HAD US)
Hindu holy man.
Unhappy hour, oddly, for a holy man
S·1+A·1+D·2+H·4+U·1 = 9 pts
sadis (6 points)
Sadi
S·1+A·1+D·2+I·1+S·1 = 6 pts
sadly (9 points)
How to say 'alas'
Sorry to say . . .
'I'm sorry to say...'
S·1+A·1+D·2+L·1+Y·4 = 9 pts
saids (6 points)
Said
S·1+A·1+I·1+D·2+S·1 = 6 pts
salad (6 points)
Leaves undressed, maybe (wordplay)
Weightwatchers lunch perhaps
Garden-variety lunch (wordplay)
S·1+A·1+L·1+A·1+D·2 = 6 pts
sands (6 points)
Moments of time (wordplay)
Beach blankets (wordplay)
Takes the edge off (wordplay)
S·1+A·1+N·1+D·2+S·1 = 6 pts
sandy (9 points)
A gritty Scot (wordplay)
Like a beach perhaps
He says "arf"
S·1+A·1+N·1+D·2+Y·4 = 9 pts
saned (6 points)
Sane
S·1+A·1+N·1+E·1+D·2 = 6 pts
sapid (8 points)
Climb up the tree, I would. How sweet!
Drain fish that's delicious
To one's liking
S·1+A·1+P·3+I·1+D·2 = 8 pts
sards (6 points)
Earth-toned quartz gems
Orange-red gems
Orange-red stones.
S·1+A·1+R·1+D·2+S·1 = 6 pts
sarod (6 points)
Kind of rebec of India
East Indian violin.
Kind of rebec.
S·1+A·1+R·1+O·1+D·2 = 6 pts
sated (6 points)
Full-y satisfied (wordplay)
Full (of food)
Glutted with DATES (wordplay)
S·1+A·1+T·1+E·1+D·2 = 6 pts
saved (9 points)
Administered CPR maybe
Up in the clouds (wordplay)
Administered CPR, maybe
S·1+A·1+V·4+E·1+D·2 = 9 pts
sawed (9 points)
Worked on lumber say
Made across-the-board cuts (wordplay)
Made two-by-fours, say
S·1+A·1+W·4+E·1+D·2 = 9 pts
sayid (9 points)
Moslem title of honor.
Descendant of Mohammed's daughter Fatima
Muslim title of respect
S·1+A·1+Y·4+I·1+D·2 = 9 pts
scads (8 points)
Lots of things
Large sum: Colloq.
A copious amount
S·1+C·3+A·1+D·2+S·1 = 8 pts
scald (8 points)
Get into hot water, maybe
Spill hot water on, perhaps
Get into hot water, perhaps
S·1+C·3+A·1+L·1+D·2 = 8 pts
scend (8 points)
Ship's rise
The lift of a wave
Lift of a wave.
S·1+C·3+E·1+N·1+D·2 = 8 pts
scold (8 points)
Say 'tsk' to
Nagative one (wordplay)
Say tsk to
S·1+C·3+O·1+L·1+D·2 = 8 pts
scrod (8 points)
Fish and chips fish perhaps
Catch of the day fish, perhaps
New England catch of the day perhaps
S·1+C·3+R·1+O·1+D·2 = 8 pts
scudi (8 points)
Old Italian money
Former coins of Italy
Italian coins of yore
S·1+C·3+U·1+D·2+I·1 = 8 pts
scudo (8 points)
Old Italian coin (anagram of U.S. DOC)
One-time Italian coin.
C.D.'s you owe in old Italian money
S·1+C·3+U·1+D·2+O·1 = 8 pts
scuds (8 points)
Runs before the wind.
Scoots along as a cloud
Gulf War missiles
S·1+C·3+U·1+D·2+S·1 = 8 pts
sedan (6 points)
Four-door, for one
Family car perhaps
Malibu, for one
S·1+E·1+D·2+A·1+N·1 = 6 pts
seder (6 points)
Meal that is often questioned (wordplay)
Matzo meal (wordplay)
Rite of spring (wordplay)
S·1+E·1+D·2+E·1+R·1 = 6 pts
sedge (7 points)
Swamp thing (wordplay)
Umbrella plant for one
Papyrus for one
S·1+E·1+D·2+G·2+E·1 = 7 pts
sedgy (10 points)
Like a wetland
Bordered with marsh plants.
Like some bank growth
S·1+E·1+D·2+G·2+Y·4 = 10 pts
sedum (8 points)
Creeping ground cover
Autumn Joy eg
Plant is all about past ending
S·1+E·1+D·2+U·1+M·3 = 8 pts
seeds (6 points)
Springsteen song he planted (wordplay)
Flower children (wordplay)
Bagel toppers perhaps
S·1+E·1+E·1+D·2+S·1 = 6 pts
seedy (9 points)
Out of sorts
Ramshackle, as a watermelon (wordplay)
Zero-star, say
S·1+E·1+E·1+D·2+Y·4 = 9 pts
sends (6 points)
Uses FedEx, say
E-mails, say
Writes an email say
S·1+E·1+N·1+D·2+S·1 = 6 pts
sered (6 points)
Became dry variable
Son of Zebulun.
Became dried up.
S·1+E·1+R·1+E·1+D·2 = 6 pts
sewed (9 points)
Used a Singer, perhaps
Made ends meet (wordplay)
Put one's initials on something, say
S·1+E·1+W·4+E·1+D·2 = 9 pts
sexed (13 points)
Touchy subject (wordplay)
Course with crabs and clams (wordplay)
Place to learn about cycles (wordplay)
S·1+E·1+X·8+E·1+D·2 = 13 pts
shade (9 points)
Cool place perhaps
Cool place maybe
Cobalt blue, for one.
S·1+H·4+A·1+D·2+E·1 = 9 pts
shads (9 points)
Hudson River school (wordplay)
Some of George Washingtons favorite fish
Fish held on board ship
S·1+H·4+A·1+D·2+S·1 = 9 pts
shady (12 points)
Pleasantly dark, perhaps
Not so hot (wordplay)
Dubious (of character)
S·1+H·4+A·1+D·2+Y·4 = 12 pts
shard (9 points)
Chip off the old urn (wordplay)
Result of a breakup (wordplay)
Bit of a break (wordplay)
S·1+H·4+A·1+R·1+D·2 = 9 pts
sheds (9 points)
Places to tool around, maybe (wordplay)
Leaves one's coat (wordplay)
Tool boxes (wordplay)
S·1+H·4+E·1+D·2+S·1 = 9 pts
shend (9 points)
Put to shame old style
Compiler conceals name of old scold
Reprove, of old.
S·1+H·4+E·1+N·1+D·2 = 9 pts
sherd (9 points)
Brittle fragment (Var.)
Fragment of broken pottery (var.)
Digger's pottery find
S·1+H·4+E·1+R·1+D·2 = 9 pts
shied (9 points)
Turned (away from)
Moved away (from)
Stayed (away from)
S·1+H·4+I·1+E·1+D·2 = 9 pts
shoed (9 points)
All pumped up (wordplay)
Covered a few feet (wordplay)
Equipped for a ride, perhaps
S·1+H·4+O·1+E·1+D·2 = 9 pts
shred (9 points)
(Tear into) small piece(s)
Amount of evidence (wordplay)
Measure of evidence (wordplay)
S·1+H·4+R·1+E·1+D·2 = 9 pts
sided (7 points)
Made common cause (with)
Went (with) (h,h)
Aligned oneself (with)
S·1+I·1+D·2+E·1+D·2 = 7 pts
sides (6 points)
Allies oneself (with)
Teams that can be split (wordplay)
Where's the beef (wordplay)
S·1+I·1+D·2+E·1+S·1 = 6 pts
sidle (6 points)
Approach (with "up to")
Act like a crab (wordplay)
Be crabby (wordplay)
S·1+I·1+D·2+L·1+E·1 = 6 pts
silds (6 points)
Sild
S·1+I·1+L·1+D·2+S·1 = 6 pts
siped (8 points)
Sipe
S·1+I·1+P·3+E·1+D·2 = 8 pts
sired (6 points)
Was a stud (wordplay)
Went to stud perhaps
Had a cow (wordplay)
S·1+I·1+R·1+E·1+D·2 = 6 pts
sited (6 points)
Put on the spot (wordplay)
Located by eye and ear (wordplay)
Put in place
S·1+I·1+T·1+E·1+D·2 = 6 pts
sized (15 points)
Measured the dimensions of (something)
Looked over (with "up")
Appraised (with "up")
S·1+I·1+Z·10+E·1+D·2 = 15 pts
skald (10 points)
Bard of old Scandinavia
A Norse bard
Scandinavian bard of yore
S·1+K·5+A·1+L·1+D·2 = 10 pts
skeed (10 points)
Skee
S·1+K·5+E·1+E·1+D·2 = 10 pts
skids (10 points)
Slides in the snow, maybe
Hits some black ice, say
Starts to fishtail, say
S·1+K·5+I·1+D·2+S·1 = 10 pts
skied (10 points)
Set off from a gondola, say
Raced the Super G say
Had a peak experience (wordplay)
S·1+K·5+I·1+E·1+D·2 = 10 pts
skyed (13 points)
Hit a high fly ball
Kicked way over the goal, as a shot in soccer
Hit high
S·1+K·5+Y·4+E·1+D·2 = 13 pts
sleds (6 points)
Goes downhill fast (wordplay)
One-way transports (wordplay)
Goes downhill perhaps
S·1+L·1+E·1+D·2+S·1 = 6 pts
slide (6 points)
Get home safely (wordplay)
Head for home (wordplay)
It's electric (wordplay)
S·1+L·1+I·1+D·2+E·1 = 6 pts
sloid (6 points)
Swedish system of manual training
Swedish system of manual training
Swedish manual training system.
S·1+L·1+O·1+I·1+D·2 = 6 pts
slojd (13 points)
""A Swedish system of manual training, also SLOYD, SLOID""
S·1+L·1+O·1+J·8+D·2 = 13 pts
sloyd (9 points)
Manual training in Sweden
Swedish manual training system.
System of manual training from Sweden.
S·1+L·1+O·1+Y·4+D·2 = 9 pts
slued (6 points)
Swung like a sail
Slipped out of course
Swung around a pivot
S·1+L·1+U·1+E·1+D·2 = 6 pts
sneds (6 points)
Prunes, in Perth
Lops off: Scot.
Lops off Scot.
S·1+N·1+E·1+D·2+S·1 = 6 pts
snide (6 points)
Damning with faint praise, perhaps
Said with shade, say
Like a snicker perhaps
S·1+N·1+I·1+D·2+E·1 = 6 pts
snood (6 points)
Hair holder at a Renaissance fair, maybe
Net for a bun
Wimple's relative
S·1+N·1+O·1+O·1+D·2 = 6 pts
sodas (6 points)
Soft options (wordplay)
Works by jerks (wordplay)
Jerk's creations (wordplay)
S·1+O·1+D·2+A·1+S·1 = 6 pts
soddy (10 points)
Like a new lawn, maybe
Like a new lawn maybe
Like a newly repaired green, perhaps
S·1+O·1+D·2+D·2+Y·4 = 10 pts
sodic (8 points)
Containing Na, thus upsetting police
Containing a chemical.
Containing a whitish element
S·1+O·1+D·2+I·1+C·3 = 8 pts
sodom (8 points)
Sin city (wordplay)
Sinful city some say
Altered moods (wordplay)
S·1+O·1+D·2+O·1+M·3 = 8 pts
soldi (6 points)
Some coppers (old Italian)
Old Italian coins
Twenty make a lire.
S·1+O·1+L·1+D·2+I·1 = 6 pts
soldo (6 points)
Part of a lira
Paesanos pittance once
Old fivecentesimi coin
S·1+O·1+L·1+D·2+O·1 = 6 pts
soled (6 points)
Cobbled together (wordplay)
Worked on a clog, say
Furnished a flat (wordplay)
S·1+O·1+L·1+E·1+D·2 = 6 pts
solid (6 points)
Cone, for one
Cube for one
Firm Dandy Warhols song (wordplay)
S·1+O·1+L·1+I·1+D·2 = 6 pts
sonde (6 points)
Device, in meteorology.
Balloon-carried probe
Meteorological testing device.
S·1+O·1+N·1+D·2+E·1 = 6 pts
sords (6 points)
Flocks of ducks: arch
S·1+O·1+R·1+D·2+S·1 = 6 pts
sound (6 points)
Noise heard by the Seine (wordplay)
Air waves (wordplay)
Like a dollar (wordplay)
S·1+O·1+U·1+N·1+D·2 = 6 pts
sowed (9 points)
Went to seed (wordplay)
Placed in the field
Scattered, on the farm
S·1+O·1+W·4+E·1+D·2 = 9 pts
spade (8 points)
Gardening tool (maybe so called)
Groundbreaking invention (wordplay)
Black suit component (wordplay)
S·1+P·3+A·1+D·2+E·1 = 8 pts
spado (8 points)
A castrated male
S·1+P·3+A·1+D·2+O·1 = 8 pts
spaed (8 points)
Practiced with cutlasses
S·1+P·3+A·1+E·1+D·2 = 8 pts
speed (8 points)
The going rate for drugs (wordplay)
Go 50 in a school zone, say
Go a mile a minute, say
S·1+P·3+E·1+E·1+D·2 = 8 pts
spend (8 points)
Pay out (on goods)
Use up (one's resources)
Use plastic, say
S·1+P·3+E·1+N·1+D·2 = 8 pts
spied (8 points)
Listened in on, perhaps
Hid in the bushes, maybe
Planted bugs, say
S·1+P·3+I·1+E·1+D·2 = 8 pts
spode (8 points)
China from Stokeon-Trent
Fine-china name
Fine English porcelain
S·1+P·3+O·1+D·2+E·1 = 8 pts
spuds (8 points)
Future fries, perhaps
McKenzie in a beer ad
KP's peel 'em
S·1+P·3+U·1+D·2+S·1 = 8 pts
spued (8 points)
Disgorged as lava obs
Disgorged, as lava: obs.
Oozed forth
S·1+P·3+U·1+E·1+D·2 = 8 pts
squad (15 points)
Private get-together (wordplay)
Group (of soldiers, players etc)
Small group (of soldiers)
S·1+Q·10+U·1+A·1+D·2 = 15 pts
squid (15 points)
Marine life in Guinea (wordplay)
Ink-jet user (wordplay)
Octopus's relative
S·1+Q·10+U·1+I·1+D·2 = 15 pts
stade (6 points)
Geological time period
Old Greek measure of length
Geological period of time
S·1+T·1+A·1+D·2+E·1 = 6 pts
staid (6 points)
Fancy-free (wordplay)
Restrained (in character)
Supported verbally, as is proper
S·1+T·1+A·1+I·1+D·2 = 6 pts
stand (6 points)
Easel, for one
Be counter perhaps
Lose a lap (wordplay)
S·1+T·1+A·1+N·1+D·2 = 6 pts
stead (6 points)
Place for a substitute (wordplay)
Farm closing (wordplay)
Home extension (wordplay)
S·1+T·1+E·1+A·1+D·2 = 6 pts
steed (6 points)
Trigger, for one
Traveler for one
Arabian for one
S·1+T·1+E·1+E·1+D·2 = 6 pts
stied (6 points)
Lodged, as porkers.
Like a pig in a pen
Housed in a pen
S·1+T·1+I·1+E·1+D·2 = 6 pts
stood (6 points)
Got off the bottom (wordplay)
Prepared to speak, maybe
Went off one's rocker (wordplay)
S·1+T·1+O·1+O·1+D·2 = 6 pts
strid (6 points)
Narrow ravine
Narrow ravine.
S·1+T·1+R·1+I·1+D·2 = 6 pts
studs (6 points)
Retired Derby winners, perhaps
Terkel's fasteners (wordplay)
Butcher types (wordplay)
S·1+T·1+U·1+D·2+S·1 = 6 pts
study (9 points)
Memorize things, maybe
Bone up on dinosaurs, say
Quiet room, perhaps
S·1+T·1+U·1+D·2+Y·4 = 9 pts
styed (9 points)
Penned up, like pigs (var.)
Penned in like pigs
Penned up as pigs
S·1+T·1+Y·4+E·1+D·2 = 9 pts
sudds (7 points)
Sudd
S·1+U·1+D·2+D·2+S·1 = 7 pts
sudor (6 points)
The sweat of Caesars brow
The sweat of Caesar's brow
Sweat technically
S·1+U·1+D·2+O·1+R·1 = 6 pts
sudsy (9 points)
Full of Dawn, say (wordplay)
Needing rinsing, perhaps
Full of Dawn say
S·1+U·1+D·2+S·1+Y·4 = 9 pts
suede (6 points)
Leather that swayed Elvis (wordplay)
Material for blue shoes (wordplay)
Leather that swayed Elvis?
S·1+U·1+E·1+D·2+E·1 = 6 pts
surds (6 points)
Voiceless speech sounds.
Certain numbers, in math.
Irrational numbers in math
S·1+U·1+R·1+D·2+S·1 = 6 pts
sward (9 points)
Grassy area (often poetic)
Grassy surface of land
Grass pulls up
S·1+W·4+A·1+R·1+D·2 = 9 pts
swede (9 points)
Volvo factory worker, perhaps
Wilander, for one
Jenny Lind, for one
S·1+W·4+E·1+D·2+E·1 = 9 pts
sword (9 points)
Excalibur, for one
King Arthurs Excalibur for one
Pen's inferior in strength, so they say
S·1+W·4+O·1+R·1+D·2 = 9 pts
synod (9 points)
Convention of sorts
Meeting of the rite people (wordplay)
Council of the clergy
S·1+Y·4+N·1+O·1+D·2 = 9 pts

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