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accessory (16 points)
Hat or handbag, say
John Oates, to Daryl Hall (wordplay)
Trapping criminal associate (wordplay)
A·1+C·3+C·3+E·1+S·1+S·1+O·1+R·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
accompany (20 points)
Escort to affirm (wordplay)
Play second fiddle to, in a way
Travel along with
A·1+C·3+C·3+O·1+M·3+P·3+A·1+N·1+Y·4 = 20 pts
adiposity (15 points)
Idiot pays criminal for property of 6 23
Fatty nature
A·1+D·2+I·1+P·3+O·1+S·1+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
adoringly (14 points)
In a worshipping manner
With much love.
One way to gaze
A·1+D·2+O·1+R·1+I·1+N·1+G·2+L·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
adulatory (13 points)
Excessively flattering
When almost grown-up, a politician is flattering
Sycophantic
A·1+D·2+U·1+L·1+A·1+T·1+O·1+R·1+Y·4 = 13 pts
aetiology (13 points)
The science or philosophy of causation
A·1+E·1+T·1+I·1+O·1+L·1+O·1+G·2+Y·4 = 13 pts
airworthy (18 points)
Safe to fly
How rarity may be fit to fly
Ready to take off
A·1+I·1+R·1+W·4+O·1+R·1+T·1+H·4+Y·4 = 18 pts
allometry (14 points)
The study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole.
A·1+L·1+L·1+O·1+M·3+E·1+T·1+R·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
allopatry (14 points)
""Ecology Occurring in separate, nonoverlapping geographic areas. Often used of populations of related organisms unable to crossbreed because of geographic separation.""
A·1+L·1+L·1+O·1+P·3+A·1+T·1+R·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
allostery (12 points)
Of or involving a change in the shape and activity of an enzyme that results from molecular binding with a regulatory substance at a site other than the enzymatically active one.
A·1+L·1+L·1+O·1+S·1+T·1+E·1+R·1+Y·4 = 12 pts
allotropy (14 points)
The property of existing in two or more conditions which are distinct in their physical or chemical relations.
A·1+L·1+L·1+O·1+T·1+R·1+O·1+P·3+Y·4 = 14 pts
allowably (17 points)
In an allowable manner.
A·1+L·1+L·1+O·1+W·4+A·1+B·3+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
allowedly (16 points)
By allowance; admittedly.
A·1+L·1+L·1+O·1+W·4+E·1+D·2+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
amorality (14 points)
Lack of a sense of right and wrong
Lack of right and wrong
Lack of concern for right or wrong
A·1+M·3+O·1+R·1+A·1+L·1+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
amorously (14 points)
Morals? You worry, in a loving way
How Casanovas make their moves
Morals you abandoned in passionate style
A·1+M·3+O·1+R·1+O·1+U·1+S·1+L·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
amphiboly (21 points)
Ambiguous discourse; amphibology.
A·1+M·3+P·3+H·4+I·1+B·3+O·1+L·1+Y·4 = 21 pts
androgyny (17 points)
Subject explored in "The Crying Game"
Subject explored in 'The Crying Game'
Hermaphroditism
A·1+N·1+D·2+R·1+O·1+G·2+Y·4+N·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
animosity (14 points)
Hate to say I'm in disarray
Is no amity (wordplay)
Timon, I say, is disposed to hate
A·1+N·1+I·1+M·3+O·1+S·1+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
anisogamy (15 points)
Reproduction by the union or fusion of two differing gametes (especially differing in size).
A·1+N·1+I·1+S·1+O·1+G·2+A·1+M·3+Y·4 = 15 pts
anonymity (17 points)
Witness protection plan (wordplay)
A negative over my tiny lack of a name
State of being unknown or nameless
A·1+N·1+O·1+N·1+Y·4+M·3+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
anthology (16 points)
Treasury of sorts
From Greece, a bouquet of verse, perhaps
Collection of poems
A·1+N·1+T·1+H·4+O·1+L·1+O·1+G·2+Y·4 = 16 pts
antiphony (17 points)
For the real thing (wordplay)
Against bogus responses
Call-and-response singing
A·1+N·1+T·1+I·1+P·3+H·4+O·1+N·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
antistory (12 points)
STORY to relate an account of an event
A·1+N·1+T·1+I·1+S·1+T·1+O·1+R·1+Y·4 = 12 pts
anxiously (19 points)
In a tense way
With an uneasy feeling
With apprehension
A·1+N·1+X·8+I·1+O·1+U·1+S·1+L·1+Y·4 = 19 pts
apriority (14 points)
State of being deductive.
A·1+P·3+R·1+I·1+O·1+R·1+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
arduously (13 points)
With great effort
A·1+R·1+D·2+U·1+O·1+U·1+S·1+L·1+Y·4 = 13 pts
astrology (13 points)
Dixon line (wordplay)
How stars can make a fortune, perhaps
A house study (wordplay)
A·1+S·1+T·1+R·1+O·1+L·1+O·1+G·2+Y·4 = 13 pts
astronomy (14 points)
Celestial sphere (wordplay)
Roman toys (anagram)
Tory moans (anagram)
A·1+S·1+T·1+R·1+O·1+N·1+O·1+M·3+Y·4 = 14 pts
atonality (12 points)
Quality of Bartok's music
Feature of the 1925 opera "Wozzeck"
Lack of a key center, in music
A·1+T·1+O·1+N·1+A·1+L·1+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 12 pts
audiology (14 points)
The measurement of hearing.
A·1+U·1+D·2+I·1+O·1+L·1+O·1+G·2+Y·4 = 14 pts
authority (15 points)
Hoyle, for one
Write on sex with variable confidence
Writer's got it - 'unknown power'
A·1+U·1+T·1+H·4+O·1+R·1+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
autocracy (16 points)
Absolute government by one person
Dictatorship, e.g
One-man rule.
A·1+U·1+T·1+O·1+C·3+R·1+A·1+C·3+Y·4 = 16 pts
avoidably (18 points)
AVOID to {evade=v}
A·1+V·4+O·1+I·1+D·2+A·1+B·3+L·1+Y·4 = 18 pts
awesomely (17 points)
So as to cause wonder
A·1+W·4+E·1+S·1+O·1+M·3+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
barometry (16 points)
Collection of air pressure data
Robert may turn to a branch of meteorology
B·3+A·1+R·1+O·1+M·3+E·1+T·1+R·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
baronetcy (16 points)
Title that might be played by a cornet
Lowest hereditary honour
Lowest British heritable position
B·3+A·1+R·1+O·1+N·1+E·1+T·1+C·3+Y·4 = 16 pts
baroquely (23 points)
""BAROQUE a bold decorative style, also BAROCCO, BAROCK""
B·3+A·1+R·1+O·1+Q·10+U·1+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 23 pts
bigotedly (16 points)
How Archie Bunker thought
B·3+I·1+G·2+O·1+T·1+E·1+D·2+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
biliously (14 points)
BILIOUS pertaining to {bile=n}
B·3+I·1+L·1+I·1+O·1+U·1+S·1+L·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
bimonthly (19 points)
Like Popular Science
Six times a year
Like AARP The Magazine
B·3+I·1+M·3+O·1+N·1+T·1+H·4+L·1+Y·4 = 19 pts
biography (20 points)
Book about a legend (wordplay)
Life far more than a sentence (wordplay)
Kind of book.
B·3+I·1+O·1+G·2+R·1+A·1+P·3+H·4+Y·4 = 20 pts
biosafety (17 points)
CDC concern, at times
Laboratory concern
B·3+I·1+O·1+S·1+A·1+F·4+E·1+T·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
blackbody (23 points)
BLACK to {blacken=v}
B·3+L·1+A·1+C·3+K·5+B·3+O·1+D·2+Y·4 = 23 pts
blotchily (19 points)
BLOTCH to mark with large spots
B·3+L·1+O·1+T·1+C·3+H·4+I·1+L·1+Y·4 = 19 pts
bookishly (21 points)
BOOKISH pertaining to books
B·3+O·1+O·1+K·5+I·1+S·1+H·4+L·1+Y·4 = 21 pts
boorishly (17 points)
In a rough bad-mannered way
Rudely, coarsely
B·3+O·1+O·1+R·1+I·1+S·1+H·4+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
brotherly (17 points)
Soup to rely on to a relative extent
Kind of 9 adult leaves ahead of schedule
Not the same middle to a relative extent
B·3+R·1+O·1+T·1+H·4+E·1+R·1+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
bulbously (16 points)
BULBOUS bulb-shaped
B·3+U·1+L·1+B·3+O·1+U·1+S·1+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
buoyantly (17 points)
BUOYANT having buoyancy
B·3+U·1+O·1+Y·4+A·1+N·1+T·1+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
cacophony (21 points)
Loud discordant sounds
Discordant mixture of sounds
Harsh discordant sound
C·3+A·1+C·3+O·1+P·3+H·4+O·1+N·1+Y·4 = 21 pts
callosity (14 points)
""A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.""
C·3+A·1+L·1+L·1+O·1+S·1+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
callously (14 points)
A cosy lull is disturbed in an insensitive way
Unfeelingly
Unfeelingly.
C·3+A·1+L·1+L·1+O·1+U·1+S·1+L·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
cassowary (17 points)
Bird so cautious under the bag up there
Bird that's scary was wild about nothing
So a cry was changed of the running bird
C·3+A·1+S·1+S·1+O·1+W·4+A·1+R·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
chiropody (20 points)
Work that's done sitting on foot
Treatment of ailments of the feet
Treatment by footage
C·3+H·4+I·1+R·1+O·1+P·3+O·1+D·2+Y·4 = 20 pts
chocolaty (19 points)
Like many eclairs
C·3+H·4+O·1+C·3+O·1+L·1+A·1+T·1+Y·4 = 19 pts
chokingly (22 points)
CHOKING choke
C·3+H·4+O·1+K·5+I·1+N·1+G·2+L·1+Y·4 = 22 pts
clonicity (16 points)
CLONIC pertaining to {clonus=n}
C·3+L·1+O·1+N·1+I·1+C·3+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
cloyingly (18 points)
CLOYING cloy
C·3+L·1+O·1+Y·4+I·1+N·1+G·2+L·1+Y·4 = 18 pts
coaxially (21 points)
AXIALLY pertaining to an axial
C·3+O·1+A·1+X·8+I·1+A·1+L·1+L·1+Y·4 = 21 pts
cockamamy (24 points)
Slang Trifling; nearly valueless.
C·3+O·1+C·3+K·5+A·1+M·3+A·1+M·3+Y·4 = 24 pts
cockneyfy (26 points)
To form with the manners or character of a cockney.
C·3+O·1+C·3+K·5+N·1+E·1+Y·4+F·4+Y·4 = 26 pts
coequally (23 points)
With coequality.
C·3+O·1+E·1+Q·10+U·1+A·1+L·1+L·1+Y·4 = 23 pts
coevality (17 points)
COEVAL one of the same era
C·3+O·1+E·1+V·4+A·1+L·1+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
cognately (15 points)
COGNATE one that is related to another
C·3+O·1+G·2+N·1+A·1+T·1+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
coherency (19 points)
A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion.
C·3+O·1+H·4+E·1+R·1+E·1+N·1+C·3+Y·4 = 19 pts
colonelcy (16 points)
Blimp's rank
C·3+O·1+L·1+O·1+N·1+E·1+L·1+C·3+Y·4 = 16 pts
colophony (19 points)
Rosin used for preparing bows used to play musical instruments
C·3+O·1+L·1+O·1+P·3+H·4+O·1+N·1+Y·4 = 19 pts
colorably (16 points)
""COLOR to paint, also COLOUR""
C·3+O·1+L·1+O·1+R·1+A·1+B·3+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
colostomy (16 points)
Pl. colostomies Surgical construction of an artificial excretory opening from the colon.
C·3+O·1+L·1+O·1+S·1+T·1+O·1+M·3+Y·4 = 16 pts
coltishly (17 points)
COLTISH like a colt
C·3+O·1+L·1+T·1+I·1+S·1+H·4+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
comically (18 points)
In a funny manner
C·3+O·1+M·3+I·1+C·3+A·1+L·1+L·1+Y·4 = 18 pts
commodify (22 points)
COMMODE a {cabinet=n}
C·3+O·1+M·3+M·3+O·1+D·2+I·1+F·4+Y·4 = 22 pts
commodity (19 points)
Article for trade
Traded raw material
Article of trade
C·3+O·1+M·3+M·3+O·1+D·2+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 19 pts
community (18 points)
It has 'county' and 'city' inside
Group of people living in a local area
It has a "county" and "city" within
C·3+O·1+M·3+M·3+U·1+N·1+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 18 pts
compactly (20 points)
In a compact manner; with close union of parts; densely; tersely.
C·3+O·1+M·3+P·3+A·1+C·3+T·1+L·1+Y·4 = 20 pts
complexly (25 points)
In a complex manner; not simply.
C·3+O·1+M·3+P·3+L·1+E·1+X·8+L·1+Y·4 = 25 pts
comradely (17 points)
Showing close friendship
Buddy-buddy
Being attractive keeps gunner's daughter matey
C·3+O·1+M·3+R·1+A·1+D·2+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
comradery (17 points)
The spirit of comradeship; comradeship.
C·3+O·1+M·3+R·1+A·1+D·2+E·1+R·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
concavity (19 points)
""A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.""
C·3+O·1+N·1+C·3+A·1+V·4+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 19 pts
concisely (16 points)
Briefly and compactly
Clearly and in few words
In short
C·3+O·1+N·1+C·3+I·1+S·1+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
condignly (16 points)
According to merit.
C·3+O·1+N·1+D·2+I·1+G·2+N·1+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
congruity (15 points)
Point of agreement
Engineer crying out for agreement
Harmony in G.I. country
C·3+O·1+N·1+G·2+R·1+U·1+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
conically (16 points)
How dunce caps are shaped
C·3+O·1+N·1+I·1+C·3+A·1+L·1+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
connately (14 points)
CONNATE {innate=adj}
C·3+O·1+N·1+N·1+A·1+T·1+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
constancy (16 points)
Faithfulness and dependability
Faithfulness to crafty canny Scot
Faithfulness of canny Scot showing off
C·3+O·1+N·1+S·1+T·1+A·1+N·1+C·3+Y·4 = 16 pts
contrasty (14 points)
CONTRAST to place in opposition to display differences
C·3+O·1+N·1+T·1+R·1+A·1+S·1+T·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
contumacy (18 points)
Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority.
C·3+O·1+N·1+T·1+U·1+M·3+A·1+C·3+Y·4 = 18 pts
contumely (16 points)
Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace.
C·3+O·1+N·1+T·1+U·1+M·3+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
convexity (24 points)
Outwardly curved surface
C·3+O·1+N·1+V·4+E·1+X·8+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 24 pts
copiously (16 points)
In a copious manner.
C·3+O·1+P·3+I·1+O·1+U·1+S·1+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
cordately (15 points)
In a cordate form.
C·3+O·1+R·1+D·2+A·1+T·1+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
cordially (15 points)
String one on the same side so warmly
With grace and courtesy
Letter writer's sign-off.
C·3+O·1+R·1+D·2+I·1+A·1+L·1+L·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
corollary (14 points)
Result of observing line on petals
Direct consequence or result
It follows naturally
C·3+O·1+R·1+O·1+L·1+L·1+A·1+R·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
correctly (16 points)
The right way
In a proper manner
In an accurate manner
C·3+O·1+R·1+R·1+E·1+C·3+T·1+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
corruptly (16 points)
In a corrupt manner; by means of corruption or corrupting influences; wronfully.
C·3+O·1+R·1+R·1+U·1+P·3+T·1+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
cosmogony (17 points)
""The creation of the world or universe; a theory or account of such creation; as, the poetical cosmogony of Hesoid; the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaxagoras, and Plato. as, the poetical cosmogony of Hesoid; the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaxagoras, and Plato.""
C·3+O·1+S·1+M·3+O·1+G·2+O·1+N·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
cosmology (17 points)
Study of women's magazines (wordplay)
Oort Cloud watcher's field, perhaps
Science of the universe's origin
C·3+O·1+S·1+M·3+O·1+L·1+O·1+G·2+Y·4 = 17 pts
costively (17 points)
In a costive manner.
C·3+O·1+S·1+T·1+I·1+V·4+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
costumery (16 points)
COSTUMER one that {dresses=v}
C·3+O·1+S·1+T·1+U·1+M·3+E·1+R·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
countably (16 points)
COUNT to {number=v}
C·3+O·1+U·1+N·1+T·1+A·1+B·3+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
covalency (19 points)
""VALENCY a chemical bond, also VALENCE""
C·3+O·1+V·4+A·1+L·1+E·1+N·1+C·3+Y·4 = 19 pts
coxcombry (27 points)
Silly conceit or vanity.
C·3+O·1+X·8+C·3+O·1+M·3+B·3+R·1+Y·4 = 27 pts
crematory (16 points)
Mortuary furnace
C·3+R·1+E·1+M·3+A·1+T·1+O·1+R·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
crookedly (19 points)
Honestly, that's not the way to do it
In a bent or twisted manner
Dishonestly, illegally
C·3+R·1+O·1+O·1+K·5+E·1+D·2+L·1+Y·4 = 19 pts
crotchety (19 points)
Out of sorts to a notable extent
Perhaps having a note of anger
Out of sorts, to a notable extent
C·3+R·1+O·1+T·1+C·3+H·4+E·1+T·1+Y·4 = 19 pts
crowberry (19 points)
""A heathlike plant of the genus Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; also called crakeberry. Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; also called crakeberry.""
C·3+R·1+O·1+W·4+B·3+E·1+R·1+R·1+Y·4 = 19 pts
cryoscopy (21 points)
CRYOSCOPE an instrument for measuring freezing and melting points.
C·3+R·1+Y·4+O·1+S·1+C·3+O·1+P·3+Y·4 = 21 pts
cuckoldry (21 points)
The state of being a cuckold; the practice of making cuckolds.
C·3+U·1+C·3+K·5+O·1+L·1+D·2+R·1+Y·4 = 21 pts
curiosity (14 points)
It killed the cat, in a saying
Something unusual (that killed the cat?)
What killed the cat, in a saying
C·3+U·1+R·1+I·1+O·1+S·1+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
curiously (14 points)
Inquisitive types behave so strangely
Not straight about signs of debt, oddly
Oddly, peculiarly
C·3+U·1+R·1+I·1+O·1+U·1+S·1+L·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
cursorily (14 points)
In a running or hasty manner; carelessly.
C·3+U·1+R·1+S·1+O·1+R·1+I·1+L·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
customary (16 points)
According to usual practice
See us to the girl in the usual way
Commonly used or practiced
C·3+U·1+S·1+T·1+O·1+M·3+A·1+R·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
damnatory (15 points)
Dooming to damnation; condemnatory.
D·2+A·1+M·3+N·1+A·1+T·1+O·1+R·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
decretory (15 points)
Established by a decree; definitive; settled.
D·2+E·1+C·3+R·1+E·1+T·1+O·1+R·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
deformity (18 points)
Corruption of god's taking shape
Lack of proper shape
Imperfection or defect of the body
D·2+E·1+F·4+O·1+R·1+M·3+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 18 pts
democracy (19 points)
Rule of the people
Form of government.
McCoy read novel, The Common People
D·2+E·1+M·3+O·1+C·3+R·1+A·1+C·3+Y·4 = 19 pts
desultory (13 points)
Half-hearted duels over a Conservative
With neither plan nor purpose
Lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm
D·2+E·1+S·1+U·1+L·1+T·1+O·1+R·1+Y·4 = 13 pts
deviatory (16 points)
""Tending to deviate; devious; as, deviatory motion. as, deviatory motion.""
D·2+E·1+V·4+I·1+A·1+T·1+O·1+R·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
deviously (16 points)
Behind someone's back
D·2+E·1+V·4+I·1+O·1+U·1+S·1+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
devotedly (17 points)
Love Teddy Askew with commitment
D·2+E·1+V·4+O·1+T·1+E·1+D·2+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
diachrony (18 points)
""Time the study and description of the change or development in the structural systems of a language over a stated period of time. Also called historical linguistics . Cf. synchronic linguistics . ; diachronic , adj . Linguistics""
D·2+I·1+A·1+C·3+H·4+R·1+O·1+N·1+Y·4 = 18 pts
dichogamy (21 points)
""The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves.""
D·2+I·1+C·3+H·4+O·1+G·2+A·1+M·3+Y·4 = 21 pts
dichotomy (20 points)
Division into two parts or kinds
Division into two parts
Dual nature
D·2+I·1+C·3+H·4+O·1+T·1+O·1+M·3+Y·4 = 20 pts
diplomacy (19 points)
First word of an Isaac Goldberg quote
Mad policy ruined tact
Game featuring war negotiation
D·2+I·1+P·3+L·1+O·1+M·3+A·1+C·3+Y·4 = 19 pts
directory (15 points)
Book with numbers of numbers.
No longer 192 in Britain
Book listing phone numbers
D·2+I·1+R·1+E·1+C·3+T·1+O·1+R·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
discovery (18 points)
Thing found (or the finding)
Henry Hudson ship
"Eureka" record? Nothing much
D·2+I·1+S·1+C·3+O·1+V·4+E·1+R·1+Y·4 = 18 pts
disembody (18 points)
Free spirits (wordplay)
Some biddy (anagram)
Divest of reality.
D·2+I·1+S·1+E·1+M·3+B·3+O·1+D·2+Y·4 = 18 pts
dobsonfly (18 points)
DOBSON an aquatic insect lava
D·2+O·1+B·3+S·1+O·1+N·1+F·4+L·1+Y·4 = 18 pts
doggishly (18 points)
How Robbie Savage plays for Rovers (wordplay)
D·2+O·1+G·2+G·2+I·1+S·1+H·4+L·1+Y·4 = 18 pts
dolefully (16 points)
DOLEFUL {mournful=adj}
D·2+O·1+L·1+E·1+F·4+U·1+L·1+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
dollishly (16 points)
DOLLISH {pretty=adj}
D·2+O·1+L·1+L·1+I·1+S·1+H·4+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
doltishly (16 points)
In a stupid way
D·2+O·1+L·1+T·1+I·1+S·1+H·4+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
donnishly (16 points)
DONNISH scholarly
D·2+O·1+N·1+N·1+I·1+S·1+H·4+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
doohickey (22 points)
Thingamajig (#8 on the list)
What-do-you-call-it
What-you-may-call-it.
D·2+O·1+O·1+H·4+I·1+C·3+K·5+E·1+Y·4 = 22 pts
doomfully (18 points)
DOOMFUL {ominous=adj}
D·2+O·1+O·1+M·3+F·4+U·1+L·1+L·1+Y·4 = 18 pts
dormitory (15 points)
Dirty room (anagram)
Dirty room (wordplay)
Apt anagram of 'dirty room' (wordplay)
D·2+O·1+R·1+M·3+I·1+T·1+O·1+R·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
dosimetry (15 points)
""Measurement of doses; specif., a system of therapeutics which uses but few remedies, mostly alkaloids, and gives them in doses fixed by certain rules.""
D·2+O·1+S·1+I·1+M·3+E·1+T·1+R·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
doughtily (17 points)
In a doughty manner.
D·2+O·1+U·1+G·2+H·4+T·1+I·1+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
dragonfly (17 points)
Puff's pants part (wordplay)
Insect trail on sole inhibits foot
Bore just netting female insect
D·2+R·1+A·1+G·2+O·1+N·1+F·4+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
dromedary (16 points)
Caravansary visitor (wordplay)
Featured creature (four letters)
Lawrence's mount
D·2+R·1+O·1+M·3+E·1+D·2+A·1+R·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
droningly (14 points)
DRONING drone
D·2+R·1+O·1+N·1+I·1+N·1+G·2+L·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
dubiously (15 points)
With skepticism
Call promise to pay cunning, in suspicious manner
D·2+U·1+B·3+I·1+O·1+U·1+S·1+L·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
dystrophy (21 points)
Disorder involving wasting of muscle tissue etc.
D·2+Y·4+S·1+T·1+R·1+O·1+P·3+H·4+Y·4 = 21 pts
emotively (17 points)
EMOTIVE pertaining to {emotion=n}
E·1+M·3+O·1+T·1+I·1+V·4+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
emotivity (17 points)
Emotiveness.
E·1+M·3+O·1+T·1+I·1+V·4+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
emulously (14 points)
In an emulous manner.
E·1+M·3+U·1+L·1+O·1+U·1+S·1+L·1+Y·4 = 14 pts
endoscopy (17 points)
Keyhole surgical procedure
'Keyhole' surgical procedure
Clinical insight
E·1+N·1+D·2+O·1+S·1+C·3+O·1+P·3+Y·4 = 17 pts
enjoyably (24 points)
ENJOY to take pleasure in
E·1+N·1+J·8+O·1+Y·4+A·1+B·3+L·1+Y·4 = 24 pts
enviously (15 points)
Way to watch someone win the lottery (wordplay)
Way to watch someone hit the jackpot (wordplay)
E·1+N·1+V·4+I·1+O·1+U·1+S·1+L·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
epochally (19 points)
Influentially
E·1+P·3+O·1+C·3+H·4+A·1+L·1+L·1+Y·4 = 19 pts
erosivity (15 points)
EROSIVE causing erosion
E·1+R·1+O·1+S·1+I·1+V·4+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
ethnology (16 points)
Race course (wordplay)
Study of race origins
Study of different races and cultures
E·1+T·1+H·4+N·1+O·1+L·1+O·1+G·2+Y·4 = 16 pts
etymology (18 points)
System of roots (wordplay)
A word's origins
Derivation of a word
E·1+T·1+Y·4+M·3+O·1+L·1+O·1+G·2+Y·4 = 18 pts
everybody (21 points)
Is that all what God created (wordplay)
All - Earwicker, for example
One and all
E·1+V·4+E·1+R·1+Y·4+B·3+O·1+D·2+Y·4 = 21 pts
excretory (21 points)
""Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter.""
E·1+X·8+C·3+R·1+E·1+T·1+O·1+R·1+Y·4 = 21 pts
executory (21 points)
""Pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive.""
E·1+X·8+E·1+C·3+U·1+T·1+O·1+R·1+Y·4 = 21 pts
expiatory (21 points)
Having the power to atone
Making atonement
Making amends for former smug article on rightist
E·1+X·8+P·3+I·1+A·1+T·1+O·1+R·1+Y·4 = 21 pts
expletory (21 points)
""Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous; as, an expletory word. as, an expletory word.""
E·1+X·8+P·3+L·1+E·1+T·1+O·1+R·1+Y·4 = 21 pts
fatuously (15 points)
""FATUOUS foolish, inane""
F·4+A·1+T·1+U·1+O·1+U·1+S·1+L·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
favorably (20 points)
With approval
F·4+A·1+V·4+O·1+R·1+A·1+B·3+L·1+Y·4 = 20 pts
fetoscopy (19 points)
FETOSCOPE
F·4+E·1+T·1+O·1+S·1+C·3+O·1+P·3+Y·4 = 19 pts
feudatory (16 points)
A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief.
F·4+E·1+U·1+D·2+A·1+T·1+O·1+R·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
floridity (16 points)
Ornate quality in music.
Fry it with oil and delete rococo quality
Redness evident in Florida city lacking air-conditioning
F·4+L·1+O·1+R·1+I·1+D·2+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
floristry (15 points)
Art of cultivating, arranging or selling flowers
F·4+L·1+O·1+R·1+I·1+S·1+T·1+R·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
flowerily (18 points)
FLOWER to blossom or flourish
F·4+L·1+O·1+W·4+E·1+R·1+I·1+L·1+Y·4 = 18 pts
flowingly (19 points)
In a flowing manner.
F·4+L·1+O·1+W·4+I·1+N·1+G·2+L·1+Y·4 = 19 pts
foolhardy (19 points)
Confuse author Thomas?
Confuse author Thomas (wordplay)
Trick Oliver (wordplay)
F·4+O·1+O·1+L·1+H·4+A·1+R·1+D·2+Y·4 = 19 pts
foolishly (18 points)
In a foolish manner.
F·4+O·1+O·1+L·1+I·1+S·1+H·4+L·1+Y·4 = 18 pts
foppishly (22 points)
FOPPISH characteristic of a dandy
F·4+O·1+P·3+P·3+I·1+S·1+H·4+L·1+Y·4 = 22 pts
forlornly (15 points)
In a sad way
F·4+O·1+R·1+L·1+O·1+R·1+N·1+L·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
formality (17 points)
Figure touring country observed ceremony
Social rigidity
Representing country, attempt to ignore right protocol
F·4+O·1+R·1+M·3+A·1+L·1+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
formicary (19 points)
Ant-hill
F·4+O·1+R·1+M·3+I·1+C·3+A·1+R·1+Y·4 = 19 pts
formulary (17 points)
Stated; prescribed; ritual.
F·4+O·1+R·1+M·3+U·1+L·1+A·1+R·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
forwardly (19 points)
Eagerly; hastily; obtrusively.
F·4+O·1+R·1+W·4+A·1+R·1+D·2+L·1+Y·4 = 19 pts
frivolity (18 points)
""The condition or quality of being frivolous; also, acts or habits of trifling; unbecoming levity of disposition.""
F·4+R·1+I·1+V·4+O·1+L·1+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 18 pts
frontally (15 points)
Straight on
No backing for what's so little fishy about on high
F·4+R·1+O·1+N·1+T·1+A·1+L·1+L·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
frowardly (19 points)
FROWARD disobedient
F·4+R·1+O·1+W·4+A·1+R·1+D·2+L·1+Y·4 = 19 pts
fulsomely (17 points)
In an unctuous, insincere manner
F·4+U·1+L·1+S·1+O·1+M·3+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
furiously (15 points)
Battle in an angry way (wordplay)
Like a house afire
With intensity
F·4+U·1+R·1+I·1+O·1+U·1+S·1+L·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
gemmology (18 points)
Gems ()
G·2+E·1+M·3+M·3+O·1+L·1+O·1+G·2+Y·4 = 18 pts
genealogy (14 points)
Study of trees (wordplay)
Autry's lineage (wordplay)
Family-tree study
G·2+E·1+N·1+E·1+A·1+L·1+O·1+G·2+Y·4 = 14 pts
geobotany (15 points)
See phytogeography .
G·2+E·1+O·1+B·3+O·1+T·1+A·1+N·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
geography (19 points)
Scientific study of earth's surface
Place settings, collectively
You know where you are with this subject
G·2+E·1+O·1+G·2+R·1+A·1+P·3+H·4+Y·4 = 19 pts
gibbosity (17 points)
""GIBBOSE irregularly rounded, also GIBBOUS""
G·2+I·1+B·3+B·3+O·1+S·1+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
glowingly (17 points)
With ardor
Criminal lying low after midnight, with warmth
G·2+L·1+O·1+W·4+I·1+N·1+G·2+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
gossamery (15 points)
Light as a butterfly wing.
G·2+O·1+S·1+S·1+A·1+M·3+E·1+R·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
grouchily (18 points)
GROUCH to {complain=v}
G·2+R·1+O·1+U·1+C·3+H·4+I·1+L·1+Y·4 = 18 pts
growingly (17 points)
GROWING cultivation
G·2+R·1+O·1+W·4+I·1+N·1+G·2+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
gustatory (13 points)
Pertaining to taste
Taste-related
More than half promoted Suggs, thanks to short track that's a matter of taste
G·2+U·1+S·1+T·1+A·1+T·1+O·1+R·1+Y·4 = 13 pts
hagiology (17 points)
'Old wives' tales? N, more saintly (9)'
Saintly crone study, by the sound of it
Saint book not by Charteris
H·4+A·1+G·2+I·1+O·1+L·1+O·1+G·2+Y·4 = 17 pts
haplology (18 points)
Wooster for Worcester.
H·4+A·1+P·3+L·1+O·1+L·1+O·1+G·2+Y·4 = 18 pts
heinously (15 points)
In a wicked and odious manner
Outrageously wickedly
Boatman saved from abuse in holy order, shockingly
H·4+E·1+I·1+N·1+O·1+U·1+S·1+L·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
herbivory (20 points)
HERBIVORE One of the Herbivora.
H·4+E·1+R·1+B·3+I·1+V·4+O·1+R·1+Y·4 = 20 pts
hideosity (16 points)
Abstract noun (-ity)
H·4+I·1+D·2+E·1+O·1+S·1+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
hideously (16 points)
House idly refurbished in a frightful way
Nearly retreat, knowing how ugly sisters behave (wordplay)
Horribly
H·4+I·1+D·2+E·1+O·1+U·1+S·1+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
histology (16 points)
Branch of biology, studies the structure of tissue
Microscopic study of plant and animal tissues
Branch of biology that studies the microscopic structure of tissue
H·4+I·1+S·1+T·1+O·1+L·1+O·1+G·2+Y·4 = 16 pts
hoggishly (20 points)
""HOGGISH coarsely selfish, also HOGLIKE""
H·4+O·1+G·2+G·2+I·1+S·1+H·4+L·1+Y·4 = 20 pts
homophony (22 points)
Sameness of sound.
H·4+O·1+M·3+O·1+P·3+H·4+O·1+N·1+Y·4 = 22 pts
homoplasy (19 points)
See Homogeny. Homogeny.
H·4+O·1+M·3+O·1+P·3+L·1+A·1+S·1+Y·4 = 19 pts
homospory (19 points)
HOMOS homo
H·4+O·1+M·3+O·1+S·1+P·3+O·1+R·1+Y·4 = 19 pts

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