Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A word puzzle, such as an anagram or one in which clues are given in a set of verses.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A riddle; specifically, a riddle formed by the arbitrary or confused mingling of parts or elements, which have to be recombined in proper order for the answer.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A sort of riddle in which it is required to discover a chosen word from various combinations of its letters, or of some of its letters, which form other words; -- thus, to discover the chosen word
chatter formcat ,hat ,rat ,hate ,rate , etc.
Etymologies
- logo- + Greek grīphos, fishing basket, riddle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“With a little effort, I might, like any one else, be able to give you an interpretation of this logogriph, which might appear to have something in it.”
“I might, like any one else, be able to give you an interpretation of this logogriph, which might appear to have something in it.”
“[FN#134] A fair specimen of the Arab logogriph derived from the”
“134 A fair specimen of the Arab logogriph derived from the Abjad Alphabet which contains only the Hebrew and Syriac letters not the six Arabic.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘logogriph’.
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phrontistery - l
from phrontistery.info
labarum, labefactation, labeorphily, labidometer, labile, lability, labiomancy, labret, labrose, labtebricole, lac, laccolith and 496 more...
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filter
strain rain, porous apour, per-meate, extravasate, glomerulus, percolate, per-collate, bitumastic, passband, Proxomitron, reredos, sporgery and 27 more...
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Word Gems
foist, coercion, abecedism, abiectic, abigeus, abiogenesis, ablaut, thunderstruck, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, filagree, blotto and 196 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Ada, or Ardor ~Vladmir Nabokov
granoblastically, cicerone, aerocable, anachronistically, parvis, athwart, mnemonic, squitteroo, nusshaus, edelweiss, intermezzo, cabriole and 183 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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Selected Beloved Words
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logodaedaly, logogriph, enantiodromia, liminal, contrariety, disambiguation, animadversion, cacotopia, tergiversate
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