Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Games A set of words arranged in a square such that they read the same horizontally and vertically. Also called acrostic.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See square, 15.
Wiktionary
- n. A type of acrostic, consisting of a set of words written out in a square grid, such that the same words can be read both horizontally and vertically.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a series of words so arranged that they can be read vertically and horizontally with like results.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across
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word phrases
to have a look how word is used
and the plurala word, a word or two, a couple of words, word-artist, word base, word-based, word-bate, word battle, word-bearer, word-beat, word-blind, word blindness and 299 more...
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ecbrenner's list
flatline, luddism, apocalipstick, muttsucker, leviathan of fore..., flint, coryphaeus, donnybrook, bandwidth, bagpipe the mizen, cheesed off, asterism and 525 more...
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FTL
Words listed first by me that don't belong in any other list.
licit, precis, mnemosyne, badinage, mariposa, lepidoptera, coruscation, poignant, meme, oxymoron, xenophobia, asterism and 128 more...
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Words. Just words.
Our chief weapons are words, that's all. Just words. Only words, not justly words, that is.
That is to say that there are only words in this list, not words that are just, although s...profligacy, monty, the arc of history, luddite, peremptory, brusque, languid, callipygian, perniciously, insidiousness, camelot, perforce and 189 more...
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From Language on Vacation< by Dimitri Borgmann Nov 8, 2008