6 letter word...

[Zealot]

When I first saw this problem, it stated there were two answers. The ones given as answers were "strengths" and "screeched."

[makemeok]

that brings another to mind - stretched. i'd say that's more everyday than screeched.

[RandomGuy0]

Abstemious, Arsenious, and Facetious are all right... Two left

[Sami]

Is "abstentious" a word?

[RandomGuy0]

I'm not sure. It's not one of the 5 I know of, but then, I thought there was only 1 9-letter 1-syllable word, and that's obviously off...

[Quailman]

So we're posting language chestnuts? Here's one.

What's the shortest five-syllable word in the English language?

[Quailman]

ABSTENTIOUS: Tending to abstain.

[Sami]

1. How many words (in English) contain each letter exactly twice? (I can think of only one.)

2. Name two English words that sound the same but mean the opposite.

[kartelite]

scraunched has 10 letters...oceania has 7 letters, 5 syllables, but i'm not sure if it's a common noun also.

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[Quailman]

1. Do you mean all 26 letters twice, or do you mean for example, NOON, BOOB, TOOT, NENE?

[Quailman]

Hint: It's shorter than 7 letters.

[kartelite]

there are lots of english words that sound the same but mean the opposite.

fast--quick moving, unmoving
strike--to hit, to miss in baseball
custom--specially made, usual

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[RandomGuy0]

Or maybe he means actually different words, i.e. homophones...

Like raze-to tear down, and raise-to build up?

oh, and Sami, I guess that means Abstentious is a word. Scratch that five...

[This message has been edited by RandomGuy0 (edited 04-26-2002 12:51 PM).]

[Sami]

Raise and raze were what I had in mind for #2.

For #1, Quailman, I didn't mean all 26 letters twice, but I was thinking of longer words than 4 letters (the one I though of has 10).

[Sofis]

Quail, am I correct in guessing that the word you are looking for has three letters?

[Quailman]

Yes, it has 3 letters, but five syllables.

[Werebear]

This is a chestnut alert - but I feel safe posting on the same topic as the old "-dous" words. (*grin*) A priest was found making a list of the people he confessed - what is special about this list? (besides the fact he forgot me?)

Dennis, Nell, Edna, Leon, Nedra, Anita, Rolf, Nora, Alice, Carol, Leo, Jane, Reed, Dena, Dale, Basil, Rae, Penny, Lana, Dave, Denny, Lena, Ida, Bernadette, Ben, Ray, Lila, Nina, Jo, Ira, Mara, Sara, Mario, Jan, Ina, Lily, Arne, Bette, Dan, Reba, Diane, Lynn, Ed, Eva, Dana, Lynne, Pearl, Isabel, Ada, Ned, Dee, Rena, Joel, Lora, Cecila, Aron, Flora, Tina, Arden, Noel, and Ellen sinned.

Werebear

[Orbiting]

Nice one Werebear! it's a really really long palindrome

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[kartelite]

p-a-l-i-n-d-r-o-m-e

[Snail]

Sami, is your word concisions?

[mathgrant]

tsetse, testes, and beriberi are examples.

[Sami]

No Snail, that's not my word. My 10-letter word has 5 different letters that appear twice each, once in the first 5 letters and once in the last 5.

[One Skunk Todd]

Do the letters appear in order as in Mathgrant's examples?

[Vivienne]

Here are some more: appearer, appeases, arraigning, bilabial, chowchow, cicadellidae, couscous, froufrou, Gradgrindian, greegree, guitguit, happenchance, horseshoer, hotshots, intestines, Jipijapa, mahimahi, mesosome, mimetite, notionists, Papatoetoe, rapparee, reappear, Riverville, shanghaiings, signings, Succasunna, teammate, tessellata, Transnistria, Tukitukipapa, unsufficiences, vetitive.

[Sami]

Vivienne got it - it was intestines .