CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker , and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh . An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com .
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This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 11
• 8-letter words: 3
• 9-letter words: 1
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• awaiter • caritas • crappie • lazaret • marital
• naivete • picrite • saltier • saltire • slatier • veritas
8-letter words:
• antirape
• laterize • parietal
9-letter words:
• parietals
This puzzle grid asks, "Is there life on marshmallows?" The grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 27
• 8-letter words: 7
• 9-letter words: 1
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
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7-letter words:
• aileron • ammines • fainest • famines • filters • holster • inshore • insoles • limners • mailers • milters • miterer • neolith • rerisen
• reshoes • reshone • reshows • resoles • retinol • samites • samlets • senhors • senores • snorers • stereos • tensors • theines
8-letter words:
• ailerons • filterer • miterers • retinols
• roseries • sawhorse • senhores
9-letter words:
• filterers
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 10
• 8-letter words: 1
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
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7-letter words:
• acetose • caplets • chapeau • chaplet • nestler
• oestrin • replete • replots • soleret • zebrine
8-letter words:
• chaplets
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 12
• 8-letter words: 5
• 9-letter words: 1
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• absolve • bulgers • dawdler • dawdles • drawers • glovers
• oversad • oversaw • rewards • sandbar • solvers • veranda
8-letter words:
• absolved • absolver • absolves
• dawdlers • madrases
9-letter words:
• absolvers
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 7
• 8-letter words: 2
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• coverup • despoil • environ • lineups
• loriner • reposed • roosted
8-letter words:
• cohosted
• coverups
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 20
• 8-letter words: 4
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• attrite • diatron • dilator • hairnet • latrias • nourish • nutrias • outlaid • outrate • pyurias
• sadiron • talaria • tartish • tequila • textual • titrate • titular • tritone • tuladis • uralite
8-letter words:
• dilatate • nontidal
• notarial • tequilas
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them? One of the 7-letter words refers to someone who jumps from an airplane.
• 7-letter words: 10
• 8-letter words: 5
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
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7-letter words:
• alibies • chutist • cubital • cutises • fistula
• habitue • halibut • intuits • laciest • titbits
8-letter words:
• asbestic • fistulae • fustiest
• habitues • halibuts
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 12
• 8-letter words: 1
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
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7-letter words:
• dialers • kidders • ladders • reddles • reedmen • resedas
• sailers • seedmen • sidlers • wedders • welders • zaddick
8-letter words:
• redialed
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 9
• 8-letter words: 7
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
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7-letter words:
• acidity • aridest • aridity • bridles • raciest
• sidecar • stuffed • upbraid • varices
8-letter words:
• gappiest • grapiest • puffiest • rapidest
• rapidity • upbraids • vapidity
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 17
• 8-letter words: 2
• 9-letter words: 2
• 10-letter words: 1
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• coagent • cognise • congoes • contend • content • dieting • dingoes • dinting • dotting
• fitting • integer • jetting • jingoes • setting • sitting • teasing • tinting
8-letter words:
• agenting
• knitting
9-letter words:
• incognito
• recognise
10-letter words:
• reknitting
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 14
• 8-letter words: 4
• 10-letter words: 1
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• acetone • annulet • calends • candent • cannels • ctenoid • islands
• lactone • lentoid • neoteny • slanted • sunland • unacted • unlaced
8-letter words:
• accented • cantoned
• lanceted • sunlands
10-letter words:
• unaccented
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 12
• 8-letter words: 4
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• aneared • denarii • earlier • handier • hardier • lardier
• leadier • learier • lurdane • pareira • randier • tearier
8-letter words:
• handheld • handrail
• nearlier • rehandle
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 6
• 8-letter words: 1
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• capelet • capered • flatted
• lapeled • reglued • tapered
8-letter words:
• repeated
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 15
• 8-letter words: 3
• 9-letter words: 1
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• deplore • elopers • feeders • floored • footler • foretop • hoopers • loopers
• pleurae • proofed • spoofed • spoored • torpedo • trooped • trooper
8-letter words:
• deplores • foretops
• troopers
9-letter words:
• torpedoes
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 8
• 8-letter words: 4
• 9-letter words: 2
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused. One of the 9-letter words refers to a society of amateur musicians.
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7-letter words:
• belling • celling • collier • gillnet
• glummer • mulling • polling • yelling
8-letter words:
• hoppling • meringue
• rumplier • rumpling
9-letter words:
• collegium
• pollinium
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 10
• 8-letter words: 4
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused. One of the 7-letter words is rather invigorating.
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7-letter words:
• borings • bracing • facings • fascine • gracing
• ligroin • origins • racings • scaring • thorias
8-letter words:
• bracings • ligroine
• ligroins • migraine
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 30
• 8-letter words: 7
• 9-letter words: 2
• 10-letter words: 1
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused. The 10-letter word is a compound word meaning very silent.
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7-letter words:
• artisan • bharals • briquet • carpets • catlins • chaster • chateau • cithara • citrals • citrate • glister • hartals • hastate • instate • nitrate
• pertain • phrasal • piquets • piratic • quartan • quartet • quartic • ratlins • realist • retains • saluter • tephras • tertian • tuatera • waister
8-letter words:
• briquets • castrate • citharas • pertains
• phreatic • quatrain • tuateras
9-letter words:
• quatrains
• realistic
10-letter words:
• ultraquiet
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 23
• 8-letter words: 1
• 9-letter words: 2
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused. The 8-letter word refers to ornamental shoulder pieces.
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7-letter words:
• aegises • clauses • cupulae • cupular • cupules • epaulet • espials • garnish • grilses • largish • ligases • lupuses
• palsies • parises • praises • priapus • publish • railbus • sapless • spiraea • spirals • subsale • subsets
8-letter words:
• epaulets
9-letter words:
• priapuses
• railbuses
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 6
• 8-letter words: 4
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused. One of the 7-letter words is a type of kettledrum.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• delimit • eellike • hillier
• implied • millier • timpani
8-letter words:
• helpable • impeller
• impledge • taillike
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