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: 14
• 8-letter words: 2
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused. One of the 7-letter words has to do with the itch mite.
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7-letter words:
• aeriest • berates • bestead • caseose • dearies • debased • derates
• hocused • quieted • quieter • quietus • redates • scabies • seriate
8-letter words:
• reechoed
• reechoes
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 15
• 8-letter words: 2
• 9-letter words: 2
One 9-letter word is a fancy name for a magician, or someone who acts as an agent of the supernatural.
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
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7-letter words:
• bruises • febrile • ferules • grilses • mislies • pleases • puerile • queries
• querist • rebuilt • release • replies • repulse • ruliest • silesia
8-letter words:
• releases
• repulses
9-letter words:
• theurgies
• theurgist
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 7
• 8-letter words: 3
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused. One of the 8-letter words refers to bright patches of color.
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7-letter words:
• asphalt • atlases • chesses • chouses
• hocuses • plashes • sheuchs
8-letter words:
• gashouse • hocusses
• splashes
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 9
• 8-letter words: 2
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused. One of the 7-letter words refers to cheerful symbols best viewed sideways.
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7-letter words:
• besmile • iceless • invokes • lissome • micelle
• ossicle • pocosin • selenic • smileys
8-letter words:
• besmiles
• micelles
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 12
• 8-letter words: 2
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
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7-letter words:
• breeder • coelome • dextran • entered • extreme • gleeted
• glomera • logions • metered • reoiled • sneered • snooled
8-letter words:
• dextrans
• extremer
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 11
• 8-letter words: 8
• 9-letter words: 1
The 10-letter word involves turning a horse.
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
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7-letter words:
• battled • caracol • cleanup • delight • elation • rattled
• tacnode • tactile • taction • unoiled • upscale
8-letter words:
• aeration • caracole • cleanups • delation
• tractile • traction • uncoiled • upscaled
9-letter words:
• caracoled
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 21
• 8-letter words: 1
• 10-letter words: 1
Hint: the 10-letter word is a real headache!
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
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7-letter words:
• admires • arising • cassino • gearing • ingrain • ingress • massier • massing • merging • noisier • noising
• quassia • quassin • raising • raisiny • reusing • searing • semiraw • serging • sieging • wairing
8-letter words:
• smearing
10-letter words:
• migrainous
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 25
• 8-letter words: 3
• 9-letter words: 1
The 9-letter word is an act of causing a bruise.
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
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7-letter words:
• abasing • abusing • backing • basking • bousing • boutons • bucking • busking • casking • causing • conking • jacking • jacobus
• nocking • ouabain • packing • pausing • quaking • sacking • snacked • sucking • toucans • tousing • tucking • tusking
8-letter words:
• encasing • focusing
• ouabains
9-letter words:
• contusing
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 32
• 8-letter words: 7
• 9-letter words: 1
• 10-letter words: 1
The 10-letter word describes the twisting of a snake.
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
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7-letter words:
• anteing • beepers • beguine • dentine • denting • dreeing • entires • entries • firebug • peeries • peering • perigee • prebend • preeing • preteen • pretend
• ranting • rebegin • rentier • renting • retiree • retires • retries • serpent • springe • sprites • suberin • subteen • subtend • suiters • teenier • treeing
8-letter words:
• entering • petering • preteens • sneering
• speering • springes • subteens
9-letter words:
• repenting
10-letter words:
• serpentine
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 14
• 8-letter words: 1
• 9-letter words: 1
The 9-letter word refers to composing 14-line poems.
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
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7-letter words:
• antigun • denting • fatting • infante • infants • jettons • ligated
• notated • redtail • renting • stander • stanged • stating • tzigane
8-letter words:
• notating
9-letter words:
• sonneting
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 8
• 8-letter words: 3
• 9-letter words: 1
The 9-letter word refers to shelled pine nuts.
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
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7-letter words:
• airlike • dislike • liaison • pignoli
• pikakes • wakikis • warison • warlike
8-letter words:
• dislikes • pignolia
• pignolis
9-letter words:
• pignolias
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 10
• 8-letter words: 2
One of the 8-letter words describes an embarrassed smile.
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
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7-letter words:
• aerosat • fishers • fishery • pushers • pushups
• rushees • sparers • spearer • stroyer • suffuse
8-letter words:
• sheepish
• spearers
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 22
• 8-letter words: 3
• 9-letter words: 3
One of the 9-letter words refers to atrociously wicked conduct.
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
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7-letter words:
• adorner • aneroid • baronet • bleater • darnels • enabler • idolism • isobare • isolead • jawlike • kilobar
• learner • mislead • neuroid • readorn • retaken • retaker • retread • soleret • tenable • unreels • wakener
8-letter words:
• diablery • mislearn
• solenoid
9-letter words:
• arytenoid • diabolism
• tenurable
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 12
• 8-letter words: 4
One of the 8-letter words refers to giveaways. Another refers to simple stories that teach moral lessons.
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
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7-letter words:
• aquaria • arables • bailees • earflap • filaree • filaria
• freebie • freesia • friable • garbles • mixable • parable
8-letter words:
• filarees • filariae
• freebies • parables
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 4
• 8-letter words: 1
One 7-letter word refers to pastoral creatures.
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
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7-letter words:
• hurleys • marrowy
• sylvans • taxemes
8-letter words:
• securely
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 7
• 8-letter words: 2
One 7-letter word refers to having eaten sumptuously, and another refers to one's figure after such banqueting.
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
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7-letter words:
• betides • deafish • edifies • fattish
• feasted • pettish • riptide
8-letter words:
• riptides
• sidestep
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 11
• 8-letter words: 4
One 8-letter word refers to angry scolding.
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
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7-letter words:
• antiars • bearing • beating • contour • equator • gaiting
• ignatia • ignitor • routing • searing • seating
8-letter words:
• aconitic • berating
• contagia • equating
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 14
• 8-letter words: 5
One 8-letter word means a brief, evocative description.
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
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7-letter words:
• albinal • cetanes • coalbin • congeal • congees • elegise • engines
• epigeal • epigean • epigene • lateens • octanes • pongees • tensive
8-letter words:
• coalbins • miseaten • tangence
• tetanise • vignette
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 15
• 8-letter words: 3
• 9-letter words: 1
The 9-letter word refers to an unbelievably small unit of measure.
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
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7-letter words:
• central • claimer • clarify • gremial • margent • metrify • micrify • raiment
• rectify • retrial • saltern • sarment • scarcer • scarify • trigram
8-letter words:
• gentrify • misalter
• tribasic
9-letter words:
• microgram
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 10
• 8-letter words: 2
One 7-letter word is a night-blooming flower. Another is a threadlike appendage. Still another refers to a gang of outlaws.
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
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7-letter words:
• bandits • haplite • haploid • impaste • jasmine
• mistake • mistend • nombril • pastina • tendril
8-letter words:
• antimask
• mistaken
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