Removing Common Letters From 2-Word Phrases

A list of words that are made when you take a two word phrase and remove all the letters they have in common

We Authors Present By Pen

The title is an amalgam, an anagram of the names of the joint authors who propose the term as a reasonable neologism for all such constructions of this type. Whilst it is not intended to restrict the term to anagrams of pairs of folk, nevertheless we considered that such a subject had much potential: we argued long into the telephonic night as to which pairings we might submit for your delight or critical comment

Word Equations

Word equations are formed so that the first letter is the value of the following letters when added or subtracted

Terminal Words

A terminal word is derived from, in order, the first and last letters of the first word and the first and last letters of the second word of a two word phrase

Geometeric Letters

STRAIGHT LINE LETTERS ONLY (AEFHIKLMNTVWXYZ) Longest word made from straight line letters: possibly METHYLHEXANEAMINE (Dorland\u27s Medical Dictionary). (ZENZIZENZIZENZIc and sym-METHYLETHYLETHYLENE have straight line strings of 15, 19 letters.) Longest straight line letter heterogram: several, including WILKHAVEN and WYKHAMITE, have 9 letter

Numerical Palindromes: The Next Generation

Several types of numerical palindromes have appeared in Word Ways (Susan Thorpe, Numerical Palindromes: Part 1 in Nov 1996 and Rex Gooch, Numerical Palindromes: Part 2 in Feb 1997). However, I believe the current exercise is the first to make two or more numerically-palindromic \u27offspring\u27 from the letters of a numerically-palindromic \u27parent\u27. In other words, numerical palindromes beget numerical palindromes

Splitting Words

Splitting single words into two words which, together, make sense

Numerically Palindromic Words

A listing of words whose letters create palindromes when written out in numbers based on their order in the alphabet

Noah\u27s Consonants

The title refers to he of the Ark as distinct from he of the dictionary. Noah\u27s Ark is a honeymoon haven for words because Noah only admits those words in which each consonant has a partner. In practice he\u27s even more picky, refusing entry to any such words with less than 3 different consonants (6 consonants in total). He also turns away hyphenated examples, phrases, coinages, palindromes, tautonyms and pair isograms. Here, we attempt to discover some of those words which have made it past Noah into the Ark

Pinpointing Letters

A selection of phrases, each of which pinpoints a specific letter of the alphabet A-Z. This is accomplished by using a word which targets the required letter