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

Word Equations

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

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

Life\u27s Secret Files

In each of the groups of 3 words below, the first and second words make a 2-word phrase; the second and third words also make a 2-word phrase. Easy you might say and you would be right, if it wasn\u27t for the fact that a third constraint requires that the first and third words be related. They may both be transposals, synonyms, antonyms, homophones, heterophones, different tenses of the same verb, palindromes, reversals, mutual shifts, rhyming words, AEIOU words, and so on

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

What\u27s In a Phrase?

We all use phrases without a second thought or glance. Many of these word liaisons, however, are host to a world of hidden words and hidden letter patterns. Some of these are now about to be exposed. The phrases under scrutiny here are mostly, but not exclusively, 2-word affairs