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  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    million: someone at the bottom of the hierarchy in a cotton factory

    electorate
  • electorate One method of execution

    instinctual

  • Ray SunshineRay Sunshine Shipmate
    edited May 2020
    instinctual: detecting somebody's presence, relying on your olfactory sense alone.

    olfactory
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    olfactory: a place for making ols

    pentecostal
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Circus Host, 8th Day Host
    Pentecostal of a five-sided island

    knitting
  • Raptor EyeRaptor Eye Shipmate
    knitting: Combing lice out of hair

    carbonated
  • carbonated: in the pre-computer period, typed with a stated number of copies, e.g. bicarbonated, with two copies.

    strumpet
  • balaambalaam Shipmate
    edited May 2020
    strumpet: A brass instrument that curves backwards and forwards rather than coiled.
    (I avoided the obvious one using the 2nd to 6th letters. This is not Hell).

    palace
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    palace: where your rich friend lives

    mattress
  • Raptor EyeRaptor Eye Shipmate
    mattress: a lock of my hair, getting longer by the day

    smiling
  • merewenmerewen Shipmate Posts: 29
    smiling: tis the heather belonging to me

    Serendipity
  • balaambalaam Shipmate
    Serendipity: I feel sorry for the knight at the back.

    immunity
  • PendragonPendragon Shipmate
    immunity being stuck in a herd of cows

    parsley
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    parsley (v): to not quite kill

    In a similar vein,

    tarragon
  • parsley (from Latin pars, a part): describes something you took apart but were unable to put together again.

    coriander
  • Raptor EyeRaptor Eye Shipmate
    coriander: A combination 'soap' set in a northern hospital

    tarragon
  • balaambalaam Shipmate
    tarragon: Ancient way of making a musket waterproof.

    bergamot
  • Raptor EyeRaptor Eye Shipmate
    bergamot: fast food, in a word

    border
  • MamacitaMamacita Shipmate
    border: lacking even more interest

    basil
  • basil: salty (rhyming slang)

    peerage
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    peerage: a numerical measure of how difficult something is to see

    wistful
  • balaambalaam Shipmate
    wistful: Having had enough card games for one day.

    wiffle
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    wiffle: a slight pong

    inoculation
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    inoculation: going cross-eyed

    synchronise
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    Synchronise: Wickedness in time to music.

    Coriander:
  • MamacitaMamacita Shipmate
    coriander: person who installs granite counter tops

    hyacinth
  • Ray SunshineRay Sunshine Shipmate
    edited May 2020
    Hyacinth: the taller of two ladies bearing the same baptismal name.

    Hydrangea
  • AuthorDivaAuthorDiva Shipmate
    Hydrangea: The measure of how far a garden hose can "throw" its water.

    Buttercup
  • balaambalaam Shipmate
    Buttercup: An exclamation before the explanation of why a bra does not fit.

    Chrysanthemum
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    chrysanthemum: Christopher and his mother

    azalea
  • MiffyMiffy Shipmate
    azelia a drunken sailor
    Serenity
  • MamacitaMamacita Shipmate
    serenity: a knight dressed in a collarless pullover

    tourism
  • Raptor EyeRaptor Eye Shipmate
    tourism: an addiction to climbing hills

    culinary
  • culinary: a neologism combining the British and American terms for a gathering of people standing in an organised manner while waiting at a bus stop, for instance.

    plutocrat
  • MamacitaMamacita Shipmate
    plutocrat: Someone who was at one time part of an elite group of nine, but then the standards were changed and they are no more.

    efficacious
  • Raptor EyeRaptor Eye Shipmate
    efficacious: dotted with swear words

    carousel
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    Carousel: A prearranged event where friends are going to meet up to get noisily and uproariously drunk together.

    Hieroglyphic:

  • MiffyMiffy Shipmate
    Hieroglyphic Appearance of your average Zoom meeting participant

    Contestant
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    Contestant: A person who passes an examination or wins a competition by using some form of dishonesty.

    And a word I'd never seen or heard of before until a shipmate used it in a post earlier today. As far as I know, it's unknown here. I had to look it up in an electronic dictionary.

    Tchotchke:

  • balaambalaam Shipmate
    First thought was an early Soviet leader with a speech impediment, but no.

    Tchotchke: A competitor in the biathlon.

    novena
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    Novena: A fizzy drink made of a mixture of sugar and the juice of nine different fruits.

    Droshky:

  • MamacitaMamacita Shipmate
    droshky: the noise you make when you sneeze

    balaclava
  • Raptor EyeRaptor Eye Shipmate
    balaclava: a small lake formed after a volcanic eruption

    household
  • MamacitaMamacita Shipmate
    household: an expression commonly heard during the current pandemic, as in "I've been household for six %#*ing weeks!"

    particle
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    particle: something that makes your father laugh

    hypocaust
  • Raptor EyeRaptor Eye Shipmate
    hypocaust: the price of an injection

    surroundings
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    Surroundings: A vast tumult of bells, as experienced if you're actually in a belfry.

    Plasma:

  • Raptor EyeRaptor Eye Shipmate
    plasma: a mother doll

    chronic
  • balaambalaam Shipmate
    chronic: Witch like.

    jackal
  • Wesley JWesley J Shipmate
    jackal: your car needs a tyre change on every wheel

    jacket
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