#9003, aired 2023-12-27 | 12-LETTER SCIENCE WORDS $400: In physics it's the rate of change of velocity with respect to time, not necessarily an increase in speed acceleration |
#9003, aired 2023-12-27 | 12-LETTER SCIENCE WORDS $800: This layer of the Earth's atmosphere lies between the troposphere & the mesosphere the stratosphere |
#9003, aired 2023-12-27 | 12-LETTER SCIENCE WORDS $1200: Sugars & starches are this type of organic compound with a name meaning "watered carbon" a carbohydrate |
#9003, aired 2023-12-27 | 12-LETTER SCIENCE WORDS $2000: From Latin for "heap" & "rain cloud", this mushroom-shaped cloud brings the thunder cumulonimbus |
#9003, aired 2023-12-27 | 12-LETTER SCIENCE WORDS $10,400 (Daily Double): Studies have shown that some shrews use this process, emitting high-pitched squeaks as a guide in the dark echolocation |
#8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: An 1899 Saturday Evening Post article bemoaned the "lost art of" this, with everyone reading instead of talking to each other conversation |
#8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Clean & jerk athlete a weightlifter |
#8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: Medical professional who studies & treats poisonings toxicologist |
#8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: This photographic effect reverses tones & introduces sunny highlights to images solarization |
#8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): An unlucky incident; in British law, it's a verdict of accidental death not due to crime or negligence misadventure |
#12, aired 2023-05-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: It's totally tubular & produces patterns like those seen here kaleidoscope |
#12, aired 2023-05-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: A real humdinger of a word, in 1991 it became a music festival, now held annually in Chicago Lollapalooza |
#12, aired 2023-05-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: It's now pretty much lights out for this once-standard type of light bulb, as its filament is less efficient incandescent |
#12, aired 2023-05-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the formal term for a mapmaker cartographer |
#12, aired 2023-05-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: From Latin & Greek for "flow", it's the medical specialty for conditions of the joints & connective tissues like arthritis rheumatology |
#8686, aired 2022-07-18 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $400: This branch of the U.S. government makes the laws legislative |
#8686, aired 2022-07-18 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Keep your eye on the birdie, also known by this longer name the shuttlecock |
#8686, aired 2022-07-18 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: Another word for the draft, it's mandatory enrollment in the military conscription |
#8686, aired 2022-07-18 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: This word meaning "nonsense" begins with the name of a son of Odin balderdash |
#8686, aired 2022-07-18 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: This term for a tightrope walker comes from Latin for "rope" & "walk" a funambulist |
#8672, aired 2022-06-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Place to get a knish or a bagel (the whole word, please) delicatessen |
#8672, aired 2022-06-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: Hen night is Brit speak for this party for a bride prior to her wedding bachelorette |
#8672, aired 2022-06-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: Here's a puppy of this hybrid type--what a cutie Goldendoodle |
#8672, aired 2022-06-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: It was a scornful term for a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from Reconstruction carpetbagger |
#8672, aired 2022-06-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's not an operation on a tiny area, it's one using a magnifying instrument microsurgery |
#8503, aired 2021-11-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $400: This game whose origins go back to ancient times is played on a board with 24 narrow triangles or points backgammon |
#8503, aired 2021-11-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Knock knock--who's there? It's this noisy type of ghost a poltergeist |
#8503, aired 2021-11-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: Many health plans now cover this 12-letter practice of consulting with your doctor via your cell phone or computer telemedicine |
#8503, aired 2021-11-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: Some describe this old timey soft drink as tasting like licorice; others, like root beer sarsaparilla |
#8503, aired 2021-11-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: This adjective can describe something intricate or involved, like a certain maze from mythology labyrinthine |
#8394, aired 2021-05-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Once with 20,000 people watching from all around, this type of arena in Pompeii is the oldest surviving one in the Roman world an amphitheater |
#8394, aired 2021-05-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: In the 19th c., this lung disease caused by a mycobacterium reached near epidemic proportions in industrialized regions tuberculosis |
#8394, aired 2021-05-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: It's a part of speech that expresses emotion & is capable of standing alone, like wow! Or oh! an interjection |
#8394, aired 2021-05-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: This word for a guy who stays home & takes care of kids & chores dates back to the 19th century, but then it was a fictional idea a househusband |
#8394, aired 2021-05-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1,500 (Daily Double): Reflecting the name of a mythological youth, this adjective means self-absorbed & egotistical narcissistic |
#8367, aired 2021-03-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Where many of us start our schooling, at age 5 or so kindergarten |
#8367, aired 2021-03-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: From the Latin for "full trust", this adjective means intended to be kept secret confidential |
#8367, aired 2021-03-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: Playful & lively, kittens are often described by this 12-letter adjective that begins with the name of another animal rambunctious |
#8367, aired 2021-03-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: The official act of making someone a saint in the Catholic church canonization |
#8367, aired 2021-03-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: Often competitive, it's lifting weights & exercising to display one's physique bodybuilding |
#8104, aired 2019-11-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: A maker of maps & atlases cartographer |
#8104, aired 2019-11-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: The opening of the "Mission: Impossible" TV show advised that the instructional tape would do this "in 5 seconds" self-destruct |
#8104, aired 2019-11-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: The skin of this aquatic mammal is about 2 inches thick & secretes a pinkish fluid that acts as a sunblock a hippopotamus |
#8104, aired 2019-11-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: Value-wise, it begins once you drive your new car off the lot depreciation |
#8104, aired 2019-11-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: From words meaning "life" & "difference" , it's the term for the range of species in a given environment biodiversity |
#7644, aired 2017-11-30 | SOME CHOICE WORDS $800: 12-letter adjective for excellent "treatment" preferential |
#7600, aired 2017-09-29 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $2000: In 1994 it was this 12-letter word meaning before the Biblical flood A-N-T-E-D-I-L-U-V-I-A-N |
#7574, aired 2017-07-13 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: This job is also called dockworker or stevedore, but it contains more letters than either longshoreman |
#7574, aired 2017-07-13 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Jesse Owens & Richard Wright were sons of this kind of rent-paying farmer a sharecropper |
#7574, aired 2017-07-13 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: Celebs open to contact from fans are called "very" this approachable |
#7574, aired 2017-07-13 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: Term for the use of agents like smallpox or Ebola to kill others bioterrorism |
#7574, aired 2017-07-13 | 12-LETTER WORDS $9,801 (Daily Double): The Latin for "cross" gives us this term for extreme pain excruciating |
#7523, aired 2017-05-03 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Closely connected words commencing with same sounds or like letters alliteration |
#7523, aired 2017-05-03 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: This condition affecting millions worldwide is the result of a poor or insufficient diet malnutrition |
#7523, aired 2017-05-03 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: This adjective refers to moving things around, or the devious quality of controlling people manipulative |
#7523, aired 2017-05-03 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: You get an "A" if you know it's the "A" in F=MA acceleration |
#7523, aired 2017-05-03 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: A civilian in wartime, or an army member like a chaplain who doesn't actually fight noncombatant |
#7457, aired 2017-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: On Sept. 12, 2001 Norman Mineta, secretary of this govt. department, announced the deployment of sky marshals Transportation |
#7373, aired 2016-10-05 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Democrats & Republicans fight it out to win in this type of state, like Florida or Ohio a battleground |
#7373, aired 2016-10-05 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: This equine name for a fashionable dresser is also used for a rack to dry laundry a clotheshorse |
#7373, aired 2016-10-05 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the act of bending the knee in worship genuflecting |
#7373, aired 2016-10-05 | 12-LETTER WORDS $6,000 (Daily Double): This type of German spirit double appears in Dostoyevsky's novel "The Double" a doppelganger |
#7326, aired 2016-06-20 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: The act of putting Naugahyde on the divan upholstering |
#7326, aired 2016-06-20 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: It can refer to a not-so-close friend or personal knowledge of a subject acquaintance |
#7326, aired 2016-06-20 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: "Rocky" term for putting up obstacles to delay the release of damaging information stonewalling |
#7326, aired 2016-06-20 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: An aquarium becomes this when it's devoted to a certain specific creature a dolphinarium |
#7326, aired 2016-06-20 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: In 1609 Kepler lent new support to the theory that the planets revolve around the Sun, known by this adjective heliocentric |
#7288, aired 2016-04-27 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: A good cop or a bad cop may be this person who asks you formal questions in an investigation an interrogator |
#7288, aired 2016-04-27 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: A comedian to the end, Rodney Dangerfield has as his epitaph "There goes" this region the neighborhood |
#7288, aired 2016-04-27 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: Compulsory enrollment in the military conscription |
#7288, aired 2016-04-27 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Paul Ehrlich coined this term for treating a disease with specific drugs chemotherapy |
#7288, aired 2016-04-27 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: Dorothy Parker said, "Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply" these exercises "with words" calisthenics |
#7258, aired 2016-03-16 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1200: In 2015 Denis Mikhaylov set a world record by running 80.53 miles in 12 hours on this treadmill |
#7152, aired 2015-10-20 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: So as not to disturb his cat who slept on his left arm, southpaw Albert Schweitzer taught himself to be this ambidextrous |
#7152, aired 2015-10-20 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" says, "Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly, a girl with" these "eyes" kaleidoscope eyes |
#7152, aired 2015-10-20 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: The angel Gabriel's announcement to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive Jesus the annunciation |
#7134, aired 2015-09-24 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: In Scrabble you get at least 12 points for this slang synonym of pimple zit |
#7110, aired 2015-07-10 | 2- OR 12-LETTER WORDS $400: A shtnd. frm. of a wd. used to rep. the wle. abbreviation |
#7110, aired 2015-07-10 | 2- OR 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Cue Julie Andrews: it's the syllable for the sixth tone of the diatonic scale la |
#7110, aired 2015-07-10 | 2- OR 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: In the book "Explorers", it precedes "Gama" da |
#7110, aired 2015-07-10 | 2- OR 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: Verily, it's the archaic British term that's used nominatively as the plural of thou ye |
#7110, aired 2015-07-10 | 2- OR 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: Bats use this process of emitting high-pitched sounds to navigate echolocation |
#6835, aired 2014-05-09 | 12+-LETTER WORDS $400: This "superior" word often precedes "meditation" transcendental |
#6835, aired 2014-05-09 | 12+-LETTER WORDS $800: "Complete cardiac" term meaning fully supportive wholehearted |
#6835, aired 2014-05-09 | 12+-LETTER WORDS $1200: Herbert Hoover popularized "rugged" this doctrine of self-reliance individualism |
#6835, aired 2014-05-09 | 12+-LETTER WORDS $1600: Adjective for any gemstone that's not a diamond, ruby, sapphire or emerald semiprecious |
#6835, aired 2014-05-09 | 12+-LETTER WORDS $2000: Say cheese! It's abnormal susceptibility to stimulation of the skin by ultraviolet light photosensitivity |
#6821, aired 2014-04-21 | 12+-LETTER WORDS $400: The mirrors in this cylindrical children's toy are usually placed at a 45- or 60-degree angle a kaleidoscope |
#6821, aired 2014-04-21 | 12+-LETTER WORDS $800: Description of one who wears eyeglasses bespectacled |
#6821, aired 2014-04-21 | 12+-LETTER WORDS $1200: He's the type of business operator seen here concessionaire |
#6821, aired 2014-04-21 | 12+-LETTER WORDS $1600: This Catholic doctrine says the bread & wine of the Eucharist are changed into the body & blood of Jesus transubstantiation |
#6821, aired 2014-04-21 | 12+-LETTER WORDS $2000: Atmospheric pressure can be adjusted to acclimate a diver to normal pressure in this type of chamber decompression |
#6733, aired 2013-12-18 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: It can be a religious group or the value of a piece of paper money denomination |
#6733, aired 2013-12-18 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: From the Greek for "fire craft", it's the art of making fireworks pyrotechnics |
#6733, aired 2013-12-18 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: For the 2 pieces of equipment used, it's another name for windsurfing sailboarding |
#6733, aired 2013-12-18 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: Type of cloud that's also called a thunderhead a cumulonimbus |
#6733, aired 2013-12-18 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the French name for a movie theater that specializes in classic or avant-garde films cinémathèque |
#6589, aired 2013-04-18 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: Mary, Mary quite contrary had silver bells & these in her garden cockleshells |
#6589, aired 2013-04-18 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Putting someone in peril; in law it follows "reckless" endangerment |
#6589, aired 2013-04-18 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's an expert on antiquities from the land of the pharaohs, like Howard Carter Egyptologist |
#6589, aired 2013-04-18 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: The name of this percussion instrument is also German for "carillon" glockenspiel |
#6589, aired 2013-04-18 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: Negative adjective meaning refusing to take a stand or express one's feelings noncommittal |
#6303, aired 2012-02-01 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: A cop's constant observation of a suspect a surveillance |
#6303, aired 2012-02-01 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Cetaphil is this kind of cream for treating cracked skin moisturizing |
#6303, aired 2012-02-01 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's when family & friends gather to tell an addict about his problem & firmly ask him to get help intervention |
#6303, aired 2012-02-01 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: In the Marines this rating for a rifleman is below expert but above marksman sharpshooter |
#6303, aired 2012-02-01 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: Ditch & hedge-jumping horses compete in this type of race steeplechase |
#5947, aired 2010-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: The person who usually answers the phone at an office a receptionist |
#5947, aired 2010-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: Something needed before you can do something else, like a course you must take before enrolling in a more advanced one a prerequisite |
#5947, aired 2010-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: I'll take a pastrami on rye from one of these shops that sell ready-to-eat foods like meats & salads a delicatessen |
#5947, aired 2010-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800 (Daily Double): An archaeologist who specializes in the land of the pharaohs & its artifacts an Egyptologist |
#5947, aired 2010-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: It's an adjective meaning cancer-causing carcinogenic |
#5726, aired 2009-06-29 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Leavenworth, established in 1895, is a federal one penitentiary |
#5726, aired 2009-06-29 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: Meaning a beginning, it's also a school graduation ceremony commencement |
#5726, aired 2009-06-29 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: It's a doctor who operates on the brain a neurosurgeon |
#5726, aired 2009-06-29 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: In this method of hair removal, a current is applied to each follicle to destroy the root electrolysis |
#5726, aired 2009-06-29 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1,200 (Daily Double): Starting & stopping at intervals, like today's windshield wipers intermittent |
#5602, aired 2009-01-06 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $400: It's anyone who lives in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin--that part of the U.S. a Midwesterner |
#5602, aired 2009-01-06 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Originally a computer term, it now refers to doing any number of jobs at the same time multitasking |
#5602, aired 2009-01-06 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: Almighty or infinite in power, as god is omnipotent |
#5602, aired 2009-01-06 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1,800 (Daily Double): It's the more common term for a dactylogram a fingerprint |
#5602, aired 2009-01-06 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: It means next to last penultimate |
#5480, aired 2008-06-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a pre-wedding ladies-only party where a scantily-clad man may turn up a bachelorette party |
#5480, aired 2008-06-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: It can be a 200th anniversary, or something lasting 200 years a bicentennial |
#5480, aired 2008-06-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: Oui, ma cherie! It's the French equivalent of "miss" mademoiselle |
#5480, aired 2008-06-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: A woman in charge of an all-girls school, or perhaps the top lady in a harem a headmistress |
#5480, aired 2008-06-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $6,000 (Daily Double): Man of War was a famous one a thoroughbred |
#5118, aired 2006-12-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: If you get fired, you may be able to file for this unemployment |
#5118, aired 2006-12-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Artful skill exemplified here glassblowing |
#5118, aired 2006-12-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: Put out a proclamation! It's the act of setting people free emancipation |
#5118, aired 2006-12-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: In the 2000 Summer Olympics, the USA's Megan Quann swam the 100m in this event in 1:07.05 to win gold the breaststroke |
#5118, aired 2006-12-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: Job of the man who oversees the movement of vessels in a port the harbormaster |
#5046, aired 2006-07-17 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Specific term for a person from 60 to 69 years old sexagenarian |
#5046, aired 2006-07-17 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: To prepare a patient to return to normal life rehabilitate |
#5046, aired 2006-07-17 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: This curry-flavored soup takes its name from the Tamil for "pepper water" mulligatawny |
#5046, aired 2006-07-17 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: A part of the mind just under the surface from which feelings or thoughts can influence behavior the subconscious |
#5046, aired 2006-07-17 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: From the German for "bell play", it's the metallic percussion instrument heard here the glockenspiel |
#4873, aired 2005-11-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: A cntrctd. form of a wd. or phrs., frm. the Ltn. for "shrtnd." abbreviation |
#4873, aired 2005-11-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Class of a pro boxer topping out at 160 pounds middleweight |
#4873, aired 2005-11-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: The walls at the U.S. one in Leavenworth are 40 feet high & 40 feet below ground penitentiary |
#4873, aired 2005-11-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: Luggage-based term for a war-profiteering Northerner in the Postbellum South carpetbagger |
#4873, aired 2005-11-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2,800 (Daily Double): Term for the fear or hatred of Gallic culture francophobia |
#4795, aired 2005-06-10 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Travel to Springfield, Mass. & you can make a fast break for the Naismith Hall of Fame for this sport basketball |
#4795, aired 2005-06-10 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the term for a person who abstains from liquor; it sounds like he drinks only Earl Grey a teetotaler |
#4795, aired 2005-06-10 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Chicago's Adler Astronomy Museum.) Built in 1913, the Atwood Sphere is an early one of these, which created a night sky using points of light instead of a projector a planetarium |
#4795, aired 2005-06-10 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $800: At opposite ends, just outside the visible spectrum are infrared waves & these waves ultraviolet waves |
#4795, aired 2005-06-10 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: Next to the last; it's from Latin words meaning "almost last" penultimate |
#4730, aired 2005-03-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: Biblical term for one of Jesus' original 12 followers apostle |
#4598, aired 2004-09-08 | BIG WORDS $400: A person who fought against slavery, like John Brown, was termed this 12-letter word abolitionist |
#4539, aired 2004-05-06 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $400: This wormlike creature is a butterfly or moth in the larval stage a caterpillar |
#4539, aired 2004-05-06 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $800: This small, heavy object, often made of glass, is designed to keep stuff from blowing off your desk a paperweight |
#4539, aired 2004-05-06 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: Doctors can look at blood cells under this magnifying instrument a microscope |
#4539, aired 2004-05-06 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: Ross Powers won the men's superpipe at the 2003 U.S. Open in this sport snowboarding |
#4539, aired 2004-05-06 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): It's a list of the sources you used when writing a research paper a bibliography |
#4428, aired 2003-12-03 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: Someone you know only slightly is a "nodding" one acquaintance |
#4428, aired 2003-12-03 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Term for simultaneously talking on the phone, working on your computer, cleaning your gun, etc multitasking |
#4428, aired 2003-12-03 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): This word meaning "vast or enormous" contains a prefix meaning "star" astronomical |
#4428, aired 2003-12-03 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's the term for the absorption of a minority group into the surrounding culture assimilation |
#4428, aired 2003-12-03 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Alaska.) Some scientists think we're in this 12-letter type of period between ice ages, & even fear global warming interglacial |
#4204, aired 2002-12-05 | 12-LETTER WORDS $5 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "to correct", it's an adjective for someone who can't be corrected or reformed incorrigible |
#4204, aired 2002-12-05 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: A religious grouping, or the monetary value of a bill denomination |
#4204, aired 2002-12-05 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: (Dr. Joyce Brothers gives the clue) This 12-letter word, also called shacking up, isn't the same as marriage -- marriage can lead to more intimacy cohabitation |
#4204, aired 2002-12-05 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: Someone whose task is to reeducate a former cult member deprogrammer |
#4204, aired 2002-12-05 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's your condition if you have great admiration for Paris, Flaubert, Beaujolais, etc. Francophilia |
#4194, aired 2002-11-21 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: World Book, for example encyclopedia |
#4194, aired 2002-11-21 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: This physician specializes in the care of children, from infancy to adolescence pediatrician |
#4194, aired 2002-11-21 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: General term for an animal without a backbone invertebrate |
#4194, aired 2002-11-21 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the 12-letter adjective for Edison's practical electric bulb, successfully tested at Menlo Park Oct. 21, 1879 incandescent |
#4194, aired 2002-11-21 | 12-LETTER WORDS $3,600 (Daily Double): It can mean one's physical health or a 1787 document constitution |
#4013, aired 2002-01-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Oui, ma cherie! It's the French equivalent of "miss" mademoiselle |
#4013, aired 2002-01-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the medical term for high blood pressure hypertension |
#4013, aired 2002-01-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: A woman in charge of an all-girls school, or perhaps the top lady in a harem headmistress |
#4013, aired 2002-01-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the hormone that makes a man a man testosterone |
#4013, aired 2002-01-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's a spray or solution, such as Lysol, that kills mold, mildew & other household germs disinfectant |
#3951, aired 2001-11-05 | 12-LETTER WORDS $100: The Wise Men brought to Jesus gifts of gold, myrrh & this frankincense |
#3951, aired 2001-11-05 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Man O' War was a famous one thoroughbred |
#3951, aired 2001-11-05 | 12-LETTER WORDS $300: It can be a 200th anniversary, or something lasting 200 years bicentennial |
#3951, aired 2001-11-05 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: Person to whom you would sing, "Mapmaker, mapmaker, make me a map" cartographer |
#3951, aired 2001-11-05 | 12-LETTER WORDS $500: (Sofia of the Clue Crew is at Sea World.) To feed, beluga whales use this system where their sounds are reflected back to gauge distances echolocation |
#3836, aired 2001-04-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: It's the type of party you throw to show off your new home Housewarming |
#3836, aired 2001-04-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: Pastrami, corned beef, lox & bagels are common fare at this type of restaurant Delicatessen |
#3836, aired 2001-04-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: Margaret Mead & Ruth Fulton Benedict's field Anthropology |
#3836, aired 2001-04-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: From the Greek for "stopping of the pulse", it's another term for suffocation Asphyxiation |
#3836, aired 2001-04-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Extortion, bribery & bootlegging are all forms of this crime Racketeering |
#3674, aired 2000-07-20 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: For 5 & 7 it's 12 sum |
#3553, aired 2000-02-02 | 12-LETTER WORDS $100: They grow with the silver bells in Mary Mary's garden Cockleshells |
#3553, aired 2000-02-02 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: It's the sometimes high-"Pei-ing" art of designing & erecting buildings Architecture |
#3553, aired 2000-02-02 | 12-LETTER WORDS $300: A penetration of the enemy's wall, or a great scientific advance Breakthrough |
#3553, aired 2000-02-02 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: A pygmy one of these animals can weigh up to 600 pounds Hippopotamus |
#3553, aired 2000-02-02 | 12-LETTER WORDS $500: You may hear a jam session at 726 St. Peter St. in this New Orleans hall Preservation Hall |
#3465, aired 1999-10-01 | 4-LETTER WORDS $100: Dr. Spock wrote, you don't have to teach a child to do this at 12-15 months; "you won't be able to stop him" walk |
#3330, aired 1999-02-12 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: It's a break period between play acts when you can stretch your legs Intermission |
#3330, aired 1999-02-12 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: Books consulted by an author in preparing his own book often appear on this list at the back of the book Bibliography |
#3330, aired 1999-02-12 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: It's the use of essences & fragrances to alter mood & soothe the body Aromatherapy |
#3330, aired 1999-02-12 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Popular term for a company employee who works at home & transmits his data & documents by modem Telecommuter |
#3330, aired 1999-02-12 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: I must profess, it was the profession of Thomas Chippendale & Duncan Phyfe Cabinetmaker |
#3201, aired 1998-06-29 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: This state led the U.S. in the production of iron & steel for more than a century Pennsylvania |
#3201, aired 1998-06-29 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: An individual between the ages of 60 & 70...not one who studies human reproduction Sexagenarian |
#3201, aired 1998-06-29 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: 12-letter word for a person who makes the type of item seen here:
(map) cartographer |
#3201, aired 1998-06-29 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: Meadowlark Lemon was one for 24 years; Phileas Fogg for only 80 days Globetrotter |
#3201, aired 1998-06-29 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1,200 (Daily Double): It's the only 12-letter word in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution Constitution |
#3146, aired 1998-04-13 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Brittannica or World Book, for example Encyclopedia |
#3146, aired 1998-04-13 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a doctor whose specialty is operating on the brain & spinal cord Neurosurgeon |
#3146, aired 1998-04-13 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: How Jim Lange used to refer to a female contestant on TV's "The Dating Game" Bachelorette |
#3146, aired 1998-04-13 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: From the Latin for "to walk", it's another term for a baby buggy, especially in Britain Perambulator |
#3146, aired 1998-04-13 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): In boxing, it's the weight class between lightweight & middleweight Welterweight |
#2882, aired 1997-02-25 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Popular for cookies & ice cream toppings, this flavor is a blend of butter & brown sugar Butterscotch |
#2882, aired 1997-02-25 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: A native or Norway, Sweden or Denmark Scandinavian |
#2882, aired 1997-02-25 | 12-LETTER WORDS $500 (Daily Double): In "The Magic Flute" this instrument provides the sounds of Papageno's magic bells Glockenspiel |
#2882, aired 1997-02-25 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: A baby doctor Pediatrician |
#2882, aired 1997-02-25 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's the branch of science that studies the luminosity, temperature & chemical makeup of the universe Astrophysics |
#2731, aired 1996-06-17 | 12-LETTER WORDS $100: During the Depression in 1932, it exceeded 20% unemployment |
#2731, aired 1996-06-17 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: A magazine, or a French miss Mademoiselle |
#2731, aired 1996-06-17 | 12-LETTER WORDS $300: It's the formal church procedure that declares a person a saint canonization |
#2731, aired 1996-06-17 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the type of dentist who specializes in treating diseases of the gum & tissues periodontist |
#2731, aired 1996-06-17 | 12-LETTER WORDS $500: A public street open at both ends, or any major boulevard thoroughfare |
#2597, aired 1995-12-12 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Easter celebrates this event, Jesus rising from the dead the resurrection |
#2597, aired 1995-12-12 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: A medical condition resulting from an insufficient or poorly balanced diet malnutrition |
#2597, aired 1995-12-12 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: This store sells ready-to-eat foods such as cooked meats, salads, relishes & canned foods a delicatessen |
#2597, aired 1995-12-12 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: The ancient Romans used this type of open building with tiered seating for gladiatorial contests an amphitheater |
#2597, aired 1995-12-12 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1,500 (Daily Double): This breed of racehorse was developed in England by crossing English mares with Arabian stallions Thoroughbred |
#2485, aired 1995-05-26 | 12-LETTER WORDS $100: It's the customary break between acts of a play the intermission |
#2485, aired 1995-05-26 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Over 80% of 5-year-olds in the U.S. attend this type of school or program a kindergarten |
#2485, aired 1995-05-26 | 12-LETTER WORDS $300: It's the process that sours milk & turns grape juice into wine fermentation |
#2485, aired 1995-05-26 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: Often used for outdoor concerts, it's a round building with a central arena & rising tiers of seats an amphitheater |
#2485, aired 1995-05-26 | 12-LETTER WORDS $500: It's the study of man, including his physical & cultural aspects anthropology |
#2474, aired 1995-05-11 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: This substance is commonly used in making dyes & for preserving biological specimens formaldehyde |
#2474, aired 1995-05-11 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: Term for one who opposed slavery in the U.S. abolitionist |
#2474, aired 1995-05-11 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: From the Greek for "love of man", it's the helping of mankind through charitable gifts & humanitarianism philanthropy |
#2474, aired 1995-05-11 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: It describes the appearance of someone who's wearing eyeglasses bespectacled |
#2474, aired 1995-05-11 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2,200 (Daily Double): It's the branch of science that studies fossils paleontology |
#2279, aired 1994-06-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $100: Shutterbug is slang for this, especially an amateur one a photographer |
#2279, aired 1994-06-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: It's another term for a state or federal prison a penitentiary |
#2279, aired 1994-06-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $300: It's a store or restaurant that specializes in cold cuts, smoked fish, cheeses & the like a delicatessen |
#2279, aired 1994-06-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: It's defined as the official care & preservation of natural resources conservation |
#2279, aired 1994-06-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $500: In grammar it's an exclamatory word or phrase such as oh! or ouch! an interjection |
#1907, aired 1992-12-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: The metal mouthpiece on a bridle, or 12 1/2 cents a bit |
#1774, aired 1992-04-23 | 12-LETTER WORDS $100: This fragrant gum resin was one of the Magi's gifts to Jesus frankincense |
#1774, aired 1992-04-23 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: This percussion instrument with a German name is sometimes referred to as orchestra bells a glockenspiel |
#1774, aired 1992-04-23 | 12-LETTER WORDS $300: This Spanish word was used to describe explorers such as Cortez who claimed land for Spain the conquistadors |
#1774, aired 1992-04-23 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: A confederation of states, like the one that replaced the USSR a commonwealth |
#1774, aired 1992-04-23 | 12-LETTER WORDS $500: It's anyone specifically between the ages of eighty & ninety an octogenarian |
#1647, aired 1991-10-29 | 12-LETTER WORDS $100: In 1991 Vermont marked this, its 200th anniversary of statehood bicentennial |
#1647, aired 1991-10-29 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Optical toy consisting of a tube with bits of colored glass reflected by mirrors a kaleidoscope |
#1647, aired 1991-10-29 | 12-LETTER WORDS $300: It can describe a sophisticated, worldly woman, or the magazine she reads cosmopolitan |
#1647, aired 1991-10-29 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the proper medical term for high blood pressure hypertension |
#1647, aired 1991-10-29 | 12-LETTER WORDS $500: It's a person who makes his living collecting & analyzing numerical data a statistician |
#1198, aired 1989-11-15 | 12-LETTER WORDS $100: From the Greek for "fire" & "craft", it's a fancy word for a fireworks display pyrotechnics |
#1198, aired 1989-11-15 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Stereophonic times 2 quadraphonic |
#1198, aired 1989-11-15 | 12-LETTER WORDS $300: In other words this exclamation can be "violin bows!" fiddlesticks! |
#1198, aired 1989-11-15 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: Kids could tell the post office the dinosaur called this on a stamp is actually an Apatosaurus Brontosaurus |
#1198, aired 1989-11-15 | 12-LETTER WORDS $500: Literary term for words like hiss, fizz, kerflop, kerplunk & kerflooey onomatopoeia (or onomatopoeic) |
#1169, aired 1989-10-05 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Occupation of James Herriott, who wrote "All Creatures Great & Small" a veterinarian |
#1169, aired 1989-10-05 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: The only gift of the biblical Magi that fits the category frankincense |
#1169, aired 1989-10-05 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: This lyre-shaped instrument played with hammers is most often seen in marching bands glockenspiel |
#1169, aired 1989-10-05 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Sir Kenneth Clark wrote & narrated this BBC series, shown on PBS in 1970 Civilization |
#1169, aired 1989-10-05 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Word for anything very old, but especially anything that existed before the Great Flood antediluvian |
#692, aired 1987-09-15 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Sweat perspiration |
#692, aired 1987-09-15 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: From Latin for "a writing in front", it's a doctor's instructions for the druggist a prescription |
#692, aired 1987-09-15 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: Mr. Murphy, this is Mr. Dorfman; Mr. Dorfman, Mr. Murphy an introduction |
#692, aired 1987-09-15 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Put into effect January 1, 1863, its name consisted of 2 12-letter words the Emancipation Proclamation |
#692, aired 1987-09-15 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: Slang for bureaucratic jargon, which is actually the opposite of "talkin' turkey" gobbledygook |
#481, aired 1986-10-13 | 12-LETTER WORDS $100: The "I" in "IQ" intelligence |
#481, aired 1986-10-13 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: While men work up a sweat, women merely glisten with this perspiration |
#481, aired 1986-10-13 | 12-LETTER WORDS $300: Residents of Michigan are called this Michiganders |
#481, aired 1986-10-13 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: For a stripper, running the risk of catching a cold is a hazard of this kind occupational |
#481, aired 1986-10-13 | 12-LETTER WORDS $500: Sleepwalking Somnambulism |
#329, aired 1985-12-12 | 12-LETTER WORDS $100: The Americana or the World Book, for example encyclopedia |
#329, aired 1985-12-12 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Medically speaking, it's what the "P" in "GP" stands for practitioner |
#329, aired 1985-12-12 | 12-LETTER WORDS $300: What the U.S. celebrated for the 1st time July 4, 1976 bicentennial |
#329, aired 1985-12-12 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: Colorless preservative that evokes memories of dissections in 7th grade biology class formaldehyde |
#329, aired 1985-12-12 | 12-LETTER WORDS $500: At exam time, students wish their memory was this kind, able to recall things in precise detail photographic |
#280, aired 1985-10-04 | 12-LETTER WORDS $100: You can get a knish at a Jewish one, or mozzarella at an Italian one a delicatessen |
#280, aired 1985-10-04 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: From Latin for "repentance", San Quentin for example a penitentiary |
#280, aired 1985-10-04 | 12-LETTER WORDS $300: Before 1934, the date for this was March 4; after 1934, January 20 inauguration |
#280, aired 1985-10-04 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400 (Daily Double): The univ. choral group whose theme song is the following:
"Yes, the magic of their singing /
Of the songs we love so well /
'Shall I Wasting' and 'Mavourneen' and the rest..." the Whiffenpoofs |
#280, aired 1985-10-04 | 12-LETTER WORDS $500: From the Latin for "bend the knees", not the cry of a ski instructor, but the act of showing reverence genuflection |
#172, aired 1985-05-07 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: In Batman's Gotham City, this was the title of the police force's James Gordon Commissioner |
#172, aired 1985-05-07 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the picture that accompanies the prose illustration |
#172, aired 1985-05-07 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: It's the art of making or displaying fireworks pyrotechnics |
#172, aired 1985-05-07 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Style of swimming that got its 1st medal in the '84 Olympics synchronized |
#172, aired 1985-05-07 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Another name for stevedore a longshoreman |
#153, aired 1985-04-10 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: The World Book, for example encyclopedia |
#153, aired 1985-04-10 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: 36-22-36 measurements |
#153, aired 1985-04-10 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: Bevy of beauties who shake their pom-poms for the Cowboys or Rams for example cheerleaders |
#153, aired 1985-04-10 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Unlawful killing of another person without implied malice manslaughter |
#153, aired 1985-04-10 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: Big word which means each of these words has but one part monosyllabic |
#139, aired 1985-03-21 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Christians celebrate this event in Christ's life on Easter Sunday the resurrection |
#139, aired 1985-03-21 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: Only state with 12 letters in its one-word name, it supplies all hard coal produced in U.S. Pennsylvania |
#139, aired 1985-03-21 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: From Latin meaning "upper abdomen", it's depression centering on imaginary ailments a hypochondriac (hypochondria) |
#139, aired 1985-03-21 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: The formation of words to imitate natural sounds such as a bee's buzz onomatopoeia |
#139, aired 1985-03-21 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: A thing easily understood has perspicuity; a person who easily understands has this perspicacity |