| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BOSH $800: We hear a lot about these 2 14-letter words that differ by a letter; one is inadvertent untruths & the other, deliberate ones disinformation & misinformation |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: This verb means to travel completely around the globe circumnavigate |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: From words meaning "heart" & "vessel", this adjective means relating to the heart & blood vessels cardiovascular |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: By definition this type of speech is given without preparation extemporaneous |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: Martin Luther & John Calvin both believed in this religious doctrine that life & salvation are already decided by God ahead of time predestination |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: I found a thousand bucks in this word that often follows "self" to mean the act of making oneself seem important aggrandizement |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $200: In arithmetic this operation yields a product multiplication |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a comment made that puts things mildly compared to what actually transpired an understatement |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $600: In the 1950s, the RF-101 was the first supersonic aircraft built for this observation purpose reconnaissance |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: Rich tech people buying up Oakland homes causes this issue, a focus of the 2018 movie "Blindspotting" gentrification |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1000: In states with no-fault divorce, one partner just has to state a reason things can't work out, such as these "differences" irreconcilable |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: General term for a person who trains others to obey firm rules & a strict code of behavior disciplinarian |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: Something that eludes classification is said to "resist easy" this, a process of identification categorization |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: A person in their 70s a septuagenarian |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | HIGH-SCORING 4-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $1600: An act of deception (14 points) a hoax |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: The action of changing a lowercase letter into an uppercase one capitalization |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: Buildings & roads are part of this, the set of features needed for running a city infrastructure |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: Someone in this profession of the man seen here, from the Greek for "ancient", often works with an archaeologist a paleontologist |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: If you have this condition, you see distant objects more clearly than near ones farsightedness |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: Adjective for a space probe designed to travel between earth & Jupiter, for example interplanetary |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 13- TO 17-LETTER WORDS $1200: 14 letters:
This sauce, gluten free & made by Lea & Perrins since 1835 Worcestershire sauce |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: Today a secretary is often rightly called this 14-letter type of "assistant" administrative |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: To kill the pathogenic microorganisms in milk using this process, it's necessary to heat it to at least 145°F pasteurization |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: Can I tell you something this way, just between ourselves? confidentially |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: Like layers of rock, it's the hierarchical division of society according to rank, caste or class stratification |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: John Calvin wrote of this belief, "Eternal life is foreordained for some, eternal damnation for others" predestination |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: It's observing a potential military opponent to assess his position & strengths reconnaissance |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: You can win an Oscar for this specialty, the art & science of filming a motion picture cinematography |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: You'll follow anyone's lead because you're young & this adjective meaning easily influenced impressionable |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: This restoration to health is the specialty of the V.A.'s polytrauma centers rehabilitation |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): The Great Depression gave rise to this, the study of income & output on a national scale macroeconomics |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: Adjective meaning concerning the heart & blood vessels, collectively cardiovascular |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: The period of a film's creation after all the footage is shot & it's being readied for release postproduction |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a large increase in a species' numbers leading to a depletion of available resources overpopulation |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: Similar to hallucinations, it's a phantastic sequence of haphazard imagery as seen in dreams or fever phantasmagoria |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: A quality of only judging something by the way it looks & not by what it's made of superficiality |
| #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 |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: Someone in his or her seventies a septuagenarian |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: Adjective for a speech given with no preparation or forethought extemporaneous |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: The name of these breeches was inspired by Washington Irving's 1809 work "A History of New York" knickerbockers |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: Mais oui, it was the philosophy of the man who turned down the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature existentialism |
| #6790, aired 2014-03-07 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: If you put off till tomorrow what you can do today, you're this type of person a procrastinator |
| #6790, aired 2014-03-07 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: Popular in the 1970s & '80s, they were largely replaced by DVDs videocassettes |
| #6790, aired 2014-03-07 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: Profession of Nobel Prize winner Saul Perlmutter, who discovered that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate astrophysicist |
| #6790, aired 2014-03-07 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: Pinkeye is a form of this eye inflammation conjunctivitis |
| #6790, aired 2014-03-07 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: Brainwashing is a type of this, the process of teaching an ideology & making sure it sticks indoctrination |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: To breathe abnormally fast & deep, as from anxiety hyperventilate |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: Not much to be done about these "differences", often the basis for a divorce irreconcilable |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's the belief that all conduct should be directed toward achieving the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people utilitarianism |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: An eye doctor uses this hand-held device to peer into the eye & examine its structures, especially the retina ophthalmoscope |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: Adjective for the most typical example or the essence of something in its purest form quintessential |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: Elevators are a common trigger for this fear claustrophobia |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the type of surveillance used to take the photo seen here of Cuba reconnaissance |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: Adverb used before "speaking" when you're talking about a possible future situation hypothetically |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: Statements you know to be false, put out in order to influence others' behavior disinformation |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | 14-LETTER WORDS $4,000 (Daily Double): Here's Faust, with this fellow in red, who's one heck of a bargainer Mephistopheles |
| #6344, aired 2012-03-29 | 14-, 15- & 16-LETTER WORDS $400: A disobedient soldier can be busted for this insubordination |
| #6344, aired 2012-03-29 | 14-, 15- & 16-LETTER WORDS $800: Mr. Vonnegut knew it's another term for abattoir slaughterhouse |
| #6344, aired 2012-03-29 | 14-, 15- & 16-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's the "EV" in EVA, an outer space jaunt extravehicular |
| #6344, aired 2012-03-29 | 14-, 15- & 16-LETTER WORDS $1600: This word for a prediction also starts with P & ends with T-I-O-N prognostication |
| #6344, aired 2012-03-29 | 14-, 15- & 16-LETTER WORDS $2000: Poe knows this word for the ringing or sound of bells starts with a bit of double talk tintinnabulation |
| #5333, aired 2007-11-14 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: Not given the sufficient food to maintain or promote health or normal growth undernourished |
| #5333, aired 2007-11-14 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: If I mess up, it'll be fixed in this process that includes editing & sound mixing postproduction |
| #5333, aired 2007-11-14 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: Mary E. Peters fights congestion, among other things, as the 15th secretary of this cabinet dept. the Department of Transportation |
| #5333, aired 2007-11-14 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: I'm thinking of an adverb that defines how I'm now communicating it between our minds this way... telepathically |
| #5333, aired 2007-11-14 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: Pertaining to a period of 500 years quincentennial |
| #5001, aired 2006-05-15 | A CATEGORY OF CATEGORIES $600: 14-LETTER WORDS:
Secondary or incidental, it often precedes "evidence" in law circumstantial |
| #3757, aired 2000-12-26 | 14-LETTER WORDS $100: The American colonists complained to England about "taxation without" this representation |
| #3757, aired 2000-12-26 | 14-LETTER WORDS $200: It's how the letters in the sequence "E, F, G, H, I, J" are arranged alphabetically |
| #3757, aired 2000-12-26 | 14-LETTER WORDS $300: Math process symbolized by an "x" multiplication |
| #3757, aired 2000-12-26 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: Passports & drivers' licenses are forms of this identification |
| #3757, aired 2000-12-26 | 14-LETTER WORDS $500: It was a time of rebuilding after the Civil War, & before all the Confederate states were readmitted Reconstruction |
| #3657, aired 2000-06-27 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: It's approximately equal to 3.14 pi |
| #3570, aired 2000-02-25 | WORDS WE DON'T USE ENOUGH $500: Annette was a Mouseketeer; a person who writes 14-line poems is this 9-letter word Sonneteer |
| #2608, aired 1995-12-27 | 9-LETTER WORDS $100: On February 14 this person is singled out as one's sweetheart a valentine |
| #2510, aired 1995-06-30 | FILE UNDER "M" $200: This 14-letter name of a devil may come from the Hebrew words mephitz-- "destroyer"-- & tophel--"liar" Mephistopheles |
| #1230, aired 1989-12-29 | 7-LETTER WORDS $300: The Count of Monte Cristo spent 14 years in one of these dank places in the Chateau d'If a dungeon |
| #296, aired 1985-10-28 | 15-LETTER WORDS $600: The redrawing of political district boundary lines reapportionment |
| #158, aired 1985-04-17 | 14-LETTER WORDS $200: Getting stuck in an elevator might trigger this fear of closed places claustrophobia |
| #158, aired 1985-04-17 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: Rich Little's specialties impersonations |
| #158, aired 1985-04-17 | 14-LETTER WORDS $600: These kinds of differences can be grounds for divorce irreconcilable |
| #158, aired 1985-04-17 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: Duddy Kravitz went through his in 1974 the apprenticeship |
| #158, aired 1985-04-17 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1000: Representing the purest essence, or most typical example of something quintessential |
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