#8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $400: This word meaning really old is in the full name of St. Andrews Golf Club, open for 18-hole play since 1764 Ancient |
#8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $800: One of the letters in a BSEE degree Science |
#8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $1200: It can be a type of small apartment or a measure of results versus costs efficiency |
#8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $1600: Term for someone like J.P. Morgan who invests in businesses on a large scale a financier |
#8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $2000: Drop the last letter from a biological term to get this word meaning "coined money" specie |
#8192, aired 2020-03-31 | C BEFORE E, AFTER I $400: Proverbially, it "makes perfect" practice |
#8192, aired 2020-03-31 | C BEFORE E, AFTER I $800: A 200th anniversary a bicentennial |
#8192, aired 2020-03-31 | C BEFORE E, AFTER I $1200: Pain-controlling care facility for the terminally ill a hospice |
#8192, aired 2020-03-31 | C BEFORE E, AFTER I $1600: It's a narrow opening in a cliff a crevice |
#8192, aired 2020-03-31 | C BEFORE E, AFTER I $2000: Decorative molding along the top of a wall or building a cornice |
#7919, aired 2019-01-31 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $200: One doing this hotel desk job might procure guests some show tickets a concierge |
#7919, aired 2019-01-31 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $400: Knowing all things, like God omniscient |
#7919, aired 2019-01-31 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $600: The Quakers are one "of Friends" a society |
#7919, aired 2019-01-31 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $800: It's an Italian lawn bowling game boccie |
#7919, aired 2019-01-31 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $1000: Spanish word for a farming estate; some are now luxury destinations a hacienda |
#7072, aired 2015-05-19 | COWS $400: Until a cow gives birth to a calf, she is known by this term that scoffs at the "I before E except after C" rule a heifer |
#6901, aired 2014-09-22 | WORD PUZZLES $800: An aid in spelling "I before E, except after C" |
#6541, aired 2013-02-11 | C BEFORE I, AFTER E $400: To repeat a piece of poetry before an audience recite |
#6541, aired 2013-02-11 | C BEFORE I, AFTER E $800: Falling products of condensation in the atmosphere precipitation |
#6541, aired 2013-02-11 | C BEFORE I, AFTER E $1200: A car starts to do this--lower in value due to wear & tear--the second it leaves the lot depreciate |
#6541, aired 2013-02-11 | C BEFORE I, AFTER E $1600: To make a return as for something given, like a favor reciprocate |
#6541, aired 2013-02-11 | C BEFORE I, AFTER E $2000: Superficially pleasing or plausible; it describes some arguments specious |
#6315, aired 2012-02-17 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $400: It precedes "Bay" in a national park in Alaska & "National Park" in a national park in Montana Glacier |
#6315, aired 2012-02-17 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $800: "The origin of" this word meaning a distinct sort or kind? The Latin for "form" species |
#6315, aired 2012-02-17 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $1200: This word that can mean an association often follows "honor" or "high" society |
#6315, aired 2012-02-17 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $1600: Adjective meaning time long past, especially before the end of the Western Roman Empire ancient |
#6315, aired 2012-02-17 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $2000: Here's the evidence:
this 2-word Latin term means "at first view" prima facie |
#5403, aired 2008-02-20 | "AFTER" CLASS $400: In the familiar spelling rule, "I" comes before "E" except in this case after "C" |
#5229, aired 2007-05-10 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $200: The major subdivision of a genus or subgenus species |
#5229, aired 2007-05-10 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $400: There's a 3,200-square-mile one of these masses in Vatnajokull, Iceland glacier |
#5229, aired 2007-05-10 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $600: Dating from a remote period of time (like the Hyksos, not the '80s!) ancient |
#5229, aired 2007-05-10 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $800: It's a number placed before & multiplying another quantity, such as 5 in the expression 5x coefficient |
#5229, aired 2007-05-10 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $1000: If you have unlimited knowledge or awareness, you're this omniscient |
#4103, aired 2002-06-05 | MNEMONICS $400: It's the familiar rule, in rhyme, useful in spelling "chief" & "receive" "I" before "E," except after "C" |
#3239, aired 1998-10-08 | FUN WITH WORDS $800: It's a mnemonic device to help remember vowel order when spelling out words
EYE E
SEE EXCEPT "I" before "E" except after "C" |
#2176, aired 1994-02-07 | GRAMMAR $200: An exception to this rule goes "but e after I when the sound is a" I before E except after C |
#11, aired 1990-08-25 | SPELLING $200: A creamy salad dressing made with raw egg yolk, oil, vinegar or lemon juice & seasonings M-A-Y-O-N-N-A-I-S-E |
#366, aired 1986-02-03 | ENGLISH LANGUAGE $400: Grammatical rule which controls the spellings of "field" & "receive" I before E except after C |
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