| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | STAR WORDS $2000: The stage that makes up most of a star's existence, it's the two-word classification for stars undergoing nuclear fusion the main sequence |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | WORDS IN JEOPARDY $200: This word for a container of jam or pickles comes from the Arabic for a water vessel jar |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | WORDS IN JEOPARDY $1000: A wagon, especially one without sides, used to haul heavy loads a dray |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | WORD ORIGINS $5,000 (Daily Double): A wealthy & powerful businessman, it was borrowed from the Japanese who in turn borrowed it from the Chinese words for "great prince" a tycoon |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $400: Containing an archaic word for a wagon, it's just your basic builder of wagons a wainwright |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $1600: This odd word from astronomy also means a combination of 2 feet in one meter in poetry syzygy |
| #9092, aired 2024-04-30 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: It's another word for pharmacist apothecary |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS $800: It's not trivial knowledge that trivia comes from a word meaning a spot where 3 of these meet road |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $1200: This word for a sudden fear that comes over you is from the name of a Greek god who could cause it panic |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $2000: A woman of stately beauty is sometimes described by this 9-letter adjective, after the Roman queen of the gods Junoesque |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | SOME TIMELY WORDS $1200: This 6-letter word means to go back in fictional time & rewrite the past of a character or narrative for a new work retcon |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | WORDS THAT GO UP TO 11 $1000: Change the first 3 letters in a fancy word for "blessing" to get this, a curse malediction |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | 2-WORD POP CULTURE $200: In the preface to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" we learn that these calming words are on the front of the reference book don't panic |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | EQUINE WORDS $200: 3-letter word meaning to hound with continued fault-finding nag |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | WORDS READ BACKWARDS $400: Read backwards, a Japanese word for dried seaweed becomes this metal iron (from nori) |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | WORDS READ BACKWARDS $600: A word preceding "chart" for a step-by-step guide becomes this big canine wolf (from flow) |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | WORDS READ BACKWARDS $1000: A runner who sets the tempo of a race rewinds & becomes this shortened word for a TV opening that might begin "previously on" a recap (from pacer) |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $400: L'ultima parola is the last word; l'ultima spiaggia is the last resort; l'ultima cena is this, found in Matthew 26 the Last Supper |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $800: This masculine plural form of the word for "all" means all the instruments playing together tutti |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: The mafia was sometimes called this, Italian for "our thing"; for the Jewish mob, replace the first word with "kosher" Cosa Nostra |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | 21st CENTURY WORDS $400: This word for a now-ubiquitous form of entertainment program comes in part from an Apple product a podcast |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | 21st CENTURY WORDS $600: What used to be a "buddy movie" depicting an affectionate relationship between 2 guys is now this blended word a bromance |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | UNUSUAL WORDS $1200: You'll need 3 "F"s to spell this word for a disorderly confusion given to us by the Scots a kerfuffle |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | "B"EGINNINGS $7,000 (Daily Double): A Norse god begins this word that means a nonsensical jumble of words balderdash |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | THOSE WORDS PACKED SOMETHING TO EAT $800: There's a fruit inside this word meaning "marked with small patches" such as "of sunlight" dappled |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | THOSE WORDS PACKED SOMETHING TO EAT $1600: The English word for unagi is inside this old pirate torture where you got dragged by ropes under the ship keelhauling |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | THOSE WORDS PACKED SOMETHING TO EAT $2000: Help yourself to a piece of dessert within this word meaning lack of reverence impiety |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | TOUGH 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: This 10-letter word for a means for producing copies comes from the Greek for "dry" & "written" xerography |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | SOME LAZY WORDS $400: There's a shell-less mollusk at the start of this word meaning slow & lazy sluggish |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | SOME LAZY WORDS $800: The mid-1800s gave us this hyphenated word for an employee who keeps a close eye on the hour & minute hands a clock-watcher |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | SOME LAZY WORDS $1,800 (Daily Double): A prefix meaning "bad" begins this word for feigning illness in order to avoid work malingering |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | RAP WORDS & PHRASES $400: There is no need to have a dental item for doing this, a word meaning showing off; Dr. Dre rhymed it with slauson flossin' |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | RAP WORDS & PHRASES $600: Used as an interjection in trap music, this vowelless word conveys the sound of tires screeching skrt |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | SILENT-CONSONANT WORDS $2000: This word meaning poise ends with its silent B aplomb |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $1600: The Galaxy Note, with its giant screen, was so large that it was called this blended word phablet |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $2000: This portmanteau word means a trio of romantic partners, not an open relationship a throuple |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | WORDS THAT MAKE DOGS GO NUTS $1000: In "Mean Girls", Gretchen Wieners tries to make this word happen to no avail fetch |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS $1600: Meaning a silly or flighty person, this word with 2 sets of double "B"s was mentioned in "King Lear" as a demon's name flibbertigibbet |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WATERLOGGED WORDS $800: Damp means wet, as does this other 4-letter "D" word that the cool kids use to mean "excellent" dank |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WATERLOGGED WORDS $2000: This word for totally submerged has a huge body of water in the middle of it engulfed |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's--sob!--an 11-letter word for weeping, or the secretion of tears lacrimation |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $200: 2-word title of "A Celebration of the Sesame Street Theme Song" Sunny Day |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | WORDS & THEIR CHANGING MEANINGS $1200: An Italian word for "baby boy", it meant a man, especially one who was inept or dumb, before it meant an attractive but dumb woman bimbo |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $600: Grammatically, this 2-word phrase refers to a period; California drivers are asked to come to one before a crosswalk a full stop |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | FROM THE FRENCH $1200: Words meaning "one-eyed" led to this word from French for a single eyeglass a monocle |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | WORDS OF PEACE $400: This peaceful word is also a lack of wind, making sailors feel unpeaceful calm |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | WORDS OF PEACE $800: Be this peaceful word, also the name of a famous lake in Essex County, New York placid |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | WORDS OF PEACE $3,000 (Daily Double): When the Eagle landed in 1969, this 11-letter word of peace was mentioned tranquility |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | WORDS FROM ARABIC $800: The fragrant name of this "Aladdin" princess comes from an Arabic word Jasmine |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | WORDS FROM ARABIC $2,000 (Daily Double): We've hit bottom with this 5-letter word from the Arabic for "opposite the zenith" nadir |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $300: In "A Christmas Story", Ralphie says the "Queen Mother of dirty words" but this other "F" word is swapped in to keep it clean fudge |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | WRITERS' WORDS $200: The formal, concise statement of the meaning of a word; I worked out for weeks to get it for my muscles definition |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | WRITERS' WORDS $400: It's a French word for a trite phrase, & the French have their own, like "J'ai dormi comme une souche", "I slept like a stump" a cliché |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | ODD 4-LETTER WORDS $800: Led Zeppelin knows that this word refers to a concluding passage of a musical piece or a ballet a coda |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | ODD 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: This word from Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" means "to communicate sympathetically" to grok |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | NON-NAUGHTY WORDS $600: This non-naughty 5-letter "B" word means to bungle a task to botch |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | NON-NAUGHTY WORDS $800: 1-word energy industry technique that's the subject of the film "Gasland" fracking |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT $600: For absurd innuendo, nothing beats "nudge, nudge" or this other matching word pair, from a classic Monty Python sketch wink, wink |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT $800: There might be no dopier word for "have sex with" than this 1-syllable verb ending in "K", likely meant to evoke bouncing boink (or bonk) |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $200: While "pandemic" was the word for 2020, 2021 was more optimistic with this entry, thanks to Pfizer, Moderna, and others vaccine |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $400: In 2015, the word was the suffix "-ism" and 2 years later it was this "-ism" associated with Betty Friedan feminism |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $1000: In 2003, the first Merriam-Webster "Word of the Year" was this form of government by the people democracy |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $2,000 (Daily Double): A 1944 Ingrid Bergman film popularized this 11-letter word of 2022, an act of psychological manipulation gaslighting |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | WORDS THAT END WITH "E" $1000: An early appearance of this 2-word term describing a macho perspective was in a 1975 essay about film by Laura Mulvey the male gaze |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | NEW WORDS IN THE 1600s $600: Good news! No longer need we say "shedding its leaves at the end of its growing season"--herewith a word for that deciduous |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | NEW WORDS IN THE 1600s $800: From the zesty Italian tongue cometh this word for a large, plush residence; someday methinks it will have its own pants palazzo |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | NEW WORDS IN THE 1600s $1000: My anatomist doth dub it the "hipbone basin" but I must inform him that it is now known by this word of 6 letters the pelvis |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | WORD"LE" $800: In other words, your collarbone clavicle |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | WORKING WORDS $400: A good manager knows how to do this 8-letter word, transfer responsibility for specific tasks to their employees delegate |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | WORKING WORDS $1000: It's the 2-word Latin phrase meaning a particular way of doing something, work-wise or criminally related modus operandi |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: This Arabic word is a salutation meaning "peace" salaam |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $1200: Inside a domesticated fowl is this word of disgust; it's paired with "the" in Gen Z slang for a dating turnoff the ick |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $1600: A word for an underground cemetery hides this Mexican food offering a taco |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $2000: A word for booze has this 4-letter silver salmon inside of it coho |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | WORD ORIGINS $1600: 2 Greek words give us this 10-letter word meaning fear of blood hemophobia |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: This delicate word is stretched out to 3 syllables by Darren McGavin in "A Christmas Story" fragile |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $800: With or without "Asti", use this word to order sparkling wine spumante |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $1000: This word with a rare silent "Q" can mean a resinous varnish lacquer |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $2000: From the Greek for "interpreter", this plural word is the branch of theology dealing with the interpretation of biblical texts hermeneutics |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | SOME HARD WORDS $400: Stoves & stomachs are made of this 2-word alloy formed in a mold cast iron |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | SOME HARD WORDS $600: This synonym for indifferent is a homonym of a word for hardened skin callous |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | 3-"SY"LLABLE WORDS $1600: Voluptuary & sensualist are synonyms for this word for someone devoted to luxury a sybarite |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | A LOSS FOR WORDS $1600: This 11-letter word for a period of mourning after a loss comes from an old word for "steal" bereavement |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: The Oracle of Delphi alluded to rocks when she told a treasure seeker to be diligent with this 4-word phrase still heard today leave no stone unturned |
| #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 |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $800: In English slang this German word is added after a skill or a topic to indicate someone with expertise Meister |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | QUADRISYLLABIC WORDS $1200: This word meaning self-government is from the Greek for "independence" autonomy |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | WORLD OF WORDS & IDIOMS $1600: In parts of the Middle East & Asia a payment that can be construed as a tip or bribery is known by this word from the Persian baksheesh |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | WORLD OF WORDS & IDIOMS $2000: Ronald Reagan adapted the Russian saying "Doveryai, no proveryai" into this 3-word maxim about nuclear weapons deals trust but verify |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: This word for any extended break from work gets its name from a day of rest sabbatical |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: The act of taking over someone else's computer with the goal of affecting social or political change is this portmanteau word hacktivism |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: There's a pair of Zs in this word for a type of musical entertainment presented between opera acts intermezzo |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | WORLD OF WORDS $1200: From Hebrew, this word that can follow bar or bat refers to a good deed mitzvah |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | WORLD OF WORDS $1,400 (Daily Double): French for "work", this vowel-heavy word is often used for all of the works by an artist or composer oeuvre |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | WORLD OF WORDS $2000: From an Italian word for "boat", it was the type of song originally sung by Venetian boatmen a barcarolle |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: Another word for the gas pedal the accelerator |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | ANIMALISTIC WORDS $1200: This word for a covering suspended over a bed comes from Greek konops, or mosquito, which it was meant to keep out canopy |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | SONGS FROM '60s MUSICALS $1,000 (Daily Double): With a 10-word title, "Comedy Tonight" & "The House Of Marcus Lycus" A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORDS FROM GREEK & LATIN $400: Latin for "to sew" gives us this medical word for a stitch suture |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORDS FROM GREEK & LATIN $800: A fancy word for movies is related to this Greek-derived word for "exhibiting motion" kinetic |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORDS FROM GREEK & LATIN $1600: The opposite of an iamb, this word for a pattern of stressed-unstressed as in the word "rabbit" is from Greek for "run" a trochee |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: When Don Quixote says, "He owes you nothing", he uses this as the last word nada |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Coup de foudre, literally "stroke of lightning", is the French equivalent of this 4-word phrase for instantaneous romance love at first sight |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | LOVE, IN SO MANY WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): In a play, this character says, "Ah, credulity of love! Roxane will think each word inspired by herself!" Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ODD WORDS $1200: Pig Latin & a word for nothing are the source of this 5-letter word meaning "to reject" ixnay |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ODD WORDS $1600: From the French, this word referring to a commotion or uproar sounds like there's laughing at the end of it a brouhaha |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ODD WORDS $2000: Head toward the end of the alphabet for this word meaning an extreme fear of foreigners xenophobia |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | WORD HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Reviewing a murder mystery in 1930, Donald Gordon coined this inquisitive 3-words-in-one word for a detective story a whodunnit |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WORDS WITH DIPHTHONGS $400: A diphthong is a sound made by combining 2 vowels, like the "AI" in tail or in this word for the head of a committee chair |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WORDS WITH DIPHTHONGS $1200: Take a diphthong into this word for a sullen expression, which "you better not" do, "I'm telling you why" in a Christmas song pout |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | WORDS OF PEACE $400: Used as a Jewish greeting, it's the Hebrew word for "peace" shalom |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | WORDS OF PEACE $800: A grape variety shares its name with this word meaning in peace & harmony concord |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | WORDS OF PEACE $1600: San Marino is known as the most this republic, a word meaning "calm" or "peaceful" serene |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | WORDS OF PEACE $5,000 (Daily Double): From a Latin word meaning "to come to a stop", it's an agreement to stop fighting & was in the original name of Veterans Day armistice |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: Put an "S" in front of a 3-pronged spear to get this word meaning annoyingly assertive strident |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | SCIENCE WORDS $1200: This word for a plain of lower elevation on our moon means "sea" in Latin mare |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | 4-LETTER "X" RATED WORDS $1000: French word for a mixture of butter & flour used to make sauces a roux |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: There are 2 Vs in this word meaning extreme enthusiasm or spirit verve |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: This word for the sound a bell makes rhymes with bell a knell |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | LOST FOR WORDS $800: This Latin word follows "in" to describe someone not in attendance absentia |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS $800: Etymologically related to the word scrimmage is this type of small battle between 2 armies a scrum (a skirmish) |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This word for a coup is used of the unsuccessful Kapp & Beer Hall ones in 1920s Germany a putsch |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS $1200: The Latin for "vengeance" gives us this feud-al word vendetta |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1200: Yes, Dan, there are 2 "P"s in the middle of this word for the snazzily attired dapper |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | DOUBLE-T WORDS $1600: The double T is exactly in the middle of this adjective meaning nervous & easily frightened word skittish |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | RHYMING PHRASES $200: The first 2 words repeat in this 4-word cry of victory that involves poultry winner, winner, chicken dinner |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $600: This word describes each correct response in the category pentasyllabic |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: This Swedish word that means "bread & butter table" can include sliced meats & cheeses smörgåsbord |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: This word meaning the male head of a household is borrowed from Latin paterfamilias |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: This plural noun is a French word for a set of clothes or accessories accoutrements |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | STRONG WORDS $400: Add "ate" to this word meaning strong to get a strong person or ruler potentate |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | STRONG WORDS $600: This 4-letter word is alliteratively paired with "hearty" to describe someone strong & healthy hale |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | STRONG WORDS $800: Often contrasted with "brains", this word meaning muscular strength once meant the rounded muscles of the arm & thigh brawn |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | STRONG WORDS $1000: A poem by Thom Gunn rhymes this word for strong & vigorously healthy with "dust" robust |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: There's a "Q" in this word referring to any nickname a sobriquet |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | 9-LETTER WORDS $2000: The Latin word for French is in this word that means to make something French in attitude or language gallicize |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | OLD WORDS $800: This word for a time of extreme hunger & starvation dates at least as far back as the 1360s poem "Piers Plowman" famine |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | OLD WORDS $1200: This word for a broad, heavy knife made its way from Latin America into English in the late 1500s machete |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | OLD WORDS $1600: Chaucer's "Miller's Tale" used this word for part of a roof centuries before a Hawthorne novel title did gable |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | FOOD & DRINK $600: This word for a Swedish-style buffet comes from words meaning "butter" & "table" smorgasbord |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | WORDS OF LOVE $600: This word of affection opens many a letter; you'd rather not get the kind addressed to John, though dear |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | WORDS FROM GERMAN $1,000 (Daily Double): This word for a recurring musical theme in an opera or symphony comes partly from German for "lead" leitmotif |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | WORDS FROM GERMAN $2000: Seen here, this German name for a subterranean cavern comes partly from a word for a town hall, not for a kind of rodent a rathskeller |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $200: At a restaurant you may want the steak but not the side dishes, so you order this 3-word way a la carte |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This 4-letter word comes before "d'etat" in a governmental overthrow, or before "de grace" in a finishing blow coup |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | "S" WORDS $800: Another word for a frying pan skillet |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | SYNONYMS $1200: Words for a comic entertainer at a royal court include fool, buffoon, merry-andrew & this 6-letter word jester |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | ACCEPTABLE 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $600: George Takei's 2-word catchphrase oh my |
| #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 |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | SCIENCE WORDS $1600: It's the 7-letter word for the arrangement of atoms in a crystal a lattice |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | WORDS DERIVED FROM BODY PARTS $200: The brave can sleep well knowing that the word courage comes from this body part the heart |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | WORDS DERIVED FROM BODY PARTS $800: Sometimes found before "knowledge", this sensual 6-letter word is derived from "flesh" carnal |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | WORDS DERIVED FROM BODY PARTS $1000: This word for one who always worries that they're sick is derived from a word for the abdomen hypochondriac |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Place to get a knish or a bagel (the whole word, please) delicatessen |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | WORDS IN COMPARISON $1000: Specially made 2-word area in a house to retreat to in times of great fear a panic room |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | WORDS OF COMFORT $400: Brits spell this 4-letter word meaning warm & snug with an "S", Yanks with a "Z" cozy |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | WORDS OF COMFORT $2000: Theories on the origin of this word meaning A-OK include African-American slang & Italian cappo sotto copacetic |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | WORDS WITH FIENDS $400: You "go" this fiendish 5-letter word when you deviate from the expected rogue |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | WORDS WITH FIENDS $2000: This hyphenated 3-word synonym for a fiend has an apostrophe for the "V" in the first word a ne'er-do-well |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | 9-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS $1600: A Fellini film gave us this word for a type of photographer a paparazzi |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THESE WORDS MEAN NO OFFENSE $800: We're talking soil, so this word means a lump of earth, not someone who doesn't get it a clod |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THESE WORDS MEAN NO OFFENSE $1600: This word for a small elevator used to move food may cause ire if your food server hears it out of context a dumbwaiter |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THESE WORDS MEAN NO OFFENSE $2,000 (Daily Double): This 8-letter word is made up of a prefix from Greek meaning "sharp" & another word that means someone of low intelligence an oxymoron |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Literally "good word", it's a witty remark; en français, S'il vous plait! bon mot |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This word that starts & ends with "U" means freedom in Swahili; it's one letter off from a classic TV character's name uhuru |
| #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 |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | UNUSUAL WORDS $400: Tolkien coined the term eucatastrophe, referring to one of these 2-word results, which he said made a complete fairy-story a happy ending |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: The Brits use this word to refer to a layoff; elsewhere, it's needless repetition of words redundancy |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | "WISE" WORDS $200: Proverbially, it can be a tough way to "get a word in" edgewise |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | "WISE" WORDS $1000: 3-word phrase meaning no smarter or unaware, as in "I borrowed his astrolabe when he wasn't looking & he's" this none the wiser |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | A FEW COLORFUL WORDS $400: This 3-letter word follows "golden" in a lustrous type of paper rod |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | A FEW COLORFUL WORDS $800: Also the name of a big brown potato variety, this 6-letter word refers to a brownish color russet |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | A FEW COLORFUL WORDS $1000: In heraldry, this word means "silver" or simply "white" & is the color of the unicorn here argent |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | 4 WORDS $400: Since 1957 the Truman Library has displayed the desk sign with this 4-word phrase the buck stops here |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | 4 WORDS $2,500 (Daily Double): This 4-word phrase occurs 8 times in a landmark 1963 speech I have a dream |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | 6-LETTER VERBS $1,600 (Daily Double): This word meaning "to interfere" comes from the Latin for "foot" impede |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: "Mortal" word describing a jury that can't reach a verdict deadlocked |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: 10-letter word for background music written to accompany a play, like Bizet's for 1872's "L'Arlesienne" incidental |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | A FEW FINAL WORDS $800: When "pen-" comes before this word it means next to last; without it, it's last ultimate |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | A FEW FINAL WORDS $1200: 9-letter word for an attorney's closing argument to a jury to get their point across summation |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | A FEW FINAL WORDS $1600: Often found before "of hostilities", this word has a double "S" within it cessation |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | A FEW FINAL WORDS $2000: Nothing to do with a military takeover, this 3-word French phrase is a final blow coup de grâce |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | 2-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: This word for a relish that accompanies Indian food comes from the Hindi language chutney |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | 2-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare used this word before "thee to a summer's day" compare |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | THESE WORDS ARE YOUNGER THAN YOU ARE $800: This gendered word for condescendingly expounding has only been around since 2008 mansplaining |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WORDS & PHRASES $400: Manga refers to Japanese graphic novels; this other 5-letter word is for artistic works like "Princess Mononoke" anime |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WORDS & PHRASES $2,000 (Daily Double): Something that is exactly what you would expect is this 4-word golfing phrase; it's actually 72 at Augusta national par for the course |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: A Scotswoman may speak about her wee this 5-letter word for child bairn |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $600: The Latin for "to carry" gives us part of this word for all the investments you own portfolio |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: This word refers to the smallest detail that can be seen by a telescope or to the number of pixels on your computer screen resolution |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | FOSSIL WORDS $1000: "By" this "of force" derives from when the word meant a blow from a weapon a dint |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Footbridge is a 10-letter word that you use if you're this kind of 10-letter traveler a pedestrian |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: This word meaning "harmful" is also the name of Sleeping Beauty's nemesis maleficent |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | IN OTHER WORDS...RUN! $800: It's a word for a lightning stroke or a fastening aid a bolt |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | IN OTHER WORDS...RUN! $1000: Word preceding a maddening "hour", or the band that did "Tom Sawyer" rush |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: I have found it, it being this Greek word that means "I have found it!" eureka |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Let's give thanks in Japanese, this word arigato |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | WORDS WITH A SINGLE VOWEL $2000: This 3-word motto honoring the Wright Brothers has appeared on North Carolina license plates since 1982 "First in Flight" |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | 2 WORDS, 2 SYLLABLES EACH $5,000 (Daily Double): Meaning you're good at talking with others, this alliterative phrase begins with a plural word & ends with its singular form a people person |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | WORDS FROM QUECHUA $400: This word for a onetime people of the region is Quechua for "king" Inca |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $400: A Frisbee team game, or a word from the Latin for "last" Ultimate |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $600: This 2-word phrase for a farewell performance is derived from the belief that a certain bird makes music as it dies a swan song |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $1000: Take the H off the end of a word meaning to complete & you still have this noun for a conclusion finis |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | DIËRESIS & ÜMLAUT WÖRDS $400: Let's catch a ride with this German word that uses an umlaut & can mean "upon" or "beyond" über |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | DIËRESIS & ÜMLAUT WÖRDS $800: This word for the feast of Christmas can have a dieresis over the E Noël |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | DIËRESIS & ÜMLAUT WÖRDS $1200: A huge fan of the dieresis, the New Yorker uses one for this 5-letter word meaning gullible, simple or unjaded naïve |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | DIËRESIS & ÜMLAUT WÖRDS $1600: This northern sky constellation whose name may derive from a Greek word for "ox driver" does not sound like tiny tot footwear Boötes |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | DIËRESIS & ÜMLAUT WÖRDS $2000: This German word literally means the "twilight of the gods" Götterdämmerung |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | COMPOUND WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): A wonder of the world gave us the word pharos, meaning one of these lighthouse |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | INTERPLANETARY WORDS $1600: Meaning morose or sullen, this word overlaps a planet & a number saturnine |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | LIFE & WORK IN ANCIENT ROME $2000: Later a word for a record player needle, it was once a metal tool used to scratch words onto wax-covered tablets stylus |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | ART & DESIGN $2000: Two-word phrase for the color & the resinous material seen here; both words contain the same 3-letter sequence black lacquer |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | WORLD OF WORDS $2000: This word meaning to derive pleasure from others' misfortunes is from German for "damage joy" schadenfreude |
| #8462, aired 2021-08-10 | COMPOUND WORDS $600: A woodchuck is one of these giant squirrels, also a compound word groundhog |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | TOUGH 3-LETTER WORDS $400: This word can refer to a craving or an Asian currency yen |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | TOUGH 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: It almost sounds like a symptom of sleepiness, but this word means to deviate from a ship's course yaw |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | TOUGH 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: This Latin word meaning "thus" begins Virginia's state motto Sic |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | NONSENSE WORDS $200: Spelled differently from the Italian city it is derived from, it's a "meaty" nonsense word baloney |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | NONSENSE WORDS $400: This 4-letter word refers to a military cot, or a nonsense word bunk |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | NONSENSE WORDS $600: This hyphenated nonsense word begins with a word for a violin & ends with a word one letter different from the first fiddle-faddle |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: The National Federation of the Blind uses this word, not "unblind" sighted |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | DESCRIPTIVE WORDS $400: While you're looking out one of these, contemplate that the word fenestral refers to them windows |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | NAUTICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This 3-word phrase for a quick exit implies you sliced off your anchor rope to get away cut and run |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | SKILLFUL WORDS & PHRASES $800: This word for a skillful veteran can also mean well-flavored with paprika or cumin seasoned |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | SKILLFUL WORDS & PHRASES $1200: There are 2 consecutive "V"s in the middle of this word that describes your shrewdness savvy |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES $1200: O. Henry called the fictional Central American country of Anchuria this 2-word entity, referring to an export a banana republic |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | BODY WORDS $800: Aorta comes from the Greek for "great" this other "A" word artery |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | BODY WORDS $1600: This part of the knee begins with a 4-letter word for the top of the head patella |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | WORDS OF WISDOM $800: Take the creature seen here, add one letter, & you have this word meaning "clever" shrewd |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | WORDS OF WISDOM $1200: Often seen before "faire", this word creates a phrase meaning "knowing how to live" when it comes before "vivre" savoir |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | WORDS OF WISDOM $1600: This 7-letter word can mean wise or pertaining to the species of man sapiens |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: "A" is for this word meaning "without concealment" , in contrast with gamblers whose hands went under the card table aboveboard |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: There's a term for a lover of his country in this 10-letter word for a fellow countryman compatriot |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | PREFIXES $1,000 (Daily Double): Originally attached to a word that ended "-netic", this 5-letter prefix now fronts words dealing with futuristic concepts cyber |
| #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 |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: A song of farewell to Italy's capital is titled this word, "Roma" Arrivederci |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: This Turkish word is a synonym for destiny or fate kismet |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Add an A to a similar English word to get this Greek word for the type of small restaurant advertised here taverna |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | SNOOZE CLUES $1600: In a poem by Robert Frost, the 6 words that follow "But I have promises to keep and..." miles to go before I sleep |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | 17-LETTER WORDS $2000: Related to a word for that little voice telling you right & wrong, it's the quality of being thorough & scrupulous conscientiousness |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | WET WORDS $1600: From the Latin for "wash away", it's a word for the flood in the Old Testament a deluge |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | WET WORDS $2000: It's the 5-letter word for the lowest internal portion of a ship's hull where water collects the bilge |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | PLACES IN TEXAS $800: This word for a perfect human society is from words meaning "no place", but it's a real place west of San Antonio Utopia |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | LANGUAGES $1200: Russian has European-style words for months such as Январь; this language of a former SSR uses the Slavic word СІЧЕНЬ Ukrainian |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | WORDS THAT START WITH 2 CONSECUTIVE LETTERS $1600: From a Sanskrit word for "to sprinkle", it's a clarified butter used in south Asian cooking ghee |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | "S"IX-LETTER WORDS $2000: This word borrowed from German means to ski straight downhill at high speed schuss |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | WORDS IN BOOKS $200: In an 1872 work, Alexandre Dumas used the French version of this word meaning an advocate for women's rights feminist |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | WORDS IN BOOKS $400: This word for someone with a need to toil all the time was popularized in the title of a 1971 book about addiction workaholic |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | WORDS IN BOOKS $1000: We use this word to describe a boy or girl of 11 or 12; Tolkien used it to mean a Hobbit not yet an adult tween |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | HARD-HITTING WORDS $200: This word paired with "cutting" in a computer term can also mean a heavy beating pasting |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | HARD-HITTING WORDS $1000: Only one letter different from "gallop", this word for a heavy blow used to mean to ride at a gallop wallop |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: Candy word meaning to falsify numbers fudge |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | WORDS BORROWED FROM JAPANESE $200: This word is from Japanese for "harbor wave", & it's a biiiiig one tsunami |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | WORDS BORROWED FROM JAPANESE $400: Characters for "endure" & "person" combine to make this word for a stealthy warrior ninja |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | WORDS BORROWED FROM JAPANESE $800: Characters meaning "before" & "life" combine to make this 6-letter word for a teacher, who would usually be older than you sensei |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: This word that means to squirm in pain begins with a silent "W" writhe |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1000: This word meaning "scheduled" begins with a type of metamorphic rock slated |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | WORDS & PHRASES $800: Before it meant a type of research institution, this 2-word phrase was slang for the brain think tank |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | WORDS & PHRASES $2000: This word for the female branch of the family originally referred to the rod that flax was wound around distaff |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | WORD ORIGINS $1600: This original longer name for a certain musical instrument comes from Italian words for "soft" & "loud" pianoforte |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: This shortened word precedes "league" or "team" when it's a local sports league for fun rather than money rec |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $400: Dysphemism, the substitution of an offensive word for an inoffensive one, is the direct antonym of this word a euphemism |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $1600: This word for a misused word comes from the name of a meddling aunt in Richard Sheridan's "The Rivals" malapropism |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $2000: An eponym is a word derived from a person's name; this is a word for a person from a particular place, like Muscovite demonym |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | BLENDED WORDS $1000: When referring to England's 2 oldest universities, use this blended word Oxbridge |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | EMPTY WORDS $200: Before "island", this 6-letter word means uninhabited, not arid & sandy desert |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: This French word means a feeling of tedium & dissatisfaction ennui |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: A Latin word for "grace" or "favor", it means free of charge gratis |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Excessive sentimentality or chicken fat--this Yiddish word means both schmaltz |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $8,000 (Daily Double): Borrowed from German, this 5-letter word means an intense but nonspecific anxiety angst |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | WARM WORDS $800: Like a passionate affair, a zone of the Earth between the tropics is called this "T" word torrid |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | WARM WORDS $1600: This word for an updraft of warm air is from the Greek for "heat" thermal |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | COMPOUND WORDS $400: A dactylogram is another word for this a fingerprint |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | COMPOUND WORDS $2000: It's a 10-letter word for a newbie as well as the second rank in Boy Scouts a tenderfoot |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: This abbreviated word is sometimes found before art & after photo op |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: Scrabble players know this 2-letter word is a type of 3-toed sloth found in Brazil the ai |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | LAST WORDS $1600: This word describes the type of carpentry done, of course, last on a house finish carpentry |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | WORDS & PHRASES $800: The Semitic word abaq, meaning "sand", gave us this word for a device that did arithmetic much faster than a sand table an abacus |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | WORDS & PHRASES $2,500 (Daily Double): Originally a sci-fi term for a trainee astronaut, this 2-word term now describes someone not in touch with reality a space cadet |
| #8239, aired 2020-09-17 | WORD WORDS $200: Add "Y" to the kind of clock with hands & numbers to get this type of comparison analogy |
| #8239, aired 2020-09-17 | WORD WORDS $400: An idioticon is a dictionary of this "D" word, a form of a language spoken in a particular region a dialect |
| #8239, aired 2020-09-17 | WORD WORDS $600: To talk without preparation is to ad-lib or to speak this "sleeve-oriented" way off the cuff |
| #8239, aired 2020-09-17 | WORD WORDS $800: It's a dramatic monologue or speech made to oneself a soliloquy |
| #8239, aired 2020-09-17 | WORD WORDS $1000: Lapsus linguae is literally Latin for this kind of mistake a slip of the tongue |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | WORDS & PHRASES $200: To invent a new word or phrase is to do this--makes cents to coin |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | WORDS COINED IN THE 1920s $800: We got this word from a 1920 play by Karel Capek about mechanical men & women robot |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | WORDS FROM OLD ENGLISH $800: This word usually comes before "out", meaning to barely manage a living eke |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: The Greek for "stomach" gives us this word for the science of good eating gastronomy |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: On "Game of Thrones", Peter Dinklage's character was called this word, which means a mischievous child imp |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | WORDS TO FEAR $600: This word denoting great fear precedes -nought, -ful & -locks dread |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: Daniel Webster declared, "Liberty and union, now and forever, one and" this word, like lovers who can't be kept apart inseparable |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | WORDS WITH 5 VOWELS $1000: A French word for "shop", in English it means a small specialty shop a boutique |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $400: This word usually refers to a straight guy who is quite fashionable & might even carry a murse metrosexual |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $1200: 3 birds are smashed together in this word as well as in the resulting poultry dish turducken |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $2000: Lewis Carroll coined this word for a gleeful laugh a chortle |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | FRENCH WORDS IN ENGLISH $200: This word for an afternoon show means "morning" in French matinee |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | FRENCH WORDS IN ENGLISH $400: Often seen in our category titles, this word literally means "rotten pot" potpourri |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | FRENCH WORDS IN ENGLISH $600: This French feminine word is a person with brown hair a brunette |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | POSTAL ABBREVIATION WORDS $800: Combine the home states of Vice Presidents Biden & Cheney to get this word meaning moist dewy (Delaware & Wyoming) |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | POSTAL ABBREVIATION WORDS $1200: The home of Independence Hall has a window on the "Cornhusker State" to give us this word pane (Pennsylvania & Nebraska) |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | POSTAL ABBREVIATION WORDS $1600: Hoosiers join up with their neighbor directly south to form this newspaper-stained word inky (Indiana & Kentucky) |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | POSTAL ABBREVIATION WORDS $2000: 2 states on the West Coast bookend North Dakota to form this 6-letter word for frankness candor (California, North Dakota & Oregon) |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | WORDS FROM THE MAP $200: This word for the item seen here was originally a fabric-making town in the Low Countries a duffel |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | WORDS FROM THE MAP $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) I'll go into a rhapsody if you can name this historical kingdom within the Czech Republic that gave us a word for a type of unconventional person Bohemia |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | WORDS FROM THE MAP $1000: Samuel Johnson thought a French town gave us this word that has applied to very different types of transport sedan |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | FOOD & DRINK WORDS & PHRASES $200: Something ill-suited is "not my" this 3-word phrase; I prefer English breakfast cup of tea |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | SE"V"EN-LETTER WORDS $2000: Here's a musician, probably Handel, at this, the 18th century word for any keyboard a clavier |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $400: This word meaning given to quick & unpredictable mood changes goes back to the Roman messenger god mercurial |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | WORDS START WITH "U" $1200: Adding an "M" to this word meaning "to speak" makes it something hard to hear utter |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $1600: French word for cherry that's also a shade of red (1926) cerise |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $2000: "Sweet melody" music maker struck with handheld hammers (1949) dulcimer |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | NONSENSE WORDS $400: In one episode of "The Big Bang Theory", Sheldon says, "you've fallen for one of my classic pranks" & then this word bazinga! |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | NONSENSE WORDS $800: In the film "Gone with the Wind", this word comes before "Ashley Wilkes told me he likes to see a girl with a healthy appetite" fiddle-dee-dee! |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: In 2012 the French govt. ended official use of this word for an unmarried woman, deemed sexist since there's no male equivalent mademoiselle |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | THE ALGONQUIAN WORD TABLE $800: This 5-letter word for a very large deer comes from words meaning "he strips off" (bark to eat, that is) moose |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | WORD ORIGINS $2000: This 13-letter synonym for infantile paralysis comes from words meaning "gray marrow" & "inflammation" poliomyelitis |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: It means toward the rear & is also a polite word for the part you sit on posterior |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | BIG WORDS $1600: Older than humongous, this 9-letter blended word for shockingly big goes back to WWII ginormous |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | BIG WORDS $2000: This word for something monstrous in size comes from the name of a powerful grass-eating beast in Job behemoth |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | PEACEFUL WORDS $1000: Often used when describing plain food, this 5-letter word means not highly flavored, maybe even tasteless bland |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: The Latin for "of whom" gives us this word for the number of members of a group needed to legally transact business a quorum |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: Oddly, this word, land overgrown with tropical vegetation, is from Sanskrit for dry ground or desert a jungle |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1000: This word borrowed from French for "shade of color" means a small difference in many things, including colors a nuance |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: This 3-letter word can mean "except", especially preceding "none" bar |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | POLYNESIAN WORDS $1000: In Hawaii say this 3-letter word if you want an edible paste; in Tahiti, put "Po" before it poi |
| #8107, aired 2019-12-03 | WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS $1000: Like its synonyms joking & joshing, this 7-letter non "ING" word begins with "J" jocular |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | WORDS, WORDS, WORDS $1200: This word for a local station in a television network comes from a Latin word meaning "to adopt as a son" an affiliate |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | WORDS, WORDS, WORDS $2000: Similar to illiterate, it's the word for one unable to handle basic mathematics innumerate |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $200: Portmanteau word for a close friendship between men; the movie "I Love You, Man" portrayed one a bromance |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: Random House says this rhyming word is an "incantation using... magical words", & Presto! You say... abracadabra |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: Word for Gabriel telling the Virgin Mary she'd conceive Jesus annunciation |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: Oy, you're so clumsy--in fact, you're this Yiddish word for a clumsy person, from a word meaning "wooden beam" a klutz |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | ODD WORDS $1600: It sounds like a geometric figure, but this 7-letter word means resembling the walking dead zomboid |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | ODD WORDS $2000: We hope you know this word for the projecting piece on a sundial that casts a shadow, indicating the time a gnomon |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | "OB"SCURE WORDS $400: Greek for a pointed pillar gives us this word for a pointed pillar obelisk |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | DOUBLE "Z" WORDS $800: You've got 2 sets of double Z's in this 7-letter word! The exciting quality of an energetic personality pizzazz |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: This word denoting being simple or guileless is from Old French for "natural"; we hope you're not... naive |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $1200: Paranym is another word for this, a word substituted for a more unpleasant one a euphemism |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $1600: It's a word that tells people you're in a group; in the Bible those who said "sib" instead of "shib" were slaughtered a shibboleth |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $6,000 (Daily Double): 2-word term for a common language for speakers of different tongues; it was once an actual language quoted by Moliere lingua franca |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | SOME STERN WORDS $1200: This word referring to stern discipline comes from a city-state of ancient Greece Spartan |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | SOME STERN WORDS $1600: From a Greek word for a hermit or monk, this adjective means denying oneself comforts ascetic |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | WORDS FROM NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES $800: This word for a fierce tropical storm comes from the Taino name for a turbulent god hurricane |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | WORDS FROM NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES $1200: The high-flying condor gets its name from the word for that bird in this Inca language Quechua |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | 16-LETTER WORDS $800: Made popular in a 1982 Spielberg film, this word means "originating outside of the Earth" extraterrestrial |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | 4-LETTER WORDS $600: It's a fact that this word means a collection of facts & figures to be processed in some way data |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | KANGAROO WORDS $400: Old Mother Hubbard found that the cupboard was this, not its kangaroo word "barren" bare |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | KANGAROO WORDS $800: Some said the debutante "blossomed" at the ball; others used this word bloomed |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | POETIC WORDS $400: It's the word for a quotation at the beginning of a poem or other text an epigraph |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | NEW WORDS IN THE MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY $2,000 (Daily Double): Digital finance can be confusing, hence the addition of this word for Bitcoin & the like cryptocurrency |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | NEW WORDS IN THE MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY $2000: Chiweenie is a hybrid word for a hybrid dog: a mix of chihuahua & this breed a dachshund |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | WORDS, WORDS, WORDS $200: Spanish for "little war" gives us this word for one engaged in irregular warfare guerrilla |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | WORDS, WORDS, WORDS $1000: The Latin for "to come together" gives us this word for the building where a religious community lives a convent |
| #8036, aired 2019-07-15 | GIVE ME 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: X marks the second spot in this word that means to praise or glorify exalt (or extol) |
| #8031, aired 2019-07-08 | MULTI-WORD SOUNDALIKES $1200: These two groups of things seen here have soundalike names if you run the words together four candles & fork handles |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $200: 2-word term meaning to make an unresponsive program set you free; on a Mac it's command-option-escape force quit |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $400: Meaning overhyped, this word suggests a grilled meat sandwich without anything inside it a nothingburger |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT $1200: This 4-word phrase can refer to a vaccination or, metaphorically, a stimulus a shot in the arm |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: The word embellishment, as of a story, has 2 L's; this synonym has 2 G's exaggeration |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: This biblical word is often found before "& behold" lo |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: The 2013 meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association included a paper on "The Social Meaning of" this word eh |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $800: The dark void before creation (basically a huge mess) was called this 5-letter word chaos |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $1600: The Greek word for "she-goat" gave us this part-goat creature whose name also means "a hybrid" a chimera |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | ANGRY WORDS $800: "All the" this 4-letter word can mean widely popular rage |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | ANGRY WORDS $1600: This angry word, pronounced a bit differently, is a substance with a sweet odor when burned incense |
| #7976, aired 2019-04-22 | WORDS FROM ITALIAN $2000: The name of a Venetian ship factory gave us this word for a place where arms & ammunition are stored an arsenal |
| #7956, aired 2019-03-25 | SINGLE-CONSONANT WORDS $1200: A variety of color, or an old word for a shout, paired with "cry" hue |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | YIDDISH WORDS $1000: Spritz, "to spray", rhymes with this similar word for to sweat, like one does in a steam bath to schvitz |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: 2-word French term for a young person who comes from abroad to help out a family with childcare in return for room & board an au pair |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a fancy word for rain, snow or sleet precipitation |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: One-word job description of a broadcasting preacher, such as Oral Roberts televangelist |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | EXPRESS YOURSELF $800: This word that means to put into words begins with a part of speech verbalize |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $800: This very final 3-word phrase may come from a law requiring that bodies be buried deep so animals can't get to them six feet under |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $2000: The title of a 1936 book, this 3-word nickname for the U.S. Supreme Court ceased to apply in 1981 nine old men |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $400: A paragram is another word for this 3-letter type of humorous wordplay like "poultry in motion" a pun |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $800: From the Latin for "word", it refers to a passage repeated word for word verbatim |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $2000: Put a letter before "once" to get this type of word invented on the spot nonce |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $4,000 (Daily Double): The name of a 1775 play character gave us this word for an error like "there is no anecdote for the poison" a malapropism |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | WORDS FROM THE MALAY $400: This name of a woody grass of Asia that can reach 130 feet tall may be derived from an original Malay word bamboo |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | WORDS FROM THE MALAY $800: A Malay word for a weight gives us this small storage container for your tea a tea caddy |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | WORDS FROM THE MALAY $3,000 (Daily Double): A word from the melee as well as the Malay, to "run" this way is to be wild & frenzied amok |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | NEWER WORDS $1600: This word used to describe the "seismic" influx of young British voters was Oxford Dictionaries' 2017 word of the year youthquake |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: This word meaning to recede often precedes "& flow" ebb |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: 1992 is the OED's first citation for this word meaning so-so; it described "Melrose Place" meh |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | WORDS OF COMFORT $600: This word for an extravagance comes before "tax" on the Monopoly board luxury |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | WORDS OF COMFORT $1000: This word for aid or comfort is a homophone of another word for a lollipop succor (sucker) |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | ODD WORDS $200: To Aussies, a loss by a sports favorite is a boilover; to us, this 5-letter word an upset |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | WORD ORIGINS $1000: This word, from French words for "carry" & "cloak", is itself a compound rather than one of the things it describes portmanteau |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | WORD & PHRASE HISTORIES $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1738 Jonathan Swift first wrote down a familiar phrase as "the sight of you is good for" these 2 words sore eyes |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | WORDS USING ALL 5 VOWELS $1200: Chou-fleur is the French word for this white vegetable, & I still won't eat it cauliflower |
| #7860, aired 2018-11-09 | WORD ORIGINS $200: From French words meaning "defense against a fall", it slows your fall when you jump from a plane a parachute |
| #7849, aired 2018-10-25 | WORDS WITH A "WAY" $800: 7-letter word for willful or disobedient; carry on, my son wayward |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | COMPOUND WORDS $1000: Compound word you're wearing if you've put on a Tag Heuer Connected Modular smartwatch |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | WORDS FROM THE COMICS $600: This 2-word name for a rich benefactor comes from a "Little Orphan Annie" character Daddy Warbucks |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: This word that also means "trifling" follows "Times" in the name of a New Orleans newspaper picayune |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $4,000 (Daily Double): c. 1666 a British work used this word for a literal barrier; a 1971 text on operating system principles gave it a new sense a firewall |
| #7818, aired 2018-09-12 | SIMILAR WORDS $600: Pertaining to wedlock with one person at a time, & a word meaning tedious repetition monogamy or monotony |
| #7818, aired 2018-09-12 | SIMILAR WORDS $1000: Related to the word "respect" is this word for a delay that brings relief respite |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | 15-LETTER WORDS $2000: The 1935, 1964 & 2018 State of the Union addresses used this word for the poor & needy underprivileged |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | PARTING WORDS $1200: This other word for a butcher's knife has a word for "divide" in it a cleaver |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | PARTING WORDS $2000: Common prayer says of marriages, "Those whom God hath joined together let no man put" this 7-letter word asunder |
| #7799, aired 2018-07-05 | HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS $200: Dance off with at least 27 points for this word for a coin-operated record player often found in bars a jukebox |
| #7792, aired 2018-06-26 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: The Greek word oikos led to this word meaning thrifty in the use of money or other things economical |
| #7788, aired 2018-06-20 | 3 P's, PPPLEASE $1200: 2-word grammar term for words like fallen or sung past participle |
| #7786, aired 2018-06-18 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: From French, it can replace the word "place" in "in place of" lieu |
| #7785, aired 2018-06-15 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $200: In "Tell anyone you see they should leave", the word "they" is this-neutral gender |
| #7785, aired 2018-06-15 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $400: Kompositum is the German word for this type of word the Germans are famous for, like Schmutzfang-matte, "doormat" compound |
| #7785, aired 2018-06-15 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $800: Alliteratively, this animal goes with "word" to mean language used to avoid taking a stand weasel |
| #7782, aired 2018-06-12 | MEDICAL WORDS & PHRASES $600: Lyssa, a goddess of madness, is another word for this disease that makes animals irrationally vicious rabies |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | PALINDROMIC WORDS $400: An old 3-letter word meaning "before" ere |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | PALINDROMIC WORDS $600: Instead of "Hey, pal" or "mister", you can say "Hey", this word made popular by the character Wolverine bub |
| #7769, aired 2018-05-24 | IN SO MANY WORDS $2000: 1 word:
Harvard's Latin motto Veritas |
| #7765, aired 2018-05-18 | WORDS FROM SWAHILI $400: While this Swahili word means "journey", it mentions nothing of big-game hunting safari |
| #7765, aired 2018-05-18 | WORDS FROM SWAHILI $800: An "A" was added to the end of the Swahili word for "first" to name this December holiday Kwanzaa |
| #7765, aired 2018-05-18 | WORDS FROM SWAHILI $1200: This word can mean "crocodile" in Swahili, but Kobe Bryant knows it means a snake to most of us mamba |
| #7765, aired 2018-05-18 | WORDS FROM SWAHILI $1600: This game's name comes from a Swahili word meaning "to build"; oddly, the exact opposite happens in gameplay Jenga |
| #7765, aired 2018-05-18 | WORDS FROM SWAHILI $2000: Bob Hope was in a movie called "Call Me" this 5-letter word for "master" Bwana |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | ODD WORDS $800: Anatomically, medius is another word for this digit middle finger |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | ODD WORDS $1200: This word for a medical fraud has a longer version that ends with "salver" quack |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | ODD WORDS $2000: Y is the only vowel in this unusual word that means an alignment of 3 heavenly bodies like the Earth, Moon & Sun syzygy |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | BORROWED WORDS $800: This word from the French for "one who knows" is applied to those with good taste a connoisseur |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | PLACES OF SPORT & AMUSEMENT $1000: This word is from French & Latin words meaning "bicycle" & "course" velodrome |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | BORROWED WORDS $1600: The Arabic word for "lawful" gave us this word meaning slaughtered according to Islamic law halal |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | AUTHORS USE NEW WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1955 novel is responsible for popularizing the word "nymphet" Lolita |
| #7739, aired 2018-04-12 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: Change the second, third & fourth letters in "maleficent" to get this word for "generous" munificent |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS $200: 3 Z's go into this word for energetic sparkle some people have pizazz |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS $600: Soon after "dwarf" in the dictionary comes this "DW" word meaning to shrink in size dwindle |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS $1000: Filled with mental weariness & boredom? The French have this 5-letter word for it, which we also use ennui |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | MYSTERIOUS WORDS $400: When it precedes "case of" or "incident of" in titles, this word means provokingly strange, not inquisitive curious |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | MYSTERIOUS WORDS $1200: A subterranean chamber adds "IC" at the end to be this word meaning ambiguous cryptic |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | MYSTERIOUS WORDS $2000: O say can you "C" this puzzling word that may involve puns? Oh, it's a... a conundrum |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: Sometimes including insults, to do this other 5-letter "T" word is meaner than just to tease taunt |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | BODIES OF WATER WORDS $800: Don't think too long about this word meaning "to think long" ponder |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | BODIES OF WATER WORDS $1200: A winter crystal, or a derogatory word for someone easily offended a snowflake |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | BODIES OF WATER WORDS $2000: Meaning "prudish", this hyphenated word is the right way for putting on a bodice straitlaced |
| #7716, aired 2018-03-12 | MOVIE WORDS $2000: Term for a sought-after item that drives a plot; Hitchcock said the word originated as a device to trap lions in Scotland MacGuffin |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | WEIRD WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): Bedlam was an asylum; Bridewell gave us a generic word for one of these a prison |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's a word from the French for a bullet's redirection after an impact a ricochet |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | THE WORDS OF H.G. WELLS $600: Wells preached & definitely practiced this 2-word phrase for ignoring the conventional constraints of marriage free love (or an open marriage) |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: This German word for a ghostly double of a living person is also used to mean someone who looks just like you Doppelganger |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1600: Saponaceous means "soapy"; this word means "impulsive" spontaneous |
| #7672, aired 2018-01-09 | TOTALLY '80s WORDS! $400: Whether to the max or not, this word for disgusting comes from "grotesque" grody |
| #7672, aired 2018-01-09 | TOTALLY '80s WORDS! $800: This Biblical word for morally good had a strong decade; Ferris Bueller was described as that kind of "dude" a righteous dude |
| #7672, aired 2018-01-09 | TOTALLY '80s WORDS! $1000: This word for "fantastic" describes a hollow cresting wave tubular |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the Italian word for a city square, like St. Mark's piazza |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | NUMBERS AS WORDS $600: College course or not, this 3-digit number following a word designates it as elementary information 101 |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | COMPOUND WORDS $400: The name of a playing card resides in this word that refers to a big lottery payday jackpot |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | MAKING WORDS $400: The Latin word for "and" plus the chemical symbol for sodium equals this volcano Etna |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | WORDS WITH ENEMIES $400: This literary word for an opponent or rival is also used for a muscle that works in opposition to another an antagonist |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | WORDS WITH ENEMIES $600: Batman has an enemy aptly named this, a 4-letter word for the worst thing "of your existence" Bane |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | MAKING WORDS $800: An Italian word meaning "from" plus Mr. Gore equals this old phone mechanism dial |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | WORDS WITH ENEMIES $1000: Agatha Christie & Philip Roth both have books called this, a word from myth for a formidable opponent Nemesis |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | MAKING WORDS $1200: A mantra word plus a pronoun equals this, to not include on a list omit |
| #7628, aired 2017-11-08 | WORDS FROM NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES $1000: The name of this raccoon-like mammal of Central and South America goes back to an Indian word for "wolverine" kinkajou |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $800: It sounds like a meal's last course, but this word is usually paired with "just" to describe karmic retribution deserts |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | "X"CELLENT 9-LETTER WORDS $1000: Put 2 letters before a word for nasty fumes to get this word for nasty behavior obnoxious |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $1200: Paired with "call", this word means a commanding gesture & not the "Devils Haircut" singer beck |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $1600: Depending on the context, this 4-letter word means country or friends when paired with "kin" kith |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | BORROWED WORDS $800: Today meaning "excessive pride", the Greek word hubris once meant foolishly trying to surpass these the gods |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | BORROWED WORDS $1600: A Spanish word meaning "alert" or "watchful", or an English word meaning an unauthorized law enforcer vigilante |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | BORROWED WORDS $2000: This name for soft, fur-lined boots is from a native word for "bearded seal", which they could be made from mukluks |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | AFTER WORDS $400: Get fancy & use this French word for "after", especially if you've just gone skiing après |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | AFTER WORDS $600: urbandictionary.com defines this 4-letter word meaning "in the near future" as "when we feel like it" soon |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | AFTER WORDS $800: This 2-word Latin phrase translates as "after this" but is generally used to mean "done with hindsight" post hoc |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: I demand the withdrawal of your opinion, or this word that means the same thing retraction |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's the compound word for the garment seen here--note the buttons a shirtdress |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: Clint Eastwood in "In the Line of Fire" laments the underuse of this 10-letter word for a ludicrous scheme or idea cockamamie |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | MODERN LINGO $1000: The portmanteau word stan, like the obsessed guy in the Eminem song, is derived from these 2 other words stalker and fan |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $800: In 1948 the winning word was this medical branch that deals with the treatment & prevention of mental illness P-S-Y-C-H-I-A-T-R-Y |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $1200: In 1981 Paige Pipkin buried the competition with this word for an ancient stone coffin S-A-R-C-O-P-H-A-G-U-S |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $1600: No yolk, 1928's winning word was this white part of an egg A-L-B-U-M-E-N |
| #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 |
| #7595, aired 2017-09-22 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: This word meaning "compulsory" or "obligatory" comes from the Latin for "command" mandatory |
| #7595, aired 2017-09-22 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: A meteorologist uses this word to describe showers that start & stop randomly throughout the day intermittent |
| #7593, aired 2017-09-20 | WORDS OF OPPOSITION $1600: In Hegel's thought history proceeds in a 3-phase pattern with this "A" word as the middle one antithesis |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | WORDS OF WISDOM $800: "Dis" word means careful to keep things confidential discreet |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | WORDS OF WISDOM $1200: There's a little mammalian insectivore in this word meaning "sharp in judgment" shrewd |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | 20th CENTURY WORDS $400: Before this word was common, some folks used "radio with pictures" television |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | 20th CENTURY WORDS $800: This word for a labor addict dates to 1947 a workaholic |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: This word can precede proof, stripping or bureau weather |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's the 7-letter word for the underground reservoir seen here a cistern |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | SAME CONSONANT WORDS $2000: Don't "dom" down this word for a territory granted by a lord to a vassal in return for service a fief |
| #7567, aired 2017-07-04 | NEW WORDS IN THE MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY $2000: This 16-letter word refers to a person who is 110 years old or older a supercentenarian |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: Those wacky Brits use this 4-letter word to mean "apartment" flat |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | "J" WORDS $600: One theory derives this word from the name of a Mexican town where many used, dilapidated American cars were sent jalopy |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: This Latin word means "father of the family" paterfamilias |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | -ISMS & -OLOGIES $5,600 (Daily Double): The 2 similar-sounding words for the study of insects & the study of word origins entomology and etymology |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | SPOKEN WORD GRAMMY AWARDS $600: "The Words of Gandhi" won an 1984 Grammy for this actor who spoke them Ben Kingsley |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | ALFALFA $1000: The word alfalfa comes from words meaning "fresh fodder" in this language Arabic |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | ROMAN NUMERAL WORDS $2000: I know we don't like each other, but can't we at least be this 5-letter word civil |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: This 2-word Arabic salutation means "Peace be with you" assalamu alaikum |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | AUTO-MATIC WORDS $200: A Spanish word for a type of celebration, if you can af-Ford it a fiesta |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | SWEAR WORDS $1200: To take the stand, or one-word title of a 1999 Rage Against the Machine song testify |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | WORDS OF THE YEAR $400: Merriam-Webster:
Not merely "real" but this word meaning weirdly unreal, like a dream surreal |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | WORDS OF THE YEAR $800: Collins Dictionary:
This word with a useful suffix to indicate leaving Brexit |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: Background music for a movie, or a line drawn beneath a word underscore |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | WORDS FOR TRAVELERS $2000: This French word for "travelers" is the name of a Minnesota national park voyageurs |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | WORDS FOR TRAVELERS $2,200 (Daily Double): The Italian word for "pilgrim" is this, also in the name of a sparkling water from the country Pellegrino |
| #7452, aired 2017-01-24 | THE MIND $400: As 2 words, it's what a light bulb will finally do; as one word, it's extreme stress & emotional fatigue burnout |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: This 11-letter word for a nightclub for dancing is French for "library of music records" a discotheque |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: The 2-word title of this Wayne Newton song is the German equivalent of "thank you very much" "Danke Schoen" |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | NEW WORDS IN THE 1600s $600: My anatomist doth dub it the "hipbone basin" but I must inform him that it is now known by this word of 6 letters the pelvis |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | NEW WORDS IN THE 1600s $800: From the zesty Italian tongue cometh this word for a large, plush residence; someday methinks it will have its own pants the palazzo |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | NEW WORDS IN THE 1600s $1000: Good news! No longer need we say "shedding its leaves at the end of its growing season"--herewith a word for that deciduous |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | WORDS OF PEACE $400: This peaceful word is also a lack of wind, making sailors feel unpeaceful calm |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | ONE-"I"d WORDS $1000: This 4-letter word meaning to cheat is what con men are said to do to widows & orphans bilk them |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | WORDS OF PEACE $2,000 (Daily Double): When the Eagle landed in 1969, this 11-letter word of peace was mentioned tranquility |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | BLENDED WORDS $400: This word with a double "Z" informally refers to a mayor hizzoner |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | PLACES THAT BECAME WORDS $600: A Hungarian town spelled K-O-C-S gave us this word for a class of travel or for a vehicle for travel coach |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | HISTORIC AGREEMENT WORDS $400: The 1939 Nazi-Soviet deal is usually called a nonaggression this 4-letter word pact |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | HISTORIC AGREEMENT WORDS $1600: In 1907 Britain, France & Russia formed the Triple this French word Entente |
| #7416, aired 2016-12-05 | MOTTOES $200: (I'm D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser.) The official motto of the District of Columbia translates to these 3 words that follow the word "and" in the Pledge of Allegiance justice for all |
| #7416, aired 2016-12-05 | TOUGH 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Fen is another word for this damp landscape area bog |
| #7409, aired 2016-11-24 | 1-CONSONANT WORDS $1000: Add 2 vowels to your 1 consonant to get this word, to strive in competition with another vie |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | CAN I HAVE A WORD? $400: To rubricate is to highlight with this color, such as Jesus' words in the New Testament red |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | LETTER WORDS $600: This word for the greeting that begins a letter comes from Latin for "health" salutation |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | LETTER WORDS $1000: The address & date at a letter's beginning, it's also a word for a ship's direction a heading |
| #7387, aired 2016-10-25 | WORD ORIGINS $1600: From the German, it's pleasure at someone's misfortune, combining words meaning "harm" & "joy" Schadenfreude |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: In "The Bells" Poe used this long word meaning the ringing of bells tintinnabulation |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | LATE WORDS $200: You'll find "late" in the middle of this word you use when you wish someone happy birthday the day after belated |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | LATE WORDS $400: Many schools have policies against being this 5-letter late word tardy |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | "L"8 WORDS $2000: It's the word for the type of musician seen here a lutenist |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | BOY SCOUT LAW WORDS $200: "A scout is trustworthy...", then this word describing one faithful to a leader or friend loyal |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | BOY SCOUT LAW WORDS $600: Immaculate is a synonym for this word that can precede "getaway" or a "sweep" clean |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | FORBIDDING WORDS $1200: It's not forbidden to tell you that it's the German word for "forbidden" that has entered the English language verboten |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | ONOMATOPOETIC WORDS $800: 4-letter spelling of the word the OED says is imitative of "the sound made in clearing the throat" A-H-E-M |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | HYBRID WORDS $200: Your mechanic loves this word from the Greek for "self" & the Latin for "move" automobile |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | ADVERBS THAT DON'T END IN -LY $2000: Bloviating speeches are full of words meaning "in addition", like "moreover" & this word with the "more" at the end furthermore |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | SONG WORDS $200: This old word for a song also follows "Frito" on a bag of chips lay |
| #7335, aired 2016-07-01 | WORDS IN JEOPARDY $1600: Verily, in the King James Bible, the 23rd Psalm says this word, "though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death" yea |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | WAR OF THE WORDS $400: A public official might have this war word "of interest" & have to recuse himself a conflict |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | WAR OF THE WORDS $800: This word for a military fight can be found in front of "axe" or "cry" battle |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | WAR OF THE WORDS $1200: This 4-letter word can mean a boxing match or a period of illness a bout |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | WAR OF THE WORDS $1600: 3 E's are the only vowels you need to spell this French word for a fight a melee |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | WORDS WITH FRIENDS $200: This word for a stupid or gullible person contains a "chum" of yours chump |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | WORDS WITH FRIENDS $400: You'll find a dear "crony" in this type of word formed from the initial letters of other words an acronym |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | WORDS WITH FRIENDS $800: Someday you'll get used to this word meaning "to adapt"; it features a "mate' of yours acclimate |
| #7309, aired 2016-05-26 | WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT $200: This short helping word is often found after foreign, first or hearing aid |
| #7309, aired 2016-05-26 | WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT $800: This encouraging word is also a floating item used for navigation buoy |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | WORDS FROM THE PORTUGUESE $400: This word from the Portuguese for "pond" can mean a battlefield vehicle or a home for your pet fish a tank |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: Orators know Latin for "to speak" gives us this word for the art of public speaking elocution |
| #7281, aired 2016-04-18 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $1600: There are 3 birds jammed into this portmanteau word for the poultry dish equivalent of Russian nesting dolls a turducken |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | ONE-VOWEL WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Sir Toby Belch is a character in this Shakespeare comedy with a 2-word, 2-vowel title Twelfth Night |
| #7256, aired 2016-03-14 | MUSICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Meaning dull, this word is composed of a vocal intonation & musical instrument humdrum |
| #7223, aired 2016-01-27 | "Z" WORDS $400: This 2-word term for the start time of a military operation zero hour |
| #7223, aired 2016-01-27 | "Z" WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): This eponymic word for Mexican rebels of the 1910s & their modern descendants Zapatistas |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | SPELLING BEE WORDS $2000: French word for a phase of the moon or a buttery pastry C-R-O-I-S-S-A-N-T |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | WORDS OF DESIRE $800: Pregnant ladies wanting pickles in their ice cream are familiar with this word, from the Old English for "to demand" crave |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | FIGHTIN' WORDS $1000: In WWI & again in WWII, the Allies countered U-boat threats by sailing in these groups, from a word meaning "escort" convoys |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | MEASURED WORDS $200: This word of measure can precede "bird" "-of-ale" & "stick" yard |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | MEASURED WORDS $600: This word found before "of women Voters" is also a distance of about 3 miles league |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | DOUBLE F WORDS $800: This word means operating disconnected from an associated computer offline |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | WORDS & PHRASES $800: This 3-word phrase at the end of Warner Bros. cartoons was first uttered in 1930 "That's all, folks" |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | 2 WORDS $400: 2-word equivalent of the German word danke thank you |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | "TOO" WORDS $400: Originally this 2-word bird term meant a decoy; it came to mean an informer, ya lousy mug stool pigeon |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | 2 WORDS $800: Per the OED this 2-word term for websites & apps that allow users to network dates back only to 2004 social media |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: The name of the muse of dancing spins & twists into adjective form as this word terpsichorean |
| #7174, aired 2015-11-19 | AUTOLOGICAL WORDS $400: This word describing Greek culture is from the Greek, of course Hellenic |
| #7174, aired 2015-11-19 | AUTOLOGICAL WORDS $800: Adjective for a word that you say by passing air through your schnozz nasal |
| #7174, aired 2015-11-19 | WORDS IN FLOWERS $800: This other word for a country is in bloom nation (in carnation) |
| #7174, aired 2015-11-19 | AUTOLOGICAL WORDS $1200: This word specifically means having 5 syllables pentasyllabic |
| #7174, aired 2015-11-19 | AUTOLOGICAL WORDS $1600: It's a divided word, but without that little line or dash used to connect unhyphenated |
| #7161, aired 2015-11-02 | DOUBLE LETTER 6-LETTER WORDS $1000: A flubber in the fairway, a bungler in the bunker duffer |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | THESE WORDS COULD GO ON A DIET $1200: The Latin for "body" gives us this 9-letter word that needs a diet corpulent |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | THESE WORDS COULD GO ON A DIET $1600: Take a boxing blow, insert an "A" & you get this word for a big belly paunch |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | THESE WORDS COULD GO ON A DIET $2000: This word that means "resembling swine" rhymes with "swine" porcine |
| #7132, aired 2015-09-22 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $600: Unpack the portmanteau word "bit" & you'll find it's made up of this word & "digit" binary |
| #7132, aired 2015-09-22 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $1000: It's the word for online clickbait pieces with titles like "14 Ways Ferns Can Change Your Life" a listicle |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | "ROID" RAGE $800: This word comes from Greek words meaning "human form" android |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | 2- OR 12-LETTER WORDS $400: A shtnd. frm. of a wd. used to rep. the wle. abbreviation |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | SELF-RHYMING "H" WORDS $800: There's a musical instrument in the name of this word meaning "boring" humdrum |
| #7098, aired 2015-06-24 | ANAGRAMMED WORLD $1000: We kissed at this river's source in the Czech Republic & I'd like a redo Oder (from redo) |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | IN SO MANY WORDS $2000: One word:
The motto of ever-optimistic Rhode Island "Hope" |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | VOCABULARY $2000: From words meaning "shape" & "science", it's the study of word structure morphology |
| #7076, aired 2015-05-25 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $200: The little-used word diaphane provides this transparent packaging material with the second half of its name cellophane |
| #7074, aired 2015-05-21 | ODD WORDS $2000: Jenny is a female donkey, & this similar word is the offspring of a female donkey & a male horse hinny |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | ACTION WORDS $1200: Pugnacious word preceding "in" when you deal with the time clock at work punch |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | BIG WORDS $1200: Webster says this word may be an "alteration of huge + monstrous" humongous |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | WORDS BORROWED FROM INDIA $200: This word for clothes now usually worn to bed translates as "leg garments" pajamas |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | WORDS BORROWED FROM INDIA $400: This word is used for a Pacific hurricane a typhoon |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | WORDS BORROWED FROM INDIA $800: This word for a state of spiritual bliss might make you think of grunge music Nirvana |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $600: When we say someone let out a stream of Anglo-Saxon words, we usually mean he used this type of word cursing |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | FOREIGN WORDS IN SONG TITLES $800: This 3-word Spanish Santana title says, "Hear how it goes", it being a great jam Oye Como Va |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: This 2-word Greek phrase means the common people, but it has been improperly used to mean the upper crust of society hoi polloi |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $5,000 (Daily Double): It's the Italian word for "You're welcome", not "You're with child" prego |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | 8-LETTER WORDS $2000: Be of good "humor" & say this word that means pertaining to glass vitreous |
| #6991, aired 2015-01-26 | BAD WORDS $600: The movie "Bad Words" got a 65% from the website with this bad word in its name Rotten |
| #6984, aired 2015-01-15 | WORDS OF FORGIVENESS $1600: This word meaning to disregard or give tacit approval is easy to "C" condone |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | FAMOUS FIRST WORDS $2000: We'll be cruel & ask for the first word in the first line of "The Waste Land" April |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | THE $1 BILL $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows currency on the monitor.) At the top of each bill are the words "this note is..." this two-word phrase "...for all debts public and private" legal tender |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: The name of this yellowish white color is from a word for "elephant" ivory |
| #6968, aired 2014-12-24 | WORDS IN THE FIRST AMENDMENT $1200: The first word, in 2014 they had about a 15% approval rating Congress |
| #6962, aired 2014-12-16 | GETTING LUCKY WORDS $1200: This word can mean good luck & also great wealth, as when it precedes "hunter" fortune |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: When used as a charm, this magic word was written out in a triangular arrangement abracadabra |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: The name of a god of wine gives us this word for an orgy or a drunken feast bacchanalia |
| #6955, aired 2014-12-05 | SHORTENED WORDS $1000: Pants;
the longer word comes from the name of a character in Italian comedy pantaloon |
| #6954, aired 2014-12-04 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: To coin a word, it's one of 4 equal parts quarter |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | THANKS FOR THE KIND WORDS $200: You do this delicate word to your resignation as you offer it tender |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | THANKS FOR THE KIND WORDS $600: This 8-letter word meaning friendly & agreeable often precedes "divorce" amicable |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | WORDS FROM THE TECH WORLD $400: The novel "Snow Crash" popularized this word from Hinduism to mean an online representation an avatar |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | WORDS FROM THE TECH WORLD $1200: There's a preposition in this word for a solution that circumvents a problem without fixing it a workaround |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | WORDS FROM THE TECH WORLD $1600: Add 4 letters to a term for messing with a computer to get this word for streamlining your daily existence life hacking |
| #6932, aired 2014-11-04 | WORDS THAT START WITH CONJUNCTIONS $400: Dairy product term for someone who drops things a lot butterfingers |
| #6932, aired 2014-11-04 | WORDS THAT START WITH CONJUNCTIONS $1200: This word for any painful experience also refers to a medieval trial whose outcome showed God's will ordeal |
| #6930, aired 2014-10-31 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $800: From the Greek for "good speech", it's a mild word substituted for an offensive one a euphemism |
| #6930, aired 2014-10-31 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $1,400 (Daily Double): Swatch, formed from "Swiss" & "watch", is this French-named type of word formed from parts of other words a portmanteau |
| #6898, aired 2014-09-17 | "NINE" LETTER WORDS $800: Proverbially, you're on this 2-word place if you're perfectly happy cloud nine |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | A FEW WORDS WITH "MOM" & "DAD" $2000: Meaning "city", this word comes before "Juarez" & "de Mexico" Ciudad |
| #6894, aired 2014-07-31 | WORD ORIGINS $800: The conversation between play characters, it's from Greek words for "across" & "speech" dialogue |
| #6892, aired 2014-07-29 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: This word, the "S" in ASPCA, squeezes 4 syllables into just 7 letters Society |
| #6887, aired 2014-07-22 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1200: A mathematician's 9-year-old nephew came up with this word for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros googol |
| #6871, aired 2014-06-30 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Scrabble players know it's a 3-letter word for meadow a lea |
| #6868, aired 2014-06-25 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: Meaning "to dispense with", this word sounds like a gesture of hello waive |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $800: 1-word term for a conservation-minded vacation to places having unspoiled natural resources ecotourism |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1200: The derivation & history of a word etymology |
| #6836, aired 2014-05-12 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: This word denoting a counterpart is German & means "double-walker" Doppelgänger |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | 12+-LETTER WORDS $400: This "superior" word often precedes "meditation" transcendental |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $1000: This "choice" word is also the color gold in heraldry or |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | WORDS OF PAIN $1000: Elliott Smith sang "Miss" this word that denotes wretchedness; get to the depths of it misery |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | "WORD" WORDS $400: "Newspaper puzzle",
9 letters,
fourth & fifth are "S";
hmmm... crossword |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | "WORD" WORDS $800: A secret word to gain access, or a classic TV game show password |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | "WORD" WORDS $1200: In a book it's like an introduction but usually by someone other than the author the foreword |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | "WORD" WORDS $1600: If I said "insane", & you replied "spouse", we'd be doing this 2-"word" test, & your marriage might be in trouble word association |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | "WORD" WORDS $2000: The opening of the book of Genesis is echoed in this 6-word opening of the Gospel according to John "In the beginning was the word" |
| #6794, aired 2014-03-13 | TREE WORDS $400: To feel a lingering, often nostalgic desire, it's from an Old English word meaning "cause to suffer" pine |
| #6784, aired 2014-02-27 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: Another word for poisonous, it can also describe a bad relationship toxic |
| #6779, aired 2014-02-20 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $200: The name of this type of doctor comes from the Latin for "beast of burden" veterinarian |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | NON-NAUGHTY WORDS $600: This non-naughty 5-letter "B" word means to bungle a task botch |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | NON-NAUGHTY WORDS $800: 1-word energy industry technique that's the subject of the film "Gasland" fracking |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | JUST A WORD BEFORE GOING $1,000 (Daily Double): A final manifesto attributed to him in 1883 was "Last words are for fools who haven't said enough" (Karl) Marx |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: This synonym for "insolvent" comes partly from a Latin word for "broken" bankrupt |
| #6763, aired 2014-01-29 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: This 5-syllable adjective describes a word having only one syllable monosyllabic |
| #6763, aired 2014-01-29 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: This word meaning "sure to occur" often follows "bow to the" inevitable |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | COMPOUND WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): A vehicle for hire; its component words can each be a synonym of the compound word a taxicab |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: Bored-sounding 3-letter poetic word meaning "over there" yon |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $800: A 1988 body-switching movie comedy, or a 2-word Latin term meaning "conversely" vice versa |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | AWED WORDS $2000: The Latin mirabilis gave us this word for something awesome or what we do "at" it marvel |
| #6717, aired 2013-11-26 | FOOD WORDS CREATED IN THE AMERICAS $600: 5-letter word for meat in strips that has been preserved by drying jerky |
| #6717, aired 2013-11-26 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: This word for intricate or complicated literally means "having overlapping folds" convoluted |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $400: This alliterative 2-word term means a haughty attitude; to become less arrogant, you've got to get off it high horse |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | IN "MOTHER" WORDS $1200: Stones fans know this 3-word slang term for a tranquilizer mother's little helper |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | CEREMONIES $400: As 2 words, it's an important religious ceremony for Plains Indians; as 1 word, it's Robert Redford's Utah film festival sun dance (Sundance) |
| #6677, aired 2013-10-01 | SOME 4-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's a South African word meaning to travel by ox wagon: a "Great" one began in 1835 a trek |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: Some choices come down to "quality versus" this "Q" word quantity |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: People in Paris mainly use this word to say yes, yes, yes all the way home oui |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Beethoven put this Italian word for a brisk tempo on 3 of the 4 movements of his Fifth Symphony allegro |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Hyphenated word that describes the 2-level buses of London double-decker |
| #6656, aired 2013-07-22 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $400: The name of the goddess Juno moneta gave us the words money & this, a place to produce money a mint |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | COMPOUND WORDS $400: The British use this 9-letter word for what we call a vest waistcoat |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | POKER WORDS $800: 2-word term for why Joseph & Mary were refused lodging full house |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | "UP" WORDS $400: This "up" word is a term in both boxing & bridge uppercut |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: This word for a group of people traveling with pack animals, perhaps across a desert, is derived from Persian caravan |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: From a word for "chest of drawers", it's the set of clothing & bedding for a newborn child layette |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | WORDS OF WONDER $200: "at" often follows this word, also the name of a comic book company marvel |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | WORDS OF WONDER $1000: This "-ish"y word is from the Latin for "to strike with thunder" astonish |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | WAR OF WORDS $400: This 4-letter word is a weapon in 2 senses: a club with a spiked head & a nonlethal spray mace |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | WAR OF WORDS $1200: This term that goes back to a word for "boy" or "youth" referred to those soldiers too inexperienced for the cavalry infantry |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | "GR"8 WORDS $2000: We use this Latin word to mean appropriate seriousness or solemnity gravitas |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: Statements you know to be false, put out in order to influence others' behavior disinformation |
| #6596, aired 2013-04-29 | "ON"WORDS & "UP"WORDS $400: This word is frequently used to describe approaching traffic oncoming |
| #6595, aired 2013-04-26 | ODD WORDS $1600: Those born under Jupiter's sign were supposed to be joyful & this word describing them is derived from Jupiter's alias jovial |
| #6595, aired 2013-04-26 | ODD WORDS $2000: Put these 3 letters, meaning "mouth", in front of "-smacked" & you get a word meaning "flabbergasted" gob |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1200: Familial word before "Bell" in an alternate name for AT&T Ma |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | KILLER WORDS, MAN $1200: To cry out loudly in pain or fear is to scream bloody this 6-letter word murder |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | KILLER WORDS, MAN $1600: This word follows Boston & Amritsar for events that took place in 1770 & 1919, respectively massacre |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | DIRTY 4-LETTER WORDS $400: In 1905 Dr. H.A. des Voeux coined this word for the air pollution created by the Industrial Revolution smog |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | COMPOUND WORDS $800: This word was coined in the 1800s for a pattern of movement by Aborigines; today Aussies use it for any trip a walkabout |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | DIRTY 4-LETTER WORDS $1200: In 1961 sen. Robert Byrd opined that many novels "seem to be deliberately loaded with" this word for obscene material "smut" |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | DIRTY 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: Chimney sweeps know this word for fine black particles resulting from incomplete combustion soot |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | DIRTY 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: A trademarked degreasing solvent gave us this word for a thick greasy substance gunk |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | LETTERS & WORDS $600: From Quechua, it's the word for bats' or birds' droppings guano |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: German word for a political union, like the one that joined Germany & Austria in 1938 Anschluss |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | WORDS FOUND BEFORE BEAR $800: 4-letter word of disdain; when doubled, it's a verb meaning to dismiss pooh |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | WORDS FOUND BEFORE BEAR $1200: The Maharishi sometimes used this word as part of his name Yogi |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | WORDS FOUND BEFORE BEAR $1600: This city name comes from an Illinois Native American word for the wild leek Chicago |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $200: Mission: this 10-letter word meaning hopelessly difficult; the clue will self-destruct in one second impossible |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: In Olympic gymnastic events, it precedes "all-around men" & "all-around women" individual |
| #6505, aired 2012-12-21 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $1600: An irrational number can't be expressed as one of these between 2 integers ratio |
| #6492, aired 2012-12-04 | DOUBLE "L" WORDS $200: To plunder, or the loot that was plundered pillage |
| #6492, aired 2012-12-04 | "FOUR" LETTER WORDS $800: 2-word theater term for the imaginary item that separates the actors from the audience the fourth wall |
| #6492, aired 2012-12-04 | DOUBLE "L" WORDS $800: The name of this game comes from a French word for "cue" billiards |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $600: A Phrygian king is the source for this 2-word phrase for the talent for making wealth out of any business endeavor the Midas touch |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | 17th CENTURY WORDS $800: In Newton's day this word was first used to mean the band of colors produced when light passes through a prism a spectrum |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | 17th CENTURY WORDS $2000: In the 1640s English physician Sir Thomas Browne coined this word to mean "before Noah's flood" antediluvian |
| #6474, aired 2012-11-08 | TOUGH 2-LETTER WORDS $2000: Ut is a version of the musical note also known by the word do & by this letter C |
| #6466, aired 2012-10-29 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Aha! I have found it, this Greek word that's the state motto of California Eureka |
| #6466, aired 2012-10-29 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: This 2-word French term for an incorrigible child sounds a lot worse than it is enfant terrible |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | EURO COINS $1200: This 3-word motto of the French Republic is on France's 1- & 2-euro coins liberté, égalité & fraternité |
| #6448, aired 2012-10-03 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: Advertisers use this word to indicate that their yummy product will make you drool mouthwatering |
| #6440, aired 2012-09-21 | NOW A FEW WORDS $200: This 4-letter word for a type of jazz singing is also used to shoo cats scat |
| #6440, aired 2012-09-21 | NOW A FEW WORDS $800: This 11-letter word can mean to plan & organize an event or to arrange music orchestrate |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | MATH WORDS $1200: Don't be dense; tell us this word for an angle of more than 90 but fewer than 180 degrees obtuse |
| #6434, aired 2012-08-02 | CHILDISH WORDS $2000: 3-letter word meaning to jest kid |
| #6428, aired 2012-07-25 | WORDS FROM ARABIC $1600: The fragrant name of this "Aladdin" princess comes from an Arabic word Jasmine |
| #6428, aired 2012-07-25 | WORDS FROM ARABIC $2000: We've hit bottom with this 5-letter word from the Arabic for "opposite the zenith" nadir |
| #6425, aired 2012-07-20 | INVENTIVE AD WORDS $200: This sandwich chain that gave us Jared also gave us a new word to describe its products--"meltilicious" Subway |
| #6425, aired 2012-07-20 | INVENTIVE AD WORDS $1000: Don't look in the dictionary for "swapportunity", a word provided by this brand that makes Go-gurt Yoplait |
| #6422, aired 2012-07-17 | SMART WORDS $200: If you're "cut to" this 5-letter word, you're injured deeply the quick |
| #6422, aired 2012-07-17 | SMART WORDS $600: "A word to the" this (& hopefully that's you right now): it means informed or in the know wise |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | WORDS WITH FRIENDS $200: Marc Antony precedes "I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him" with this 7-word line "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" |
| #6410, aired 2012-06-29 | HEATED WORDS $600: 5-letter word meaning to affect painfully with hot liquid or steam scald |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | SCANDINAVIAN WORDS WE ALL USE $200: Swedish gave us this word for a buffet meal a smorgasbord |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | SCANDINAVIAN WORDS WE ALL USE $400: This word for a downhill zigzag ski race marked by poles or gates is from the Norwegian a slalom |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | SCANDINAVIAN WORDS WE ALL USE $800: This word for a bicycle that also has a low-powered gasoline engine was coined in Sweden a moped |
| #6402, aired 2012-06-19 | I HOPS $400: ...into a word meaning "distant" to make it a county exhibition fair (and) far |
| #6394, aired 2012-06-07 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1600: From the Latin for "mother" comes this word meaning to enroll in college for a degree to matriculate |
| #6387, aired 2012-05-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: Meaning "immeasurably small", it comes from a word meaning "immeasurably large" infinitesimal |
| #6385, aired 2012-05-25 | NEW WORDS & PHRASES $800: 10-letter word for a person who has an abnormal fear of bacterial or viral infection a germophobe |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | BOOK LEARNIN' $1200: The full title of the novel that Daniel Defoe wrote about this guy is 68 words long; one key word of the 68--"Shipwreck" Robinson Crusoe |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | ODD WORDS $1200: Influenced by "gene", it's a 4-letter word for a unit of cultural information a meme |
| #6364, aired 2012-04-26 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $1600: The British borrowed this word for a table napkin from the French a serviette |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | MILES' STANDOFFISH WORDS $800: A saved seat is said to be this, also a word meaning formal in manner that describes Miles perfectly reserved |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | MILES' STANDOFFISH WORDS $1200: "Oo", Miles has a reputation for being this 5-letter word meaning remote & indifferent aloof |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | MILES' STANDOFFISH WORDS $1600: This word can describe the dispassionate Miles, or an injured retina detached |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | MILES' STANDOFFISH WORDS $2000: If lawyer Miles retracts an objection he made in court, he uses this 9-letter word that also means shy withdrawn |
| #6360, aired 2012-04-20 | ONOMATOPOETIC WORDS $600: This 3-letter onomatopoetic word can precede gun or top pop |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | SHAPELY WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Civilizations in the Middle East & the Mediterranean basin began in the agricultural region with this 2-word nickname the Fertile Crescent |
| #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 |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | BIG WORDS $800: This word means any statue that is larger than life, not just the one of Helios at Rhodes colossus |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | BIG WORDS $1200: Some New Yorkers pronounce this big 4-letter word as if the first letter was "Y", not "H" huge |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | BIG WORDS $1600: A book about Senator Joe McCarthy is called "A Conspiracy So" this word literally meaning not measurable immense |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | WRITERS' WORDS $200: The formal, concise statement of the meaning of a word; I worked out for weeks to get it for my muscles definition |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | WRITERS' WORDS $400: It's a French word for a trite phrase, & the French have their own, like "J'ai dormi comme une souche", "I slept like a stump" a cliché |
| #6328, aired 2012-03-07 | 7-LETTER WORDS $600: This word can precede balloon, bureau & vane weather |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | SIMILAR-SOUNDING WORDS $200: Affect means to produce a change in; with this new first letter, you get a result E (effect accepted) |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | SIMILAR-SOUNDING WORDS $600: Censor means to ban; this 7-letter word is a vehement expression of disapproval censure |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | SIMILAR-SOUNDING WORDS $800: Ingenious means clever; this similar-sounding word means innocent or naive ingenuous |
| #6320, aired 2012-02-24 | WEBSTER'S LAST WORDS $600: I:
British comedian Eddie knows it's another word for the letter "Z" izzard |
| #6320, aired 2012-02-24 | WEBSTER'S LAST WORDS $800: O:
This 11-letter word for the atmospheric layer made up of O3 ozonosphere |
| #6298, aired 2012-01-25 | 20th CENTURY WORDS & PHRASES $200: A scientist came up with this blended word after reading a paper on "'fog and smoke" smog |
| #6298, aired 2012-01-25 | 20th CENTURY WORDS & PHRASES $400: This 2-word term for the idea that a computer could think like a human was coined in the 1950s artificial intelligence |
| #6298, aired 2012-01-25 | 20th CENTURY WORDS & PHRASES $600: This word for a large self-service store that sells household goods as well as groceries hit the shelves in 1933 a supermarket |
| #6298, aired 2012-01-25 | 20th CENTURY WORDS & PHRASES $800: This 9-letter word popped up for a place where you could enjoy a beverage or a light meal while using your computer a cybercafe |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: This mystical word used in mantras contains 3 sounds, but in English it's 2 letters om |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: "To say or utter" is one of the American Heritage Dictionary's many definitions for this word--ask any teen go |
| #6293, aired 2012-01-18 | ANY FIRST WORDS? $2000: Jung was fond of this word, an original pattern from which all similar things are based an archetype |
| #6290, aired 2012-01-13 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $600: A type of beer & another word for a bet lager & wager |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This Greek word is also used in English & means a cleansing of the emotions, especially pity & fear catharsis |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | THERE'S A WORD FOR THAT $1200: We could call this vocabulary category (one of our favorites) TETRAGRAMS FOUR-LETTER WORDS |
| #6265, aired 2011-12-09 | TRANSPOSITION WORDS $1000: It's another word fer cuspidor (fer yer tobaccy, ya low-down varmint!) a spittoon |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $1200: This 8-letter word for a collection of blood, usually clotted, comes from words for "blood" & "tumor" hematoma |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | 4-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $1200: Here's a little test--if you're lucky enough to play this as the opening word, you'll score 44 points quiz |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | 4-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $1600: With double Fs you might play this word meaning full of uncertainty iffy |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | 4-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $2000: You'll use up 3 vowels playing this word that means toward the side of a ship that's sheltered from the wind alee |
| #6255, aired 2011-11-25 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $200: This 9-letter word for a procession of cars is often used to refer to that of the U.S. president a motorcade |
| #6255, aired 2011-11-25 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $1000: This word refers to the visible path in the wake of an aircraft a contrail |
| #6254, aired 2011-11-24 | NEW WORDS & PHRASES $600: Merriam-Webster gives 1988 as the date this masculine word evolved from "bimbo", 1 letter different himbo |
| #6254, aired 2011-11-24 | NUDE WORDS & PHRASES $1200: If you went swimming "in the" this word, it doesn't mean in undyed leather, as it might imply buff |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: The name of this heavy blade is Spanish, probably from a word meaning "a large hammer" a machete |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: This 2-word term was first used for a French & Italian pidgin developed by crusaders & traders lingua franca |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: This 5-letter Latin word meaning "about" or "around" is used of approximate dates circa |
| #6245, aired 2011-11-11 | SILENT-LETTERED WORDS $1200: P:
This French word for a highly successful & unexpected act a coup |
| #6245, aired 2011-11-11 | SILENT-LETTERED WORDS $2000: S:
This 7-letter word that means "fitting" or "opportunely" apropos |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | 2011 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $400: Round 2 included this French-derived word for the supporting frame of a car the chassis |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | 2011 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $1600: Early in Round 3 was this Spanish word for cowboy vaquero |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | 2011 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $2000: Round 8 served up this 10-letter Japanese word for meat & vegetables cooked tableside on a griddle teppanyaki |
| #6237, aired 2011-11-01 | WORDS CONTAINING BODY PARTS $800: Past tense word meaning "rejected a bill passed by the legislature" vetoed |
| #6223, aired 2011-10-12 | WORLD OF WORDS $1000: Probably the one Icelandic word everybody knows is this one for a spewing hot spring a geyser |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | ANGRY WORDS $800: They said I was this 3-letter word meaning angry or insane--I am this! This, I tell you! mad |
| #6206, aired 2011-09-19 | FROM "B" TO "Y" $1000: A tongue twister mentions rubber bumpers on this 2-word conveyance (both words fit the category) baby buggy |
| #6192, aired 2011-07-12 | SMALL WORDS $400: French for "small", this word can refer to a garment size or to the gal who wears one petite |
| #6192, aired 2011-07-12 | SMALL WORDS $800: This 3-letter word can refer to something really small or the early hours of the morning wee |
| #6192, aired 2011-07-12 | SMALL WORDS $1200: This word that's used to describe the weight class of a boxer first meant a small chicken bantam |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | BUMMER WORDS, MAN $2000: This word is found after clinical, manic & postpartum depression |
| #6164, aired 2011-06-02 | MODERN WORDS $400: A 5-letter word said once or repeated, it's flashy jewelry worn as an indication of wealth bling |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $200: It's the first 3-syllable word in the text of the King James Bible beginning |
| #6136, aired 2011-04-25 | "V" 8-LETTER WORDS $600: Word for word verbatim |
| #6133, aired 2011-04-20 | YOU COULD "WIN" $1200: As 1 word, it means charming in a childlike way; as 2 words, it's part of a saying meaning life has ups & downs winsome |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | ODD 4-LETTER WORDS $1200: Led Zeppelin knows that this word refers to a concluding passage of a musical piece or a ballet a coda |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | ODD 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: This word from Heinlein's "Stranger In A Strange Land" means "to communicate sympathetically" grok |
| #6089, aired 2011-02-17 | WORDS & PHRASES $400: The word language comes from "lingua", Latin for this body part tongue |
| #6089, aired 2011-02-17 | WORDS & PHRASES $800: It pairs with "odds" in a 3-word term for miscellaneous items ends |
| #6089, aired 2011-02-17 | WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Today representing a family or country, it's the 3-word name for the emblem painted on a medieval knight's shield a coat of arms |
| #6089, aired 2011-02-17 | WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Heard here, this musical style that combines Caribbean & Creole influences may take its name from the French word for "beans" zydeco |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | 4-LETTER "S" WORDS $800: This French word means "without" sans |
| #6076, aired 2011-01-31 | THE JOY OF 6-LETTER WORDS $1200: This French word for "truth" is often found after "cinema" verite |
| #6061, aired 2011-01-10 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: From the Latin for "cannot grasp" comes this word meaning "impossible to understand" incomprehensible |
| #6061, aired 2011-01-10 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $1600: In 2006 the U.S. Army & the Marine Corps released a new field manual for this word, dealing with rebellion counterinsurgency |
| #6061, aired 2011-01-10 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $4,000 (Daily Double): Meaning "before the flood", this word refers to something or someone very old antediluvian |
| #6044, aired 2010-12-16 | CURSE WORDS $400: After Eliza Doolittle uttered this sanguine British word, it was termed "the Shavian adjective" bloody |
| #6044, aired 2010-12-16 | CURSE WORDS $1600: It sounds like Mr. Peckinpah's little mountain, but this 2-word phrase is actually a euphemism for hell sam hill |
| #6044, aired 2010-12-16 | CURSE WORDS $2000: "Maranatha" often followed this 9-letter word used as an ecclesiastical curse involving excommunication anathema |
| #6029, aired 2010-11-25 | STRONG WORDS $400: From the Latin for "energy" or "force" comes this word sometimes paired with vim vigor |
| #6029, aired 2010-11-25 | STRONG WORDS $800: This word for a strong man shares its name with a Georgia-Pacific paper product brawny |
| #6029, aired 2010-11-25 | STRONG WORDS $1600: Meaning tough or resilient, this 6-letter word refers to tendons sinewy |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | SAY THE MAGIC WORDS $200: Scholars don't know the origin of this magic word; one theory is that it comes from Hebrew berakah, "blessing" abracadabra |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | SAY THE MAGIC WORDS $600: Gol-lee! When Billy Batson spoke this word, he became Captain Marvel shazam |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | SAY THE MAGIC WORDS $1000: The first part of this 2-word term used to make something transform comes from Italian for "soon" presto chango |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | SAY THE MAGIC WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): This 2-word term originated in an old tale as a way to get into a locked cave open sesame |
| #6006, aired 2010-10-25 | BEST SPOKEN WORD GRAMMY $1,000 (Daily Double): "The Words of Gandhi"
(1984) Ben Kingsley |
| #6000, aired 2010-10-15 | 4-LETTER WORDS $600: This word for factual information is a Latin plural, but most English speakers treat it as singular data |
| #5999, aired 2010-10-14 | VARIETY PACK $800: The words tanning & tannin come from an old German word for this mighty tree, once the main source of tannin an oak |
| #5986, aired 2010-09-27 | WORDS FROM THE PERSIAN $200: This general term for confections loved by children is from the word meaning sugar candy |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | WORDS WITH DIACRITICAL MARKS $2000: This 2-word Native American tribe lived in the Pacific Northwest the Nez Percé |
| #5981, aired 2010-09-20 | YOUR HONOR, I OBJECT! $600: Counsel is putting words in the witness' mouth with this type of question; the word also means "in first place" a leading question |
| #5969, aired 2010-07-22 | THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS! $1000: This 2-word term sounds like a fight between kings, but it's really a large, usually intense conflict a battle royal |
| #5965, aired 2010-07-16 | "HY" FIVE $400: Mark my words, it often connects parts of a compound word a hyphen |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | BOOK WORDS $800: Imposing adherence to a commitment, this word can be found in front of arbitration binding |
| #5958, aired 2010-07-07 | EXCEPTIONAL WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): It's a 5-letter word for "poisonous" toxic |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the word for what college costs; for 2009-10, Vassar's was $41,335, so start saving tuition |
| #5936, aired 2010-06-07 | WORDS FROM RELIGION $800: 5-letter word for the set of books that have authority in a religion & no, you can't fire it off canon |
| #5936, aired 2010-06-07 | WORDS FROM RELIGION $2000: Lao-Tzu referred to this 3-letter word as "the unproduced producer of all that is" Tao |
| #5931, aired 2010-05-31 | SILENT-LETTERED WORDS $600: 5-letter word for a small morsel of bread or cake a crumb |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | WORDS ON THE QWERTY ROW $2000: 10-letter word for the owner of a hotel proprietor |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | TOOL WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Single word meaning to disembark from an aircraft deplane |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | TOOL WORDS & PHRASES $1600: The members of an organization aside from its leaders are this 3-word term rank and file |
| #5909, aired 2010-04-29 | WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS $600: The children seen here are practicing the Cold War drill known by this 3-word term duck and cover |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | FUN WITH WORDS $400: A French writer knows "bon mot" translates literally as this good word |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | FUN WITH WORDS $1,600 (Daily Double): Its the New World country that takes its name from a Latin word for a metal Argentina |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: This word for a buddy or chum is often followed by "around" pal |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | "CEL"EBRITY WORDS $2000: Originally this word meant "unmarried"; its other meaning is a more recent development celibate |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | WINNING WORDS $2000: The hymn title these "Kings Their Titles Take" was the only phrase Dr. Spooner admitted spoonerizing conquering |
| #5892, aired 2010-04-06 | 7-"L"ETTER WORDS $800: Old word for chronic pain in the lower back lumbago |
| #5891, aired 2010-04-05 | OTHER 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: Etymologically related to "duress" is this word meaning glum dour |
| #5890, aired 2010-04-02 | WORDS AND THEIR MEANINGS $800: This word for underwear also refers to parts of a dresser; the word denotes something moved by pulling drawers |
| #5890, aired 2010-04-02 | WORDS AND THEIR MEANINGS $2000: The first use of this term in print was by Raymond Chandler; the second word plays on the word investigator a private eye |
| #5887, aired 2010-03-30 | WE NEED AN ANSWER $400: 2-word reply by Calvin Coolidge to a woman who said she'd made a bet she could get more that 2 words out of him "You lose." |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: As an adjective, this word can refer to a document drawn up in 1787; as a noun, it means a healthy walk a constitutional |
| #5871, aired 2010-03-08 | WORDS CONTAINING ROMAN NUMERALS $600: This word for an add-on at the start of a word ends with the Roman numeral 9 prefix |
| #5865, aired 2010-02-26 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $400: Exoteric, meaning "simple" or "commonplace", is the opposite of this word, one letter different esoteric |
| #5861, aired 2010-02-22 | INSTRUMENTAL WORDS $600: 2-word term for one who gives a kidney or lung an organ donor |
| #5856, aired 2010-02-15 | THAT'S THE KIND OF MAN I WANT $400: Give me a man who's this brave 4-letter word, like the last few words of the clue bold |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | THE BIG 10-LETTER WORDS $800: From the late Latin for "word", this book is the last word on words dictionary |
| #5836, aired 2010-01-18 | JUST SAY THE WORD $400: In compound words, this body part precedes print & tack thumb |
| #5836, aired 2010-01-18 | JUST SAY THE WORD $2,400 (Daily Double): Merriam-Webster's New Words of 2007 included this one for a soap opera south of the border a telenovela |
| #5810, aired 2009-12-11 | 4-LETTER WORDS $5,000 (Daily Double): An accent over the last letter turns a word meaning disabled into this fabric with metallic threads lamé |
| #5791, aired 2009-11-16 | HEART-FELT WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): As an adjective, this word means "friendly"; as a noun, it's a strong drink cordial |
| #5791, aired 2009-11-16 | HEART-FELT WORDS $1600: This word refers to an alphabetical index of words in a book, like the Bible concordance |
| #5791, aired 2009-11-16 | HEART-FELT WORDS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows some leaves on the monitor.) Leaves that are shaped like hearts are referred to by this 7-letter term, a homophone for a word describing a true vertebrate cordate |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | RUSSIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: This 3-letter word means "peace" or "village" in Russian; the space station named for it fell to Earth in 2001 Mir |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS! $1000: This 3-letter word means to poke abruptly, as with the point of a stick jab |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $1600: Za is a slang word for this treat pizza |
| #5765, aired 2009-10-09 | FOREIGN WORDS $1600: It's Dutch for "night", spelled the same as the German word Nacht |
| #5765, aired 2009-10-09 | FOREIGN WORDS $2000: If you frequent shops that have saldi, "sales", you'll save this, a similar-sounding Italian word for "money" soldi |
| #5738, aired 2009-07-15 | WORDS FOR YOUNGSTERS $200: "Lad" is a young man; this word that starts with "la" is a young girl lass |
| #5738, aired 2009-07-15 | WORDS FOR YOUNGSTERS $400: Bairn is a word from this northernmost U.K. country, as in "Och, the wee bairn dinna eat his chicken tenders" Scotland |
| #5738, aired 2009-07-15 | WORDS FOR YOUNGSTERS $800: A child with precocious talents may be called a Wunderkind, a word from this language German |
| #5733, aired 2009-07-08 | SELF-CONTRADICTORY WORDS $1600: This word means tied up, or on your way to a place bound |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | RHYMELESS WORDS $600: I won't tell you the word; I plead this amendment the Fifth |
| #5720, aired 2009-06-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: A clever saying or witticism, it literally means "good word" in French bon mot |
| #5710, aired 2009-06-05 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S TOP 10 WORDS OF 2008 $400: This No. 1 word means "a rescue from financial distress", though it sounds like something done on a leaky boat bailout |
| #5710, aired 2009-06-05 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S TOP 10 WORDS OF 2008 $1600: From the Greek for "hate" & "women" comes this word for the hatred of women misogyny |
| #5710, aired 2009-06-05 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S TOP 10 WORDS OF 2008 $2000: Meaning "to evaluate for possible approval", this word can also refer to a type of doctor vet |
| #5695, aired 2009-05-15 | MISSING WORDS $600: In the end times a true believer missing from Earth hasn't been captured but this rhyming word, meaning raised up raptured |
| #5694, aired 2009-05-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: In a proverb this word precedes "fool like an old fool" no |
| #5684, aired 2009-04-30 | A CATEGORY OF FEW WORDS $1200: Insert 1 letter in "pity" for this word. I won't say it twice. pithy |
| #5680, aired 2009-04-24 | 8-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): A French term for the skipping of a stone on water gave us this word meaning "Rebound", often used of bullets ricochet |
| #5675, aired 2009-04-17 | JOE THE PLUMBER $800: Joe knows how to "assemble" 2 words into this 1-word toilet part by combining comedienne Lucille & a male chicken a ballcock |
| #5672, aired 2009-04-14 | PREFIXED WORDS $1200: This word isn't about wall paintings but the sports of students within a school intramural |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): The meaning of the Greek word "atomos" which gives us "atom" indivisible |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | WORDS FROM PLACES $800: This word for the last & completely destructive battle comes from the place the battle is supposed to happen armageddon |
| #5657, aired 2009-03-24 | POETIC WORDS $600: In "To Celia", this possessive case of thou precedes the word "eyes" thine |
| #5657, aired 2009-03-24 | POETIC WORDS $800: "L'allegro" by Milton uses this 4-letter word for a deep shade of black, a shortening of the name of a wood ebon |
| #5655, aired 2009-03-20 | WORDS WITH ALL 5 VOWELS $800: This word comes from the French for "self-movable" automobile |
| #5655, aired 2009-03-20 | WORDS WITH ALL 5 VOWELS $1000: FEMA says to keep a full tank of gas in your car if this order seems likely evacuation |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: This word means to put off until another day or time procrastinate |
| #5645, aired 2009-03-06 | A DISCOURAGING WORD $400: "Come to me" & tell me this state of gloominess comes from words meaning "black bile", baby melancholy |
| #5632, aired 2009-02-17 | NIGHTLY NEWS WORDS $800: I already knew this word meant dog doctor or ex-war soldier; who knew it meant to check for validity? vet |
| #5611, aired 2009-01-19 | 2-, 3- & 4-LETTER WORDS $600 (Daily Double): This 2-letter word can precede "blood" &, "incident"ally, "bow" ox |
| #5611, aired 2009-01-19 | 2-, 3- & 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: This axlike tool is a 3- or a 4-letter word, depending on whether you spell it with that final "E" adz(e) |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: This word for a spectacular failure comes from the Italian for "flask" a fiasco |
| #5597, aired 2008-12-30 | FRENCH WORDS $1600: It's the French word for "apple"; a potato is one "de terre" a pomme |
| #5597, aired 2008-12-30 | FRENCH WORDS $2000: French for "umbrella", its name comes in part from the French word for "rain" parapluie |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | 2008 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $400: Luckily a competitor didn't have one spelling this word that means "pertaining to the heart" C-O-R-O-N-A-R-Y |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Also a literary style, this 3-word German phrase can mean "turmoil" Sturm und Drang |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: In German, what's mine is mein & what's yours is this rhyming word dein |
| #5582, aired 2008-12-09 | NEW WORDS IN THE OED $200: A childish word for something that gives kids security as well as warmth a blankie |
| #5582, aired 2008-12-09 | NEW WORDS IN THE OED $600: It's the sarcastic, 2-syllable version of a common polite word of request puh-leeze |
| #5582, aired 2008-12-09 | NEW WORDS IN THE OED $3,200 (Daily Double): Punning on an older word, it's the refusal to buy a certain product, but done by women only a girlcott |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | GOOD APPLICATION ESSAY WORDS $800: Wanted: candidates whose interests are this 7-letter word, i.e. made up of various elements diverse |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200 (Daily Double): Of the chemical elements, it has the shortest name tin |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | WORDS THAT SOUND ODD WITHOUT PREFIXES $1600: "Un-" this 5-letter word describes crude behavior in high society; without "un-", it means showing sophistication couth |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | WORDS THAT SOUND ODD WITHOUT PREFIXES $2000: The "Re-" that can precede this word seems redundant; when you want to fill up or furnish, "P" is for this 7-letter word plenish |
| #5541, aired 2008-10-13 | WORDS FROM GEOGRAPHY $600: This word can precede "timer" or "nog" egg |
| #5541, aired 2008-10-13 | WORDS FROM GEOGRAPHY $800: This word for a love affair comes from the name of the "eternal city" romance |
| #5541, aired 2008-10-13 | WORDS FROM GEOGRAPHY $1200: The course of a river in present-day Turkey gave us this word meaning to wander in an aimless, circuitous way to meander |
| #5541, aired 2008-10-13 | WORDS FROM GEOGRAPHY $2000: Soloi, a Greek colony whose residents didn't talk good, gave us this word for an improper statement a solecism |
| #5540, aired 2008-10-10 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: If you don't know this word for a person who works under another in order to learn a trade, "You're fired!" an apprentice |
| #5519, aired 2008-09-11 | "FOR" WORDS $2000: From the Latin word for "ant", it's an anthill or nest formicary |
| #5517, aired 2008-09-09 | U.S. COINS $800: It should be easy to "home" in on this longest of the 10 words on the back of a current nickel Monticello |
| #5512, aired 2008-07-22 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $1200: Coined in the '70s, the term "Ebonics" comes from these 2 words ebony & phonics |
| #5504, aired 2008-07-10 | PHRASES IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE $600: Cain's 5-word question to God in Genesis 4:9, when asked of Abel's whereabouts "Am I my brother's keeper?" |
| #5497, aired 2008-07-01 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: It may be fate that you know it's the Turkish word for "fate" kismet |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | ON WORDS $800: Both left & wrong are antonyms of this word right |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | ON WORDS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew strolls through Central Park.) Before this word meant a shopping center, it meant a tree-lined promenade like the one here in Central Park, lined with stately American elms a mall |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | ON WORDS $1600: A Tamil word for "drummer" gave us this term for a social outcast; it's also a member of a low caste in India a pariah |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | ON WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Now meaning to destroy or wipe out a great number, it's from the Latin word for "ten" decimate |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: This rhyming Chinese word for acting in a servile manner literally means "knock one's head" kowtow |
| #5476, aired 2008-06-02 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: Before the grand jury, Bill Clinton said, "It depends on... your definition of" this word "is" |
| #5476, aired 2008-06-02 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: In British slang this word alone means thank you; 2 together means good-bye ta |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | WORD ORIGINS $1000: The name of this musical instrument comes from Greek words for "wood" and "voice" the xylophone |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1600: This Roman goddess of grain lent her name to the word "cereal" Ceres |
| #5443, aired 2008-04-16 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew blows out a match and sticks it in a bottle.) The moisture in the air combines with particles of dust from the smoke to form this; Los Angeles is known for it smog |
| #5434, aired 2008-04-03 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: Oddly, this word describing couples who get along & can live together in harmony comes from the Latin for "to suffer" compatible |
| #5428, aired 2008-03-26 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $800: "Muppet" comes from these 2 handy words marionette & puppet |
| #5428, aired 2008-03-26 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $1200: A component of acids, this gas discovered in 1774 gets its name from the Greek words for "acid" & "forming" oxygen |
| #5428, aired 2008-03-26 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $1600: From a misspelling of the words "all correct", it was later used by Democratic partisans of Martin Van Buren O.K. |
| #5427, aired 2008-03-25 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: This Italian word for the concluding part of a performance is often "grand" finale |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: A male given name, it's also the Latin word for "king" Rex |
| #5407, aired 2008-02-26 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S NEW WORDS FOR 2007 $1000: Definitions for this compound word include a decisive defeat & a contest in entertainment wrestling smackdown |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | REARRANGING WORDS $400: Rearrange the letters in "listen" to get this not-so-audible word silent |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: From the Greek word for "scale", it's the term for a butterfly or moth expert a lepidopterist |
| #5371, aired 2008-01-07 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew ties one on.) It's the 2-word spicy name for this type of knot that lets you join a rope to something else, like a rail or a post a clove hitch |
| #5349, aired 2007-12-06 | PALINDROMIC WORDS $400: It's "the word" when keeping silent mum |
| #5345, aired 2007-11-30 | HOSPITALS $400: Of U.S. News & Word Report's 5 top U.S. hospitals in pediatrics, 4 include these 2 words in their names Children's Hospital |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | 2007 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $2000: With this word, we assume they meant a shutout in gin rummy & not the super on "One Day at a Time" S-C-H-N-E-I-D-E-R |
| #5321, aired 2007-10-29 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: (Kelly is at the blue board with a Spanish lesson.) In Spanish spelling, this mark above the "N" means that rather than "oona", the word should be pronounced "oon-ya" a tilde |
| #5311, aired 2007-10-15 | ODD WORDS $200: "Dumbledore" is actually an old word for this insect; J.K. Rowling imagined him humming all the time a bumblebee |
| #5309, aired 2007-10-11 | WORD ORIGINS $1600: The name of this type of aircraft is from 2 Greek words meaning "spiral wing" a helicopter |
| #5294, aired 2007-09-20 | RELATED WORDS $400: A "park" was originally an enclosed place; this related word still means an enclosure for race horses paddock |
| #5294, aired 2007-09-20 | RELATED WORDS $1200: As "score" can mean "to cut", it makes sense that it's from the same root as this word for big scissors shears |
| #5294, aired 2007-09-20 | RELATED WORDS $2000: To do this to something is to make it "holy", a word from the same root hallow |
| #5282, aired 2007-07-24 | WORDS $200: Chat about this in your chat room: "chat" is merely a shortened form of this 7-letter word chatter |
| #5282, aired 2007-07-24 | WORDS $800: Someone who sees a crime is an eyewitness; someone who experiences it aurally is this similar word an earwitness |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | WORD WORDS $400: An overused expression or idea, it comes from the French for "to stereotype" cliche |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | WORD WORDS $800: If you want to study the history of words, try this, from the Greek for "true sense of a word" etymology |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | WORD WORDS $1200: When I use the phrase "buy the farm" for death, I'm using one of these, from the Greek for "auspicious words" euphemism |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | WORD WORDS $1600: This 7-letter word can mean a trite remark, a bore or any of the salts of hydrobromic acid a bromide |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | WORD WORDS $2000: From the Latin for "a foot and a half long" comes this adjective for one who uses er... a really long word sesquipedalian |
| #5253, aired 2007-06-13 | LEAGUES $200: Original members of this 4-word group included the Flash, Green Lantern & Wonder Woman Justice League of America |
| #5241, aired 2007-05-28 | WORDS INTRODUCED IN THE 20th CENTURY $400: 1947: A 2-word transport for aliens a flying saucer |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | WAR OF WORDS $2000: This word refers to a large double-edged Scottish broadsword or to an antipersonnel land mine a claymore |
| #5228, aired 2007-05-09 | ONLINE WORDS $400: This word, Hawaiian for "quick", is technology that allows for open access to add & change a page wiki |
| #5216, aired 2007-04-23 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1600: The word for this type of test you may run on your computer comes from the Greek for "to know" a diagnostic |
| #5197, aired 2007-03-27 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: This 3-letter word can refer to a globe or an eyeball an orb |
| #5185, aired 2007-03-09 | WHERE WORDS COME FROM $200: We got the word bock (as in beer) from this language German |
| #5185, aired 2007-03-09 | WHERE WORDS COME FROM $400: Bandha, or "tie", is a yoga method to lock in one's breath & also gave us this word for an accessory we tie & wear a bandana |
| #5185, aired 2007-03-09 | WHERE WORDS COME FROM $600: The name of this plumlike tree fruit is related to the Cree word pasiminan, meaning "dried fruit" the persimmon |
| #5185, aired 2007-03-09 | WHERE WORDS COME FROM $800: A Middle English word for a fishhook gives us this word for the peaceful practice of hook-&-line fishing angling |
| #5178, aired 2007-02-28 | 15-LETTER WORDS $1600: You can find 3 different words within this word meaning "in spite of" notwithstanding |
| #5172, aired 2007-02-20 | A FEW CHOICE 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: Formally surrender your territory & give us this word from the Latin for "yield" cede |
| #5171, aired 2007-02-19 | ONE-WORD RHYMES $1,000 (Daily Double): This term for empty words or nonsense was originally a trick to gain applause claptrap |
| #5155, aired 2007-01-26 | HEY, "TEX"! $1000: The words preceding or following a particular word that help explain its full meaning the context |
| #5146, aired 2007-01-15 | I JUST LIKE SAYING THESE WORDS $400: As I reflect on the word "genuflect", I remember it means to bend this one's knee |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | COMPOUND WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): "Firefly" is a compound word, & so is this term for a wingless firefly glowworm |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S NEW WORDS FOR 2006 $400: New in medical terms is this 2-word surgical procedure sometimes called stomach stapling a gastric bypass |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S NEW WORDS FOR 2006 $800: This word can mean to increase the amount or extent of anything, not just your McDonald's fries supersize |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S NEW WORDS FOR 2006 $1000: Under "B" you'll find this 9-letter word for a renewable fuel made from vegetable sources like soybean oil biodiesel |
| #5132, aired 2006-12-26 | "OO" 7-LETTER WORDS $1000: This slang word meaning "scat!" or "leave quickly" comes from the Spanish for "let us go" vamoose |
| #5122, aired 2006-12-12 | WORDS IN SCIENCE $1,300 (Daily Double): A common word for polymers; in physics, it means material that can be deformed & keep its new shape plastic |
| #5117, aired 2006-12-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: This word that means "to burn to ashes" comes from the Latin for "ashes" incinerate |
| #5109, aired 2006-11-23 | "EX" WORDS $2000: The Brits like this 5-letter short form of a word for someone in self-imposed exile expat |
| #5109, aired 2006-11-23 | "EX" WORDS $4,000 (Daily Double): In the presidential oath of office, the word that fits the category execute |
| #5097, aired 2006-11-07 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1600: This hesitation word Americans spell U-H is spelled this way in Britain E-R |
| #5086, aired 2006-10-23 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $2000: 1982:
Psoriasis was the winning word;
1965:
This itchy skin condition E-C-Z-E-M-A |
| #5075, aired 2006-10-06 | LET'S PLAY A GAME! $400: Boggle is a word search game; you make words using wood tiles in this classic board game Scrabble |
| #5075, aired 2006-10-06 | WORD UP! $800: It's what we call a word that has the same meaning as another word a synonym |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | WEATHER WORDS $400: This 6-letter word for a tornado's shape is also a kitchen utensil a funnel |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | WEATHER WORDS $800: (Jeff Probst reports from Palau.) Luckily, Palau is outside the zone of these storms, whose name comes from a Chinese word that means "great wind" typhoon |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads as she & Jon play cards.) Jon's keeping his cards under the table; I have mine above the table, which gave us this word meaning "without deceit" aboveboard |
| #5040, aired 2006-07-07 | WORD PUZZLES $600: It's how I describe Johnny Gilbert when he starts telling jokes
FUNNY FUNNY
WORDS WORDS
WORDS WORDS too funny for words |
| #5029, aired 2006-06-22 | FROM THE LATIN $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew points out two words on the monitor.) Genu, Latin for "knee", also gives us this word, meaning "to bend the knee" genuflect |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | WORD LORE $1200: One of the very few English words with 6 consonants in a row, it's a cord that lets you open a door from outside a latchstring |
| #5019, aired 2006-06-08 | MARK ANTONYMS $1600: Mark as in "mark my words" means "pay attention"; this opposite word is from the Latin for "to not know" ignore |
| #5018, aired 2006-06-07 | FEMININE WORDS $2000: A man who has left a will is a testator; this is the equivalent word for a woman testatrix |
| #5014, aired 2006-06-01 | A VARIETY OF WORDS $200: Bridgestone product tire |
| #5012, aired 2006-05-30 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: Screwball comedies are either zany or this word that includes an old synonym for "head" madcap |
| #5008, aired 2006-05-24 | OCCUPATIONAL WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the French word for head, boss, top man chef |
| #5008, aired 2006-05-24 | OCCUPATIONAL WORDS $2000: Before "on", this military word means to maintain one's effort through difficulties soldier |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | SHORT CLUES ABOUT LONG WORDS $2000: From "The Faerie Queene", it's an Italian-sounding word for boasting braggadocio |
| #5002, aired 2006-05-16 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: Greek for "word", it can mean the word of God logos |
| #4980, aired 2006-04-14 | 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: This old pronoun is sung as the last word of the English version of "O Canada" thee |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: In Greek this 2-word phrase means "the many"; it refers to the common people hoi polloi |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives an etymology lesson on the monitor.) According to Grimm's Law, the ancient "D" became our "T" sound & the German sound "Ts", so Latin "duo" became "two" in English & this word in German zwei |
| #4962, aired 2006-03-21 | REALLY LONG WORDS $400: Honorificabilitudinitatibus is the longest word ever used by this man--it's in "Love's Labour's Lost" Shakespeare |
| #4962, aired 2006-03-21 | REALLY LONG WORDS $1600: The "nihil" in floccinaucinihilipilification suggests it means to judge something as worth this nothing |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | SOCIAL STUDIES $1600: French words meaning "office rule" gave us this word for an official rigidly devoted to rules bureaucrat |
| #4902, aired 2005-12-27 | WORD LORE $1200: One of the longest words using no letter more than once, this adverb means "equally well with both hands" ambidextrously |
| #4899, aired 2005-12-22 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $800: 1985:
This 6-letter French word meaning setting or environment M-I-L-I-E-U |
| #4885, aired 2005-12-02 | BIG WORDS $1600: This word famously preceded "wasteland" in a 1961 speech about TV; we'll try not to take it personally vast |
| #4885, aired 2005-12-02 | BIG WORDS $2000: This title adjective describes the "room" in the title of the 1922 e.e. cummings novel of WWI enormous |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Numerically, it's the next word in the sequence ein, zwei... drei |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: In Maori 101, you might learn this word for the type of carved images seen here tikis |
| #4867, aired 2005-11-08 | WORD HISTORY $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows some Greek on the monitor.) The name of this typographical mark comes from the Greek words para, meaning "beside", & tithenai, "to put" parentheses |
| #4867, aired 2005-11-08 | WORD HISTORY $800: English words drawn from the Algonquian language include moose, terrapin & this other word for groundhog woodchuck |
| #4866, aired 2005-11-07 | TO PHRASE A COIN $2,000 (Daily Double): Of the 12 words that appear on every currently circulated U.S. quarter, this Latin word is the shortest E |
| #4861, aired 2005-10-31 | FUN WITH WORDS $400: In the 1939 film of "The Wizard of Oz" the medal presented to the Cowardly Lion has this single word on it courage |
| #4861, aired 2005-10-31 | FUN WITH WORDS $1200: This 2-word term for a rundown area of town originally referred to a logging road paved with logs skid row |
| #4861, aired 2005-10-31 | FUN WITH WORDS $1600: It's the 1-word title of the classic game show that debuted in 1961 in which you gave 1-word clues one at a time Password |
| #4852, aired 2005-10-18 | ODD WORDS $600: A canephora is a statue of a woman bearing one of these on her head a basket |
| #4813, aired 2005-07-06 | KANGAROO WORDS $400: Precipitation is often just a fancy word for this rain |
| #4804, aired 2005-06-23 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: The type of word one-fifth as long as the responses in this category monosyllabic |
| #4787, aired 2005-05-31 | SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS $400: Polonius uses the word "outbreak" about Laertes' fiery mind, not this title character Hamlet |
| #4787, aired 2005-05-31 | SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from horseback.) Shakespeare used this word in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" to catch someone's notice; I use it to stop my horse whoa (ho also accepted) |
| #4787, aired 2005-05-31 | SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS $1200: From Latin for "indecent", this word in "Love's Labour's Lost" is the type of book banned by the Comstock Law obscene |
| #4787, aired 2005-05-31 | SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS $1600: This word in "Henry VI Part 2" meant blase & world-weary, not having to do with nephrite jaded |
| #4787, aired 2005-05-31 | SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS $1,800 (Daily Double): The word "fashionable" came into vogue with Ulysses' speech to Achilles in this play Troilus and Cressida |
| #4785, aired 2005-05-27 | PALINDROMIC WORDS $1600: This word for a dolt was the first name of Rube Goldberg's comic strip hero McNutt boob |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | BARRIERS $1000: From the Latin "palus" come the words "pale", a stake or picket, & this word for a barrier made up of pales a palisade |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: As an adjective, this 5-letter word can mean "exorbitant"; as a verb, "to soak in water", like tea steep |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: This term for a high-spirited horse comes from an Old English word that means "stallion" steed |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | 5-LETTER WORDS $600: This metallic word can precede "blue", "drum" or "-faced" steel |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | THE FDR LIBRARY $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew points to the original document in the collection room of the FDR Presidential Library in Hyde Park, NY.) On his December 8, 1941 speech, FDR crossed out the words "world history" & used this one word for evil repute infamy |
| #4744, aired 2005-03-31 | WORDS OF A FEATHER $800: Children's stories, like the Childcraft version of "Rapunzel", often end with this word after |
| #4737, aired 2005-03-22 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Park City, UT.) This five-letter word can mean "disposed", or "liable", or "biathlon position" prone |
| #4737, aired 2005-03-22 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the watery last word of "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" drown |
| #4700, aired 2005-01-28 | LONG WORDS $2000: Among bodily noises, hiccup & burp are this type of word that imitates sound an onomatopoeia |
| #4698, aired 2005-01-26 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $800: "Mum's the word" dates back to his "Henry IV, Part 2": "Seal up your lips and give no words, but--mum" Shakespeare |
