Favourite words found

[lalatan]

Russ, I first found CANDLELIGHTERS about a year ago. Two months later I saw snuffers on a board and I started looking for candle to pair with it. Last week I once again found CANDLESNUFFERS and 2 games later CANDLELIGHTERS showed up. At least it was a word I'd heard before and actually knew what the device looked like.

Maybe it's a good thing you didn't come across the board where I found DIASTEREOISOMERISM 3 weeks ago. I knew isomerism was a word. I first tried STEREOISOMERISM, it was accepted so then I tacked on dia-and, to my amazement, it was also valid. Never saw it before, don't know what it is. Something to do with chemistry. I didn't look it up cuz I'd forget the meaning anyway. That's about the most Frankenstein word I ever stitched together.

Cheers, amigo

Edit: It seems CANDLESNUFFERS is not a compound word on many ads I just looked up. Merriam-Webster and dictionary dot com list the compound word but not Wikipedia. So I guess we can take our pick.

[RussDNails]

Candlesnuffers...................................unreal Lalatan.....................

[DrPlacebo]

Another brand-name turned generic: VEGEMITES

[DrPlacebo]

JEBEL. I try loan words often, but I didn't seriously expect this one to work. (I grew up in the UAE, so am always happy when an Arabic loanword scores points.)

[crazykate]

I was happy to be the first to find CAPRICCIO in a 4x4 that had been played 50 times. Would have been the longest word if I hadn't also found CHIROPRACTIC (best and longest). Capriccio was my favourite find though.

[lalatan]

I just found TETRAHYDROCANNABINOLS (32 pts.)
I swear I didn't know the word beforehand (and have no experience with the substance ). I started with the "hydro" part and kept adding letters that seemed to make sense.

Nice fabrication job Kate! Recently I spotted -METRIC but didn't see any of the usual suspects so I started tacking on prefixes and came up with BIOTELEMETRIC for 24 pts. It's always satisfying when you throw something together and it's accepted.

[mcdonna]

Congrats on your new personal best mcdonna! One more step up and you will have reached the summit of Everest for 4 word scores: REINSTITUTIONALIZATIONS (45), REINSTITUTIONALIZATION (45), INSTITUTIONALIZATIONS (43), INSTITUTIONALIZATION (27) for a total of 160 pts. Enjoy the quest.

Sweet! You are the boss!

And Kate, nice job on THC!

[crazykate]

I just found TETRAHYDROCANNABINOLS (32 pts.)
I swear I didn't know the word beforehand (and have no experience with the substance ). I started with the "hydro" part and kept adding letters that seemed to make sense.

[lalatan]

Congrats on your new personal best mcdonna! One more step up and you will have reached the summit of Everest for 4 word scores: REINSTITUTIONALIZATIONS (45), REINSTITUTIONALIZATION (45), INSTITUTIONALIZATIONS (43), INSTITUTIONALIZATION (27) for a total of 160 pts. Enjoy the quest.

[mcdonna]

Lalatan would recognize this board as he holds the record -- found PALAEOANTHROPOLOGISTS (40) and even had enough time to type in the singular plus sing/plural versions of PALEOANTHROPOLOGISTS. Total score 152 points for 4 words. I'm sure that's a new record for me!

[pigletta]

Not the highest scoring (26 I think) but STOMACHFULNESS was a fun find just now. Too bad there wasn't another ES to tack on.

[RussDNails]

I've mentioned this before but there is one board where you can find doob, doobs, doobie and doobies and they all count...........

[DrPlacebo]

I was amused and pleasantly surprised when BADASS went through. After the game I saw the board had been played 19 times and there it was shining back at me in green.

At one point last month I found and got credit for MOFO and MOFOS.

[JMike]

I was amused and pleasantly surprised when BADASS went through. After the game I saw the board had been played 19 times and there it was shining back at me in green.

[DrPlacebo]

I didn't actually find this one, but saw it as time expired: ABSEILERS. (It wouldn't have been the longest or highest scoring word on the board. But I've done a bit of rock climbing.)