Word Brain Teasers

In the Dictionary, encyclopedia or Thesaurus.

Tell her to shut up! If that doesn't work just calm her down nicely.

bribe her, tell her you will take her out somewere nice or play a game with her,

try doing a puppet show with there teddies, something to make them laugh.

Good afternoon

Just one: "suq"

joyous. jarred.

abject, abjure, acajou, adjoin, adjure, adjust, ajivas, ajowan, ajugas, banjos, bijous, bijoux, cajole, cojoin, crojik, deejay, deject, djebel, djinni, djinns, djinny, donjon, ejecta, ejects, enjoin, enjoys, fajita, fanjet, fjelds, fjords, frijol, ganjah, ganjas, hadjee, hadjes, hadjis, hajjes, hajjis, hejira, hijack, inject, injure, injury, inkjet, jabbed, jabber, jabiru, jabots, jacals, jacana, jackal, jacked, jacker, jacket, jading, jadish, jaeger, jagers, jagged, jagger, jagras, jaguar, jailed, jailer, jailor, jalaps, jalops, jalopy, jambed, jambes, jammed, jammer, jangle, japans, japers, japery, japing, jarful, jargon, jarina, jarrah, jarred, jarvey, jasmin, jasper, jassid, jauked, jaunce, jaunts, jaunty, jauped, jawans, jawing, jaygee, jayvee, jazzed, jazzer, jazzes, jebels, jeeing, jeeped, jeered, jeerer, jehads, jejuna, jejune, jelled, jennet, jerboa, jereed, jerids, jerked, jerker, jerkin, jerrid, jersey, jessed, jesses, jested, jester, jetons, jetsam, jetsom, jetted, jetton, jewels, jezail, jibbed, jibber, jibers, jibing, jicama, jigged, jigger, jiggle, jiggly, jigsaw, jihads, jilted, jilter, jiminy, jimper, jimply, jingal, jingko, jingle, jingly, jinked, jinker, jinnee, jinxed, jinxes, jitney, jitter, jivers, jiving, jnanas, jobbed, jobber, jockey, jockos, jocose, jocund, jogged, jogger, joggle, johnny, joined, joiner, joints, joists, jojoba, jokers, jokier, joking, jolted, jolter, jorams, jordan, jorums, joseph, joshed, josher, joshes, josses, jostle, jotted, jotter, jouals, jouked, joules, jounce, jouncy, jousts, jovial, jowars, jowing, jowled, joyful, joying, joyous, joypop, jubbah, jubhah, jubile, judder, judged, judger, judges, judoka, jugate, jugful, jugged, juggle, jugula, jugums, juiced, juicer, juices, jujube, juking, juleps, jumbal, jumble, jumbos, jumped, jumper, juncos, jungle, jungly, junior, junked, junker, junket, junkie, juntas, juntos, jupons, jurant, jurats, jurels, juries, jurist, jurors, justed, juster, justle, justly, jutted, kanjis, kopjes, logjam, majors, masjid, mojoes, moujik, mujiks, musjid, muzjik, ninjas, object, outjut, pajama, projet, pujahs, rajahs, ramjet, reject, rejoin, riojas, sajous, sanjak, sejant, shojis, slojds, svaraj, swaraj, thujas, trijet, unjust, veejay

The original word is obtained by replacing each letter by one of its neighbors in the alphabet; for example, "d" might be replaced by "c" or "e". In this example, the

original word was "colorful".

Those letters can be used to spell "you are mine".

Parrot

Today comes before yesterday and tomorrow in a dictionary!

Pace, pads, page, paid, pail, pain, pair, pale, pall, pane, pang, pant, pare, part, past, pate, pave, pays, peal, pear, peas, peat, peed, peek, peel, peen, peep, peer, pees, pelt, pert, pest, pets, pica, pied, pier, pike, pile, pine, pint, pipe, pits, plan, play, plea, pled, plop, plot, plum, plus, pods, poem, poet, pool, poor, pose, post, pots, pour, pout, pram, prat, pray, prep, prey, prim, punk, punt, purr, puss.

The letters spell the word endlang. Endlang is included as a valid Scrabble word in the UK version of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. However the U.S./Canada version of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary does not include endlang as a valid Scrabble word.

The unscrambled word is floral.

Some words from Welsh (cwm, crwth) use W instead of Y.

Some onomatopoeia words and interjections have no vowels, such as brr, hmm, psst, shh, tsk, and zzz. The unspecified ordinal "nth" and the slang word "pwn" do not have vowels.

• amaryllis
• buttercup
• calla lilly
• Cuban lily
• candytuft
• cockscomb
• columbine
• carnation
• drumstick
• dandelion
• forsythia
• goosefoot
• gladiolus
• goldenrod
• hydrangea
• hollyhock
• monkshood
• narcissus
• poinsettalla
• safflower
• snake head
• speedwell
• snow berry
• stonecrop
• sunflower
• sugarbush
• sword lily

Yes.

Today is today. In one day's time it will be tomorrow. In two day's time it will be the day after tomorrow. On that day, our present 'tomorrow' will be that day's yesterday.

A very badly mangled puzzle.

It usually depends on a precise formulation of the puzzle and tends to be the letter 'a' when asked like "What comes once in every year, but four times in an average day?"

So it is one A in 'every yeAr' and four A in 'An AvergAge dAy'.

Note that this should be phrased as 'every year', not 'a year' to work.

Merriam-Webster's Official Scrabble Players Dictionary includes the 7 letter word grodier. It is a valid Scrabble word that means sleazy. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary also includes the 6 letter words dotier (stained by decay), editor, girder, girted, goiter (an enlargement of the thyroid gland), gorier, retrod (to furnish with a new tread), rioted, rioter, torrid and triode (a type of electron tube).

Aiouea.

(Something to do with plants.)

gull,

Guinea fowl

Gadwall

Gannet

Garden warbler

Garganey

Glaucous gull

Goldcrest

Golden oriole

Golden pheasant

Golden plover

Goldeneye

Goldfinch

Goosander

Goshawk

Grasshopper warbler

Great black-backed gull

Great crested grebe

Great grey shrike

Great northern diver

Great shearwater

Great skua

Great spotted woodpecker

Great tit

Great white egret

Green sandpiper

Green woodpecker

Greenfinch

The word "Letters"

b ./

100 pennies in a dollar! Or 100 people in a deck

Well, supposedly there is a vowel in every syllable. In thir, its I, and in ty its, in this case, the Y