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Word Play, Puns, and Oxymorons
Puns are humorous phrases formed by homonyms. (Example: What is the purpose of reindeer? It makes the grass grow, sweetie.) Oxymorons are a figure of speech formed by contradictory words. (Example: jumbo shrimp, a deafening silence.) Have fun with puns and oxymorons in this word play category.
3,672 Questions
What ten letter word starting with the letter m and it definition is opposite of obvious?
- negligible
- impalpable
- unapparent
- indefinite
- indistinct
What are three towns or cities that start with the letter T?
Tucson, AZ
Tempe, AZ
Tulsa, OK
- Trenton, New Jersey
- Toledo, Ohio
- Tallahassee, Florida
- Tipolo, Mississippi
- Tacoma, Washington
- Tampa, Florida
- Tinley Park, Illinois
- Topeka, Kansas
How many ways can you arrange the letters A B C D E and F in a row?
First, count how many letters you have--A, B, C, D, E, and F--6.
Then, the problem is the number multiplied by the ones below it. 6x5x4x3x2x1.
You can get rid of the one, because anything multiplied by 1 is itself.
6x5x4x3x2=720.
You can arrange these six letters in 720 possible ways.
If the row could be vertical or horizontal, the number doubles to 1440.
How many words can you get from the letters t a e c c n?
Tractor, act, actor, orc, roc, tor, cat, cot, car, cart, carat, taco, coat, carrot, rot, taro, carr, arco
Yo no tengo un reloj. (Spanish for "I don't have a clock.")
What is the event that the word starts with b and ends with letter t?
The word bat starts with the latter b and it ends with the latter a and t
What is a word to describe a person that starts with the letter y?
* Yogi Bear * Yancy Tucker (from the TV series, "The Waltons") * Yentel (from the movie with the same name)
What Word begins with k and ends with w?
Knew, know and kowtow begin with the letter k and end with the letter w.
How do you do level 58 on the impossible quiz?
Click on the exclamation point ! at the end of the question.
Choice of words an author uses in a piece of writing?
Diction is the word choice of a writer or author in a piece of writing.
Kind words that start with the letter t?
- Tree
- Television
- Turtle
- Tennis
- Taste
- Teenager
- Tea
- Time
- Telephone
- Tongue
- T-shirt
- Tick Tack Toe
- The
Recently is another word for newly. Additional synonyms include freshly and lately.
List of words beginning with quad prefix?
quadrilateral, quadrants, quadrillion, quadpartitle, quadrlplegia, quadrivium, quadroon, quadruped
Quadrangle, quadrangles, quadrant, quadric, quadrilateral and quadruple are words.
8 letter words that start with B and ends with T?
Baccarat, backrest, backseat, balkiest, bankrupt, barefoot, basement, bassinet, bedsheet, beechnut, blackout and bleakest are 8 letter words. Additional words include bodysuit, bookrest, bracelet, braggart, breakout, briniest, browbeat, brownout, buckshot and bulkiest.
If you were to spell out numbers how far would you have to go to find the letter A?
Unless you're counting like one hundred and one, one hundred and two, one hundred and three, one thousand is the first time you encounter the letter A.
It takes 7550 letters until you hit the letter A.
Words that start with e end in a?
ecclesia, echida, eczema, edema, egomania, empyema, encaenia, enigma, entameba, erotomania, erythema, euphorbia, euphoia, euthanasia, extra
trotted,strolled,skipped,galloped,trudged,strutted,wandered
What are Occupations starting with w?
Worcestershire, wood, wax, won-ton, wall, worms, wine, wind, walrus, window, water, war, wages, wick, waves, way, white, wagon, wading pool, whisper, wasp, wetness, wrist, whisk, waste, waist, wallet, wonder, woman,
Change mare to colt in 5 steps?
Several ways have been suggested:-
5 steps: mare to
- more
- core
- cord
- cold
- colt
5 steps: mare to
- more
- move
- cove
- cole
- colt
4 steps: mare to
- care
- core
- cole
- colt
4 steps: mare to
- mart
- malt
- molt
- colt
'Alternative' suggestion, two steps! ...
- sell mare
- buy colt
How many words can you get from the word sunshine and what are they?
103 Words from Sunshine (including Sunshine itself):
SUNSHINE
SUNNIES
SHINNES
SHINES
SHINNE
NISHES
ENNUIS
ENNUI
ISHES
ISSUE
NISSE
NISUS
NINES
SHIES
SENSI
SHINS
SHUNS
SHINE
SIENS
SUNNS
SINES
SINHS
SINUS
SNIES
SNUSH
SUSHI
UNIS
USES
SINS
SINH
SUNS
SUES
SINE
SUNN
SIES
SIEN
SHUN
SESH
SHES
SHIN
NIES
NINE
NISH
NUNS
SEIS
SENS
NESH
NESS
INNS
HISN
HISS
HUES
HUIS
HUNS
HUSS
HENS
HIES
HINS
EISH
EHS
ENS
ESS
HIS
HIN
HES
HEN
HUN
HUI
HUE
INS
HIE
INN
NIE
NUN
SEN
NUS
SEI
ISH
NIS
SHE
SIN
SUI
SUN
SUS
SUE
SIS
UNI
USE
UNS
US
UH
UN
SI
SH
NU
NE
IS
IN
HI
HE
ES
EH
EN
- allowed
- aurally
- ballots
- balloon
- balling
- bellboy
- bellhop
- billing
- calling
- banally
- callers
- chilled
- collars
- college
- dollars
- dilling
- ellipse
- fallacy
- falling
- fallout
- fillers
- finally
- fellows
- galleon
- gallows
- glacial
- grilled
- hallows
- hallway
- hilltop
- lawless
- maillot
- malling
- milling
- pillage
- selling
- shelled
- smelled
- spilled
- telling
- villain
