Nine-letter Word

[Argee]

Can you think of a nine-letter, common English word that remains a proper word each time you remove a letter from it?

Ray

 

[wizer]

STARTLING

 

[Jenx]

Would this do ?

startling
starting
staring
string
sting
sing
sin
in
I

 

[stewart]

phew, I'm not the only one who does this!

Love this place :lol: :lol:

 

[Argee]

Well done! A little too easy?

Ray

 

[Jenx]

More of a little 'old', Argee .... its been around a while, that one ! :wink: 8)

 

[SketchUp Guru]

How about this word puzzle?

Name a food in 8 letters. Remove one letter and rearrange the remaning ones to spell a new food name. Remove another letter and rearrange the remaining letters to spell yet another food name.

As a hint, none of the names are pluralized.

 

[devonwoody]

Then of course there is the 9 letter word that spells the same each direction. (cant think what the definition of that kind of word is at the moment, ends in gran?)

 

[devonwoody]

How about this word puzzle?

Name a food in 8 letters. Remove one letter and rearrange the remaning ones to spell a new food name. Remove another letter and rearrange the remaining letters to spell yet another food name.

As a hint, none of the names are pluralized.

should be there somewhere

http://www.crfg.org/pubs/fl/commonAC.html

 

[PowerTool]

Then of course there is the 9 letter word that spells the same each direction. (cant think what the definition of that kind of word is at the moment, ends in gran?)

Palindrome (gran) :wink:

Andrew

 

[devonwoody]

Then of course there is the 9 letter word that spells the same each direction. (cant think what the definition of that kind of word is at the moment, ends in gran?)

Palindrome (gran) :wink:

Andrew

Thanks for the tippit. (I stutter occasionally)

 

[devonwoody]

Then of course there is the 9 letter word that spells the same each direction. (cant think what the definition of that kind of word is at the moment, ends in gran?)

Palindrome (gran) :wink:

Andrew

BTW, does a palindrome have to be one word?

Was it a cat I saw, is that a Palindrome?

 

[MikeG.]

No, a palindrome doesn't have to be one word.

The world's longest used to be:

"Deliver no evil...........(thousands of words omitted)...........live on reviled", and was some sad person's life work.

Mike

 

[SketchUp Guru]

How about this word puzzle?

Name a food in 8 letters. Remove one letter and rearrange the remaning ones to spell a new food name. Remove another letter and rearrange the remaining letters to spell yet another food name.

As a hint, none of the names are pluralized.

should be there somewhere

http://www.crfg.org/pubs/fl/commonAC.html

Unlikely since none of the answers is a fruit.

 

[Jenx]

Famous Napoleonic Palindrome, uttered upon his impending imprisonment apparently ! -

"Able was I, ere I saw Elba"

Anyone got the answers to Dave & DW's puzzle yet then ?

 

[Saintsman]

Nine letter palindrome is 'rotavator'

Paul

 

[devonwoody]

Nine letter palindrome is 'rotavator'

Paul

I am still suspicious that this is not a created word :wink:

 

[Saintsman]

OK, you could have 'redivider' , but that's a little contrived.

In 'Ulysses', James Joyce invented the word 'tattarrattat' for the sound of someone knocking on the door. But then again, Joyce was something of a law unto himself........

Paul

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Anyone still working on my puzzle? I'd have thought that Steve M would get it if he saw this.

 

[devonwoody]

just found this post in my deleted email folder, the notification was treated as spam for some reason.

Any reason why it did this?