What do the following words have in common?

HAGGARD
SWELTERING
HOGBACK
DOWNDRAFT
BIBLIOPHILE
DEVILMENT
FLEET
IRTRONS

The last four letters of each word is a word that can be found in some (unabridged) dictionaries:

• GARD -- (n.) guard; (v.) to guard
• RING -- (n.) a circlet; a loud sound; (v.) to make a loud sound, esp. from a bell
• BACK -- (n.) the posterior part of a body; support; (v.) to support
• RAFT -- (n.) a flat float that can be used for transport or as a platform on a body of water; (v.) make into a raft; travel by raft
• HILE -- (n.) hilum - the eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support
• MENT -- (v.) p.p menge [obsolete] - to mingle
• LEET -- (n.) pollack - a marine gadoid food fish (also called greenfish, greenling, lait, lob, lythe); the coalfish
• RONS -- plural of Ron: (n.) [West Chadic] any one of the group of Chadic languages spoken in northern Nigeria

Posted by Dej Mar on 2007-12-17 21:50:28