The following groups of three letters, or "trigrams", can all be found
in one or more English words, obscure scientific terms not included.
Can you find a word for each of the ten?

(N.B. The trigrams may be at the beginning, middle, or end of a
word, but the letters must not be mixed or interspersed with others.
For example: KHS could be found in sheiKHS but not in bucKSHot or
KHakiS.)

         BWA
         CKK
         DGM
         GZW
         KTH
         LCR
         OKK
         TSC
         XII
         ZWI

The following words that fit the criteria are found in the SOWPODS word list:

BWA (14 words)
• abwatt, abwatts, bwana, bwanas, bwazi, bwazis, dumbwaiter, dumbwaiters, subwarden, subwardens, subway, subwayed, subwaying, subways

CKK (13 words)
• brickkiln, brickkilns, jackknife, jackknifed, jackknifes, jackknifing, jackknives, knickknack, knickknacks, lockkeeper, lockkeepers, stockkeeper, stockkeepers

DGM (24 words)
• abridgement, abridgments, acknowledgment, acknowledgments, adjudgment, adjudgments, dislodment, dislodgments, forjudgment, forejudgments, judgment, judgmental, judgmentally, judgments, judgmatic, judgmatical, judgmatically, lodgment, lodgments, misjudgment, misjudgments, nonjudgmental, prejudment, prejudgments

GZW (4 words)
• zugzwan, zugzwaned, zugzwaning, zugzwans

KTH (18 words)
• blackthorn, blackthorns, breakthrough, breakthroughs, buckthorn, buckthorns, cockthrowing, cockthrowings, packthread, packthreads, pakthong, pakthongs, pickthank, pickthanks, quickthorn, quickthorns, wickthing, wickthings

LCR (20 words)
• calcrete, calcretes, fulcra, fulcrate, fulcrum, fulcrums, hillcrest, hillcrests, killcrop, killcrops, musselcracker, musselcrackers, pilcrow, pilcrows, schoolcraft, schoolcrafts, shellcracker, shellcrackers, velcro, velcros

OKK (21 words)
• bookkeeper, bookkeepers, bookkeeping, bookkeepings, grokked, grokking, hokku, jambokked, jambokking, pondokkie, pondokkies, quokka, quokkas, rokkaku, sjambokked, sjambokking, toktokkie, toktokkies, wokka, yokked, yokking

TSC (81 words)
• bortsch, bortsches, britschka, britschkas, eightscore, eightscores, festschrift, festschriften, festschrifts, flatscreen, flatscreens, kaffeeklatsch, kaffeeklatsches, kitsch, kitsches, kitschier, kitschiest, kitschified, kitschifies, kitschify, kitschifying, kitschily, kitschness, kitschnesses, kitschy, klatsch, klatsches, meatscreen, meatscreens, nightscope, nightscopes, outscheme, outschemed, outschemes, outscheming, outscold, outscolded, outscolding, outscolds, outscoop, outscooped, outscooping, outscoops, outscore, outscored, outscores, outscoring, outscorn, outscorned, outscorning, outscorns, outscream, outscreamed, outscreaming, outscreams, postscenium, postsceniums, postscript, postscripts, putsch, putsches, putschist, putschists, quetsch, quetsches, setscrew, setscrews, sightscreen, sightscreens, sportscast, sportscaster, sportscasters, sportscasts, streetscape, streetscapes, tschernosem, tschernosems, weltschmerz, weltschmerzes, welwitschia, welwitschias

XII (1 word)
• taxiing

ZWI (9 words)
• buzzwig, buzzwigs, zwieback, zwiebacks, zwischenzug, zwischenzugs, zwitterion, zwitterionic

Posted by Dej Mar on 2014-10-18 13:56:53