Complete the eight words using each of the 26 letters of the alphabet exactly once.

    
   +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+         
   | ? | A | ? | E | R | I | ? | ? |        
   +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+         
   +---+---+---+---+---+---+
   | ? | U | ? | ? | ? | E |          
   +---+---+---+---+---+---+         
   +---+---+---+---+---+
   | ? | I | ? | ? | E |          
   +---+---+---+---+---+         
   +---+---+---+---+---+---+
   | ? | ? | L | ? | E | R |         
   +---+---+---+---+---+---+
   +---+---+---+---+
   | ? | I | ? | ? |       
   +---+---+---+---+        
   +---+---+---+---+
   | ? | ? | A | P |          
   +---+---+---+---+         
   +---+---+---+---+---+---+  
   | B | R | ? | ? | ? | N |          
   +---+---+---+---+---+---+         
   +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ 
   | ? | O | L | ? | ? | A | ? |      
   +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+

*** Proper nouns, acronyms or abbreviations are not allowed.

(In reply to Awkward Letters by brianjn)

PIQUE was among the sets with unusual words. In fact, all the PIQUE's were preceded by HAVERING and FUCOSE, at least in the sets that got all the way to the first six words.

QUICHE never made it to any six-word list. In fact once QUICHE was used, the program got no farther. It had been paired with LAYERING, MATERIAL, SABERING, TABERING, TAPERING, VALERIAN, WAFERING, WATERILY, WATERING and WAVERING, and in each case no letters were left available for the third word.

Posted by Charlie on 2013-06-05 01:50:02