In a previous article, we explored the problem of finding 14-letter words and names beginning with the letter C and alternating their consonants and vowels regularly: words such as COLONIZABILITY and CAPACITATIVELY. Although C is a very common first letter in English words and we exerted herculean efforts, we were able to find only 14 single, solidly-written words conforming to the conditions imposed on the problem, and 12 two-word terms. Those conditions excluded obsolete, dialectal, slang, and colloquial words, and outright coinages
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In Language on Vacation (1965), I presented 17 transposals of the 9 letters ACEINORST. For the ti...
In the May 1978 Kickshaws, I pointed out that five-letter words still have unexplored logological as...
At the 1981 convention of the National Puzzlers\u27 League, Harry W. Hazard presented a word contest...
This is a sequel to Vowel-Consonant Patterns which covered V-C patterns in 7-, 8-, and 9- letter wor...
Among nine-letter words of the vowel-consonant pattern CVCCVCCVC, can one find all 125 possible vowe...
In his article Seven-Letter Words in the August 1968 Word Ways, Dmitri Borgmann tackled the proble...
Two constraints are imposed on the words offered in this article. The first is by way of their vowe...
In the November 1972 Word Ways, we presented an article entitled One-Letter Words which demonstrat...
The twenty-two words needed to complete this puzzle are composed mostly of consonants. Indeed, only ...
In the February 2020 Word Ways the article 0.1479% Redundancy presented a list of words and names be...
In the August 1989 Word Ways, Dmitri Borgmann\u27s article The ACEINORST Transposal Problem brough...
Word-lovers, logologists and others interested in words know that PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLC...
In the November 1977 issue of Word Ways, Philip Cohen suggested that a collection of all-consonant w...
This article responds to the challenge posed by Susan Thorpe on page 212 of the August 2001 issue of...
According to a recent issue of WORD WAYS, one of the most difficult feats in English verbal acrostic...
In Language on Vacation (1965), I presented 17 transposals of the 9 letters ACEINORST. For the ti...
In the May 1978 Kickshaws, I pointed out that five-letter words still have unexplored logological as...
At the 1981 convention of the National Puzzlers\u27 League, Harry W. Hazard presented a word contest...