The Yak Shack Forum

... has gotten huge! I didn't think that it would go on for so long :o

I was thinking of maybe getting rid of this one and starting a new one as it has gotten rather unwieldy. Would hnyone have any major issues with this?

Nope, I think that is a brilliant idea.  Now you just have to think of an amazing, unusual and thought provoking word to start it all off again.  No pressure then  ;)

Aardvark

Ants :P

Bugs   (Life)

Let's make this one a bit more challenging... the word must not only be associated but must follow alphabetically! Be creative... if it means that people need to look it up in the dictionary, then all the better ;)

Okay then...

Chrysalis

Denis




_{A song by Blondie who was signed to Chrysalis Records}

Boy FTY, you're really making this game tough. :P  Thankfully Google is your friend. ;)

Encyclopedia

(Denis Diderot was the most prominent of the French Encyclopedists.)

Facts

Google!!  ;D

Helpful

Index

(Dow) Jones (Industrial Average)


I know this is a stretch, but it's the best I can come up with. :P

Chaucer’s Knight

_{This was the first book written by Terry Jones of Monty Python fame}

Lady

Madam

(Madam Justice Mary) Newbury

Online (Dictionary)

[Heinle's Newbury House Dictionary of American English!] ;D

PURCHASE!!!!  ;D

(Price) Quote

Recite

Speech

talk

Utter

Verse

chorus

Sorry Marcia, you'll have to try again ;)

World
(as opposed to the Universe or 'Verse as used in the movie Serenity)
This is hard but fun.  8) 

Xanadu

(It's a place in the world, right? :-\ )

Yak Shack



_{A place of beauty and calm reflection - just like Xanadu  ;)}

Zero! ;D

(Yak Shack member!! ;) :D)

Absolute (zero)

Books

(Absolute Press - UK company which publishes books on food, drink and cookery.) ;)

Chamber (of Secrets)

Debussy

(Composer of Chamber music!) ;)

Enjoy!!  ;D

Fun ;D

Games

Hop-Scotch ;)

I (SPY)

Jacks (and Snobs)

Kings *as in jack, queen, king, ace :)

Loaded

(all kings are rich arent they?)

Miser

Norbert Colon

(Comic strip character in Viz who was a real tightwad!!) :P

scrooge

Sorry Marcia - this new one has an added complication! Your answer must also follow alphabetically from the previous answer :)

Oliver

(as in 'Please sir, may I have some more?')

poor

(poor) quality

Recommended (Good Quality)

suggested

(well) thought (of)

Undersand

Visualize

Wish (for)

an XBrick

Youngster (person who plays with an XBrick)

Zelda ( game to play on XBrick )

Animated (character)

Bam Bam (Flintstones)

Caveman (what Bam Bam grew up to be ;) )

Dinosaur

Extinct

Forever :-\

(on) going

(best I could come up with :P )

(going) home

(I wish!)

Igloo

(a very cold home!) ;)

Juneau

(They have igloos there, right? ;) )

Ketchikan :P

(Dunno about the igloos in Juneau or Ketchikan ... just it's a pretty good assumption they're BOTH fr-e-e-e-e-zing! :rofl:)

Lemmings
(little rodents that live in Alaska)

mice (they are rodents too)

uh oh. Guys, this word association has to go in alphabetical order....so Trey and ECL, try again  :P

Nibble

Oreos...good for a nibble

pudding ( oreos and cream ice cream )

Queen (of Puddings)

_{A classic British dessert}

Regal

(Chivas Regal) Scotch (Whisky)

"Tipsy"

Unbalanced

Vertigo

The Wrong Man


_{Another Alfred Hitchcock film}

xtra Man

(Fine) Young (Cannibals)

zany

Abbott & Costello

Baseball
(who's on first?)

cricket

Dodgeball!!  :rofl:

evade

Flee

(the) Great (escape)

Honorable

Innocent

justice

Kryptonite

(Bit of a stretch this one ... Justice League = Superman! :rofl:)

I don't want to look rude and ignore your post itsme, but the rules of this game have altered slightly to the one before, so I'm continuing on from McG's post above yours. :)
The idea is to follow on to the previous post alphabetically, so the one after McG's needs to start with a letter 'K' ... the one following mine should start with the letter 'L' and so on. ;)

Lex Luthor

Mad Man

Nut

Osiris



_{In Egyptian mythology Nut or Nuit was the mother of Osiris}

Pyramids (of Egypt - Osiris was an Egyptian goddess..)

Queen ( of the nile )

Regina

Saint

Theresa  :)

unquie

Variant! ;D

WOW!!!

Sorry ECL! This new game has to be in alphabetical order!! A little more challenging!!!   8)

xtreme wow lmao

yearly.. my shopping allowance...  :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

sorry for previous posts not following aplhabetically

Zip

(what I'm left with after spending my yearly shopping allowance on wow xtreme variants ;D ) :rofl:

Absolute (zero)

(... 'wow xtreme variants!!' :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:)

Bubble


_{The PA in Absolutely Fabulous  ;D}

Chimpanzee

(Michael Jackson's pet chimp's name is Bubbles I believe)

Doctor ( dolittle )

Epidural

Feelings ( none in your legs )

Guilty

house ( courthouse)

Igloo

jets ( of water )

Kilometre

(Jets fly many of these)

length

mile

Neglect (after walking miles and miles to find gr8 variants  :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:)

oversight

premonition

clairvoyance

recall

Schwarzenegger

(as in Total Recall fame! :P)

Total ( recall )

Unified

Verified

Warranty

x-pired
(yes, I know you don't spell it that way, but X is so hard!)

yield

(school) zone

Area

battle ( field )

Civil (War)

Decent

esteemed

Favorable (regard)

Gifted (talented)

Hereditary (maybe? ??? )

igenius

Justified

(Thought I'd better amend my original post, cos it looked as though is had stalled the thread! ::))

double-spaced

Kerned (as in typeset text)

FYI Jeff - FTY changed the rules of the game, the posts must now be in alphabetical order.  It makes the game a lot tougher than before. :P

Lines (of text)

measure

Numbers

octagon ( 8 sides )

Perimeter

Quadrant

Radius

square

Triangle

Uncharted (I was thinking of the Bermuda Triangle)

Vectors   

Warp Drive

X-Files (X is hard  :-[)

Yak (as in Ferdinand the Yak ;) )

Zebra  :)

Animal!! (from the Muppets!!! ) ;D

Bear ( fozzy )

Chewbaca! (Star Wars) (I don't have a clue on how to spell it!!  :P )

Darth Vadar ( me either ) lmao

Ewoks!! (This one either!!  ::) :rofl: )

furry ( this i can spell )

 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Grover!!

Hairy Monster

"It" (as in Cousin IT)

joint

Knee

Limb

mail

notify

Overnight

postmaster

Quizmaster :P

Rules  ( of the quiz )

Strategy ;)

tactic

Underhand

(sneaky tactics ;))

visiable

Wipers (as in windscreen)

(Thanks to Anna for reminding me that I don't know the alphabet yet ;) )

eXcommunicate (wiped away from the church :P )

York Minster

(fancy big church!! ;) ;D)

Zachariah

_{A Biblical character - Z is hard as well  :P}

Adam

(Can't get anymore Biblical than that! ;))

(This is my 2nd son's name!!)  ;D

Bible

Chronicles

_{A book of the Bible - and I just love the name Zach, one of my favourites  :)}

(But it is Zacheriah if he's in trouble!!!)  :ROFL:

Daily Prophet

Eylops Owl Emporium

(Advert in the Daily Prophet  ;))

Facts and Fiction

General enclyclopaedia

Heavy (if you were to carry a set  :P )

Important

Jackal

Killer

('Day of the Jackal' by Frederick Forsyth)

Lethal

murder

novel

Order (of the Phoenix)

Pandemonium

Quiver

(Arrow) Receptacle

Saucer

_{As in cup and saucer - a receptacle for a nice cup of tea  ;D}

Teacup

units ( lots of teacups )

Vodka

winter ( russian weather )

Xmas

yuletide

Zodiac

(it's a long stretch; Christmas star... stars in the sky...) :-\

aquaris

Birthday

Sorry erevine! Has to be alphabetical order!  ;)

cake!

Delicious


Thanks HP,was not sure of the rules.

edible

fattening

glutten

hungry

Insatiable

Just William

King William  (our future monarch)

_{Give me a break. K is really hard  ;)}

London

Marble Arch

Notting Hill

open ( i know it is a stetch but opening the knot lol )

Putter

(The Open ... a golfing iron ....)

qualifying  (for the Open; hey, I could have used Vijay Singh's son Qaas ...)

Requirement

standard

Typical

Universal

Variable (almost typed variant ;)  :rofl: )

World Wide

Xenophobia

Yemenis (Yemen is a foreign country, the people called Yemeni, and Xenophobia is a fear of foreigners and YES, I'm reaching :))

Hey!! I'm gonna stretch too!!!

New Zealand

Australia

Boomerang

Crocodile

_{Just been watching Steve Erwin  ;D}

Danger

Emergency

Firemen! ;)

GUYS!!!  :o  8)  :rofl:

Hunks  :-*

Irresistible!!  :rofl:

Johnny Depp  ;D

Keanu Reeves  ;)

Little Buddha

The Matrix  ;D

Net

Octopus (well, you catch them in a net and they're sort of like the bad machines in The Matrix)

Pacific (Ocean)

quakes ( underwater earth quakes )

rumble

shivers

(me) timbers!  (:D#

uncut

Vasectomy

Weighty (decision)

eXtreme!

(sheesh ... the letter 'x' is a toughie ...)

Yell

(an xtremely loud cry - I know, I'm reaching :P )

Zephyr

(the power behind an xtremely loud cry ..... yep, I'm reaching too!)

Astraeus (Zephyr's Dad in Greek Mythology!)

Bacchus

Chardonnay!!

drunk

Excessive (drinking)

fumbles ( when drunk some people fumble )

Grope

(Man) Handle

Idiot

Jerk

klitz

Lout |:#

Moron

Nincompoop

Oaf

Pinhead

Queer

Refutable

STAND (up for yourself)

Tall

Ufology

_{Bear with me on this one.  This is the study of alien spacecraft.  If aliens came to Earth they would have to use a really tall space ship to fit in the giant walking killing machine a la War of the Worlds  ;D}

Venus

World

Xena!!!

The world's best Warrior Princess  ::) :P

yarn ( as in story )

Zany (story)

Absurd

Balderdash

Cluedo


_{In the UK Balderdash is a board game.  Hope everyone else has Cluedo  :-\}

(Dungeons and) Dragons

Everquest

(an online game, to whichI'm addicted, that has dragons!)

Final Fantasy

the GOBLET of fire games :-\

Harry Potter

Igor

(Stanislav) Janevski

Kreacher

Lies

Misrepresents

neglect

Overlook

Point

need points to win QUIDDITCH

Roger Davies

_{Chaser & Captain for Ravenclaw}

school

Tie

Uniform

Vest

(part of a uniform)

Waistcoat

CufflinXs

(yeah I know!!  ::) But we all know X needs to be streatched :P )

Yokes

(taken from linX)

zabaglione

_{A frothy custard (custard is made from egg yolks)}

Baked Alaska

(another dessert)

Crème Brulée  ;)

(Yet another dessert!  ;D )

Plain, Old CAKE!!!

Dundee cake!! ;D

(Wonderful rich fruit cake ... YUM!  ;D)

Eclair

Fattening!  (But oh so good!)  :P

Glucose :P

Hemoglobin

Intravenous

Jugular

Kiss

(jugular -> neck)

Lips

Mouth

Nose

Orifice

Passage

Quote

Reference

Search

Toolbar

Utilities

Vehicle

Wagon

xylophory



_{A wood-carrying vehicle ie wagon  ;D  Who knew the Shack was so educational  ;D}

Yak

(an animal to pull the wood carrying wagon ;) )

Zebra

_{Another mammal :rofl:  XYZ could start getting hard soon  :rofl:}

Africa

Botswana

Congo

Drum

(ala Ricky Ricardo - Babalooo ;D )

Ethal (Mertz)

Fred (Mertz - that was too easy :D )

George (Fred and George...well, you all know  ::) )

(That was just as easy!!  ;D )

humourous ( those two are so funny )

Interesting (humerous things are interesting to me)

Juicy

(That's what interesting gossip is!! ;) )

Kiwi (fruit, not the bird)

Lizard (my Iguana loves Kiwi)

Megalosaurus

_{A really BIG dinosaur}

Neanderthal

Oaf

Palooka

quarrelsome (as in pugilistic?)

Riotous (somewhat more than quarrelsome)

Stroppy

Temperamental

Uppity

Vain

Winsome :P

Winsome means "generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence" so my X word is ...

Xena - as in "Men and women alike found Xena to be winsome."

That's not how I'd describe the lass who plays Xena ... but good one Joanna! ;) ;D

Yawn

(That's what I do when Xena is on!  ::) :rofl: )

zzzzzzz

when I yawn I know its time to catch some zzzzz's (ie sleep)

Awake  ;)

Bright-eyed (and bushy-tailed)

chirpy

delightful

Enjoyable

Fabulous

Grandiose

Haughty

Ignoble

justified

Kosher

legitimate

Merited

Notorious

Outstanding

Perfect! ;D

Quintessential

Refined

Sugar   :P

Taste

Uncouth

(someone who has lack of taste in things or behaviour ... sorry it's a bit of a stre-e-etch!)

Vulgar

Wanton

Xena



_{OK I know she has appeared on many occasions but X is hard and wanton is a really good way of describing her  ;)  Oh and I have a really good Y if everyone gets stuck  ;D}

Yell

(Xena is know for her war yell)

Zeus

(Hercules father and Hercules is a friend to Xena ;))

Apollo

Boomer

(Apollo's friend on Battlestar Galactica)

Colonial

democracy

Egalitarianism

Fairness

gentleness

Humanity

inhumane

justice

Karma

Live...Life

Mankind

Nurture

Ostracize

people

Quintuplets (4 people born at one time :P )

Raising (raising quintuplets would be tough :P )

Self

_{As in self raising flour  ;D}

Them (as in themself)

Unpredictable

volatile

Whimsical

Xingu ( the name of the minstrel in James Thurber's marvelous The Thirteen Clocks ) -
minstrels are whimisical :)


I love the "X" words - do I get extra credit for not using "Xena"????

Yodeler (I think I used this before, but Y's a tough letter too. :-\ )

I think you should get extra credit for not using Xena. ;)

zoo ( i know this is  a stretch but i think of yodelers and then the swiss and then chocolate and then the zoo )

animals ( looks like we are on repeat...)

Beasts

camels

Desert

earth

fiddly (fjords are the fiddly bits)

Grumpy (fiddly also means fussy apparantly)

Happy

Ice Cream (it makes me Happy)

Jelly

Knott's (Berry Farm - makes excellent jams and jelly ;D )

lemon spread

Marmalade

nutella ( a havelnut spread )

Oleo

Promise (a type of buttery spread)

Quince jelly

(a type of non-buttery spread! ::)
Sorry Joanna - I've been waiting to use this one!! ;) ;D )

Raspberry

Strawberry

Toast

Umber (color)

Violet

Witherspoon ( a poet)

Castlemaine XXXX

_{An Australian beer - Witherspoons is a pub in the UK  ;)}

Yingling (another beer)

Zywiec


_{A Polish lager  ;D}

Anheuser-Busch (a beer brewery)

Bud

Carling (Black Label)

... yet another lager!! ::) :rofl:

Dutch Club (beer)

Worthington E

(more beer!! ;D )

Foster's (yet another beer)

Guinness (yet another beer!)

Heineken

Iron City (beer again)

Jubilee Ale

(produced during the Queen's Silver Jubilee year in 1977! ;) )

Keystone Ice


_{A USA lager - how many beers are there  ;) ;D}

Lager


Check this out!

http://www.tobp.com/review/list_alpha.asp :o :o :o

Mississippi Mud Black & Tan


_{Excellent site  ;D - I just had to go with this one, what a name for a beer!}

Nebraska

Oregon Hefeweizen (following the state of Nebraska AND continuing the beer theme - a two for one special :)

Pennsylvania (my home state  ;D)

Quebec

Rhode Island

South Dakota

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Worcestershire

(true, it's not a US state but it is a county in the UK ... nearest I could get!)

Xanthan Gum (an ingrediant in Worcestershire Sauce!)

Yellow Mustard (another condiment)

Zucchini

(food-related) ;)

Asparagus

Beets

Cabbage

Dill

Eggplant  :-X :-X :-X

Focaccia

Garlic Bread

Hummus (can't spell it either! ::) )

Istanbul (a place they might eat hummus)

Jakarta (dunno if they eat hummus here or not! ;) )

Katmandu

Laos

Mongolia

Nickel


_{One of Mongolia's natural resources - I love Google  ;D}

Ore

Platinum

Quarry

(what you have to do to extract the ore to refine it to get the preciousssssss metal!! ;D )

rubble (im sure there is plenty of that at a quarry)

Stones (found amongst the rubble in the quarry)

throw

Under (arm throw)

Virus (a virus can make you feel under the weather) :P

Warts

_{caused by a virus, I think}

eXterminate! :P

Yank (out - as in exterminating gray hairs :P )

alphabet

Braille

code ;D

Da Vinci

European

French

German

Hotel

Inn

Jury (Injury ::) )

Killer  :-\

_{you know...jury convicts the killer... ::) :P}

Lunatic (Most killers are lunatics :P )

Maniac

Nutcase

Obsessed

Pathetic :rofl:

Questionable

Rejected?

sent (back)

take (from)

Usurp

Violent

War

Xerses (Persian name of Ahasuerus; son of Darius the Great - Darius the Great who probably fought in a war or two)

Ydrasil
(Continuing with Mythological angle .... "Asgard, the abode of the gods, is shaded by the ash tree, Ydrasil, where the gods assemble every day to do justice.") ;D

Zeus (also continuing with the mythological theme)

Ariadne (the weaver)

Bellerophon ;)

Circe

descry (You seldom see this word)

I thought it would be fitting to use here. Here is a link to a dictionary that has the intended definition, it is also written as scry.
Most other dictionaries don't list it like this link does.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=scry

Espy

Ferret

_{not the animal} :rofl:

_{I had to thesaurus this and then look it up ::)} ::)

Gopher (the animal) ;)

 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Hedgehog

Iguana (reptile, couldn't think of an animal)

Jurassic Park


_{Well Iguana's are like little dinosaurs  :D}

King, Stephen (yes. I know he didn't write Jurassic Park - but that's what popped into my head!)

King Lear

Macbeth

Much Ado About Nothing

Othello

Paris


_{Romeo and Juliet}

Qatar
_{(country on a peninsula of E. Arabia)}

Rome
(well it is a country isn't it?)

No son ... it's the Capital city of Italy! ::) ;)

~*~

Sicily

Turin

Umbria

Venice

water

Xenophyophore

("Xenophyophores are marine protozoans, giant single-celled organisms found throughout the world's oceans, but in their greatest numbers on the floor of the deep ocean.")  Monster sponges.

To make it easier to follow-up ... these critters are closely related to that Squarepants™ guy, and they traveled to space to encounter The Enterprise™ after the Vogons™ arrived.

Yellow (SpongeBob's color)

Zamorano

_{A Spanish cheese - cheese is yellowish  ;D}

American (cheese)

Broadway

CATS!!

Old Deuteronomy

Exodus

Flight

Getaway

Hide!

Incognito  8)

Michael Jackson
 ... cos he's always trying to travel incognito!! :rofl:

_{and fails miserably!!! :rofl: :rofl:}

King

(Jackson made me think of Jesse Jackson which made me think of Martin Luther King Jr.)

Liege

Monarch

Noble

Peer

Optical


We sort of missed O and it is easier than Q  ;)

Sorry ... brain-fart moment!! ::)
Do you want me to amend the post above and then you post the proper one?

No way - you get Q   :rofl:

oh bum! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
ermmmmmmm ... I'll have to think about this one ...

this is a bit of a str-e-e-tch but here goes -

Quizzical

 :rofl:

Ridiculous

Silly

Tomfool

Unusual

Vibrant

Watercolor

(ready for this one?)

Charles X Carlson

An author who wrote : Simplified water color painting

No lies :)

Y (chromosome)

zootechnics 


_{the science of breeding animals - who have chromosomes}

Audio (for some reason zootechnics sounded like an audio manufacturer to me)

Bass (sound, not the fish ;) )

Clef

Dimple (a cleft chin is dimple-like ::) )

Elliot Grey

_{Lead actor in the 2005 horror film Dimples - boy that was hard  ::)}

(Literary) Figure (T.S. Eliot - this was hard too ::) )

GI Joe (well, hes a figur(ine) isnt he?)

Holly Hobby (sp?)

Ivy (The Holly and the Ivy)

In Dulce Jubilate

(carrying on the Xmas Carol theme ;) )

Good King Wenceslas

Only 42 weeks to Christmas  :rofl:

Lion

(King of Beasts)

Mane

Neck

Osculate

Peck

Quart



_{A peck is an old UK measurement, likewise a quart is a USA measurement}

Roods (apparantly a measure of land)

Stones
(as in 14ib = 1 stone)

Tons (UK translation: Tonnes)

(a whole lot of stones = 1 ton)

ultra (heavy)

Very heavy!! ;) :rofl:

weighty

Xtremely heavy!! :rofl: :rofl:

(Sorry!) ::)  ;)

You gotta be kidding me heavy! ::)

(Even more sorry) :P

Zoinks! (Shaggy says: "Zoinks!  Like hey man, that's heavy!")  Why do I always come in at Z???

Arf! (something the Shaggy Dog would say :P )

Bark

Cat

dog

English (sheepdog)

French

Guillotine (the thing used to cut head off)

_{:-X OUCH!}

Headless

icky

Jelly-like :P

Kwik-E-Mart


_{I am sure Apu would sell jelly  ;)}

Lyle Lanley

Monorail

Nanoprobe

Organic

Primary

Quiz ( school and you have quizzes at school )

Riddle (if that hasn't opened it up, I don't know what will  ;D )

Salazar Slytherin


_{Two S's for the price of one  ;)}

Totally Treacherous

Unreliable

Villian >:D

William the Bloody (ie Spike)

Xavier (as in Xavier St. Cloud - also bloody, from Highlander)

Youthful Forever (the theme of the Highlander films)

(Oh boy did I ever rack my brain for an X-Men related Y word.....but nothing could be found off the top of my head)

You could have had Shiro Yoshida - Sunfire  ;D

Hm..., I'll have to go with Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg (played by Sirius himself, Gary Oldman, in The Fifth Element, and with a temperment easily as bad as Sunfire's  >:D )

Air


_{One of the five elements in the film}

Balloon

Carnival

Rio de Janiro  ;)

Ecuador

(My younger sister is doing an exchange program to Ecuador for all of next year)

Frogs

Green

Hornet.    (Er, Joanna .... Ecuador to Frogs? .... hmmm. [g] )

Insect

Jumping Spider

 (Jeff, Ecuador has the Amazon Rainforest, which has Frogs in it :) )

Killer


_{All spiders are evil killing machine that should be wiped ...  sorry I'm slightly arachnophobic  ;)}

:rofl:  ;)


Lethal

Mel Gibson

NICE!!!  :-* :rofl:

Outstanding!

Perfect ;)

Quiet

_{(Mel is supposedly shy! :o )}

Rest
(I need a nap)

Sleep

Tired ... *yawn*  :P

Underrested

Vivarin (a sleep medicine in the US)

Wide awake!!

_{(Vivarin is actually an over the counter caffine suppliment to help keep someone awake. ;) )}

eXhausted  (in need of Vivarin ;) )

Yawn  :)

Zzzz (fine - it's an anti-sleep medicine, but still...)

sleep Apnia

Breathing

Chest

Doubloons


_{as in what you would find in a treasure chest  (:D#}

Pieces of Eight!! (:D#

Four

Hugh Grant ... (Four Weddings and a Funeral) :P

Liz Hurley

Austin Powers - International Man of Mystery!
_{she played Vanessa Kensington}:P

Joined (nations) :P

Knitted

Lace

Mob Cap :P

Nike

Oceanid


_{Nikes' mum was one (a sea nymph)}

Poseidon.

Queen Hippolyta

royal

Sovereign

Tsar

Unmerciful

Vile

Waste

Excrement :-X :-X

_{sorry ... couldn't think of anything else!} :-X

The Back Yard

Gu'zzunder!!!

(PS: it's a slang term for a chamber-pot for those of you who haven't heard it before! Literally ... 'goes under' something, usually the bed :P)

_{Man, we're plumbing the depths with these! ::) :rofl:}

Alimentary Canal

(as long as we are digging deep, I thought I would continue the trend.  These are the tubes that carry out absorption and digestion in the body)

Bowels :-X

Colon

_{no prizes for guessing the first word which came to mind when I saw the previous two entries and which I didn't dare post!! :o ::) :P :rofl:}

Digestion

Enzymatic (breakdown)

Flatulence (it's what happens to me when food breaks down *lol*)

Gas

Helium

Inert

(what most of us hope our flatulent gases will be!!  ;) :-X :rofl:)

Jules

(A typical Jules answer! Or she might not like to move very much. Not quite sure)

 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :-*

Kilowatts

Lumens

Measurements

::) :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :P

~*~

Nautical Mile  (:D#

Ocean

Pacific

Queen Mary (the ship not the woman)

Regal

Sublime

Twist of lime

Undulate (not quite twisting, but a movement of sorts)

Veer

Windy Road

Xanthos (ok - you'll love this one. Windy is a manufacturer of boats in Norway, the Windy Xanthos 52 is one of their models!)

Yorvik Centre

This one's even worse (or better depending on how you look at it) .... The Yorvik Centre houses the remains of the Viking origins of modern-day York here: http://www.warehamforge.ca/nelinks.html ... hence the Norse/Norway connection! ;)

They're getting more and more difficult to link together aren't they!? :P

Ziw - Norse god of War (also called Tyr, gotta love alternate spellings!)

(and to think, I thought the Y person would have gone the easy route with Yacht, since that's the type of boat it was ...)

Athena - Greek goddess of war.

Brontes

_{One of the three Cyclops.}

Cerberus

(Three headed dog guarding Hades)

Demeter

(The mother of Persephone who was abducted by Hades, Lord of the Underworld)

Echo

_{The Nymph who fell in love with Narcissus}

Faeries ;D

(We're all very mythological/otherworldly atm aren't we?! :rofl:)

Gnomes

_{My garden is full of them  ;D}

Hobbits ::) ;D

(No prizes for guessing my fave!! :-*)

Isildur

(now would your favourite be ..... Sam?  ::) )

ermmmmmmmmmmmm no!! ::) :P

~*~

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

(Jonathan) Kellerman (psychologist and author)

Elizabeth Loftus

(Professor of psychology and expert researcher on the malleability and reliability of repressed memories)
Don't you just love Google!! :D

Memories (Thanks for the info on Elizabeth Loftus Jules, you saved me from having to look up who she is. ;) )

Next Time You Fall in Love


_{Another Lloyd Webber song - Starlight Express}

One Rock and Roll Too Many (Another song from Starlight Express)

You're welcome Anna! ;)

Pumping Iron


_{Another Starlight song  :rofl:  One of my favourite musicals and one I would never recommend seeing on stage}

Quattro (brand of iron)

Rusty

Salt-water

Taffy

Umpa Lumpa



_{Yes this may seem obscure but when I Googled this is what I got  ;)}

Violet Beauregarde  :P

Willy Wonka ;D

Question? - isn't Oompa Loompa spelled with an "O" - I think someone's website might have mispelled it :(

Actually there seems to be quite a few definitions for the way Sharon spelled it.  But you're right Joanna, I'm used to seeing it spelled the way you wrote it with an O.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Umpa-Lumpa

Ok then :) Back to an "X" word which would be ...

eXasperated (which is what Willy Wonka becomes with the children)

Yes-man (being around one can be very exasperating)

(employees are often jealous of the rewards reaped by the yes-man, so my word is )

Zelophobia- Fear of jealousy

which is something a yes-man may have :) I love the obscure Z words!

Apprehension

Binding

Contract

Deeds

Estate

Family eastate

Genealogy

History

Incedent (as in an incedent in history)

Juncture

Kismet (hey, I looked it up in the Thesaurus, both juncture and kismet are synonyms of circumstance, so it works, kinda  :) )

Luck


_{Well fate is a sort of luck}

Money-spider

(the teeny weeny ones!)

Nauseating


_{Spiders - even small ones  :-X :o  :o}

oesophagus (alternate spelling of esophagus)

def :the muscular tube in vertebrates through which ingested food passes from the mouth area to the stomach.

Passageway

QE2

(Passageway makes me think of passage on a big ship)

Rule Britannia! (:D#

Song

Tune

Upbeat

Vivacious

Wild!!  (:D#

eXtreme

ya-yas

"A Ya-Ya is someone who will go to the front lines with you, someone with whom you're joined at the hip and joined at the spirit." - in other words, an extreme friend, usually female. Made popular in the movie Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - VERY colloquial, sorry!

ZOINKS!!

(that's all I could think of!  :P)

Rowan Atkinson


_{The baddie in the Scooby Doo Movie.  Next one should be a doddle  ;)}

Baldrick! :P

Cunning

Devious

Evil-minded

Gert Fröbe

_{The actor who played Goldfinger}

Goldfinger ;)  (Yes, I know that was cheating. ::) )

Honor Blackman



_{I would have done the same  :rofl:}

Immortalization

Jung (as in Carl Jung, psychologist)

Emmanual Kant  ;)

Laboratory


_{Wow this is getting hard  :o}

Mice

Narf   :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Okay Sharon, What does Narf mean? ???  I used the handy The Best of British reference, but the only word that comes close is naff. :P

Obviously 



_{Narf is what Pinky says to the Brain - sorry that O was too tempting  :rofl:}


Have you got a link please  ;D

Here's the link:

http://www.effingpot.com/slang.shtml


Perceptibly

Quintessentially ....

hee hee that's a really funny site Anna and one of the best I've seen for Brit slang on the net! ;) ;D

Representative


_{That site is excellent Anna  ;D  Sorry about the Narf  ;)}

State

Texas

University (of Texas-Longhorns)

Venerable (places of learning) ;)

Wise

Xenocrates
( ... of Chalcedon was a student of Plato who went on to become head of the Academy. He was an early believer in the atomic theory and originated the classical distinction between mind, body and soul. [ref. Wikipedia])

Yin-Yang

This was tough, I had a hard time finding a Y word for philosophy. :P

Zen

yep ... we're starting to reuse the words beginning with the impossible letters now ... ::) :P

Attitude

I don't think we've used this word yet.

Bad

Charming

dashing

Elegant

Flamboyant

Gothic



_{I was surprised by this one, but Google said flamboyant was used to describe late Gothic style in France.  Wow this is so educational  ;D}

Historic

Important

Justified

Kinetic

Uh .. the letter in the alphabet after "K" is "L" not "H".  I know this as I've spent all year helping my son put his vocabulary words in alphabetical order *lol* So, I'm well practiced...

Wanna try again?

Hm...when I was looking at it, the previous word was Gothic. Man, I must have been typing sooooooooooooooo slooooooooooow. My apologies, it's deleted now.

Locomotion

Movement

Nudge

Boy Jules! You stumped us on that one!!  ;)

Best I can come up with is

Open!!

Yup, it was tough finding something "appropriate" without straining too hard.

Pandora

Well ok then. Since Pandora is the all-gifted woman , let's go with :

Quiritis  (a Sabine protective goddess of motherhood)

Roman

Shutter

(Roman blinds ...) ;)

Transom

Unlatch
(to open the transom)  :P

View

Widevision

X-ray vision

Yellow Fever

... if we're off down the medical route! ;)
Oh and I found one for 'z' too!  ^-^

from yellow I go to  :

fuZZy wuZZy brown - a color added to the crayola crayon box in 1998.

Auburn (another shade of brown)

Brown (that was just too easy  ::) )

Chocolate (another brown, but much better tasting ;D )

Delight

Ecstasy

Absolutely Fabulous!! ;D

Gorgeous  :-*

Hot! (audible sizzle sound)

Irresistible!!

Johnny Depp

_{Come on, it was a given  ;)}

Yes, I agree!!!

KISSY KISSY!!  :-* :-* :-*

 :rofl: :rofl:

lips

Mouth

Nibble  >:D

Osculate !

Pash!

Quirk (sorry, that's the best I can come up with for Q)

Rub (noses)

We seem to have stalled on the kissing theme, so we'll add some cultural diversity.  8)

Smooch :-*

Thanks Jeff! :D

Tickle  :P ::) (It's all I can think of)  :-\

Uncontrolled laughing  (It's all I can think of :-\)

Veering - as in a car veering uncontrollably

Wobble :P

Okay, let's get this going again. I refuse to use XXXOXOXOXO.

X-Chromosome.

This is something I seek to acquire samples of (in pairs) when engaging in fervent osculation. The research is tough, but somebody's gotta do it.  8)

Yeast artificial chromosome (Yes, I had to use Google for help ::) )

Zygote

Animal reproduction  (I'm trying to move us away from the scientific terms :P)

Beast

(Couldn't think of a better one for 'z' though!!  :-\ )

Chimpanzee

(Yeah, "Z" is a tough letter :P)

Darwin!

evolution

Frogs


_{I seem to remember at school frogs were used to explain evolution - of course I could have just gone to a dodgy school .... ;)}

Garlic

(Supposed to make sauteéd frog's legs taste good! :o ... ever eaten them and wouldn't want to either! :-[ :-X )

Hecate >:D

_{garlic was offered to Hecate, by ancient greeks, on the piles of stones at cross-roads}

Iodine (garlic's a great dietary source for it)

Jeye's Fluid

(Tincture of Iodine is used as a medical disinfectant swab for external wounds/lesions ... Jeye's Fluid is used as an environmental disinfectant! ;) Sorry ... it's the best I could come up with ...   :P)

Kelp

(Iodine can be derived from seaweed)

Gotta go for the "triple-letter score" while avoiding Greek:

Long Island

(one limit of the lengthy locus for a lush line of kelp, Laminaria longicarpa) ... Tis alliterative.

Manhattan

New York

Ozone Park

Does Sharon's post count as two?  :rofl:

 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Ozone Park Question, Right Sharon? Try Understanding, Verily, Will (_) You?

(no, don't count that, but it could be the basis for a different thread)  8)

Ozone Park Question, Right Sharon? Try Understanding, Verily, Will (_) You Snooze?

Sorry Jeff .... that was just too good an opportunity to miss!!  ;) :P :rofl:

 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Amazing!!!  :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Blindingly Brilliant!!   ;) :P :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

(I thought it was a quick and relatively painless way of getting past the 'z' - all the credit goes to Jeff of course!!  8))

Creative

Distinctive

Effective

(Keeping on with the '-ive' theme here ... ;))

Fantastic XLIV

(I felt guilty that I contributed to us sneaking past X, so I name the page number in this thread. This is a group of stuttering superheroes, or the more famous group if you have the wrong prescription for your eyeglasses.)

Glorious

Heroic

Ingenue (gotta have one for the hero to save)

Justice League

( ... the people doing the 'saving'!! :rofl:)

Clark Kent

(Superman was a founding member of the Justice League)

Lex Luther!  >:D

Megalomaniac

Nutter!!  :P

Oddball

Pea-brain  :P

Q

As in mind your Peas and Q's  :rofl:

ROFL (in tribute to the icon above Rolling On the Floor Laughing)  >:D

smileys

Tickle

Underarm

Where most people are ticklish  ;D

very smelly

if you have B.O  :rofl: