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CADENTIAL
Magic! Even after you change A to I - it's
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Both bread and chalice D to X CALIXTINE
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E to L CALL IT NIX ? WOFA? Quo Fadis?
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CALIXTINE
Okay, if we change the X to B we get INCITABLE, like a near-riot
or change the X to M and get MILITANCE, which is North Korea's posture at the moment
but those are both on the forced side. I like better changing X to S, which lets us be
INELASTIC
(extra credit: X -> C is for Leibowitz, almost, if you drop the second I)
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Is that a word? I don't find it in OneLook.com or even on Google, except in Spanish or Dutch or trademarked.
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Enplastic isn't but it only lacks one tiny change; with some elasticity we can change N to M and the word is allright
EMPLASTIC which offers possibilities.
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There is a local office site where they
laminate, and they use it saying:
"Enplastic all your important papers here".
So....
I don't know. Just because they use it does not make it a word.
I checked today and the letter is N after the E: enplastic.
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E{placeholder}PLASTIC
...whatever letter it is, change it to a Y and Bob's your uncle!
(Solving word problems is our SPECIALTY !)
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specialty-spectrally.
Eh.. you have changed I for L and and scrambled, which would be all, but you have added an extra R.
Atonement?(or not)
Second I wouldn't mind discussing the issue of whether a word that is used and even written, is not a word even if the dicts.
don't have it. Is it fair compared to words that are not used and still are words.
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There is a local office site where they
laminate, and they use it saying:
"Enplastic all your important papers here".
So....
I don't know. Just because they use it does not make it a word.
I checked today and the letter is N after the E: enplastic.
and if you take the plastic off it's deplastic.
formerly known as etaoin...
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I think we gotta start over from SPECIALTY.
(LukeJ, this one's for you.)
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Thanks for getting us out of that mess.
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I think we gotta start over from SPECIALTY.
(LukeJ, this one's for you.) But you can always sell your first word right for a plate of lentils.
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Thank you all so much, but I'll leave the task to you all.
You are so much better adept than I. If the word does not
pop out at me, I don't take time to rearrange the letters to
suit,it would take time from other pursuits, like study and
crosswords. But I am appreciative.
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OK. Free delivery for your crosswords. Y to K SKEPTICAL
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SKEPTICAL
change A to O
STOCKPILE
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K to A >> link>> SCAPOLITE
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SCAPOLITE
-I
POLECATS
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Yes it does, but don't blame it on the skunk. You jumped from nine letters down to seven, so somewhere up your sleeve there's an E hiding.
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...don't you think?
POLECATS
change T to B
PLACEBOS
(I had wanted to go from STOCKPILE to PLUCKIEST up above, but you can't have everything)
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COUPABLE
change B to T
OUTPLACE - sometimes called "cut," or "let go," or "RIF," or "downsize," or "pink-slip," or any of a variety of other sad euphemisms
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...and spoil everything!
OUTPLEAD
A --> L
POLLUTED
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Of beautiful P to I SOLITUDE
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SOLITUDE
-- Change U to D and develop your DELTOIDS ?
-- Drop the I and make it LOUDEST ?
Nah. Let's change U to A and remain
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( and then change O to I if you believe all's for the best in this best of all possible worlds... )
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IDEALIST taken I to Y given: DIASTYLE
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if you take away the Y and put the O back in, you get
DIASTOLE
(Not to put any pressure on, or anything)
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O --> L
DETAILS follow defeats over defences
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SALUTED by the L to D ADUSTED rangers.
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SALUTED by the L to D ADUSTED rangers. You are a-BUSTED! I don't think "adusted" is a word... care to try again?
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I do not believe what I come across either but.. adusted The Webster 1913 has adust, adusted, adustable and adustion. Should it be adjusted?
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