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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread procryptic #85755 11/05/2002 6:01 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Another spelling bee word I never saw before. procryptic adj. 5< PRO(TECT) + CRYPTIC6 Zool. having protective coloration Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: procryptic #85756 11/05/2002 6:06 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Natural camouflage = procryptic And the noun form? Procrypticism? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter What words... #85757 11/06/2002 1:45 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York are you beheading, Dr Bill? Or is this just an underused space for you to post your words for us? If so, that's great! Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What words... #85758 11/06/2002 2:12 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear AS: I'm putting the spelling words down here, complying with your suggestion long ago that I post "below the fold". Only a few are interested in such words, and if I post them in Q&A I might displace someone's pet post and lose a friend or friends. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Camouflaged Words #85759 11/06/2002 2:22 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... You think this place is odd, AnnaS!? You oughtta take a look at the vegetables wwh has on Animal Safari! His rationale there was that animals eat plants. Ha! I suppose what happens down here doesn't matter much since most people don't post here. It took me a couple of weeks, after I'd first joined you all, to realize that the German thread was a hiding place for talk about sports! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Camouflaged Words #85760 11/06/2002 7:15 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park the German thread was a hiding place for talk about sports! and food, and any other serious non word post... but it started as a joke.. when some one had mis-posted, or started a non word thread, it was suggested "that sort of thing should be posted in the Words from German thread"--only for the longest time, anything you posted there, didn't show up! -it got lost in some sort of cyber never never land. the thread was broken(it had the wrong settings) so it was an in house way to tell someone this way to the egress as it were! but then the german thread got 'fixed' -- but it still remains the place for off topic discussions. my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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