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Chain

Make as many words as you can from just nine letters. Can you beat our score?

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At the Riverside Ground in Chester-le-Street, Durham take on Nottinghamshire in the County Championship, August 2011. The distance between the two sets of stumps on a cricket pitch is twenty-two yards, or one chain. The batsman has about half a second to react to a ball from a fast bowler at this level of the game.

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Introduction

A Polyword is a game with words and letters. Make words of four letters or more from the letters of a nine-letter word, using each letter only once. Include the highlighted letter in every word you make. Can you beat our score?

Tap on any letter to use it for your word. Remember to include the highlighted letter. To change the highlighted letter and get different words, click here.

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accent ache acne aitch alien alit ante anti antic cache cachet cacti cancel cane cant canticle catch cent chain chalet chalice chance chancel chant chat chatline cheat chic chicane chin china chine chit cinch cine cite clan clean cleat clench cliche client clinch each eclat elan enact entail etch ethic ethical ethnic hail hale halt hate heal heat hectic hilt hint inch inhale inlet itch lace lactic lain lance lancet lane latch late lath lathe leach lean leant leat lech lent letch lice lichen lien line lint lite lithe nail natch neat nice niche tail talc tale teach teal tech technical tench than then thin thine tile tine
technical ethical clench client clinch entail chance ethnic accent inhale hectic cancel latch leant lance lithe enact inlet clean chant alien catch chain teach cheat lean tile tale thin lent nice then lice than line tail neat nail halt each cane chat chic chin cite clan late hail ache hate heal heat hint inch itch lace lane
accent ache acne aitch alien alit ante anti antic cache cachet cacti cancel cane cant canticle catch cent chain chalet chalice chance chancel chant chat chatline cheat chic chicane chin china chine chit cinch cine cite clan clean cleat clench cliche client clinch each eclat elan enact entail etch ethic ethical ethnic hail hale halt hate heal heat hectic hilt hint inch inhale inlet itch lace lactic lain lance lancet lane latch late lath lathe leach lean leant leat lech lent letch lice lichen lien line lint lite lithe nail natch neat nice niche tail talc tale teach teal tech technical tench than then thin thine tile tine

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Opposites Find in Think and Speak

Suggest words or phrases that seem opposite in meaning to each of the words below. We have suggested some possible answers; see if you can find any others.

This exercise uses words found in the accompanying puzzle.

1. Enact. 2. Hint. 3. Late. 4. Later. 5. Nail. 6. Neat. 7. Tail. 8. Teach. 9. Thin.

Show Useful Words (A-Z order)

Variations: 1.instead of opposites, suggest words of similar meaning (synonyms). 2.use a word and its opposite in the same sentence. 3.suggest any 5 opposites formed by adding -less.

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