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Chine

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

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Chine

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Shippards Chine, on the south west coast of the Isle of Wight, a few miles from Yarmouth. A ‘chine’ (to rhyme with ‘dine’) can be a mountain ridge, or in butcher’s parlance, the spine of an animal such as a sheep, reflecting Old French ‘eschine’; but especially in Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, it means the opposite, a steep-sided cut, valley or ravine, from the Old English ‘cinu’, a cleft.

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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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cent centre cert cheek cheer chin chine chink chit cine cite cree creek cretin either enrich enter entice entire erect etch etcher ether ethic ethnic heck heir hence here herein heretic hick hike hiker hint hire inch inert inhere inter itch keen ketch kitchen kite knee knit neck necktie neither nether nice nicer niche nick niece nitre recent recite reek rein rent retch rethink rice rich rick rink rite tech techie teen tench tern thee their then thence there therein thick thicken thickener thicker thin thine think thinker three thrice tick ticker tier tike tine tinker tire tree trek trench trice trick trike
thicken kitchen neither recent trench centre entire entice enrich either recite their there thick niece think trick cheek cheer chink erect enter three thin then tick trek tree tire tier hire chin heir here hike hint inch itch keen kite knee knit neck reek rein rent rice rich nice
cent centre cert cheek cheer chin chine chink chit cine cite cree creek cretin either enrich enter entice entire erect etch etcher ether ethic ethnic heck heir hence here herein heretic hick hike hiker hint hire inch inert inhere inter itch keen ketch kitchen kite knee knit neck necktie neither nether nice nicer niche nick niece nitre recent recite reek rein rent retch rethink rice rich rick rink rite tech techie teen tench tern thee their then thence there therein thick thicken thickener thicker thin thine think thinker three thrice tick ticker tier tike tine tinker tire tree trek trench trice trick trike

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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. Centre. 2. Cheer. 3. Cheerful. 4. Hint. 5. 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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