Polywords

Lime

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

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Lime

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This avenue of lime trees leads to Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire, built in the 1590s for Bess of Hardwick (?1527-1608).

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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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academic acclaim acclaimed aced acid acme aide ailed aimed amid calm calmed came camel cicada clad claim claimed clam clime dace dale dame deal decal decimal declaim deli dial dice dime email iced idea ideal idem idle lace laced laid lama lame lead lice lied lima lime limed mace made maid mail mailed male malice mead meal mecca medal media medic medical meld mica mice mild mile

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Practice

Spinners Find in Think and Speak

For each group of words, compose a sentence that uses all three. You can use any form of the word: for example, cat → cats, go → went, or quick → quickly, though neigh → neighbour is stretching it a bit.

This exercise uses words found in the accompanying puzzle.

1 Dial. Ice. Idea.

2 Lie. Make. Medal.

3 Mail. Malice. Meal.

Variations: 1. include direct and indirect speech 2. include one or more of these words: although, because, despite, either/or, if, unless, until, when, whether, which, who 3. use negatives (not, isn’t, neither/nor, never, nobody etc.)

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