Polywords

Long Drag

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

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Long Drag

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The ‘Long Drag’ can be the last stage of the SAS endurance test in the Brecon Beacons; a relentless uphill gradient on the Settle-Carlisle Railway; and (pictured here) also an old mining road which once carried lead from the Allendale mines over Allendale Common to Whitley Chapel and Hexham.

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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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aiding airing airy angry anti arid aridity arty dainty dairy dang daring darn dart darting dating diary digit dignitary dignity dinar dingy dint dirt dirty dirtying drag drain drat dray drying dying gain gait gantry giant gird girt gnat grad grain grainy gran grand grant gratin gray grid grin grind grit nadir radii raid raiding rain rainy rand randy rang rani rant rating riding rigid rind ring tang tangy tardy tarn tiding tidy tidying ting tiny tiring trad trading train tray triad trig trying tying yang yard yarn
airy arid darn dart dirt drag gain gait gird gnat grid grin grit raid rain rang rant rind ring tidy tiny tray yard yarn angry dairy diary digit dingy dirty drain dying giant grain grand grant grind rigid train tying dainty daring drying grainy riding tiring trying dignity trading
aiding airing airy angry anti arid aridity arty dainty dairy dang daring darn dart darting dating diary digit dignitary dignity dinar dingy dint dirt dirty dirtying drag drain drat dray drying dying gain gait gantry giant gird girt gnat grad grain grainy gran grand grant gratin gray grid grin grind grit nadir radii raid raiding rain rainy rand randy rang rani rant rating riding rigid rind ring tang tangy tardy tarn tiding tidy tidying ting tiny tiring trad trading train tray triad trig trying tying yang yard yarn

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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 Dignity. Rind. Train.

2 Grid. Grin. Trade.

3 Darn. Gnat. Grant.

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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