When it isn't Routine...
Sometimes you get a nice easy 7 letter word on your rack, but it doesn’t fit on the board. A good example would be ROUTINE. There is no other anagram so if the only 7 letter word you have doesn’t fit you will either have to find an 8 letter word using something on the board or you will have to play OU somewhere for a small score and hope to get lucky drawing to INTER.
So what 8 letter words might you be able to make with ROUTINE plus one other letter? There are 13 of them. I will give you one of them – ROUTINES – for free, which just leaves you 12 more to find. Answers at the bottom of the page
Something that isn’t routine for new club players who have only played against their family at home is the concept of playing the Q without using a U. Some of these words are absolutely not routine, but I have listed them all. You never know when even an unlikely one is going to come in useful. I have put them in alphabetical order. Don’t be discouraged, some of the really weird ones come early in the alphabet.
CINQ, CINQS
From the French word for five. Describes a confederation of 5 ports in South-East England
FAQIR, FAQIRS
Hindus who practice abstinence for religious reasons
FIQH, FIQHS
Islamic jurisprudence. An extension of the Sharia Islamic law
INQILAB, INQILABS
An Indian revolution
KAMOTIQ, KAMOTIQS
An Inuit sled with wooden runners
MBAQANGA, MBAQANGAS
A type of black African urban music
NIQAAB, NIQAABS, NIQAB, NIQABS
A veil covering the face of a Muslim woman
QABALA, QABALAS, QABALAH, QABALAHS
A Jewish doctrine based on hidden meanings in sacred texts
QABALISM, QABALISMS, QABALIST, QABALISTS, QABALISTIC
Beliefs or practitioners of that doctrine, or descriptive of it
QADI, QADIS, QAID, QAIDS
A civil judge in a Muslim country
QAIMAQAM, QAIMAQAMS
A Turkish governor (Please send me the story if you ever play this word)
QAJAQ, QAJAQS
An Eskimo kayak (I’d love to play this using a blank with the Q in a good spot)
QALAMDAN, QALAMDANS
A Persian writing case
QANAT, QANATS
An underground water tunnel
QASIDA, QASIDAS
An Arabic poem of praise or mourning
QAWWAL, QAWWALS, QAWWALI, QAWWALIS
Devotional Arabic music, or singers thereof
QI, QIS
Chinese life force
QIBLA, QIBLAS
The direction of the place to which Muslims must turn for prayer
QIGONG, QIGONGS
A system of Chinese meditational exercises
QIN, QINS
A Chinese zither with silken strings
QINDAR, QINDARS, QINDARKA, QINTAR, QINTARS, QINTARKA
A monetary unit of Albania. One hundredth of a lek
QOPH, QOPHS
A Hebrew letter
QORMA, QORMAS
A mild curry
QWERTY, QWERTYS, QWERTIES
The usual layout of a keyboard
SHEQEL, SHEQELS, SHEQALIM
Ancient units of weight and money
TALAQ, TALAQS
Divorce in Islamic law
TRANQ, TRANQS
An abbreviation for tranquilliser
TSADDIQ, TSADDIQS, TSADDIQIM, TZADDIQ, TZADDIQS, TZADDIQIM
A Hasidic Jewish leader of extreme piety
WAQF, WAQFS
A donation of land or money for pious purposes
YAQONA, YAQONAS
A Pacific shrub used in Fiji to make the narcotic drink kava
Yes, I know there were some weird ones. Glance at those, but make sure you remember all the shorter, more useful, ones.
How did you go making ROUTINE words of 8 letters?
ROUTINE + C = NEUROTIC and UNEROTIC
ROUTINE + G = OUTREIGN and ROUTEING
ROUTINE + J = JOINTURE
ROUTINE + L = OUTLINER
ROUTINE + N = NEUTRINO
ROUTINE + P = ERUPTION
ROUTINE + Q = REQUINTO (a small guitar)
ROUTINE + S = NITREOUS, ROUTINES and SNOUTIER
ROUTINE + T = RITENUTO (a musical passage with held back tempo)
Happy Scrabbling Patrick