Getting to the Base
Thank you to Liz Fagerlund who contributed the quiz below - (Patrick)
In the first round of the “Virtual World Scrabble Cup” being played on ISC, Patrick was one of the 5 NZ players. NZ played Ireland.
In one of his games Patrick played AIRBASE, a not too difficult 7 letter word for him. He probably also knew that it had an anagram - (ARABISE)
There are a lot of words that end with BASE
– see how many you can find:
1 letter in front – ABASE (done for you – just too easy!)
2 letters (4 words)
3 letters (6 words) – 1 being Patrick’s AIRBASE
4 letters (6 words)
5 letters (2 words)
7 letters!! (1 word)
Just while you are thinking about words that end in BASE here are a few words that start with BASE which would be very cool to play
BASEEJ
Volunteers who enforce the Islamic dress code for women. Also spelled BASIJ
BASENJI
A small African hunting dog
BASELARD
A short sword or dagger from the fifteenth century
The Answers to the Quiz
2 letter front hooks
DEBASE To lower or degrade
EMBASE An alternative word for DEBASE
IMBASE An alternative word for DEBASE
REBASE To set a new foundation
3 letter front hooks
AIRBASE A centre for controlling aircraft
DIABASE An igneous rock or basalt
FANBASE The body of fans for a celebrity
ISOBASE A contour line where the land has been equally raised
SUBBASE The lowest part of a base
SURBASE A border above the base of a structure
4 letter front hooks
DATABASE A collection of data in a computer
FIREBASE A military base from which guns are fired
FREEBASE To refine cocaine by heating it with ether
KILOBASE A length of a thousand pairs in a DNA chain
POSTBASE A morpheme used as a suffix after a base word
RHEOBASE The smallest amount of electricity needed to stimulate a nerve
5 letter front hooks
FLOATBASE A place on a river or lake where float planes dock (new in 2019),
WHEELBASE The distance between the front and rear axles
7 letter front hooks
COUNTERBASE Another name for a Double Bass (stringed instrument)
All the words take an S at the end, some take a D and/or an R as well, and BASE takes S, D, R and N. BASEN cannot be pluralised
Cheers
Liz