4 Consonants 4 Vowels

Still in Buenos Aires playing bridge, but we have been knocked out of the main event. We qualified in 13th place to make the knockout matches among the top 16 teams, but our round of 16 match was against the team representing Poland. They had topped the qualifying, so we were not expected to win that match and would have needed to be lucky. Unfortunately, the reverse was true, and it wasn’t close.

I wore a scrabble shirt one day. The next day one of the organisers of the bridge event sought me out to say: “I saw your shirt yesterday. You played my husband in 2003!”

Her husband is Dave Weigand, and yes, I did play him when he was representing the USA 20 years ago. What a small world it is.

A different sort of list for the blog this week. Groups of 4 consonants, looking at all the 8 letter words that can be made by adding 4 vowels

A Grade Challenge

Your four consonants are DFLR

D     F     L     R     A     A     E     I

D     F     L     R     A     E     E     O

D     F     L     R     A     E     I     I

D     F     L     R     A     E     I     O

D     F     L     R     A     I     I     I

D     F     L     R     E     E     E     U

D     F     L     R     E     I     I     O

D     F     L     R     E     I     O     U

D     F     L     R     O     O     U     U

 B and C Grade Study List

This list is all the 8 letter words that can be made by adding 4 vowels to LMNR

MALARIAN – Relating to the disease malaria

MANORIAL – Relating to a manor

MORAINAL – Pertaining to debris deposited by a glacier

MANURIAL – Pertaining to manure

MONAURAL – Pertaining to only one ear

ENAMELER – A workman who enamels

LEMURIAN – Like a lemur

MONORAIL – A railway running on one track

LEMURINE – A member of the lemur family

RELUMINE – To light again

LEMONIER – Tasting more of lemon

MELONIER – Tasting more of melon

I am sure you would have found LEMONIER, but would you have thought that MELONIER was a word? Checking through some other fruits CHERRIER is good but pearier is not. APPLIER is fine, and not just as someone who applies because APPLIEST is good too. You can't have berrier or any of the berry family. NUTTIER is quite a common bingo to see on the board. It would be fun to turn that into PEANUTTIER or COCONUTTIER

Answers to A Grade Challenge

FAIRLEAD – A ring through which a rope is led

FREELOAD

AIRFIELD

FORELAID – Waited in ambush

FILARIID – A parasitic worm

REFUELED

OILFIRED

FLUORIDE

ODOURFUL