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This is a wordlog for the SpellBinding puzzle (in which you construct words using the specified letters; each word must contain the anchor letter).
CHURN CHURNER CLENCH CLENCHER CRUNCH CRUNCHER CUNNER ENURE EUNUCH HENCE HUNCH LUNCH LUNCHER LUNE LUNULE NULL RECURRENCE RERUN RUNE RUNNEL RUNNER UNCHURCH UNCLE UNCLENCH UNCURL UNREEL UNREELER
Pangrams: LUNCHER
LUNULE: we've had this word before: a crescent-shaped body part or marking (such as the whitish mark at the base of a fingernail). Also seen LUNE before, and still cannot visualize: the part of a plane surface bounded by two intersecting arcs or of a spherical surface bounded by two great circles
RUNNEL: rivulet, streamlet. Funny, for about a year, just before I put together SpellBinding, I would come up with the word 'rill' in puzzles, but had no idea what it meant (and was too lazy to look it up)... My partner called my bluff many times and I gave up for the lack of being able to define it. What made it even more funny is that our kid's teacher, during a camping trip scrabble game years ago, almost got into a fistfight about some four-letter non-word that he insisted was a real word meaning 'a small airplane'. There was no internet in the woods, and no one had a dictionary, and we let him have it...
UNREELER seemed a bit odd, and that often means some obscure textile-related profession. And indeed, it is a worker who reels cloth... Although I would think it's a worker who _un_reels cloth!
Another day.
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