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This is a gemlog for the SpellBinding puzzle, in which you construct words using the specified letters (each word must contain the anchor letter).
CLINIC CLOT COIL COLIC COLON COLONIC COLT COOL ILLICIT COTILLION OCTILLION COTILLON NOLITION OOLITIC NITINOL MONOCLINIC CLONIC CLITIC COLONI COLIN LILT LIMIT LIMITION LIMO LINT LION LOCI LOCO LOCOMOTION LOIN LOLL LOOM LOON LOOT LOTION LOTTO MILL MILLION MILT MOLL MOLT MOONLIT NONILLION OLIO MOIL TILL TILT TOIL TOLL TOOL
Pangram: LOCOMOTION
Aside from the usual amusement with COLON and COLONIC, we have ILLICIT (and I had missed LICIT). MILT: sperm-containing fluid of a male fish. And a ton of weird words...
NOLITION: adverse action of will : unwillingness —opposed to volition
OOLITIC: a kind rock -- I always go to egg-related with OO-
NITINOL: an alloy that contracts when heated. I remember ads in Popular Mechanics for 'muscle wire' to build robotic devices. However it is kind of slow to do anything useful.
MONOCLINIC: nothing to do with polyclinic; instead, relating to a system of crystallization with a dominant direction
CLONIC: relating to 'clonus', a kind of a spasm indicative of certain CNS diseases
CLITIC: no, you dirty bird! It is a linguistic term for a certain kind of words that is slurred into the next word.
COLONI: plural of 'colonus', an indentured farmer in the Roman Empire
COLIN: a kind of bird
LIMITION: _no such word exists. BZZZ, ERROR. Probably LIMATION, filing, polishing.
MOIL (not the guy who circumsizes babies this time) - (v) drudge, churn, swirl (n) drudgery, confusion, turmoil.
Another day.