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  2. Crosswordese - Wikipedia

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    Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start or end with vowels (or both), abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual ...

  3. Glossary of shapes with metaphorical names - Wikipedia

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    Hourglass shape or hourglass figure, the one that resembles an hourglass; nearly symmetric shape wide at its ends and narrow in the middle; some flat shapes may be alternatively compared to the figure eight or hourglass Dog bone shape, an hourglass with rounded ends [4] Hourglass corset; Ntama; Engraved Hourglass Nebula; Inverted bell; Kite

  4. -gry puzzle - Wikipedia

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    The answer is "energy". The riddle says that the word ends in the letters g-r-y; it says nothing about the order of the letters. Many words end with "-rgy", but energy is something everyone uses every day. There are at least three words in the English language that end in "g" or "y". One of them is "hungry", and another one is "angry".

  5. Enclosed Alphanumerics - Wikipedia

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    Enclosed Alphanumerics is a Unicode block of typographical symbols of an alphanumeric within a circle, a bracket or other not-closed enclosure, or ending in a full stop. It is currently fully allocated. Within the Basic Multilingual Plane, a few additional enclosed numerals are in the Dingbats and the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months blocks.

  6. Yogh - Wikipedia

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    The letter yogh (ȝogh) (Ȝ ȝ; Scots: yoch; Middle English: ȝogh) was used in Middle English and Older Scots, representing y (/j/) and various velar phonemes. It was derived from the Insular form of the letter g, Ᵹᵹ. In Middle English writing, tailed z came to be indistinguishable from yogh.

  7. English words without vowels - Wikipedia

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    In the Middle English period, there were no standard spellings, but w was sometimes used to represent either a vowel or a consonant sound in the same way that Modern English does with y , particularly during the 14th and 15th centuries. This vocalic w generally represented /uː/, [3] [4] as in wss ("use"). [5]

  8. Circled dot - Wikipedia

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    End of trail / End of the game. Gone home. The Symbol of "Waterhole" (or a related concept) in Australian Aborigine Art; In Germany it is symbol for a "Gestempelte Briefmarke" (canceled stamp), while a star means "postfrisch" (mint Stamp) In physics, it can be used to denote a vector facing out of the page; Zugzwang in chess notation

  9. List of biblical names starting with Y - Wikipedia

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    This page includes a list of biblical proper names that start with Y in English transcription. Some of the names are given with a proposed etymological meaning. For further information on the names included on the list, the reader may consult the sources listed below in the References and External Links.