Riddle me this...

PBE6

Bananarama

Posers and Puzzles

22 Mar 05 18:40

iamatiger

Joined: 26 Apr 03
Moves: 26771

26 Mar 05 01:01

Find a 7 letter English word that contains 10 other English words without rearranging any of its letters.

Sicilian Sausage

In your face

Joined: 21 Aug 04
Moves: 55993

26 Mar 05 02:37

Originally posted by iamatiger
Find a 7 letter English word that contains 10 other English words without rearranging any of its letters.

Superextractionfishhairyprobocistentanalysingtreeweddingocean

Ha ha

Nemesio

Ursulakantor

Pittsburgh, PA

Joined: 05 Mar 02
Moves: 34824

26 Mar 05 03:11

Originally posted by iamatiger
Find a 7 letter English word that contains 10 other English words without rearranging any of its letters.

Winsome?

win
wins
I
in
ins
so
some
me

is?
woe?
wine?

The letters aren't rearranged, just omitted. I'm not sure I captured the spirit of
the puzzle.

The best I could do...

Bowmann

Non-Subscriber

RHP IQ

Joined: 17 Mar 05
Moves: 1345

26 Mar 05 05:10

"Therein" contains 11 if you include "re".

iamatiger

Joined: 26 Apr 03
Moves: 26771

26 Mar 05 16:21

Originally posted by Bowmann
"Therein" contains 11 if you include "re".

Nice one, therein was the word with ten words therein - I didn't count re. (I think it is an abbreviation).