Dream Wraparounds - Part 2 of an Occasional Series

This time we uncover a few more interesting bingo wraparounds — longer words formed by adding to both the front and back of an existing word — including several from racks that already contain a shorter bingo:

1. Holding CHINOPY, you would have an obscure bingo CIPHONY ("electronic scrambling of voice transmissions").  But with POMP on the board, you could surely rouse your opponent with... 
• HYPNOPOMPIC (adj.) relating to the semiconscious state that precedes completely awakening from sleep (from the Greek hypno- "sleep" and pompe "sending away"); a related term is HYPNOGOGIC or HYPNAGOGIC (which, incidentally, could be also be formed as wraparounds: HYPNAGOGIC or HYPNOGOGIC), referring to the semiconscious transitional state between wakefulness and sleep
  
2. With WOO on the board, and holding ABCDKSY, you could make a refined play of... 
• BACKWOODSY (adj.) pertaining to the backwoods, or to a thinly populated or backward area; unsophisticated, uncouth
  
3. Holding ADILNSU, you would have the nice bingo SUNDIAL.  But with MAG on the board, you could really mix it up with... 
• SALMAGUNDI (n.) a mixture of things, a potpourri; a salad of chopped meats, anchovies, eggs, and vegetables (probably from a medieval French term referring to a hodgepodge of meats)
  
4. Holding HIILPST, you would have a terrific play of SHILPIT ("sickly, weak").  But with LUMEN on the board, you could collect even more points with... 
• PHILLUMENIST (n.) a collector of matchbooks or matchboxes (from the Greek phil- "loving" and the Latin lumen "light")

By the way, kudos if you noticed that WRAPAROUND itself could be formed as a wraparound play!

More to come in future installments!  If you have any dream wraparounds to share, pass them on to me at <tilehead@gmail.com>.

Dream Wraparounds - Part 1 of an Occasional Series

Being a successful Scrabble player requires an almost unnatural fixation on words two to eight letters in length.  Nine and ten letter words do make occasional appearances, but, even on expert boards, usually these are merely pluralizations, conjugations, or simple extensions of six to eight letter words.  However, once in a while I like to muse about some of the more interesting and lesser known longer words in the English language, especially those that could actually appear in a game of Scrabble, even if the probability is minuscule. 

I especially like longer "wraparounds," where a longer word is formed by  adding to both the front and back of the word.  For example, holding EEEFRRS, one could make the bingo REEFERS.  But if THINK were on the board... a little thought might produce the amazing play FREE-THINK-ERS, or FREETHINKERS.

Here are three other "dream wraparounds":

• With WARM on the board and holding CEEHIRS, you could make a play that would surely elicit...
• SCHWARMEREI (n.) excessive enthusiasm or sentiment (from a German word meaning "to swarm")

•  With EVER on the board and holding EFMOORR, you could make a play that would be remembered...
• FOREVERMORE (adv.) forever, for always

• With CHAT on the board and holding EGLOOSY, you could end it all, er, end the game with...
• ESCHATOLOGY (n.) the branch of theology concerned with death, the end of the world, or the ultimate destiny of mankind

More to come in future installments!

If you have any dream wraparounds to share, pass them on to me at <tilehead@gmail.com>.