This week’s puzzler answer got me thinking about what others I could come up with. If you didn’t catch it, the “perfect words” in the puzzler are words in which the number of letters matches their place in some list – for example, “Mars,” which is the fourth planet and has four letters.
A few I found:
Comet (fifth reindeer listed in “A Visit From St. Nicholas”)
Wrath (fifth deadly sin)
Help! (only if you count the !, the Beatles’ fifth UK album)
aa
2nd word in unabridged dictionaries, meaning a kind of lava
Sixtus I
7th pope, leaving off the "Saint"
Saint Zephyrinus
15th pope
Joshua
6th book of the Bible
John
4th book of the New Testament
Romans
6th book of the New Testament
I
1 in Roman numerals
II
2 in Roman numerals
III
3 in Roman numerals
one and two-thirds dozen
20
four score and seven minus sixty
27
A few good ones and a few not so good ones:
(golden) rings - 5
Friday (6th day of week on calander)
dodecahedron (12 sides)
decathalon (10 events)
Jackson (7th president)
VanBuren (8th president)
Franklin Pierce (14th president)
A = 1st letter of alphabet
CEE = 3rd letter of alphabet
Michael - 7th child in the musical Jackson family
Marlon - 6th child in the musical Jackson family
My list…
Thirteeeeenth
Friday (if you start with Sunday)
Franklin Pierce (fourteenth president)
Stephen Grover Cleveland (22nd & 24th president, rarely used first name, though)
Delaware (alphabetically the eighth state)
Australia (alphabetically the ninth member of the United Nations)
San Francisco (twelfth largest US city by population http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population )
K2 (second highest peak in the world)
Yellow (sixth longest river in the world)
Thanks,
John Taylor
Santa Clarita, CA
Three more:
re (from the do-re-mi etc. solfege scale)
indigo (from the red-orange-yellow-green-blue-indigo-violet rainbow sequence)
nod (from Wynken, Blynken, and Nod)
A couple of more:
Pinky (fifth finger)
Home (as in Home Plate - 4th base)
A little more obscure:
Vespasian (9th Roman Emperor)
Procyon and Achernar (7th and 8th brightest stars in the sky)
Propylene (has 9 atoms - must be a lot like this)
SABBATH (on the 7th day He rested)
PERFECTION ( “10” As in Nadia Comenici. Or Bo Derek.)
This couldn’t be funnier. After I posted the above, I was rummaging around the CarTalk.com website. I winced to find out my turbo diesel Jetta is on the list of chick cars, but I also found out that…
the VIPER is fifth on the list of guy cars, and the Ford
F150 comes in at number four.
I tried to find my Jetta on the guy car list but I was redirected to a Martha Stewart website. Tom and Ray… how do I explain this to my wife?
Some are a bit of a stretch, but “thirteeeeeenth” wins it all, hands down!! Still laughing
Leno (fourth host of The Tonight Show)
Lakers (won sixth NBA championship)
Nationals (won ninth NBA championship)
Correction: Leno (fourth and sixth host of the tonight show).
Tom - The Third Most Popular Of The “Car Talk” Maggliozzi Brothers.
Ray - Coincidently, The Third Most Popular Of The “Car Talk” Maggliozzi Brothers.
CSA
All the words provided have 3 consecutive letters in them.
Four.
I…the first person I think of when I wake up.