The 9-Letter Word Puzzle - Challenge #7

soooo many plants.....
and
8600 main languages
41000 alternative languages....

fewer 3-letter liquors.

With your combined brain power I'm sure you'll sift through the options in no time at all.

a liquor could be GIN or RUM

if so, then the plant would begin with an I or a U.

Can we ask questions? Is the plant a biological plant? (Not a manufacturing facility?) Is the name of the plant the common name or the scientific name?

the answer has all different letters.... that "weeds" out many words!!

Hello P&L.

It's almost Christmas, so I'll give you a clue.

The PLANT is a Tropical plant. That should narrow down the search field a bit. (Oh Bib, you're so generous!).

Hi Bib -- Merry Christmas!! Thanks for the clue!!

I was wondering, earlier today, if "sifted" was a clue.... as in 'flour', or 'flower'....

I found two more liquors.... rye, ale

P&L: you're looking good...keep at it. :wink:

4-letter language: Thai
The 3-letter liquors: what PaL said.
4-letter plants: rose, tree, bush, corn - there are a LOT of these.

The #2 and #6 letters are probably vowels.

More 4 letter languages: Manx, Ogam, Pali

some 4 letter plants: palm and lime are tropical according to Merriam-Webster; ilex, sago (palm), sego (lily), fern, jade (plant), hoya, rice, ming (tree), plum, arum, rush, pink, wort

I think this 9-letter word Challenge is probably the most difficult to date.

The sub-clue options are certainly plenteous, but with your combined brain-power it should take no time at all.

the sentence that Bib just typed probably has a clue buried in it somewhere..... plenteous?

mac, you rock re the plants/languages! Hmmm ....

If the language is Pali and the plant is a sago, then we get
-ago-slpi Of course that's wrong, but it should give an idea of how the letters are going to fall. That is, the last letter of the language is the last letter of the word, and the plant's last three letters stay in order in the 2,3 and 4 positions in the big word.

I think we need to build on the liquor, and I think it'll be gin or rum. If it's gin, then the plant can be an ilex, but then we get nlexgi---. So, the last letter of the liquor has to be something that can go right before the second letter for the plant.

Eek, this one is harder.

The mighty Jespah, Queen of the word challenges, has admitted, at last, that she has encountered a hard trivia challenge.

Bib has been extra thoughtful with this trivia challenge - especially for you J. :wink:

Thank you sooo much.

One thing to note - the language's letters 8,2,7,9 - need to work out in this order in the main word: -2----789. Hence Manx, for example, can't work, because it would work out to -A----NMX.

Psst Bib - is this a computer language? A dead language? Can you give us a hint on the continent where it's most spoken?

Could the language be a shortened name, like SCOT (for Scottish)?

Jespah & P&L: Getting a bit desperate are we?

The LANGUAGE is a spoken language, and it's not African.

You've milked me dry of goodwill and drip-fed additional clues.

if the plant is YUCA

and the liquor is RYE

the word would begin with EUCARY _ _ _

However, I can't get anything to work in the last three spaces.

Another language could be SCAT (jazz singing in nonsense syllables)

I'm beginning to talk SCAT, from looking at these 9 little blank lines....

PaL, check it out:

Main Entry: eu·cary·ote
variant ofEUKARYOTE

That would make it

RYE
TUOE
YUCA

BUT -- "Tuoe" is not in M-W. (Rye and yuca are.)

Well, you've got one of the three sub-clues correct.