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Please list as many English words as you can using the letters from the word “senate”.

No proper names of people, places, or things, no abbreviations, no acronyms, and no initials, please. Plural words may be used.

I found thirty-two of them. Did I find them all? Can you find more? Have fun!

[I will publish the full list twenty-one days from now, Tuesday, March 16, 2021 after others have had a chance to give it a try.]



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Posted - February 23, 2021
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  • 13395
    23.
      February 23, 2021 11:11 PM MST
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  • 52954

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    Please show your work. Thank you. 
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      February 24, 2021 7:33 AM MST
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  • 13395
    Ok I'll just do a few now and keep editing more in later until March 16th.
    S E N A T E

    Tease.  
    Seat
    Ants
    Ease
    Seen
    Eaten
    Eat 
    Tea
    Ate
    Sent
    Sten
    Nets
    Neat
    Teen
    Nest
    Sea
    Sane
    East 
    Etna
    Set
    Sat
    Net
    Ten
    This post was edited by Kittigate at February 24, 2021 9:30 AM MST
      February 24, 2021 7:48 AM MST
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  • 52954

     

      Ok, you’ve already beaten me: so far, you have five that I missed, and you’re not even done yet. Good job!

      Now I think I’ll go fling myself off the top of the highest suspension bridge that I can find.  Goodbye, cruel world.

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      February 24, 2021 8:12 AM MST
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  • 13395
    I've copyrighted all the words I made so if anyone used any of the same words  I'll sue them.
      February 24, 2021 8:35 AM MST
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  • 52954

     

      Ok, but you have an extra space after the second use of the word “words”.  Hire me as your proofreader (with a five-figure salary) and I’ll see to it that the lawsuit goes through.



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      February 24, 2021 5:29 PM MST
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  • 13395
    Yes ok and you get the perks  that go with your five figure salary too.
      February 24, 2021 5:52 PM MST
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  • 52954

     

      (Sigh.)
    You do this on purpose just to bait me, right?  Ok, here we go:

    (Yes ok and you get the perks  that go with your five figure salary too. Yes, ok, and you get the perks that go with your five-figure salary too.)







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      February 24, 2021 5:57 PM MST
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  • 52954

     

      (Comma after the word “made”.)

      February 24, 2021 5:32 PM MST
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  • 1893
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    teans, tanes...aaargh they're all proper nouns. Well, whattadahell do you call those birds? I've been decieved! Tean is a bird isn't it? What do you call those wooden slats across railroad tracks..Ohhh tines. Ahhh haaa! Nates. 
     the buttocks.
    1. Ahhh haaa and I knew it. Atens
      astronomy
      : any of a class of asteroids having orbits that are mainly within the Earth's orbit but that may extend beyond it at their outermost point : an asteroid having an orbit with a semimajor axis of less than one astronomical unit
      You put the devil's worst human torture in front of my face. Don't get me going. I'm a Scrabble champion.
      Again I score. ATS
      at2
      /ät/
       
      noun
      plural noun: ats
      1. a monetary unit of Laos, equal to one hundredth of a kip.
      And again..tas..unit of backgammon. ET. Past tense of eat.
    This post was edited by CosmicWunderkind at February 24, 2021 8:54 AM MST
      February 24, 2021 8:10 AM MST
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  • 32700
    Senate
    Enates

    As
    At
    An

    Sat
    Set
    Net
    Ten
    Tan

    Ate
    Eat
    Tea
    Sea
    Tee

    See
    Nee
    Ant


    Ease
    Teas

    Teen
    Eats
    Tens
    Nets
    Tans

    Ants
    Sent
    Seat
    Neat
    Nest

    Ante
    Sane

    Antes
    Eaten
    Enate

    Tease
    Teens
    Tense

    I got 38



      February 24, 2021 8:49 AM MST
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  • 52954
    Good job. You have at least five words that I missed.  (You missed the one-letter word.)

    I can’t find “enates” as a verb, so I’m not sure that one counts. Please rebut, thank you.

    I can’t find “nee” as a word of the English language. 

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      February 24, 2021 5:45 PM MST
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  • 32700
    Enate is a noun. A relative on Mothers side. So plural form is enates. 

    Nee is english for a referring to a married woman's maiden name.
      February 24, 2021 8:09 PM MST
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  • 52954

     

     (english English)

      February 24, 2021 8:13 PM MST
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  • 52954

     

      Thank you for clarifying “enates”.
      “Née“ (the correct spelling) is not an English word.
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      February 24, 2021 8:14 PM MST
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  • 32700
    Yes, it is.  That is like claiming taco is not an English word. 

    When researching geneology in English....that is the word used. It is NEE in English. It can be spelled without or without the tilde. Again refer to Merrium Webster's. This post was edited by my2cents at February 24, 2021 8:40 PM MST
      February 24, 2021 8:39 PM MST
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  • 52954

     

      A loan word such as “taco” is decidedly NOT English, because if it were, its pronunciation would have to comply with English language rules. It is a Spanish word that has come into use among English-speakers.
      Some loan words, in fact, many of them, become English words, but you have chosen a poor example of one for bolstering your point.
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      February 24, 2021 8:49 PM MST
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  • 32700
    Lol. As if English follows its rules. 

    The point is Merrium Webster says it is English and can be spelled either way. 
      February 24, 2021 8:53 PM MST
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  • 52954
    Who is Merrium?
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      February 24, 2021 9:00 PM MST
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  • 44232
    I can't beat either of those guys, but here are others.

    ta
    na
    sen
    nates (buttocks)
    steen (A white grape.)
    Sant
    en
    tase
    a
      February 24, 2021 9:44 AM MST
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  • 52954

     

    Please justify “ta” and “an” being on the list.
    Why did you capitalize the word “Sant”? That doesn’t mean it’s the proper name of a person, place, or thing, does it?
    ”Tase” is suspect as not being within the category.

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      February 24, 2021 5:51 PM MST
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  • 32700
    Tase...verb to use a tazer on someone. 
      February 24, 2021 8:13 PM MST
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  • 52954

     

      I looked that up as I was forming the post, and it’s more of a slang term or colloquialism than an accepted word of the language. 

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      February 24, 2021 8:15 PM MST
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  • 32700
    No. Not with that meaning.  That is standard Merrium Webster definition
     
    Tase does have other slang meanings.
      February 24, 2021 8:28 PM MST
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