Palindromes (4 & 5 Letters)
Five letters
alala: a type of Hawaiian crow
alula: a structure forming part of a bird’s wing
arara: a type of Australian cockatoo; also a Brazilian macaw
civic: relating to a city
debed: to remove someone from a bed
deked: past tense of “to deke”, meaning to deceive (especially in ice hockey)
deled: past tense of “to dele”, meaning to delete (a passage of text)
dered: past tense of “to dere”, an archaic word meaning to harm
dewed: past tense of “to dew”,
meaning to cover with dew
dexed: past tense of “to dex”,
meaning to drink robotussin
Hamah: variant of Hama, a city in Syria
Igigi: a class of Sumerian gods
irori: traditional Japanese sunken fireplace
Kanak: a native of New
Caledonia; also, short for Kanakaole i.e. Hawaiian
surname
kayak: a light Inuit canoe
Kazak: a member of a people inhabiting the central Asian republic of Kazakhstan; their language
kelek: a type of raft used in the Middle East
level: various common meanings
Liril: a cosmetic soap popular in India
madam: a polite form of address for a woman
minim: a musical note having half the duration of a full note
neven: “To name; to mention; to utter. Obs.” (definition from Webster’s Dictionary, 1913)
put-up: deceitful, as in a put-up job
radar: a method of detecting objects using radio waves (acronym from Radio Detection And Ranging, so
it’s self-defining too: i. e., the word “bounces back” like a radar signal)
refer: various common meanings
rotor: something that rotates
sagas: plural of saga, a long narrative story
semes: plural of seme, a linguistic element
seres: plural of sere, a series of stages of ecological development
sexes: plural of sex
shahs: plural of shah, a former name for the king of Iran
Sinis: variant of siris (q.v.)
siris: a type of tree; (with cap.) a figure in Greek mythology
solos: plural of solo
stats: contraction of statistics
stets: third-person present tense of “to stet”, meaning to indicate that a passage
of text should remain unchanged
stots: third-person present tense of “to stot”, meaning to leap or bounce
sulus: plural of sulu, a type of sarong
Susus: plural of Susu, a member of a West African people
tenet: a belief or principle
torot: see 2, 3
Wakaw: A town and a lake in Saskatchewan,
Canada.
Xanax: Pfizer’s trade name for alprazolam, a benzodiazepene used to treat
panic disorder (severe anxiety and panic attacks).
Four letters
acca: see 4
adda: a type of lizard; see 5
Adda: a river in Italy; a river in Wales
affa: “A weight used on the Guinea coast, equal to an ounce”
(definition from Webster’s
Dictionary, 1828)
alla: see 6
anna: an Indian coin
Anna: a girl’s name
Beeb: an informal name for the BBC
boob: a blunder; a breast
deed: various common meanings
esse: existence or essence
goog: an egg (Australian slang)
immi: a Swiss unit of volume
keek: to peep
kook: a crazy person
ma’am: a contraction of madam
naan: a type of Indian bread
noon: midday
oppo: see 7
otto: variant of attar, an essential oil
Otto: a proper name
peep: various common meanings
poop: a raised deck at the stern of a ship; various other meanings
sees: third-person present tense of ‘to see’
toot: the sound made by a horn or whistle
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