Palindromes (4 & 5 Letters)

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

kaiak: variant of kayak

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