To mark the eve of the first day of our windiest month, this Scrabble post features playable wind-related words. If your rack contains the right letters, spelling these words will be a breeze.
- bayamo: a strong wind found in Cuba
- bhut: a warm, dry wind in India (also bhoot)
- bise: a cold, dry wind, found especially blowing from the northeast in Switzerland (also bize)
- blaw: to blow
- bleb: a blister (an extremely intense or severe wind)
- bora: a cold wind in lowland regions
- brr: used to indicate feeling cold (also brrr)
- bura: a violent Eurasian windstorm (also buran)
- chinook: a warm wind that flows off the east side of the Rockies; or a type of Pacific Northwest salmon named after the Chinook people)
- fon: a warm dry wind that blows down off some mountains (also fohn and foehn)
Next Up
On Monday, we will examine the sample Keller and King analyses that you read and annotated for class, and I will distribute copies of a model analysis of my own for us to study.
Jane Lucas 