| 100% | ELIAS | 5 | 19th century inventor Howe |
| 51% | ELI | 3 | 18th- to 19th-century inventor Whitney |
| 48% | ELIAS | 5 | Sewing machine inventor Howe |
| 48% | ELIAS | 5 | Inventor Howe |
| 48% | ELI/AS | 6 | Inventor Howe |
| 48% | COLT | 4 | Samuel —, 19th-century inventor of a type of revolver |
| 47% | ROLLTOP | 7 | 19th century desk |
| 46% | GLADSTONE | 9 | 19th century British statesman |
| 46% | MANET | 5 | 19th century French painter |
| 46% | TZAR | 4 | 19th century Russian monarch |
| 46% | ADA | 3 | 19th century mathematician Lovelace |
| 46% | BENJAMIN | 8 | 19th century prez harrison |
| 46% | WALT | 4 | 19th century poet whitman |
| 46% | JOULE | 5 | 19th century physicist james |
| 46% | MOON | 4 | William —, 19th-century inventor of a writing system for the blind |
| 45% | ELIAS | 5 | American inventor Howe |
| 45% | GEORGEIIIGOESBONKERS | 20 | 19TH CENTURY: Simón Bolivar conquers... |
| 45% | DOPPLER | 7 | 19th century physicist; weather radar |
| 45% | PALMERSTON | 10 | 19th century British prime minister |
| 45% | WHEATSTONE | 10 | Charles —, 19th-century inventor of the English concertina and the Playfair cipher |
| 44% | ELIAS | 5 | Inventor Howe of the sewing machine |
| 44% | DEWITT | 6 | 19th century U.S. Senator, Clinton |
| 44% | INN | 3 | 19th century bed and breakfast, say |
| 43% | GILDED | 6 | ___ Age (late 19th century) |
| 43% | IRONCLADS | 9 | Late 19th century warships |
| 43% | ADA | 3 | ___ Lovelace, 19th century mathematician |
| 43% | MCM | 3 | Final 19th century year |
| 43% | ERA | 3 | Victorian ___ (late 19th century) |
| 43% | VICTORIA | 8 | 19th century queen, the "Grandmother of Europe" |
| 43% | BLOOMER | 7 | 19th century women's rights advocate Amelia |