| 100% | MAWR | 4 | Bryn ___ College, Pennsylvania (named after the place) |
| 64% | WELSH | 5 | Like the Pennsylvania place names Bryn Mawr and Bala Cynwyd |
| 55% | ERIE | 4 | Pennsylvania city named after the big North American lake |
| 51% | DAMASK | 6 | Table linen named after a place in the Middle East |
| 48% | ECUADOR | 7 | Country named after the equator |
| 48% | SELENIUM | 8 | Element named after the moon |
| 48% | MONDAY | 6 | Time named after the moon |
| 47% | DECEMBER | 8 | Month named after the number ten |
| 47% | MAUVE | 5 | Color named after the mallow flower |
| 47% | EASTER | 6 | Holiday named after the goddess Eostre |
| 47% | CERULEAN | 8 | Blue color named after the sky |
| 47% | CRANIUM | 7 | Board game named after the skull |
| 47% | URANIUM | 7 | Element named after the seventh planet |
| 47% | NOBEL | 5 | Award named after the dynamite inventor |
| 47% | NOV | 3 | Mo. named after the number nine |
| 47% | SEP | 3 | Mo. named after the number seven |
| 46% | SOMERVILLE | 10 | Mary —, member of the Royal Astronomical Society born in 1780 after whom — College, Oxford, is named |
| 46% | DETROIT | 7 | City named after the French for "strait" |
| 46% | SALARIES | 8 | Wages; named after the Latin for salt |
| 46% | SANTANA | 7 | Rock band named after the guitarist Carlos |
| 46% | VIOLET | 6 | Royal color named after the eponymous flower |
| 46% | NEPTUNIUM | 9 | Chemical element named after the eighth planet |
| 46% | FRIDAY | 6 | Weekday named after the Norse goddess Frigg |
| 46% | ECUADOR | 7 | South American country named after the Equator |
| 46% | IRIS | 4 | Flower named after the Greek rainbow goddess |
| 46% | ZAMBIA | 6 | African country named after the Zambezi River |
| 46% | CIABATTA | 8 | Foodstuff named after the Italian for "slipper" |
| 46% | TYUYAMUNITE | 11 | Rare uranium mineral named after its place of origin in the Fergana Valley, Kyrgyzstan |
| 46% | RIVOLI | 6 | Parisian street, named after a Napoleonic victory, where a gilded statue of Joan of Arc sits outside the Place des Pyramides |
| 45% | DURANDURAN | 10 | Rock band named after the villain in "Barbarella" |