| 100% | ORLON | 5 | Fabric once described as "comfort in action" |
| 43% | EDDIE | 5 | Comedian Izzard who once described the European Union as “the cutting edge of politics, in a very extraordinarily boring way” |
| 43% | NOEL | 4 | Oasis member who once described his brother (and bandmate) as "a man with a fork in a world of soup" |
| 41% | LESBOS | 6 | Greek locale once described as "the island of overmastering passions" |
| 40% | ORLON | 5 | Synthetic fabric once common in sweaters |
| 39% | TOLDOF | 6 | Described, as something in the past |
| 39% | SAMSON | 6 | Hero described as "Eyeless in Gaza" |
| 38% | KEROUAC | 7 | Novelist Jack whom Time once described as “a kind of literary James Dean” |
| 38% | MANNA | 5 | It's described as fine and flakelike in Exodus |
| 38% | MANATEE | 7 | Animal described as a “pig-fish” in “Moby-Dick” |
| 38% | CASEY | 5 | Man described as “mighty” in an 1888 poem |
| 38% | HOTPOCKETS | 10 | Food products that the comedian Jim Gaffigan once described as meat-filled Pop-Tarts |
| 37% | MULLET | 6 | Hairstyle described as "business up front, party in the back" |
| 37% | DEJAVU | 6 | Feeling that some describe as a glitch in the Matrix |
| 37% | ASRIGHT | 7 | __ as rain, describes someone in good health |
| 37% | TAIL | 4 | Feature of Hobbes that Calvin once described as "sort of a necktie for your butt" |
| 36% | LAP | 3 | Once around the track, as in Mario Kart races |
| 36% | STEP | 4 | Single action described in an assembly manual |
| 36% | TAICHI | 6 | Exercise often described as "meditation in motion" |
| 36% | BLED | 4 | Ran in the wash, as fabric dyes |
| 36% | NEHI | 4 | Brand once advertised as "Tops in taste" |
| 36% | POIROT | 6 | Agatha Christie once described him as a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome little creature" |
| 36% | REMY | 4 | Pixar character described as "nothing less than the finest chef in France" |
| 36% | SELFCARE | 8 | Practice described as radical in some queer and feminist theory |
| 36% | LGA | 3 | Airport that Bloomberg once described as smelling like "a used car filled with old Cinnabon bags": abbr. |
| 35% | USER | 4 | Someone who carries out the action described in 2d |
| 35% | GIJOES | 6 | Toys known as Action Men in the U.K. |
| 35% | MENCKEN | 7 | Who once described puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy" |
| 35% | ANDRELEONTALLEY | 15 | He once described himself as “the only black man among . . . white titans of style” |
| 34% | HONDAODYSSEY | 12 | Five-door minivan once sold in Japan as the LaGreat |