| 100% | ALOUD | 5 | How not to talk in libraries |
| 52% | WHISPER | 7 | Talk in a quiet voice, so as not to be overheard |
| 48% | AMOK | 4 | How not to run |
| 47% | INTHEACT | 8 | How not to get caught |
| 46% | ATALOSS | 7 | How not to run a business |
| 45% | TABOO | 5 | Something not to talk about |
| 45% | SKYPE | 5 | Talk face-to-face, but not in person? |
| 44% | YAP | 3 | Not a great thing to do in a library |
| 44% | WHISPERING | 10 | Talking in a library voice |
| 43% | SETON | 5 | Not to be talked out of |
| 43% | SUES | 4 | Not to be trusted, in brief |
| 43% | STRANGERS | 9 | You may be warned not to talk to them |
| 42% | SECRET | 6 | Not to be shared, in a way |
| 42% | YAP | 3 | Not a really considerate thing to do in the library |
| 42% | AWOL | 4 | Not to be found, in the military: Abbr. |
| 41% | SPITSGAME | 9 | Tries to talk smoothly, in slang |
| 41% | CHINASHOP | 9 | Market not to be bullish in? |
| 41% | SEA | 3 | “It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at ___ ... ”: Hemingway |
| 41% | YENS | 4 | What not to call change in Japan |
| 41% | ABLE | 4 | Not ___ to get a word in edgewise |
| 41% | FOLD | 4 | Decide not to call, in poker |
| 41% | PASS | 4 | Decide not to bid, in bridge |
| 41% | SILENTTREATMENT | 15 | Not talking, to express disapproval |
| 41% | RESIST | 6 | Not give in to temptation |
| 41% | HOLDOUTHOPE | 11 | Not give in to despair |
| 41% | OPTSOUTOF | 9 | *Chooses not to partake in |
| 40% | MRINBETWEEN | 11 | Person not to be messed with, in song |
| 40% | THEROD | 6 | Something not to be spared, in a saying |
| 40% | OPTS | 4 | ___ out of (chooses not to take part in) |
| 40% | REDTIDE | 7 | Reason not to go swimming in the ocean |