| 100% | SHOO | 4 | It's said with a wave of the hand |
| 80% | PRESTO | 6 | Word said with a wave of the hand |
| 73% | SHAZAM | 6 | It may be said with the wave of a hand |
| 71% | ACHOO | 5 | It's said with a snap of the head |
| 68% | SWEPTASIDE | 10 | Removed as with a wave of the hand |
| 63% | EPEE | 4 | It involves a wave of the hand |
| 60% | OATH | 4 | It's said with a raised hand |
| 58% | JEST | 4 | It's said with a poke in the ribs |
| 58% | OUT | 3 | It's said with a thumb in the air |
| 53% | SWORE | 5 | Said with one's hand on a stack of Bibles |
| 53% | STRUM | 5 | Play with a sweep of the hand |
| 52% | HOWDO | 5 | Greeting said with a tip of the hat |
| 52% | MAAM | 4 | Word said with a tip of the hat |
| 52% | AVOWS | 5 | Says with a hand in the air, perhaps |
| 52% | THECIDERHOUSELURES | 18 | Story of a youth who says to hell with it and goes to the pub? |
| 51% | STOP | 4 | It’s sometimes said with a hand up |
| 51% | IDO | 3 | Words said with a hand in the air |
| 51% | ALAS | 4 | It's said with a sigh |
| 50% | OHMY | 4 | Exclamation sometimes said with a hand over the mouth |
| 50% | PSST | 4 | It's often spoken with one hand at the edge of one's mouth |
| 49% | LAW | 3 | It's said to have a long arm, with "the" |
| 49% | DRYEYE | 6 | It's said that there is not a single one of these "in the house" during a sad movie |
| 48% | DRYMARTIN | 9 | What "should be made by filling a glass with gin, then waving it in the general direction of Italy," per Noël Coward |
| 48% | MAAM | 4 | Title said with the tip of a hat, perhaps |
| 48% | POKER | 5 | It ends with a show of hands |
| 48% | ALAS | 4 | It’s said with a sigh |
| 48% | VOTEON | 6 | Decide with a show of hands, say |
| 48% | BLARNEY | 7 | — Castle, stronghold in County Cork, Republic of Ireland, housing a stone said to endow those who kiss it with the gift of flattery |
| 47% | IDO | 3 | It may be said with a raised hand |
| 47% | IRIS | 4 | Part of the eye with a pupil in its middle |