100% | TANGENT | 7 | Straight line touching a curve but not crossing it |
44% | TANGENT | 7 | Line touching a curve |
40% | TANGENT | 7 | A line touching a curve; trigonometric function |
36% | ROUNDABOUTROUTE | 15 | A straight shot it's not |
36% | ECUADOR | 7 | It's crossed by a center line |
34% | REEL | 4 | Not walk a straight line |
34% | DIAMETER | 8 | Straight line connecting the centre of a circle with two points on its perimeter |
34% | MALTA | 5 | Its coat of arms has a cross, but no falcon |
33% | BEER | 4 | It may have a head but not a tail |
33% | RULER | 5 | It makes a straight line for monarch |
33% | RULER | 5 | It makes a straight line for the king |
33% | RULER | 5 | It makes a straight line for the sovereign |
33% | ROVE | 4 | Not go in a straight line |
32% | HAIRBRUSH | 9 | Use this to style locks, but it's not a comb |
32% | INDIRECT | 8 | Not traveling in a straight line to a destination |
32% | SPORK | 5 | It's a portmanteau, but not for "salt pork" |
32% | SKORT | 5 | It's a portmanteau, but not for "ski resort" |
32% | SMOG | 4 | It's a portmanteau, but not for "small dog" |
32% | DEIST | 5 | A person who thinks god created the universe but does not interfere in it |
32% | CHEETAH | 7 | A type of big cat, it purrs but does not roar |
32% | ASH | 3 | It's flicked from a cigar but not a pipe |
31% | YOUDBESETONSTUNNING | 19 | "I know it's not my business, but if you were a laser ..." |
31% | ASH | 3 | It's flicked from a cigarette but not a vape pen |
31% | ASH | 3 | It's flicked from a cigarette but not an e-cigarette |
31% | SLUR | 4 | In music, a curved line indicating that the notes in its limits be played smoothly, as one phrase |
31% | CATALYST | 8 | It speeds up a reaction but is not changed itself |
31% | NONLINEAR | 9 | Not direct, not in a straight line |
30% | MIDDLEMARCH | 11 | George Eliot novel that's not the contest answer, but provides a hint to it |
30% | SECANT | 6 | Line intersecting a curve |
30% | ARC | 3 | Line like a curve |