100% | EMEER | 5 | Title which, in Arabic, derives from the word for "immortal" (var.) |
56% | DESERT | 6 | Sahara is derived from the Arabic word for this |
55% | KISMET | 6 | Word derived from the Arabic for "lot" |
55% | TSAR | 4 | Title derived from the Latin word for "caesar" |
55% | ALOE | 4 | Plant name derived from the Arabic word for "shining bitter substance" |
51% | CASHMERE | 8 | Kind of expensive wool, the word for which comes from the Sanskrit word "Kashmir," a place in the Himalayas |
50% | SCATHE | 6 | Word derived from the proto-Germanic for "to injure" which these days, means to verbally blast someone |
50% | PEZ | 3 | Tablet-shaped candy whose name was derived from the first, middle, and last letters in the German word for peppermint |
48% | SHAH | 4 | Royal title from which the word “checkmate” is derived |
48% | AEON | 4 | Word derived from the Greek for "age" |
48% | SCHMOOZE | 8 | Word derived from the Yiddish for "talk" |
47% | ESAU | 4 | Name possibly derived from the Arabic for "hairy" |
47% | AMIR | 4 | First name derived from the Arabic for "prince" |
47% | ABBOT | 5 | Word derived from the Aramaic for "my father" |
47% | EMOJI | 5 | Word derived from the Japanese for "picture writing" |
47% | PHARAOH | 7 | Word derived from the Egyptian for "great house" |
47% | SHAMPOO | 7 | Word derived from the Hindi for “to massage” |
47% | LEE | 3 | Surname derived from the Chinese word for "plum" |
47% | SKOSH | 5 | Word derived from the Japanese for "a bit" |
47% | SCHMUCK | 7 | Insult derived from the Yiddish word for "penis" |
47% | GRANDAD | 7 | BBC TV series for children starring Clive Dunn in the title role which ran from 1979-84 |
47% | AQABA | 5 | Seaport whose name derives from the Arabic for "obstacle" |
47% | ADAM | 4 | Name that derives from the Hebrew word for "earth" |
47% | GYRO | 4 | Meat dish derived from the Greek word for "turn" |
46% | SHAH | 4 | Ruler's title from which the word "chess" is derived |
46% | OTTAWA | 6 | Capital whose name derives from the Ojibwa word for "traders" |
46% | ECRU | 4 | Common hose hue derived from the French word for "raw" |
46% | EUREKA | 6 | Exclamation derived from the Greek word for "I have found" |
46% | TIARA | 5 | Word derived from the Greek for "headdress of Persian kings" |
46% | NEON | 4 | Noble gas whose name derives from the Greek word for “new” |