| 100% | PATERNOSTER | 11 | Type of doorless continuously moving lift first built in 1884 as the Cyclic Elevator |
| 34% | ODE | 3 | Type of poem often used as the first word in the poem's title |
| 30% | WOODEN | 6 | Type of barrels used in the first diving bells |
| 28% | PAWN | 4 | The first piece usually moved in a game of chess |
| 28% | SWAY | 4 | Move in the breeze, as a tree (anagram of "ways") |
| 28% | GREATWALL | 9 | Longest built structure in the world as of 2021 |
| 28% | CHERT | 5 | Type of rock that siliceous Novaculite is, as found in the Marathon Uplift area of Texas |
| 27% | PAWN | 4 | Usually the first piece moved in a game of chess |
| 27% | ATOMICPILE | 10 | The first one of these was built by Fermi and his team in 1942 |
| 26% | PILSNER | 7 | Lager type first made in the city of Plzen |
| 26% | EMMA | 4 | Title heroine described in the first sentence of her novel as "handsome, clever and rich" |
| 26% | EMMA | 4 | Title heroine described in the first lines of her novel as "handsome, clever and rich" |
| 25% | CAROL | 5 | Patricia Highsmith novel first published in 1951 as The Price of Salt under pseudonym Claire Morgan |
| 25% | WOOMERA | 7 | Town in South Australia built in 1947 as the administrative centre of the Long Range Weapons Establishment |
| 25% | MOOCOW | 6 | Kidspeak animal mentioned in the first line of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" |
| 25% | MODIFIEDV | 9 | Type of hull in boat building |
| 25% | GOGO | 4 | Type of dancer in the '60s |
| 25% | YAK | 3 | Type of cattle in the Himalayas |
| 25% | ALA | 3 | State, in short, which had as its first permanent capital the community of Cahaba, now a ghost town |
| 25% | EDAM | 4 | Type of cheese originated in the Netherlands |
| 25% | EPEE | 4 | Type of sword used in the Olympics |
| 25% | CARDIAC | 7 | Type of muscle used in the heart |
| 25% | BUS | 3 | Type of vehicle in the movie "Speed" |
| 25% | COW | 3 | Type of mammal in the Borden logo |
| 25% | SUGARPLUM | 9 | Type of fairy in the Nutcracker ballet |
| 25% | SARAN | 5 | Type of plastic wrap in the kitchen |
| 24% | ODE | 3 | Type of poem popular in the 19th century |
| 24% | CRUISER | 7 | Type of ship in the board game Battleship |
| 24% | NEON | 4 | Type of bright color popular in the 1980s |