| 100% | AMBERGRIS | 9 | Waxy substance used in perfume manufacture secreted by the intestinal tract of the sperm whale |
| 47% | LAC | 3 | Resinous substance secreted by certain insects used in the manufacture of shellac |
| 42% | GUMARABIC | 9 | Substance exuded by various acacia trees used in the manufacture of adhesives |
| 41% | SHELLAC | 7 | Yellowish resin secreted by the lac insect used in the manufacture of gramophone records |
| 36% | CURD | 4 | Substance used in cheese-making formed from the coagulation of milk by acid or rennet |
| 36% | GUT | 3 | Fibrous substance extracted from silkworms used in the manufacture of fishing tackle |
| 32% | CERUMEN | 7 | The waxy substance secreted in the ear canal |
| 31% | PCBS | 4 | Chemicals used in the manufacture of plastics: Abbr. |
| 31% | ORE | 3 | Iron ___ (material used in the manufacture of steel) |
| 31% | ORE | 3 | Iron ___ (rock used in the manufacture of steel) |
| 31% | STYRENE | 7 | Flammable liquid hydrocarbon used in the manufacture of plastic |
| 30% | CHIP | 4 | Tiny wafer of semiconductor material used in the manufacture of electronic equipment |
| 29% | RIDE | 4 | "___ of the Valkyries" (work by Wagner used in many film scores) |
| 29% | CALABASH | 8 | Tropical American evergreen tree whose gourds are used in the manufacture of tobacco pipe bowls |
| 29% | RENNET | 6 | Substance prepared from the stomachs of calves used in making cheese and junket |
| 29% | INSULIN | 7 | Protein hormone secreted in the pancreas by the islets of Langerhans |
| 29% | SUCK | 4 | Draw in liquid in your mouth by the use of muscles |
| 28% | SPITFIRE | 8 | British aircraft designed by Reginald Mitchell used in the Battle of Britain |
| 28% | ACETAL | 6 | Compound used in perfume manufacture |
| 27% | ASS | 3 | Jawbone of an ___ (weapon used by Samson, in the Bible) |
| 27% | ANTLERS | 7 | “I use ___ in all of my decorating” (lyric sung by Gaston, in “Beauty and the Beast”) |
| 26% | ODETOJOY | 8 | Friedrich Schiller poem used in the final movement of Symphony No 9 in D minor by Ludwig van Beethoven |
| 26% | BLIMEY | 6 | Expression of surprise in Britain, commonly used by Ron Weasley in the "Harry Potter" series |
| 26% | ARC | 3 | Type of lamp using carbon electrodes invented by Humphry Davy in the early 19th century |
| 26% | MRMOJORISIN | 11 | Phrase used in the song "L.A. Woman," by Jim Morrison which is an anagram of his name: 3 wds. |
| 26% | PROPOLIS | 8 | Waxy substance used by bees to make their hives |
| 25% | LSD | 3 | Substance used in the CIA mind-control operation Project MKUltra |
| 25% | UREA | 4 | Substance that showed, in 1828, that something previously produced only as a by-product of life, could be created in the lab |
| 25% | LUNAR | 5 | Team Indus are planning on using this type of rover, to be delivered by the Z-01 lander, in the immediate future |
| 25% | CIVETS | 6 | Small mammals that secrete a musk used in perfumes |