| 100% | STRIKE | 6 | When a bowler knocks over all ten pins |
| 45% | PINS | 4 | A bowler knocks over 120 of them in a perfect game |
| 41% | STRIKE | 6 | Act of knocking down all the pins with the first ball of a frame in ten-pin bowling |
| 39% | BOWLING | 7 | In this game, players knock over pins with a ball |
| 38% | STRIKE | 6 | When all bowling pins knocked down on first ball |
| 36% | SPARE | 5 | Term for knocking down all ten bowling pins in two tries |
| 36% | STRIKE | 6 | Bowler's first goal; all ten pins in one roll |
| 34% | SPILLS | 6 | Knocks over a glass |
| 34% | SPILL | 5 | Knock over a liquid |
| 34% | TEN | 3 | Number of bowling pins knocked over in a strike |
| 33% | RAZES | 5 | Knocks over, as a building |
| 33% | BLOWNDOWN | 9 | Knocked over in a gale |
| 33% | ROB | 3 | Knock over, as a bank |
| 33% | ROB | 3 | Knock over, in a way |
| 32% | IRONIC | 6 | 1996 hit with the lyric "It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife" |
| 32% | TOPPLES | 7 | Knocks over, as a house of cards |
| 32% | ENDDATE | 7 | When a given time period is over |
| 31% | LANDFALL | 8 | When a storm comes ashore from over the sea |
| 31% | STRIKE | 6 | Knocking down all the pins in bowling |
| 31% | ONEPIN | 6 | Closest of a bowler's ten targets |
| 31% | PIN | 3 | Item knocked over by a bowling ball |
| 31% | SPILLER | 7 | Person knocking over a drink, e.g. |
| 31% | LANDFALL | 8 | When a storm moves from over sea to terra firma |
| 31% | PIN | 3 | Item that a bowler tries to knock down |
| 30% | BITTEREND | 9 | When it's all *finally* over |
| 30% | HASP | 4 | When pinned, it's a lock |
| 30% | OUVERT | 6 | When a player's cards are exposed for all to see |
| 30% | STRIKE | 6 | Knocking down all 10 pins at once in bowling |
| 30% | ANEW | 4 | All over again in a better way |
| 29% | MONOPOLY | 8 | Control over all of a market; a famous board game |