Krillion Recorded answers
1,722 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat the suffix as a pattern rather than a meaning: every candidate is a prefix plus the same six-letter tail, so the productive move is to generate prefixes and test them. Begin with domains that institutionalise naming — clinical imaging, laboratory analysis, print and reproduction crafts, the earth and social sciences — and for each, run through the objects, instruments and processes that specialists describe. Say the compound aloud; if it sounds like something a textbook would use, it probably exists. Keep a running list and check spelling before committing, since near-misses are the main way points are lost. Breadth beats depth: the list is long, so the quantity of plausible coinages matters more than polish on any single one.
Get a hint
Start with the largest family: the Greek-derived words for writing, drawing and recording. Medical and scientific imaging alone has produced hundreds of them, and each sub-specialty tends to coin its own.
A little more
Move outward to the older, craftier end of the list: printing and reproduction techniques, the tracing of routes and surfaces, the study of written forms by hand, and the description of populations or of the body's interior.
One step further
Then hunt for compounds: a prefix naming the object, the organ, the instrument or the medium, welded to the suffix. The longer and more technical the compound sounds, the more likely it is already on the list.
Reveal answers 1,722
- SteganographyOne in a Krillion100points
- Abdominal radiographyDeep Cut85points
- Abdominal ultrasonographyDeep Cut85points
- AcceleromyographyDeep Cut85points
- Acoustic holographyDeep Cut85points
- Acoustic tomographyDeep Cut85points
- Acoustical oceanographyDeep Cut85points
- AcoustocerebrographyDeep Cut85points
- AcoustographyDeep Cut85points
- AcrographyDeep Cut85points
- ActigraphyDeep Cut85points
- ActinographyDeep Cut85points
- Active thermographyDeep Cut85points
- AdenographyDeep Cut85points
- AdoxographyDeep Cut85points
- Adrenal cortical scintigraphyDeep Cut85points
- Adrenal scintigraphyDeep Cut85points
- Adsorption chromatographyDeep Cut85points
- AerocartographyDeep Cut85points
- AerographyDeep Cut85points
- Affinity chromatographyDeep Cut85points
- Afocal photographyDeep Cut85points
- AgrostographyDeep Cut85points
- Air displacement plethysmographyDeep Cut85points
- Air-to-air photographyDeep Cut85points
- Albumin scintigraphyDeep Cut85points
- AlgraphyDeep Cut85points
- AlloglottographyDeep Cut85points
- AllographyDeep Cut85points
- AllostratigraphyDeep Cut85points
- AlveographyDeep Cut85points
- Ambulatory electrocardiographyDeep Cut85points
- AminostratigraphyDeep Cut85points
- AmniographyDeep Cut85points
- AmpelographyDeep Cut85points
- Amplitude-integrated electroencephalographyDeep Cut85points
- AnaglyptographyDeep Cut85points
- Anal endosonographyDeep Cut85points
- Analytical bibliographyDeep Cut85points
- Anamorphic cinematographyDeep Cut85points
- AnatomographyDeep Cut85points
- AnemographyDeep Cut85points
- AngelographyDeep Cut85points
- AngiocardiographyDeep Cut85points
- AngiodynographyDeep Cut85points
- AngiothermographyDeep Cut85points
- Animated cartographyDeep Cut85points
- AnkylographyDeep Cut85points
- Annales historiographyDeep Cut85points
- Antegrade pyelographyDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring rewarded two different instincts. The single hundred-point answer, steganography, is the clever one: it hides rather than describes, and almost nobody thinks of it because the suffix feels like it belongs to imaging. Everything else clustered at eighty-five, and the pattern there is specificity. Abdominal radiography and abdominal ultrasonography both scored eighty-five not because they are obscure but because they are precise: organ plus technique, the shape a working clinician would actually write. Bare, familiar words — the everyday terms for map-making or handwriting study — were pushed down to sixty, since a thousand players reach for them in the first minute. The distribution is the lesson: with more than seventeen hundred recorded answers, the list is effectively inexhaustible, so the marginal value lies in compounds rather than in cleverness. Rare picks earn more because the scoring rewards distance from the obvious, and a long technical compound is the cheapest way to buy that distance.