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
- Anterior segment optical coherence tomographyDeep Cut85points
- Anterior segment photographyDeep Cut85points
- AnthographyDeep Cut85points
- AnthropographyDeep Cut85points
- Anthropological demographyDeep Cut85points
- AntiautobiographyDeep Cut85points
- AortographyDeep Cut85points
- ApexcardiographyDeep Cut85points
- Applied demographyDeep Cut85points
- Applied geographyDeep Cut85points
- Aqueous normal-phase chromatographyDeep Cut85points
- Arabic epigraphyDeep Cut85points
- Arabic palaeographyDeep Cut85points
- ArchaeographyDeep Cut85points
- Archaeological stratigraphyDeep Cut85points
- Architectural typographyDeep Cut85points
- AreographyDeep Cut85points
- Argentation chromatographyDeep Cut85points
- ArithmographyDeep Cut85points
- Array tomographyDeep Cut85points
- Art historiographyDeep Cut85points
- Arterial portographyDeep Cut85points
- ArteriographyDeep Cut85points
- ArthrographyDeep Cut85points
- ArticulographyDeep Cut85points
- Ascending chromatographyDeep Cut85points
- AstrocartographyDeep Cut85points
- Atom probe tomographyDeep Cut85points
- AudiographyDeep Cut85points
- AudiospectrographyDeep Cut85points
- AurigraphyDeep Cut85points
- AutoethnographyDeep Cut85points
- AutofluorographyDeep Cut85points
- AutographyDeep Cut85points
- AutohagiographyDeep Cut85points
- AutohistoradiographyDeep Cut85points
- AutoluminographyDeep Cut85points
- AutometallographyDeep Cut85points
- AutopathographyDeep Cut85points
- AutophytographyDeep Cut85points
- AutopsychographyDeep Cut85points
- AutoradiographyDeep Cut85points
- AutoradioluminographyDeep Cut85points
- AutotelegraphyDeep Cut85points
- AutotopographyDeep Cut85points
- AutotypographyDeep Cut85points
- AuxanographyDeep Cut85points
- AxiographyDeep Cut85points
- AxonographyDeep Cut85points
- BacteriographyDeep 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.