UVSC Session Report February 5, 2018 (Session #166) (authored by BJ) Margaret, Iliana, Jeffrey and I played 11 total games this week, with an intermission for yet another tasty potluck revolving around a porcine contribution from northern Vermont. Our boards were also riddled with tasty morsels ... of the lexical variety, including the likes of: * GESNERIA (quiz: what's the TWL back hook?) * CATLINGS (I thought a catling was a surgical knife, but it also means "a small cat" -- duh!) * GRIDIRON (which is a verb in addition to the usual nounal meaning) * BIOTICAL (pertaining to life, same as BIOTIC; note that ABIOTIC is also valid, but not ABIOTICAL*) * LIGROINE (a petroleum-based solvent, also LIGROIN) Other bingo words: VESTRAL, STOWERS, UNTEAMS#, ETAMINE, ESTRONE, SHRINED, SECANTS, SMARTIE, DENTINAL, TERNION, OVERSOON, HELIXES, THRIFTS, GREASERS, GRIDIRON, UTOPIAS, OBJECTED, NEARSIDE, SOLVENTS, SIGNORAS, LOVELIER, TATTILY, NEONATE. We rounded out the evening (er, early morning) with a few rounds of Boggle in which long words were not very forthcoming, but we did find a few. The 9-letter STEELIEST was the longest, along with the 8-letter words OFTENEST, DETENTES, and STILLEST. A rare photo of catlings in their native habitat: