ISOGRAMS III
Brenda Cox

Isograms are words or phrases with no repeating letters. The term is also used to describe words or phrases in which each letter appears the same number of times, not necessarily just once. Isograms are only interesting when there are enough letters in the word or phrase to make avoiding repetition challenging. For example, the word CAT has no repeating letters, but it is not as interesting as AMBIDEXTROUSLY, which also has no repeating letters.

Isograms in which each letter appears the same number of times are quite rare, so even fairly short ones are intriguing. DEED and DEEDED are isograms in which each of two letters appears twice or three times, respectively. But these are not as interesting as ARRAIGNING, in which five different letters appear two times each.

The clues below can be answered with isograms having no repeated letters. Each answer word has ten letters.

1. All of us - in terms of our planet
2. Tearful
3. Beach rescuers
4. Cookie used in tiramisu
5. Horseshoer (also an isogram), perhaps
6. Deter
7. Certain dogs and  buses
8. Obstinate
9. Plural marriage proponent
10. Urge to roam
11. Tiny drum with jingles
12. Tumbler's springboard

Answers:

1. EARTHLINGS
2. LACHRYMOSE
3. LIFEGUARDS
4. LADYFINGER
5. BLACKSMITH
6. DISCOURAGE
7. GREYHOUNDS
8. HEADSTRONG
9. POLYGAMIST
10. WANDERLUST
11. TAMBOURINE
12. TRAMPOLINE

ISOGRAMS II

THE GUNPOWDERY BLACKSMITH
source: Beyond Wordplay

The two words GUNPOWDERY BLACKSMITH use 20 of the 26 letters of the alphabet, without repetition.   They stand as the current champion pair to use the most letters of the alphabet in two words without repeating a single letter.

The longest single words with no repeated letters have 16 and 15 letters respectively:
source: Language on Vacation by Dmitri Borgmann

UNCOPYRIGHTABLES - referring to things for which it is not possible to secure copyright

DERMATOGLYPHICS - the study of skin markings (fingerprints)


With the "outermost limits in the way of verbal creativeness", Borgmann coins the 23-letter

PUBVEXINGFJORD-SCHMALTZY defined as "as if in the manner of the extreme sentimentalism generated in some individuals by the sight of a majestic fjord, which sentimentalism is annoying to the clientele of an English inn".

ISOGRAMS I

An isogram is a word or phrase without a repeating letter. It is also used to mean a word or phrase in which each letter appears the same number of times, not necessarily just once.

The following words or letter sets can double in size to become isograms by using the same letters twice each. Example: CAUS becomes CAUCASUS

MEAT
PEAR
SHORE
STEIN
PEAS
GRAIN

GINS

HINT:

It helps if you anagram the words to the following:

TEAM

REAP

HORSE

INTES

APES

ARING

SIGN

Answers:

TEAMMATE
REAPPEAR
HORSESHOER
INTESTINES
APPEASES
ARRAIGNING

SIGNINGS