PH-un
An irrational fear or aversion to something.
Phobia
A brief film or television outtake that has a humorous error.
Blooper
The largest country in South America.
Brazil
A fowl meal.
Chicken
Where Napoleon met his final defeat.
Waterloo
Phoenix
A group of soldiers or boy scouts.
Troop
A contusion.
Bruise
George Washinton’s favorite pie.
Cheery
A flush toilet . . . or a room containing a flush toilet.
Water closet.
A person who donates money to a good cause.
Philanthropist
A small porch with stairs in front of an apartment building. (It’s a great place to sit and talk to the neighbors.)
Stoop
The person who makes the money to support a family.
Breadwinner
This begins at home.
Charity
Duck, geese, and swans, for example.
Waterfowl
The process by which plants change light into food.
Photosynthesis
Where the chickens go home to roost.
Coop
To make coffee or beer.
Brew
Offspring.
Children
Idiom that means that family is the most important thing.
Blood is thicker than water.
Title of the supreme ruler in ancient Egypt.
Pharaoh
A quantity of ice cream.
Scoop
The organ of thought and feeling.
Brain
Swish or Jack.
Cheese
Fast-moving shallow stretches of a river favored by adventurous rafters.
Whitewater
A hearty houseplant recognizable by its heart-shaped leaves.
Philodendron
To hang down, like a hound dog’s ears.
Droop
System of reading and writing for the blind.
Braille
It’s open every Sunday.
Church
Idiom that means you’re in deep trouble.
Hot water.
Ghost, apparition, spirit.
Phantom
An informal name for the game of basketball.
Hoops
An adornment for the wrist.
Bracelet
The fastest mammal on land.
Cheetah
This white vegetable, which grows in marshes, usually provides the crunch in Chinese stir fry.
Water chestnut.
This is the inflammation of a vein, usually in the legs, often associated with blood clots.
Phlebitis
To nose around into someone’s private affairs.
Snoop
An old-fashioned word for trousers.
Breeches or Britches
Ben-Hur’s wheels.
Chariot
When you’re not feeling comfortable where you are, you are feeling like this.
A fish out of water.
The branch of science concerned with the nature and properties of matter and energy.
Physics
A sailboat with a single mast, a mainsail, and a jib.
Sloop
A mixture of copper and tin, this metal is often used for sculpture.
Bronze
King me!
Chess
This now classic 1972 novel by Richard Adams is about a group of rabbits, including a young runt named Fiver.
Watership down.
A person who studies, and often collects, postage stamps and related items.
Philatelist
A barrel maker... or CNN’s nighttime anchorman Anderson.
Cooper
Your mother’s son.
Brother
Treasure or tool.
Chest
Something that has stopped making progress and has no hope for the future.
Dead in the water.