MYTHOLOGICAL ORIGIN STORIES
Iroquois creation myths say their land actually rests on the back of one of these reptiles
a turtle
What the Brits call a bowler, we in the U.S. call this, after an earl & an English horse race
a derby
When the dentist uses this 10-letter term, your tooth is coming out
extraction
Franklin D. Roosevelt had some 30 "fireside" ones with the American people
chats
A major innovation in this device was the pop-up mechanism around 100 years ago
a toaster
The Norse believed that after the giant Ymir died, his skull became the sky & his brains were flung into it, becoming these
clouds
Type of chapeau in song titles by Prince & by Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler
a beret
When dentists refer to the cheek side of your molar, they call it "buccal", from the Latin for "cheek"; this adjective describes the tongue side & comes from the Latin for "tongue"
lingual
Called "Mr. Chicago", Irv Kupcinet was this type of gabby columnist for the Sun-Times for decades
gossip columnist
An alliterative enclosed vessel for heating kernels until they explode
a popcorn popper
While delivering messages, Iris was said to travel along one of these
a rainbow
A Robert Burns poem gave this flat cap its name
a tam o'shanter
A Maryland this doesn't take you over the Patuxent River; it's a false tooth held in place with metal wings
a bridge
This kind of one-on-one conversation is French for head to head
tête-à-tête
As in India's popular Tandoori chicken, Tandoori means cooked in an oven made of this
clay
After Phaeton crashed a sun chariot, his mournful sisters became trees & their tears became this fossil resin
amber
As Sherlock Holmes, Basil Rathbone sported this cap also called a fore-and-after
a deerstalker
The tooth is this, not fully coming out of the gums because of a blockage
impacted
In competitive debate, it's a speech that refutes the other team's arguments & rebuilds one's own
a rebuttal
A small oven with a turning spit inside it to aid roasting & barbecuing
a rotisserie
This river was created when Shiva lowered a goddess slowly to the earth, guiding her across India
the Ganges
We hope the name of this hat, popular for women in the 1920s, rings a bell
a cloche
These are generally wood for furniture & porcelain for teeth; don't let anyone mix that up
veneers
It means the person with whom you're speaking; add "Y" to describe a temporary legal decree
interlocutor
A high-stress job can be described as this, the kitchen version of an autoclave
a pressure cooker