High-Scoring Scrabble Words
AKA a pancake or hotcake (26 points)
Flapjack
A tropical tree
Palm
Flung & ceremonial chair
Thrown/throne
As a gas, oxygen is colorless, but in liquid form it's this color
Blue
In 1786 this state's senate voted & Columbia beat out Washington as the name of the new capital
South Carolina
Dance off with at least 27 points for this word for a coin-operated record player often found in bars
Jukebox
A piece of furniture with drawers
Chest
A stream & a floorboard noise
Creek/creak
This second-lightest gas is mixed with oxygen for use in scuba diving
Helium
The USS Slater, a World War II destroyer escort, is a now a museum in this "Empire State" capital
Albany
To make the pressure between 2 forces the same (26 points)
Equalize
It's a border along a highway where vehicles can pull over in an emergency
Shoulder
The opposite of slack, or what slackers weren't getting in school
Taut/Taught
Also used in medicine, this lightest of all metallic elements can float on water
Lithium
This Iowa capital began as a fort in 1843 & the Women's Army Corps began there a century later
Des Moines
A slang term, your significant other is your "main" this. & that's worth 25 points
Squeeze
When you pick up a tab, you do this to "the bill"
Foot
An unpleasant high-pitched noise like from a jet engine and an alcoholic drink
An oxide of this element, atomic number 30, is used in sunscreens to provide protection from UV rays
Zinc
Daniel Boone's grave is in this Kentucky capital
Frankfort
Rusted, from a chemical point of view (26 points)
Oxidized
It's a collection of supplementary material at the end of a book
Appendix
A person's animating spirit, or city that's headquarters to Hyundai
Soul/Seoul
Elements that are gases at room temperature include argon, neon, krypton & this rare "foreign" noble gas used in lighting
Xenon
Rosa Parks helped make this city "The Birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement"
Montgomery