COOKING
5-LETTER WORDS
PLANTS
ANIMALS
SCIENCE
100

Snail butter, which can be served on other foods, is usually made with 1 or 2 cloves of this

garlic

100

A person employed to serve as a subject for a painter, sculptor or photographer

a model

100

The oak tree that produces this bottle stopper material yields little of it for its first 20 years

cork

100

The beefalo, a hybrid domestic animal, is five-eighths beef cow & three-eighths this

buffalo (bison)

100

When they're huge, these lunar features are called basins

craters


200

Traditionally, this vegetable put the “red” in red flannel hash

beets


200

This word can be a children's nurse or a female goat

a nanny

200

Pumpkin is probably the most famous "winter" variety of this vegetable

squash

200

The fish called tilapia incubate their offspring in this body part where the young later may hide from danger

their mouth

200

This part of the spectrum has wavelengths shorter than violet light but longer than X rays

ultraviolet

300

This school was founded in 1895 to teach cooking to wealthy young Frenchwomen

Le Cordon Bleu


300

The name of this cold-weather jacket with a hood comes from an Alaskan Russian word for "pelt"

a parka

300

These large brown seaweeds were once burned to obtain potash for glassmaking

kelp

300

These lagomorphs differ from rabbits in that they don't build nests & are born open-eyed & fully furred

a hare

300

Radon gas is produced by the breakdown of this element in the earth's crust

radium

400

This Penn. dish, made with scraps of pork mixed with corn meal, is shaped into loaves & then sliced & fried

scrapple


400

It's money or property brought by a bride to her husband at marriage

a dowry 

400

Trifolium repens, a type of this plant is the original Irish shamrock

clover

400

An animal adapted to feed on both animals & plants is called this

an omnivore

400

In the fovea of the retina, cones are concentrated but these light-sensitive cells are absent

rods

500

In Mexican cooking this spicy sauce made with chilies & chocolate is often served over poultry

mole


500

This smoked or sun-dried meat is also called charqui

jerky

500

The dried female flowers of this plant are used to flavor beer; the male flowers can be used in salads

hops

500

Certain aquatic turtles, including the diamondback, are called this, from an Algonquian word

a terrapin

500

In geology the littoral is the environment between the highest & lowest ones of these on a beach

the tides

M
e
n
u