4 letter words
Fix your female kitty
spay
Scalene is one of these with 3 unequal sides
triangle
A melon with orange flesh
cantaloupe
Where many of us start our schooling, at age 5 or so
kindergarten
14 letters: The action of changing a lowercase letter into an uppercase one
capitalization
A live performance of this musical genre that showed its "age" in the 1920s often includes improvisation
jazz
Once it meant a young knight; today it means an unmarried man
bachelor
To shorten so that a part stands for the whole
abbreviate
It's the formal term for a mapmaker
cartographer
16 letters: An M.D. who specializes in putting you under
anesthesiologist
French word for a mixture of butter & flour used to make sauces
roux
It's the feature that populates online forms with your birthdate, phone number etc. when you put in your name
autofill
To speed up quickly, like your car to make that green light
accelerate
Sugars & starches are this type of organic compound with a name meaning "watered carbon"
carbohydrate
15 letters: By definition, these "activities" take place outside the scope of regular school instruction
extracurricular
It's the theatrical technique of suggesting emotions without words, using only gesture & movement
mime
Verb meaning to raise a body in the air & keep it afloat, as if by magic
levitate
You might need a chorus to repeat this interjection, from the Hebrew for "praise ye the Lord"
hallelujah
This German word for a ghostly double of a living person is also used to mean someone who looks just like you
Doppelganger
13 letters: From the Latin for "ask", it's the formal & systematic questioning of a suspect
interrogation
Britannica cites the Piltdown man & the Feejee mermaid in its articles on this type of 4-letter scam
hoax
One of the witches in "Macbeth" refers to it as a "charmed pot"
cauldron
Laughter spreading in a crowd is often described as this, which, in a clinical sense, means transmitted by contact
contagious
Term for the use of agents like smallpox or Ebola to kill others
bioterrorism
17 letters: Protestant churches that are independent & have no organizational affiliation are said to be this
nondenominational