Four letter words
Diseases
Home Computing
Science/Nature
The NATO Alphabet
200
From French, it can replace the word "place" in "in place of"
Lieu
200
The fatal scourge bovine spongiform encephalopathy was identified in 1986 but most people remember it better as this
Mad cow disease
200
Your laptop's displayport or HDMI port can be hooked up to one of these just like the nice big one you had at the office
Monitor
200
DDT was first used as this lethal type of substance around 1940 & restrictions on it began in the late '50s
Pesticide
200
In ancient Rome it was the ninth month
November
400
A tamale is usually wrapped in a corn one
Husk
400
Recommended for teens & preteens, Menveo is a vaccine that helps prevent this highly contagious disease
Meningitis
400
Cat 6 is one type of this cable to connect a computer to the Internet; flat ones are easier than round ones to run under the rug
Ethernet
400
DAILY DOUBLE: This largest reptile on Earth is amphibious & can weigh over 2,000 pounds
Crocodile
400
A nymph deprived of speech
Echo
500
It's the simple bouquet seen here
Posy
500
In 2001 Frank Carlson fought an awful diagnosis & started the Foundation for Life to fight this neuro-degenerative disease
ALS
500
You can get an encrypted connection to the Internet with a VPN, short for this
Virtual private network
500
Yes, yes, this rare lemur has been described as having the face of a possum, the teeth of a rat & the ears of a bat
Aye-Aye
500
4 letters--a potato in Puebla or Peru
Papa
800
A Washington, D.C. university honors this policy expert "of the year"
Wonk
800
Bella Hadid suffers from this chronic disease
Lyme disease
800
Impact & thermal are types of these peripherals
Printer
800
This common silica mineral is found in many types of rocks & is the most common constituent of sand
Quartz
800
NBA shooting guard Oladipo or actor Mature
Victor
1000
2 vowels front this verb meaning "to remove from power"
Oust
1000
In the 1930s Grace Eldering & Pearl Kendrick made a newly effective vaccine against this very noisy respiratory disease
Whooping cough
1000
A good webcam is vital both for work meetings & for when you become King Bozomeme on this gamer livestreaming service from Amazon
Twitch
1000
4 chemical elements, including yttrium & erbium, were named for a village in this country
Sweden
1000
Unit of measure equal to about 2.2 pounds
Kilo