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