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Dinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 11:18 PM
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How Many Words Can You Get Out Of "Celebrate"?
No repeats (A letter can only be used as many times as it appears in "celebrate"), no proper nouns, no contractions. Any letter length word is fine, one letter words are ok.

I'll start:

creel (used in fishing)
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meow2u3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 11:23 PM
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1. Berate
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Dinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 11:25 PM
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2. Create
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-08-06 12:07 AM
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3. RECTAL
ERECT
CABLE
TREE
ELECT
TREBLE

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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-08-06 12:11 AM
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4. Rat, eat, tar, ate, brat, bear, late, tree, bale, cat, lab, bee, tear, tea
bra, elate, rate, talc, real, let, . . . .

;)

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mykpart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-08-06 12:30 AM
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5. Crate, rater, later, cereal, beer, teal, table, react, lace, race, brace,
crab, relate
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-08-06 12:38 AM
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6. Here goes...
CELEBRATE
Cel celebate bate bat tab at ate eat tea ear late lace tale teal ale let are bar bra brat alter crete bear bare rate tar tare arc car care ace brace bracelet treble rebel able bleat beat leer reel creel tree berate beetle table tear rale bale lab belt crab bee tee

Oh, hell...my eyes are starting to cross and my head's gonna s'plode.
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blonndee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-08-06 12:39 AM
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7. cel, car, cart, care, cat, clear, crab, crate, creel, eel, ear, era, eat,
elate, lee, let, lea, leer, lace, lab, lat, late, later, are, arc, ace, acre, ate, ale, art, able, abler, abet, bee, beer, beet, bet, beta, bear, berate, bar, bare, bat, bate, bale, baler, bra, brace, brat, bleat, blare, rat, race, rate, reel, relate, rebar, tee, tea, teal, tar, tare, tab, tale, trace

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