I'm thinking of a seven-letter word.

1177 responses total.

(See item 93 for rules to the 6-letter version; the rules here are the same
except we use 7 letters instead of 8.)

travels

species

travels  0  (orinoco)
species  1  (kami)

A summary of guesses so far is in ~aruba/letter.match7 .

carrots

preview

carrots  0  (kentn)
preview  0  (anilkk)

stomach

stomach  2  (kami)

stomata

stomata  2  (anilkk)

sextant

sextant  1  (kentn)

stipple

   Main Entry: 1stip7ple
   Pronunciation: 'sti-p&l
   Function: transitive verb
   Inflected Form(s): stip7pled; stip7pling /-p(&-)li[ng]/
   Etymology: Dutch stippelen to spot, dot
   Date: circa 1762
   1 : to engrave by means of dots and flicks
   2 a : to make by small short touches (as of paint or ink) that
   together produce an even or softly graded shadow b : to apply (as
   paint) by repeated small touches
   3 : SPECKLE, FLECK
   - stip7pler /-p(&-)l&r/ noun

Neat word.

stipple  0  (kami)

Poo! I thought it was the st.  Oh well.

travels

avocado

travels  0  (albaugh)
avocado  7  (kentn)

And Kent wins the first 7-letter word game!  You're up, Kent!

I've been maintaining the word list for the 6-letter game (in
/a/r/c/rcurl/l.m.words). If anyone wants to maintain one for this
7-letter version, please do.

Hmmm...what would that file be called, l.m7.words?

I'll try to have a new word in mind when I log in next.

or 7l.m.words? I could rename my 6l.m.words.

That works, too.  Whatever it is, now that we have 5, 6, and 7
letter games, we should be consistent it differentiating between
the files associated with each.

Okay, I'm thinking of a 7-letter word, and it's not
 
  avocado  0  (lastword)

A summary of guesses on the current word is in ~kentn/letter.match7

mormons

abalone

  abalone  0  (aruba)

orinoco, can you provide me with some evidence that "mormons" is
not a proper noun?  My dictionary shows "Mormon" as a proper noun.

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blasted

elevate

I do appear to be losing my mind.  

article

...is _definitely_ not a proper noun.  For real.

  blasted  0  (albaugh)
  elevate  1  (aruba)
  article  0  (orinoco)

brevity

emerges

cutouts

  brevity  1  (aruba)
  emerges  1  (orinoco)
  cutouts  0  (albaugh)

drowned

elegant

  drowned  0  (orinoco)
  elegant  1  (albaugh)

screech

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