[Restart of puzzle item 155. Here's the text of that item's intro:]
 
 This is the 7-letter word game.  It works like this:  One person is "it".
 That person thinks of a seven-letter word.  It must be a real, English word,
 which can be found in some dictionary.

 Other players try to guess the word, and their guesses must also be real,
 English words.  The person who is "it" scores the guesses according to how
 many letters in the guess match those in the word he's thinking of.  So for
 instance, if the word is "privacy", then the scoring might go like this:

 waffles  0  (no letters in common with privacy)
 splashy  1  (both splashy and privacy have y as the 7th letter)
 spinach  3  (spinach and privacy match in 3 places)

 etc.  The game continues until someone guesses a word, and then that person
 becomes "it", and the whole thing starts over again.

 Complete rules are in ~rcurl/letter.match .  It's customary for the person

 who's "it" to store a list of all the current guesses in a file called
 letter.match7 in his or her home directory.  So for instance if kentn is
 "it", the guesses so far will be in ~kentn/letter.match7 .

1021 responses total.

okie dokie, I'm thinking of a seven-letter word that isn't:

yokeage 0 (lastword)
 
Status: Rare word, slightly more known than yokeage

unearth

unearth 0 (kentn)

accrues

Puzzle Item 161: The seven letter word game, 3rd edition, has been linked
to Language Item 114.

accrues 1 (gelinas)

witness

actuary

witness 0 (kentn)
actuary 0 (gelinas)

bananas

bananas 0 (aruba)

cramped

cramped 1 (gelinas)

clapper

clapper 1 (aruba)

accrual

accrual 0 (gelinas)

swollen

swollen 2 (blaise)

Paul, is there any chance we could get you to start keeping a letter.match7
file?

sweeten

I'll try to set one up tomorrow. I'm exhausted tonight.
 
sweeten 2 (aruba)

youthen

Can I get a definition on that?
 
youthen 2 (blaise)

redoubt

redoubt 1 (gelinas)

regimen

From the OED 1st ed s.n. Youth:
...
Hence Youthen  v. [-en5] trans. to make youthful, impart a youthful appearance
to; intr. to become youthful, acquire youthful qualities; ...
(it then goes into another derived word from youth.)

quicken

regimen 2 (aruba)
quicken 2 (blaise)

(I'm now maintaining a letter.match7 file)

Thanks!  That helps a lot.

fifteen

fifteen 2 (aruba)

sixteen

sixteen 2 (albaugh)

zymogen

   Main Entry: zy7mo7gen [audio.gif]
   Pronunciation: 'zI-m&-j&n
   Function: noun
   Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary
   Date: 1877
   : an inactive protein precursor of an enzyme secreted by living cells
   and activated by catalysis (as by a kinase or an acid) -- called also
   proenzyme

zymogen 5 (aruba)

Not quite, but impressive jump. =}

zymurgy

zymurgy 1 (gelinas)

pyrogen

   Main Entry: py7ro7gen [audio.gif]
   Pronunciation: 'pI-r&-j&n
   Function: noun
   Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary
   Date: circa 1890
   : a fever-producing substance

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