Douse a Dose
Solution


The four common English words that end in -dous are:

Computers have certainly destroyed the fun of some puzzles. A puzzle like this would ordinarily have kept me going for a week, but now all you have to do is type
grep .dous /usr/dict/words
and, if you believe the people who compiled the word list, you're done.

This puzzle recently showed up in GAMES magazine. The author stumbled across a few other words that might qualify as answers, except that they aren't very common:

Reference:
Carl Held,
The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves: Post Orange Rhyme Ravings,
Games Magazine,
March 2001.


Last revised on 23 March 2001.