2015 Spelling Bee - Words from the Finals

Words from the final rounds of the 2015 Scripps National Spelling Bee. All words listed here.
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  1. bouillabaisse
    a tomato-based soup or stew with several kinds of fish or shellfish
  2. cerastes
    highly venomous viper of northern Africa and southwestern Asia having a horny spine above each eye
  3. hacek
    a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation
  4. cocozelle
    squash plant having dark green fruit with skin mottled with light green or yellow
  5. gnathostome
    a vertebrate animal possessing true jaws
  6. Tartarean
    of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus
  7. iridocyclitis
    inflammation of the iris and ciliary body of the eye
  8. sprachgefuhl
    an intuitive feeling for the natural idiom of a language
  9. pipsissewa
    any of several plants of the genus Chimaphila
  10. pyrrhuloxia
    crested grey-and-red bird of southwest United States and Mexico
Created on Thu May 28 22:41:12 EDT 2015 (updated Thu May 28 22:42:01 EDT 2015)

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