- ''Rhythm'' and ''syzygy'' are the longest words without vowels.
- The highest scoring word in the game Scrabble is ''quartzy.''
- Absquatulate means to flee or abscond.
- "Boondoggle" means an unnecessary activity or wasteful expenditure.
-''Bugaboo'' means something that causes baseless fear or worry; also a false belief used to intimidate.
- Yreka bakery (Yreka, California) is a palindrome (spells the same backward and forward).
- Sentences that can be read the same backwards too:
- Madam in Eden, I'm Adam.
- As I pee, sir, I see Pisa!
- Dennis and Edna sinned.
- Gateman sees name, garageman sees name tag
- Reviled did I live, said I ,as evil I did deliver.
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