Windows Vista

Shows wordplay types you can use to clue an answer in a cryptic crossword: anagrams; reversal; charades; container and contents; head, middle, tail and ends deletion; alternation; substitution. Links to extensive lists of indicators for wordplay types and abbreviations. Saves time and improves cryptic clue quality by suggesting treatments you might not think of. Includes English language word list with over 250,000 entries.

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TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus is a one-click complete dictionary and multifaceted thesaurus of the English language. TheSage can look up words directly from almost any program (IE, Word, Firefox, Outlook, Thunderbird,... ) and is 100% portable. Notable features include: structured lookup display, advanced wildcard search, concordancer, pronunciations, speech, tabbed interface, anagram search, customizable user-interface, and more.

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TEA is a crossword puzzle solver with over 5 million words and phrases. It finds crossword answers; solves anagram clues; helps with other word games such as Scrabble and Lexulous. Letter variables help solve cryptograms and find words with unusual properties such as palindromes; punctuation matching finds phrases and hyphenated words. The integrated dictionary and thesaurus includes over 400,000 definitions and 140,000 citations.

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Scrabble Dictionary based on the SOWPODS List of approved SCRABBLE words. It is very easy to use and incorporates advance search and analysis facilities. Its includes an ANAGRAM which would generate all possible valid Scrabble words based on the letters entered. The ANAGRAM is highly advanced creating words based on a subset of the letters types. It also has standard search facilities to generate words based on certain patterns.

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The tcpIQ Dictionary is a handy, free dictionary which sits in your system tray monitoring clipboard. When you copy a piece of text into the clipboard, the dictionary 'opens up'. Double clicking on the icon will take you to www.dictionary.com where the definition of the word will be displayed. It also features a thesaurus, allows you to search for the word using Google and it can be set to run automatically on start up.

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A fun crossword game for 1-4 players. Compete with friends or against the computer by placing letters on a board to form interlocking words. Special features include: stunning graphics; 50 different board layouts; 4 levels of Artificial Intelligence; multiplayer support; and a massive 730,000 word vocabulary covering 10 languages. This program is 100% spyware-free.

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