How many words can you make from deoxyribonueclic acid?

If you don’t mind turning to the powers of Computers, anagram makers online will help with this. You can tweak the various setting to churn out answers according to the conditions. Here’s a search that lists 1403. Try playing around with the site, it’s loads of fun and great for cheating, I mean learning, at scrabble :)

Bayou. That’s a good one. I also like bionic, ironclad, and inaudibly.

Oh, and my search is set to limit it to words of 3 characters or more. If you include one and two letter words, it’s 1430.

Would you believe that we didn’t use the computer at all?! Between my hubby, 9 year-old-son, 13 year-old-son (the one with the assignment) and me we came up with all of them? I do, however, think that we missed the three you just mentioned dynamicduo. Thanks for the input.

Awesome! It’s way more fun to not use the computer, but sometimes you just gotta know what all those words were ;)

Very true. I was just looking at the link you sent and see that there are many we never thought of.

I would never have thought Blarneyed was a word.

That makes two of us. One word I didn’t see was cancer. We had that on our list. It was actually fun doing this. Kind of a fun family project. LOL

If you run some sort of UN*X you can do something like:

$ grep ”^[deoxyribonueclicacid]*$” /usr/share/dict/american-english | wc -l
2232

Yeah I am not uniqing the letters or counting the numberof e’s, etc, but as a quick hack it’s a start.

You spelled deoxyribonucleic acid wrong. The letters are still the same, though, so I guess it’s okay.

It’s hard to make too many words with just four bases.

It anagrams into
“Icy crocodile unix bead”