I was curious if the words could be used to form any sentences -- here's the corpus organized by part-of-speech. (Many words are missing due to gaps in the corpus I used):
"Great, thanks for providing the words. Here’s a paragraph and a long sentence using only the words from your list."
Paragraph:
Ellie and Gil see high hills and lush soils as they sell eggs. Bessie, Lizzie, and Billie giggle at the blissful scene, while Bob, with his big bellies, sees sole lilies by the lake. Hobbes and Zoe bless the giggles and sighs from the hill. Ellie, high on glee, sees Leslie and Ellie loose on the hill.
Long Sentence:
Ellie, Gil, and Bobbie, with their big, glib egos, hobble to the hill, see high geese and geese solos, sell blissful lilies and lilies, see his giggles and giggles, sees solos, sees shell solos, sell loose, high eggshells, sell soles, sell high heels, lose high heels, lose loose lilies, and see highs, high on high hills.
Numeric Equivalent:
Ellie (371173), Gil (617), and Bobbie (860778), with their big (618), glib (6178), egos (3760), hobble (4607713) to the hill (411), see (335) high (4614) geese (63335) and geese (63335) solos (50505), sell (7735) blissful (817557981) lilies (511173) and lilies (511173), see (335) his (517) giggles (61977619) and giggles (61977619), sees (3355) solos (50505), sees (3355) shell (53477) solos (50505), sell (7735) loose (53350), high (4614) eggshells (355435517), sell (7735) soles (50535), sell (7735) high (4614) heels (43735), lose (3505) high (4614) heels (43735), lose (3505) loose (53350) lilies (511173), and see (335) highs (46145), high (4614) on high (4614) hills (4115).
Also, fun note: ChatGPT will go into Mr. Burns mode if you emote Simpsons...
Now a bonus round: Can anybody possibly do a long work of fiction only using calculator words? Just this post was difficult after losing just a unitary sound!
How did they end up out of alphabetical order? It might be worth alphabetizing and collecting singular+plural into single entries; s and es are available, so you can pluralize most nouns (or singularize most verbs). The list has some pairs but not all, for no particular reason.
I’d suggest dropping the capitalization too, it adds duplicates, and can often be used in both senses, e.g., bill, bell, hill, hiss…
Also note there are plenty of nouns here that can be used as verbs and verbs than can be used as nouns.
A couple of weeks ago a kid comes up to me on the street carrying a calculator, like a kind of rough kid who for some reason was hanging out with a couple of his friends and enamoured with it, but not the kind of nerdling one would expect to be playing with a calculator on the street. He goes (giggling to self) “hey mate what’s the square root of 64,128,064“ clearly hoping to catch me out with some piece of mathematical hilarity… but naturally I’ve been that kid in my youth and snapped back to him, before cycling off:
“8008”
He actually thought I was a maths genius and shouted “Albert Einstein come back” not realising that I just did sqrt(64) in 50 microseconds and then 450 microseconds of schoolboy humour derivation. Probably more like a Feynman approximation than an Einsteinian, but maybe he’ll learn that in decades to come. Good job his pocket calculator couldn’t square 58008 or 5318008 else I probably wouldn’t have grokked it.
Here's a one-liner to generate the list of single 8-letter hexable words from the dictionary. It doesn't include 0xcafebabe or 0xdeadbeef due to those being 2-word phrases. Of course, you can change the 8 to a 4 to make the list of 4-letter words, or change the 8 to an asterisk, so you can pick your own word combos.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 149 ms ] threadNOUN 147 slob, Ellie, silo, bile, sell, Gil, belles, highs, Bessie, losses, giggles, Liz, hobo, Leslie, Bob, lies, bellies, soil, Hess, hells, Isis, Gog, Hiss, boogie, holes, bliss, oils, gel, leg, lobes, globes, Gill, Leigh, geese, bogies, bilge, Lizzie, Leo, boil, legs, shoe, shells, Ozzie, giggle, ooze, size, eel, high, bill, gob, hole, hog, soles, libel, Hill, bee, shills, ills, Lois, glee, Bess, lobe, gig, Beebe, sizes, Gogol, sloe, hiss, Ellis, Sol, boos, Ohio, bees, HBO, bobbles, ill, lie, sobs, booze, bibles, Gibbs, hobbies, sighs, shell, isle, bib, Hegel, hills, Zoe, Eloise, Giles, sill, Elsie, Bill, bells, loss, egg, eggshell, bills, hoses, Shiloh, siege, Bible, solos, sigh, Hillel, logs, hose, lobbies, hill, log, hob, bell, shoes, Lee, gloss, heels, Hobbes, bosses, soils, solo, Oslo, hoes, goose, oil, Bell, blob, goggles, Eli, sole, ego, silos, hogs, lilies, Billie, gibes, ell, hell, shill, globe, oblige, loose, eggs, gibe, boss, heel, Bobbie
VERB 34 sells, loses, Lie, boil, sell, ebb, lob, seize, solo, begs, see, ebbs, sizzle, beg, lie, besiege, ooze, size, goes, hole, lies, hobble, bog, obsesses, soil, boils, loose, bless, solos, sigh, gobbles, shies, lose, sees
ADJ 9 sole, loose, ill, high, less, glib, big, beige, eligible
ADV 5 loose, ill, less, high, else
PRT 4 gosh, hello, see, hell
X 3 his, Les, les
DET 1 his
PRON 2 his, she
"Great, thanks for providing the words. Here’s a paragraph and a long sentence using only the words from your list."
Paragraph:
Ellie and Gil see high hills and lush soils as they sell eggs. Bessie, Lizzie, and Billie giggle at the blissful scene, while Bob, with his big bellies, sees sole lilies by the lake. Hobbes and Zoe bless the giggles and sighs from the hill. Ellie, high on glee, sees Leslie and Ellie loose on the hill.
Long Sentence:
Ellie, Gil, and Bobbie, with their big, glib egos, hobble to the hill, see high geese and geese solos, sell blissful lilies and lilies, see his giggles and giggles, sees solos, sees shell solos, sell loose, high eggshells, sell soles, sell high heels, lose high heels, lose loose lilies, and see highs, high on high hills.
Numeric Equivalent:
Ellie (371173), Gil (617), and Bobbie (860778), with their big (618), glib (6178), egos (3760), hobble (4607713) to the hill (411), see (335) high (4614) geese (63335) and geese (63335) solos (50505), sell (7735) blissful (817557981) lilies (511173) and lilies (511173), see (335) his (517) giggles (61977619) and giggles (61977619), sees (3355) solos (50505), sees (3355) shell (53477) solos (50505), sell (7735) loose (53350), high (4614) eggshells (355435517), sell (7735) soles (50535), sell (7735) high (4614) heels (43735), lose (3505) high (4614) heels (43735), lose (3505) loose (53350) lilies (511173), and see (335) highs (46145), high (4614) on high (4614) hills (4115).
Also, fun note: ChatGPT will go into Mr. Burns mode if you emote Simpsons...
"Ellie sells loose shoes; Bill shills big goose oil."
Took quite a bit of "you're not actually sticking to the list". Also, weird... recursion issues with chat output.
I’d suggest dropping the capitalization too, it adds duplicates, and can often be used in both senses, e.g., bill, bell, hill, hiss…
Also note there are plenty of nouns here that can be used as verbs and verbs than can be used as nouns.
Assuming punctuation is allowed, here's my masterpiece:
Big slob Ohio Bob sees Zoe boil his sole beige goose egg, sighs. She giggles. He sees his egg sizzle, sobs.
He looses his hell bees.
I was wondering if there are any sentences which are also palindomes;
bob sees bob
Lee, sell Les' Eel!
Loss boss sobs. S.O.L.
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Ellie sells shells. Bob, slob hobo, sees Ellie. Bob begs Ellie, "Sell shells." Ellie giggles, "Gosh, hello!" Bob loses. Bob sobs.
Ellie sees Bill. Bill sells bibles. Ellie lies, "Bill, sell bibles else." Bill sells bibles. Ellie gobbles bibles. Bill obsesses. Ellie sighs.
Liz sees Bob. Bob boils. Liz giggles. Bob hobbles. Liz besiege Bob. Bob begs Liz, "Loose." Liz goes. Bob sees highs.
Ellie sees Liz. Ellie giggles. Liz boils. Ellie bless Liz. Liz loses. Ellie sees bliss.
Ellie, Liz, Bob solos. Ellie, Liz, Bob lies. Ellie, Liz, Bob sees bellies. Ellie, Liz, Bob sees highs. Ellie, Liz, Bob giggles.
He loses his high ego, he sizzles, he begs. He seizes his bible.
https://i.redd.it/j5txdt2np1v71.jpg
We are missing boobless 55378008
That gives me idea of "encrypting" a poem where each operation gives you next word.
https://nedbatchelder.com/text/hexwords.html
< /usr/share/dict/words perl -lne 'print "$_ 0x",tr/ilzstgo/1125790/r if m/^[abcdefilzsbtgo]{8}$/ && !(m/i/ && m/l/)' | column
AT&T fan here, due to both Moto 6809 and MOS 6502 roots
It literally took years for me to see "0x" like I do the dollar sign "$" for hex and percent for binary. "%"
I remember doing this c.1974 when the affordable Sinclair Scientific calculator came out, since it was such a novelty to have a calculator.
Others here have pointed out boobless is missing… that’s one of the only words I saw on calculators as a fifth grader. ‘Hello’ was a distant second.
There once was a girl with 69 boobs. That's 2 2 2 many boobs. On 51st street, she went to Dr. X and he 8 them all. She came out boobless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTB5XhjbgZA