I’ve only ever used or read the word urethane as a noun, never as a verb. I can see where you are coming from though, because we have verbified paint, varnish, whitewash, lacquer, oil etc etc. Have you found any dictionaries showing urethane as verb?

I'm not suggesting making a verb of urethane — my suggestion is akin to painting, varnishing, whitewashing, lacquering, oiling, etc.: the act of applying the substance (a noun).

Agree, s in the middle is not my favourite. But my bête noire letter is Y.

My wife agrees — she hates seeing a Y.

I have no idea why, but usually the nine-letter word jumps out at me within a few seconds. But I may not play it immediately. I work semi-alphabetically — if the nine-letter word is pirouette, I try to get all words which start with 'e', then all words which start with 'o', then all words which start with 'p' and I'll play the nine-letter word then (unless I get distracted by other words. But I don't work strictly alphabetically: when I get a common word which has anagrams which are also common words, I play those immediately, outside the alphabetical order.

Don't know if that description makes sense — or if my process seems too strange!

Thanks, Alan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_on_the_Housetop (widely known secular Christmas song)

Psalm 102:7*
the following translations use the word housetop:
English Standard Version
Berean Standard Bible
New King James Version
New American Standard Bible
NASB 1995
NASB 1977
Amplified Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible
English Revised Version
Good News Translation
JPS Tanakh 1917
Majority Standard Bible
New Revised Standard Version
New Heart English Bible
World English Bible

The American Standard Version uses house-top (hyphenated).

The Authorised Version (aka King James Version) and Webster's Bible Translation use house top (two words, no  hyphen)

* Eastern Christians use the traditional Christian numbering which regards this verse as Psalm 101:8. Most Western Christians have adopted the Jewish numbering and see this as Psalm 102:7

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(I have no position as to whether housetop should be classified as common in Chihuahua.)

Given the players on Chihuahua come from all around the world, I’m interested to know how players first found the game? After all, it has much earlier beginnings than say Wordle or the like. When I search “free word games online”, Chihuahua doesn’t come up (well not that I can see in the first few responses).

Actually, I think* I originally found Chihuahua with the DuckDuckGo search engine, played it some sporadically for awhile, gradually begain playing regularly and eventually registered a player name.

* 16+ years is far too long for my feeble memory to be sure of what really happened!

I've never heard or encountered (AFAIK) teakettle used in that way.

I asked my better half (who is the tea drinker in the house) who said definitely two words. She uses the kettle several times a day. If I want hot water, I nuke it, but she swears it doesn't taste the same.