What other words can you make out of the name "Edwards"?

[FlyingSquirrel]

I know.. too much time on my hands.

rad
dares
draw
dear
read
wed
swear

Many haters would also add:

war
sad
sadder
red
dread

[ChazII]

1. and

dew
drew
raw

[SalmonChantedEvening]

2. Dewars

And not a half bad idea.

Happy 2008 FS :toast:

[laruemtt]

3. c'mon over and play

boggle with us: http://www.wordtwist.org

i've wasted countless hours lost on that site.

[pennylane100]

4. Ward,

dreads
wards
sear
wed
wad
dare
sew
saw
was

[JDPriestly]

5. And from Obama

Bam, mama, am, baa, mob, not much there if you ask me.

[FlyingSquirrel]

6. If only he had an R in his last name... could be Rambo!

[Arugula Latte]

7. For "Clinton":

Not
Lint
Clot
Nit
Ton
Loin
Toil
Coin
Nil

Plus a naughty one I won't post ...

[lvx35]

8. Internet Anagram server has all the answers:

http://wordsmith.org/anagram/

John Edwards becomes "Nerd Jaws, Doh!"
Hillary Clinton becomes "Chilly torn nail"

along with many others.

[skids]

9. Hrm. well let me fire up my perl... 113

Doing it like you are gets me 113 words. But that's too many to list here:

$perl -ne 'print if m/^+$/i and not m/().*\1/ and not m/d.*d.*d/' /usr/share/dict/american-english | grep -c .
113

But if I go for two word combos that use every letter once, it makes a manageably small list:

$ perl -ne 'print if m/^+$/i and not m/().*\1/ and not m/d.*d.*d/ and m/../' /usr/share/dict/american-english | perl -ne 'chomp; $w{$_}++; END { for $i (keys %w) { for $j (keys %w) { $_ = "$i$j"; print "$i $j\n" if not m/().*\1/i and not m/d.*d.*d/i and m/(?=.*e)(?=.*d.*d)(?=.*w)(?=.*a)(?=.*r)(?=.*s)/i}}}'
rs waded
Dawes Rd
Dawes Dr
Sr waded
wades Rd
wades Dr
sawed Rd
sawed Dr
Rd Dawes
Rd wades
Rd sawed
wed Sadr
Drew ads
Drew sad
waded rs
waded Sr
wads red
wads Red
drew ads
drew sad
ads Drew
ads drew
reds wad
wad reds
red wads
wards Ed
Wed Sadr
sad Drew
sad drew
Dr Dawes
Dr wades
Dr sawed
sward Ed
Red wads
draws Ed
Sadr wed
Sadr Wed
Sadr dew
dew Sadr
Ed wards
Ed sward
Ed draws

Words that contain all the letters in "edwards" plus some extras:

perl -ne 'print if m/(?=.*e)(?=.*d.*d)(?=.*w)(?=.*a)(?=.*r)(?=.*s)/i' /usr/share/dict/american-english
dawdler's
dawdlers
downgrades
drawbridge's
drawbridges
foreshadowed
headword's
headwords
overshadowed
snowboarded
stewarded
widespread
wonderland's
wonderlands
wrongheadedness
wrongheadedness's

[Leopolds Ghost]

10. 8 words.

[cascadiance]

11. I wonder if we could get Edwards Theaters here in California to put in campaign ads for him...

... since they share names!

Not sure where Edwards Theaters here have their political compass at, but they were a bit slow on getting Fahrenheit 9/11 in their theaters here compared to some of the other chains.

[radiclib]

12. You forgot "a"

I wish I could have back the thirty seconds I spent trying to make a word with all seven letters :silly: