WORD TARGET

How many words of four letters or more can you make from the letters shown here? In making a word, each letter may be used once only. Each word must contain the centre letter and there must be at least one nine-letter word in the list. No plurals or verb forms ending in “s”; no words with initial capitals and no words with a hyphen or apostrophe permitted. The first word of a phrase is permitted (e.g. inkjet in inkjet printer).

Today’s Target

Good 3; very good 12; excellent 19 (or more). Monday’s Solution:

belt bent bier bile bine birl bite biter blin blip blue BLUEPRINT bluer bluet blunt blunter blur blurt brent brine bruin bruit brunt brut brute built bunt bunter burin burl burn burnet burnt burp butler lube nubile rebuilt rebut riblet rube tribe tribune tube tuber turbine unbelt