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Words in Harvest
TOOTH SPLINTERING A-Z WORD CHALLENGE
22 September - 20 December 2026
  Embrace the changing season with this Tooth Splintering A–Z Word Challenge! This list features autumnal-inspired words that capture the spirit of crisp days, colourful leaves, cooling temperatures, and the gradual turn toward winter. From bountiful harvests and crackling bonfires to misty mornings, spooky nights, and the last leaves clinging to bare branches, each word serves as a spark to help your creativity flourish throughout the season.
Use as many words from the list as you like in your writing—whether in poetry, prose, drabbles, or role-play posts—and see what you can harvest if all 26 words have been used by December 20th.
A: aslant
adverb or adjective ● in a slanting direction : OBLIQUELY
B: bacciferous
adjective ● bearing berries
C: crispate
adjective ● having a crisped appearance : irregularly curled or crinkled : CRISPED
D: desiccation
noun ● the act or process of drying or desiccating something or the state of being or becoming dried up : removal or loss of moisture : thorough drying
E: eldritch
adjective ● strange or unnatural especially in a way that inspires fear : weird, eerie
F: fulvous
adjective ● of a dull brownish yellow : tawny
G: gossamer
noun ● a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather
H: harvest
noun ● the season for gathering in agricultural crops ; the act or process of gathering in a crop ; a mature crop (as of grain or fruit) : yield ; the quantity of a natural product gathered in a single season ; an accumulated store or productive result
I: indurate
verb ● to make hardy : INURE
J: jaggedly
adverb ● in a jagged manner
K: katydid
noun ● any of various large green American long-horned grasshoppers usually having stridulating organs on the forewings of the males that produce a loud shrill sound
L: lantern
noun ● a usually portable protective case for a light with transparent openings
M: moribund
adjective ● being in the state of dying : approaching death ; being in a state of inactivity or obsolescence
N: necropolis
noun ● cemetery - especially : a large elaborate cemetery of an ancient city
O: ochre
noun ● an earthy usually red or yellow and often impure iron ore used as a pigment ; the color of ocher - especially : the color of yellow ocher
P: pomaceous
adjective ● of or relating to apples ; resembling a pome
Q: quince
noun ● the fruit of a central Asian tree (Cydonia oblonga) of the rose family that resembles a hard-fleshed yellow apple and is used especially in preserves ; a tree that bears quinces
R: rustle
verb ● to make or cause a rustle ; to act or move with energy or speed ; to forage food
S: scarecrow
noun ● an object usually suggesting a human figure that is set up to frighten birds away from crops ; something frightening but harmless ; a skinny or ragged person
T: tenebrous
adjective ● shut off from the light : dark, murky
U: umbrageous
adjective ● affording shade ; spotted with shadows
V: vegetable
noun ● a usually herbaceous plant (such as the cabbage, bean, or potato) grown for an edible part that is usually eaten as part of a meal - also : such an edible part
W: whiffle
verb ● of the wind : to blow unsteadily or in gusts
X: xeric
adjective ● characterized by, relating to, or requiring only a small amount of moisture
Y: yield
verb ● to bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation ; to produce or furnish as return ; to produce as return from an expenditure or investment : furnish as profit or interest ; to produce as revenue : bring in
Z: zoomorphic
adjective ● having the form of an animal ; of, relating to, or being a deity conceived of in animal form or with animal attributes
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