Elemental Words

Can you combine the symbols of these chemical elements to form common words?

For example Iron (Fe) + Tungsten (W) = Few

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First submitted	July 30, 2013
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Average score	66.7%
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Hint	Answer
Helium + Aluminum	Heal
Scandium + Argon + Fluorine	Scarf
Tin + Oxygen + Boron	Snob
Bromine + Silver	Brag
Gold + Radium	Aura
Tungsten + Astatine + Erbium	Water
Barium + Carbon + Krypton + Uranium + Boron	Backrub
Copper + Bismuth + Carbon	Cubic
Sulfur + Aluminum + Uranium + Tellurium	Salute
Carbon + Uranium + Lead + Oxygen + Argon + Darmstadtium	Cupboards
Barium + Roentgenium + Einsteinium	Barges
Tantalum + Xenon + Sulfur	Taxes
Vanadium + Iodine + Oxygen + Lithium + Nitrogen	Violin
Calcium + Neodymium + Yttrium	Candy
Sodium + Phosphorus + Potassium + Iodine + Nitrogen	Napkin

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67 Comments

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Level 79

Jul 30, 2013

Great idea for a quiz! I really enjoyed this one.

Level 50

Mar 6, 2016

+3 :) Difficult, considering the time but enjoyed it!

Level 83

Aug 1, 2013

I agree! Great quiz!

Level 76

Aug 22, 2014

+1 :)

Level 66

Apr 24, 2015

+2 :) :D

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Jul 23, 2024

+10

Level 54

Jul 26, 2024

+11

Level 61

Sep 12, 2013

Love it! Great concept for a quiz!

Level 87

Sep 12, 2013

Very unique!

Level 92

Sep 12, 2013

Awesomely difficult!

Level 94

Sep 12, 2013

Woohoo! This one pushed me over 10,000 points and earned me level 65! This is the proudest moment of my life (that's happened in the last 60 seconds).

Level 80

Nov 5, 2021

Flubbed this quiz and brought me to 9999 points. Whoops

Level 49

Dec 19, 2014

For the life of me, I could not remember the symbol for astatine! Took me forever to get "water"

Level 31

Jan 19, 2023

me typing "waser" 4 different times xD

Level 22

Oct 14, 2015

Awesome quiz :)

Very unique and enjoyable

Level 75

Nov 10, 2015

That was fun, I really should have done better!

Level 85

Nov 22, 2015

Very, very creative quiz :)

Level 72

Jan 17, 2016

Great quiz, thanks!

Level 56

Feb 8, 2016

Nice idea. But not being scientifically minded I only know a few symbols. So I really could have done with more time.

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Level 80

Mar 6, 2016

Couldn't figure out what "cupboard" wasn't being accepted... oh.. there's an S on the end. Duh.

Level 63

Jan 13, 2017

I thought I was wrong because I forgot the S as well. Even though I was pretty sure on those element symbols besides Darmstadtium.

Level 75

Jan 4, 2019

same thing, that's what you get when you try to be too fast. I figured I made a spelling error. Even erased the p, cause the few times I heard the word they dont seem to pronounce it. (more like cubberd) (momentarily forgetting about the element symbols...)

Level 73

Mar 7, 2016

Common words? Frag?

Level 75

Jan 4, 2019

Homosexual frog? Or perhaps a frog cigarettte

Level 56

Mar 23, 2021

Yeah frag was a strange word.

Level 27

Apr 10, 2016

Great quiz, absolutely loved it! Nice job!

Level 69

Dec 6, 2016

You forgot the best one: Carbon+Holmium+Cobalt+Lanthanum+Tellurium

Level 45

Jul 24, 2017

No, the best one is Barium+Carbon+Oxygen+Nitrogen

Level 65

Jul 23, 2024

No, the best one is Protactinium+Nitrogen+Calcium+Potassium+Einsteinium

Level 78

Jul 23, 2024

That was going to be on my next update :-)

Level 50

Jan 10, 2018

Very creative quiz! Thanks!

Level 89

Oct 7, 2018

I remember playing this game with my friends when we were bored in high school science class. Funny how we only ever seemed to come up with things like Arsenic+Sulfur or Fluorine+Uranium+Carbon+Potassium.

Level 78

Oct 8, 2018

Yep...that's where I got the idea. We did the exact same thing.

Level 71

Jan 21, 2021

Is this, perhaps, a way to put past swear censors on JetPunk? :')

Level 58

May 19, 2024

I was able to do those really quickly

Level 35

Jun 20, 2025

Our 6th grade class did that too. The most unpopular kid in our class was named PRaNaV, so everyone was saying, well you get the idea, when the teacher's back was turned.

Level 75

Jan 4, 2019

Got them all but found barges really tough (dont know that word or is it from the verb barging in?) that water and cupboard is low I get aswell, but candy being near the bottom? the tough element is neodymium I suppose, but it is reasonable to assume it starts with an n, so that would give can-y, how can the word candy not come to mind then?

(or do people really only stare at the elements? when I nearly have the word I assume the rest or quickly check it. Like with violin after vio(l)- you immediately think about violin and then I see what the last element is, and see it is correct

Level 78

Jan 15, 2019

Plural of the word barge...like the big flat bottom boat that transports goods on rivers. I live in a river town...I just figured it was a pretty common word. Maybe not for you land lubbers.

Level 71

Jan 21, 2021

That one was tough. It's a pretty well known word, but not one that I think of frequently. Plus, I've never heard of "Roentgenium" and its chemical symbol isn't the most intuitive.

Level 56

Jan 24, 2019

I love this type of quiz because it combines to aspects of knowledge into one. You could also do the same with state postal abbreviations if that is possible. Just a suggestion.

Level 69

Apr 26, 2019

Really good idea! More please! :)

Level 76

Oct 1, 2019

At first I was a bit confused then it got so easy. 2:08 remaining.

Level 66

Mar 19, 2021

Francium + Gold would be a good one :)

Level 56

Mar 23, 2021

How is that a good one?

Level 59

Apr 5, 2021

FrAu?

Level 78

Jul 23, 2024

SEND IN THE CLONE!!!

Level 59

Apr 5, 2021

incredible

Level 85

Sep 1, 2021

Germanium + Nitrogen + Iodine + Uranium + Sulfur

Level 56

May 2, 2024

Ge N I U S!!!!

Level 29

Mar 13, 2022

Good to know water is constituted by Tungsten, Astatine and Erbium. Almost confused it for Hydrogen and Oxygen

Level 73

Mar 13, 2022

I wish my chemistry teacher had thought of this - it would have been a fun way to learn the symbols

Level 85

Mar 13, 2022

This quiz was certainly fluorine + uranium + nitrogen.

Level 76

Mar 15, 2022

4 seconds remaining

Level 58

Apr 1, 2022

caurleoxarda

Level 78

Apr 13, 2022

Great idea, but I feel like it needs more time.

Level 64

Feb 10, 2023

10/15 was quite hard really.

Level 74

Sep 29, 2023

Very difficult but also very unique! 5 stars!

Level 70

Dec 18, 2023

Please add Fluorine + Silver!!!

Level 43

Jan 23, 2025

Loved this quiz!

Level 32

Jul 21, 2025

Me getting ZERO (straight up giving up after 15 seconds of the game): My stupid mind still thinking of How is it f possible for these molecules to exist...LOL