A Company of Thirteen

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These thirteen English words share a hidden property:

cold, laughter, unblock, word, kill, witch, even, now, warm, oil, talking, potted, corn

The list is not complete, there are other words with the same property, most don't fit the pattern though. What is this property?

Googling the keywords takes you to the answer: datagenetics.com/blog/october42012/index.html — Chris Schiffhauer, Commented Mar 18, 2015 at 22:07
I misunderstood "there are other words with the same property, most don't fit the pattern though" to mean that the other words with the same property don't fit the pattern (implying that there's some second property of the words you picked). — jamesdlin, Commented Mar 19, 2015 at 9:07

Aravind · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-18 16:25:06Z

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Adding S as the first letter gives new words.

answered Mar 18, 2015 at 16:25

Aravind

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$\begingroup$ Well, that didn't even last five minutes. Good job, I'll accept it as answer once the system lets me. $\endgroup$
– Moghwyn
Commented Mar 18, 2015 at 16:28
$\begingroup$ @Moghwyn She's quick! $\endgroup$
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