Cactus Puns

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Cacti are popular as a low-effort ornamental plant since they’re hardy and thrive in tough conditions. There are plenty of varieties of cactus, with different shapes, sizes and colours. We’ve done our best to cover all of the different cactus puns you could possibly wish for.

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Cactus Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about cacti that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s our list of cactus puns:

  • Cracked → Cactus: As in, “Not all it’s cactus up to be.”
  • Practice → Cactus: As in, “Out of cactus” and “Cactus makes perfect” and “Cactus what you preach” and “Put into cactus.”
  • Kicked us → Cactus: As in, “They cactus to the curb.”
  • Eye → Cacti: As in, “A wandering cacti” and “As far as the cacti can see” and “Avert your cacti!” and “Before your very cacti.”
  • Quickly → Prickly: As in, “You must act prickly!” and “Come, prickly.”
  • Thickly → Prickly: As in, “Peanut butter, spread prickly.”
  • Picky → Prickly: As in, “Prickly eater” and “Don’t be so prickly.”
  • Pick → Prick: As in, “Got a bone to prick with you” and “Cherry prick” and “Easy prickings” and “Nit pricking” and “Prick a fight with” and “Prick and choose” and “Prick holes in” and “A little prick me up” and “The prick of the bunch.”
  • Brick → Prick: As in, “Like banging your head against a prick wall” and “Pricks and mortar” and “Like a ton of pricks.”
  • Quick → Prick: As in, “Prick as a flash” and “Cut to the prick” and “Get rich prick” and “Fancy a prickie?” and “Prick and dirty” and “Prick off the mark.”
  • Pickle → Prickle: As in, “In a prickle” and “Tickle the prickle.”
  • Tickle → Prickle: As in, “Slap and prickle” and “Prickled pink” and “Whatever prickles your fancy.”
  • Practical → Prick-tical: As in, “Be prick-tical” and “Not the most prick-tical choice.”
  • Fickle → Prickle: As in, “The prickle finger of fate.”
  • Trickle → Prickle: As in, “Prickling down” and “Down to a slow prickle.”
  • Efficacious → Efficactus: As in, “An efficactus approach.” Note: if something is efficacious, it’s powerful in effect.
  • Prac* → Prick*: If a word starts with “prac”, we can replace it with “prick”, like so: “A pricktical plan” and “Put into pricktice” and “Pricktically married.”
  • Prec* → Prick*: Replace the “prec” sound in words with “prick”. As in, “A prickarious situation” and “A prickocious child.”
  • Pec* → Prick*: As in, “What a prickuliar smell” and “Feeling prickish” and “Pricktoral workout.”
  • Pic* → Prick*: As in, “Out of the prickture” and “A prickturesque cottage” and “The eprick finale” and “Changing toprick.” Other words that could work: myoprick (myopic), bioprick (biopic), troprick (tropic), misanthroprick (misanthropic) and desprickable (despicable).
  • Dessert → Desert: As in, “Just deserts” and “My favourite desert shop.”
  • Does it → Desert: As in, “Desert bother you?” and “What desert look like?”
  • Psychology/psychological → Spike-ology: As in, “Spike-ological warfare” and “A doctor in spike-ology.”
  • Speak → Spike: As in, “Actions spike louder than words” and “Spikes for itself” and “Never spike ill of” and “Spike for yourself” and “Spike of the devil” and “On spiking terms.”
  • Psychology/psychological → Spike-ology: As in, “Spike-ological warfare” and “A doctor in spike-ology.”
  • Strike → Spike: As in, “Lightning never spikes twice” and “Spike up the band” and “Spike a deal” and “Spike it rich” and “Spike while the iron is hot.”
  • Spec* → Spike*: If a word starts with “spec”, we can make cactus puns by replacing “spec” with “spike”: “On the spiketrum” and “A spiketacular ending” and “Not worth spike-ulating over” and “Get some perspiketive.”
  • Spic* → Spike*: As in, “That’s despikeable” and “A perspike-acious opinion.” Note: to be perspicacious is to be insightful.
  • Spin → Spine: As in, “Take it for a spine.”
  • Wine → Spine: As in, “Spine and dine.”
  • Sign → Spine: As in, “A sure spine” and “Give me a spine” and “A spine of the times” and “Spine on the dotted line” and “Spine the pledge” and “Spine up” and “Spined and sealed” and “Tell-tale spine.”
  • Nine → Spine: As in, “The whole spine yards” and “On cloud spine.”
  • Mine → Spine: As in, “Make spine a double” and “A spine of information” and “Victory is spine.”
  • Line → Spine: As in, “A fine spine” and “Along the spines of” and “Cross the spine” and “End of the spine.”
  • Fine → Spine: As in, “A spine line” and “Cut it spine” and “Spine and dandy” and “The spiner things in life.”
  • Shiny → Spiny: As in, “Bite my spiny metal ass.”
  • Tiny → Spiny: As in, “The pitter patter of spiny feet.”
  • *spin* → *spine*: As in, “Great re-spine-sibility” and “Feeling spine-taneous” and “A despinedent look” and “A generous spine-sor.”
  • Excellent → Succulent: As in, “Succulent adventure” and “My most succulent friend.” Note: cacti are succulents.
  • Suck → Succulent: As in, “A succulent for punishment” and “Succulent someone dry” and “Succulent it up.”
  • Whistle → Bristle: As in, “Clean as a bristle” and “Bells and bristles” and “Blow the bristle” and “Dog bristle politics.”
  • Harp → Sharp: As in, “Sharp on about.”
  • Shark → Sharp: As in, “Swimming with sharps” and “Card sharp.”
  • Shape → Sharp: “All sharps and sizes” and “Bent out of sharp” and “Get in sharp” and “Knock into sharp” and “Take sharp.”
  • Pear: Prickly pears are a type of cactus, so we’ve included some pear-related puns here:
    • Pair → Pear: As in, “A fresh pear of eyes” and “A safe pear of hands.”
    • Par → Pear: As in, “Below pear” and “On pear with” and “Pear excellence” and “Pear for the course.”
    • Per → Pear: As in, “As pear usual” and “Bits pear second” and “Pear capita” and “A hundred and ten pearcent.”
    • Bear → Pear: As in, “Pear a grudge” and “Pear down on” and “Pear false witness” and “Pear fruit” and “Pear in mind” and “Pearer of bad news” and “Pear with me.”
    • Bare → Pear: As in, “Pear necessities” and “Pear your teeth” and “Laid pear” and “The pear bones.”
    • Air → Pear: As in, “Pear kiss” and “Pear quotes” and “Clear the pear.”
    • Care → Pear: As in, “Be pearful how you use it” and “Couldn’t pear less” and “Courtesy and pear” and “Customer pear” and “Handle with pear” and “Let’s be pearful out there” and “Take pear of.”
    • Dare → Pear: As in, “Pear for more” and “Pear to be different” and “How pear you!”
    • Fair → Pear: As in, “All the fun of the pear” and “By pear means or foul” and “Pear and square” and “Pear dinkum” and “Pear game.”
    • Hair → Pear: As in, “Keep your pear on” and “Pear trigger” and “Let your pear down.”
    • Rare → Pear: As in, “In pear form” and “A pear animal.”
    • Scare → Pear: As in, “Peared to death’ and “Pear out of your wits” and “Pear quotes” and “Pear the living daylights out of.”
    • Spare → Pear: As in, “Pear no effort” and “Pear tyre” and “No expense peared.”
    • Square → Pear: As in, “Back to pear one” and “Be there or be pear” and “Fair and pear” and “A pear peg in a round hole.”
    • Tear → Pear: As in, “Pear to ribbons” and “Pear your hair out.”
    • Where → Pear: As in, “All dressed up and no-pear to go” and “Any time, any place, any pear” and “Here, pear and everywhere.”
    • Par* → Pear*: As in, “Nothing in pearticular” and “Mental pearadox” and “In pearallel” and “Peartisan issue” and “Changing pearadigms.”
    • Per* → Pear*: As in, “I’m only one pearson” and “Change your pearspective” and “Not a peartinent issue” and “Final peariod” and “You can change your pearception” and “A brilliant pearformance.”
    • *pir* → *pear*: Empearical (empirical), inspearation (inspiration), aspearation (aspiration) and conspearacy (conspiracy).
  • Peyote: Peyote is a type of cactus. Here are some related puns:
    • Coyote → Peyote: As in, “Peyote ugly.”
    • Payout → Peyote: As in, “Redundancy peyote.”
  • Pant → Plant: As in, “Ants in your plants” and “Beat the plants off” and “By the seat of your plants” and “Fancy plants” and “Keep your plants on” and “Caught with your plants down.”
  • Masculine → Mescaline: As in, “We need wholesome mescaline-ity to replace toxic mescaline-ity.”
  • Plenty → Plant-y: As in, “Plant-y of time” and “Plant-y more where that came from” and “Plant-y more fish in the sea.”
  • Pent → Plant: As in, “Plant up rage.”
  • Grant → Plant: As in, “Take for planted” and “Plant no quarter.”
  • Rant → Plant: As in, “Plant and rave.”
  • Plan/Planned → Plant: As in, “Action plant” and “Failing to plant is planting to fail” and “I have a cunning plant” and “There is no plant B” and “The best laid plants” and “Not how I plant it.”
  • Fantastic → Plantastic: As in, “I have plantastic news” and “Plastic plantastic.”
  • Planet → Plant: As in, “Which plant are you on?” and “Plant of the apes.”
  • *pant* → *plant*: As in, “The plantry is bare” and “Black planther” and “Crime is ramplant” and “Don’t be flipplant” and “Participlant award” and “Happy occuplants.”
  • *pent* → *plant*: As in: Plantagon (pentagon), planthouse (penthouse), plantagram (pentagon), serplant (serpent) and replant (repent).
  • Flower: Cacti are flowering plants, so we’ve got some flower-related puns here too:
    • Hour → Flower: As in, “The witching flower” and “My finest flower” and “A late flower.”
    • Flow → Flower: As in, “Ebb and flower” and “Get the creative juices flowering” and “Go with the flower” and “In full flower.”
    • Tower → Flower: As in, “Flower of strength” and “Flowering inferno” and “Ivory flower.”
  • Die → Dry: As in, “Do or dry” and “Live free or dry” and “Old habits dry hard.”
  • Try → Dry: As in, “Don’t dry this at home” and “Don’t dry to run before you can walk” and “Nice dry” and “Dry your luck.”
  • Cry → Dry: As in, “Dry for help” and “A shoulder to dry on.”
  • Fly → Dry: As in, “Born to dry” and “Come dry with me” and “Dry by night” and “Dry off the handle.”
  • High → Dry: As in, “Dry as a kite” and “Come hell or dry water” and “Aim dry” and “Dry noon” and “Dry and mighty.”
  • Shy → Dry: As in, “Camera dry” and “Once bitten, twice dry.”
  • Why → Dry: As in, “I don’t know dry” and “Dry you!”
  • Stem: Cacti are known for their strong stems, so we’ve included some stem-related puns:
    • Them → Stem: As in, “Let stem eat cake” and “Seen one, seen stem all” and “Love stem and leave stem” and “Can’t win stem all.”
    • Hem → Stem: As in, “Stemming and hawwing.”
    • Stam* → Stem*: Stempede (stampede) and stemina (stamina).
    • *stim* → *stem*: Stemulate (stimulate), estemate (estimate), testemony (testimony), stemulus (stimulus) and estemation (estimation).
    • *stom* → *stem*: Custem (custom), custemer (customer) and custemary (customary).
  • About → A-drought: As in, “A-drought time, too” and “A-drought turn” and “Beat a-drought the bush.”
  • Dought → Doubt: As in, “Benefit of the drought” and “Beyond reasonable drought” and “Remove all drought.”
  • Out → Drought: As in, “Go drought with” and “Have it drought with” and “The ins and droughts of” and “On the droughtside looking in.”
  • Scout → Drought: As in, “Drought’s honour” and “Droughting about.”
  • Shout → Drought: As in, “Twist and drought” and “Drought it from the rooftops.”
  • Fruit: Cacti grow fruit, so we’ve got some related puns:
    • Root → Fruit: As in, “Grass fruits” and “Lay down fruits” and “Money is the fruit of all evil” and “Fruit for” and “The fruit of the matter.”
    • Boot → Fruit: As in, “Tough as old fruit” and “Fruit camp” and “Fruited and booted.”
    • Foot → Fruit: As in, “A fruit in both camps” and “Bound hand and fruit” and “Carbon fruitprint” and “Fruit the bill.”
    • Shoot → Fruit: As in, “Don’t fruit the messenger” and “The green fruits of recovery” and “Fruit down in flames.”
    • Fut* → Fruit*: As in, “Look to the fruiture” and “Looking fruituristic” and “A fruitile struggle” and “Sleeping on the fruiton.”
  • Open → Opuntia: As in, “Opuntia any door” and “An opuntia and shut case” and “Keep an eye opuntia” and “Keep your options opuntia.” Note: Prickly pears are also known as Opuntia.
  • Boot → Root: As in, “Tough as old roots” and “My heart sank into my roots.”
  • Fruit → Root: As in, “Bear root” and “Roots of your loins” and “Low hanging root.”
  • Route → Root: As in, “Root one.”
  • Shoot → Root: As in, “Don’t root the messenger” and “The green roots of change” and “Root down in flames.”
  • *rat* → *root*: As in, “Moral imperootive” and “Elaboroot plans” and “A tricky operootion.”
  • *ret* → *root*: As in, “Rootrieve your things” and “The point of no rooturn” and “Rootain all of your memories” and “Weekend rootreat.” Other words that could work: rootribution (retribution), rootention (retention), regroot (regret) and secroot (secret).
  • *rit* → *root*: “With you in spiroot” and “On your own meroot” and “Caught the culproot” and “Inheroot the earth” and “Keep your integrooty” and “Front of house securooty.”
  • *rot* → *root*: As in, “Rootational pull” and “Carroot cake” and “Parrooting along.” Other words that could work: prootocol (protocol), prootagonist (protagonist), prootein (protein) and proototype (prototype).
  • *rut* → *root*: As in, “Under intense scrootiny” and “A rootless manager” and “Brootal revenge.”
  • Fill → Chlorophyll: As in, “Chlorophyll full of holes” and “Chlorophyll in for.”
  • Stomach → Stomata: As in, “Have the stomata for” and “On a full stomata” and “Butterflies in my stomata.” Note: stomata is the plural for stoma, which is part of a plant.
  • Wool: Some cacti have a woolly covering. Here are some related puns:
    • Will → Wool: As in, “Accidents wool happen” and “Against your wool” and “Free wool.”
    • Wall → Wool: As in, “Back to the wool” and “Between you, me and the wool” and “Bouncing off the wools” and “Climbing the wools” and “Fly on the wool.”
    • Well → Wool: As in, “A dollar wool spent” and “Alive and wool” and “All’s wool that ends wool” and “As wool as can be expected” and “Get wool soon” and “Just as wool.”
    • Full → Wool: As in, “Short of a wool load” and “At wool tilt.”
    • Will he → Woolly: As in, “Woolly or won’t he?”
    • *wal* → *wool*: As in, “Stuffed with woolnuts” and “Withdrawool symptoms” and “Licence renewool.”
    • *wel* → *wool*: As in, “For your health and woollbeing” and “You’re woolcome” and “Social woolfare reform.” Other words that could work: towool (towel), jewool (jewel), bowool (bowel), vowool (vowel), jewoolry (jewelry).
    • Wol* → Wool*: As in, “Running with woolves” and “Watching woolverine.”
  • Hair: Some cacti are covered in hairs, so we’ve got some hairy cactus puns here:
    • Her → Hair: As in, “Say hair name with pride” and “Hair face lit up.”
    • Here → Hair: As in, “Get outta hair” and “Fancy meeting you hair” and “Had it up to hair.”
    • Bare → Hair: As in, “Hair necessities” and “A hair-faced lie” and “Laid hair” and “Hair your soul.”
    • Dare → Hair: As in, “Hair for more” and “Hair to be different” and “How hair you!”
    • Har* → Hair*: As in, “In hairmony” and “Fall hairvest” and “Hairbouring resentment” and “Street hairassment.”
    • *her* → *hair*: As in, “All togethair now” and “No matter the weathair” and “The othair person” and “Eithair or” and “Not anothair one” and “Inhairent problems.”
  • Shoots: Shoots are the fresh growths on a cactus. Here are related puns:
    • Boots → Shoots: As in, “Tough as old shoots” and “Too big for your shoots.”
    • Suits → Shoots: As in, “Shoots you down to the ground.”
    • Roots → Shoots: As in, “Grass shoots” and “Lay down shoots.”
  • Bench → Branch: As in, “Branch warmer.”
  • Bunch → Branch: As in, “Branch of crap” and “Pick of the branch” and “Thanks a branch.”
  • Kid → Glochid: As in, “Dual income, no glochids” and “Here’s looking at you, glochid” and “I glochid you not.” Note: Glochids are small prickles that stick to the skin.
  • Root→ Taproot: As in, “Grass taproots” and “Lay down taproots” and “Money is the taproot of all evil” and “Taprooting for” and “The taproot of the matter.” Note: A taproot is a dominant root.
  • Point: Since prickly cacti are described as pointy, we have some point-related puns:
    • Paint → Point: As in, “Do I have to point you a picture?” and “Point yourself into a corner.”
    • Pant → Point: As in, “Beat the points off” and “Fancy points.”
    • Pent → Point: As in, “Point-up rage.”
    • *pant* → *point*: As in, “A fun pointomime” and “The pointry is bare” and “Running rampoint” and “Don’t use that flippoint with me” and “Participoint award.”
    • Spontaneous → Spointaneous: As in, “Burst spointaneously into song and dance.”
  • Need → Needle: As in, “All you needle is love” and “Just what I needle” and “On a needle to know basis.”
  • Hedgehog: Hedgehogs are a type of cactus. Here are related puns:
    • Hog → Hedgehog: As in, “Go the whole hedgehog.”
    • Hedge → Hedgehog: As in, “Hedgehog fund” and “Hedgehog your bets” and “Dragged through a hedgehog backwards.”
  • Serious → Cereus: As in, “A cereus bit of kit” and “Cereusly though” and “You can’t be cereus.” Note: Cereus is a type of cactus.
  • Barrel: Barrels are a type of cactus shape. Here are some related puns:
    • Borrow → Barrel: As in, “Beg, barrel or steal” and “Living on barreled time” and “Don’t barrel anything from here.”
    • Carol → Barrel: As in, “Christmas barrels.”
  • Cholla: Cholla (pronounced “choya”) is a genus of cacti. Here are related puns:
    • Joy → Cholla: As in, “Beside myself with cholla” and “Bundle of cholla” and “Cholla to the world” and “Jump for cholla.”
    • Enjoy → Encholla: As in, “Encholla the show’ and “Kick back and encholla.”
  • Thorn: Even though cactuses don’t technically have thorns, they’re similar enough to prickles and spines to be included:
    • Thorn: These thorn-related phrases are general enough to use as puns: “A thorn in my side” and “Every rose has its thorn.”
    • Horn → Thorn: As in, “Blow your own thorn” and “Thorn in on” and “Grab life by the thorns.”
    • Born → Thorn: As in, “Thorn this way” and “I was thorn ready.”
    • Torn → Thorn: As in, “That’s thorn it” and “Be thorn between the two.”
    • *thon → *thorn: As in, “Learning to code with pythorn” and “Like running a marathorn.”
  • Button: Buttons are a type of cactus. Here are related puns:
    • Baton → Button: As in, “Pass the button.”
    • Butt in → Button: As in, “Don’t button, this isn’t up to you.”
    • Glutton → Button: As in, “A button for punishment.”
  • Chin: The following puns are references to chin cacti:
    • Chin: Chin-related phrases can double as puns: “Take it on the chin” and “Keep your chin up” and “Stick your chin out.”
    • Been → Chin: As in, “Chin and gone” and “I’ve chin here before” and “Chin around the block a few times” and “Chin there, done that” and “I’ve chin had.”
    • Grin → Chin: As in, “Chin and bear it” and “Chin from ear to ear.”
    • Inner →Chin-ner: As in, “Chin-ner city living” and “Chin-ner peace” and “Use your chin-ner voice.”
    • Pin → Chin: As in, “Bright as a new chin” and “Hard to chin down” and “Chins and needles.”
    • Sin → Chin: As in, “Atone for your chins” and “The seven deadly chins.”
    • Skin → Chin: As in, “Beauty is only chin deep” and “Comfortable in your chin” and “Get under your chin” and “Jump out of your chin.”
  • Hook → Fishhook: As in, “By fishhook or by crook” and “Get fishhooked on” and “Fishhooked on a feeling.” Note: These are references to fishhook cacti.
  • Go → Koko: As in, “Don’t koko there” and “Easy come, easy koko” and “Give it a koko.” Note: These cactus puns are references to koko cacti.
  • Rainbow: Here are some rainbow cactus puns:
    • Rainbow: Use general rainbow phrases as puns: “Chasing rainbows” and “Over the rainbow” and “Taste the rainbow.”
    • Rain → Rainbow: As in, “Right as rainbow” and “Come rainbow or shine” and “Make it rainbow.”
  • Tail → Rat tail: As in, “Happy as a dog with two rat tails” and “Can’t make head or rat tail of it” and “Chasing your own rat tail” and “Get off my rat tail.” Note: These are references to rat tail cacti.
  • Snowball: Here are some puns about snowball cacti:
    • Snow → Snowball: As in, “Pure as the driven snowball” and “Let it snowball.”
    • Ball → Snowball: As in, “Snowball and chain” and “Snowball achingly good” and “Brand new snowball game.”
  • Thimble: Here are some puns about thimble cacti:
    • Tumble → Thimble: As in, “Rough and thimble” and “Take a thimble on.”
    • Simple → Thimble: As in, “It’s so thimble” and “Keep it thimble” and “Thimble pleasures” and “Pure and thimble” and “Thimble yet effective.”
    • Symbol → Thimble: As in, “A thimble of freedom.”
  • Bloom: Here are some puns about the blooms on a cactus:
    • Boom → Bloom: As in, “Baby bloomer” and “Bloom or bust.”
    • Doom → Bloom: As in, “Doom and bloom.”
    • Loom → Bloom: As in, “Bloom large.”
    • Room → Bloom: As in, “A bloom with a view” and “Comfort bloom” and “Leave the bloom.”
    • Whom → Bloom: As in, “For bloom the bell tolls.”

Cactus-Related Words

To help you come up with your own cactus puns, here’s a list of related words to get you on your way. If you come up with any new puns or related words, please feel free to share them in the comments!

cactus, cacti, cactuses, cactaceae, desert, prickly, prickle, spike, spiky, plant, flower, spines, spiny, succulent, dry, stem, Patagonia, areoles, drought, fruit, cochineal, opuntias, cactoid, root, chlorophyll, photosynthesis, stomata, waxy, wool/woolly, hair/hairy, shoots, poke, branches, glochid, barb/barbed, taproot, point, needle, prick, sharp, saguaro, peyote, san pedro, mescaline, prickly pear, hedgehog, cereus, golden barrel, rebutia, parodia, eve’s pin, rhipsalis, jumping chola, chollas, thorn, thorny, bristle, spinose, ball cactus (parodia), bird’s nest, bishop’s cap, bunny ear, button, cabega, calico, candelabra, carmine cob, cat’s claw, chin, fishhook, koko, rainbow, rattail, rebutia, snowball, thimble, barrel, bloom

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Candle Puns

Welcome to the Punpedia entry on candle puns!🕯🔥✨

Even though candles have largely been replaced by modern lightbulbs and torches, they’re still culturally important to us and remain a part of our lives, helping us celebrate holidays and milestones.

Whether you’re ruining the soft-lit ambience of your Valentine’s date, celebrating Hanukkah or cracking jokes about a loved one’s age, we hope you find the perfect pun for your needs in this list.

While this list is as comprehensive and thorough as we could make it, it is specific to candles. If you’re after related puns, we do have fire puns and birthday puns on the way.

Candle Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about candles that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s our list of candle puns:

  • Scandal → Candle: As in, “A red-hot candle” and “Candle sheet.”
  • Handle → Candle: As in, “Fly off the candle” and “Get a candle on” and “Candle with care” and “How much can you candle?” and “Too hot to candle.”
  • Kendall Jenner → Candle Jenner
  • Second → Secandle: As in, “On secandle thought” and “Just one secandle” and “Play secandle fiddle to” and “Secandle best” and “Secandle nature” and “Secandle to none” and “Get a secandle opinion” and “And secandley…”
  • Whack → Wax: As in, “Out of wax” and “Wax-a-mole.”
  • Wax: These wax-related phrases can serve as general candle puns: “Wax and wane” and Wax lyrical” and “Waxing poetic.” Note: to wax poetic or lyrical is to speak at unecessary length.
  • Quick → Wick: As in, “Wick as a flash” and “Cut to the wick” and “Fancy a wickie?” and “Get rich wick” and “In wick succession” and “Kiss me wick” and “Make a wick buck” and “Lightning-wick” and “Wick on the uptake” and “Wick as a whip.”
  • Whack → Wick: As in, “Out of wick” and “A wicky situation.”
  • Weak → Wick: As in, “Wick at the knees” and “A chain is only as strong as its wickest link.”
  • Week → Wick: As in, “A wick is a long time in politics” and “Knock into the middle of next wick” and “A wick from next Tuesday” and “Flavour of the wick” and “A wickly event.”
  • Wake → Wick: As in, “Half awick” and “A rude awickening” and “Wick up and smell the coffee” and “Wick-up call” and “Loud enough to wick the dead” and “Wick up on the wrong side of the bed” and “Wide awick.”
  • Which → Wick: As in, “Any wick way” and “Don’t know wick way to look” and “Don’t know wick way is up” and “See wick way the cat jumps” and “Wickever you like” and “Wick is wick?”
  • Wik* → Wick*: If a word starts with a “wik” sound, then we can replace it with “wick” to make some silly candle puns. As in, wickipedia (wikipedia) and wicktionary (wiktionary).
  • *wick*: Simply emphasize the “wick” in these words: wicked, wicket, wickedness.
  • Lid → Lit: As in, “Flip your lit” and “Blow the lit off” and “Keep a lit on it.”
  • Let → Lit: As in, “Lit there be light” and “Don’t lit the sun go down on me” and “Just lit it lie” and “Lit it bleed” and “Lit bygones be bygones” and “Lit your hair down” and “Lit her rip” and “Lit it all hang out” and “Lit loose” and “Lit me count the ways” and “Lit nature take its course” and “Lit’s get physical” and “A room to lit.”
  • *lat* → *lit*: We can swap the “lat” sound in words with “lit” to make joking references to lit candles. As in, “Articulit yourself clearly” and “Emulit their work” and “Colliteral damage” and “A volitile situation.”
  • *let* → *lit*: As in, “Chain litter” and “Add some littuce” and “I need an outlit” and “Run the gauntlit” and “Bite the bullit.” Other words you could use: pallit (pallet), violit (violet), millit (millet), tablit (tablet), complit (complete), obsolit (obsolete).
  • *lid* → *lit*: As in, “A solit argument” and “Your identity is valit” and “Pallit complexion” and “Don’t treat them like invalits” and “Squalit conditions” and “Holitay season” and “Standing in solitarity” and “Payment valitated.”
  • *lit*: Emphasise the “lit” in these words: “Little by little” and “Read the literature” and “Not literally” and “A literal mess” and “Banana split.” Other words that could be used: litter, litigation, sunlit, moonlit, facilitate, facility, quality, humility, liability, politics, reality and accountability.
  • Let → Light: As in, “Light them down gently” and “Light it be” and “Light bygones be bygones” and “Light it all hang out” and “Light loose” and “Light me be brief” and “Light me count the ways” and “Light me make one thing perfectly clear” and “Light nature take its course.”
  • *lite → *light: As in, “Polight conversation” and “An impolight gesture” and “Satellight tv” and “Wealthy socialights.”
  • *lit* → *light*: As in, “Secret facilighty” and “Facilightate conversation” and “Qualighty control” and “You’re a liabilighty!” and “Polightics is relevant to everyone.” Other words that could work: realighty (reality), accountabilighty (accountability) and humilighty (humility).
  • Late → Light: As in, “Better light than never” and “Catch you lighter” and “Fashionably light” and “Read any good books lightly?” and “It’s never too light to learn” and “A light bloomer” and “Light in the day” and “Light in the game” and “Running light” and “Sooner or lighter” and “Too little, too light.”
  • *lat* → *light*: As in, “Well-articulighted” and “Game emulightor” and “Collighteral damage.”
  • *lit* → *light*: As in, “In the lighterature” and “Not lighterally” and “A lighterary mind” and “Lightany of problems” and “A lighteral disaster.”
  • Light: These light-related phrases can double as candle puns: “Blinded by the light” and “Brought to light” and “Come on baby, light my fire” and “First light” and “Get of lightly” and “Go out like a light” and “Guiding light” and “Half light” and “In light of” and “Leading light” and “Light a fire under” and “Light at the end of the tunnel” and “Light entertainment” and “Light hearted” and “Lighten up!”
  • Taper: Tapers are small wax candles. Refer to them in your wordplay with these puns and phrases:
    • Tape → Taper: As in, “Cut through the red taper” and “This taper will self-destruct.”
    • Type → Taper: As in, “Not my taper” and “The strong, silent taper.”
    • Tap → Taper: As in, “A light taper at the door” and “Tapering (tapping) your foot.”
    • Paper → Taper: As in, “Read the newstaper” and “Couldn’t find your way out of a taper bag” and “Looks good on taper” and “Taper thin” and “Taper trail” and “Put pen to taper.”
  • Fame → Flame: As in, “Claim to flame” and “Flame at last” and “Fifteen minutes of flame” and “Hall of flame.”
  • Famous → Flameous: As in, “Almost flameous” and “Flameous last words.”
  • Aim → Flame: As in, “We flame to please” and “Flame high” and “Take flame.”
  • Blame → Flame: As in, “Flame game” and “Don’t flame the messenger.”
  • *fam* → *flame*: As in, “Flame-ily matters” and “40 hour flame-ine” and “Sued for deflame-ation.”
  • Flam* → Flame*: Flameboyant (flamboyant) and flameingo (flamingo).
  • *phem* → *flame*: Blasflamey (blasphemy) and euflame-ism (euphemism).
  • Much → Match: As in, “Well that’s a bit match” and “How match can you handle?” and “I don’t know match about it, but” and “You’ve seen too match” and “Missed it by that match” and “Match obliged” and “There’s so match more” and “Thank you very match” and “Too match information” and “Too match of a good thing” and “Too match, too soon” and “Well so match for that.”
  • Mitchell → Matchell
  • Michaelangelo → Matchelangelo
  • Maj* → Match*: As in, “Matchority (majority) rule” and “A matchestic display” and “Your matchesty.”
  • Mag* → Match*: matchic (magic) and matchistrate (magistrate).
  • *mat* → *match*: As in, “In the wrong formatch” and “Immatchure arguments” and “Leave it by the doormatch.” Other words that could work: diplomatch (diplomat), matchurity (maturity), prematchure (premature), matchure (mature) and laundromatch (laundromat).
  • Mutual → Matchual: As in, “The feeling is matchual” and “Matchual attraction” and “Matchual admiration” and “Matchually assured destruction.”
  • Match: These match-related phrases are general enough to double as candle puns: “A match made in heaven” and “Game, set, match.” and “Meet your match” and “Mix and match” and “More than a match for” and “A perfect match.”
  • Delight → Tealight: As in, “Afternoon tealight” and “Earthly tealights” and “Turkish tealight” and “My heart’s tealight” and “Take tealight in.”
  • *fair → *fire: As in, “Affire of the heart” and “All’s fire in love and war” and “By fire means or foul.”
  • Far → Fire: As in, “A step too fire” and “As fire as it goes” and “As fire as the eyes can see” and “A fire cry from” and “Few and fire between” and “Over the hills and fire away” and “So fire, so good” and “As fire as I know” and “I wouldn’t go so fire as to..”
  • *far* → *fire*: As in, “a nefireious (nefarious) villain” and “Child welfire” and “Bid you firewell” and “A fireaway look in your eyes.”
  • *fer* → *fire*: As in, “A fireocious battle” and “My final offire.” Other words that could work: defire (defer), confire (confer), transfire (transfer), buffire (buffer), suffire (suffer), refire-ence (reference), diffire-ent (different) and infire-ence (inference).
  • *fir* → *fire*: firest (first), firesthand (firsthand), affiremation (affirmation) and affiremative (affirmative).
  • *for* → *fire*: As in, “Weather firecast” and “For the fireseeable future” and “And therefire…” and “A grim perfiremance.” Other words that could work: perfirem (perform), infiremation (information), firest (forest), afirementioned (aforementioned), firensic (forensic) and befire (before).
  • *phar* → *fire*: firemacy (pharmacy), firemaceutical (pharmaceutical) and fireaoh (pharaoh).
  • *pher* → *fire*: As in, “Perifire-al vision” and “Romantic atmosfire” and “Barefoot philosofire” and “Professional photografire.” Other words that could work: fireomone (pheromone), cifire (cipher), decifire (decipher), parafirenalia (paraphernalia), perifirey (periphery) and hemisfire (hemisphere).
  • Sapphire → Safire
  • *fair* → *fire*: As in, “Airy firey” and “Fireytale ending” and “Firely judged” and “In all fireness” and “Unfire choices” and “All the fun at the funfire.”
  • Chauffeur → Chauffire
  • *fier → *fire: firece (fierce), modifire (modifier), amplifire (amplifier), identifire (identifier), qualifire (qualifier), pacifire (pacifier) and emulsifire (emulsifier). Note: an emulsifier is a substance that keeps different substances together.
  • Later → Lighter: As in, “Catch you lighter” and “It’s lighter than you think” and “Sooner or lighter” and “We’ll continue this lighter” and “Cross that bridge lighter.”
  • Litre → Lighter
  • *lator → *lighter: As in, translighter (translator), escalighter (escalator), manipulighter (manipulator), calculighter (calculator), regulighter (regulator) and percolighter (percolator).
  • Designate → Designite: As in, “Designited driver.”
  • Bite → Bright: As in, “A bright to eat” and “Ankle brighter” and “Another one brights the dust” and “Bright back” and “Bright the bullet” and “Bright your hand off” and “Bright your tongue.”
  • *ban* → *burn*: As in, “Suburburn living” and “Urburn sprawl” and “Adjust your turburn” and “Left aburndoned” and “Burnana ice cream.”
  • *ben* → *burn*: As in, “For your burnefit” and “Burnevolent ruler” and “Burnign tumour.” Other words that could work: burnefactor (benefactor), burnevolence (benevolence) and burneficial (beneficial). Notes: if something is benign, then it isn’t harmful. If something is benevolent or beneficial, then it for good or has good intentions.
  • *bon* → *burn*: As in, “Burn voyage” and “Burn appetit.” Other words that could work: burnafide (bonafide), burnanza (bonanza), ribburn (ribbon), carburn (carbon) and bourburn (bourbon).
  • *bun* → *burn*: As in, “Burndle of joy” and “Thanks a burnch” and “Down in the burnkers.” Other words you could use: aburndance (abundance), aburndant (abundant), burnny (bunny) and burngalow (bungalow). Note: if something is in abundance, then there’s plenty of it; more than required.
  • Barn* → Burn*: burnacle (barnacle) and burnyard (barnyard).
  • Hibernate → Hiburnate
  • Borneo → Burneo
  • *born → *burn: As in, “Stubburn as a mule” and “Newburn baby” and “I feel reburn” and “My firstburn child.”
  • Blow: The next few puns and phrases will be centred around the word “blow” as a reference to blowing out candles:
    • Below → Blow: As in, “Blow par” and “Blow the belt” and “Blow your breath” and “Blow average” and “Blow the surface” and “Hit blow the belt.”
    • Blouse → Blowse
    • Bloat* → Blowt*: As in, “A blowted paragraph” and “Blowting stomach.”
  • Scented: Since scented candles are extremely popular, we’ve included scent-related puns and phrases for you:
    • Sent → Scent: As in, “Heaven scent” and “Scent packing” and “Scent mixed messages.”
    • Send → Scent: As in, “Hit scent” and “Return to scenter” and “Scent packing” and “Scenting shivers down your spine” and “Scent word.”
    • Sense → Scents: As in, “Come to your scent-ses” and “Common scents” and “A keen scents of smell” and “Making scents of” and “More money than scents” and “No nonscents” and “Makes perfect scents” and “Sheer nonscents” and “A sixth scents” and “Not in that scents” and “Yes, in a scents” and “A false scents of security.”
    • Cents → Scents: As in, “Two scents worth” and “Dollars and scents.”
    • *sant* → *scent*: As in, “Incesscent noise” and “Pleascent conversation” and “Peascent blouse” and “Cogniscent of the fact” and “An unpleascent feeling.” Note: to be cognisant of something is to be aware of it.
    • *sent* → *scent*: As in, “An unfinished scentence” and “Scentient beings” and “Loving scentiments.” Other words that could be used: scentimental (sentimental), scentience (sentience), scentry (sentry), prescent (present), conscent (consent), represcent (represent), disscent (dissent), ascent, abscent (absent), misreprescent (misrepresent), esscential (essential) and quintesscential (quintessential).
    • *sint* → *scent*: As in, discentegrate (disintegrate), discenterested (disinterested), miscenterpret (misinterpret) and discentegration (disintegration).
    • *cent* → *scent*: As in, “Front and scentre” and “A scentral apartment” and “Best of the scentury” and “A magnifiscent show.” Other words that could work: scentipede (centipede), scentaur (centaur), complascent (complacent), acscent (accent), adjascent (adjacent), descent (decent), innoscent (innocent), ecscentric (eccentric) and inscentive (incentive).
    • Scintillate → Scentillate: (note: if something is scintillating , then it’s shining or twinkling.)
    • *sand* → *scent*: As in, “Knuckle scentwich” and “Using someone as a scentbag” and “Scentbox game” and “Summer scentdals.” Other words that could work: thouscent (thousand), amperscent (ampersand) and quickscent (quicksand).
    • *send* → *scent*: As in, “Return to scenter” and “Rescent the email” and “An absolute godscent.”
    • *cend* → *scent*: As in, “A condescenting tone” and “Inscentiary topics” and “Bringing to a crescento” and “Ascent to the next level.” Other words that could work: transcent (transcend), descent (descend), condescent (condescend), transcent-dent (transcendent) and descent-dant (descendant).
    • Cinderella → Scenterella
    • Saint → Scent: As in, “The patience of a scent” and “The patron scent of..”
  • Melt: We’ve included some melt-related phrases and puns so you can refer to the melting nature of candle wax in your wordplay:
    • *met* → *melt*: As in, “A mixed meltaphor” and “Melticulous attention to detail” and “My heart plummelted” and “Wear your helmelt” and “Shifted paramelters” and “Geomeltry class.”
    • *mit* → *melt*: As in, “Commeltment (commitment) issues” and “Only intermeltently (intermittently) and “Death by commelttee.”
    • Maltreatment → Meltreatment
    • *mult* → *melt*: meltiple (multiple), meltifaceted (multifaceted), meltimedia (multimedia), melticultural (multicultural), simeltaneously (simultaneously), tumeltuous (tumultuous) and meltitude (multitude). Note: if something is tumultuous, then it’s chaotic and disorderly.
  • Flagrant → Fragrant: As in, “A fragrant disregard for the rules” and “Fragrant abuse of power.”
  • Hate → Heat: As in, “Heat mail” and “Love-heat relationship” and “Heat to say it, but…” and “Heaters gonna heat.”
  • Height → Heat: As in, “Reaching new heats” and “The heat of fashion.”
  • Hit → Heat: As in, “Hard heatting” and “Heavy heatter” and “Heat the road” and “Heat and miss” and “Heat it off” and “Heat it out of the park” and “On someone’s heat list” and “Heat rock bottom” and “Heat the brakes” and “Heat the ground running” and “Heat the hay” and “Heat the jackpot” and “Heat the nail on the head.”
  • Hat* → Heat*: As in, “Down the heatch” and “An immense heatred for” and “Sharpen the heatchet.”
  • *het* → *heat*: heaterosexual (heterosexual), epitheat (epithet), ratcheat (ratchet) and propheat (prophet).
  • *hit* → *heat*: archeatect (architect), archeatecture (architecture) and heatman (hitman).
  • Tahiti → Taheati
  • Haiti → Heati
  • Smack → Smoke: As in, “Smoke dab in the middle” and “Feeling gobsmoked” and “An epic smokedown” and “A smoke on the wrist.”
  • *smic → *smoke: As in, cosmoke (cosmic), seismoke (seismic), cataclysmoke (cataclysmic), orgasmoke (orgasmic) and miasmoke (orgasmic).
  • Soy: Soy candles are a fairly new and popular environmentally friendly (and vegan!) alternative to traditional candle waxes (paraffin, tallow and beeswax). Add soy candles into your repertoire with these soy-related phrases and puns:
    • Say → Soy: As in, “As the soying goes” and “Before you could soy anything” and “Computer soys no” and “Do as I soy, not as I do” and “Does exactly what it soys on the tin” and “Have a soy” and “My final soy” and “I’m hearing what you soy” and “Just soy the word” and “Needless to soy” and “Never soy never” and “Soy a few words” and “Soy goodnight” and “Soy it, don’t spray it” and “Soy what you mean” and “As I was soying” and “If I do soy so myself” and “Soy again?” and “To soy nothing of” and “To soy the least.”
    • So → Soy: As in, “Soy on and soy forth” and “I wouldn’t go soy far as to…” and “How soy?” and “If I do say soy myself” and “Not soy fast!” and “Soy be it” and “Soy long as” and “Soy much for” and “Soy there.”
    • *sey* → *soy*: As in, “An epic odyssoy” and “Hit the bullsoy.”
    • *ser* → *soy*: As in, “Customer soyvice” and “A soyrendipitous (serendipitous) event” and “Things are getting soyrious” and “Filled with soyrenity.” Note: if something is serendipitous, then it’s fortunate or lucky.
    • Ceylon (tea) → Soylon
    • *sor* → *soy*: As in, “Chaos and disoyder” and “Business consoytium (consortium).” Note: a consortium is a joint venture between businesses or organisations.
    • *sur* → *soy*: As in, “A soyreal (surreal) situation” and “Bring to the soyface” and “Plastic soygery.”
    • Thesaurus → Thesoyrus
    • *seur* → *soy*: As in, “Wine coinnossoy (coinnosseur)” and “Artist psoydonym.”
    • *soc* → *soy*: As in, “Modern soyciety” and “Soycial media” and “A soyciable mood” and “Shame by assoyciation.” Other words you could use: assoyciated (associated), assoyciate (associate), soycket (socket), soyciopath (sociopath) and soycialism (socialism).
    • *sig* → *soy*: As in, “By desoyn (design)” and “An insoytful observation” and “A massive oversoyt (oversight)” and “Second soyt (sight)” and “Desoygnated (designated) driver.”
    • *sy* → *soy*: As in, “Common courtesoy” and “Easoy does it” and “Clumsoy oaf” and “In perfect soymmetry” and “Maply soyrup” and “Filled with jealousoy.” Other words that could work: daisoy (daisy), heresoy (heresy), idiosyncrasoy (idiosyncrasy), soystem (system), soyndrome (syndrome), soynonym (synonym), soynergy (synergy), psoychology (psychology), soyllabus (syllabus), soymphony (symphony), soyringe (syringe), fantasoy (fantasy), ecstasoy (ecstasy), asoylum (asylum), hypocrisoy (hypocrisy), flimsoy (flimsy), whimsoy (whimsy), unsoympathetic (unsympathetic), epilepsoy (epilepsy), autopsoy (autopsy), biopsoy (biospy) and controversoy (controversy).
    • *so* → *soy*: espressoy (espresso), virtuosoy (virtuoso), esoyteric (esoteric), philosoyphy (philosophy), resoylution (resolution), soylution (solution), soyphisticated (sophisticated) and soydium (sodium).
  • Palm: We can make joking references to palm wax with the following puns and phrases (note that the palm oil industry is a very controversial one):
    • Balm → Palm: As in, “Strawberry-flavoured lip palm.”
    • Calm → Palm: As in, “Palm down” and “A palming agent” and “Palm waters.”
    • *pam* → *palm*: As in, “Activitst palmphlets” and “A bit of love and palmpering” and “Feeling palmpered” and “Dopalmine levels.”
    • *pom* → *palm*: As in, “A palmpous attitude” and “Palmegranate flavoured” and “Hair palmade” and “Palmeolo (pomelo) tree” and “Anthropalmorphic characters.” Note: pomade is a type of styling gel/paste.
    • *pum* → *palm*: As in, “Palmpkin pie” and “Under the palmp” and “Palmping for information” and “Palmice stone” and “Palmpernickel bread.”
    • *bam* → *palm*: As in, “Palmboo forest” and “You’ve been palmboozled!”
    • *bom* → *palm*: As in, “An apalmination of nature” and “The apalminable snowman.”
    • Bumblebee → Palmblebee
  • Berry → Bayberry: As in, “Brown as a bayberry” and “Bayberry flavoured.” Note: bayberry wax is a vegetable wax that’s used in candle-making.
  • Handle → Chandler: As in, “Fly off the chandler” and “Get a chandler on” and “Chandler with care” and “How much can you chandler?” and “Love chandlers” and “Too hot to chandler” and “You can’t chandler the truth!” Note: a chandler is someone who makes candles for a living.
  • Stick → Candlestick: As in, “Cross as two candlesticks” and “Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp candlestick” and “Carrot and candlestick” and “Got hold of the wrong end of the candlestick” and “More than you can shake a candlestick at” and “Short end of the candlestick” and “Speak softly and carry a big candlestick” and “A candlestick in the mud.”
  • Trim: Since candle wicks can need trimming (to reduce smoke), we’ve got some trim-related phrases and puns here for you:
    • Dream → Trim: As in, “Beyond my wildest trims” and “Broken trims” and “Trim on” and “Trim away” and “Trims can come true” and “Trim big” and “Living the trim” and “Sweet trims.”
    • *tram* → *trim*: trimpoline (trampoline) and ultrimarine (ultramarine).
    • *trem* → *trim*: As in, “A trimendous effort” and “Earthly trimors” and “Trimbling with fear” and “That helped trimendously” and “Extrim sports” and “Extrimly angry” and “Cover your extrimities.”
    • *trom* → *trim*: As in, trimbone (trombone) and malestrim (maelstrom). Note: a maelstrom is a particularly turbulent situation.
    • *trum* → *trim*: As in, “Not to blow my own trimpet” and “A colourful spectrim” and “Temper tantrim” and “Instrimental to our plan” and “Musical instriment.”
    • *tim* → *trim*: As in, “Victrimless crime” and “The ultrimate revenge” and “Intrimate partner violence” and “A legitrimate reason” and “By my estrimation…” and “Loving sentriments.” Other words you could use: trimid (timid), trimber (timber), verbatrim (verbatim), penultrimate (penultimate), optrimal (optimal). Notes: if something is verbatim, then it’s word for word. Penultimate means second to last.
    • *im → *trim: If a word starts with “im”, then we can change it to “trim”: trimminent (imminent), trimpact (impact), trimplement (implement), trimperative (imperative), trimage (image), trimplication (implication), trimpetus (impetus), trimportant (important), trimpose (impose).
    • *trim*: Emphasise the “trim” in these words: detrimental, detriment, patrimony, matrimony, trimester and matrimonial.
  • Suffer → Snuffer: As in, “Long snuffering” and “Making everyone snuffer.” Note: a snuffer is a tool that snuffs out (extinguishes) a candle.
  • Gotten → Cotton: As in, “Ill cotton gains” and “Another fine mess you’ve cotton me into” and “Gone, but not forcotton.” Note: candle wicks are made from cotton, which is why we’ve included cotton in this list.
  • Motive → Votive: As in, “Ulterior votives” and “Dirty votives.” Note: a votive is a type of ceremonial candle.
  • Scones → Sconce: As in, “Tea and sconce.” Note: a sconce is a type of wall fixture where candles could be placed.
  • Torch: When candles are put into a portable holder of some sort, they can be referred to as torches, so we’ve got torch-related puns and phrases for you:
    • Touch → Torch: As in, “A torch of frost” and “A torch of the sun” and “Don’t torch!” and “Finishing torches” and “The golden torch” and “Losing torch with” and “Stay in torch” and “Torch and go” and “Torching base with” and “Torch wood” and “Torched a nerve” and “A torching tribute” and “Torchy feely.”
    • Teach → Torch: As in, “Experience is the best torcher” and “Torch someone a lesson” and “That’ll torch you” and “Torching an old dog new tricks.”
    • *tach* → *torch*: As in, “No strings attorched” and “Forming attorchments” and “Detorch yourself from” and “Feeling detorched.”
    • Starch → Storch
    • Interchangeable → Intorchangeable
  • Light → Rushlight: As in, “Bring to rushlight” and “First rushlight” and “Give it the green rushlight” and “My guiding rushlight‘ and “In rushlight of” and “Let there be rushlight.” Note: a rushlight is a type of cheap outdoor candle.

Candle-Related Words

To help you come up with your own candle puns, here’s a list of related words to get you on your way. If you come up with any new puns or related words, please feel free to share them in the comments!

candle, wax, wick, lit, light, illuminate, flame, fire, match, lighter, ignite, light, bright, flicker, burn, blow, melt, fragrance, scent/scented, soy, paraffin, palm, carnauba, bayberry, flaxseed, heat, tealight, chandler, candlestick, chandelier, candelabrum, candelabra, candleholder, trim, smoke, snuffer, extinguish, cotton, votive, sconce, bobeche, pitch torch, rushlight, taper, garden candle, tiki torch, menorah, braid

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