This is an incomplete list of specific hidden word indicators. Note that almost any container and contents indicator may be used to specify a hidden word, and as such, these have been omitted here; additionally, some word arrangements may permit other verb forms to be used as hidden word indicators (e.g. Paul's "Sheep farmer in ovine shackles (6)" for MERINO).
- a bit of
- amongst
- attributes
- bottled by
- buried in
- central to
- characters in
- components
- concealed by
- constituents
- contained in
- elements of
- essential to
- essentially
- extract
- fragment
- from
- gems
- held by
- held in
- hidden in
- in
- in part
- part
- part of
- piece
- piece of
- prisoners
- region
- sample
- secretly
- segment
- shackled by
- slice
- some
- stuffing
- within