| YTTRIUM | Metallic element discovered in 1794 by Gadolin (7) |
| ODESSA | Ukrainian city, founded in 1794 by a decree of Catherine the Great (6) |
| RHENIUM | Metallic element discovered in Germany in 1925 (7) |
| TERBIUM | Metallic element discovered in 1843 by the Swedish chemist Carl Gustav Mosander |
| NIOBIUM | Metallic element discovered in the mineral tantalite (7) |
| SILICON | Element discovered in 1824 entangled in coils (7) |
| TANTALUM | Corrosion-resistant metallic element discovered in Sweden in 1802 (8) |
| BOHRIUM | Synthetic transuranic element discovered in 1976 by bombarding bismuth-209 atoms with ions of chromium-54; atomic number 107 (7) |
| FERMIUM | Element discovered in the debris of the first hydrogen bomb explosion (7) |
| URANIUM | Chemical element discovered in 1789 and named after a recentlydiscovered planet (7) |
| ERBIUM | Metallic element discovered in 1843 by Swedish chemist Carl Gustaf Mosander, who named it terbia (6) |
| SCANDIUM | A rare metallic element, discovered in 1879 (8) |
| RAEBURN | Scottish artist who painted The Skating Minister c 1794 (7) |
| NELSON | Horatio, British naval hero who lost sight in his right eye during the siege of Calvi in Corsica in 1794 (6) |
| HOLYTHURSDAY | Poem by William Blake, first published in Songs of Innocence and Experience in 1794 |
| THETYGER | Poem by William Blake published in 1794 (3,5) |
| OBAN | Ferry port in the West Coast (pop about 9,000), with a distillery founded in 1794 (4) |
| ROBESPIERRE | Maximilien ___, a key figure in the French Revolution until his overthrow and execution in 1794 (11) |
| COTTON | Back in 1794, Eli Whitney changed America by inventing an engine (or "gin") which could separate the fibers of this fluffy, white crop from its seeds |
| DANTON | Lawyer who was a leading figure in the French Revolution, executed without trial in 1794 (6) |
