Crossword-Solution: SOAPSUDS 8 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The topmost shelf of every closet was made to yield up its secret, cellar and coal-bin were probed to their darkest depths and, as a final stage in the lustral rites, the entire house was swathed in penitential white and deluged with expiatory soapsuds.

The stairs were still carpetless, and on the way up to her room she was arrested on the landing by an encroaching tide of soapsuds.

The tank of soapsuds, and the air-pumps to inflate the bubbles, were out of sight beneath, so that when the bubbles began to grow upon the floor of the platform it really seemed like magic to the people of Oz, who knew nothing about even the common soap-bubbles that our children blow with a penny clay pipe and a basin of soap-and-water.

Usually, soap-bubbles are frail and burst easily, lasting only a few moments as they float in the air; but the Wizard added a sort of glue to his soapsuds, which made his bubbles tough; and, as the glue dried rapidly when exposed to the air, the Wizard's bubbles were strong enough to float for hours without breaking.

Their hands, then--unless the present ruddying of female fingernails is the revival of an old fashion--were not pink-tipped, save, perhaps, in the way of health; nor imbrued, except in soapsuds.