"What Am I?" Riddles with Answers

What is the only word in the English language that has 6 letters, all in alphabetical order?

You buy it to eat, but you don't eat it. What is it?

What has a spine but no bones?

Find an English word that uses all of the following letters: PNLLEEEESSSSS

What building has the most stories?

Take the letters ERGRO. Put three letters in front of it, and the same three letters behind to form a common English word.

I have a name, but it isn't my name. My face shows signs of age. I always mean the same thing, no matter what I say. I'm born in mourning, and I last 'til the e...

I have no wings but I fly, I have no teeth but I bite. What am I?

He has married many women, but has never been married. Who am I?

I don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty.

A couple sharing five a piece, Stretching, spreading, loudly meet, We are known to often calm, And yet were better known to harm, To help and build, our team of...

I am a strong as ten men Yet ten men cannot stand me up. What am I?

Many many years ago when I was twenty three, I got married to a widow who was pretty as could be. This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red. My fa...

I dig out tiny caves, and store gold and silver in them. I also build bridges of silver and make crowns of gold. They are the smallest you could imagine. Sooner...

I always run but never walk, Have a mouth but never talk. What am I?

When the day after tomorrow is yesterday, today will be as far from Wednesday as today was from Wednesday when the day before yesterday was tomorrow. What is th...

I go into the water black and come out red. What am I?

An open ended barrel, I am shaped like a hive. I am filled with the flesh, and the flesh is alive! What am I?

If you break me I do not stop working, If you touch me I may be snared, If you lose me Nothing will matter.

No legs have I to dance, No lungs have I to breathe, No life have I to live or die And yet I do all three. What am I?

Every dawn begins with me At dusk I'll be the first you see And daybreak couldn't come without What midday centers all about Daises grow from me, I'm told And w...

Three brothers share a family sport: A non-stop marathon The oldest one is fat and short And trudges slowly on The middle brother's tall and slim And keeps a st...

I am a word of meanings three. Three ways of spelling me there be. The first is an odor, a smell if you will. The second some money, but not in a bill. The thir...

I have existed for centuries, but last only a month. What am I?