Off the top of my head, there's

hangman, guess the word or words before the hangman is drawn,

I spy with my little eye, One person picks an object that he can see and says, "I spy with my little eye something beginning with (the first letter of that word)." The other person then has to guess the object. Kids often play this game on car journeys.

scrabble, the word boardgame of choice.

Pictionary,

Possibly, charades, although this sometimes covers whole sentences rather than a word or two.

I'm ignoring the possible meaning of verbal maneuvers. So, off the top of my head, there's

hangman, guess the word or words before the hangman is drawn,

I spy with my little eye, One person picks an object that he can see and says, "I spy with my little eye something beginning with (the first letter of that word)." The other person then has to guess the object. Kids often play this game on car journeys.

scrabble, the word boardgame of choice.

Pictionary,

Possibly, charades, although this sometimes covers whole sentences rather than a word or two.