I taste better than I can smell. Who am I?

There is one thing that goes round the house and also inside the house but never even share a brief touch. What is it?

What can you catch but never throw?

What goes up but never comes down?

It is deaf, Dumb and Blind!!!

Still, always tells the truth. What is it?

If a boy blows 18 bubbles,
Then pops 6 eats 7 and then
He pops 5 and blows 1.
How many are left?

Let's play a word game. Following are some meaningless words that can be completed by adding random letters on either side of the word.

For example, the word "rdo" can be formed into "pardon".

Using the same technique, can you complete the given words?
ecalc
airb
rinci
tibac
uidel
gorit
igna
eyho

It has a long neck, A name of a bird, Feeds on cargo of ships, It's not alive,

What is it?

Can anyone tell me a word in the English dictionary which has a silent 'z'?

_ _ _ IE _ _
_ _ _ IE _
_ _ IE _ _
_ _ IE _
_ _ _ _ IE

Like you see, some letters have gone missing from these words that contain the IE pair at some or the other place. The letters that will be used to fill the blanks are given below. Use them and form meaningful words. Can you do that?

A, C, D, F, H, K, L, M, N, N, O, R, R, S, S, S, T, T, Y and Y.