Friday, January 17, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 279

Number of Answers: 54

Points Needed for Genius: 195

Genius requires between 27 and 45 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 74% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 68% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 279 was in the 91st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on January 12, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 54 possible answers rank it in the 84th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on January 16, 2025.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 8, 2019.
The lowest number of answers was 16 on March 27, 2023.

It takes a 7-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on January 16, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.8.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 190
  • loll 181
  • toot 176
  • naan 167
  • nana 167
  • lilt 132
  • till 132
  • tilt 132
  • tint 130
  • mama 123
  • mamma 123
  • nene 123
  • acacia 115
  • acai 115
  • onto 115
  • toon 115
  • anal 111
  • onion 110
  • boob 108
  • booboo 108
  • anon 107
  • baba 104
  • olio 104
  • papa 103
  • lull 102
  • lulu 102
  • tact 102
  • dodo 101
  • mitt 101
  • poop 101
  • allay 99
  • ally 99
  • call 99
  • calla 99
  • ratatat 99
  • tart 99
  • tartar 99
  • attar 98
  • tattoo 98
  • tatty 97
  • tutu 97
  • cocci 96
  • mono 96
  • moon 96
  • ammo 95
  • momma 95
  • epee 94
  • peep 94
  • loon 91
  • nanny 91


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 95,967 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,409 unique words.
Below are the distributions of the lengths of these words.



Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

You may be wondering why these words aren't here*:

  • centile
  • cine
  • cline
  • elenctic
  • elint
  • enceinte
  • enclitic
  • fennec
  • ficin
  • incent
  • inti
  • intine
  • intitle
  • lectin
  • lenite
  • lenten
  • lentic
  • lenticel
  • licence
  • licencee
  • licente
  • linin
  • linn
  • litten
  • neif
  • nellie
  • nett
  • nielli
  • niente
  • niff
  • nill
  • tefillin
  • tein
  • telecine
  • telnet
  • tenne
  • tentie
  • tiffin

*Because the New York Times considers them obscure or offensive.

cent

noun
  1. (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
  2. A small sum of money.
  3. (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.
  4. (money) A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).
  5. A hundredth of a semitone or half step.
noun
  1. The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
  2. The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
  3. The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
  4. The point on a line that is midway between the ends.
  5. The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume).
  6. The subgroup (respectively, subring), denoted Z(G), of those elements of a given group (respectively, ring) G that commute with every element of G.
  7. A place where the greater part of some function or activity occurs.
  8. A topic that is particularly important in a given context.
  9. A player in the middle of the playing area
  10. A player who can go all over the court, except the shooting circles.
  11. A pass played into the centre of the pitch.
  12. One of the backs operating in a central area of the pitch, either the inside centre or outside centre.
  13. A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.
  14. One of the two conical steel pins in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
  15. A conical recess or indentation in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.
  16. The ensemble of moderate or centrist political parties.
noun
  1. A centigrade temperature scale having the freezing point of water defined as 0° and its boiling point defined as 100° at standard atmospheric pressure. Known as the Celsius scale since 1948.
  2. A single degree on this scale.
  3. A unit of angle equal to the hundredth part of a quadrant. Its symbol is gon.
noun
  1. (Sanskrit and other Indian philology) satakam, set of one hundred verses connected by the same metre or topic
  2. Perfect score on a board exam
noun
  1. A period of 100 consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (informally) 1900 through 1999. The first century AD was from 1 to 100.
  2. A unit in ancient Roman army, originally of 100 army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing 60 to 70 or 80) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen), commanded by a centurion.
  3. A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
  4. A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.
  5. A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.
  6. A score of one hundred points.
  7. A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.
  8. A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.

client

noun
  1. A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services.
  2. The role of a computer application or system that requests and/or consumes the services provided by another having the role of server.
  3. One who receives help or services from a professional such as a lawyer or accountant.
  4. A person who employs or retains an attorney to represent him or her in any legal matter, or one who merely divulges confidential matters to an attorney while pursuing professional assistance without subsequently retaining the attorney.

clientele

noun
  1. The body or class of people who frequent an establishment or purchase a service, especially when considered as forming a more-or-less homogeneous group of clients in terms of values or habits.

clinic

noun
  1. A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
  2. (by extension) A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
  3. A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.
  4. A group practice of several physicians.
  5. A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
  6. A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
  7. A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
  8. One confined to bed by sickness.
  9. One who receives baptism on a sickbed.

efficient

noun
  1. A cause; something that causes an effect
adjective
  1. Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy
  2. Expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input
  3. Causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change (rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent)
  4. (old use) effective

elfin

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An elf; an inhabitant of fairy-land.
  2. A little urchin or child.
  3. Any of the butterflies in the subgenus Incisalia of the North American lycaenid genus Callophrys.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Relating to or resembling an elf or elves, especially in its tiny size or features.

entente

noun
  1. An informal alliance or friendly understanding between two states.

entice

verb
  1. To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.

entitle

verb
  1. To give a title to.
  2. To dignify by an honorary designation.
  3. To give power or authority (to do something).
  4. To give rightful ownership.
  5. To give a title to a book, film, play, etc.

feint

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A movement made to confuse the opponent; a dummy.
  2. That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense or stratagem.
  3. (war) An offensive movement resembling an attack in all but its continuance
verb
  1. To make a feint, or mock attack.
adjective
  1. Feigned; counterfeit.
  2. (war) (of an attack) directed toward a different part from the intended strike

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The narrowest rule used in the production of lined writing paper.

feline

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to cats.
  2. Catlike (resembling a cat)

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A cat; member of the cat family Felidae.

fence

noun
  1. A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or a house perimeter.
  2. Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
  3. Skill in oral debate.
  4. The art or practice of fencing.
  5. A guard or guide on machinery.
  6. A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.
  7. A memory barrier.
verb
  1. To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
  2. To defend or guard.
  3. To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
  4. To engage in the sport of fencing.
  5. To jump over a fence.
  6. To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.

fennel

noun
  1. A plant, Foeniculum vulgare, of the parsley family, which has a sweet, anise-like flavor.
  2. The bulb, leaves, or stalks of the plant, eaten as a vegetable.
  3. The seeds of the fennel plant used as a spice in cooking.

fifteen

numeral
  1. The cardinal number occurring after fourteen (14) and before sixteen (16).

fine

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Fine champagne; French brandy.
  2. (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.
verb
  1. To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
  2. To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
  3. To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
  4. To change by fine gradations.
  5. To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
  6. To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).
adjective
  1. Senses referring to subjective quality.
  2. Senses referring to objective quality.
  3. Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
  4. Subtle; thin; tenuous.
adverb
  1. Expression of (typically) reluctant agreement.
  2. Well, nicely, in a positive way.
  3. Finely; elegantly; delicately.
  4. In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
verb
  1. To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
  2. To pay a fine.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The end of a musical composition.
  2. The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. End; conclusion; termination; extinction.
  2. A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
  3. A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.
verb
  1. To finish; to cease.
  2. To cause to cease; to stop.

finite

adjective
  1. Having an end or limit; (of a quantity) constrained by bounds; (of a set) whose number of elements is a natural number.
  2. (grammar, as opposed to infinite or nonfinite) limited by person or number.

flint

noun
  1. A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck.
  2. A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
  3. A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
  4. A type of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.
  5. Anything figuratively hard.
verb
  1. To furnish or decorate an object with flint.

incite

verb
  1. To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action.

incline

noun
  1. A slope.
verb
  1. To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.
  2. To slope.
  3. (chiefly in the passive) To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view, attitude, etc.

inefficient

noun
  1. A person who cannot or does not work efficiently.
adjective
  1. Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious
  2. Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or unproductive; effecting little or nothing

infect

verb
  1. To bring into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen).
  2. To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion.
adjective
  1. Infected.

infill

Etymology 1

noun
  1. That which fills in a space, hole or gap.
  2. The redecoration of a fingernail or toenail after it has grown, to prevent an unsightly gap.
verb
  1. To fill in a space, hole or gap.
  2. To rededicate land in an urban environment to new construction.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Infiltration, the act of going into a place.

infinite

noun
  1. Something that is infinite in nature.
adjective
  1. Indefinably large, countlessly great; immense.
  2. Boundless, endless, without end or limits; innumerable.
  3. (with plural noun) Infinitely many.
  4. Greater than any positive quantity or magnitude; limitless.
  5. (of a set) Having infinitely many elements.
  6. (grammar) Not limited by person or number.
  7. Capable of endless repetition; said of certain forms of the canon, also called perpetual fugues, constructed so that their ends lead to their beginnings.
numeral
  1. Infinitely many.

inflect

verb
  1. To cause to curve inwards.
  2. To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing.
  3. (grammar) To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
  4. (grammar, of a word) To be varied in the form to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
  5. To influence in style.

inflict

verb
  1. To thrust upon; to impose.

inlet

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To let in; admit.
  2. To insert; inlay.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A body of water let into a coast, such as a bay, cove, fjord or estuary.
  2. A passage that leads into a cavity.

intellect

noun
  1. The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty (uncountable)
  2. The capacity of that faculty (in a particular person) (uncountable)
  3. A person who has that faculty to a great degree

intent

noun
  1. A purpose; something that is intended.
  2. The state of someone’s mind at the time of committing an offence.
adjective
  1. Firmly fixed or concentrated on something.
  2. Engrossed.
  3. Unwavering from a course of action.

lenience

noun
  1. Leniency: mercy or forgiveness in the assignment of punishment.

lenient

noun
  1. A lenitive; an emollient.
adjective
  1. Lax; not strict; tolerant of dissent or deviation

lent

noun
  1. A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures.
  2. The second term of the academic year at some British schools.
verb
  1. To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
  2. To make a loan.
  3. To be suitable or applicable, to fit.
  4. To afford; to grant or furnish in general.
  5. To borrow.

lentil

noun
  1. Any of several plants of the genus Lens, especially Lens culinaris, from southwest Asia, that have edible, lens-shaped seeds within flattened pods.
  2. The seed of these plants, used as food.

lien

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A tendon.
  2. A right to take possession of a debtor’s property as security until a debt or duty is discharged.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (possibly obsolete) The spleen.

lifeline

noun
  1. A line to which a drowning or falling victim may cling.
  2. (by extension) A source of salvation in a crisis.
  3. A means or route for transporting indispensable supplies.
  4. System or structure of vital importance to a community.
  5. On the deck of a boat, a line to which one can attach oneself to stay aboard on rough seas.
  6. A line from the diver to a tender at the surface control point.
  7. A particular crease in the palm.

line

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
  2. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
  3. A hose or pipe, of any size.
  4. Direction, path.
  5. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.
  6. A clothesline.
  7. A letter, a written form of communication.
  8. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.
  9. A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.
  10. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
  11. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
  12. A measuring line or cord.
  13. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
  14. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
  15. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
  16. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation.
  17. The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery etc.
  18. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
  19. A small amount of text. Specifically:
  20. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
  21. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction.
  22. A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
  23. A number of shares taken by a jobber.
  24. A measure of length:
  25. A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
  26. (1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
  27. The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
  28. Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).
  29. A small path-shaped portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug, especially cocaine.
  30. Instruction; doctrine.
  31. Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
  32. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter.
  33. A group of forwards that play together.
  34. A vascular catheter.
verb
  1. To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
  2. To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
  3. To form a line along.
  4. To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
  5. To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
  6. To read or repeat line by line.
  7. To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.
  8. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
  9. To measure.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
verb
  1. To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
  2. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
  3. To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. (of a dog) To copulate with, to impregnate.

linen

noun
  1. Thread or cloth made from flax fiber.
  2. Domestic textiles, such as tablecloths, bedding, towels, underclothes, etc., that are made of linen or linen-like fabrics of cotton or other fibers; linens.
  3. A light beige colour, like that of linen cloth undyed.
adjective
  1. Made from linen cloth or thread.
  2. Having the colour linen, light beige.

linnet

noun
  1. A small passerine bird, the common linnet (Linaria cannabina, syn. Carduelis cannabina), in the finch family Fringillidae, native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa.
  2. A house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus), of North America.

lint

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth; used for dressing wounds.
  2. Clinging fuzzy fluff that clings to fabric or accumulates in one's pockets or navel etc.
  3. The fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant.
  4. Raw cotton ready for baling.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To perform a static check on (source code) to detect stylistic or programmatic errors.

lintel

noun
  1. A horizontal structural beam spanning an opening, such as between the uprights of a door or a window, and which supports the wall above.

nene

noun
  1. The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.

nettle

noun
  1. Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
  2. Certain plants that have spines or prickles:
  3. Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica:
  4. Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.
verb
  1. Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting, causing a rash in someone.
  2. To pique, irritate, vex or provoke.

nice

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Niceness.
adjective
  1. Pleasant, satisfactory.
  2. Of a person: friendly, attractive.
  3. Respectable; virtuous.
  4. (with and) Shows that the given adjective is desirable, or acts as a mild intensifier; pleasantly, quite.
  5. Silly, ignorant; foolish.
  6. Particular in one's conduct; scrupulous, painstaking; choosy.
  7. Particular as regards rules or qualities; strict.
  8. Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle.
  9. Easily injured; delicate; dainty.
  10. Doubtful, as to the outcome; risky.
adverb
  1. Nicely.
interjection
  1. Used to signify a job well done.
  2. Used to signify approval.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority.

niece

noun
  1. A daughter of one’s sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either the daughter of one's brother ("fraternal niece"), or of one's sister ("sororal niece").

nine

noun
  1. The digit or figure 9.
  2. A playing card with nine pips.
  3. A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
  4. (usually in the plural) A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).
  5. A baseball club, team, or lineup (composed of nine players).
numeral
  1. A numerical value equal to 9; the number following eight and preceding ten.
  2. Describing a group or set with nine elements.

nineteen

numeral
  1. The cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens".

nite

noun
  1. The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.
  2. (Astronomy) The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.
  3. (Legal) Often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
  4. An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
  5. A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a place away from home, e.g. a hotel.
  6. Nightfall.
  7. Darkness (due to it being nighttime).
  8. A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
  9. A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.

teen

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A teenager.
adjective
  1. Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Grief; sorrow; trouble.
  2. Vexation; anger; hate.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
  2. To become angry or distressed.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. (provincial) To hedge or fence in; to enclose.

tenet

noun
  1. An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.

tent

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
  2. The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
  3. A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
  4. A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
verb
  1. To go camping.
  2. To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
  3. To form into a tent-like shape.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Attention; regard, care.
  2. Intention; design.
verb
  1. To attend to; to heed
  2. To guard; to hinder.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
  2. A probe for searching a wound.
verb
  1. (sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.

tinct

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tine

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb.
  2. A small branch, especially on an antler or horn.
  3. A wild vetch or tare.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Small, diminutive

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Trouble; distress; teen.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To kindle; to set on fire.
  2. To rage; to smart.

Etymology 5

verb
  1. To shut in, or enclose.

tint

noun
  1. A slight coloring.
  2. A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
  3. A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
  4. A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
verb
  1. To shade, to color.

intel

noun
  1. Intelligence (secret information)

innie

noun
  1. A navel that is formed of a hollow in the abdomen (as opposed to one that protrudes from the abdomen).
  2. A vagina with inner labia minora