Friday, July 10, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 215

Number of Answers: 54

Points Needed for Genius: 151

Genius requires between 22 and 47 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 76% 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 215 was in the 69th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on July 05, 2026.
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 81st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on July 05, 2026.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 08, 2019.
The lowest number of answers was 16 on March 27, 2023.

It takes a 6-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on July 07, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.2.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 244
  • loll 226
  • toot 218
  • nana 204
  • naan 204
  • nene 158
  • tilt 157
  • till 157
  • mamma 157
  • mama 157
  • lilt 157
  • tint 152
  • onion 150
  • acai 148
  • acacia 148
  • toon 147
  • onto 147
  • olio 137
  • anon 137
  • anal 136
  • papa 129
  • tact 128
  • baba 127
  • lulu 125
  • lull 125
  • dodo 125
  • loon 122
  • poop 121
  • mitt 121
  • calla 121
  • call 121
  • booboo 120
  • boob 120
  • cocci 119
  • moon 118
  • mono 118
  • tattoo 117
  • tartar 117
  • tart 117
  • ratatat 117
  • attar 116
  • tutu 114
  • ally 114
  • allay 114
  • cancan 113
  • aria 113
  • tatty 111
  • roar 111
  • momma 111
  • ammo 111


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 120,114 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,055 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*:

  • beebee
  • befool
  • bleb
  • blet
  • bluet
  • boeuf
  • bole
  • bolete
  • botel
  • bouffe
  • boulle
  • bubbe
  • bulbel
  • bulblet
  • bute
  • buteo
  • butle
  • buttle
  • ebbet
  • elute
  • feeb
  • felloe
  • feoff
  • feoffee
  • flotel
  • footle
  • fouette
  • leet
  • letout
  • lobule
  • lotte
  • obole
  • outfeel
  • outfelt
  • outtell
  • teel
  • tele
  • tole
  • toluole
  • tule

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

beef

noun
  1. The meat from a cow, bull or other bovine.
  2. (plural: beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with)
verb
  1. To complain.
  2. To add weight or strength to; to beef up.
  3. To fart; break wind.
  4. To feud or hold a grudge against.
  5. To cry
  6. To fail or mess up.
adjective
  1. Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
  2. Producing or known for raising lots of beef.
  3. Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.

beet

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.
  2. A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To improve; to mend.
  2. To kindle a fire.
  3. To rouse.

beetle

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A small car, the Volkswagen Beetle (original version made 1938–2003, similar models made 1997–2010 and since 2011)
noun
  1. Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
  2. A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.
verb
  1. To move away quickly, to scurry away.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To loom over; to extend or jut.
adjective
  1. Protruding, jutting, overhanging. (As in beetle brows.)

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
  2. A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.
verb
  1. To beat with a heavy mallet.
  2. To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine.

befell

verb
  1. To fall upon; fall all over; overtake
  2. To happen.
  3. To happen to.
  4. To fall.

befoul

verb
  1. To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute.
  2. (specifically) To defecate on, to soil with excrement.
  3. To stain or mar (for example with infamy or disgrace).
  4. To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.

bell

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
  2. The sounding of a bell as a signal.
  3. A telephone call.
  4. A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
  5. The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
  6. Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
  7. The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
  8. A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.).
  9. Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
  10. The part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
  11. An instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar, used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.
verb
  1. To attach a bell to.
  2. To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
  3. To telephone.
  4. To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
verb
  1. To bellow or roar.
  2. To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.

belle

noun
  1. An attractive woman.

belt

noun
  1. A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
  2. A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
  3. A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
  4. Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.
  5. A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.
  6. A collection of rocky-constituted bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
  7. One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
  8. A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
  9. A quick drink of liquor.
  10. (usually capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
  11. The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
  12. Device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon
verb
  1. To encircle.
  2. To fasten a belt on.
  3. To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
  4. To hit with a belt.
  5. To scream or sing in a loud manner.
  6. To drink quickly, often in gulps.
  7. To hit someone or something.
  8. To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
  9. To move very fast

betel

noun
  1. Either of two plants often used in combination:
  2. A quid (chewing preparation) containing these and other plant materials; paan.

blue

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this.
  2. A blue dye or pigment.
  3. Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
  4. Blue clothing
  5. (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
  6. A member of law enforcement
  7. The sky, literally or figuratively.
  8. The ocean; deep waters.
  9. The far distance; a remote or distant place.
  10. Anything blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
  11. A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
  12. One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
  13. Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
  14. A bluefish.
  15. An argument.
  16. A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
  17. A type of firecracker.
  18. A bluestocking.
  19. One of the three color charges for quarks.
verb
  1. To make or become blue.
  2. To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
  3. (laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid)
  4. To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.
adjective
  1. Of the colour blue.
  2. Depressed, melancholic, sad.
  3. Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.
  4. Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
  5. Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
  6. (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
  7. (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
  8. Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
  9. (of women) literary; bluestockinged.
  10. Having a color charge of blue.
  11. (entertainment) Risque or obscene

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. (entertainment) Pornographic or profane.

bluebell

noun
  1. Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.

bluebottle

noun
  1. Any of various blowflies of the genus Calliphora that have an iridescent metallic-blue body and make a loud buzzing noise when flying.
  2. A marine jellyfish of the genus Physalia, which includes Physalia physalis, the Portuguese man-of-war, and Physalia utriculus, the Pacific man-of-war; a man-of-war.
  3. A cornflower, a plant that grows in grain fields, Centaurea cyanus, with blue flowers resembling bottles.
  4. A blue ant, Diamma bicolor, a parasitic wasp native to Australia.
  5. Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium. Also called triangles.
  6. A police officer.

bobble

noun
  1. A furry ball attached on top of a hat.
  2. Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie
  3. A pill (a ball formed on the surface of the fabric, as on laundered clothes).
  4. A localized set of stitches forming a raised bump.
  5. A wobbling motion.
verb
  1. To bob up and down.
  2. To make a mistake in.
  3. To roll slowly.

bootee

noun
  1. A soft, woolen shoe, usually knitted, for a baby or small pet.
  2. A thick sock worn under a wetsuit.
  3. An overshoe or sock worn to cover dirty shoes or feet.

bottle

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
  2. The contents of such a container.
  3. A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
  4. Nerve, courage.
  5. (of a person with a particular hair color) A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.
  6. A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.
  7. Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
  8. The tendency of pages printed several on a sheet to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.
verb
  1. To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
  2. To feed (an infant) baby formula.
  3. To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
  4. To throw away a leading position.
  5. To strike (someone) with a bottle.
  6. To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A dwelling; habitation.
  2. A building; house.

bottleful

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boule

Etymology 1

noun
  1. One of the bowls used in the French game of boules.
  2. A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means.
  3. A round loaf of bread.
  4. A round piece of dough.
  5. A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges.
verb
  1. To shape (a piece of dough) into a ball.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A particularly decorative piece of brass or other material, used as inlay in furniture or other works.
  2. Furniture having ornamentation of this kind.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A council of citizens in Ancient Greece

bubble

noun
  1. A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
  2. A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
  3. (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
  4. Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
  5. A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
  6. The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed.
  7. An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
  8. Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
  9. A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
  10. The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
  11. A laugh.
  12. A Greek.
  13. Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
  14. The point in a poker tournament when the last player without a prize loses all their chips and leaves the game, leaving only players that are going to win prizes. (e.g., if the last remaining 9 players win prizes, then the point when the 10th player leaves the tournament)
  15. A group of people who are in quarantine together.
verb
  1. To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
  2. To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
  3. To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
  4. To cheat, delude.
  5. To cry, weep.
  6. To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
  7. To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
  8. To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
  9. To form into a protruding round shape.
  10. To cover with bubbles.
  11. To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).

buffet

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
  2. Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
  3. A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
  2. To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
  3. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
  4. To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A low stool; a hassock.

bullet

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
  2. An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
  3. Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.
  4. A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, (•), often used in lieu of numbers for marking items in a list. (see also bulleted)
  5. A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
  6. A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.
  7. One year of prison time
  8. An ace (the playing card).
  9. Anything that is projected extremely fast.
  10. (in attributive use) Very fast (speedy).
  11. A plumb or sinker.
  12. (particularly in Northern Ireland) The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.
  13. A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.
  14. A small ball.
  15. A cannonball.
  16. The fetlock of a horse.
verb
  1. To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
  2. To speed, like a bullet.
  3. To make a shot, especially with great speed.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A young or little bull; a male calf.

butte

noun
  1. An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.

effete

adjective
  1. Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out.
  2. Lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.
  3. Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.
  4. (of a person) Affected, overrefined

etouffee

noun
  1. A spiced Cajun stew of meat (crayfish, shellfish, alligator, chicken or another meat) and vegetables, typically cooked in a closed pot and then served with rice.

feeble

verb
  1. To make feeble; to enfeeble.
adjective
  1. Deficient in physical strength
  2. Lacking force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; faint.

feel

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A quality of an object experienced by touch.
  2. A vague mental impression.
  3. An act of fondling.
  4. A vague understanding.
  5. An intuitive ability.
  6. Alternative form of feeling.
verb
  1. (heading) To use or experience the sense of touch.
  2. (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
  3. To be or become aware of.
  4. To experience the consequences of.
  5. To seem (through touch or otherwise).
  6. To understand.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Much; many.
adverb
  1. Greatly, much, very
pronoun
  1. Many (of).

feet

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
  2. Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
  3. (often used attributively) Travel by walking.
  4. The base or bottom of anything.
  5. The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
  6. The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
  7. A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
  8. A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
  9. A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
  10. (collective) Foot soldiers; infantry.
  11. (cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
  12. The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
  13. The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
  14. The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
  15. The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
  16. The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
  17. The bottom edge of a sail.
  18. The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
  19. In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
  20. The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
  21. The globular lower domain of a protein.
  22. The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
  23. Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
  24. Recognized condition; rank; footing.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Fact; performance; feat.

fell

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A cutting-down of timber.
  2. The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.
  3. The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
verb
  1. To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
  2. To strike down, kill, destroy.
  3. To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An animal skin, hide, pelt.
  2. Human skin (now only as a metaphorical use of previous sense).

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (obsolete outside Britain) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.
  2. (obsolete outside Britain) A wild field or upland moor.

Etymology 4

adjective
  1. Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.
  2. Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent
  3. Very large; huge.
  4. Eager; earnest; intent.
adverb
  1. Sharply; fiercely.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. Anger; gall; melancholy.

Etymology 6

noun
  1. The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.

Etymology 7

verb
  1. (heading) To be moved downwards.
  2. To move downwards.
  3. To happen, to change negatively.
  4. To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
  5. To diminish; to lessen or lower.
  6. To bring forth.
  7. To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
  8. To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
  9. To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
  10. To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
  11. To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
  12. To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
  13. To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
  14. (of a fabric) To hang down (under the influence of gravity).

felt

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
  2. A hat made of felt.
  3. A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
verb
  1. To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
  2. To cover with, or as if with, felt.
  3. To cause a player to lose all their chips.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. (heading) To use or experience the sense of touch.
  2. (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
  3. To be or become aware of.
  4. To experience the consequences of.
  5. To seem (through touch or otherwise).
  6. To understand.
adjective
  1. That has been experienced or perceived.

fete

noun
  1. A festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity.
  2. A feast, celebration or carnival.
verb
  1. (usually in the passive) To celebrate (a person).

fettle

noun
  1. A state of proper physical condition; kilter or trim.
  2. One's mental state; spirits.
  3. Sand used to line a furnace.
  4. A person's mood or state, often assuming the worst.
  5. A seam line left by the meeting of mold pieces.
  6. The act of fettling.
verb
  1. To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair.
  2. To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.
  3. To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal.
  4. To be upset or in a bad mood.
  5. In ceramics, to remove (as by sanding) the seam lines left by the meeting of two molds.
  6. To prepare.

flee

verb
  1. To run away; to escape.
  2. To escape from.
  3. To disappear quickly; to vanish.

fleet

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A group of vessels or vehicles.
  2. Any group of associated items.
  3. A large, coordinated group of people.
  4. A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
  5. (British Royal Navy) Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear admiral's command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
  2. A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To float.
  2. To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
  3. To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
  4. To flee, to escape, to speed away.
  5. To evanesce, disappear, die out.
  6. To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
  7. (of people) To move or change in position.
  8. To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.
  9. To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
  10. To take the cream from; to skim.
adjective
  1. Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place.
  2. Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Floor; bottom; lower surface.
  2. A house; home.

floe

noun
  1. A low, flat mass of floating ice.

flue

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).
  2. An enclosed passageway in which to direct air or other gaseous current along.
  3. A woolly or downy substance; down, nap; a piece of this.
  4. In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Shallow; flat

flute

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin.
  2. A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
  3. A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
  4. A lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a classical column, or a groove on a cutting tool (such as a drill bit, endmill, or reamer), which helps to form both a cutting edge and a channel through which chips can escape
  5. A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
  6. A long French bread roll, baguette.
  7. An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
  8. A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc.
verb
  1. To play on a flute.
  2. To make a flutelike sound.
  3. To utter with a flutelike sound.
  4. To form flutes or channels in (as in a column, a ruffle, etc.); to cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in (as in a pillar, etc.).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A kind of flyboat; a storeship.

fuel

noun
  1. Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
  2. Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
  3. Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
verb
  1. To provide with fuel.
  2. To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater.

left

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The left side or direction.
  2. The ensemble of left-wing political parties. Those holding left-wing views as a group.
  3. The left hand or fist.
  4. A punch delivered with the left fist.
  5. A wave breaking from left to right (viewed from the shore).
adjective
  1. The opposite of right; toward the west when one is facing north.
  2. Pertaining to the political left.
adverb
  1. On the left side.
  2. Towards the left side.
  3. Towards the political left.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To have a consequence or remnant.
  2. To depart; to separate from.
  3. To transfer something.
  4. To remain (behind); to stay.
  5. To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
verb
  1. To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To have a consequence or remnant.
  2. To depart; to separate from.
  3. To transfer something.
  4. To remain (behind); to stay.
  5. To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
verb
  1. To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.

lobe

noun
  1. Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.
  2. A clear division of an organ that can be determined at the gross anatomy level, especially one of the parts of the brain, liver or lung.
  3. A semicircular pattern left on the ice as the skater travels across it.

lube

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Lubricant

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To lubricate

lute

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
verb
  1. To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
  2. A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
  3. (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.
verb
  1. To fix or fasten something with lute.

oboe

noun
  1. A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.

oleo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The various fats and oils that go into the making of margarine.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Margarine

outlet

noun
  1. A vent or similar passage to allow the escape of something.
  2. Something which allows for the release of one's desires.
  3. A river that runs out of a lake.
  4. A shop that sells the products of a particular manufacturer or supplier.
  5. A wall-mounted device such as a socket or receptacle connected to an electrical system at which current is taken to supply utilization equipment or appliances.

teff

noun
  1. A love grass, Eragrostis tef, with small seeds, grown as a cereal and for forage in Ethiopia and parts of Arabia.
  2. The fine grain of this plant.

tell

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.
  2. That which is told; a tale or account.
  3. A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
verb
  1. (archaic outside of idioms) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
  2. To narrate.
  3. To convey by speech; to say.
  4. To instruct or inform.
  5. To order; to direct, to say to someone.
  6. To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
  7. To reveal.
  8. To be revealed.
  9. To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
  10. To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.
  11. To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
  12. (authorship) To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.

toffee

noun
  1. A type of confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard
  2. A small, individual piece of toffee
  3. Any kind of sweets; candy
verb
  1. To coat in toffee.

tootle

noun
  1. A soft toot sound.
  2. A trip or excursion.
verb
  1. To make a soft toot sound.
  2. To play (a musical instrument) making such a sound.
  3. To go (somewhere); to amble aimlessly.
  4. To transport (someone somewhere).

tote

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A tote bag.
  2. A heavy burden.
  3. (logistics) A kind of plastic box used for transporting goods.
verb
  1. To carry or bear.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To add up; to calculate a total.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator.
  2. Pari-mutuel betting.

tube

noun
  1. Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
  2. An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
  3. (often capitalized as Tube) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)
  4. A tin can containing beer.
  5. A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
  6. A television.
  7. An idiot.
verb
  1. To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.
  2. To ride an inner tube.
  3. To intubate.

tubule

noun
  1. A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube.

tuffet

noun
  1. A clump of grass or similar vegetation.
  2. (furniture) A large cushion which may have an internal frame, used as a low seat or stool.
  3. An inflatable cushion serving as landing area for precision accuracy parachuting.

tulle

noun
  1. A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for clothing, veils, etc.

tutee

noun
  1. A student of a tutor.

tubeful

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