Monday, June 15, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 3

Maximum Puzzle Score: 288

Number of Answers: 63

Points Needed for Genius: 202

Genius requires between 29 and 55 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 83% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 65% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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Today's score of 288 was in the 91st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on June 12, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 63 possible answers rank it in the 94th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on June 09, 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 7-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on June 14, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.3.
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 225
  • toot 217
  • nana 202
  • naan 202
  • nene 158
  • tilt 157
  • till 157
  • lilt 157
  • mamma 154
  • mama 154
  • tint 152
  • onion 150
  • toon 147
  • onto 147
  • acai 145
  • acacia 145
  • olio 136
  • anon 136
  • anal 135
  • papa 128
  • tact 127
  • baba 126
  • lulu 125
  • lull 125
  • dodo 124
  • loon 122
  • mitt 121
  • poop 120
  • booboo 120
  • boob 120
  • cocci 119
  • moon 118
  • mono 118
  • calla 118
  • call 118
  • tattoo 117
  • tartar 117
  • tart 117
  • ratatat 117
  • attar 116
  • tutu 114
  • ally 113
  • allay 113
  • tatty 111
  • momma 111
  • cancan 111
  • aria 111
  • ammo 111
  • meme 110


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 119,175 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,046 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*:

  • aitch
  • apache
  • aphetic
  • aphtha
  • aphthae
  • cachaca
  • cachectic
  • caph
  • cathect
  • cathectic
  • catheptic
  • chaeta
  • chaetae
  • chapatti
  • chape
  • chappati
  • chappie
  • chapt
  • chetah
  • cheth
  • chippie
  • eath
  • echappe
  • eche
  • echt
  • epha
  • ephah
  • epitaphic
  • epithetic
  • haet
  • haha
  • happi
  • hepatica
  • hepaticae
  • heth
  • pacha
  • pech
  • petechia
  • petechiae
  • phatic
  • phpht
  • tache
  • tathata
  • tepache
  • teth
  • thae
  • theca
  • thecae
  • thecate
  • thetic
  • titch
  • titchie

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

ache

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
verb
  1. To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
  2. To cause someone or something to suffer pain.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Parsley

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The name of the Latin-script letter H.

apathetic

adjective
  1. Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion
  2. Of, or pertaining to apatheism.

attach

verb
  1. To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
  2. To adhere; to be attached.
  3. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
  4. To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; with to.
  5. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
  6. To take, seize, or lay hold of.
  7. To arrest, seize.

attache

noun
  1. A diplomatic officer, usually one who plays a specific role.

cache

noun
  1. A store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way.
  2. A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
  3. (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
verb
  1. To place in a cache.

cachet

noun
  1. A seal, as of a letter.
  2. A special characteristic or quality; prestige.
  3. A commemorative stamped design or inscription on an envelope, other than a cancellation or pre-printed postage.
  4. A sealed envelope containing an item whose price is being negotiated.
  5. A capsule containing a pharmaceutical preparation.
  6. A hidden location from which one can observe birds while remaining unseen.
verb
  1. To mark (an envelope) with a commemorative stamped design or inscription.

catch

noun
  1. The act of seizing or capturing.
  2. The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
  3. The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
  4. The game of catching a ball.
  5. Something which is captured or caught.
  6. (by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
  7. A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
  8. A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
  9. (sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
  10. A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
  11. A fragment of music or poetry.
  12. A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
  13. A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
  14. A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
  15. A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
  16. The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
  17. The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
  18. A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
  19. The first contact of an oar with the water.
  20. A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
  21. Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
  22. A slight remembrance; a trace.
verb
  1. (heading) To capture, overtake.
  2. (heading) To seize hold of.
  3. (heading) To intercept.
  4. (heading) To receive (by being in the way).
  5. (heading) To take in with one's senses or intellect.
  6. (heading) To seize attention, interest.
  7. (heading) To obtain or experience

chai

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A female gypsy.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Short for masala chai, a beverage made with black teas, steamed milk and sweet spices, based loosely on Indian recipes.

chap

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (obsolete outside Britain and Australia) A man, a fellow.
  2. A customer, a buyer.
  3. A child.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
  2. A division; a breach, as in a party.
  3. A blow; a rap.
verb
  1. Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
  2. To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
  3. To strike, knock.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (often in the plural) The jaw.
  2. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. (authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
  2. A section of a social or religious body.
  3. A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
  4. A decretal epistle.
  5. A location or compartment.

chapati

noun
  1. A flat, unleavened bread from northern India and Pakistan.

chat

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Informal conversation.
  2. A conversation to stop an argument or settle situations.
  3. (totum pro parte, typically with definite article) The entirety of users in a chatroom or a single member thereof.
  4. An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
  5. Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
  6. Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
verb
  1. To be engaged in informal conversation.
  2. To talk more than a few words.
  3. To talk of; to discuss.
  4. To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A small potato, such as is given to swine.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A louse (small, parasitic insect).

Etymology 5

noun
  1. Any savory snack, sold from a roadside stall in India, or served as a starter in an Indian restaurant

cheap

noun
  1. Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
  2. A market; marketplace.
  3. Price.
  4. A low price; a bargain.
  5. Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.
verb
  1. To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
  2. To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.
  3. To buy; purchase.
  4. To sell.
adjective
  1. Low and/or reduced in price.
  2. Of poor quality.
  3. Of little worth.
  4. (of an action or tactic in a game of skill) Underhand or unfair.
  5. Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.
  6. Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
adverb
  1. Cheaply.

cheapie

noun
  1. An item which is inexpensive.
  2. An item of poor quality.
  3. A person who is stingy, a cheapskate.
adjective
  1. Cheap; inferior.

cheat

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
  2. To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
  3. To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
  4. To deceive; to fool; to trick.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
  2. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
  3. The weed cheatgrass.
  4. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
  5. A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat code.

cheep

noun
  1. A short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.
verb
  1. Of a small bird, to make short, high-pitched sounds sounding like "cheep".
  2. To express in a chirping tone.
interjection
  1. The short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.

cheetah

noun
  1. A distinctive member (Acinonyx jubatus) of the cat family, slightly smaller than the leopard, but with proportionately longer limbs and a smaller head. It is native to Africa and also credited with being the fastest terrestrial animal.

chia

noun
  1. A Mexican sage grown for its edible seeds, Salvia hispanica.
  2. Salvia columbariae, a sage with similar seeds, native to the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico.

chic

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Good form; style.
  2. A person with (a particular type of) chic.
adjective
  1. Elegant, stylish.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A kind of ritual buffoon or clown in Yucatec Maya culture.

chica

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A Latin-American girl; a Latina.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An orange-red dyestuff obtained by boiling the leaves of the bignonia.

chichi

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Affectedly trendy; chic and stylish

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (Latin America, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.

chip

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
  2. A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
  3. (games) A token used in place of cash.
  4. A sovereign (the coin).
  5. A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate.
  6. A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical and/or biochemical devices.
  7. (especially in the plural) A fried strip of potato of square or rectangular cross-section; a french fry.
  8. (especially in the plural) A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, or sometimes another vegetable; a crisp.
  9. A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to clear an obstacle.
  10. A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
  11. A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel.
  12. (northern) A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
  13. A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
  14. A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications.
  15. The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
  16. Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
  17. Anything dried up, withered, or without flavour.
  18. A low shot that travels further along the ground than it does in the air.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To chop or cut into small pieces.
  2. To break small pieces from.
  3. To play a shot hitting the ball predominantly upwards rather than forwards. In association football specifically, when the shot is a shot on goal, the opposing goalkeeper may be the direct object of the verb, rather than the ball.
  4. To upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
  5. To become chipped.
  6. (often with "in") To ante (up).
  7. To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
  8. (often with "in") to contribute.
  9. (also, to chip at) To make fun of.

chit

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.
  2. A pert or sassy young person, especially a young woman.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The embryonic growing bud of a plant
  2. An excrescence on the body, as a wart or a pimple.
verb
  1. To sprout; to shoot, as a seed or plant.
  2. To damage the outer layers of a seed such as Lupinus or Sophora to assist germination.
  3. To initiate sprouting of tubers, such as potatoes, by placing them in special environment, before planting into the soil.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A small sheet or scrap of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder or personal message.
  2. A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the truck system; scrip.
  3. A small sheet of paper on which is written a prescription to be filled; a scrip.
  4. A smaller cardboard counter generally used not to directly represent something but for another, more transient, purpose such as tracking or randomization.
  5. A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club.
  6. A debt or favor owed in return for a prior loan or favor granted, especially a political favor.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A small tool used in cleaving laths. Compare: froe.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. Shit.
interjection
  1. Shit.

chitchat

noun
  1. Light conversation; casual talk, usually about trivial matters.
  2. Gossip.
verb
  1. To engage in small talk, to discuss unimportant matters.

each

noun
  1. (operations) An individual item: the least quantitative unit in a grouping.
adverb
  1. For one; apiece; per.
pronoun
  1. Every one; every thing.

epitaph

noun
  1. An inscription on a gravestone in memory of the deceased.
  2. A poem or other short text written in memory of a deceased person.
verb
  1. To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.
  2. To commemorate by an epitaph.

epithet

noun
  1. A term used to characterize a person or thing.
  2. A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person.
  3. One of many formulaic words or phrases used in the Iliad and Odyssey to characterize a person, a group of people, or a thing.
  4. An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase.
  5. A word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species. This applies only to formal names of plants, fungi and bacteria. In formal names of animals the corresponding term is the specific name.
verb
  1. To term; to refer to as.

etch

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards.
  2. To engrave a surface.
  3. To make a lasting impression.
  4. To sketch; to delineate.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An aftergrowth of grass (or other plants) which grows after it has been been mowed; also, a field of such growth.

ethic

noun
  1. A set of principles of right and wrong behaviour guiding, or representative of, a specific culture, society, group, or individual.
  2. The morality of an action.
adjective
  1. Moral, relating to morals.

haptic

adjective
  1. Of or relating to the sense of touch.
  2. Of or relating to haptics.

hatch

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
  2. A trapdoor.
  3. An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
  4. A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
  5. An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
  6. A gullet.
  7. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
  8. A floodgate; a sluice gate.
  9. A bedstead.
  10. An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
verb
  1. To close with a hatch or hatches.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The act of hatching.
  2. Development; disclosure; discovery.
  3. (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
  4. (often as mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
  5. A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper) — compare the phrase "hatched, matched, and dispatched."
verb
  1. (of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
  2. (of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
  3. To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
  4. To devise.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
  2. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.

hatchet

noun
  1. A small light axe with a short handle; a tomahawk.
verb
  1. To cut with a hatchet.

hate

noun
  1. An object of hatred.
  2. Hatred.
  3. Negative feedback, abusive behaviour.
verb
  1. To dislike intensely or greatly.
  2. To experience hatred.

hath

verb
  1. To possess, own.
  2. To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
  3. Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
  4. To partake of (a particular substance, especially food or drink, or action or activity).
  5. To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
  6. To experience, go through, undergo.
  7. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
  8. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.
  9. Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
  10. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
  11. To give birth to.
  12. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
  13. To accept as a romantic partner.
  14. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
  15. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
  16. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
  17. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
  18. To defeat in a fight; take.
  19. (obsolete outside Ireland) To be able to speak (a language).
  20. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
  21. To trick, to deceive.
  22. (often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
  23. (often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
  24. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
  25. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
  26. (of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
  27. To make an observation of (a bird species).

heap

noun
  1. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
  2. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
  3. A great number or large quantity of things.
  4. A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
  5. Memory that is dynamically allocated.
  6. A dilapidated place or vehicle.
  7. A lot, a large amount
verb
  1. To pile in a heap.
  2. To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
  3. To supply in great quantity.
adverb
  1. (representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans; may be offensive) Very.

heat

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Thermal energy.
  2. The condition or quality of being hot.
  3. An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
  4. A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
  5. An undesirable amount of attention.
  6. The police.
  7. One or more firearms.
  8. A fastball.
  9. A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
  10. A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
  11. One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
  12. A hot spell.
  13. Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
  14. The output of a heating system.
  15. In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which alphas and omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
  2. To become hotter.
  3. To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
  4. To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
  5. To arouse, to excite (sexually).

heath

noun
  1. A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
  2. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
  3. Certain butterflies and moths

hectic

noun
  1. A hectic fever.
  2. A flush like one produced by such a fever.
adjective
  1. Denoting a type of fever accompanying consumption and similar wasting diseases, characterised by flushed cheeks and dry skin.
  2. Pertaining to or symptomatic of such a fever.
  3. Very busy with activity and confusion; feverish.

hepatic

noun
  1. Any compound that acts on the liver.
  2. A liverwort (kind of plant)
adjective
  1. Of or relating to the liver.
  2. Acting on or occurring in the liver.
  3. Of a deep brownish-red color like that of liver.

hepcat

noun
  1. A jazz performer, especially one from the 1940s and 1950s.
  2. A person associated with the jazz subculture of the 1940s and 1950s; a hipster.
  3. A sophisticated person, one who is stylish.

hippie

noun
  1. (1950s slang) A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
  2. (1960s slang; still widely used in reference to that era) One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who subscribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc.
  3. (modern slang) A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and wearing unusually long hair (for males), and because of it, often stereotyped as a deadbeat.
  4. Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
  5. One who is hip.
adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to hippies.
  2. Not conforming to generally accepted standards.

hitch

noun
  1. A sudden pull.
  2. Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope.
  3. A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
  4. A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
  5. A hidden or unfavorable condition or element; a catch.
  6. A period of time spent in the military.
verb
  1. To pull with a jerk.
  2. To attach, tie or fasten.
  3. To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.
  4. Contraction of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.
  5. To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
  6. To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded.
  7. To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.

itch

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch.
  2. A constant teasing desire or want.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.
  2. To have a constant, teasing urge; to feel strongly motivated; to want or desire something.
  3. To cause to feel an itch.
  4. To scratch or rub so as to relieve an itch.

patch

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole.
  2. A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
  3. A piece of any size, used to repair something for a temporary period only, or that it is temporary because it is not meant to last long or will be removed as soon as a proper repair can be made, which will happen in the near future.
  4. A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size)
  5. (specifically) A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.
  6. A local region of professional responsibility.
  7. A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck to heighten beauty by contrast, worn by ladies in the 17th and 18th centuries; an imitation beauty mark.
  8. A piece of material used to cover a wound.
  9. An adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin, the drug being slowly absorbed over a period of time.
  10. A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.
  11. A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
  12. A patch file, a file that describes changes to be made to a computer file or files, usually changes made to a computer program that fix a programming bug.
  13. A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
  14. A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
  15. (often patch cable, patch cord etc.; see also patch panel) A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.
  16. A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable).
  17. An overlay used to obtain a stronger impression.
verb
  1. To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like
  2. To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.
  3. To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt.
  4. To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
  5. To employ a temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
  6. (generally with the particle "up") To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner
  7. To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence:
  8. To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.

path

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
  2. A course taken.
  3. A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
  4. A metaphorical course.
  5. A method or direction of proceeding.
  6. A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure, such as a file system or as part of a URL.
  7. A sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not visit the same vertex more than once (unless it is a closed path, where only the first and the last vertex are the same).
  8. A continuous map f from the unit interval I = [0,1] to a topological space X.
  9. A slot available for allocation to a railway train over a given route in between other trains.
verb
  1. To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (abbreviation) Pathology.

pathetic

adjective
  1. Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion.
  2. Arousing scornful pity or contempt, often due to miserable inadequacy.
  3. Expressing or showing anger; passionate.
  4. Trochlear.

peach

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A tree (Prunus persica), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
  2. The soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
  3. A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.
  4. A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to the color peach.
  2. Particularly pleasing or agreeable.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To inform on someone; turn informer.
  2. To inform against.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite.

phat

adjective
  1. (originally African American Vernacular English) Excellent; cool; very good.
  2. Sexy.
  3. Rich in texture; prominent.

pitch

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
  2. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
  3. Pitchstone.
verb
  1. To cover or smear with pitch.
  2. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
  2. The act of pitching a baseball.
  3. The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) Not used in America, where "field" is the preferred word.
  4. An effort to sell or promote something.
  5. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
  6. The angle at which an object sits.
  7. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
  8. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
  9. The place where a busker performs.
  10. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
  11. An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
  12. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
  13. Prominence; importance.
  14. A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
  15. A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
  16. A person's or animal's height.
  17. That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
  18. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
  19. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
  20. The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
verb
  1. To throw.
  2. To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
  3. To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
  4. To throw away; discard.
  5. To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
  6. To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
  7. To assemble or erect (a tent).
  8. To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
  9. To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
  10. To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
  11. To bounce on the playing surface.
  12. (of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
  13. To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
  14. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
  15. To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
  16. (of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
  17. (of a price, value) To set or fix.
  18. (of a card) To discard for some gain.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
  2. In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
verb
  1. To produce a note of a given pitch.
  2. To fix or set the tone of.

pith

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The soft, spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees.
  2. The spongy interior substance of a feather or horn.
  3. The spinal cord; the marrow.
  4. The albedo of a citrus fruit.
  5. The essential or vital part; force; energy; importance.
  6. Power, strength, might.
verb
  1. To extract the pith from (a plant stem or tree).
  2. To kill (especially cattle or laboratory animals) by cutting or piercing the spinal cord.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. One divided by pi.
adjective
  1. The ordinal form of the number pi.

tach

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Tachometer

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (costers) A hat.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Tachycardia.

teach

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.
  2. (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.
  3. To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
  4. (ditransitive) To cause to learn or understand.
  5. (ditransitive) To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (usually as a term of address) teacher

tech

noun
  1. Technology
  2. Technician
  3. Technique
  4. (used in titles) technical college

techie

noun
  1. One who works with, or has an interest in, technology or computers.
  2. A person who works on the technical side of events.

teeth

noun
  1. The ability to be enforced, or to be enforced to any useful effect.
verb
  1. To grow teeth.
  2. To bite on something to relieve discomfort caused by growing teeth.
noun
  1. A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating.
  2. A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
  3. A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.
  4. A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.
  5. A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
  6. The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allows better adhesion of artwork.
  7. Liking, fondness (compare toothsome).
  8. An irreducible component of a comb that intersects the handle in exactly one point, that point being distinct from the unique point of intersection for any other tooth of the comb.

teethe

verb
  1. To grow teeth.
  2. To bite on something to relieve discomfort caused by growing teeth.

that

noun
  1. Something being indicated that is there; one of those.
adverb
  1. (degree) To a given extent or degree.
  2. (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions).
  3. To such an extent; so. (in positive constructions).
pronoun
  1. (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
  2. The known (thing); used to refer to something just said.
  3. (demonstrative) The aforementioned quality or proposition; used to emphatically affirm or deny a previous statement or question.
  4. (relative) (plural that) Which, who; representing a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition.
  5. Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.
conjunction
  1. Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement.
  2. Introducing a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause: because, in that.
  3. Introducing a subordinate clause that expresses an aim, purpose or goal ("final"), and usually contains the auxiliaries may, might or should: so, so that.
  4. Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence or effect.
  5. Introducing a premise or supposition for consideration: seeing as; inasmuch as; given that; as would appear from the fact that.
  6. Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb.
  7. Introducing an exclamation expressing a desire or wish.
  8. Introducing an exclamation expressing a strong emotion such as sadness or surprise.

thatch

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Straw, rushes, or similar, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
  2. Any of several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
  3. A buildup of cut grass, stolons or other material on the soil in a lawn.
  4. (by extension) Any straw-like material, such as a person's hair.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To cover the roof with straw, reed, leaves, etc.

thee

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To address (a person) using the pronoun thee.
  2. To use the word thee.
pronoun
  1. Objective and reflexive case of thou.
  2. Thou.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To thrive; prosper.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The letter ⟨(⟩, which stands for the th sound /ð/ in Pitman shorthand.

theta

noun
  1. The eighth letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, ninth in Old Greek: Θ, θ.
  2. The measure of an angle.
  3. The sensitivity of the value of a derivative with respect to time; the "time decay".
  4. Designating a level of brain activity as measured by electroencephalography having a frequency of between four and seven cycles per second (associated with drowsiness in adults).
  5. The voiceless dental fricative represented by θ.

tithe

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A tenth.
  2. The tenth part of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses.
  3. A contribution to one's religious community or congregation of worship (notably to the LDS church)
  4. A small part or proportion.
verb
  1. To give one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:
  2. To take one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:
  3. To compose the tenth part of something.
adjective
  1. Tenth.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A boon (a grant or concession).
verb
  1. To grant, concede.
adjective
  1. Receiving a concession or grant; successful in prayer or request.

hatha

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captcha

noun
  1. A computerized test requiring the human user to perform a task deemed to be difficult to automate, such as entering a displayed series of distorted characters or describing images, to demonstrate that he/she is a human and not a computer program.

capiche

interjection
  1. “Get it?”; “understood?”.