Saturday, November 07, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 306

Number of Answers: 77

Points Needed for Genius: 214

Genius requires between 34 and 65 words. You need at least a 6-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 306 was in the 93rd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on October 30, 2026.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 77 possible answers rank it in the 100th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on September 27, 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 November 02, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.1.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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Haven't I seen these words before?

The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 251
  • loll 231
  • toot 225
  • nana 216
  • naan 216
  • tilt 167
  • till 167
  • lilt 167
  • nene 164
  • mamma 164
  • mama 164
  • tint 163
  • acai 157
  • acacia 157
  • onion 156
  • toon 152
  • onto 152
  • olio 143
  • anon 142
  • anal 142
  • tact 133
  • papa 133
  • baba 132
  • mitt 131
  • dodo 131
  • lulu 128
  • lull 128
  • poop 126
  • booboo 126
  • boob 126
  • loon 125
  • calla 124
  • call 124
  • cocci 123
  • tattoo 121
  • moon 121
  • mono 121
  • tartar 120
  • tart 120
  • ratatat 120
  • cancan 120
  • natant 119
  • attar 119
  • tutu 117
  • momma 116
  • aria 116
  • ammo 116
  • ally 116
  • allay 116
  • roar 115


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 125,752 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 11,175 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*:

  • aalii
  • aedile
  • alidad
  • alidade
  • amia
  • amide
  • amie
  • deil
  • delime
  • delimed
  • devi
  • devilled
  • diademed
  • dialled
  • diallel
  • diamide
  • didie
  • diel
  • dilled
  • edile
  • eide
  • elemi
  • idem
  • ilea
  • ileal
  • ilia
  • iliad
  • ilial
  • imid
  • imide
  • lamia
  • lamiae
  • lieve
  • lilied
  • limed
  • maile
  • maill
  • mallei
  • mamie
  • mamilla
  • mamillae
  • mammie
  • mammilla
  • mammillae
  • mavie
  • mealie
  • mediad
  • mediae
  • mediaeval
  • medii
  • melamdim
  • middled
  • miladi
  • milded
  • milia
  • milldam
  • mille
  • millieme
  • millime
  • vail
  • vailed
  • vedalia
  • vialed
  • vialled
  • vidalia
  • vide
  • vielle
  • vill
  • villae
  • villi
  • viva
  • vive
  • vlei

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

aide

noun
  1. An assistant.
  2. An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp.

aided

verb
  1. To provide support to; to further the progress of; to help; to assist.
  2. To climb with the use of aids such as pitons.

ailed

verb
  1. To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)
  2. To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.

aimed

verb
  1. To point or direct a missile, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it
  2. To direct the intention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor;—followed by at, or by an infinitive
  3. To direct or point (e.g. a weapon), at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object
  4. To direct (something verbal) towards a certain person, thing, or group
  5. To guess or conjecture.
adjective
  1. Directed towards a target.

alive

adjective
  1. Having life; living; not dead
  2. In a state of action; in force or operation; existent
  3. Busy with activity of many living beings; swarming; thronged; busy.
  4. Sprightly; lively; brisk.
  5. Susceptible; easy to impress; having keen feelings, as opposed to apathy
  6. (as an intensifier) out of all living creatures.
adjective
  1. (only used attributively) Having life; that is alive.
  2. Being in existence; actual
  3. Having active properties; being energized.
  4. Operational; in actual use rather than in testing etc.
  5. Taken from a living animal.
  6. Imparting power; having motion.
  7. Still in active play.
  8. Seen or heard from a broadcast, as it happens.
  9. (of a performance or speech) In person.
  10. (entertainment, performing) Recorded in front of an audience and not having been edited after recording.
  11. Of firearms or explosives, capable of causing harm.
  12. (circuitry) Electrically charged or energized, usually indicating that the item may cause electrocution if touched.
  13. Being a bet which can be raised by the bettor, usually in reference to a blind or straddle.
  14. Featuring humans; not animated, in the phrases “live actors” or “live action”.
  15. Being in a state of ignition; burning.
  16. Full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing.
  17. Vivid; bright.

allied

adjective
  1. Joined as allies.
  2. Related.
verb
  1. To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy.
  2. To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love.

amid

preposition
  1. In the middle of; in the center of; surrounded by.

avail

noun
  1. Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use (now usually in negative constructions).
  2. Proceeds; profits from business transactions.
  3. An advertising slot or package.
  4. A press avail.
  5. Non-binding notice of availability for work.
  6. A readily available stock of oil.
  7. Benefit; value, profit; advantage toward success.
  8. Effort; striving.
verb
  1. To turn to the advantage of.
  2. To be of service to.
  3. To promote; to assist.
  4. To be of use or advantage; to answer or serve the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object.
  5. To provide; to make available.

availed

verb
  1. To turn to the advantage of.
  2. To be of service to.
  3. To promote; to assist.
  4. To be of use or advantage; to answer or serve the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object.
  5. To provide; to make available.

avid

adjective
  1. Enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something

dallied

verb
  1. To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.
  2. To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet
  3. To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
verb
  1. To wind the lasso rope (ie throw-rope) around the saddle horn (the saddle horn is attached to the pommel of a western style saddle) after the roping of an animal

deli

noun
  1. A shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving.
  2. Food sold at a delicatessen.

devil

noun
  1. An evil creature.
  2. (with article) The chief devil; Satan.
  3. A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior.
  4. The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel.
  5. A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous way; usually said of a young child.
  6. A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.
  7. (with an article, as an intensifier) Hell.
  8. A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil and lucky devil.
  9. A dust devil.
  10. (Christian Science) An evil or erring entity.
  11. (in compounds) A barren, unproductive and unused area.
  12. A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
  13. A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.
  14. A Tasmanian devil.
  15. An endurance event where riders who fall behind are periodically eliminated.
verb
  1. To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
  2. To annoy or bother.
  3. To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.
  4. To prepare (food) with spices, making it spicy:

deviled

verb
  1. To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
  2. To annoy or bother.
  3. To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.
  4. To prepare (food) with spices, making it spicy:
adjective
  1. Possessed by the Devil
  2. Grilled with a piquant sauce

diadem

noun
  1. An ornamental headband worn as a badge of royalty.
  2. A crown.
  3. Regal power; sovereignty; empire—considered as symbolized by the crown.
  4. An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its centre.
verb
  1. To adorn with a diadem; to crown.

dial

noun
  1. A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed).
  2. A clock face.
  3. A sundial.
  4. A panel on a radio etc showing wavelengths or channels; a knob that is turned to change the wavelength etc.
  5. A disk with finger holes on a telephone; used to select the number to be called.
  6. A person's face.
  7. A miner's compass.
verb
  1. To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial.
  2. To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone.
  3. To use a dial or a telephone.

dialed

verb
  1. To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial.
  2. To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone.
  3. To use a dial or a telephone.

diddle

noun
  1. In percussion, two consecutive notes played by the same hand (either RR or LL), similar to the drag, except that by convention diddles are played the same speed as the context in which they are placed.
  2. The penis.
verb
  1. To cheat; to swindle.
  2. To have sex with.
  3. To masturbate (especially of women).
  4. To waste time.
  5. To totter, like a child learning to walk; to daddle.
  6. To manipulate a value at the level of individual bits (binary digits).
interjection
  1. A meaningless word used when singing a tune or indicating a rhythm.

diddled

No Definition Found.

died

verb
  1. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
  2. To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
  3. To yearn intensely.
  4. To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
  5. To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
  6. To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
  7. To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
  8. (of a machine) To stop working, to break down.
  9. (of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
  10. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
  11. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
  12. (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
  13. To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
  14. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
  15. (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
verb
  1. To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

dilemma

noun
  1. A circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable.
  2. A difficult circumstance or problem.
  3. A type of syllogism of the form "if A is true then B is true; if C is true then D is true; either A or C is true; therefore either B or D is true".
  4. Offering to an opponent a choice between two (equally unfavorable) alternatives.

dill

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Anethum graveolens (the type species of the genus Anethum), a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; also known as dillseed.
  2. A cucumber pickled with dill flavoring
  3. A fool.
verb
  1. To cook or flavor with dill

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To still; to assuage; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain.

dime

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A coin worth one-tenth of a U.S. dollar.
  2. A coin worth one-tenth of a Canadian dollar.
  3. A small amount of money
  4. An assist
  5. A playing card with the rank of ten
  6. Ten dollars
  7. A thousand dollars
  8. A measurement of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten dollar bags.
  9. Payment responsibility
  10. A beautiful woman (10 on a 10-point scale)
  11. A defensive formation with six defensive backs, one of whom is a dimeback.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. (with "on") To inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously.
  2. To operate an audio amplifier (especially an electric guitar amplifier) at level "10" (typically the highest amplification level).

dimmed

verb
  1. To make something less bright.
  2. To become darker.
  3. To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct
  4. To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.

diva

noun
  1. Any female celebrity, usually a well known singer or actress.
  2. A person who may be considered or who considers herself (or by extension himself) much more important than others, has high expectations of others and who is extremely demanding and fussy when it comes to personal privileges.

dive

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A jump or plunge into water.
  2. A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.
  3. A downward swooping motion.
  4. A swim under water.
  5. A decline.
  6. A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
  7. Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
  8. A deliberate fall after a challenge.
verb
  1. To swim under water.
  2. To jump into water head-first.
  3. To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
  4. To descend sharply or steeply.
  5. (especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm.
  6. To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
  7. To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
  8. To explore by diving; to plunge into.
  9. To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any female celebrity, usually a well known singer or actress.
  2. A person who may be considered or who considers herself (or by extension himself) much more important than others, has high expectations of others and who is extremely demanding and fussy when it comes to personal privileges.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A supernatural entity of disagreeable nature.

dived

verb
  1. To swim under water.
  2. To jump into water head-first.
  3. To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
  4. To descend sharply or steeply.
  5. (especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm.
  6. To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
  7. To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
  8. To explore by diving; to plunge into.
  9. To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.

divide

noun
  1. A thing that divides.
  2. An act of dividing.
  3. A distancing between two people or things.
  4. A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.
  5. The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
verb
  1. To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
  2. To share (something) by dividing it.
  3. (with by) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
  4. To be a divisor of.
  5. To separate into two or more parts.
  6. Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
  7. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
  8. To break friendship; to fall out.
  9. To have a share; to partake.
  10. To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.
  11. To mark divisions on; to graduate.
  12. To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.

divided

verb
  1. To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
  2. To share (something) by dividing it.
  3. (with by) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
  4. To be a divisor of.
  5. To separate into two or more parts.
  6. Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
  7. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
  8. To break friendship; to fall out.
  9. To have a share; to partake.
  10. To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.
  11. To mark divisions on; to graduate.
  12. To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
adjective
  1. Separated or split into pieces
  2. Having conflicting interests or emotions
  3. Disunited
  4. (of a road) separated into lanes, that move in opposite directions, by a median

divvied

verb
  1. To divide into portions.

eddied

verb
  1. To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle.

elide

verb
  1. To leave out or omit (something).
  2. To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable.
  3. To conflate; to smear together; to blur the distinction between.

elided

verb
  1. To leave out or omit (something).
  2. To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable.
  3. To conflate; to smear together; to blur the distinction between.

email

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually through a network.
  2. A quantity of messages sent through an email system.
  3. A message sent through an email system.
  4. An email address.
verb
  1. To send an email or emails to.
  2. (may take two objects) To send (something) through email.
  3. To send, or compose and send, an email or emails.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Enamel.

emailed

verb
  1. To send an email or emails to.
  2. (may take two objects) To send (something) through email.
  3. To send, or compose and send, an email or emails.

evil

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
  2. Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief.
  3. A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).
adjective
  1. Intending to harm; malevolent.
  2. Morally corrupt.
  3. Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
  4. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
  5. Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
  6. Undesirable; harmful; bad practice

Etymology 2

adverb
  1. Wickedly, evilly, iniquitously
  2. Injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.
  3. Badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.

idea

noun
  1. An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.
  2. The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal.
  3. The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic.
  4. An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory.
  5. More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.
  6. A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an intention.
  7. A purposeful aim or goal; intent
  8. A vague or fanciful notion; a feeling or hunch; an impression.
  9. A musical theme or melodic subject.

ideal

noun
  1. A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.
  2. A subring closed under multiplication by its containing ring.
  3. (lattice theory) A non-empty lower set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary suprema (a.k.a. joins).
  4. A collection of sets, considered small or negligible, such that every subset of each member and the union of any two members are also members of the collection.
  5. (Lie theory) A Lie subalgebra (subspace that is closed under the Lie bracket) 𝖍 of a given Lie algebra 𝖌 such that the Lie bracket [𝖌,𝖍] is a subset of 𝖍.
adjective
  1. Optimal; being the best possibility.
  2. Perfect, flawless, having no defects.
  3. Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.
  4. Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary.
  5. Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism.
  6. Not actually present, but considered as present when limits at infinity are included.

idle

noun
  1. An idle animation.
  2. An idle game.
verb
  1. To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
  2. To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
  3. Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
adjective
  1. Empty, vacant.
  2. Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
  3. Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
  4. Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
  5. Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
  6. Light-headed; foolish.

idled

verb
  1. To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
  2. To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
  3. Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.

imam

No Definition Found.

ivied

No Definition Found.

laddie

noun
  1. A small boy.

laid

adjective
  1. (of paper) Marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed, from wires in the mould.
verb
  1. To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
  2. To cause to subside or abate.
  3. To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
  4. To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
  5. To produce and deposit an egg.
  6. To bet (that something is or is not the case).
  7. To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
  8. To have sex with.
  9. To take a position; to come or go.
  10. To state; to allege.
  11. To point; to aim.
  12. (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
  13. To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
  14. To place (new type) properly in the cases.
  15. To apply; to put.
  16. To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
  17. To impute; to charge; to allege.
  18. To present or offer.
verb
  1. To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).

levied

verb
  1. To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
  2. To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
  3. To draft someone into military service.
  4. To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
  5. To wage war.
  6. To raise, as a siege.
  7. To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.

lidded

No Definition Found.

lied

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An art song, sung in German and accompanied on the piano.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
  2. To convey a false image or impression.
  3. To be mistaken or unintentionally spread false information.

lima

No Definition Found.

lime

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any inorganic material containing calcium, usually calcium oxide (quicklime) or calcium hydroxide (slaked lime).
  2. Any gluey or adhesive substance; something which traps or captures someone; sometimes a synonym for birdlime.
verb
  1. To treat with calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide (lime).
  2. To smear with birdlime.
  3. To apply limewash.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A deciduous tree of the genus Tilia, especially Tilia × europaea; the linden tree, or its wood.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Any of several green citrus fruit, somewhat smaller and sharper-tasting than a lemon.
  2. Any of the trees that bear limes, especially Key lime, Citrus aurantiifolia.
  3. A brilliant, sometimes yellowish, green colour associated with the fruits of a lime tree.
  4. A fan fiction story which contains sexual references, but stops short of full, explicit descriptions of sexual activity (coined by analogy with lemon).
adjective
  1. Containing lime or lime juice.
  2. Having the aroma or flavor of lime.
  3. Lime-green.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To hang out/socialize in an informal, relaxed environment, especially with friends, for example at a party or on the beach.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. A leash.

limeade

noun
  1. A citrus drink made from water, sugar, and the juice of limes.
  2. A glass of this drink.
  3. A variety of this drink.

live

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To be alive; to have life.
  2. To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
  3. To survive; to persevere; to continue.
  4. To cope.
  5. To pass life in a specified manner.
  6. To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.
  7. To act habitually in conformity with; to practice; to exemplify in one's way of life.
  8. To outlast danger; to float (said of a ship, boat, etc).
  9. (followed by "on" or "upon") To maintain or support one's existence; to provide for oneself; to feed; to subsist.
  10. To make the most of life; to experience a full, rich life.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Life
adjective
  1. (only used attributively) Having life; that is alive.
  2. Being in existence; actual
  3. Having active properties; being energized.
  4. Operational; in actual use rather than in testing etc.
  5. Taken from a living animal.
  6. Imparting power; having motion.
  7. Still in active play.
  8. Seen or heard from a broadcast, as it happens.
  9. (of a performance or speech) In person.
  10. (entertainment, performing) Recorded in front of an audience and not having been edited after recording.
  11. Of firearms or explosives, capable of causing harm.
  12. (circuitry) Electrically charged or energized, usually indicating that the item may cause electrocution if touched.
  13. Being a bet which can be raised by the bettor, usually in reference to a blind or straddle.
  14. Featuring humans; not animated, in the phrases “live actors” or “live action”.
  15. Being in a state of ignition; burning.
  16. Full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing.
  17. Vivid; bright.
adverb
  1. Of an event, as it happens; in real time; direct.
  2. Of making a performance or speech, in person.

lived

verb
  1. To be alive; to have life.
  2. To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
  3. To survive; to persevere; to continue.
  4. To cope.
  5. To pass life in a specified manner.
  6. To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.
  7. To act habitually in conformity with; to practice; to exemplify in one's way of life.
  8. To outlast danger; to float (said of a ship, boat, etc).
  9. (followed by "on" or "upon") To maintain or support one's existence; to provide for oneself; to feed; to subsist.
  10. To make the most of life; to experience a full, rich life.
adjective
  1. (in combination) Having a specified duration of life.

livid

adjective
  1. Having a dark, bluish appearance.
  2. Pale, pallid.
  3. So angry that one turns pale; very angry; furious.

maid

noun
  1. A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
  2. A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
  3. A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender.

mail

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A bag or wallet.
  2. A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.
  3. The material conveyed by the postal service.
  4. A stagecoach, train or ship that delivers such post.
  5. The postal service or system in general.
  6. The letters, parcels, etc. delivered to a particular address or person.
  7. Electronic mail, e-mail: a computer network–based service for sending, storing, and forwarding electronic messages.
  8. A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
verb
  1. (ditransitive) To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail.
  2. (ditransitive) To send by electronic mail.
  3. To contact (a person) by electronic mail.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together.
  2. A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
  3. Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.
  4. A spot on a bird's feather; by extension, a spotted feather.
verb
  1. To arm with mail.
  2. To pinion.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. An old French coin worth half a denier.
  2. A monetary payment or tribute.
  3. Rent.
  4. Tax.

mailed

Etymology 1

verb
  1. (ditransitive) To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail.
  2. (ditransitive) To send by electronic mail.
  3. To contact (a person) by electronic mail.
verb
  1. To arm with mail.
  2. To pinion.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. (ditransitive) To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail.
  2. (ditransitive) To send by electronic mail.
  3. To contact (a person) by electronic mail.
verb
  1. To arm with mail.
  2. To pinion.
adjective
  1. Armoured in, protected by, or made of mail.
  2. Spotted.

maim

noun
  1. A serious wound
verb
  1. To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.

maimed

verb
  1. To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.

media

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
  2. A voiced stop consonant.
  3. One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus
  4. An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
  2. (usually with a definite article; often used as uncountable) The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
noun
  1. (plural media or mediums) The chemistry of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.
  2. (plural media or mediums) The materials or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass.
  3. (plural media or mediums) A format for communicating or presenting information.
  4. (plural media or mediums) The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.
  5. (plural media or mediums) A nutrient solution for the growth of cells in vitro.
  6. (plural media or mediums) The means, channel, or agency by which an aim is achieved.
  7. (plural mediums or media) A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.
  8. (plural mediums or media) A tool used for painting or drawing.
  9. (plural mediums) Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.
  10. (plural mediums) Anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes, such as a garment or container.
  11. (plural mediums) A person whom garments or apparel of intermediate size fit.
  12. (plural mediums) A half-pint serving of Guinness (or other stout in some regions).
  13. A middle place or degree.
  14. An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.
  15. The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection.

medial

noun
  1. Any of various things that occur in the middle.
adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to a mean or average.
  2. In or near the middle; not at either end.
  3. Pertaining to the inside; closer to the midline.
  4. Closer to the addressee.
  5. (of a consonant) Central: produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue.

medieval

noun
  1. Someone living in the Middle Ages.
  2. A medieval example (of something aforementioned or understood from context).
adjective
  1. Of or relating to the Middle Ages, the period from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
  2. Having characteristics associated with the Middle Ages in popular, modern cultural perception:

middle

noun
  1. A centre, midpoint.
  2. The part between the beginning and the end.
  3. The middle stump.
  4. The central part of a human body; the waist.
  5. (grammar) The middle voice.
verb
  1. To take a middle view of.
  2. To double (a rope) into two equal portions; to fold in the middle.
adjective
  1. Located in the middle; in between.
  2. Central.
  3. (grammar) Pertaining to the middle voice.

midi

noun
  1. A native or inhabitant of Berlin.
  2. A doughnut with a sweet filling.
  3. A newspaper format with pages normally measuring about 315 by 470 millimetres (12.4 in × 18.5 inches), slightly taller and wider than a tabloid but narrower and shorter than a broadsheet.
noun
  1. A coat or skirt having such a hemline.
adjective
  1. Having a hemline at mid-calf length.

mild

noun
  1. A relatively low-gravity beer, often with a dark colour; mild ale
adjective
  1. Gentle and not easily angered.
  2. (of a rule or punishment) Of only moderate severity; not strict.
  3. Not overly felt or seriously intended.
  4. (of an illness or pain) Not serious or dangerous.
  5. (of weather) Moderately warm, especially less cold than expected.
  6. (of a medicine or cosmetic) Acting gently and without causing harm.
  7. (of food, drink, or a drug) Not sharp or bitter; not strong in flavor.

mile

noun
  1. The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.
  2. Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values.
  3. Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
  4. The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
  5. Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese (里) or Arabic mile (al-mīl).
  6. (travel) An airline mile in a frequent flier program.
  7. Any similarly large distance.
  8. A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)
  9. One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.

mill

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
  2. The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
  3. A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process.
  4. A machine for grinding and polishing.
  5. The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
  6. A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
  7. A building housing such a plant.
  8. An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc.
  9. An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised
  10. An engine.
  11. A boxing match, fistfight.
  12. (die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
  13. An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
  14. A passage underground through which ore is shot.
  15. A milling cutter.
  16. A treadmill.
  17. A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
verb
  1. To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
  2. To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
  3. To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
  4. (followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
  5. To cause to mill, or circle around.
  6. (of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
  7. (of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
  8. To beat; to pound.
  9. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
  10. To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
  11. To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
  12. To undergo hulling.
  13. To take part in a fistfight; to box.
  14. To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
  15. (thieves' cant) To commit burglary.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
  2. One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to 1⁄6400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also 1⁄6000 and 1⁄6300 are used in other countries.
  2. A unit of measurement equal to 1⁄1000 of an inch, usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic.
  3. A former subdivision (1/1000) of the Maltese lira
  4. (plural "mil") Abbreviation of million.
noun
  1. A unit of measure of capacity, being one thousandth of a litre. Symbol: ml

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. (trading card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
  2. (trading card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
verb
  1. (trading card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
  2. (Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.

milled

verb
  1. To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
  2. To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
  3. To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
  4. (followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
  5. To cause to mill, or circle around.
  6. (of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
  7. (of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
  8. To beat; to pound.
  9. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
  10. To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
  11. To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
  12. To undergo hulling.
  13. To take part in a fistfight; to box.
  14. To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
  15. (thieves' cant) To commit burglary.
verb
  1. (trading card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
  2. (Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
adjective
  1. Ground by a mill.

mime

noun
  1. A form of acting without words; pantomime.
  2. A pantomime actor.
  3. A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce.
  4. A performer of such a farce.
  5. A person who mimics others in a comical manner.
  6. Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Chilasa or Papilio, that mimic other species in appearance.
verb
  1. To mimic.
  2. To act without words.
  3. To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound.

mimed

verb
  1. To mimic.
  2. To act without words.
  3. To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound.

valid

adjective
  1. Well grounded or justifiable, pertinent.
  2. Acceptable, proper or correct; in accordance with the rules.
  3. Related to the current topic, or presented within context, relevant.
  4. Of a formula or system: such that it evaluates to true regardless of the input values.
  5. Of an argument: whose conclusion is always true whenever its premises are true.
  6. Effective.

veil

noun
  1. Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material.
  2. A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
  3. The calyptra of mosses.
  4. A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; a velum.
  5. A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul (especially over the head)
  6. Velum (A circular membrane round the cap of medusa)
  7. A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.
  8. An obscuration of the clearness of the tones in pronunciation.
verb
  1. To dress in, or decorate with, a veil.
  2. To conceal as with a veil.

veiled

verb
  1. To dress in, or decorate with, a veil.
  2. To conceal as with a veil.
adjective
  1. Covered by a veil.
  2. Partly hidden or concealed.

vial

noun
  1. A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small tube-shaped bottle used to store medicine, perfume or other chemical.
verb
  1. To put or keep in, or as in, a vial.

vied

verb
  1. To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.
  2. To rival (something), etc.
  3. To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.
  4. To stake; to wager.
  5. To stake a sum of money upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See revie.

vile

adjective
  1. Morally low; base; despicable.
  2. Causing physical or mental repulsion; horrid.

villa

noun
  1. (plural "villas") A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
  2. (plural "villas") A family house, often semi-detached, in a middle class street.
  3. (plural "villae") A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.

vivid

noun
  1. A felt-tipped permanent marker.
adjective
  1. (of perception) Clear, detailed or powerful.
  2. (of an image) Bright, intense or colourful.
  3. Full of life, strikingly alive.