Sunday, May 17, 2026

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 212

Number of Answers: 54

Points Needed for Genius: 148

Genius requires between 22 and 48 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 81% 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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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 212 was in the 68th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on May 16, 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 82nd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on May 16, 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 May 16, 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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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 239
  • loll 220
  • toot 214
  • nana 199
  • naan 199
  • nene 158
  • tilt 156
  • till 156
  • lilt 156
  • mamma 152
  • mama 152
  • tint 149
  • onion 145
  • toon 144
  • onto 144
  • acai 142
  • acacia 142
  • anon 134
  • anal 134
  • olio 131
  • tact 126
  • papa 126
  • baba 125
  • lulu 124
  • lull 124
  • dodo 124
  • poop 120
  • booboo 120
  • boob 120
  • mitt 119
  • moon 118
  • mono 118
  • cocci 118
  • calla 118
  • call 118
  • loon 117
  • tartar 116
  • tart 116
  • ratatat 116
  • tattoo 115
  • attar 115
  • tutu 113
  • ally 113
  • allay 113
  • momma 111
  • aria 111
  • ammo 111
  • tatty 110
  • meme 109
  • cancan 109


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 117,923 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,985 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*:

  • acold
  • alar
  • alcool
  • aldol
  • allod
  • artal
  • atlatl
  • calcar
  • calo
  • caracal
  • caracol
  • carl
  • catalo
  • cattalo
  • claro
  • cloacal
  • cloot
  • coala
  • coccal
  • collator
  • colorado
  • coralroot
  • craal
  • dotal
  • lall
  • loca
  • loral
  • lota
  • loto
  • lotta
  • olla
  • ratal
  • rotl
  • tala
  • talar
  • tallol
  • tola
  • tolar
  • tolt

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

allocator

No Definition Found.

allot

verb
  1. To distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot.
  2. To assign or designate as a task or for a purpose.

altar

noun
  1. A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.
  2. A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary.
  3. Anything that is worshipped or sacrificed to.

alto

noun
  1. A musical part or section higher than tenor and lower than soprano, formerly the part that performed a countermelody above the tenor or main melody.
  2. A person or musical instrument that performs the alto part.
  3. An alto saxophone

aortal

No Definition Found.

atoll

noun
  1. A type of island consisting of a ribbon reef that nearly or entirely surrounds a lagoon and supports, in most cases, one to many islets on the reef platform. Atolls have a unique geology, so not all islands with a reef and a lagoon are atolls

call

noun
  1. A telephone conversation.
  2. A short visit, usually for social purposes.
  3. A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
  4. A cry or shout.
  5. A decision or judgement.
  6. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
  7. A beckoning or summoning.
  8. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
  9. An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
  10. The act of calling to the other batsman.
  11. The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
  12. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
  13. The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
  14. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
  15. The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
  16. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
  17. A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
  18. A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
  19. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
  20. Vocation; employment; calling.
  21. A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
  22. (prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
verb
  1. (heading) To use one's voice.
  2. (heading) To visit.
  3. (heading) To name, identify or describe.
  4. (heading) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
  5. (sometimes with for) To require, demand.
  6. To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
  7. To demand repayment of a loan.
  8. To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.

calla

noun
  1. A marsh plant native to cooler areas throughout the northern hemisphere, Calla palustris, having pale green flowers in a white spathe.
  2. The calla lily, Zantedeschia aethiopica.

callaloo

noun
  1. Any of various tropical plants grown in the Americas, especially of the genus Xanthosoma, cultivated for their edible leaves.
  2. A spicy soup or stew made from such leaves.

carload

noun
  1. The contents of an automobile (passengers, supplies, etc.) for one trip.
  2. The quantity of goods that can be carried in a freight car.

carol

noun
  1. A small closet or enclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study.
  2. Hence, a partially partitioned space for studying or reading, often in a library.

cartload

noun
  1. The amount that a cart can carry.
  2. (by extension) Any large amount.
  3. (specifically) A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.

catcall

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A shout or whistle expressing dislike, especially from a crowd or audience; a jeer, a boo.
  2. A shout, whistle, or comment of a sexual nature, usually made toward a passing woman.
  3. A whistle blown by a theatre-goer to express disapproval.
verb
  1. To make such an exclamation.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. In the Eiffel programming language, a run-time error caused by use of the wrong data type.

clad

verb
  1. (past tense clad) To clothe.
  2. (past tense clad or cladded) To cover (with insulation or another material); to surround, envelop.
  3. (figuratively) To imbue (with a specified quality)
adjective
  1. (in compounds) Wearing clothing of a specified type.
  2. (in compounds) Covered, enveloped in or surrounded by a specified material or substance.
verb
  1. To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.
  2. To cover or invest, as if with a garment.

cloaca

noun
  1. (sometimes figurative) A sewer.
  2. The duct in reptiles, amphibians and birds, as well as most fish and some mammals, which serves as the common outlet for urination, defecation, and reproduction.
  3. An outhouse or lavatory.
  4. A duct through which gangrenous material escapes a body.

clod

noun
  1. A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
  2. The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
  3. A stupid person; a dolt.
  4. Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.
verb
  1. To pelt with clods.
  2. To throw violently; to hurl.
  3. To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.

clot

noun
  1. A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.
  2. A solidified mass of any liquid.
  3. A silly person.
verb
  1. To form a clot or mass.
  2. To cause to clot or form into a mass.

coal

noun
  1. A black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
  2. A piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English)
  3. A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof.
  4. A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.
  5. Charcoal.
verb
  1. To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships).
  2. To supply with coal.
  3. To be converted to charcoal.
  4. To burn to charcoal; to char.
  5. To mark or delineate with charcoal.

cola

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.
  2. A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The punctuation mark ":".
  2. The triangular colon (especially in context of not being able to type the actual triangular colon).
  3. A rhetorical figure consisting of a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete.
  4. A clause or group of clauses written as a line, or taken as a standard of measure in ancient manuscripts or texts.
noun
  1. Part of the large intestine; the final segment of the digestive system, after (distal to) the ileum and before (proximal to) the anus.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A cluster of buds on a cannabis plant.

cold

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
  2. (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
  3. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
  4. Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.
  5. Dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial.
  6. Completely unprepared; without introduction.
  7. Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
  8. (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart.
  9. (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered, done for.
  10. Not pungent or acrid.
  11. Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
  12. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
  13. Not sensitive; not acute.
  14. Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
  15. Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
  16. Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
  17. Without compassion; heartless; ruthless

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A condition of low temperature.
  2. (with 'the') A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
  3. A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
  4. Rheum, sleepy dust

Etymology 3

adverb
  1. While at low temperature.
  2. Without preparation.
  3. With finality.
  4. In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.

collar

noun
  1. Anything that encircles the neck.
  2. A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
  3. Any encircling device or structure.
  4. (in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
  5. The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.
  6. A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
  7. An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.
  8. An arrest.
  9. A trading strategy using options such that there is both an upper limit on profit and a lower limit on loss, constructed through taking equal but opposite positions in a put and a call with different strike prices.
verb
  1. To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
  2. To place a collar on, to fit with one.
  3. To seize, capture or detain.
  4. To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
  5. (law enforcement) To arrest.
  6. To bind in conversation.
  7. To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
  8. (BDSM) To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.

collard

noun
  1. A Mediterranean variety of kale, Brassica oleracea var. acephala.

color

noun
  1. The spectral composition of visible light
  2. A subset thereof:
  3. A paint.
  4. Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
  5. Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
  6. A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
  7. Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
  8. A standard, flag, or insignia:
  9. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
  10. (in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
  11. A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons.
  12. A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
  13. The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color.)
  14. Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
  15. A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
  16. An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
verb
  1. To give something color.
  2. To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
  3. (of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow.
  4. To affect without completely changing.
  5. To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
  6. To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.
adjective
  1. Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.

colt

noun
  1. A young male horse.
  2. A young crane (bird).
  3. A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
  4. A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
  5. A young camel or donkey.
verb
  1. To horse; to get with young.
  2. To befool.
  3. To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.

cool

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
  2. A calm temperament.
  3. The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.
adjective
  1. Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
  2. Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
  3. Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
  4. Of a person, not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
  5. Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.
  6. Calmly audacious.
  7. Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
  8. Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.
  9. In fashion, part of or fitting the in crowd; originally hipster slang.
  10. Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.
  11. Of a person, not upset by circumstances that might ordinarily be upsetting.
  12. Quietly impudent, defiant, or selfish; deliberately presuming: said of persons and acts.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To lose heat, to get colder.
  2. To make cooler, less warm.
  3. To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
  4. To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
  5. To kill.

coral

noun
  1. A hard substance made of the limestone skeletons of marine polyps.
  2. A colony of marine polyps.
  3. A somewhat yellowish pink colour, the colour of red coral.
  4. The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their colour.
  5. A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
adjective
  1. Made of coral.
  2. Having the yellowish pink colour of coral.

corolla

noun
  1. An outermost-but-one whorl of a flower, composed of petals, when it is not the same in appearance as the outermost whorl (the calyx); it usually comprises the petal, which may be fused.

corral

noun
  1. An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.
  2. An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group.
  3. A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense.
verb
  1. To capture or round up.
  2. To place inside of a corral.
  3. To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral.

doctoral

adjective
  1. Relating to a doctorate.
  2. Pertaining to a medical doctor or physician.

doll

noun
  1. A toy in the form of a human.
  2. (sometimes offensive) An attractive young woman
  3. A term of endearment: darling, sweetheart.
  4. A dollar.
  5. (now possibly offensive) A good-natured, cooperative or helpful girl.
  6. The smallest or pet pig in a litter.

dollar

noun
  1. Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.
  2. (by extension) Money generally.
  3. A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.
  4. Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)

dolor

noun
  1. Sorrow, grief, misery or anguish.
  2. A unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes.

dolt

noun
  1. A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.
verb
  1. To behave foolishly.

droll

noun
  1. A funny person; a buffoon, a wag.
verb
  1. To jest, to joke.
adjective
  1. Oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish.

drool

noun
  1. Saliva trickling from the mouth.
  2. Stupid talk.
verb
  1. To secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food.
  2. To secrete any substance in a similar way.
  3. To react to something with uncontrollable desire.
  4. To talk nonsense; drivel.

lard

noun
  1. Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
  2. Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
verb
  1. To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.
  2. To smear with fat or lard.
  3. To garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing.
  4. To fatten; to enrich.
  5. To grow fat.
  6. To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.

load

noun
  1. A burden; a weight to be carried.
  2. A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
  3. A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
  4. A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
  5. (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
  6. (often in the plural) A large number or amount.
  7. The volume of work required to be performed.
  8. The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
  9. The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
  10. A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
  11. Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
  12. A unit of measure for various quantities.
  13. The viral load
  14. A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
  15. The charge of powder for a firearm.
  16. Weight or violence of blows.
  17. The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
  18. Nonsense; rubbish.
  19. The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
verb
  1. To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
  2. To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
  3. To put a load on something.
  4. To receive a load.
  5. To be placed into storage or conveyance.
  6. To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
  7. To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
  8. To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
  9. To be put into use in an apparatus.
  10. To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
  11. To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
  12. To put runners on first, second and third bases
  13. To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
  14. To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
  15. To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
  16. To provide in abundance.
  17. To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
  18. To adulterate or drug.
  19. To magnetize.

local

noun
  1. A person who lives near a given place.
  2. A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
  3. A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
  4. One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
  5. A locally scoped identifier.
  6. An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
adjective
  1. From or in a nearby location.
  2. (of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
  3. (of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
  4. Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
  5. Descended from an indigenous population.
adverb
  1. In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.
noun
  1. An anesthetic (anesthetic substance) that causes loss of sensation only to the area to which it is applied.

locator

noun
  1. One who, or that which, locates.
  2. One who locates, or is entitled to locate, land or a mining claim.
  3. (travel industry) The unique alphanumeric reference given to each travel booking.

loco

Etymology 1

adverb
  1. A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A certain species of Astragalus or Oxytropis, capable of causing locoism.
verb
  1. To poison with the loco plant; to affect with locoism.
  2. (by extension) To render insane.
adjective
  1. Crazy.
  2. Intoxicated by eating locoweed.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A locomotive.

loll

verb
  1. To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.
  2. To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion.
  3. To let (the tongue) hang from the mouth in this way.

loot

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A kind of scoop or ladle, chiefly used to remove the scum from brine-pans in saltworks.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The act of plundering.
  2. Plunder, booty, especially from a ransacked city.
  3. Any prize or profit received for free, especially Christmas presents
  4. Items dropped by defeated enemies.
verb
  1. To steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence.
  2. To steal from.
  3. To examine the corpse of a fallen enemy for loot.

lord

noun
  1. The master of the servants of a household; the master of a feudal manor
  2. One possessing similar mastery over others; any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler; in Scotland, a male member of the lowest rank of nobility (the equivalent rank in England is baron)
  3. One possessing similar mastery in figurative senses (esp. as lord of ~)
  4. The heavenly body considered to possess a dominant influence over an event, time, etc.
  5. A hunchback.
  6. (via Cockney rhyming slang) Sixpence.
verb
  1. Domineer or act like a lord.
  2. To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord; to grant the title of lord.

lotto

noun
  1. A game of chance similar to bingo
  2. A lottery

octal

noun
  1. The number system that uses the eight digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
  2. A digit or value in the octal number system.
adjective
  1. Concerning numbers expressed in octal or mathematical calculations performed using octal.

oral

noun
  1. A spoken test or examination, particularly in a language class.
  2. A physical examination of the mouth.
  3. Oral sex.
adjective
  1. Relating to the mouth.
  2. Spoken rather than written.

roll

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
  2. A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
  3. Something which rolls.
  4. A swagger or rolling gait.
  5. A heavy, reverberatory sound.
  6. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
  7. The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.
  8. The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis.
  9. The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
  10. The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
  11. A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
  12. A training match for a fighting dog.
  13. (paddlesport) An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
  14. (paddlesport) The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized.
verb
  1. To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.
  2. To turn over and over.
  3. To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
  4. To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
  5. To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
  6. To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
  7. To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
  8. To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
  9. To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
  10. To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
  11. To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
  12. To leave or begin a journey.
  13. To compete, especially with vigor.
  14. To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
  15. To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
  16. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
  17. To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
  18. To throw dice.
  19. To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
  20. To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.
  21. To generate a random number.
  22. (of a vessel) To rotate on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare with pitch.
  23. (in folk songs) To travel by sailing.
  24. To beat up; to attack and cause physical damage to.
  25. To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
  26. To betray secrets.
  27. To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
  28. (of a camera) To (cause to) film.
  29. To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
  30. To have a rolling aspect.
  31. To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
  32. To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
  33. To move and cause an effect on someone
  34. To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
  35. To utter with an alveolar trill.
  36. To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
  37. To create a customized version of.
  38. To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. That which is rolled up.
  2. A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
  3. An official or public document; a register; a record
  4. A catalogue or list
  5. A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
  6. A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
  7. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
  8. Part; office; duty; rôle.
  9. A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
  10. (paddlesport) An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.

talc

noun
  1. Originally a large range of transparent or glistening foliated minerals. Examples include mica, selenite and the hydrated magnesium silicate that the term talc generally has referred to in modern times (see below). Also an item made of such a mineral and depending for its function on the special nature of the mineral (see next). Mediaeval writers adopted the term from the Arabic.
  2. A microscope slide made of a plate of mica, generally in use from the start of modern microscopy until the early nineteenth century, after which glass slides became the standard medium.
  3. A soft mineral, composed of hydrated magnesium silicate, that has a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, and usually occurs in foliated masses.
  4. Talcum powder.
verb
  1. To apply talc to.

tall

noun
  1. (possibly nonstandard) Someone or something that is tall.
adjective
  1. (of a person) Having a vertical extent greater than the average. For example, somebody with a height of over 6 feet would generally be considered to be tall.
  2. (of a building, etc.) Having its top a long way up; having a great vertical (and often greater than horizontal) extent; high.
  3. (of a story) Hard to believe, such as a tall story or a tall tale.
  4. (of a cup of coffee) A cup of coffee smaller than grande, usually 8 ounces.
  5. Obsequious; obedient.
  6. Seemly; suitable; fitting, becoming, comely; attractive, handsome.
  7. Bold; brave; courageous; valiant.
  8. Fine; proper; admirable; great; excellent.

told

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

toll

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
  2. A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.
  3. A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
  4. A tollbooth.
  5. A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
  6. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
verb
  1. To impose a fee for the use of.
  2. To levy a toll on (someone or something).
  3. To take as a toll.
  4. To pay a toll or tallage.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The act or sound of tolling
verb
  1. To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
  2. To summon by ringing a bell.
  3. To announce by tolling.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To draw; pull; tug; drag.
  2. To tear in pieces.
  3. To draw; entice; invite; allure.
  4. To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To take away; to vacate; to annul.
  2. To suspend.

tool

noun
  1. A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
  2. Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.
  3. Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
  4. A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
  5. A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
  6. Penis.
  7. (by extension) An obnoxious or uptight person.
verb
  1. To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
  2. To equip with tools.
  3. To work very hard.
  4. To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.
  5. To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
  6. To drive (a coach or other vehicle).
  7. To carry or convey in a coach or other vehicle.
  8. To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.

total

noun
  1. An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.
  2. Sum.
verb
  1. To add up; to calculate the sum of.
  2. To equal a total of; to amount to.
  3. To demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss)
  4. To amount to; to add up to.
adjective
  1. Entire; relating to the whole of something.
  2. (used as an intensifier) Complete; absolute.

troll

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A supernatural being of varying size, now especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges.
  2. An ugly person of either sex, especially one seeking sexual experiences.
  3. Optical ejections from the top of the electrically active core regions of thunderstorms that are red in color that seem to occur after tendrils of vigorous sprites extend downward toward the cloud tops.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An instance of trolling, especially, in fishing, the trailing of a baited line.
  2. A person who provokes others (chiefly on the Internet) for their own personal amusement or to cause disruption.
verb
  1. To saunter.
  2. To trundle, to roll from side to side.
  3. To draw someone or something out, to entice, to lure as if with trailing bait.
  4. (by extension) To fish using a line and bait or lures trailed behind a boat similarly to trawling; to lure fish with bait.
  5. To angle for with a trolling line, or with a hook drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.
  6. To fish in; to try to catch fish from.
  7. To stroll about in order to find a sexual partner.
  8. (to post inflammatory material so as) to attempt to lure others into combative argument for purposes of personal entertainment and/or gratuitous disruption, especially in an online community or discussion
  9. (by extension) To incite anger (including outside of an Internet context); to provoke, harass or annoy.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The act of moving round; routine; repetition.
  2. A song whose parts are sung in succession; a catch; a round.
  3. A trolley.
verb
  1. To move circularly; to roll; to turn.
  2. To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking.
  3. To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly, freely or in a carefree way.