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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 152

Number of Answers: 47

Points Needed for Genius: 106

Genius requires between 17 and 42 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 77% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 152 was in the 43rd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this low was on September 10, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 47 possible answers rank it in the 71st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on September 11, 2024.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 8, 2019.
The lowest number of answers was 16 on March 27, 2023.

It takes a 6-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on September 9, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 4.8.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 179
  • loll 172
  • toot 164
  • naan 159
  • nana 159
  • lilt 128
  • till 128
  • tilt 128
  • tint 121
  • mama 114
  • mamma 114
  • acacia 110
  • acai 110
  • nene 109
  • onto 106
  • toon 106
  • anal 105
  • boob 104
  • booboo 104
  • onion 104
  • anon 102
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • olio 100
  • baba 99
  • papa 97
  • call 96
  • calla 96
  • mitt 96
  • poop 96
  • dodo 95
  • allay 94
  • ally 94
  • ratatat 94
  • tart 94
  • tartar 94
  • tatty 94
  • attar 93
  • cocci 93
  • tact 91
  • mono 90
  • moon 90
  • nanny 90
  • epee 89
  • loon 89
  • peep 89
  • radar 89
  • tattoo 89
  • tutu 89
  • array 87


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 90,414 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,237 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*:

  • abba
  • abmho
  • abohm
  • abolla
  • aboma
  • alba
  • albata
  • ambo
  • atabal
  • baal
  • baboo
  • babool
  • balata
  • balboa
  • batata
  • batt
  • bhoot
  • bobo
  • bota
  • bott
  • matambala
  • obol
  • talbot
  • tambala
  • tolbooth
  • tombal
  • tombola
  • tombolo

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

abbot

noun
  1. The superior or head of an abbey or monastery.
  2. The pastor and/or administrator of an order, including minor and major orders starting with the minor order of porter.
  3. A layman who received the abbey's revenues, after the closing of the monasteries.
  4. (British slang) A brothel-owner's husband or lover.
  5. (British slang) A ponce; a man employed by a prostitute to find clients, and who may also act as a bodyguard or equivalent to a bouncer.

abloom

adjective
  1. Blooming; covered in flowers.
  2. Having something growing or grown.
  3. Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; exhibiting youth-like beauty.
adverb
  1. In or into bloom; in a blooming state; having flower blooms unfolding.

baba

noun
  1. A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.
  2. (esp. among people of East European ancestry) A grandmother.
  3. An old woman, especially a traditional old woman from an eastern European culture.
  4. (esp. among people of Indian ancestry) A father.
  5. (Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism) A holy man, a spiritual leader.
  6. A baby, child.
  7. In baby talk, often used for a variety of words beginning with b, such as bottle or blanket.

baht

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The official currency of Thailand, equal to 100 satang.

Etymology 2

adverb
  1. Without (Yorkshire dialect, famously part of the song title On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at)

ball

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
  2. A round or ellipsoidal object.
  3. (mildly, usually in the plural) A testicle.
  4. A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.
  5. A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
verb
  1. To form or wind into a ball.
  2. To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
  3. To have sexual intercourse with.
  4. To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
  5. (usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.
  6. To play basketball.
  7. To punish by affixing a ball and chain
interjection
  1. An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player. This is heard almost any time an opposition player is tackled, without regard to whether the rules about "prior opportunity" to dispose of the ball are fulfilled.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A formal dance.
  2. A very enjoyable time.

ballot

noun
  1. Originally, a small ball placed in a container to cast a vote; now, by extension, a piece of paper or card used for this purpose, or some other means used to signify a vote.
  2. The process of voting, especially in secret; a round of voting.
  3. The total of all the votes cast in an election.
  4. A list of candidates running for office; a ticket.
verb
  1. To vote or decide by ballot.
  2. To draw lots.

balm

noun
  1. Any of various aromatic resins exuded from certain plants, especially trees of the genus Commiphora of Africa, Arabia and India and Myroxylon of South America.
  2. A plant or tree yielding such substance.
  3. Any soothing oil or lotion, especially an aromatic one.
  4. Something soothing.
  5. The lemon balm, Melissa officinalis
  6. Any of a number of other aromatic herbs with a similar citrus-like scent, such as bee balm and horse balm.
verb
  1. To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal.
  2. To soothe; to mitigate.

bamboo

noun
  1. A grass of the Poaceae family, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, all of which are in the Bambuseae tribe.
  2. The wood of the bamboo plant as a material or cane.
  3. A didgeridoo.
  4. A member of the British military or British East India Company who spent so much time in Indonesia, India, or Malaysia that they never went back home.
verb
  1. To flog with a bamboo cane.
  2. To paint (furniture, etc.) to give it the appearance of bamboo.
  3. To penetrate sexually.
adjective
  1. Made of the wood of the bamboo.

baobab

noun
  1. A tree, Adansonia digitata (and similar species), native to tropical Africa, having a broad swollen trunk and edible gourd-like hanging fruits.

bath

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
  2. A building or area where bathing occurs.
  3. The act of bathing.
  4. A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
verb
  1. To wash a person or animal in a bath
noun
  1. A room containing a shower and/or bathtub, and (typically but not necessarily) a toilet.
  2. A lavatory: a room containing a toilet and (typically but not necessarily) a bathtub.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons).

bathmat

noun
  1. A small mat used next to a bathtub to absorb water and thus prevent slipping.

blab

noun
  1. One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper.
  2. Gossip; prattle.
verb
  1. To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.

blah

noun
  1. Nonsense; drivel; idle, meaningless talk.
  2. (in plural, the blahs) A general or ambiguous feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction, uneasiness, boredom, mild depression, etc.
verb
  1. To utter idle, meaningless talk.
adjective
  1. Dull; uninteresting; insipid.
  2. Low in spirit or health; down.
interjection
  1. An expression of mild frustration.
  2. (When spoken repeatedly, often three times in succession: blah blah blah!) Imitative of idle, meaningless talk; used sometimes in a slightly derogatory manner to mock or downplay another's words, or to show disinterest in a diatribe, rant, instructions, unsolicited advice, parenting, etc. Also used when recalling and retelling another's words, as a substitute for the portions of the speech deemed irrelevant.
  3. Representing the sound of vomiting.

blam

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A sudden, explosive sound, such as is made by a gunshot
verb
  1. To shoot, to let gunfire pass.
  2. To shoot, to kill by gunshot.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Spam posted to a blog

blat

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat.
  2. To make a senseless noise.
  3. To talk inconsiderately.
  4. To produce an overrich or overblown sound on a brass instrument such as a trumpet, trombone, or tuba.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Connections; relationships; one's social or business network (in Russian or Soviet society).

bloat

noun
  1. Distention of the abdomen from death.
  2. Pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant.
  3. Wasteful use of space or other resources.
  4. A worthless, dissipated fellow.
verb
  1. To cause to become distended.
  2. (veterinary medicine) to get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
  3. To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
  4. To become distended; to swell up.
  5. To fill with vanity or conceit.
  6. To preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking.
adjective
  1. Bloated.

blob

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
  2. In astronomy, a large cloud of gas. In particular, an extended Lyman-Alpha blob is a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.
  3. A bubble; a bleb.
  4. A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.
  5. The partially inflated air bag used in the sport of blobbing.
  6. A score of zero.
verb
  1. To drop in the form of a blob or blobs
  2. To drop a blob or blobs onto, cover with blobs.
  3. To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.
  4. To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Acronym of binary large object. (a data type that allows storage of binary data often of indeterminate length).

bloom

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
  2. Flowers, collectively.
  3. The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
  4. A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
  5. Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.
  6. The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
  7. Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
  8. The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
  9. A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
  10. A bright-hued variety of some minerals.
  11. A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
  12. An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
  2. To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
  3. Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
  4. Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.
  5. (Cooking) To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.

blot

noun
  1. A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
  2. (by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
  3. A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier.
  4. An exposed piece in backgammon.
verb
  1. To cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
  2. To soak up or absorb liquid.
  3. To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
  4. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
  5. To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
  6. To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
  7. To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.
  8. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.

blotto

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A person who is (very) drunk or intoxicated.
  2. An artwork created using blots of ink or paint.
verb
  1. To become or cause to become (very) drunk or intoxicated.
  2. To be annihilated or destroyed; to be blotted out.
adjective
  1. (Very) drunk or intoxicated.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A reagent made from non-fat dry milk, phosphate buffered saline, and sodium azide, which is used to block protein binding sites for laboratory techniques such as blots and the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).

Etymology 3

noun
  1. On Sulawesi: a hollowed-out tree trunk used as a boat.

boat

noun
  1. A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.
  2. A full house.
  3. A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
  4. One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
  5. The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.
verb
  1. To travel by boat.
  2. To transport in a boat.
  3. To place in a boat.

boho

noun
  1. A bohemian.
  2. A style of female fashion drawing on various bohemian and hippie influences, popular in the mid-first decade of the 21st century.
adjective
  1. Bohemian.

bola

noun
  1. A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of a cord.

boll

noun
  1. The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
  2. An old dry measure equal to six bushels.
verb
  1. To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

bolo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A long, heavy, single-edged machete.
  2. A type of punch; an uppercut.
verb
  1. To attack or despatch with a bolo knife.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A soldier not capable of the minimum standards of marksmanship.
verb
  1. To fail to meet the minimum standards of marksmanship.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A string or leather necktie secured with an ornamental slide.
verb
  1. To dress (somebody) in a bolo.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A request for law enforcement officers to be on the lookout for a suspect.

bolt

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
  2. A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
  3. A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
  4. A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
  5. A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
  6. A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
  7. A sudden event, action or emotion.
  8. A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
  9. A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
  10. A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
  11. A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
  12. An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
  13. A burst of speed or efficiency.
verb
  1. To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
  2. To secure a door by locking or barring it.
  3. To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
  4. To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
  5. To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
  6. To escape.
  7. Of a plant, to grow quickly; to go to seed.
  8. To swallow food without chewing it.
  9. To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
  10. To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
  11. To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
adverb
  1. Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
verb
  1. To sift, especially through a cloth.
  2. To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
  3. To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
  4. To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.

bomb

noun
  1. An explosive device used or intended as a weapon.
  2. A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
  3. A large amount of money.
  4. (social) Something highly effective or attractive.
  5. A cyclone whose central pressure drops at an average rate of at least one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours.
  6. A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
  7. A great booming noise; a hollow sound.
  8. A woman’s breast.
  9. A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first down to the mat.
  10. A recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed.
  11. An act of jumping into water while keeping one's arms and legs tucked into the body, as in a squatting position, to maximize splashing.
verb
  1. To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
  2. To fail dismally.
  3. To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs.
  4. To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
  5. To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
  6. To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
  7. To make oneself drunk.
  8. (especially with along, down, up etc.) To move at high speed.
adjective
  1. Great, awesome.

boob

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Idiot, fool.
verb
  1. To behave stupidly; to act like a boob.
  2. To make a mistake
adjective
  1. Idiotic, foolish.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A breast, especially that of an adult or adolescent human female.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A prison; jail.

booboo

noun
  1. A mistake or error.
  2. (by or to young children) A minor injury, such as a cut or a bruise.
  3. (by or to young children) Feces.

boohoo

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To cry, weep.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The sailfish.

boom

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
  2. A rapid expansion or increase.
  3. One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
verb
  1. To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
  2. (of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
  3. To make something boom.
  4. To publicly praise.
  5. To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
interjection
  1. Used to suggest the sound of an explosion.
  2. Used to suggest something happening suddenly and unexpectedly.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
  2. A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera.
  3. A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
  4. The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones are transversally mounted.
  5. A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.
  6. A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
  7. The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
  8. A gymnastics apparatus similar to a balance beam.
verb
  1. To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
  2. (usually with "up" or "down") To raise or lower with a crane boom.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
verb
  1. To flourish, grow, or progress.
  2. To cause to advance rapidly in price.

boot

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
  2. A blow with the foot; a kick.
  3. A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.
  4. (usually preceded by definite article) A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
  5. A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
  6. A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup. A deicing boot.
  7. A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
  8. A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
  9. (police) A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.
  10. The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
  11. The act or process of removing or firing someone (give someone the boot).
  12. Unattractive person, ugly woman (usually as "old boot")
  13. A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended for use in a vehicle.
  14. A bobbled ball.
  15. The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
verb
  1. To kick.
  2. To put boots on, especially for riding.
  3. To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).
  4. To forcibly eject.
  5. To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
  6. To vomit.
  7. (criminal slang) To shoot, to kill by gunfire.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Remedy, amends.
  2. Profit, plunder.
  3. That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged; compensation; recompense.
  4. Profit; gain; advantage; use.
  5. Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings.
  6. A medicinal cure or remedy.
verb
  1. To avail, benefit, profit.
  2. To benefit, to enrich; to give in addition.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.
verb
  1. To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A bootleg recording.

booth

noun
  1. A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
  2. An enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person.
  3. An enclosed table with seats, as in a diner or café.
  4. An enclosure for keeping animals.

both

pronoun
  1. Each of the two, or of the two kinds.
conjunction
  1. Including both of (used with and).
  2. Including all of (used with and).

bottom

noun
  1. The lowest part of anything.
  2. Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
  3. Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
  4. The buttocks or anus.
  5. A cargo vessel, a ship.
  6. Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
  7. The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
  8. (BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
  9. A person with a preference for being penetrated during sexual intercourse.
  10. A bottom quark.
  11. The lowest part of a container.
  12. A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
  13. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
  14. An abyss.
  15. Power of endurance.
  16. Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
  17. (usually: bottoms or bottomland) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
verb
  1. To furnish (something) with a bottom.
  2. To wind (like a ball of thread etc.).
  3. To establish or found (something) on or upon.
  4. (chiefly in passive) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.
  5. To be based or grounded.
  6. To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.
  7. To reach the bottom of something.
  8. To fall to the lowest point.
  9. To be the more passive or receiving partner in a sexual act or relationship; to be submissive in a BDSM relationship; to be anally penetrated in gay sex.
adjective
  1. The lowest or last place or position.

haboob

noun
  1. A violent sandstorm or duststorm in the deserts of Arabia, North Africa, India, or North America.

hobo

noun
  1. A wandering homeless person, especially one illegally travelling by rail or a penniless, unemployed bum.
  2. Any migratory laborer, whether homeless or not.
  3. A kind of large handbag.
verb
  1. (perhaps pejorative) To be a hobo, tramp, bum etc.

lamb

noun
  1. A young sheep.
  2. The flesh of a lamb or sheep used as food.
  3. A person who is meek, docile and easily led.
  4. A simple, unsophisticated person.
  5. One who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized.
verb
  1. Of a sheep, to give birth.
  2. To assist (sheep) to give birth.

lobo

noun
  1. A wolf.

mamba

noun
  1. Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, native to Africa, that live in trees.

mambo

noun
  1. A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)
  2. A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.
verb
  1. To perform this dance.

mothball

noun
  1. (usually in plural) A small ball of chemical pesticide (typically naphthalene) and deodorant placed in or around clothing and other articles susceptible to damage from mold or moth larvae in order to protect them from this damage.
verb
  1. To store or shelve something no longer used.
  2. To stop using (something), but keep it in good condition.

tabla

noun
  1. A pair of tuned hand drums, used in various musical genres of the Indian subcontinent, that are similar to bongos.

taboo

noun
  1. An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.
  2. (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.
verb
  1. To mark as taboo.
  2. To ban.
  3. To avoid.
adjective
  1. Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.
  2. Culturally forbidden.

tollbooth

noun
  1. A booth on a toll road or toll bridge where the toll is collected.
noun
  1. (In this sense usually spelt tolbooth) The traditional municipal building of a Scottish town or burgh, usually including a meeting-hall, court, prison and (eponymically) a place for the receipt of taxes, duties and fines.

tomb

noun
  1. A small building (or "vault") for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
  2. A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave.
  3. One who keeps secrets.
verb
  1. To bury.

boba

noun
  1. Short for boba tea.
noun
  1. A small edible ball made primarily from tapioca starch; used in bubble tea.