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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 253

Number of Answers: 57

Points Needed for Genius: 177

Genius requires between 25 and 50 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 80% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, 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 253 was in the 85th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on September 27, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 57 possible answers rank it in the 88th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on September 27, 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 7-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on September 27, 2024.

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



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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 181
  • loll 173
  • toot 164
  • naan 162
  • nana 162
  • lilt 130
  • till 130
  • tilt 130
  • tint 122
  • mama 114
  • mamma 114
  • acacia 110
  • acai 110
  • nene 110
  • anal 107
  • onto 107
  • toon 107
  • boob 105
  • booboo 105
  • onion 105
  • anon 103
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • olio 101
  • baba 99
  • papa 97
  • poop 97
  • call 96
  • calla 96
  • dodo 96
  • mitt 96
  • allay 95
  • ally 95
  • ratatat 95
  • tart 95
  • tartar 95
  • tatty 95
  • attar 94
  • cocci 94
  • tact 92
  • mono 91
  • moon 91
  • nanny 90
  • tattoo 90
  • tutu 90
  • epee 89
  • loon 89
  • nada 89
  • peep 89
  • radar 89


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 91,271 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,266 unique words.
Below are the distributions of the lengths of these words.



Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

You may be wondering why these words aren't here*:

  • aitch
  • amah
  • cachaca
  • cachectic
  • cathect
  • cathectic
  • chacma
  • chaeta
  • chaetae
  • cham
  • chem
  • chemic
  • chetah
  • cheth
  • eath
  • eche
  • echt
  • haem
  • haematic
  • haematite
  • haemic
  • haet
  • haha
  • hame
  • hammam
  • hematic
  • hematitic
  • hemic
  • heth
  • himatia
  • hmmm
  • macchia
  • macchie
  • mach
  • machaca
  • mache
  • maihem
  • mech
  • metathetic
  • miche
  • tacamahac
  • tache
  • tathata
  • teth
  • thae
  • theca
  • thecae
  • thecate
  • thema
  • thetic
  • titch
  • titchie

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

ache

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Parsley

Etymology 3

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

ahem

noun
  1. A use of the interjection, ahem.
interjection
  1. The sound of a quiet cough or of clearing one's throat
  2. An exclamation or cough to get attention
  3. An exclamation of disapproval or annoyance
  4. An exclamation to indicate sarcasm

attach

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

attache

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

cache

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

cachet

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

catch

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

chai

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A female gypsy.

Etymology 2

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

chat

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

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

Etymology 4

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

Etymology 5

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

cheat

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

cheetah

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

chia

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

chic

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

chica

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

chichi

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Affectedly trendy; chic and stylish

Etymology 2

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

chime

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.
  2. An individual ringing component of such a set.
  3. A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
  4. The sound of such an instrument or device.
  5. A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.
verb
  1. To make the sound of a chime.
  2. To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
  3. To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
  4. To agree; to correspond.
  5. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The top of a ridge.
  2. The spine of an animal.
  3. A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
  4. A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
  5. A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
  6. The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
  7. The back of the blade on a scythe.

chit

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

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

Etymology 4

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

Etymology 5

noun
  1. Shit.
interjection
  1. Shit.

chitchat

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

each

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

etch

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

ethic

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

hamate

noun
  1. The hamate bone.
adjective
  1. Hooked at the end.

hatch

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

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

hatchet

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

hate

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

hath

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

heat

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

heath

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

hectic

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

hematite

noun
  1. An iron ore, mainly peroxide of iron, Fe2O3.

heme

noun
  1. The component of hemoglobin (and other hemoproteins) responsible for binding oxygen. It consists of an iron ion that binds oxygen and a porphyrin ring that binds the globin molecules; one molecule binds one molecule of oxygen.

hitch

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

itch

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

machete

noun
  1. A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or as a weapon. The blade is usually 50 to 65 centimeters long, and up to three millimeters thick.
verb
  1. To cut or chop with a machete.
  2. To hack or chop crudely with a blade other than a machete.

mahatma

noun
  1. An epithet granted in India and Tibet to people thought to have great knowledge and love of humanity
  2. Such a person.

mahimahi

noun
  1. A large food and game fish of the family Coryphaenidae which is commonly found in tropical and subtropical waters.

match

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
  2. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
  3. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
  4. A marriage.
  5. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
  6. Suitability.
  7. Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
  8. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
  9. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
  10. An agreement or compact.
  11. A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly embedded when a mould is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mould.
verb
  1. To agree; to be equal; to correspond.
  2. To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.
  3. To make a successful match or pairing.
  4. To equal or exceed in achievement.
  5. To unite in marriage, to mate.
  6. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.

math

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A mowing; what is gathered from mowing.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Arithmetic calculations; (see do the math).
  2. A math course.
verb
  1. To do mathematical calculations
noun
  1. An abstract representational system used in the study of numbers, shapes, structure, change and the relationships between these concepts.
  2. A person's ability to count, calculate, and use different systems of mathematics at differing levels.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A monastic or similar religious establishment in Hinduism and Jainism, usually more formal and hierarchical than an ashram.

mathematic

adjective
  1. Mathematical

meth

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Methamphetamine, especially in the form of the crystalline hydrochloride.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Methadone.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (Mancunian) A tramp.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A spiced mead, originally from Wales.

tach

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Tachometer

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (costers) A hat.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Tachycardia.

teach

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

tech

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

techie

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

teeth

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

teethe

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

that

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

thatch

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

thee

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To thrive; prosper.

Etymology 3

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

them

pronoun
  1. (plural) Those ones.
  2. (singular) Him, her, or it; that one.

thematic

noun
  1. A postage stamp that is part of a thematic collection.
adjective
  1. Relating to, or having a theme or a topic.
  2. Relating to a melodic subject.
  3. Of a word stem, ending in a vowel that appears in or otherwise influences the noun or verb's inflection.
  4. (history) Of or relating to a theme.

theme

noun
  1. A subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
  2. A recurring idea; a motif.
  3. An essay written for school.
  4. The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
  5. A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.
  6. The collection of color schemes, sounds, artwork etc., that "skin" an environment towards a particular motif.
  7. (grammar) The stem of a word.
  8. Thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.
  9. Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
  10. Topic, what is generally being talked about, as opposed to rheme.
  11. A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.
verb
  1. To give a theme to.
  2. To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software).

theta

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

tithe

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

matcha

noun
  1. A type of powdered green tea, traditionally used in Japanese tea ceremonies.

hatha

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hamachi

noun
  1. Japanese amberjack, Pacific yellowtail (Seriola quinqueradiata)