Thursday, October 17, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 3

Maximum Puzzle Score: 256

Number of Answers: 56

Points Needed for Genius: 179

Genius requires between 24 and 49 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 85% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 64% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 256 was in the 86th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on October 6, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 56 possible answers rank it in the 87th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on October 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 7-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on October 16, 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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Haven't I seen these words before?

The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 184
  • loll 176
  • toot 167
  • naan 162
  • nana 162
  • lilt 130
  • till 130
  • tilt 130
  • tint 123
  • mama 116
  • mamma 116
  • nene 111
  • acacia 110
  • acai 110
  • onto 110
  • toon 110
  • anal 107
  • onion 107
  • boob 106
  • booboo 106
  • anon 104
  • olio 103
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • baba 99
  • papa 99
  • poop 98
  • dodo 97
  • call 96
  • calla 96
  • mitt 96
  • allay 95
  • ally 95
  • cocci 95
  • ratatat 95
  • tart 95
  • tartar 95
  • tatty 95
  • attar 94
  • mono 92
  • moon 92
  • tact 92
  • epee 91
  • loon 91
  • peep 91
  • tattoo 91
  • tutu 91
  • nanny 90
  • array 89
  • nada 89


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 91,950 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,294 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*:

  • acceptee
  • apache
  • apatetic
  • apatite
  • aphetic
  • aphtha
  • aphthae
  • atap
  • capacitate
  • caph
  • capita
  • capitate
  • catheptic
  • cepe
  • chapatti
  • chape
  • chappati
  • chappie
  • chapt
  • chippie
  • echappe
  • epact
  • epha
  • ephah
  • epitaphic
  • epithetic
  • etape
  • happi
  • hepatica
  • hepaticae
  • icecap
  • paca
  • pacha
  • pappi
  • pataca
  • pattee
  • pattie
  • pech
  • pectate
  • pectic
  • petechia
  • petechiae
  • petti
  • phatic
  • phpht
  • pice
  • pieta
  • pipa
  • pitta
  • tapeta
  • tappet
  • tepa
  • tepache
  • tipcat

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

accept

verb
  1. To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
  2. To admit to a place or a group.
  3. To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
  4. To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
  5. To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
  6. To endure patiently.
  7. To agree to pay.
  8. To receive officially.
  9. To receive something willingly.
adjective
  1. Accepted.

apace

adverb
  1. Quickly, rapidly, with speed.

apathetic

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

apiece

adverb
  1. Each by itself; for or to each one

appetite

noun
  1. Desire to eat food or consume drink.
  2. Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.
  3. The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.

cape

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders.
  2. A superhero.
verb
  1. To incite or attract (a bull) to charge a certain direction, by waving a cape.
  2. To head or point; to keep a course.
  3. To skin an animal, particularly a deer.
  4. To defend or praise, especially that which is unworthy.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To look for, search after.
  2. To gaze or stare.

chap

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

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

Etymology 4

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

chapati

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

cheap

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

cheapie

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

cheep

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

chip

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

epee

noun
  1. A sharp-pointed dueling sword with a bell-shaped guard, used (with the end blunted) in sport fencing.

epic

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.
  2. A series of events considered appropriate to an epic.
  3. In software development, a large or extended user story.
adjective
  1. Of, or relating to, an epic.
  2. Momentously heroic; grand in scale or character
  3. Extending beyond the usual or ordinary.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. (of a morphism) That is an epimorphism.

epitaph

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

epithet

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

haptic

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

heap

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

hepatic

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

hepcat

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

hippie

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

ipecac

noun
  1. The plant ipecacuanha (Psychotria ipecacuanha) or its root.
  2. Syrup of ipecac, produced from this plant's root, used to induce emesis (vomiting).

pace

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Step.
  2. Way of stepping.
  3. Speed or velocity in general.
  4. A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing.
  5. (collective) A group of donkeys.
  6. Passage, route.
verb
  1. To walk back and forth in a small distance.
  2. To set the speed in a race.
  3. To measure by walking.
adjective
  1. Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.

Etymology 2

preposition
  1. With all due respect to.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Easter.

pact

noun
  1. An agreement; a compact; a covenant.
  2. An agreement between two or more nations
verb
  1. To form a pact; to agree formally.

papa

noun
  1. Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
  2. A pet name for one's grandfather.
  3. A parish priest in the Greek Orthodox Church.
  4. The letter P in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

patch

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

pate

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (somewhat obsolete) The head, particularly the top or crown.
  2. Wit, cleverness, cognitive abilities.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The interior body, or non-rind portion of cheese, described by its texture, density, and color.
noun
  1. A finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables, sometimes with the addition of alcohol.

path

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (abbreviation) Pathology.

pathetic

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

peace

noun
  1. A state of tranquility, quiet, and harmony; absence of violence. For instance, a state free from civil disturbance.
  2. A state free of oppressive and unpleasant thoughts and emotions.
  3. Harmony in personal relations.
  4. A state free of war, in particular war between different countries.
verb
  1. To make peace; to put at peace; to be at peace.
  2. To peace out.
interjection
  1. Shut up!, silence!; be quiet, be silent.
  2. Shortened form of peace out; goodbye.

peach

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

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

peat

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A pet, a darling; a woman.

peep

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird.
  2. A feeble utterance or complaint.
  3. The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically shrill.
  4. A kind of bird; a sandpiper.
verb
  1. To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird.
  2. To speak briefly with a quiet voice.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A quick look or glimpse, especially a furtive one.
  2. The first partial appearance of something; a beginning to appear.
verb
  1. To look, especially through a narrow opening, or while trying not to be seen or noticed.
  2. To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A spot on a die or domino.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Person.

pepita

noun
  1. An edible seed from a pumpkin or similar squash, which may - after being roasted (and, if needed, shelled) - be eaten as a snack or used as an ingredient in cooking.
  2. A gold nugget, or pepito.

peptic

noun
  1. An agent that promotes digestion.
  2. (in the plural) The digestive organs.
adjective
  1. Of, pertaining to, capable of, or aiding digestion.
  2. Of or pertaining to pepsin.

petit

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (usually in the plural) A little schoolboy.
  2. A kind of pigeon.
adjective
  1. (of size) Petite: small, little.
  2. Petty, in its various senses:

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The size of type between minion and bourgeois, standardized as 8-point.

petite

adjective
  1. (especially of a woman) fairly short and of slim build.
  2. (clothing) of small size.
  3. Small, little; insignificant; petty.

phat

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

pica

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A disorder characterized by craving and appetite for non-edible substances, such as ice, clay, chalk, dirt, or sand.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A size of type between small pica and English, standardized as 12-point.
  2. (usually with qualifier) A font of this size.
  3. A unit of length equivalent to 12 points, officially 35/83 cm (0.166 in) after 1886 but now 1/6 in.
  4. A pie or directory: the book directing Roman Catholic observance of saints' days and other feasts under various calendars.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Any of several small, furry mammals, similar to guinea pigs, but related to rabbits, of the family Ochotonidae, from the mountains of North America and Asia.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A magpie.

piccata

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piece

noun
  1. A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
  2. A single item belonging to a class of similar items
  3. One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished from a pawn; by extension, a similar counter etc. in other games.
  4. A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
  5. An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
  6. An article published in the press.
  7. An artillery gun.
  8. A gun.
  9. (short for hairpiece) A toupee or wig, especially when worn by a man.
  10. A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its own; a sandwich or light snack.
  11. A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail
  12. (mildly, short for piece of crap/piece of shit) A shoddy or worthless object (usually applied to consumer products like vehicles or appliances).
  13. A cannabis pipe.
  14. Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the opposing team or going foul. Usually used in the past tense with got.
  15. (sometimes derogatory) An individual; a person.
  16. A castle; a fortified building.
  17. A pacifier; a dummy.
  18. A distance.
  19. A structured practice row, often used for performance evaluation.
  20. An amount of work to be done at one time; a unit of piece work.
verb
  1. (usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).
  2. To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.
  3. To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.

pipe

noun
  1. Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
  2. Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
  3. Meanings relating to a container.
  4. Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
  5. Meanings relating to computing.
  6. Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
verb
  1. To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
  2. To shout loudly and at high pitch.
  3. To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
  4. Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
  5. To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
  6. To install or configure with pipes.
  7. To dab moisture away from.
  8. To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
  9. To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (pipe) at the command line.
  10. To create or decorate with piping (icing).
  11. To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
  12. (of a male) To have sexual intercourse with a female.
  13. To see.

pipet

noun
  1. A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid.
verb
  1. To transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipette.

pipette

noun
  1. A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid.
verb
  1. To transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipette.

pipit

noun
  1. Any of various small passerine birds, mainly from the genus Anthus, that are often drab, ground feeding insectivores of open country.

pita

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A fiber obtained from the Agave americana and related species, used for making cordage and paper.
  2. The plant which yields the fiber.

pitapat

noun
  1. A series of quick tapping sounds
verb
  1. To make a series of quick tapping sounds; to palpitate
adverb
  1. With a quick tapping sound

pitch

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

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

pith

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

tapa

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any appetizer or snack served in the evening as part of tapas.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Seasoned slices of dried or cured meat in Filipino cuisine.

tape

noun
  1. Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
  2. Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
  3. Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
  4. Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.
  5. (by extension) Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.
  6. An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.
  7. (from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
  8. The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick
  9. A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine.
verb
  1. To bind with adhesive tape.
  2. To record, particularly onto magnetic tape.
  3. (passive) To understand, figure out.

teepee

verb
  1. To toilet paper; to throw toilet paper in rolls over a structure, so the structure becomes draped with it.

tepee

noun
  1. Alternative form of teepee

tipi

noun
  1. Alternative form of teepee

tippet

noun
  1. A shoulder covering, typically the fur of a fox, with long ends that dangle in front.
  2. A stole worn by Anglican ministers or other clergymen.
  3. A length of twisted hair or gut in a fishing line.
  4. A handful of straw bound together at one end, used for thatching.
  5. In fly fishing, the part of the leader that attaches to the fly.
  6. A bird's ruffle.
  7. One of the patagia, or pieces at the side of the pronotum of a moth.

captcha

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