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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 252

Number of Answers: 73

Points Needed for Genius: 176

Genius requires between 29 and 64 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 74% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 68% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 252 was in the 84th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on November 8, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 73 possible answers rank it in the 99th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on November 3, 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 November 13, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 4.9.
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 186
  • loll 179
  • toot 170
  • naan 163
  • nana 163
  • lilt 130
  • till 130
  • tilt 130
  • tint 125
  • mama 120
  • mamma 120
  • nene 115
  • acacia 113
  • acai 113
  • onto 112
  • toon 112
  • anal 108
  • onion 107
  • anon 106
  • boob 106
  • booboo 106
  • olio 103
  • lull 101
  • lulu 101
  • papa 100
  • baba 99
  • dodo 99
  • mitt 99
  • poop 98
  • allay 97
  • ally 97
  • call 96
  • calla 96
  • ratatat 96
  • tact 96
  • tart 96
  • tartar 96
  • attar 95
  • cocci 95
  • tatty 95
  • mono 93
  • moon 93
  • tattoo 93
  • tutu 93
  • ammo 92
  • epee 92
  • momma 92
  • peep 92
  • loon 91
  • nanny 90


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 93,237 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,331 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*:

  • alamo
  • alma
  • alme
  • amatol
  • amole
  • atma
  • emmet
  • empale
  • lamella
  • lamellae
  • lamellate
  • lemmata
  • malate
  • maleate
  • mallee
  • malm
  • maltol
  • mamee
  • mammae
  • mammate
  • mammee
  • mammet
  • matelot
  • matelote
  • matt
  • meatal
  • mell
  • metate
  • metepa
  • metol
  • metopae
  • metope
  • mola
  • molal
  • molto
  • mome
  • mool
  • motmot
  • mott
  • motte
  • palmate
  • palmette
  • palmtop
  • pellmell
  • pelmet
  • pommee
  • pomo
  • tamal
  • tampala
  • telome
  • templet
  • toom

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

ammo

noun
  1. Ammunition.
verb
  1. To load up on ammunition.

ample

adjective
  1. Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; for example spacious, roomy or widely extended.
  2. Fully sufficient; abundant; plenty
  3. Not contracted or brief; not concise; extended; diffusive

atom

noun
  1. The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons.
  2. (history of science) A hypothetical particle posited by Greek philosophers as an ultimate and indivisible component of matter.
  3. The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something.
  4. In logical atomism, a fundamental fact that cannot be further broken down.
  5. The smallest medieval unit of time, equal to fifteen ninety-fourths of a second.
  6. A mote of dust in a sunbeam.
  7. A very small amount; a whit.
  8. (Lisp) An individual number or symbol, as opposed to a list; a scalar value.
  9. A non-zero member of a Boolean algebra that is not a union of any other elements. Or, a non-zero member of a Boolean lattice that has only zero below it.
  10. An element of a set that is not itself a set; an urelement.
  11. (usually capitalised as "Atom") A member of an age group division in hockey for ten- to 11-year-olds.

attempt

noun
  1. The action of trying at something.
  2. An assault or attack, especially an assassination attempt.
verb
  1. To try.
  2. To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.
  3. To try to win, subdue, or overcome.
  4. To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force.

emote

noun
  1. A virtual action, presented to other users as reported speech, rather than a direct message.
  2. (Twitch-speak) Short for emoticon.
verb
  1. To display emotions openly, especially while acting.
  2. To induce an emotion in.
  3. To perform a virtual action, presented to other users as reported speech, rather than sending a direct message.

lama

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A master of Tibetan Buddhism.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.

lame

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A stupid or undesirable person.
verb
  1. To cause (a person or animal) to become lame.
adjective
  1. Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
  2. Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect or temporary obstruction of a function.
  3. (by extension) Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
  4. Unconvincing or unbelievable.
  5. Failing to be cool, funny, interesting or relevant.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A lamina; a thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor.
  2. (in the plural) A set of joined overlapping metal plates.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To shine.

lamp

noun
  1. A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
  2. A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.
  3. A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.
verb
  1. To hit, clout, belt, wallop.
  2. To hunt at night using a lamp; see lamping.
  3. To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.

lemma

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.
  2. The canonical form of an inflected word; i.e., the form usually found as the headword in a dictionary, such as the nominative singular of a noun, the bare infinitive of a verb, etc.
  3. (psycholinguistics) The theoretical abstract conceptual form of a word, representing a specific meaning, before the creation of a specific phonological form as the sounds of a lexeme, which may find representation in a specific written form as a dictionary or lexicographic word.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The outer shell of a fruit or similar body.
  2. One of the specialized bracts around the floret in grasses.

llama

noun
  1. A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.

loam

noun
  1. A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
  2. A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making moulds for large castings, often without a pattern.
verb
  1. To cover, smear, or fill with loam.
adjective
  1. Made of loam; consisting of loam.

loom

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general.
  2. A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.
  3. The part of an oar which is between the grip or handle and the blade, the shaft.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Loon (bird of order Gaviiformes)

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A distorted appearance of something as seen indistinctly or from afar.
verb
  1. To appear indistinctly, eg. when seen on the horizon or through the murk.
  2. To appear in an exaggerated or threatening form; to be imminent.
  3. To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.

male

noun
  1. One of the male (masculine) sex or gender.
adjective
  1. Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
  2. Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.)
  3. Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.
  4. (grammar, less common than 'masculine') Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.
  5. Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a female counterpart, as in a connector, pipe fitting or laboratory glassware.

mall

noun
  1. A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
  2. An enclosed shopping centre.
  3. An alley where the game of pall mall was played.
  4. A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade.
  5. A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall.
  6. The game of polo.
  7. An old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall.
verb
  1. To beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise
  2. To build up with the development of shopping malls
  3. To shop at the mall

mallet

noun
  1. A type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head made of wood, rubber or similar non-iron material, used by woodworkers for driving a tool, such as a chisel. A kind of maul.
  2. A weapon resembling the tool, but typically much larger.
  3. A small hammer-like tool used for playing certain musical instruments.
  4. A light beetle with a long handle used in playing croquet.
  5. The stick used to strike the ball in the sport of polo.
verb
  1. To beat or strike with a mallet.

malt

noun
  1. Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
  2. Malt liquor, especially malt whisky.
  3. A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor.
  4. Maltose-rich sugar derived from malted grain.
verb
  1. To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain.
  2. To become malt.
  3. To drink malt liquor.

mama

noun
  1. (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

mamma

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae)
  2. An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

mammal

noun
  1. An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and feeding milk to its young.
  2. A vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw.

maple

noun
  1. A tree of the Acer genus, characterised by its usually palmate leaves and winged seeds.
  2. The wood of such a tree, prized for its hardness and attractive appearance

mate

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
  2. (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner.
  3. A friend, usually of the same sex.
  4. Friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male, of similar age
  5. In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's Mate, Sailmaker's Mate, etc).
  6. A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
  7. A first mate.
  8. A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.
  9. The other member of a matched pair of objects.
  10. A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
verb
  1. To match, fit together without space between.
  2. To copulate.
  3. To pair in order to raise offspring
  4. To arrange in matched pairs.
  5. To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
  6. (of an animal) To copulate with.
  7. To marry; to match (a person).
  8. To match oneself against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
  9. To fit (objects) together without space between.
  10. To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can carry it.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture.
  2. (by extension) Any losing situation with no escape; utter defeat.
verb
  1. To put the king of an opponent into checkmate.
  2. (by extension) To place in a losing situation that has no escape.
verb
  1. To confuse; to confound.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea
noun
  1. An evergreen tree, Ilex paraquariensis, native to South America, cultivated for its leaves.
  2. A beverage, resembling tea, made from the dried leaves of this plant.
  3. A cup of this drink.

matte

noun
  1. A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame.
  2. A background, often painted or created with computers
  3. (pyrometallurgy) The molten metal sulfide phases typically formed during smelting of copper, nickel, and other base metals.
adjective
  1. Dull; not reflective of light.

meal

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack).
  2. Food served or eaten as a repast.
  3. A time or an occasion.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour.
verb
  1. To yield or be plentiful in meal.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A speck or spot.
  2. A part; a fragment; a portion.
verb
  1. To defile or taint.

meat

noun
  1. The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food.
  2. A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
  3. Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink.
  4. A type of food, a dish.
  5. A meal.
  6. Meal; flour.
  7. Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
  8. A penis.
  9. The best or most substantial part of something.
  10. The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
  11. A meathead.
  12. (Australian Aboriginal) A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.

meet

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet).
  2. A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
  3. A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
  4. A meeting.
  5. The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
  6. An act of French kissing someone.
verb
  1. To make contact (with) while in proximity.
  2. (Of groups) To come together.
  3. To make physical or perceptual contact.
  4. To satisfy; to comply with.
  5. To balance or come out correct.
  6. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
  7. To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Suitable; right; proper.

melee

noun
  1. A battle fought at close range; hand-to-hand combat; brawling.
  2. A noisy, confused or tumultuous fight, argument or scrap.
  3. Any any confused, disorganised, disordered or chaotic situation.
  4. Lively contention or debate, skirmish.
  5. A cavalry exercise in which two groups of riders try to cut paper plumes off the helmets of their opponents, the contest continuing until no member of one group retains his plume.
  6. Small cut and polished gemstones sold in lots.
verb
  1. To physically hit in close quarters, as opposed to shooting, blowing up, or other ranged means of damage. Often refers to the usage of a hand-to-hand weapon.

melt

noun
  1. Molten material, the product of melting.
  2. The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
  3. The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
  4. A melt sandwich.
  5. A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
  6. An idiot.
verb
  1. To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
  2. To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
  3. To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
  4. To be discouraged.
  5. To be emotionally softened or touched.
  6. To be very hot and sweat profusely.

meme

noun
  1. Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.
  2. Something, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, including quizzes, basic pictures, video templates etc.
  3. A myth circulating as truth; something ineffective presented as effective, or similar.
verb
  1. To turn into a meme; to use a meme, especially to achieve something in real life.
  2. To create and use humorous memes.
  3. To joke around.

memo

noun
  1. A short note; a memorandum.
  2. A record of partial results that can be reused later without recomputation.
verb
  1. To record something; to make a note of something.
  2. To send someone a note about something, for the record.

meta

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Self-referential; structured analogously, but at a higher level.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Boundary marker.
  2. Either of the conical columns at each end of an Ancient Roman circus.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Metagame; the most effective tactics and strategies used in a competitive video game.
adjective
  1. Prominent in the metagame; effective and frequently used in competitive gameplay.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Metoidioplasty.

metal

noun
  1. (heading) Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from.
  2. A light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent and or.
  3. Molten glass that is to be blown or moulded to form objects.
  4. A category of rock music encompassing a number of genres (including thrash metal, death metal, heavy metal, etc.) characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars.
  5. The substance that constitutes something or someone; matter; hence, character or temper; mettle.
  6. The effective power or calibre of guns carried by a vessel of war.
  7. (in the plural) The rails of a railway.
  8. (travel) The actual airline operating a flight, rather than any of the codeshare operators.
verb
  1. To make a road using crushed rock, stones etc.
adjective
  1. Characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars.
  2. Having the emotional or social characteristics associated with metal music; brash, bold, frank, unyielding, etc.

mete

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To measure.
  2. (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere.

Etymology 3

adjective
  1. Suitable; right; proper.

mettle

noun
  1. A quality of endurance and courage.
  2. Good temperament and character.
  3. Metal; a metallic substance.

moat

noun
  1. A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.
  2. An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, either because of the nature of its products, services, franchise or other reason.
  3. A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it.
  4. A hill or mound.
verb
  1. To surround with a moat.

mole

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A pigmented spot on the skin, a naevus, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any of several small, burrowing insectivores of the family Talpidae.
  2. Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole rats.
  3. An internal spy, a person who involves himself or herself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within.
  4. A kind of self-propelled excavator used to form underground drains, or to clear underground pipelines
  5. A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through clay subsoil.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A moll, a bitch, a slut.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water.
  2. A haven or harbour, protected with such a breakwater.
  3. An Ancient Roman mausoleum.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.) as there are atoms in 0.012 kg of carbon-12. Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number.

Etymology 6

noun
  1. A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum.

Etymology 7

noun
  1. One of several spicy sauces typical of the cuisine of Mexico and neighboring Central America, especially the sauce which contains chocolate and which is used in cooking main dishes, not desserts.

moll

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A female companion of a gangster, especially a former or current prostitute.
  2. A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals.
  3. Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female.
  4. A girlfriend of a bikie.
  5. A girlfriend of a surfie; blends with pejorative sense.
  6. A female fan of extreme metal, grunge or hardcore punk, especially the girlfriend of a musician of those aforementioned genres.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Minor; in the minor mode

molt

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc.
  2. The skin or feathers cast off during the process of moulting.
verb
  1. To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one.
  2. To shed in such a manner.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
  2. To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
  3. To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
  4. To be discouraged.
  5. To be emotionally softened or touched.
  6. To be very hot and sweat profusely.

momma

noun
  1. Mother
  2. A voluptuous woman.
  3. One's wife or girlfriend.

moola

noun
  1. Money, cash.

moot

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A moot court.
  2. A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
  3. A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks.
  4. A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
  5. An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).
  6. A ring for gauging wooden pins.
adjective
  1. Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
  2. Being an exercise of thought; academic.
  3. Having no practical impact or relevance.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
  2. (rural) Talk.
verb
  1. To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
  2. To discuss or debate.
  3. To make or declare irrelevant.
  4. To argue or plead in a supposed case.
  5. To talk or speak.
  6. To say, utter, also insinuate.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Vagina.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
verb
  1. To take root and begin to grow.
  2. To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with the snout.

mope

noun
  1. A dull, spiritless person.
  2. (pornography industry) A bottom feeder who "mopes" around a pornography studio hoping for his big break and often does bit parts in exchange for room and board and meager pay.
verb
  1. To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk.
  2. To make spiritless and stupid.

moppet

noun
  1. A child. Often used lovingly or in an affectionate way.
  2. A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth.
  3. A long-haired pet dog.

mote

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A small particle; a speck.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. May or might.
  2. Must.
  3. Forming subjunctive expressions of wish: may.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A meeting for discussion.
  2. A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs.
  3. A place of meeting for discussion.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A tiny computer for remote sensing; a component element of smartdust.

motel

noun
  1. A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms the entrances of which are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to automobiles parked there.
  2. A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel.
verb
  1. To stay in a motel or motels.

motet

noun
  1. A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.

mottle

noun
  1. A distinguishing blotch of color.
  2. A mottled coloration or pattern.
verb
  1. To mark with blotches of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.

motto

noun
  1. A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement.
  2. A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim.
  3. A paper packet containing a sweetmeat, cracker, etc., together with a scrap of paper bearing a motto.

oatmeal

noun
  1. Meal made from rolled or round oats.
  2. A breakfast cereal made from rolled oats, cooked in milk and/or water.
  3. A light greyish brown colour, like that of oatmeal.
adjective
  1. Of a light greyish brown colour, like that of oatmeal

omelet

noun
  1. A dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with cheese, chives or other foodstuffs.
  2. A form of shellcode that searches the address space for multiple small blocks of data ("eggs") and recombines them into a larger block to be executed.

omelette

noun
  1. A dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with cheese, chives or other foodstuffs.
  2. A form of shellcode that searches the address space for multiple small blocks of data ("eggs") and recombines them into a larger block to be executed.

palm

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics.
  2. A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.
  3. (by extension) Triumph; victory.
  4. Any of 23 awards that can be earned after obtaining the Eagle Scout rank, but generally only before turning 18 years old.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The inner and somewhat concave part of the human hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers.
  2. The corresponding part of the forefoot of a lower mammal.
  3. A linear measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers; a hand; used in measuring a horse's height.
  4. (sailmaking) A metallic disk attached to a strap and worn in the palm of the hand; used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc.
  5. The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers.
  6. The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.
verb
  1. To hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand, e.g, for an act of sleight of hand or to steal something.
  2. To hold something without bending the fingers significantly.
  3. To move something with the palm of the hand.

palmetto

noun
  1. Any member of either of two closely related genera of New World palms, of the family Arecaceae:
  2. A hat made of palmetto leaves.
  3. A native or resident of the US state of South Carolina.

pampa

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poem

noun
  1. A literary piece written in verse.
  2. A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry.
  3. A piece of poetic writing, that is with an intensity or depth of expression or inspiration greater than is usual in prose.

pome

noun
  1. A type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels.
  2. A ball of silver or other metal, filled with hot water and used by a Roman Catholic priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.
verb
  1. To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.

pomelo

noun
  1. The large fruit of the Citrus maxima (syn. C. grandis), native to South Asia and Southeast Asia, with a thick green or yellow rind, a thick white pith, and semi-sweet translucent pale flesh.
  2. The tree which produces this fruit.
  3. The grapefruit.

pommel

noun
  1. The upper front brow of a saddle.
  2. A rounded knob or handle.
  3. The bat used in the game of knurr and spell or trap ball.
verb
  1. To pound or beat.

pomp

noun
  1. Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.
  2. A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.
verb
  1. To make a pompous display; to conduct.

pompom

noun
  1. A decorative ball made of pieces of soft fabric bound at the centre, most notably used in cheerleading.

tamale

noun
  1. Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks.

tame

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
  2. To become tame or domesticated.
  3. To make gentle or meek.
adjective
  1. Not or no longer wild; domesticated
  2. (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact
  3. Not exciting.
  4. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
  5. (of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.

tamp

verb
  1. (blasting) To plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock.
  2. To drive in or pack down by frequent gentle strokes
  3. To reduce the intensity of.

team

noun
  1. A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
  2. Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.
  3. A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.
  4. A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
verb
  1. To form a group, as for sports or work.
  2. (by extension) To go together well; to harmonize.
  3. To convey or haul with a team.
  4. To form together into a team.
  5. To give work to a gang under a subcontractor.

teammate

noun
  1. One who is on the same team.

teem

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To be stocked to overflowing.
  2. To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
  3. To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To empty.
  2. To pour (especially with rain)
  3. To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To think fit.

temp

noun
  1. Abbreviation of tempore.
noun
  1. A temporary employee, usually in an office.
  2. A temporary storage location.
verb
  1. To work as a temporary employee.
noun
  1. A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
  2. An elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnesses.
  3. A property of macroscopic amounts of matter that serves to gauge the average intensity of the random actual motions of the individually mobile particulate constituents. http//arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055
  4. The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
  5. The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.
adjective
  1. Not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time.
  2. Existing only for a short time or short times; transient, ephemeral.

template

noun
  1. A physical object whose shape is used as a guide to make other objects.
  2. A generic model or pattern from which other objects are based or derived.
  3. A macromolecule which provides a pattern for the synthesis of another molecule.
  4. A partially defined class or function, that can be instantiated in a variety of ways depending on the instantiation arguments.
verb
  1. To set up or mark off using a template.
  2. To provide a template or pattern for.

temple

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A house of worship, especially:
  2. A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.
  3. Any place regarded as holding a religious presence.
  4. Any place seen as an important centre for some activity.
  5. Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for.
  6. A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.
verb
  1. To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; to temple a god

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The slightly flatter region, on either side of the human head, behind of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch, and forward of the ear.
  2. Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.

tempo

noun
  1. A frequency or rate.
  2. A move which is part of one's own plan or strategy and forces, e.g. by means of a check or attacking a piece, the opponent to make a move which is not bad but of no use for him (the player gains a tempo, the opponent loses a tempo), or equivalently a player achieves the same result in fewer moves by one approach rather than another.
  3. The timing advantage of being on lead, thus being first to initiate a strategy to develop tricks for one's side.
  4. The timing of a particular event – earlier or later than in an alternative situation (as in chess example)
  5. The number of beats per minute in a piece of music; also, an indicative term denoting approximate rate of speed in written music (examples: allegro, andante)
  6. The steady pace set by the frontmost riders.
  7. A small truck or cargo van with three or four wheels, commonly used for commercial transport and deliveries (particularly in Asian and African countries): a genericized trademark, originally associated with the manufacturer Vidal & Sohn Tempo-Werke GmbH.
  8. A rapid rate of play by the offense resulting from reducing the amount of time which elapses after one play ends and the next starts.

tempt

verb
  1. To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
  2. To attract; to allure.
  3. To provoke something; to court.

tomato

noun
  1. A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
  2. The savory fruit of this plant, red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture and cooking.
  3. A shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.
  4. A desirable-looking woman.
  5. A stupid act or person.
verb
  1. To pelt with tomatoes
  2. To add tomatoes to (a dish)

tome

noun
  1. One in a series of volumes.
  2. A large or scholarly book.

totem

noun
  1. Any natural object or living creature that serves as an emblem of a tribe, clan or family.
  2. The representation of such object or creature.
  3. The clan whose kinship is defined in reference to such an object or creature.
  4. An arbitrarily chosen object serving as a reminder to check whether one is awake or not, to aid in having lucid dreams.