Wednesday, January 22, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 344

Number of Answers: 64

Points Needed for Genius: 241

Genius requires between 30 and 55 words. You need at least an 8-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 69% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 344 was in the 98th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on January 12, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 64 possible answers rank it in the 95th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on January 12, 2025.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 8, 2019.
The lowest number of answers was 16 on March 27, 2023.

It takes an 8-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on January 21, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 6.2.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 190
  • loll 182
  • toot 178
  • naan 167
  • nana 167
  • lilt 133
  • till 133
  • tilt 133
  • tint 131
  • mama 123
  • mamma 123
  • nene 123
  • acacia 116
  • acai 116
  • onto 116
  • toon 116
  • anal 111
  • onion 110
  • boob 108
  • booboo 108
  • anon 107
  • baba 104
  • olio 104
  • papa 103
  • lull 102
  • lulu 102
  • tact 102
  • dodo 101
  • mitt 101
  • poop 101
  • allay 99
  • ally 99
  • call 99
  • calla 99
  • ratatat 99
  • tart 99
  • tartar 99
  • attar 98
  • tattoo 98
  • tatty 97
  • tutu 97
  • cocci 96
  • mono 96
  • moon 96
  • ammo 95
  • momma 95
  • epee 94
  • peep 94
  • loon 91
  • loot 91


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 96,192 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,410 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*:

  • cenote
  • cento
  • cete
  • cocotte
  • coition
  • concent
  • conte
  • conto
  • coontie
  • cotinine
  • enceinte
  • etic
  • exciton
  • excitonic
  • exotoxic
  • exotoxin
  • ictic
  • incent
  • inti
  • intinction
  • intine
  • neotenic
  • nett
  • nicotin
  • nicotinic
  • niente
  • niton
  • nocent
  • noetic
  • nonconnection
  • nonexotic
  • nontonic
  • octette
  • oncet
  • ontic
  • otic
  • otitic
  • ototoxic
  • otto
  • tectite
  • tein
  • tenne
  • tenno
  • tentie
  • tictoc
  • titi
  • tittie
  • toco
  • toit
  • tonetic
  • tonette
  • toxine

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

cent

noun
  1. (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
  2. A small sum of money.
  3. (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.
  4. (money) A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).
  5. A hundredth of a semitone or half step.
noun
  1. The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
  2. The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
  3. The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
  4. The point on a line that is midway between the ends.
  5. The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume).
  6. The subgroup (respectively, subring), denoted Z(G), of those elements of a given group (respectively, ring) G that commute with every element of G.
  7. A place where the greater part of some function or activity occurs.
  8. A topic that is particularly important in a given context.
  9. A player in the middle of the playing area
  10. A player who can go all over the court, except the shooting circles.
  11. A pass played into the centre of the pitch.
  12. One of the backs operating in a central area of the pitch, either the inside centre or outside centre.
  13. A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.
  14. One of the two conical steel pins in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
  15. A conical recess or indentation in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.
  16. The ensemble of moderate or centrist political parties.
noun
  1. A centigrade temperature scale having the freezing point of water defined as 0° and its boiling point defined as 100° at standard atmospheric pressure. Known as the Celsius scale since 1948.
  2. A single degree on this scale.
  3. A unit of angle equal to the hundredth part of a quadrant. Its symbol is gon.
noun
  1. (Sanskrit and other Indian philology) satakam, set of one hundred verses connected by the same metre or topic
  2. Perfect score on a board exam
noun
  1. A period of 100 consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (informally) 1900 through 1999. The first century AD was from 1 to 100.
  2. A unit in ancient Roman army, originally of 100 army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing 60 to 70 or 80) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen), commanded by a centurion.
  3. A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
  4. A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.
  5. A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.
  6. A score of one hundred points.
  7. A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.
  8. A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.

cite

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
  2. To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
  3. To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A citation

conceit

noun
  1. Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought.
  2. The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.
  3. Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
  4. Opinion, (neutral) judgment.
  5. Esteem, favourable opinion.
  6. A novel or fanciful idea; a whim.
  7. An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
  8. Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.
  9. Design; pattern.
verb
  1. To form an idea; to think.
  2. To conceive.

concoct

verb
  1. To prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking.
  2. To contrive something using skill or ingenuity.
  3. To digest.

concoction

noun
  1. The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.
  2. A mixture prepared in such a way.
  3. Something made up, an invention.
  4. Digestion (of food etc.).
  5. The act of digesting in the mind; rumination.
  6. Abatement of a morbid process, such as fever, and return to a normal condition.
  7. The act of perfecting or maturing.

connect

verb
  1. (of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
  2. (of two objects) To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.
  3. (of an object) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other.
  4. (of a person) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.
  5. To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
  6. To associate; to establish a relation between.
  7. To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.

connection

noun
  1. The act of connecting.
  2. The point at which two or more things are connected.
  3. A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
  4. An established communications or transportation link.
  5. A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service
  6. A kinship relationship between people.
  7. An individual who is related to oneself, through either family or business.
  8. A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the union of any group of sets that are elements where the intersections of those sets is non-empty.
  9. Coherence; lack of disjointedness
  10. The description for a Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences.
  11. Sexual intercourse

connote

verb
  1. To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.
  2. To possess an inseparable related condition; to imply as a logical consequence.
  3. To express without overt reference; to imply.
  4. To require as a logical predicate to consequence.

content

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (except in phrases) Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.
verb
  1. To give contentment or satisfaction; to satisfy; to make happy.
  2. To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite
adjective
  1. Satisfied
interjection
  1. Alright, agreed

Etymology 2

noun
  1. That which is contained.
  2. Subject matter; that which is contained in writing or speech.
  3. The amount of material contained; contents
  4. Capacity for holding
  5. The n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case of a polyhedron and area in the case of a polygon)
  6. (of a polynomial with coefficients in a GCD domain) the greatest common divisor of the coefficients; (of a polynomial with coefficients in an integral domain) the common factor of the coefficients which, when removed, leaves the adjusted coefficients with no common factor that is noninvertible
  7. Satisfaction; contentment.
  8. Acquiescence without examination
  9. That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
  10. (House of Lords) an expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmate vote
  11. (House of Lords) a member who votes in assent
adjective
  1. Contained.

contention

noun
  1. Argument, contest, debate, strife, struggle.
  2. A point maintained in an argument, or a line of argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion of strife; a position taken or contended for.
  3. Competition by parts of a system or its users for a limited resource.

context

noun
  1. The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
  2. The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.
  3. The surroundings and environment in which an artifact is found and which may provide important clues about the artifact's function and/or cultural meaning.
  4. The trama or flesh of a mushroom.
  5. For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.
verb
  1. To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
adjective
  1. Knit or woven together; close; firm.

continence

noun
  1. (urology) The voluntary control of urination and defecation.
  2. Moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence.
  3. Uninterrupted course; continuity.

continent

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Each of the main continuous land-masses on the earth's surface, now generally regarded as seven in number, including their related islands, continental shelves etc.
  2. A large contiguous landmass considered independent of its islands, peninsulas etc. Specifically, the Old World continent of Europe–Asia–Africa. See the Continent.
  3. Land (as opposed to the water).

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Exercising self-restraint; controlled, temperate with respect to one's bodily needs or passions, especially sex, urination and/or defecation.
  2. Not interrupted; connected; continuous.
  3. Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.

coot

noun
  1. Any of various aquatic birds of the genus Fulica that are mainly black with a prominent frontal shield on the forehead.
  2. A foolish or eccentric fellow
  3. (with the) A success; something excellent.
  4. Body louse (Pediculus humanus).

cootie

noun
  1. A louse (Pediculus humanus).
  2. A louse (Pediculus humanus).
  3. (usually in the plural) Any germ or contaminant, real or imagined, especially from the opposite gender (for pre-pubescent children).
  4. A nest-building female American coot (counterpart to cooter).
  5. A sideswiper, a type of telegraph key.

cote

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A cottage or hut.
  2. A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To quote.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.

cotton

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Gossypium, a genus of plant used as a source of cotton fiber.
  2. Any plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.
  3. Any fiber similar in appearance and use to Gossypium fiber.
  4. The textile made from the fiber harvested from a cotton plant, especially Gossypium.
  5. An item of clothing made from cotton.
verb
  1. To provide with cotton.
  2. To make or become cotton-like
  3. To protect from harsh stimuli, coddle, or muffle.
  4. To rub or burnish with cotton.
adjective
  1. Made of cotton.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To get on with someone or something; to have a good relationship with someone.

ecotone

noun
  1. A transition area between two adjacent ecological communities (ecosystems).

entente

noun
  1. An informal alliance or friendly understanding between two states.

entice

verb
  1. To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.

excite

verb
  1. To stir the emotions of.
  2. To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate.
  3. To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level.
  4. To energize (an electromagnet); to produce a magnetic field in.

exit

noun
  1. An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
  2. A way out.
  3. The act of departing from life; death.
verb
  1. To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
  2. To depart from life; to die.
  3. To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)
  4. (originally United States) To depart from or leave (a place or situation).

exotic

noun
  1. An organism that is exotic to an environment.
  2. An exotic dancer; a stripteaser.
  3. Any exotic particle.
adjective
  1. Foreign, especially in an exciting way.
  2. Non-native to the ecosystem.
  3. Being or relating to an option with features that make it more complex than commonly traded options.

extent

noun
  1. A range of values or locations.
  2. The space, area, volume, etc., to which something extends.
  3. A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
  4. The valuation of property.
  5. A writ directing the sheriff to seize the property of a debtor, for the recovery of debts of record due to the Crown.
adjective
  1. Extended.

extinct

verb
  1. To make extinct; to extinguish or annihilate.
adjective
  1. Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.)
  2. No longer used; obsolete, discontinued.
  3. (of a group of organisms, as a species) No longer in existence; having died out.
  4. No longer active.

extinction

noun
  1. The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.
  2. The absorption or scattering of electromagnetic radiation emitted by astronomical objects by intervening dust and gas before it reaches the observer.
  3. The inability to perceive multiple stimuli simultaneously

incite

verb
  1. To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action.

incontinence

noun
  1. Lack of self-restraint, an inability to control oneself; unchastity.
  2. (urology) The inability of any of the physical organs to restrain discharges of their contents; involuntary discharge or evacuation (of urine or feces).

incontinent

noun
  1. One who is unchaste.
adjective
  1. (often followed by of) Unable to contain or retain.
  2. Plagued by incontinence; lacking the ability to restrain natural discharges or evacuations of urination or defecation.
  3. Lacking moral or sexual restraint, moderation or self-control, especially of sexual desire.
  4. Unrestrained or unceasing.
  5. Immediate; without delay.
adverb
  1. Immediately, forthwith.

innocent

noun
  1. One who is innocent, especially a young child.
  2. A harmless simple-minded person; an idiot.
adjective
  1. Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.
  2. Bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act.
  3. Naive; artless.
  4. (obsolete except medicine) Not harmful; innocuous; harmless; benign.
  5. (with of) Having no knowledge (of something).
  6. (with of) Lacking (something).
  7. Lawful; permitted.
  8. Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture.

intent

noun
  1. A purpose; something that is intended.
  2. The state of someone’s mind at the time of committing an offence.
adjective
  1. Firmly fixed or concentrated on something.
  2. Engrossed.
  3. Unwavering from a course of action.

intention

noun
  1. The goal or purpose behind a specific action or set of actions.
  2. Tension; straining, stretching.
  3. A stretching or bending of the mind toward an object or a purpose (an intent); closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.
  4. The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.
  5. Any mental apprehension of an object.
  6. The process of the healing of a wound.
verb
  1. Intend

into

preposition
  1. To or towards the inside of.
  2. To or towards the region of.
  3. Against, especially with force or violence.
  4. Indicates transition into another form or substance.
  5. After the start of.
  6. Interested in or attracted to.
  7. Expressing the operation of multiplication.
  8. Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".
  9. Investigating the subject (of).

intone

verb
  1. To give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize.
  2. To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to speak or recite with singing voice; to chant.
  3. To utter a tone; utter a protracted sound.

next

noun
  1. The one that follows after this one.
adjective
  1. Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.
  2. Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order.
  3. Following in a hypothetical sequence of some kind.
  4. Nearest in relationship. (See also next of kin.)
adverb
  1. In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following.
  2. On the first subsequent occasion.
preposition
  1. On the side of; nearest or adjacent to; next to.

nicotine

noun
  1. An alkaloid (C10H14N2), commonly occurring in the tobacco plant. In small doses it is a habit-forming stimulant; in larger doses it is toxic and is often used in insecticides.
  2. Tobacco, cigarettes

nineteen

numeral
  1. The cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens".

nite

noun
  1. The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.
  2. (Astronomy) The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.
  3. (Legal) Often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
  4. An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
  5. A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a place away from home, e.g. a hotel.
  6. Nightfall.
  7. Darkness (due to it being nighttime).
  8. A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
  9. A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.

nonet

noun
  1. A composition for nine instruments or nine voices.
  2. A group of nine nuclear or subatomic particles.
  3. A byte of nine bits.

nontoxic

adjective
  1. Not toxic; not poisonous.

note

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (heading) A symbol or annotation.
  2. (heading) A written or printed communication or commitment.
  3. (heading) A sound.
  4. Observation; notice; heed.
  5. Reputation; distinction.
  6. Notification; information; intelligence.
  7. Mark of disgrace.
verb
  1. To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
  2. To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
  3. To denote; to designate.
  4. To annotate.
  5. To set down in musical characters.
  6. To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work.
  2. The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period following calving or farrowing during which a cow or sow is at her most useful (i.e. gives milk); the milk given by a cow or sow during such a period.

notice

noun
  1. The act of observing; perception.
  2. A written or printed announcement.
  3. A formal notification or warning.
  4. Advance notification of termination of employment, given by an employer to an employee or vice versa.
  5. A published critical review of a play or the like.
  6. Prior notification.
  7. Attention; respectful treatment; civility.
verb
  1. To remark upon; to mention.
  2. To become aware of; to observe.
  3. To lavish attention upon; to treat (someone) favourably.
  4. To be noticeable; to show.

notion

noun
  1. Mental apprehension of whatever may be known, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.
  2. A sentiment; an opinion.
  3. Sense; mind.
  4. An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack.
  5. Any small article used in sewing and haberdashery, either for attachment to garments or as a tool, such as a button, zipper, or thimble.
  6. Inclination; intention; disposition.

octet

noun
  1. A group or set of eight of something.
  2. A group of eight musicians performing together.
  3. A composition for such a group of musicians.
  4. A byte of eight bits. Abbreviation: o
  5. A group of three bits, representing any of eight possible values.

onto

adjective
  1. (of a function) Assuming each of the values in its codomain; having its range equal to its codomain.
preposition
  1. Upon; on top of.
  2. Aware of.
  3. Being an onto function with a codomain of (see below).

tectonic

adjective
  1. Of or relating to construction or to architecture
  2. Structural
  3. Of, relating to, or caused by large-scale movements of the Earth's lithosphere
  4. Momentous, utter, vast

teen

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A teenager.
adjective
  1. Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Grief; sorrow; trouble.
  2. Vexation; anger; hate.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
  2. To become angry or distressed.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. (provincial) To hedge or fence in; to enclose.

tenet

noun
  1. An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.

tenon

noun
  1. A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame.
verb
  1. To make into a tenon.
  2. To fit with tenons.

tent

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
  2. The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
  3. A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
  4. A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
verb
  1. To go camping.
  2. To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
  3. To form into a tent-like shape.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Attention; regard, care.
  2. Intention; design.
verb
  1. To attend to; to heed
  2. To guard; to hinder.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
  2. A probe for searching a wound.
verb
  1. (sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.

text

noun
  1. A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
  2. A book, tome or other set of writings.
  3. A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.
  4. Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
  5. A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
  6. (by extension) Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.
  7. A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.
verb
  1. To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones.
  2. To send and receive text messages.
  3. To write in large characters, as in text hand.

tinct

No Definition Found.

tine

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb.
  2. A small branch, especially on an antler or horn.
  3. A wild vetch or tare.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Small, diminutive

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Trouble; distress; teen.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To kindle; to set on fire.
  2. To rage; to smart.

Etymology 5

verb
  1. To shut in, or enclose.

tint

noun
  1. A slight coloring.
  2. A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
  3. A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
  4. A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
verb
  1. To shade, to color.

tone

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A specific pitch.
  2. (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
  3. (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
  4. The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
  5. General character, mood, or trend.
  6. The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
  7. A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.
  8. The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
  9. State of mind; temper; mood.
  10. The shade or quality of a colour.
  11. The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
  12. The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.
  13. The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
  14. Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
  15. A gun
verb
  1. To give a particular tone to
  2. To change the colour of
  3. To make (something) firmer
  4. To harmonize, especially in colour
  5. To utter with an affected tone.

Etymology 2

pronoun
  1. The one (of two)

tonic

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A substance with medicinal properties intended to restore or invigorate.
  2. Tonic water.
  3. (Massachusetts) Any of various carbonated, non-alcoholic beverages; soda pop.
  4. Someone or something that revitalises or reinvigorates.
adjective
  1. Pertaining to tension, especially of muscles.
  2. Restorative, curative or invigorating.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The first note of a diatonic scale; the keynote.
  2. The triad built on the tonic note.
  3. A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.
adjective
  1. Pertaining to or based upon the first note of a diatonic scale.
  2. Pertaining to the accent or stress in a word or in speech.
  3. Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically being or relating to a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, i.e. a vowel or diphthong.

tonne

noun
  1. A metric unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms. Symbol: t
  2. A score of 100.

tontine

noun
  1. A form of investment in which, on the death of an investor, his share is divided amongst the other investors.

toon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A cartoon, especially an animated television show.
  2. A player's avatar or visible character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A southeast Asian and Australian tree (Toona ciliata or Toona australis) of the mahogany family with fragrant dark red wood and flowers that yield a dye.
  2. The wood of this tree.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A town.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A melody.
  2. A song, or short musical composition.
  3. The act of tuning or maintenance.
  4. The state or condition of being correctly tuned.
  5. Temper; frame of mind.
  6. A sound; a note; a tone.
  7. Order; harmony; concord.

toonie

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toot

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The noise of a horn or whistle.
  2. (by extension) A fart; flatus.
  3. Cocaine.
  4. A portion of cocaine that a person snorts.
  5. A spree of drunkness.
  6. (pronounced /tʊt/) Rubbish; tat.
  7. A message on the social networking software Mastodon.
verb
  1. To stand out, or be prominent.
  2. To peep; to look narrowly.
  3. To see; to spy.
  4. To flatulate.
  5. To make the sound of a horn or whistle.
  6. To cause a horn or whistle to make its sound.
  7. To go on a drinking binge.
  8. To snort (a recreational drug).
  9. To post a message on a Mastodon instance (a self-hosted version of the networking software).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A toilet.

tote

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A tote bag.
  2. A heavy burden.
  3. (logistics) A kind of plastic box used for transporting goods.
verb
  1. To carry or bear.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To add up; to calculate a total.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator.
  2. Pari-mutuel betting.

toxic

adjective
  1. Having a chemical nature that is harmful to health or lethal if consumed or otherwise entering into the body in sufficient quantities.
  2. Appearing grossly unwell; characterised by serious, potentially life-threatening compromise in the respiratory, circulatory or other body systems.
  3. Severely negative or harmful.
  4. (of a person) Hateful or strongly antipathetic.

toxin

noun
  1. A toxic or poisonous substance produced by the biological processes of biological organisms.