Sunday, March 9, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 345

Number of Answers: 72

Points Needed for Genius: 241

Genius requires between 32 and 63 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 78% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 66% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 345 was in the 98th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on February 23, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 72 possible answers rank it in the 99th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on November 15, 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 March 8, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.6.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 192
  • loll 184
  • toot 181
  • naan 168
  • nana 168
  • lilt 135
  • till 135
  • tilt 135
  • tint 134
  • mama 127
  • mamma 127
  • nene 126
  • acacia 119
  • acai 119
  • onto 118
  • toon 118
  • anal 113
  • onion 113
  • anon 109
  • boob 109
  • booboo 109
  • baba 107
  • olio 105
  • dodo 103
  • lull 103
  • lulu 103
  • papa 103
  • tact 103
  • call 102
  • calla 102
  • mitt 102
  • poop 101
  • ratatat 100
  • tart 100
  • tartar 100
  • tatty 100
  • allay 99
  • ally 99
  • attar 99
  • tattoo 99
  • tutu 99
  • ammo 97
  • cocci 97
  • epee 97
  • momma 97
  • mono 97
  • moon 97
  • peep 97
  • nada 93
  • loon 92


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 98,230 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,487 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*:

  • agama
  • agamete
  • agemate
  • agma
  • alma
  • alme
  • ament
  • amenta
  • analemma
  • analemmata
  • ataman
  • atma
  • atman
  • emanant
  • emmet
  • enemata
  • gagman
  • gagmen
  • gama
  • gamelan
  • gametal
  • gateman
  • gatemen
  • gemma
  • gemmae
  • gemmate
  • gleeman
  • gleemen
  • lamella
  • lamellae
  • lamellate
  • legman
  • legmen
  • leman
  • lemmata
  • lentamente
  • magmata
  • malanga
  • malate
  • maleate
  • mallee
  • malm
  • mamee
  • mammae
  • mammate
  • mammee
  • mammet
  • mana
  • managemental
  • manana
  • manat
  • manege
  • manganate
  • mangel
  • mannan
  • mantelet
  • mantlet
  • matt
  • meatal
  • meatman
  • meatmen
  • megagamete
  • megamall
  • melaena
  • melena
  • mell
  • meltage
  • menage
  • menta
  • metage
  • metatag
  • metate
  • neem
  • nema
  • tagmeme
  • tamal
  • tanglement
  • tegmen
  • tegmenta
  • tegmental
  • teleman
  • telemen

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

agleam

adjective
  1. Glowing with subdued light.

amalgam

noun
  1. An alloy containing mercury.
  2. A combination of different things.
  3. One of the ingredients in an alloy.
verb
  1. To amalgamate.

amalgamate

verb
  1. To merge, to combine, to blend, to join.
  2. To make an alloy of a metal and mercury.
  3. To combine (free groups) by identifying respective isomorphic subgroups.
adjective
  1. Coalesced; united; combined.

amen

noun
  1. An instance of saying ‘amen’.
  2. A title of Christ; the Faithful One (especially with reference to Revelation 3:14)
verb
  1. To say amen.
  2. To say amen to; to ratify solemnly.
adverb
  1. At the end of religious prayers: so be it.
  2. In many Abrahamic religious texts and creeds: truly, verily.
interjection
  1. An expression of strong agreement. Often, though dated, in the phrase "Amen to that".

element

noun
  1. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
  2. A small part of the whole.
  3. The sky.
  4. (with "the") Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.
  5. A place or state of being that an individual or object is best suited to.
  6. (usually in the plural) The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
  7. A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
  8. A component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it.
  9. One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags.
verb
  1. To compound of elements.
  2. To constitute and be the elements of.

elemental

noun
  1. (theosophy) A creature (usually a spirit) that is attuned with, or composed of, one of the classical elements: air, earth, fire and water or variations of them like ice, lightning, etc. They sometimes have unique proper names and sometimes are referred to as Air, Earth, Fire, or Water.
adjective
  1. Of, relating to, or being an element (as opposed to a compound).
  2. Basic, fundamental or elementary.
  3. Of the ancient supposed elements of earth, air, fire and water.
  4. (by extension) Of, or relating to a force or nature, especially to severe atmospheric conditions.

emanate

verb
  1. To come from a source; issue from.
  2. To send or give out; manifest.

enamel

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An opaque, glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects.
  2. A coating that dries to a hard, glossy finish.
  3. The hard covering on the exposed part of a tooth.
  4. A cosmetic intended to give the appearance of a smooth and beautiful complexion.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To coat or decorate with enamel.
  2. To variegate with colours, as if with enamel.
  3. To form a glossy surface like enamel upon.
  4. To disguise with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion.

enema

noun
  1. An injection of fluid into the large intestine by way of the rectum, usually for medical purposes.
  2. The fluid so injected.
  3. A device for administering such an injection.

engagement

noun
  1. An appointment, especially to speak or perform.
  2. Connection or attachment.
  3. (by extension, about human emotional state) The feeling of being compelled, drawn in, connected to what is happening, interested in what will happen next.
  4. The period of time when marriage is planned or promised.
  5. In any situation of conflict, an actual instance of active hostilities.
  6. The point at which the fencers are close enough to join blades, or to make an effective attack during an encounter.

entanglement

noun
  1. The state of being entangled; intricate and confused involution.
  2. That which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
  3. An obstruction placed in front or on the flank of a fortification, to impede an enemy's approach.
  4. An obstruction of cables and spars across a river or harbour entrance.
noun
  1. A quantum mechanical phenomenon in which the quantum states of two or more objects have to be described with reference to each other, even though the individual objects are spatially separated.

game

noun
  1. A playful or competitive activity.
  2. A video game.
  3. (nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
  4. Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
  5. An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
  6. Wild animals hunted for food.
  7. (used mostly of males) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
  8. Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
  9. A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.
verb
  1. To gamble.
  2. To play card games, board games, or video games.
  3. To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
  4. (of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
adjective
  1. Willing to participate.
  2. (of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
  3. Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.
  4. Injured, lame (of a limb).

gamete

noun
  1. A reproductive cell (sperm in males or eggs in females), having only half of a complete set of chromosomes.

gamma

noun
  1. The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ).
  2. The Gamma function, symbolized by Γ.
  3. A constant approximately equal to 0.55721566, symbolized by γ (also known as the Euler–Mascheroni constant).
  4. A non-SI unit of measure of magnetic flux density, equal to 1 nT.
  5. (industries) slope of log-log plot of video input and luminance output.
  6. A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change in delta with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
noun
  1. A nonlinear operation used to encode and decode luminance or tristimulus values in video or still image systems.

gentleman

noun
  1. A man of gentle but not noble birth, particularly a man of means (originally ownership of property) who does not work for a living but has no official status in a peerage; an armiferous man ranking below a knight.
  2. Any well-bred, well-mannered, or charming man.
  3. An effeminate or oversophisticated man.
  4. (polite term of address) Any man.
  5. (usually historical, sometimes derogatory) An amateur or dabbler in any field, particularly those of independent means.
  6. An amateur player, particularly one whose wealth permits him to forego payment.

gentlemen

noun
  1. A man of gentle but not noble birth, particularly a man of means (originally ownership of property) who does not work for a living but has no official status in a peerage; an armiferous man ranking below a knight.
  2. Any well-bred, well-mannered, or charming man.
  3. An effeminate or oversophisticated man.
  4. (polite term of address) Any man.
  5. (usually historical, sometimes derogatory) An amateur or dabbler in any field, particularly those of independent means.
  6. An amateur player, particularly one whose wealth permits him to forego payment.
noun
  1. Possessive case of gentlemen: belonging to some or all gentlemen.
noun
  1. A lavatory intended for use by men, often including urinals in addition to toilets.
  2. Other rooms intended for use by men, as waiting rooms, dressing rooms, locker rooms, etc.

glam

noun
  1. Glamour.
  2. A style of rock music, glam rock, associated with an androgynous yet masculine look and a driving, pounding bluesy form of psychedelic rock; the fashion and culture associated with this genre.
verb
  1. To make glamorous or more glamorous.
adjective
  1. Glamorous.

gleam

noun
  1. A small or indistinct shaft or stream of light.
  2. A glimpse or hint; an indistinct sign of something.
  3. Brightness or shininess; splendor.
verb
  1. To shine; to glitter; to glisten.
  2. To be briefly but strongly apparent.
  3. To disgorge filth, as a hawk.

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.

lament

noun
  1. An expression of grief, suffering, sadness or regret.
  2. A song expressing grief.
verb
  1. To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.
  2. To feel great sorrow or regret; to bewail.

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.

mage

noun
  1. A magician, wizard or sorcerer.

magenta

noun
  1. A vibrant light purple, purplish-red, reddish-purple, or pinkish purple colour obtained by mixing red and blue light (thus a secondary colour), but primary in the CMYK colour system used in printing.
adjective
  1. Having the colour of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.

magma

noun
  1. The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.
  2. A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation.
  3. Any soft doughy mass.
  4. The residuum after expressing the juice from fruits.

magnate

noun
  1. Powerful industrialist; captain of industry.
  2. A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere.

magnet

noun
  1. A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
  2. (preceded by a noun) A person or thing that attracts what is denoted by the preceding noun.

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.

manage

noun
  1. The act of managing or controlling something.
  2. (horseriding) Manège.
verb
  1. To direct or be in charge of.
  2. To handle or control (a situation, job).
  3. To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
  4. To succeed at an attempt.
  5. To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help.
  6. To train (a horse) in the manège; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
  7. To treat with care; to husband.
  8. To bring about; to contrive.

management

noun
  1. Administration; the use of limited resources combined with forecasting, planning, leadership and execution skills to achieve predetermined specific goals.
  2. The executives of an organisation, especially senior executives.
  3. Judicious use of means to accomplish an end.

manatee

noun
  1. Any of several plant-eating marine mammals, of family Trichechidae, found in tropical regions.

mane

noun
  1. Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion
  2. Long or thick hair of a person's head.

manga

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A comic originating in Japan.
  2. An artistic style heavily used in, and associated with, Japanese comics, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of comics from other countries.
  3. A comic in manga style, regardless of the country of origin.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A covering for a crucifix.

mange

noun
  1. A skin disease of mammals caused by parasitic mites (Sarcoptes spp., Demodecidae spp.).

mangle

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.
  2. To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
  2. The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
verb
  1. To wring laundry.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Mangrove (tree)

manna

noun
  1. Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
  2. (by extension) Any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck.
  3. The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.http//www.museum.vic.gov.au/forest/plants/gum.html

manta

noun
  1. A kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern United States.
noun
  1. Any of several very large pelagic rays of the genus Manta, with winglike pectoral fins, a long tail, and two fins resembling horns that project from the head.

mantel

noun
  1. The shelf above a fireplace which may be also a structural support for the masonry of the chimney.
  2. A maneuver to surmount a ledge, involving pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body. Also called a mantelshelf.
verb
  1. To surmount a ledge by pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body.

mantle

noun
  1. The shelf above a fireplace which may be also a structural support for the masonry of the chimney.
  2. A maneuver to surmount a ledge, involving pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body. Also called a mantelshelf.
noun
  1. A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. (Compare mantum.)
  2. A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
  3. Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
  4. The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
  5. The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
  6. The zone of hot gases around a flame.
  7. A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.)
  8. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
  9. A penstock for a water wheel.
  10. The cerebral cortex.
  11. The layer between the Earth's core and crust.
  12. A mantling.
verb
  1. To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
  2. To become covered or concealed.
  3. To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).

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.

mean

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To lament.
verb
  1. To intend.
  2. To convey (a meaning).
  3. To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
  4. To cause or produce (a given result); to bring about (a given result).
  5. (usually with to) To be of some level of importance.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Common; general.
  2. Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.
  3. Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.
  4. Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.
  5. Of little value or worth; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
  6. Ungenerous; stingy; tight-fisted.
  7. Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating
  8. Selfish; acting without consideration of others; unkind.
  9. Intending to cause harm, successfully or otherwise; bearing ill will towards another
  10. Powerful; fierce; strong
  11. Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
  12. Difficult, tricky.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (now chiefly in the plural) A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
  2. (in the singular) An intermediate step or intermediate steps.
  3. Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.
  4. The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part in polyphonic music; an alto instrument.
  5. The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number of terms; the arithmetic mean.
  6. Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number representative of its arguments; or, the number so yielded; a measure of central tendency.
  7. Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and 3 in 1:2=3:6.
adjective
  1. Having the mean (see noun below) as its value.
  2. Middling; intermediate; moderately good, tolerable.

meant

verb
  1. To intend.
  2. To convey (a meaning).
  3. To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
  4. To cause or produce (a given result); to bring about (a given result).
  5. (usually with to) To be of some level of importance.

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.

mega

adjective
  1. Very large.
  2. Great; excellent

melange

noun
  1. A mixture of different things; a disordered mixture.
  2. A Viennese coffee speciality, half steamed milk and half coffee.
  3. A large-scale breccia formed in the accretionary wedge over a subductional environment.

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.

mental

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Of or relating to the mind or an intellectual process.
  2. Insane, mad, crazy.
  3. Enjoyable or fun, especially in a frenetic way.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.
adjective
  1. Of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw, genial.
  2. Of or relating to the chin-like or lip-like structure.

mentee

noun
  1. A person who is being mentored

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.

name

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
  2. Reputation.
  3. An abusive or insulting epithet.
  4. A person (or legal person).
  5. Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
  6. A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
  7. An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.
  8. Authority.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. (ditransitive) To give a name to.
  2. To mention, specify.
  3. To identify as relevant or important
  4. To publicly implicate.
  5. To designate for a role.
  6. (Westminster system politics) To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.

nametag

noun
  1. A tag with one's name inscribed on it.

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.

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.

tenement

noun
  1. A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.
  2. Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.
  3. Dwelling; abode; habitation.