Friday, March 14, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 178

Number of Answers: 43

Points Needed for Genius: 125

Genius requires between 18 and 38 words. You need at least an 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 77% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 67% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 178 was in the 55th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on March 13, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 43 possible answers rank it in the 61st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on March 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 March 6, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.2.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 192
  • loll 184
  • toot 181
  • naan 168
  • nana 168
  • lilt 136
  • till 136
  • tilt 136
  • 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 102
  • 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 98,432 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,516 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*:

  • abaka
  • acock
  • arak
  • arrack
  • backbar
  • backblock
  • blackcock
  • bookoo
  • bork
  • brock
  • calk
  • carack
  • cark
  • carrack
  • crackback
  • crookback
  • kabab
  • kabaka
  • kabala
  • kabar
  • kabbala
  • kaka
  • karoo
  • karroo
  • kbar
  • kobo
  • kolo
  • kora
  • kraal
  • roorback

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

aback

Etymology 1

adverb
  1. Towards the back or rear; backwards.
  2. In the rear; a distance behind.
  3. By surprise; startled; dumbfounded. (see usage)
  4. Backward against the mast; said of the sails when pressed by the wind from the "wrong" (forward) side, or of a ship when its sails are set that way.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An abacus.

alack

interjection
  1. An expression of sorrow or mourning.

babka

No Definition Found.

back

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
  2. That which is farthest away from the front.
  3. Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
  4. A support or resource in reserve.
  5. The keel and keelson of a ship.
  6. The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
  7. Effort, usually physical.
  8. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
  9. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
verb
  1. To go in the reverse direction.
  2. To support.
  3. (of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
  4. (of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
  5. (of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
  6. (of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
  7. To push or force backwards.
  8. To get upon the back of; to mount.
  9. To place or seat upon the back.
  10. To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
  11. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
  12. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
  13. (of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
  14. To row backward with (oars).
adjective
  1. Near the rear.
  2. Not current.
  3. Far from the main area.
  4. In arrear; overdue.
  5. Moving or operating backward.
  6. Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
adverb
  1. To or in a previous condition or place.
  2. Away from the front or from an edge.
  3. In a manner that impedes.
  4. In a reciprocal manner; in return.
  5. Earlier, ago.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
  2. A ferryboat.

balk

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
  2. The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
  3. Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
  4. A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
  5. A sudden and obstinate stop; a failure.
  6. An omission.
  7. A deceptive motion; a feint.
  8. The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
  9. The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
  10. The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
verb
  1. To pass over or by.
  2. To omit, miss or overlook by chance.
  3. To miss intentionally; to avoid.
  4. To stop, check, block.
  5. To stop short and refuse to go on.
  6. To refuse suddenly.
  7. To disappoint; to frustrate.
  8. To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
  9. To leave or make balks in.
  10. To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.

ballcock

noun
  1. A floating sphere, attached to a lever, that controls the level of liquid in a cistern.

bark

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.
  2. An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
verb
  1. To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
  2. To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
  3. To speak sharply.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
  2. Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
  3. Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.
  4. The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
  5. The envelopment or outer covering of anything.
verb
  1. To strip the bark from; to peel.
  2. To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
  3. To girdle.
  4. To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.
  2. A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
  3. A vessel, typically with three (or more) masts, with the foremasts (or fore- and mainmasts) square-rigged, and mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

barrack

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (chiefly in the plural) A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
  2. (chiefly in the plural) primitive structure resembling a long shed or barn for (usually temporary) housing or other purposes
  3. (chiefly in the plural) any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building
  4. A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
  5. (usually in the plural) A police station.
verb
  1. To house military personnel; to quarter.
  2. To live in barracks.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To jeer and heckle; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means.
  2. To cheer for or support a team.

black

noun
  1. The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
  2. A black dye or pigment.
  3. A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
  4. (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
  5. (sometimes capitalised) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
  6. Blackness, the condition of having dark skin.
  7. The black ball.
  8. The edge of home plate.
  9. A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
  10. Blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
  11. (in chess and similar games) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
  12. Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.
  13. A stain; a spot.
  14. A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.
  15. Marijuana.
verb
  1. To make black; to blacken.
  2. To apply blacking to (something).
  3. To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
adjective
  1. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
  2. (of a place, etc) Without light.
  3. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
  4. Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
  5. (of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red
  6. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
  7. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
  8. (of objects, markets, etc) Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
  9. Overcrowded.
  10. (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk or creamer.
  11. Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
  12. Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white.
  13. Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
  14. Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
  15. Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.
  16. Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic
  17. Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc) that is dark (or black); in taxonomy, especially: dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
  18. Foul; dirty.

blackball

noun
  1. A rejection; a vote against admitting someone.
  2. A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.
  3. A kind of large black sweet; a niggerball.
  4. A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work.
verb
  1. To vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.
  2. To ostracize.

block

noun
  1. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
  2. A chopping block; cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
  3. A group of urban lots of property, several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
  4. A residential building consisting of flats.
  5. The distance from one street to another in a city that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
  6. Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
  7. The human head.
  8. A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
  9. A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
  10. A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end.
  11. A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
  12. A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
  13. A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
  14. A case with one or more sheaves/pulleys, used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example, as part of the rigging of a sailing ship.
  15. A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
  16. Something that prevents something from passing.
  17. An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
  18. A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
  19. A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
  20. A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
  21. A section of split logs used as fuel.
  22. Solitary confinement.
  23. A cellblock.
  24. The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
  25. A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
  26. A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
  27. A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
  28. The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
  29. A blockhole.
  30. The popping crease.
  31. A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
verb
  1. To fill (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
  2. To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
  3. To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
  4. To impede an opponent.
  5. To specify the positions and movements of the actors.
  6. To hit with a block.
  7. To play a block shot.
  8. To disable communication via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with an undesirable someone.
  9. To wait.
  10. To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
  11. To shape or sketch out roughly.

bock

noun
  1. A strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption.

book

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
  2. A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.
  3. A major division of a long work.
  4. A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
  5. A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
  6. The script of a musical or opera.
  7. (usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.
  8. A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
  9. (whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
  10. Four of a kind
  11. A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
  12. (by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
  13. The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
  14. Any source of instruction.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To reserve (something) for future use.
  2. To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
  3. (law enforcement) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
  4. To issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
  5. To travel very fast.
  6. To record bets as bookmaker.
  7. (law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.
  8. To leave.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. (with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven.
  2. (with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
  3. To be warmed to drying and hardening.
  4. To dry by heat.
  5. To be hot.
  6. To cause to be hot.
  7. To smoke marijuana.
  8. To harden by cold.
  9. To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
  10. (with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.

bookrack

No Definition Found.

brook

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
  2. To earn; deserve.
  3. To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
  2. A water meadow.
  3. (in the plural) Low, marshy ground.

callback

noun
  1. The return of a situation to a previous position or state.
  2. A return telephone or radio call; especially one made automatically to authenticate a logon to a computer network.
  3. A product recall because of a defect or safety concern.
  4. A function pointer passed as an argument to another function.
  5. A follow-up audition (casting)
  6. A joke which references an earlier joke in the same routine

clack

noun
  1. An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway between a click and a clunk.
  2. Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
  3. Chatter; prattle.
  4. The tongue.
verb
  1. To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
  2. To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
  3. To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
  4. To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.

cloak

noun
  1. A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
  2. A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.
  3. That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.
  4. A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.
verb
  1. To cover as with a cloak.
  2. To hide or conceal.
  3. To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.

clock

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
  2. The odometer of a motor vehicle.
  3. An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
  4. The seed head of a dandelion.
  5. A time clock.
  6. A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
verb
  1. To measure the duration of.
  2. To measure the speed of.
  3. To hit (someone) heavily.
  4. To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something
  5. To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
  6. To beat a video game.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
verb
  1. To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
  2. To hatch.

cock

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A male bird, especially:
  2. A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
  3. The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
  4. The notch of an arrow or crossbow.
  5. The penis.
  6. The circle at the end of the rink.
  7. The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
  8. A stupid person.
  9. Nonsense; rubbish.
  10. (Tasmania) Term of address.
  11. A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
  12. Shuttlecock
  13. A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
  14. A chief man; a leader or master.
  15. The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
  16. A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
  17. The style or gnomon of a sundial.
  18. The indicator of a balance.
  19. The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
verb
  1. To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
  2. To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
  3. To erect; to turn up.
  4. To copulate with.
  5. To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
  6. To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
  7. To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
  8. To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (of children)
interjection
  1. Expression of annoyance.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (where it is still sometimes used) Vulva, vagina.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A small conical pile of hay.
verb
  1. To form into piles.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Abbreviation of cock-boat, a type of small boat.

Etymology 5

proper noun
  1. A corruption of the word God, used in oaths.

cook

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A person who prepares food.
  2. The head cook of a manor house
  3. The degree or quality of cookedness of food
  4. One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
  5. A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
  6. A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
  2. To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
  3. To be cooked.
  4. To be uncomfortably hot.
  5. To execute by electric chair.
  6. To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
  7. To concoct or prepare.
  8. To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
  9. To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
  10. To play music vigorously.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To make the noise of the cuckoo.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To throw.

cookbook

noun
  1. A book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips.
  2. (by extension) Any book of strategies.

cork

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
  2. A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
  3. An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
  4. The cork oak, Quercus suber.
  5. The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
verb
  1. To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
  2. To blacken (as) with a burnt cork
  3. To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
  4. To fill with cork, as the center of a baseball bat.
  5. To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
  6. To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
verb
  1. To perform such a maneuver.
adjective
  1. Having the property of a head over heels rotation.

crack

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
  2. A narrow opening.
  3. A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
  4. Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
  5. The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
  6. Any sharp sound.
  7. A sharp, resounding blow.
  8. An attempt at something.
  9. Vagina.
  10. The space between the buttocks.
  11. Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
  12. Business; events; news.
  13. A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
  14. (elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.
  15. Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
  16. The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
  17. A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
  18. A crazy or crack-brained person.
  19. A boast; boasting.
  20. Breach of chastity.
  21. A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
  22. A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
verb
  1. To form cracks.
  2. To break apart under pressure.
  3. To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
  4. To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
  5. To make a cracking sound.
  6. (of a voice) To change rapidly in register.
  7. (of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
  8. To make a sharply humorous comment.
  9. To make a crack or cracks in.
  10. To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
  11. To strike forcefully.
  12. To open slightly.
  13. To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (Figurative)
  14. To solve a difficult problem. (Figurative, from cracking a nut.)
  15. To overcome a security system or a component.
  16. To cause to make a sharp sound.
  17. To tell (a joke).
  18. To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
  19. To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
  20. To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
  21. To brag, boast.
  22. To be ruined or impaired; to fail.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Highly trained and competent.
  2. Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.

croak

noun
  1. A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
  2. The cry of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit)
  3. The harsh cry of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.
verb
  1. To make a croak.
  2. To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
  3. (of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its cry.
  4. To die.
  5. To kill someone or something.
  6. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.

crock

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
  2. A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
  3. A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
  4. An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
  5. Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
  6. A low stool.
  7. A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.
verb
  1. To break something or injure someone.
  2. (leatherworking) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
  3. To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
  4. To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.
  2. Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.
verb
  1. To give off crock or smut.

crook

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
  2. A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
  3. A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
  4. A lock or curl of hair.
  5. A gibbet.
  6. A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.
  7. A shepherd's crook; a staff with a semi-circular bend ("hook") at one end used by shepherds.
  8. A bishop's staff of office.
  9. An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
  10. A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
  11. A pothook.
  12. A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
verb
  1. To bend, or form into a hook.
  2. To become bent or hooked.
  3. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
  2. Ill, sick.
  3. Annoyed, angry; upset.

kabob

noun
  1. A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.
  2. A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer.
  3. The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure.
  4. A Muslim, usually of southern European, Middle Eastern, or North African descent.
  5. The vulva.
verb
  1. To roast in the style of a kebab
  2. To stab or skewer

koala

noun
  1. A tree-dwelling marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, that resembles a small bear with a broad head, large ears and sharp claws, mainly found in eastern Australia.

kola

noun
  1. The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.
  2. A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water.
noun
  1. A tree, genus Cola, bearing large brown seeds ("nuts") that are the source of cola extract.
  2. A nut of this tree.

kook

noun
  1. An eccentric, strange or crazy person.
  2. (kiteboarding, wakeboarding) A boardsport participant who lacks style or skill; a newbie who acts as if they are better at the sport than they are.

lack

noun
  1. A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
  2. A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
verb
  1. To be without, to need, to require.
  2. To be short (of or for something).
  3. To be in want.
  4. To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.

lark

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.
  2. Any of various similar-appearing birds, but usually ground-living, such as the meadowlark and titlark.
  3. (by extension) One who wakes early; one who is up with the larks.
verb
  1. To catch larks (type of bird).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A romp, frolic, some fun.
  2. A prank.
verb
  1. To sport, engage in harmless pranking.
  2. To frolic, engage in carefree adventure.

lock

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
  2. (by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
  3. A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
  4. The firing mechanism.
  5. Complete control over a situation.
  6. Something sure to be a success.
  7. A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
  8. A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
  9. A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
  10. A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
  11. A grapple in wrestling.
verb
  1. To become fastened in place.
  2. To fasten with a lock.
  3. To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
  4. To intertwine or dovetail.
  5. (break dancing) To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
  6. To furnish (a canal) with locks.
  7. To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
  8. To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
  9. To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
  10. (WMF jargon) To prevent a page from being edited by other users.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A tuft or length of hair, wool etc.
  2. A small quantity of straw etc.
  3. A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.

look

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oarlock

noun
  1. A device attached to the gunwale of a rowboat to hold the oars in place while rowing.

okra

noun
  1. The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus.
  2. The flowering mallow plant Abelmoschus esculentus itself, now commonly grown in the tropics and warmer parts of the temperate zones.

rack

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
  2. Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
  3. A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
  4. A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
  5. A bunk.
  6. (by extension) Sleep.
  7. A distaff.
  8. A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion#, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
  9. A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
  10. A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
  11. A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
  12. A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
  13. A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
  14. A woman's breasts.
  15. A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
  16. A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
  17. A grate on which bacon is laid.
  18. That which is extorted; exaction.
  19. A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
  20. A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially such proceeds of crime
verb
  1. To place in or hang on a rack.
  2. To torture (someone) on the rack.
  3. To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
  4. To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
  5. To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
  6. To strike a male in the testicles.
  7. To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
  8. To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
  9. To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
  10. To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
  11. (structural engineering) Tending to shear a structure (that is, force it to move in different directions at different points).

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To stretch a person's joints.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
verb
  1. To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir
  2. To fly, as vapour or broken clouds

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. A fast amble.
verb
  1. (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.

Etymology 6

noun
  1. A wreck; destruction.

Etymology 7

noun
  1. A young rabbit, or its skin.

Etymology 8

noun
  1. A clear, unsweetened aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink, produced and consumed primarily in the Middle East
  2. The toothbrush tree, Salvadora persica.

rock

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A formation of minerals, specifically:
  2. A large hill or island having no vegetation.
  3. Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support to another.
  4. A lump or cube of ice.
  5. A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally having some text running through its length.
  6. A crystallized lump of crack cocaine.
  7. An unintelligent person, especially one who repeats mistakes.
  8. An Afrikaner.
  9. An extremely conservative player who is willing to play only the very strongest hands.
  10. Any of several fish:
  11. A basketball.
  12. (rock paper scissors) A closed hand (a handshape resembling a rock), that beats scissors and loses to paper. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
  13. A cricket ball, especially a new one that has not been softened by use
  14. A crystal used to control the radio frequency.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An act of rocking; a rocking motion; a sway.
verb
  1. To move gently back and forth.
  2. To cause to shake or sway violently.
  3. To sway or tilt violently back and forth.
  4. (of ore etc.) To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker.
  5. To disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to distress; to greatly impact (most often positively).
  6. To do well or to be operating at high efficiency.
  7. To make love to or have sex with.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, bass guitar, drums and vocals.
verb
  1. To play, perform, or enjoy rock music, especially with a lot of skill or energy.
  2. To be very favourable or skilful; excel; be fantastic.
  3. To thrill or excite, especially with rock music
  4. To do something with excitement yet skillfully
  5. To wear (a piece of clothing, outfit etc.) successfully or with style; to carry off (a particular look, style).

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Distaff.
  2. The flax or wool on a distaff.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.
noun
  1. Rocuronium.

rollback

noun
  1. A return to a prior state by undoing some operation.
  2. A withdrawal of military forces.
  3. An operation which returns a database, or group of records in a database, to a previous state (normally to the previous commit point).
  4. The situation where a rollercoaster fails to reach the top of a hill and instead rolls backward.
  5. (mechanics' jargon) A form of flatbed truck adapted or designed specifically as a tow truck or for transporting other vehicles.
  6. The policy of totally annihilating an enemy's armed forces and occupying the country, as was done in World War II to Italy, Germany, and Japan.
verb
  1. Return to the previous state.

rook

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
  2. A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
  3. A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
  4. A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
  5. A bad deal, a rip-off.
verb
  1. To cheat or swindle.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
  2. A castle or other fortification.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A rookie.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Mist; fog; roke

Etymology 5

verb
  1. To squat; to ruck.

Etymology 6

verb
  1. Pronunciation spelling of look.

barback

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lookbook

noun
  1. A comprehensive directory of fashion-related companies and people, such as fashion designers, industry figures, brands and retail stores.
  2. A printed showcase of still images of a fashion designer or fashion brand’s collection with pages bound along one side.
  3. A showcase of photographs etc. describing how a film should look.
verb
  1. To locate fashion-related information by means of a directory.