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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 181

Number of Answers: 46

Points Needed for Genius: 127

Genius requires between 20 and 40 words. You need at least a 6-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 181 was in the 57th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on April 30, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 46 possible answers rank it in the 67th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on April 30, 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 a 6-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on April 29, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.1.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 197
  • loll 192
  • toot 185
  • naan 171
  • nana 171
  • lilt 138
  • till 138
  • tilt 138
  • tint 134
  • nene 131
  • mama 129
  • mamma 129
  • acacia 122
  • acai 122
  • onto 121
  • toon 121
  • onion 117
  • anal 115
  • anon 112
  • olio 112
  • boob 111
  • booboo 111
  • baba 108
  • tact 108
  • dodo 106
  • papa 106
  • lull 105
  • lulu 105
  • call 104
  • calla 104
  • poop 104
  • mitt 103
  • ratatat 103
  • tart 103
  • tartar 103
  • attar 102
  • tatty 102
  • tattoo 101
  • allay 100
  • ally 100
  • mono 100
  • moon 100
  • tutu 100
  • ammo 99
  • momma 99
  • cocci 98
  • epee 98
  • peep 98
  • loon 96
  • loot 95


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 100,602 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,574 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*:

  • celom
  • cleome
  • coelom
  • coelome
  • coempt
  • comm
  • commo
  • complect
  • complot
  • compo
  • compt
  • comte
  • emmet
  • mell
  • metol
  • metope
  • molto
  • mome
  • mool
  • motmot
  • mott
  • motte
  • pellmell
  • pelmet
  • pommee
  • pomo
  • telecomm
  • telome
  • templet
  • toom

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

clomp

noun
  1. The sound of feet hitting the ground loudly.
verb
  1. To walk heavily or clumsily, as with clogs.
  2. To make some object hit something, thereby producing a clomping sound.

come

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Coming, arrival; approach.
  2. Semen
  3. Female ejaculatory discharge.
verb
  1. To move from further away to nearer to.
  2. To arrive.
  3. To appear, to manifest itself.
  4. (with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
  5. (with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
  6. To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
  7. To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
  8. (with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
  9. (with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
  10. (fossil word) To become, to turn out to be.
  11. To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
  12. To carry through; to succeed in.
  13. Happen.
  14. (with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate.
  15. (of grain) To germinate.
  16. To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.
preposition
  1. Used to indicate a point in time at or after which a stated event or situation occurs.
interjection
  1. An exclamation to express annoyance.
  2. An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
  2. A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
  3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
  4. A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
  5. A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
  6. In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
  7. A brief interval.

comet

noun
  1. A celestial body consisting mainly of ice, dust and gas in a (usually very eccentric) orbit around the Sun and having a "tail" of matter blown back from it by the solar wind as it approaches the Sun.
  2. A celestial phenomenon with the appearance given by the orbiting celestial body.
  3. Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes.

comp

noun
  1. Clipping of comprehensive layout, a graphic design showing final proposed layout of text and images.
  2. Clipping of comprehensive examination.
  3. Clipping of complimentary ticket or item.
verb
  1. To accompany, in music.
  2. To compose (a visual design); to make a composite.
  3. To provide someone with (a complimentary item, such as a ticket).
  4. To provide a complimentary item, such as a ticket to (someone).
noun
  1. (in bibliographies) Abbreviation of compiled.
noun
  1. Something suitable for comparison.
noun
  1. (grammar) A construction showing a relative quality, in English usually formed by adding more or appending -er. For example, the comparative of green is greener; of evil, more evil.
  2. (grammar) A word in the comparative form.
  3. (chiefly in the plural) Data used to make a comparison.
  4. An equal; a rival; a compeer.
  5. One who makes comparisons; one who affects wit.
noun
  1. Comparison.
  2. An instruction or command that compares two values.
  3. Illustration by comparison; simile.
noun
  1. The act or principle of compensating.
  2. Something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss.
  3. The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount.
  4. A recompense or reward for service.
  5. An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
  6. The relationship between air temperature outside a building and a calculated target temperature for provision of air or water to contained rooms or spaces for the purpose of efficient heating. In building control systems the compensation curve is defined to a compensator for this purpose.
  7. The ability of one part of the brain to overfunction in order to take over the function of a damaged part (e.g. following a stroke).
noun
  1. The action of competing.
  2. A contest for a prize or award.
  3. The competitors in such a contest.
noun
  1. The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.
  2. That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.
  3. Translation of source code into object code by a compiler.
verb
  1. To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.
  2. To construct, build.
  3. To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.
  4. To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
  5. To contain or comprise.
  6. To write; to compose.
noun
  1. One who compiles.
  2. A computer program which transforms source code into object code.
adjective
  1. In the nature of a compliment.
  2. Free; provided at no charge.
  3. With respect to the closing of a letter, formal and professional.
noun
  1. A mixture of different components.
  2. A structural material that gains its strength from a combination of complementary materials.
  3. A plant belonging to the family Asteraceae, syn. Compositae.
  4. A function of a function.
  5. (chiefly law enforcement) A drawing, photograph, etc. that combines several separate pictures or images.
noun
  1. A (nonzero) natural number that is expressible as the product of two (or more) natural numbers other than itself and 1.
noun
  1. The act of putting together; assembly.
  2. A mixture or compound; the result of composing.
  3. The proportion of different parts to make a whole.
  4. The general makeup of a thing or person.
  5. An agreement or treaty used to settle differences; later especially, an agreement to stop hostilities; a truce.
  6. A payment of money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling or fine.
  7. An agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor.
  8. An essay.
  9. The formation of compound words from separate words.
  10. A work of music, literature or art.
  11. Typesetting.
  12. Applying a function to the result of another.
  13. The compounding of two velocities or forces into a single equivalent velocity or force.
  14. Consistency; accord; congruity.
  15. Synthesis as opposed to analysis.
  16. The arrangement and flow of elements in a picture.
  17. Way to combine simple objects or data types into more complex ones.
noun
  1. A person who sets type; a typesetter.
  2. One who, or that which, composes or sets in order.
noun
  1. A normal secondary school, accepting pupils of all abilities; replaced the secondary modern schools and grammar schools
noun
  1. The chief accountant of a company or government.
noun
  1. A person employed to perform computations; one who computes.
  2. (by restriction) A male computer, where the female computer is called a computress.
  3. A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media.
noun
  1. The study of computers and their architecture, languages, and applications, in all aspects, as well as the mathematical structures that relate to computers and computation.

compel

verb
  1. To drive together, round up
  2. To overpower; to subdue.
  3. To force, constrain or coerce.
  4. To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.
  5. To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
  6. To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
  7. To call forth; to summon.

compete

verb
  1. To be in battle or in a rivalry with another for the same thing, position, or reward; to contend
  2. To be in a position in which it is possible to win or triumph.
  3. To take part in a contest, game or similar event

complete

noun
  1. A completed survey.
verb
  1. To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
  2. To make whole or entire.
  3. To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.
adjective
  1. With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.
  2. Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
  3. Generic intensifier.
  4. (of a metric space) In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space.
  5. (of a lattice) In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
  6. (of a category) In which all small limits exist.
  7. (of a proof system of a formal system with respect to a given semantics) In which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable.
  8. (of a problem) That is in a given complexity class and is such that every other problem in the class can be reduced to it (usually in polynomial time or logarithmic space).

compote

noun
  1. A dessert made of fruit cooked in sugary syrup.
  2. A dish used for serving fruit.

emcee

noun
  1. A rapper.
  2. Initialism of main colour.
  3. Initialism of matching colour.
  4. Initialism of movie clip.
  5. Initialism of mail code.
  6. Initialism of main character.
  7. Initialism of military cross.
  8. Initialism of Member of Congress.
  9. Initialism of medical college.
  10. Initialism of Mars-crosser.
  11. Initialism of medium coeli, the midheaven or highest point in the sky. Contrasted to Imum Coeli.
noun
  1. A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
  2. (by extension) A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
  3. A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.
  4. A group practice of several physicians.
  5. A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
  6. A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
  7. A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
  8. One confined to bed by sickness.
  9. One who receives baptism on a sickbed.
verb
  1. To act as the master of ceremonies (for).
  2. To rap as part of a hip-hop performance.
noun
  1. A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical and/or surgical treatment.
  2. A building founded for the long-term care of its residents, such as an almshouse. The residents may have no physical ailments, but simply need financial support.
  3. A place of lodging.
noun
  1. Someone who acts as a host at a formal event.
  2. Someone who conducts a programme of varied entertainment, for example by introducing performers to the audience.
  3. A rapper.
noun
  1. Dichloromethane
noun
  1. A viral infection of the skin or (occasionally) mucous membranes, caused by Molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV), a DNA poxvirus.
noun
  1. A group of individuals whose primary interests and activities involve motorcycles.
noun
  1. A place used as a hospital on board a ship, on a spaceship (in science fiction).
  2. A room or area for the treatment of the sick or injured in a school.

emote

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

locomote

verb
  1. To move or travel (from one location to another).

loom

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Loon (bird of order Gaviiformes)

Etymology 3

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

meet

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Suitable; right; proper.

melee

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

melt

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

meme

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

memo

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

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.

mole

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

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

Etymology 4

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

Etymology 5

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

Etymology 6

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

Etymology 7

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

moll

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Minor; in the minor mode

molt

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

moot

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Vagina.

Etymology 4

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

mope

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

moppet

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

mote

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A small particle; a speck.

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

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

Etymology 4

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

motel

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

motet

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

mottle

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

motto

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

omelet

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

omelette

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

poem

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

pome

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

pomelo

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

pommel

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

pomp

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

pompom

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

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.

telecom

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Telecommunication or telecommunications.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A telco (phone company) or telecom company.

temp

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

temple

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

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

tempo

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

tempt

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

tome

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

totem

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