Saturday, May 17, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 290

Number of Answers: 65

Points Needed for Genius: 203

Genius requires between 28 and 57 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 79% 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 290 was in the 93rd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on May 3, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 65 possible answers rank it in the 96th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on May 3, 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 7-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on May 15, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.4.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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Haven't I seen these words before?

The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 199
  • loll 194
  • toot 186
  • naan 171
  • nana 171
  • lilt 139
  • till 139
  • tilt 139
  • tint 136
  • nene 131
  • mama 130
  • mamma 130
  • acacia 123
  • acai 123
  • onto 122
  • toon 122
  • onion 119
  • anal 116
  • olio 114
  • anon 112
  • boob 112
  • booboo 112
  • baba 108
  • tact 108
  • dodo 107
  • papa 107
  • poop 106
  • lull 105
  • lulu 105
  • call 104
  • calla 104
  • ratatat 104
  • tart 104
  • tartar 104
  • attar 103
  • mitt 103
  • mono 103
  • moon 103
  • tatty 102
  • tattoo 101
  • allay 100
  • ally 100
  • ammo 100
  • momma 100
  • tutu 100
  • cocci 99
  • epee 99
  • peep 99
  • loon 97
  • loot 95


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 101,297 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,585 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*:

  • aalii
  • alae
  • alan
  • alane
  • alanin
  • alanine
  • alant
  • alate
  • alee
  • alienee
  • aline
  • allanite
  • allee
  • anele
  • anil
  • anile
  • anilin
  • aniline
  • antennal
  • antialien
  • antielite
  • atlatl
  • elain
  • elint
  • ilea
  • ileal
  • ilia
  • ilial
  • illite
  • intitle
  • italianate
  • italianize
  • lall
  • lallan
  • lanate
  • lanital
  • lateen
  • lati
  • latilla
  • latina
  • latinize
  • latten
  • lattin
  • leal
  • leet
  • lenite
  • lenten
  • lezzie
  • liana
  • liane
  • lienal
  • lineate
  • linin
  • linn
  • litai
  • litten
  • nala
  • nellie
  • nielli
  • nill
  • tael
  • taille
  • tala
  • tantalate
  • tantalite
  • teazel
  • teazle
  • teel
  • tela
  • telae
  • tele
  • telia
  • telial
  • telnet
  • tenail
  • tenaille
  • tetanal
  • tillite
  • tineal
  • zill
  • zizzle

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

alien

noun
  1. Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
  2. A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
  3. A foreigner residing in a country.
  4. One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
verb
  1. To estrange; to alienate.
  2. To transfer the ownership of something.
adjective
  1. Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
  2. Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
  3. Pertaining to extraterrestrial life.

alienate

noun
  1. A stranger; an alien.
verb
  1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
  2. To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted.
adjective
  1. (followed by "from") Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign

alit

No Definition Found.

allele

noun
  1. One of a number of alternative forms of the same gene occupying a given position, or locus, on a chromosome.

anal

noun
  1. Any of the anal scales of a reptile.
  2. Anal sex.
adjective
  1. Of, related to, intended for or involving the anus.
  2. Of the stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is alleged to be concentrated on the anal region.
  3. Of a person, compulsive and stubborn, obsessed with neatness and accuracy, supposedly from not having progressed beyond the anal stage.
  4. (of a vein) Proximate to the thorax.

annal

noun
  1. The record of a single event or item.

anneal

noun
  1. An act of annealing.
verb
  1. To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
  2. To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.
  3. To burn colors onto a glass or other surface.
  4. To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.
  5. To strengthen or harden.

antenatal

adjective
  1. Occurring or existing before birth

atilt

adjective
  1. At an angle from the vertical or horizontal.
adverb
  1. At an angle from the vertical or horizontal; at the point of falling over.
  2. Tilting or as if tilting (charging with a lance, like a knight on horseback in a joust).
preposition
  1. Diagonally over or across.

azalea

noun
  1. A plant of the obsolete genus Azalea.

elan

noun
  1. Ardor or zeal inspired by passion or enthusiasm.

elate

verb
  1. To make joyful or proud.
  2. To lift up; raise; elevate.
adjective
  1. Elated; exultant
  2. Lifted up; raised; elevated.

elite

noun
  1. A special group or social class of people which have a superior intellectual, social or economic status as, the elite of society.
  2. Someone who is among the best at a certain task.
adjective
  1. Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician.
  2. Representing the choicest or most select of a group.

entail

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To imply or require.
  2. To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.
  3. To appoint hereditary possessor.
  4. To cut or carve in an ornamental way.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. That which is entailed. Hence:
  2. Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

entitle

verb
  1. To give a title to.
  2. To dignify by an honorary designation.
  3. To give power or authority (to do something).
  4. To give rightful ownership.
  5. To give a title to a book, film, play, etc.

initial

noun
  1. The first letter of a word or a name.
  2. In plural, the first letter of each word of a person's full name considered as a unit.
  3. A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.
  4. Onset, part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus in phonetics and phonology.
verb
  1. To sign one's initial(s), as an abbreviated signature.
adjective
  1. Chronologically first, early; of or pertaining to the beginning, cause or origin.
  2. Spatially first, placed at the beginning, in the first position; especially said of the first letter of a word.

initialize

verb
  1. To assign initial values to something
  2. To assign an initial value to a variable
  3. To format a storage medium prior to use
  4. To prepare any hardware (such as a printer or scanner) for use

inlet

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To let in; admit.
  2. To insert; inlay.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A body of water let into a coast, such as a bay, cove, fjord or estuary.
  2. A passage that leads into a cavity.

lain

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
  2. To be placed or situated.
  3. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
  4. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
  5. Used with with: to have sexual relations with.
  6. Used with on/upon: to be incumbent (on); to be the responsibility of a person.
  7. To lodge; to sleep.
  8. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
  9. To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To conceal, keep quiet about.

lanai

noun
  1. (Florida) A Hawaiian-style roofed patio.

lane

noun
  1. (used in street names) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
  2. A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.
  3. A narrow road, as in the country.
  4. A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles.
  5. A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.
  6. A course designated for ships or aircrafts.
  7. An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
  8. An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
  9. Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.
  10. In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.
  11. The homestretch.

lantana

noun
  1. Any member of the genus Lantana of perennial verbenas with aromatic flower clusters.

late

noun
  1. A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place late in the day or at night.
adjective
  1. Near the end of a period of time.
  2. Specifically, near the end of the day.
  3. (usually not comparable) Associated with the end of a period.
  4. Not arriving until after an expected time.
  5. Not having had an expected menstrual period.
  6. Deceased, dead: used particularly when speaking of the dead person's actions while alive. (Often used with "the"; see usage notes.)
  7. Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; departed, or gone out of office.
  8. Recent — relative to the noun it modifies.
  9. Of a star or class of stars, cooler than the sun.
adverb
  1. After a deadline has passed, past a designated time.
  2. Formerly, especially in the context of service in a military unit.
  3. Not long ago; just now.

laten

No Definition Found.

latent

noun
  1. (forensics) The residue left by a person's finger that can be made visible by a process such as powder dusting; a latent fingerprint.
  2. An underlying cause that can be inferred from statistical correlations; factor.
  3. Anything that is latent.
adjective
  1. Existing or present but concealed or inactive.
  2. (of a virus) remaining in an inactive or hidden phase; dormant.
  3. Lying dormant or hidden until circumstances are suitable for development or manifestation.

latte

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A drink of coffee made from espresso and steamed milk, generally topped with foam.
  2. A similar drink, where the espresso is replaced with some other flavoring ingredient such as chai, maté or matcha (green tea).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A pillar capped by a hemispherical stone capital with the flat side facing up, used as building supports by the ancient Chamorro people and now used as a sign of Chamorro identity.

laze

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An instance of lazing.
  2. Laziness.
verb
  1. To be lazy, waste time.
  2. To pass time relaxing; to relax, lounge.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Acidic steam created when super-hot lava contacts salt water.

lean

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
verb
  1. To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
  2. To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.
  3. Followed by against, on, or upon: to rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.
  4. To hang outwards.
  5. To press against.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Meat with no fat on it.
  2. An organism that is lean in stature.
verb
  1. To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
adjective
  1. (of a person or animal) Slim; not fleshy.
  2. (of meat) Having little fat.
  3. Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
  4. Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
  5. Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed to fat.
  6. Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing"

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To conceal.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A recreational drug based on codeine-laced promethazine cough syrup, popular in the hip hop community in the southeastern United States.

leant

verb
  1. To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
  2. To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.
  3. Followed by against, on, or upon: to rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.
  4. To hang outwards.
  5. To press against.

lenient

noun
  1. A lenitive; an emollient.
adjective
  1. Lax; not strict; tolerant of dissent or deviation

lent

noun
  1. A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures.
  2. The second term of the academic year at some British schools.
verb
  1. To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
  2. To make a loan.
  3. To be suitable or applicable, to fit.
  4. To afford; to grant or furnish in general.
  5. To borrow.

lentil

noun
  1. Any of several plants of the genus Lens, especially Lens culinaris, from southwest Asia, that have edible, lens-shaped seeds within flattened pods.
  2. The seed of these plants, used as food.

lien

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A tendon.
  2. A right to take possession of a debtor’s property as security until a debt or duty is discharged.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (possibly obsolete) The spleen.

lilt

noun
  1. Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness.
  2. A lively song or dance; a cheerful tune.
  3. A cheerful or melodious accent when speaking.
verb
  1. To do something rhythmically, with animation and quickness, usually of music.
  2. To sing cheerfully, especially in Gaelic.
  3. To utter with spirit, animation, or gaiety; to sing with spirit and liveliness.

line

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
  2. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
  3. A hose or pipe, of any size.
  4. Direction, path.
  5. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.
  6. A clothesline.
  7. A letter, a written form of communication.
  8. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.
  9. A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.
  10. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
  11. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
  12. A measuring line or cord.
  13. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
  14. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
  15. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
  16. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation.
  17. The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery etc.
  18. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
  19. A small amount of text. Specifically:
  20. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
  21. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction.
  22. A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
  23. A number of shares taken by a jobber.
  24. A measure of length:
  25. A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
  26. (1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
  27. The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
  28. Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).
  29. A small path-shaped portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug, especially cocaine.
  30. Instruction; doctrine.
  31. Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
  32. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter.
  33. A group of forwards that play together.
  34. A vascular catheter.
verb
  1. To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
  2. To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
  3. To form a line along.
  4. To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
  5. To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
  6. To read or repeat line by line.
  7. To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.
  8. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
  9. To measure.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
verb
  1. To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
  2. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
  3. To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. (of a dog) To copulate with, to impregnate.

lineal

adjective
  1. (family) Of a family relationship that includes mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, grandparents, grandchildren, etc., but not siblings; as opposed to collateral.
  2. Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to).
  3. Composed of lines; delineated.
  4. In the direction of a line; of a line; of or relating to a line; measured on, or ascertained by, a line; linear.

linen

noun
  1. Thread or cloth made from flax fiber.
  2. Domestic textiles, such as tablecloths, bedding, towels, underclothes, etc., that are made of linen or linen-like fabrics of cotton or other fibers; linens.
  3. A light beige colour, like that of linen cloth undyed.
adjective
  1. Made from linen cloth or thread.
  2. Having the colour linen, light beige.

linnet

noun
  1. A small passerine bird, the common linnet (Linaria cannabina, syn. Carduelis cannabina), in the finch family Fringillidae, native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa.
  2. A house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus), of North America.

lint

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth; used for dressing wounds.
  2. Clinging fuzzy fluff that clings to fabric or accumulates in one's pockets or navel etc.
  3. The fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant.
  4. Raw cotton ready for baling.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To perform a static check on (source code) to detect stylistic or programmatic errors.

lintel

noun
  1. A horizontal structural beam spanning an opening, such as between the uprights of a door or a window, and which supports the wall above.

lite

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation (light) in the wavelength range of about 400 to 750 nanometers. Nearby shorter and longer wavelength ranges, although not visible, are commonly called ultraviolet and infrared light.
  2. A source of illumination.
  3. Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
  4. (in the plural) Facts; pieces of information; ideas, concepts.
  5. A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
  6. The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light is supposed to fall; the more illuminated part of a landscape or other scene; opposed to shade.
  7. A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
  8. A flame or something used to create fire.
  9. A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
  10. A window, or space for a window in architecture.
  11. The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
  12. A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
  13. Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
  14. The power of perception by vision.
  15. The brightness of the eye or eyes.
  16. A traffic light, or, by extension, an intersection controlled by one or more that will face a traveler who is receiving instructions.
adjective
  1. Having light; bright; clear; not dark or obscure.
  2. Pale or whitish in color; highly luminous and more or less deficient in chroma.
  3. (of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.
noun
  1. A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
  2. See lights.
adjective
  1. Having little or relatively little actual weight; not cumbrous or unwieldy.
  2. Having little weight as compared with bulk; of little density or specific gravity.
  3. Of short or insufficient weight; weighing less than the legal, standard or proper amount; clipped or diminished.
  4. Lacking that which burdens or makes heavy.
  5. Not heavy or soggy; spongy; well raised.
  6. Gentle; having little force or momentum.
  7. Easy to endure or perform.
  8. Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
  9. Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
  10. Unchaste, wanton.
  11. Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
  12. Easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile.
  13. Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
  14. Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
  15. Easily interrupted by stimulation.
adjective
  1. Light in composition, notably low in fat, calories etc. Most commonly used commercially.
  2. Lightweight
  3. (usually used postpositively) Lacking substance or seriousness; watered down.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A little, bit.
adjective
  1. Few; little

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The act of waiting; a wait.
verb
  1. To expect; wait.
  2. To rely.

little

noun
  1. A small amount.
adjective
  1. Small in size.
  2. Insignificant, trivial.
  3. Very young.
  4. (of a sibling) Younger.
  5. (also Little) Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
  6. Small in amount or number, having few members.
  7. Short in duration; brief.
  8. Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
adverb
  1. Not much.
  2. Not at all.
pronoun
  1. Not much; not a large amount.

nail

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.
  2. The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
  3. The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
  4. The claw of a bird or other animal.
  5. A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven through two or more layers of material by means of impacts from a hammer or other device. It is then held in place by friction.
  6. A round pedestal on which merchants once carried out their business, such as the four nails outside The Exchange, Bristol.
  7. An archaic English unit of length equivalent to 1/20 of an ell or 1/16 of a yard (2 1/4 inches or 5.715 cm).

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To fix (an object) to another object using a nail.
  2. To drive a nail.
  3. To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails.
  4. To catch.
  5. To expose as a sham.
  6. To accomplish (a task) completely and successfully.
  7. To hit (a target) effectively with some weapon.
  8. Of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse with.
  9. To spike, as a cannon.
  10. To nail down: to make certain, or confirm.

natal

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Of or relating to birth.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Of or relating to the buttocks.

nettle

noun
  1. Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
  2. Certain plants that have spines or prickles:
  3. Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica:
  4. Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.
verb
  1. Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting, causing a rash in someone.
  2. To pique, irritate, vex or provoke.

tail

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
  2. An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
  3. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
  4. The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
  5. The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
  6. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
  7. The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
  8. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
  9. The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
  10. One who surreptitiously follows another.
  11. The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
  12. The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
  13. (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
  14. All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
  15. The buttocks or backside.
  16. The penis of a person or animal.
  17. Sexual intercourse.
  18. (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
  19. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
  20. The distal tendon of a muscle.
  21. A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
  22. A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
  23. A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
  24. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
  25. A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
  26. The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
  27. A tailing.
  28. The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
  29. A tailcoat.
verb
  1. To follow and observe surreptitiously.
  2. To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
  3. To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
  4. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
  5. To pull or draw by the tail.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
adjective
  1. Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.

tale

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.
  2. A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
  3. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
  4. The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim.
  5. Number; tally; quota.
  6. Account; estimation; regard; heed.
  7. Speech; language.
  8. A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
  9. A count; declaration.
  10. A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
  11. A report of any matter; a relation; a version.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To speak; discourse; tell tales.
  2. To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Any of several units of measure used in China and elsewhere in eastern Asia, approximately 40 grams.
  2. Any of several monetary units equal to the equivalent weight in silver.
  3. Leung, a traditional unit of weight, in modern usage legally defined as 1/16 of a catty or kan (斤) or 0.0377993638 kilograms

talent

noun
  1. A marked natural ability or skill.
  2. A unit of weight and money used in ancient times in Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Middle East.
  3. A desire or inclination for something.
  4. People of talent, viewed collectively; a talented person.
  5. The men or (especially) women of a place or area, judged by their attractiveness.

tali

noun
  1. The bone of the ankle.

tall

noun
  1. (possibly nonstandard) Someone or something that is tall.
adjective
  1. (of a person) Having a vertical extent greater than the average. For example, somebody with a height of over 6 feet would generally be considered to be tall.
  2. (of a building, etc.) Having its top a long way up; having a great vertical (and often greater than horizontal) extent; high.
  3. (of a story) Hard to believe, such as a tall story or a tall tale.
  4. (of a cup of coffee) A cup of coffee smaller than grande, usually 8 ounces.
  5. Obsequious; obedient.
  6. Seemly; suitable; fitting, becoming, comely; attractive, handsome.
  7. Bold; brave; courageous; valiant.
  8. Fine; proper; admirable; great; excellent.

tallit

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tantalize

verb
  1. To tease (someone) by offering something desirable but keeping it out of reach
  2. To bait (someone) by showing something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied

tattle

noun
  1. A tattletale.
  2. Often said of children: a piece of incriminating information or an account of wrongdoing that is said about another person.
  3. Idle talk; gossip; an instance of such talk or gossip.
verb
  1. To chatter; to gossip.
  2. Often said of children: to report incriminating information about another person, or a person's wrongdoing; to tell on somebody.
  3. To speak like a baby or young child; to babble, to prattle; to speak haltingly; to stutter.

tattletale

noun
  1. One who tattles (reports others' wrongdoings), often a child seeking attention.
  2. One who gossips, often for the sake of attention.
verb
  1. To act as a tattletale; to tell on; to give away, reveal, or expose.
adjective
  1. Telltale; giveaway

teal

noun
  1. Any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks.
  2. A dark, somewhat bluish-green colour; a dark cyan.
adjective
  1. Having a bluish-green colour

tell

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.
  2. That which is told; a tale or account.
  3. A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
verb
  1. (archaic outside of idioms) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
  2. To narrate.
  3. To convey by speech; to say.
  4. To instruct or inform.
  5. To order; to direct, to say to someone.
  6. To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
  7. To reveal.
  8. To be revealed.
  9. To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
  10. To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.
  11. To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
  12. (authorship) To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.

telltale

noun
  1. One who divulges private information with intent to hurt others.
  2. Tattletale; squealer.
  3. An indicator, such as a warning light, that serves to warn of a hazard or problem.
  4. Something that serves to reveal something else.
  5. A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected to the bellows of an organ, whose position indicates when the wind is exhausted.
  6. A length of yarn or ribbon attached to a sail or shroud etc to indicate the direction of the flow of the air relative to the boat.
  7. A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm.
  8. A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course.
  9. A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees (factory hands, watchmen, drivers, etc.) by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.
  10. A bird, the tattler.
  11. A story or fable that has a moral or message.
adjective
  1. Revealing something, especially something not intended to be known.

tile

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile etc.
  2. A rectangular graphic.
  3. Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
  4. A stiff hat.
verb
  1. To cover with tiles.
  2. To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
  3. To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.

till

Etymology 1

preposition
  1. Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time).
  2. To, up to (physically).
  3. To make it possible that.
conjunction
  1. Until, until the time that.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A cash register.
  2. A removable box within a cash register containing the money.
  3. The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift.
  4. A tray or drawer in a chest.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc.).
  2. To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops.
  3. To cultivate soil.
  4. To prepare; to get.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders
  2. Manure or other material used to fertilize land

Etymology 5

noun
  1. A vetch; a tare.

tilt

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A slope or inclination.
  2. The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
  3. The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
  4. A jousting contest.
  5. An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
  6. A thrust, as with a lance.
  7. A tilt hammer.
verb
  1. To slope or incline (something); to slant.
  2. (jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
  3. To be at an angle.
  4. To point or thrust a weapon at.
  5. To point or thrust (a weapon).
  6. To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
  7. To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).
  8. (of a machine) To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
  2. Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
verb
  1. To cover with a tilt, or awning.

titillate

verb
  1. To stimulate or excite sensually

title

noun
  1. A prefix (honorific) or suffix (post-nominal) added to a person's name to signify either veneration, official position or a professional or academic qualification. See also
  2. Legal right to ownership of a property; a deed or other certificate proving this.
  3. In canon law, that by which a beneficiary holds a benefice.
  4. A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.
  5. The name of a book, film, musical piece, painting, or other work of art.
  6. A publication.
  7. A section or division of a subject, as of a law or a book.
  8. (chiefly in the plural) A written title, credit, or caption shown with a film, video, or performance.
  9. The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book.
  10. The subject of a writing; a short phrase that summarizes the entire topic.
  11. A division of an act of law
  12. The recognition given to the winner of a championship in sports.
verb
  1. To assign a title to; to entitle.

tittle

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A small, insignificant amount (of something); a modicum or speck.
  2. Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or if a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters i and j.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To chatter.

zeal

noun
  1. The fervour or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.
  2. A person who exhibits such fervour or tireless devotion.
  3. The collective noun for a group of zebras.

intel

noun
  1. Intelligence (secret information)