Friday, June 20, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 287

Number of Answers: 61

Points Needed for Genius: 201

Genius requires between 27 and 52 words. You need at least an 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 74% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 68% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 287 was in the 92nd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on June 7, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 61 possible answers rank it in the 93rd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on June 7, 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 June 18, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.7.
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 203
  • loll 198
  • toot 190
  • naan 173
  • nana 173
  • lilt 140
  • till 140
  • tilt 140
  • tint 137
  • nene 134
  • mama 133
  • mamma 133
  • onto 125
  • toon 125
  • acacia 124
  • acai 124
  • onion 122
  • anal 118
  • anon 116
  • olio 116
  • boob 112
  • booboo 112
  • dodo 112
  • papa 110
  • baba 109
  • poop 109
  • tact 109
  • call 106
  • calla 106
  • lull 106
  • lulu 106
  • mitt 105
  • ratatat 105
  • tart 105
  • tartar 105
  • attar 104
  • tatty 104
  • mono 103
  • moon 103
  • tattoo 103
  • allay 102
  • ally 102
  • ammo 102
  • momma 102
  • cocci 101
  • tutu 101
  • epee 100
  • peep 100
  • loon 99
  • roar 97


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 102,911 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,628 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*:

  • aphtha
  • aphthae
  • appal
  • appel
  • atap
  • beleap
  • beleapt
  • epha
  • ephah
  • ephebe
  • etape
  • heelplate
  • lappet
  • lept
  • lepta
  • palea
  • paleae
  • paleal
  • paleate
  • palet
  • pallette
  • palpal
  • patellate
  • pattee
  • pele
  • pelletal
  • peltate
  • pepla
  • pettable
  • pettle
  • phablet
  • phpht
  • phthalate
  • tapeable
  • tapeta
  • tapetal
  • tappable
  • tappet
  • tepa
  • tepal

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

aleph

noun
  1. The first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, and its descendants in descended Semitic scripts, such as Phoenician 𐤀, Aramaic 𐡀, Syriac ܐ, Hebrew א and Arabic ا.

alpha

noun
  1. The name of the first letter of the Greek alphabet (Α, α), followed by beta. In the Latin alphabet it is the predecessor to A.
  2. Latin alpha
  3. The name of the symbols Α and α used in science and mathematics, often interchangeable with the symbols when used as a prefix.
  4. The return of a given asset or portfolio adjusted for systematic risk.
  5. A person, especially a male, who is dominant, successful and attractive; (see alpha male).
  6. (abbreviation) Alphabet.
  7. The first versions of a program, usually only available to the developer, and only tested by the developer.
  8. The level of translucency of a color, as determined by the alpha channel.
  9. The significance level of a statistical test; the alpha level.
  10. In omegaverse fiction, a person of a sexually-dominant (and sometimes secondary) gender/sex that is driven by biology, magic, or other means to bond with an omega, with males of this type often having canine-like genitalia.
adjective
  1. Designates the first in an order of precedence.
  2. (of person, object or action) exhibiting characteristics of the alpha male/female archetype.
  3. Designates some bright star, usually the brightest star, of a constellation.

alphabet

noun
  1. The set of letters used when writing in a language.
  2. A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.)
  3. A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
  4. An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
  5. The simplest rudiments; elements.
verb
  1. To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

appall

verb
  1. To fill with horror; to dismay.
  2. To make pale; to blanch.
  3. To weaken; to reduce in strength
  4. To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged.
  5. To lose flavour or become stale.

appeal

noun
  1. An application for the removal of a cause or suit from an inferior to a superior judge or court for re-examination or review.
  2. The mode of proceeding by which such removal is effected.
  3. The right of appeal.
  4. An accusation; a process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offense against the public.
  5. An accusation of a felon at common law by one of his accomplices, which accomplice was then called an approver.
  6. A summons to answer to a charge.
  7. A call to a person or an authority for help, proof or a decision; entreaty.
  8. Resort to physical means; recourse.
  9. Power to attract or interest.
  10. A call to or use of a principle or quality for purposes of persuasion.
verb
  1. To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to vindicate one's rights, etc.
  2. To call on (someone) for aid
  3. (informal elsewhere) To apply for the removal of a cause from an inferior to a superior judge or court for the purpose of reexamination or for decision.
  4. To be attractive.
  5. To ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by saying "How's that" or "Howzat".
  6. To accuse (someone of something).
  7. To summon; to challenge.
  8. To invoke (used with to).

appealable

adjective
  1. (of a verdict etc.) That may be appealed, or sent to a higher court for judgement
  2. That may be accused or called to answer by appeal.

appellate

adjective
  1. That can be (legally) appealed to, especially of a court that hears appeals of decisions by a lower court.

appellee

noun
  1. A respondent.

apple

noun
  1. A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates.
  2. Any of various tree-borne fruits or vegetables especially considered as resembling an apple; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of other specific fruits such as custard apple, rose apple, thorn apple etc.
  3. The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit.
  4. A tree of the genus Malus, especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.
  5. The wood of the apple tree.
  6. (in the plural) Short for apples and pears, slang for stairs.
  7. The ball in baseball.
  8. When smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth.
  9. A Native American or red-skinned person who acts and/or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.
  10. (ice hockey slang) An assist.
verb
  1. To become apple-like.
  2. To form buds.

applet

noun
  1. A small program module that runs under the control of a larger application, typically a web browser

beep

noun
  1. The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound.
  2. A short, electronically produced tone.
verb
  1. To sound (something that makes a beep).
  2. To have sexual intercourse (with) - referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts
  3. To produce a beep.
  4. To contact (someone via) a pager device.
  5. Telephoning a person, but only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.

bleep

noun
  1. A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.
  2. Something named by an explicit noun in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence.
  3. A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock.
verb
  1. To emit one or more bleeps.
  2. To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.

epee

noun
  1. A sharp-pointed dueling sword with a bell-shaped guard, used (with the end blunted) in sport fencing.

heap

noun
  1. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
  2. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
  3. A great number or large quantity of things.
  4. A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
  5. Memory that is dynamically allocated.
  6. A dilapidated place or vehicle.
  7. A lot, a large amount
verb
  1. To pile in a heap.
  2. To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
  3. To supply in great quantity.
adverb
  1. (representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans; may be offensive) Very.

heeltap

noun
  1. A piece or wedge that raises the heel of a shoe.
  2. A small amount of (especially alcoholic) drink remaining at the bottom of a glass.
verb
  1. To add a piece of leather to the heel of (a shoe, boot, etc.).

help

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Action given to provide assistance; aid.
  2. (usually uncountable) Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.
  3. Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer.
  4. (usually uncountable) One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation of a farm or enterprise.
  5. Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To provide assistance to (someone or something).
  2. To assist (a person) in getting something, especially food or drink at table; used with to.
  3. To contribute in some way to.
  4. To provide assistance.
  5. To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can.
interjection
  1. A cry of distress or an urgent request for assistance

helpable

No Definition Found.

heptathlete

noun
  1. An athlete who competes in the heptathlon.

lapel

noun
  1. Each of the two triangular pieces of cloth on the front of a jacket or coat that are folded back below the throat, leaving a triangular opening between.

leap

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The act of leaping or jumping.
  2. The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
  3. A group of leopards.
  4. A significant move forward.
  5. A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
  6. A fault.
  7. Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
  8. A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
  9. A salmon ladder.
verb
  1. To jump.
  2. To pass over by a leap or jump.
  3. To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.
  4. To cause to leap.
adjective
  1. (calendar) Intercalary, bissextile.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A basket.
  2. A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
  3. Half a bushel.

leapt

verb
  1. To jump.
  2. To pass over by a leap or jump.
  3. To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.
  4. To cause to leap.

paella

noun
  1. A savory Valencian dish made of rice, cooked on a frying pan with vegetables and meat or shellfish.

palapa

noun
  1. An open-sided dwelling with a thatched roof made of dried palm leaves.

palatable

adjective
  1. Pleasing to the taste, tasty.
  2. Tolerable, acceptable.

palatal

noun
  1. A palatal consonant.
adjective
  1. Pertaining to the palate.
  2. Of an upper tooth, on the side facing the palate.
  3. Articulated at the hard palate.

palate

noun
  1. The roof of the mouth; the uraniscus.
  2. The sense of taste.
  3. Relish; taste; liking (from the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste)
  4. Mental relish; intellectual taste.
  5. A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.
verb
  1. To relish; to find palatable.

pale

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Paleness; pallor.
verb
  1. To turn pale; to lose colour.
  2. To become insignificant.
  3. To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
adjective
  1. Light in color.
  2. (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
  3. Feeble, faint.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A wooden stake; a picket.
  2. Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
  3. (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
  4. The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
  5. A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
  6. A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
  7. The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
  8. A cheese scoop.
  9. A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
verb
  1. To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.

palette

noun
  1. A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours.
  2. The range of colors in a given work or item or body of work.
  3. A visual selection of colours, tools, commands, etc.
  4. A plate of armour covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
  5. A plate against which a person presses their breast to give force to a hand-operated drill.

pall

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Senses relating to cloth.
  2. Senses relating to clothing.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.
  2. To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A feeling of nausea caused by disgust or overindulgence.

pallet

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
  2. A flat base for combining stores or carrying a single item to form a unit load for handling, transportation, and storage by materials handling equipment.
  3. (DOD only) 463L pallet – An 88” x 108” aluminum flat base used to facilitate the upload and download of aircraft.
verb
  1. To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A straw bed.
  2. (by extension) A makeshift bed.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Paleness; pallor.
noun
  1. A wooden stake; a picket.
  2. Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
  3. (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
  4. The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
  5. A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
  6. A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
  7. The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
  8. A cheese scoop.
  9. A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours.
  2. The range of colors in a given work or item or body of work.
  3. A visual selection of colours, tools, commands, etc.
  4. A plate of armour covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
  5. A plate against which a person presses their breast to give force to a hand-operated drill.
noun
  1. A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
  2. A potter's wheel.
  3. (gilding) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
  4. (gilding) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
  5. (brickmaking) A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.
  6. A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
  7. One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
  8. One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel.
  9. In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
  10. One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the Teredo.
  11. A cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.

palp

noun
  1. A pedipalp, an appendage found near the mouth in invertebrates; has a variety of functions but is often primarily used for predating.
noun
  1. A fleshy part of a fingertip.
  2. Short for palpation.
verb
  1. To feel, to explore by touch.
adjective
  1. Palpatory; obtained by palpation.

palpable

adjective
  1. Capable of being touched, felt or handled; touchable, tangible.
  2. Obvious or easily perceived; noticeable.
  3. That can be detected by palpation.

palpate

verb
  1. To examine or otherwise explore through touch, particularly in reference to an area or organ of the human body.
adjective
  1. Of palp, or having palp.

papa

noun
  1. Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
  2. A pet name for one's grandfather.
  3. A parish priest in the Greek Orthodox Church.
  4. The letter P in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

papal

adjective
  1. Having to do with the pope or the papacy.

pate

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (somewhat obsolete) The head, particularly the top or crown.
  2. Wit, cleverness, cognitive abilities.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The interior body, or non-rind portion of cheese, described by its texture, density, and color.
noun
  1. A finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables, sometimes with the addition of alcohol.

patella

noun
  1. The sesamoid bone of the knee; the kneecap.
  2. A little dish or vase.

patellae

noun
  1. The sesamoid bone of the knee; the kneecap.
  2. A little dish or vase.

path

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
  2. A course taken.
  3. A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
  4. A metaphorical course.
  5. A method or direction of proceeding.
  6. A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure, such as a file system or as part of a URL.
  7. A sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not visit the same vertex more than once (unless it is a closed path, where only the first and the last vertex are the same).
  8. A continuous map f from the unit interval I = [0,1] to a topological space X.
  9. A slot available for allocation to a railway train over a given route in between other trains.
verb
  1. To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (abbreviation) Pathology.

peal

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc.
  2. A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale.
  3. The changes rung on a set of bells.
verb
  1. To sound with a peal or peals.
  2. To utter or sound loudly.
  3. To assail with noise.
  4. To resound; to echo.
  5. To pour out.
  6. To appeal.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.

peat

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A pet, a darling; a woman.

pebble

noun
  1. A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.
  2. A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
  3. A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface.
  4. Transparent and colourless rock crystal.
  5. A form of slow-burning gunpowder in large cubical grains.
verb
  1. To pave with pebbles.
  2. To deposit water droplets on the ice.
  3. To give (leather) a rough appearance with small rounded prominences.
  4. To place a pebble at (a vertex of a graph) according to certain rules; see pebble game.

peel

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
  2. The action of peeling away from a formation.
  3. A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
verb
  1. To remove the skin or outer covering of.
  2. To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
  3. To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
  4. To remove one's clothing.
  5. To move, separate (off or away).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A stake.
  2. A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
  3. A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
  2. A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
  3. The blade of an oar.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. An equal or match; a draw.
  2. A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
verb
  1. To play a peel shot.

Etymology 5

verb
  1. To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).

Etymology 6

verb
  1. To plunder; to pillage, rob.

Etymology 7

noun
  1. A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.

peelable

No Definition Found.

peep

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird.
  2. A feeble utterance or complaint.
  3. The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically shrill.
  4. A kind of bird; a sandpiper.
verb
  1. To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird.
  2. To speak briefly with a quiet voice.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A quick look or glimpse, especially a furtive one.
  2. The first partial appearance of something; a beginning to appear.
verb
  1. To look, especially through a narrow opening, or while trying not to be seen or noticed.
  2. To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A spot on a die or domino.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Person.

pellet

noun
  1. A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
  2. A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
  3. Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls. Serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.
  4. A roundel sable (black circular spot; also called ogress).
  5. One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.
verb
  1. To form into pellets.
  2. To strike with pellets.

pelt

noun
  1. A blow or stroke from something thrown.
verb
  1. To bombard, as with missiles.
  2. To throw; to use as a missile.
  3. To rain or hail heavily.
  4. To beat or hit, especially repeatedly.
  5. To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.
  6. To throw out words.

petal

noun
  1. One of the component parts of the corolla of a flower. It applies particularly, but not necessarily only, when the corolla consists of separate parts, that is when the petals are not connately fused. Petals are often brightly colored.
  2. Term of endearment.

phat

adjective
  1. (originally African American Vernacular English) Excellent; cool; very good.
  2. Sexy.
  3. Rich in texture; prominent.

plat

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A plot of land; a lot.
  2. A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.
  3. A plot, a scheme.
verb
  1. To create a plat; to lay out property lots and streets; to map.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.).
  2. Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw from which straw hats are made.
verb
  1. (obsolete except regional England) To braid, to plait.

Etymology 3

adjective
  1. (obsolete except Scotland) Flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level.
adverb
  1. (obsolete except Scotland) Flatly, plainly.

plate

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
  2. Such dishes collectively.
  3. The contents of such a dish.
  4. A course at a meal.
  5. An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
  6. A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.
  7. A vehicle license plate.
  8. A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
  9. A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
  10. A material covered with such a layer.
  11. A decorative or food service item coated with silver or gold.
  12. A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
  13. An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
  14. An image or copy.
  15. An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
  16. A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
  17. A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
  18. A foot, from "plates of meat".
  19. Home plate.
  20. A tectonic plate.
  21. Plate armour.
  22. Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
  23. A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
  24. The anode of a vacuum tube.
  25. Silver or gold, in the form of a coin, or less often silver or gold utensils or dishes (from Spanish plata ("silver")).
  26. A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
  27. A prize given to the winner in a contest.
  28. Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
  29. (travel industry) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
  30. (travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
  31. A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
  32. One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
  33. A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
  34. (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
  35. (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
  36. A record, usually vinyl.
verb
  1. To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
  2. To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
  3. To score a run.
  4. To arm or defend with metal plates.
  5. To beat into thin plates.
  6. (travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
  7. To categorise stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet.
  8. (particularly with early British stamps) to identify the printing plate used.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Precious metal, especially silver.

platelet

noun
  1. A small colorless disk-shaped particle found in the blood of mammals, which plays an important role in the formation of blood clots.

plea

noun
  1. An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.
  2. An excuse; an apology.
  3. That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification.
  4. That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause.
  5. An allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer.
  6. The defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s declaration and demand.
  7. A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas.
verb
  1. To plead; to argue.

pleat

noun
  1. A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric. There are many types of pleats, differing in their construction and appearance.
  2. A fold in an organ, usually a longitudinal fold in a long leaf such as that of palmetto, lending it stiffness.
  3. A plait.
verb
  1. To form one or more pleats in a piece of fabric or a garment.
  2. To plait.

pleb

noun
  1. A commoner, a member of the lower class of a society.
  2. A common person, an unsophisticated or cultureless person.
  3. (usually derogatory) A freshman cadet at a military academy.
adjective
  1. Of or concerning the lower class of a society.
  2. Undistinguished, commonplace, unsophisticated, vulgar, coarse.

plebe

noun
  1. (usually in the plural) A plebeian, a member of the lower class of Roman citizens.
  2. The plebs, the plebeian class.
  3. The similar lower class of any area.
  4. A freshman cadet at a military academy.

tapa

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any appetizer or snack served in the evening as part of tapas.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Seasoned slices of dried or cured meat in Filipino cuisine.

tape

noun
  1. Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
  2. Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
  3. Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
  4. Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.
  5. (by extension) Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.
  6. An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.
  7. (from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
  8. The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick
  9. A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine.
verb
  1. To bind with adhesive tape.
  2. To record, particularly onto magnetic tape.
  3. (passive) To understand, figure out.

teepee

verb
  1. To toilet paper; to throw toilet paper in rolls over a structure, so the structure becomes draped with it.

telepath

noun
  1. A person with telepathic ability, capable of reading the thoughts of others around them.
verb
  1. To communicate by thought; to use telepathy.

tepee

noun
  1. Alternative form of teepee