Monday, June 30, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 195

Number of Answers: 55

Points Needed for Genius: 137

Genius requires between 23 and 48 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 76% 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 195 was in the 63rd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on June 29, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 55 possible answers rank it in the 85th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on June 29, 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 June 17, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 4.8.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 204
  • loll 199
  • toot 191
  • naan 174
  • nana 174
  • lilt 140
  • till 140
  • tilt 140
  • tint 138
  • nene 135
  • mama 133
  • mamma 133
  • acacia 126
  • acai 126
  • onto 126
  • toon 126
  • onion 122
  • anal 118
  • anon 118
  • olio 116
  • boob 112
  • booboo 112
  • dodo 112
  • papa 111
  • poop 110
  • tact 110
  • baba 109
  • lull 107
  • lulu 107
  • call 106
  • calla 106
  • mitt 106
  • 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
  • loon 100
  • peep 100
  • roar 98


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 103,357 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,654 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*:

  • ahull
  • alae
  • alee
  • allee
  • allheal
  • alula
  • alulae
  • appal
  • appel
  • halala
  • halalah
  • halavah
  • hallah
  • hallal
  • hallel
  • lahal
  • lall
  • lavalava
  • leal
  • lehua
  • leva
  • palea
  • paleae
  • paleal
  • palpal
  • papula
  • papulae
  • papule
  • peepul
  • pelau
  • pele
  • pepla
  • pula
  • pullup
  • pulpal
  • ulva
  • upleap
  • uveal
  • valval
  • valvula
  • valvulae
  • valvule
  • vela

*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.

allele

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

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.

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).

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.

halal

verb
  1. To make halal.
adjective
  1. Permissible, according to Muslim religious customs, to have or do.
  2. (of food) Fit to eat according to Muslim religious customs.
adverb
  1. In a halal manner; in accordance with Muslim religious customs.

hale

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Health, welfare.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To drag or pull, especially forcibly.

hall

noun
  1. A corridor; a hallway.
  2. A meeting room.
  3. A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
  4. A building providing student accommodation at a university.
  5. The principal room of a secular medieval building.
  6. Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
  7. A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
  8. A living room.

halva

noun
  1. A confection usually made from crushed sesame seeds and honey. It is a traditional dessert in South Asia, the Mediterranean and the Middle East.

halvah

noun
  1. A confection usually made from crushed sesame seeds and honey. It is a traditional dessert in South Asia, the Mediterranean and the Middle East.

halve

verb
  1. To reduce to half the original amount.
  2. To divide into two halves.
  3. To make up half of.
  4. To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
  5. In match play, to achieve a tie or draw on.

haul

noun
  1. An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.
  2. The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.
  3. An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.
  4. Short for haul video.
  5. (ropemaking) A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
verb
  1. To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
  2. To draw or pull something heavy.
  3. To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
  4. To drag, to pull, to tug.
  5. Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
  6. To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
  7. To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
  8. Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
  9. To haul ass.

heal

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment.
  2. Health
verb
  1. To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
  2. To become better or healthy again.
  3. To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
  2. To become better or healthy again.
  3. To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
verb
  1. To hide, conceal, and keep secret, especially for a secret society (such as the masons).
  2. (now especially in the phrase "hele in") To cover or conceal (a seedling, plant, roots, etc).

heel

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.
  2. The part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel.
  3. The rear part of a sock or similar covering for the foot.
  4. The part of the palm of a hand closest to the wrist.
  5. (usually in the plural) A woman's high-heeled shoe.
  6. The back, upper part of the stock.
  7. The last or lowest part of anything.
  8. A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
  9. The base of a bun sliced in half lengthwise.
  10. A contemptible, inconsiderate or thoughtless person.
  11. A headlining wrestler regarded as a "bad guy," whose ring persona embodies villainous or reprehensible traits and demonstrates characteristics of a braggart and a bully.
  12. The cards set aside for later use in a patience or solitaire game.
  13. Anything resembling a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.
  14. The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter.
  15. (specifically) The obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.
  16. (workman slang) A cyma reversa.
  17. The short side of an angled cut.
  18. The part of a club head's face nearest the shaft.
  19. The lower end of the bit (cutting edge) of an axehead; as opposed to the toe (upper end).
  20. In a carding machine, the part of a flat nearest the cylinder.
verb
  1. To follow at somebody's heels; to chase closely.
  2. To add a heel to, or increase the size of the heel of (a shoe or boot).
  3. To kick with the heel.
  4. To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, etc.
  5. To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
  6. To hit (the ball) with the heel of the club.
  7. To make (a fair catch) standing with one foot forward, the heel on the ground and the toe up.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The act of inclining or canting from a vertical position; a cant.
verb
  1. To incline to one side; to tilt.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
  2. To become better or healthy again.
  3. To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
verb
  1. To hide, conceal, and keep secret, especially for a secret society (such as the masons).
  2. (now especially in the phrase "hele in") To cover or conceal (a seedling, plant, roots, etc).

hell

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helluva

adjective
  1. (A) hell of a; extreme.

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

helve

noun
  1. The handle or haft of a tool or weapon.
  2. A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.
verb
  1. To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve.

hula

noun
  1. A form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there.
verb
  1. To dance the hula.

hull

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
  2. Any covering.
verb
  1. To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
  2. (of a set A) The smallest set that possesses a particular property (such as convexity) and contains every point of A; slightly more formally, the intersection of all sets which possess the specified property and of which A is a subset.
verb
  1. To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled.
  2. To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.

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.

lava

noun
  1. The molten rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides.
  2. Magma.
  3. A shade of red, named after the volcanic lava.

lave

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out.
  2. To draw, as water; drink in.
  3. To give bountifully; lavish.
  4. To run down or gutter, as a candle.
  5. To hang or flap down.
  6. To wash.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (archaic or dialectal) The remainder, rest; that which is left, remnant; others.
  2. (dialectal) A crowd

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.

leave

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To have a consequence or remnant.
  2. To depart; to separate from.
  3. To transfer something.
  4. To remain (behind); to stay.
  5. To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
  2. The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
  2. Permission.
  3. Farewell, departure.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.

Etymology 5

verb
  1. To produce leaves or foliage.

Etymology 6

verb
  1. To raise; to levy.

levee

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.
  2. The steep bank of a river.
  3. The border of an irrigated field.
  4. A pier or other landing place on a river.
verb
  1. To keep within a channel by means of levees.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.
  2. A reception of visitors held after getting up.
  3. A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders.
verb
  1. To attend the levee or levees of.

level

noun
  1. A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
  2. A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
  3. Degree or amount.
  4. Achievement or qualification.
  5. Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
  6. One of several discrete segments of a game, generally increasing in difficulty and representing different locations in the game world.
  7. A numeric value that quantifies a character's experience and power.
  8. A floor of a multi-storey building.
  9. An area of almost perfectly flat land.
  10. A school grade or year.
verb
  1. To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
  2. To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
  3. To progress to the next level.
  4. To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
  5. To direct or impose (a penalty, fine, etc) at or upon (someone).
  6. To make the score of a game equal.
  7. To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.
  8. To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
  9. (usually with "with") To speak honestly and openly with.
adjective
  1. The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
  2. At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
  3. Unvaried in frequency.
  4. Unvaried in volume.
  5. Calm.
  6. In the same position or rank.
  7. Straightforward; direct; clear.
  8. Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
  9. Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection; monotonic.
  10. Perpendicular to a gravitational force.

luau

noun
  1. An elaborate Hawaiian feast featuring traditional foods and entertainment.

lull

noun
  1. A period of rest or soothing.
  2. A period of reduced activity; a respite
  3. A period without waves or wind.
  4. An extended pause between sets of waves.
verb
  1. To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm
  2. To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate.

lulu

noun
  1. A remarkable person, object or idea.
  2. A very attractive or alluring person.
  3. A very bad mistake or error.
  4. A fixed allowance paid to a legislator in lieu of reimbursement for actual expenses.

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.

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.

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.

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.

papal

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

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.

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.

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.

pule

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A plaintive melancholy whine.
verb
  1. To whimper or whine.
  2. To pipe or chirp.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A Serbian cheese made from donkey milk.

pull

noun
  1. An act of pulling (applying force)
  2. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source
  3. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope
  4. Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing.
  5. Appeal or attraction (e.g. of a movie star)
  6. The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in server pull, pull technology
  7. A journey made by rowing
  8. A contest; a struggle.
  9. Loss or violence suffered.
  10. The act of drinking; a mouthful or swig of a drink.
  11. A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
  12. A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path.
  13. A single impression from a handpress.
verb
  1. To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
  2. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
  3. To attract or net; to pull in.
  4. To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
  5. To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
  6. To retrieve or generate for use.
  7. To do or perform.
  8. (with 'a' and the name of a person, place, event, etc.) To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
  9. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
  10. To row.
  11. To achieve by rowing on a rowing machine.
  12. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
  13. To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
  14. To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.
  15. To score a certain number of points in a sport.
  16. To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
  17. To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked by pulling a lever.
  18. To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)
  19. To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
  20. (rail transportation, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.
  21. To pluck or pick (flowers, fruit etc.).
interjection
  1. Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.

pulp

noun
  1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
  2. A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper.
verb
  1. To make or be made into pulp.
  2. To beat to a pulp.
  3. To deprive of pulp; to separate the pulp from.
adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to pulp magazines; in the style of a pulp magazine or the material printed within such a publication.

pupal

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upheaval

noun
  1. Change, from one state to another
  2. The process of being heaved upward, especially the raising of part of the earth's crust.
  3. A sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion.

uvula

noun
  1. The fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing.
  2. The slight elevation in the mucous membrane immediately behind the internal urethral orifice of the urinary bladder, caused by the middle lobe of the prostate.
  3. An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clapper.

uvulae

noun
  1. The fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing.
  2. The slight elevation in the mucous membrane immediately behind the internal urethral orifice of the urinary bladder, caused by the middle lobe of the prostate.
  3. An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clapper.

vale

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A valley.

Etymology 2

interjection
  1. (usually seen in obituaries) Farewell.

value

noun
  1. The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
  2. The degree of importance given to something.
  3. That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
  4. The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
  5. The relative duration of a musical note.
  6. The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
  7. Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.
  8. Precise meaning; import.
  9. (in the plural) The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.
  10. Esteem; regard.
  11. Valour; also spelled valew.
verb
  1. To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something.
  2. To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
  3. To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
  4. To hold dear.

valve

noun
  1. A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a pipe.
  2. A device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit.
  3. One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or control the flow in the opposite direction
  4. One of the leaves of a folding-door, or a window-sash.
  5. A vacuum tube.
  6. One of the pieces into which certain fruits naturally separate when they dehisce.
  7. A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, such as in the barberry.
  8. One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
  9. One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
verb
  1. To control (flow) by means of a valve.

veal

noun
  1. The flesh of a calf (i.e. a young bovine) used for food.

vulva

noun
  1. The external female sexual organs, collectively.

vulvae

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vulval

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