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Number of Pangrams: 3

Maximum Puzzle Score: 367

Number of Answers: 69

Points Needed for Genius: 257

Genius requires between 32 and 59 words. You need at least an 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 80% 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 367 was in the 99th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on July 4, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 69 possible answers rank it in the 98th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on June 28, 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 29, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.9.
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 141
  • till 141
  • tilt 141
  • 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 113
  • booboo 113
  • dodo 112
  • papa 111
  • poop 110
  • tact 110
  • baba 109
  • lull 108
  • lulu 108
  • call 106
  • calla 106
  • mitt 106
  • ratatat 105
  • tart 105
  • tartar 105
  • attar 104
  • tatty 104
  • cocci 103
  • mono 103
  • moon 103
  • tattoo 103
  • allay 102
  • ally 102
  • ammo 102
  • momma 102
  • tutu 101
  • epee 100
  • loon 100
  • peep 100
  • roar 98


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 103,601 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,668 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*:

  • agria
  • airn
  • alar
  • alary
  • angaria
  • angary
  • argal
  • argala
  • argali
  • argil
  • argling
  • argyll
  • ariary
  • arrayal
  • aryl
  • gangliar
  • garni
  • garring
  • girn
  • girning
  • glair
  • glairing
  • glairy
  • glary
  • gnar
  • gnarr
  • gnarring
  • graal
  • grana
  • graylag
  • grayling
  • grayly
  • grig
  • grigri
  • gringa
  • grrrl
  • gyral
  • gyrally
  • gyri
  • gyring
  • iring
  • laari
  • lairing
  • lairy
  • laniary
  • lari
  • larigan
  • larn
  • larning
  • larrigan
  • laryngal
  • liri
  • naira
  • narial
  • niagara
  • ragg
  • ragga
  • raggy
  • ragi
  • ragingly
  • raia
  • rainily
  • raya
  • rilling
  • ringingly
  • rinning
  • yarning
  • yirr
  • yirring

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

agar

noun
  1. A gelatinous material obtained from red algae, especially Gracilaria species, used as a bacterial culture medium, in electrophoresis and as a food additive.
  2. A culture medium based on this material.

agrarian

noun
  1. A person who advocates the political interests of working farmers
adjective
  1. Of, or relating to, the ownership, tenure and cultivation of land.
  2. Agricultural or rural.
  3. Wild; said of plants growing in a cultivated field.

airily

adverb
  1. In an airy manner.
  2. Lightly

airing

verb
  1. To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it.
  2. To let fresh air into a room or a building, to ventilate.
  3. To discuss varying viewpoints on a given topic.
  4. To broadcast (a television show etc.).
  5. To be broadcast.
  6. To ignore.
noun
  1. An exposure to warm or fresh air.
  2. The broadcast of a television or radio show.
  3. A public expression of an opinion or discussion of a subject.

airy

adjective
  1. Consisting of air.
  2. Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial.
  3. Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy.
  4. Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike.
  5. Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful.
  6. Not based on reality; having no solid foundation
  7. Light-hearted; vivacious
  8. Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand.
  9. Having the light and aerial tints true to nature.

angrily

adverb
  1. In an angry manner; under the influence of anger.

angry

adjective
  1. Displaying or feeling anger.
  2. (said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.
  3. (said about the elements, like the sky or the sea) Dark and stormy, menacing.

aria

noun
  1. A musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata.

aril

noun
  1. A tissue surrounding the seed in certain fruits such as pomegranates.

arraign

noun
  1. Arraignment.
verb
  1. To officially charge someone in a court of law.
  2. To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal.

arraigning

verb
  1. To officially charge someone in a court of law.
  2. To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal.
noun
  1. An arraignment.

arranging

verb
  1. To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement.
  2. To plan; to prepare in advance.
  3. To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.
noun
  1. Arrangement.

array

noun
  1. Clothing and ornamentation.
  2. A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
  3. An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
  4. Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
  5. A large collection.
  6. Common name for matrix.
  7. Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.
  8. A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
  9. A militia.
  10. A group of hedgehogs.
  11. A microarray.
verb
  1. To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.
  2. To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal.
  3. To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.

arraying

verb
  1. To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.
  2. To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal.
  3. To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.
noun
  1. The act of clothing or adorning.

garaging

verb
  1. To store in a garage.
noun
  1. The act of parking a vehicle in a garage.

gargling

verb
  1. To clean one's mouth by holding water or some other liquid in the back of the mouth and blowing air out from the lungs
  2. To make a sound like the one made while gargling
  3. To clean a specific part of the body by gargling (almost always throat or mouth)
  4. To use (a liquid) for purposes of cleaning one's mouth or throat by gargling.
noun
  1. The act of one who gargles.

girl

noun
  1. A female child, adolescent, or a young woman.
  2. A young female animal.
  3. (sometimes offensive) A woman, especially a young woman
  4. A female servant; a maid. (see usage notes)
  5. A queen (the playing card.)
  6. A term of endearment. (see usage notes)
  7. One's girlfriend.
  8. One's daughter.
  9. A roebuck two years old.
  10. Cocaine, especially in powder form.
  11. (somewhat childish) A female (tree, gene, etc).
  12. A boy or man who is weak or sentimental.
verb
  1. To feminize or girlify; to gender as a girl or as for girls.
  2. (somewhat informal) To staff with or as a girl or girls.

girly

noun
  1. Girl.
adjective
  1. Characteristic of a stereotypical girl, very effeminate, sweet; unmasculine.

glaring

verb
  1. To stare angrily.
  2. To shine brightly.
  3. To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid.
  4. To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
noun
  1. The act of giving a glare.
  2. A group of cats.
adjective
  1. Reflecting with glare.
  2. Blatant, obvious.

glaringly

adverb
  1. In a glaring manner:

gnarl

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.
  2. Something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs.
verb
  1. To knot or twist something.
adjective
  1. Gnarled, knotty, twisted.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To snarl or growl; to gnar.

gnarling

No Definition Found.

gnarly

adjective
  1. Having or characterized by gnarls; gnarled.
  2. Excellent; attractive.
  3. Dangerous; difficult.
  4. Unpleasant, awful, ugly.

grail

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The Holy Grail.
  2. The object of an extended or difficult quest.http//www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grail

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Small particles of earth; gravel.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. One of the small feathers of a hawk.

grain

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
  2. Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
  3. A single seed of grass food crops.
  4. The crops from which grain is harvested.
  5. A linear texture of a material or surface.
  6. A single particle of a substance.
  7. A very small unit of weight, in England equal to 1/480 of an ounce troy, 0.0648 grams or, to be more exact, 64.79891 milligrams (0.002285714 avoirdupois ounce). A carat grain or pearl grain is 1/4 carat or 50 milligrams. The old French grain was 1/9216 livre or 53.11 milligrams, and in the mesures usuelles permitted from 1812 to 1839, with the livre redefined as 500 grams, it was 54.25 milligrams.
  8. A former unit of gold purity, also known as carat grain, equal to 1/4 "carat" (karat).
  9. (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
  10. A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
  11. The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
  12. (in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.
  13. A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
  14. Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
  15. (videography) Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
verb
  1. To feed grain to.
  2. To make granular; to form into grains.
  3. To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
  4. To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
  5. (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
  6. (tanning) To soften leather.
  7. To yield fruit.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
  2. A tine, prong, or fork.
  3. (founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.

graining

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To feed grain to.
  2. To make granular; to form into grains.
  3. To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
  4. To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
  5. (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
  6. (tanning) To soften leather.
  7. To yield fruit.
noun
  1. The practice of imitating woodgrain on a surface.
  2. Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.
  3. A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised.
  4. (soap manufacture) The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A small European freshwater fish (Leuciscus leuciscus); the dobule or dace.

grainy

adjective
  1. Resembling grains; granular.
  2. Coarsely ground or gritty.

gran

noun
  1. (usually affectionate) a grandmother
  2. A grandfather

granary

noun
  1. A storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed.
  2. A fertile, grain-growing region.

granny

noun
  1. A grandmother.
  2. An elderly woman.
  3. (knots) A granny knot.
  4. (farming) An older ewe that may lure a lamb away from its mother.
verb
  1. To be a grandmother.
  2. To act like a stereotypical grandmother; to fuss.
adjective
  1. Typically or stereotypically old-fashioned, especially in clothing and accessories worn by or associated with elderly women.

gray

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
  2. An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
  3. An extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.
  4. A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.
verb
  1. To become gray.
  2. To cause to become gray.
  3. To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)
  4. To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.
adjective
  1. Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
  2. Dreary, gloomy.
  3. Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
  4. Relating to older people.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed by a patient); one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of the patient's mass. Symbol: Gy

graying

verb
  1. To become gray.
  2. To cause to become gray.
  3. To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)
  4. To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.

grill

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.
  2. On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.
  3. A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English
  4. A cooking device comprising a source of radiative and convective heat and a means of holding food above it; a barbecue.
  5. Food (designed to be) cooked on a grill.
  6. A grillroom; a restaurant serving grilled food.
  7. A type of jewelry worn on the front teeth.
  8. (by extension) The front teeth regarded collectively.
verb
  1. To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue.
  2. To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – broil, salamander.
  3. To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly.
  4. To feel very hot; to swelter.
  5. To stamp or mark with a grill.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To make angry; provoke; incite.
  2. To terrify; make tremble.
  3. To tremble; shiver.
  4. To snarl; snap.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Harm.
adjective
  1. Harsh, rough, severe; cruel.

grilling

verb
  1. To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue.
  2. To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – broil, salamander.
  3. To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly.
  4. To feel very hot; to swelter.
  5. To stamp or mark with a grill.
verb
  1. To make angry; provoke; incite.
  2. To terrify; make tremble.
  3. To tremble; shiver.
  4. To snarl; snap.
noun
  1. A thorough interrogation.
  2. The act or process of grilling, or broiling.

grin

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A smile in which the lips are parted to reveal the teeth.
verb
  1. To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth.
  2. To express by grinning.
  3. To show the teeth, like a snarling dog.
  4. To grin as part of producing a particular facial expression, such as a smile or sneer.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A snare; a gin.

grinning

verb
  1. To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth.
  2. To express by grinning.
  3. To show the teeth, like a snarling dog.
  4. To grin as part of producing a particular facial expression, such as a smile or sneer.
noun
  1. The act or expression of one who grins.

grinningly

No Definition Found.

ingrain

noun
  1. An ingrain fabric, such as a carpet.
verb
  1. To dye with a fast or lasting colour.
  2. To make (something) deeply part of something else.
adjective
  1. Dyed with grain, or kermes.
  2. Dyed before manufacture; said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.

ingraining

verb
  1. To dye with a fast or lasting colour.
  2. To make (something) deeply part of something else.

lair

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.
  2. A shed or shelter for domestic animals.
  3. A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain; a refuge, retreat, haven or hideaway.
  4. A bed or resting place.
  5. A grave; a cemetery plot.
verb
  1. To rest; to dwell.
  2. To lay down.
  3. To bury.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A bog; a mire.
verb
  1. To mire.
  2. To become mired.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A person who dresses in a showy but tasteless manner and behaves in a vulgar and conceited way; a show-off.

liar

noun
  1. One who tells lies.
  2. A swabber responsible for cleaning the outside parts of the ship rather than the cabins, a role traditionally assigned to a person caught telling a lie the previous week.

lira

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The former currency of Israel, superseded by the sheqel.
noun
  1. The basic unit of currency in Turkey.
  2. The currency of Lebanon (also pound), Syria (also pound), Jordan (also dinar)
  3. The former currency of Italy, Malta, San Marino, Cyprus and the Vatican City, superseded by the euro

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A Ukrainian folk musical instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Any of a set of fine ridges on the shells of some molluscs

nary

adjective
  1. Not, never.

raga

noun
  1. Any of various melodic forms used in Indian classical music, or a piece of music composed in such a form.
  2. Passion, love, lust.

ragging

verb
  1. To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag.
  2. To become tattered.
verb
  1. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
  2. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
verb
  1. To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter.
  2. To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
  3. To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
verb
  1. To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
  2. To dance to ragtime music.
  3. To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.
noun
  1. The act of one who rags or teases.
  2. An initiation in educational institutions (e.g. universities) usually involving harassment by upperclassmen.

raging

verb
  1. To act or speak in heightened anger.
  2. (sometimes figurative) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
  3. To enrage.
noun
  1. A display of rage.
adjective
  1. Volatile, very active or unpredictable.
  2. (of a person) In a state of rage; in a state of extreme, often uncontrollable, anger.

raglan

noun
  1. An overcoat with sleeves of this type.
adjective
  1. (of a sleeve) Being or having a kind of sleeve that continues in one piece up to the neck of a garment, without a shoulder seam.

rail

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
  2. The metal bar that makes the track for a railroad.
  3. A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
  4. A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
  5. One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
  6. A vertical section on one side of a web page.
  7. A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
verb
  1. To travel by railway.
  2. To enclose with rails or a railing.
  3. To range in a line.
  4. To criticize severely.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To complain violently (against, about).

Etymology 4

noun
  1. An item of clothing; a cloak or other garment; a dress.
  2. Specifically, a woman's headscarf or neckerchief.

Etymology 5

verb
  1. (of a liquid) To gush, flow.

railing

verb
  1. To travel by railway.
  2. To enclose with rails or a railing.
  3. To range in a line.
  4. To criticize severely.
verb
  1. To complain violently (against, about).
verb
  1. (of a liquid) To gush, flow.
noun
  1. A fence or barrier consisting of one or more horizontal rails and vertical supports.

rain

noun
  1. Condensed water falling from a cloud.
  2. Any matter moving or falling, usually through air, and especially if liquid or otherwise figuratively identifiable with raindrops.
  3. An instance of particles or larger pieces of matter moving or falling through air.
verb
  1. To have rain fall from the sky.
  2. To fall as or like rain.
  3. To issue (something) in large quantities.
  4. To reign.

raining

verb
  1. To have rain fall from the sky.
  2. To fall as or like rain.
  3. To issue (something) in large quantities.
  4. To reign.
noun
  1. A fall of rain.

rainy

adjective
  1. Pouring with rain; wet; showery

rally

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause.
  2. A protest or demonstration for or against something, but often with speeches and often without marching, especially in North America.
  3. A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point.
  4. An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.
  5. A recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)
verb
  1. To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
  2. To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
  3. To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
  4. To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Good-humoured raillery.
verb
  1. To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.

rallying

verb
  1. To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
  2. To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
  3. To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
  4. To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
verb
  1. To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
noun
  1. The act of one who rallies.

rang

verb
  1. Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
  2. To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
  3. To produce (a sound) by ringing.
  4. To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
  5. Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
  6. To telephone (someone).
  7. To resound, reverberate, echo.
  8. To produce music with bells.
  9. To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

ranging

verb
  1. To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
  2. To rove over or through.
  3. To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.
  4. To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
  5. (followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
  6. To classify.
  7. To form a line or a row.
  8. To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
  9. To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
  10. To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
  11. To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
  12. To separate into parts; to sift.
  13. To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
  14. Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
noun
  1. Act of one who ranges.
  2. A back-and-forth movement

rangy

adjective
  1. Slender and long of limb; lanky
  2. Prone to roaming around.
  3. Having or permitting range or scope; roomy; commodious.

rani

noun
  1. The wife of a rajah.
  2. A Hindu princess or female ruler in India.

raring

verb
  1. To rear, rise up, start backwards.
  2. To rear, bring up, raise.
adjective
  1. Eager.

raying

verb
  1. To emit something as if in rays.
  2. To radiate as if in rays.
verb
  1. To arrange.
  2. To dress, array (someone).
  3. To stain or soil; to defile.

rial

noun
  1. The official currencies of Iran, Oman, and Yemen.
  2. An old gold coin of England.

rigging

verb
  1. To fit out with a harness or other equipment.
  2. To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
  3. To dress or clothe in some costume.
  4. To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.
  5. To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.
  6. To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.
  7. To outfit a model with controls for animation.
verb
  1. To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks.
noun
  1. Dress; tackle; especially , the ropes, chains, etc., that support the masts and spars of a sailing vessel, and serve as purchases for adjusting the sails, etc.
  2. Similar supporting material used for construction work, or in film, theater, etc.

riling

verb
  1. To make angry
  2. To stir or move from a state of calm or order

rill

noun
  1. A very small brook; a streamlet.
verb
  1. To trickle, pour, or run like a small stream.
noun
  1. A long, narrow depression that resembles a channel, found on the surface of various lunar and planetary bodies.

ring

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle.
  2. (physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle.
  3. A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
  4. A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
  5. An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
  6. A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
  7. A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
  8. A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
  9. An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
  10. A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
  11. Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
  12. The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
verb
  1. To enclose or surround.
  2. To make an incision around; to girdle.
  3. To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
  4. To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
  5. To rise in the air spirally.
  6. To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
  2. A pleasant or correct sound.
  3. A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
  4. A telephone call.
  5. Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
  6. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
verb
  1. Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
  2. To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
  3. To produce (a sound) by ringing.
  4. To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
  5. Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
  6. To telephone (someone).
  7. To resound, reverberate, echo.
  8. To produce music with bells.
  9. To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
  2. An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.

ringing

verb
  1. To enclose or surround.
  2. To make an incision around; to girdle.
  3. To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
  4. To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
  5. To rise in the air spirally.
  6. To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
verb
  1. Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
  2. To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
  3. To produce (a sound) by ringing.
  4. To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
  5. Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
  6. To telephone (someone).
  7. To resound, reverberate, echo.
  8. To produce music with bells.
  9. To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
noun
  1. The sound of something that rings.
  2. The quality of being resonant.
  3. A technique used in the study of wild birds, by attaching a small, individually numbered, metal or plastic tag to their legs or wings.
  4. The theft of cars and illegally changing their identities for resale.
adjective
  1. Loud and clear.
  2. Made forcefully; powerful.

riyal

noun
  1. The official currency of Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

yarn

noun
  1. A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.
  2. Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope.
  3. A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible.
verb
  1. To tell a story or stories.

nigiri

noun
  1. Regular sushi: a piece of raw fish (or other topping) on top of a small oblong brick of sticky white rice.