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Number of Pangrams: 3

Maximum Puzzle Score: 266

Number of Answers: 52

Points Needed for Genius: 186

Genius requires between 24 and 45 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 83% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 64% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 266 was in the 87th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on July 31, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 52 possible answers rank it in the 80th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on August 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 August 5, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.6.
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 207
  • loll 201
  • toot 193
  • naan 177
  • nana 177
  • lilt 143
  • till 143
  • tilt 143
  • tint 138
  • nene 137
  • mama 135
  • mamma 135
  • acacia 130
  • acai 130
  • onto 127
  • toon 127
  • onion 124
  • anon 120
  • anal 119
  • olio 116
  • tact 114
  • boob 113
  • booboo 113
  • dodo 113
  • papa 112
  • poop 112
  • baba 111
  • lull 110
  • lulu 110
  • call 108
  • calla 108
  • mitt 108
  • ratatat 106
  • tart 106
  • tartar 106
  • attar 105
  • mono 105
  • moon 105
  • tatty 105
  • tutu 105
  • ammo 104
  • cocci 104
  • momma 104
  • tattoo 104
  • allay 103
  • ally 103
  • loon 101
  • epee 100
  • peep 100
  • roar 99


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 105,107 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,710 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*:

  • chico
  • chinook
  • choc
  • chon
  • chook
  • cinchonic
  • cion
  • coccic
  • cochin
  • coco
  • cogging
  • cogon
  • cohog
  • coign
  • coigning
  • coking
  • concho
  • congii
  • congo
  • coni
  • conin
  • coning
  • conn
  • cooch
  • coocoo
  • coon
  • gingko
  • gogo
  • gonch
  • gonion
  • gonococci
  • gook
  • hogg
  • hoick
  • hoicking
  • hoking
  • honchoing
  • hong
  • hongi
  • hongiing
  • ikon
  • incog
  • ingoing
  • inion
  • kino
  • kongoni
  • konk
  • konking
  • ninon
  • nogg
  • nogging
  • noncoking
  • nonionic
  • nooning
  • ohing
  • oohing

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

chignon

noun
  1. A roll or twist of hair worn at the nape of the neck; a bun.
  2. A temporary swelling on a neonate's head after a ventouse-assisted delivery.

chino

noun
  1. A coarse cotton fabric commonly used to make trousers and uniforms.

chock

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.
  2. Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.
verb
  1. To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
  2. To fill up, as a cavity.
  3. To insert a line in a chock.
adverb
  1. Entirely; quite.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An encounter.
verb
  1. To encounter.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To make a dull sound.

chocking

verb
  1. To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
  2. To fill up, as a cavity.
  3. To insert a line in a chock.
verb
  1. To encounter.
verb
  1. To make a dull sound.

choking

verb
  1. To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
  2. To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
  3. To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
  4. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen).
  5. To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
  6. To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
  7. To be checked or stopped, as if by choking
  8. To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.
  9. To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.
  10. To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.
  11. To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).
  12. To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.
  13. (of a duct) To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
  14. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
noun
  1. The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.
  2. The act of coughing when a foreign object (i.e. food, beverages) becomes lodged in a person's airway.

cocci

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any approximately spherical bacterium.
  2. One of the carpels or seed-vessels of a dry fruit.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Coccidioidomycosis

cock

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A male bird, especially:
  2. A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
  3. The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
  4. The notch of an arrow or crossbow.
  5. The penis.
  6. The circle at the end of the rink.
  7. The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
  8. A stupid person.
  9. Nonsense; rubbish.
  10. (Tasmania) Term of address.
  11. A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
  12. Shuttlecock
  13. A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
  14. A chief man; a leader or master.
  15. The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
  16. A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
  17. The style or gnomon of a sundial.
  18. The indicator of a balance.
  19. The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
verb
  1. To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
  2. To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
  3. To erect; to turn up.
  4. To copulate with.
  5. To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
  6. To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
  7. To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
  8. To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (of children)
interjection
  1. Expression of annoyance.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (where it is still sometimes used) Vulva, vagina.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A small conical pile of hay.
verb
  1. To form into piles.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Abbreviation of cock-boat, a type of small boat.

Etymology 5

proper noun
  1. A corruption of the word God, used in oaths.

cocking

verb
  1. To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
  2. To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
  3. To erect; to turn up.
  4. To copulate with.
  5. To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
  6. To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
  7. To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
  8. To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (of children)
verb
  1. To form into piles.
noun
  1. The hunting of gamecocks.
  2. Cockfighting.
adjective
  1. Offensive or worthless

cocoon

noun
  1. The silky protective case spun by the larvae of some insects in which they metamorphose, the pupa.
  2. Any similar protective case, whether real or metaphorical.
verb
  1. To envelop in a protective case
  2. To withdraw into such a case.

cocooning

verb
  1. To envelop in a protective case
  2. To withdraw into such a case.
noun
  1. The formation of a cocoon.

coho

noun
  1. An anadromus and semelparous salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, found in the coastal regions of the northern Pacific Ocean, used as a symbol by several Native American tribes.

coin

noun
  1. (money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
  2. A token used in a special establishment like a casino.
  3. That which serves for payment or recompense.
  4. Money in general, not limited to coins.
  5. One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
  6. A corner or external angle.
  7. A small circular slice of food.
  8. A cryptocurrency.
verb
  1. To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal.
  2. (by extension) To make or fabricate.
  3. To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

coining

verb
  1. To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal.
  2. (by extension) To make or fabricate.
  3. To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
noun
  1. A form of alternative medicine from Southeast Asia where a coin is rubbed vigorously on a patient's oiled skin.
  2. A created word or phrase.

conch

noun
  1. A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.
  2. The shell of this sea animal.
  3. A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet.
  4. The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself.
verb
  1. To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers.
  2. To play a conch seashell as a musical instrument, by blowing through a hole made close to the origin of the spiral.
noun
  1. A machine (rather like a rotating pestle and mortar) used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding.
  2. A person who operates such a machine.

conic

noun
  1. A conic section.
adjective
  1. Of or relating to a cone or cones.
  2. Shaped like a cone.
  3. Describing a map projection in which meridians are mapped to equally spaced lines radiating out from the apex and parallels of latitude are mapped to circular arcs centred on the apex.

conk

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.
  2. The shell of this sea animal.
  3. A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet.
  4. The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself.
noun
  1. A machine (rather like a rotating pestle and mortar) used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding.
  2. A person who operates such a machine.
noun
  1. The shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a bracket fungus (also called a shelf fungus), i.e. a mushroom growing off a tree trunk.
  2. A nose, especially a large one.
verb
  1. To hit, especially on the head.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A hairstyle involving the chemical straightening and styling of kinky hair.
verb
  1. To chemically straighten tightly curled hair.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. (often with out) To fail or show signs of failing, cease operating, break down, become unconscious.

conking

verb
  1. To hit, especially on the head.
verb
  1. To chemically straighten tightly curled hair.
verb
  1. (often with out) To fail or show signs of failing, cease operating, break down, become unconscious.

conning

verb
  1. To study or examine carefully, especially in order to gain knowledge of; to learn, or learn by heart.
  2. To know, understand, acknowledge.
verb
  1. To trick or defraud, usually for personal gain.
verb
  1. To direct a ship; to superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer (especially through a channel, etc, rather than steer a compass direction).
noun
  1. Reckoning

cooing

verb
  1. To make a soft murmuring sound, as a pigeon.
  2. To speak in an admiring fashion, to be enthusiastic about.
noun
  1. A coo; a cooing sound.

cook

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A person who prepares food.
  2. The head cook of a manor house
  3. The degree or quality of cookedness of food
  4. One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
  5. A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
  6. A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
  2. To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
  3. To be cooked.
  4. To be uncomfortably hot.
  5. To execute by electric chair.
  6. To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
  7. To concoct or prepare.
  8. To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
  9. To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
  10. To play music vigorously.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To make the noise of the cuckoo.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To throw.

cooking

verb
  1. To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
  2. To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
  3. To be cooked.
  4. To be uncomfortably hot.
  5. To execute by electric chair.
  6. To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
  7. To concoct or prepare.
  8. To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
  9. To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
  10. To play music vigorously.
verb
  1. To make the noise of the cuckoo.
verb
  1. To throw.
noun
  1. The process of preparing food by using heat.
  2. An instance of preparing food by using heat.
  3. The result of preparing food by using heat.
adjective
  1. In progress, happening.

ginkgo

noun
  1. Ginkgo biloba, a tree native to China with small, fan-shaped leaves and edible seeds.
  2. The seed of the ginkgo tree.

gnocchi

noun
  1. Italian pasta-like dumplings made of potato or semolina.

going

verb
  1. To move:
  2. (chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
  3. To start; to begin (an action or process).
  4. To take a turn, especially in a game.
  5. To attend.
  6. To proceed:
  7. To follow or travel along (a path):
  8. To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
  9. To lead (to a place); to give access to.
  10. To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
  11. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
  12. To continuously or habitually be in a state.
  13. To come to (a certain condition or state).
  14. To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
  15. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
  16. To tend (toward a result).
  17. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
  18. To pass, to be used up:
  19. To die.
  20. To be discarded.
  21. To be lost or out:
  22. To break down or apart:
  23. To be sold.
  24. To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
  25. To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
  26. To have a certain record.
  27. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:
  28. To say (something), to make a sound:
  29. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
  30. To resort (to).
  31. To apply or subject oneself to:
  32. To fit (in a place, or together with something):
  33. To date.
  34. To attack:
  35. To be in general; to be usually.
  36. To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
  37. To yield or weigh.
  38. To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
  39. To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
  40. To urinate or defecate.
noun
  1. A departure.
  2. The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.
  3. Progress.
  4. Conditions for advancing in any way.
  5. Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing
  6. (in the plural) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
  7. (in the phrase "the going of") The whereabouts (of something).
adjective
  1. Likely to continue; viable.
  2. Current, prevailing.
  3. (especially after a noun phrase with a superlative) Available.

gong

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a sonorous sound when struck with a soft hammer.
  2. A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor.
verb
  1. To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong.
  2. To send a signal to, using a gong or similar device.
  3. To give an award or medal to.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
  2. The contents of an outhouse pit: shit.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A kind of cultivation energy, more powerful than qi.
  2. An advanced practice that cultivates such energy.

gonging

verb
  1. To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong.
  2. To send a signal to, using a gong or similar device.
  3. To give an award or medal to.
noun
  1. The sounding of a gong.

goon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence (also known as a 'hired goon').
  2. A fool; someone considered silly, stupid, awkward, or outlandish.
  3. An enforcer or fighter.
  4. (WWII, PoW slang) A German guard in a prisoner-of-war camp.
  5. A member of the comedy web site Something Awful.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A wine flagon or cask.
  2. Cheap or inferior cask wine.

hock

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
  2. Meat from that part of a food animal.
verb
  1. To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.
  2. Debt.
  3. Installment purchase.
  4. Prison.
verb
  1. To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly

Etymology 5

noun
  1. To cough heavily, esp. causing uvular frication.

hocking

verb
  1. To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
verb
  1. To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.
verb
  1. To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly

hogging

verb
  1. To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
  2. To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
  3. To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
  4. To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
verb
  1. To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.
noun
  1. The targeting by men of overweight or obese women for sexual encounters, not due to sexual attraction but for amusement, or to take advantage of low self-esteem.
  2. Taking up too much of something so others cannot use it.
adjective
  1. Drooping at the ends; arching; in distinction from sagging.

honcho

noun
  1. Boss, leader
verb
  1. To lead or manage.

honing

verb
  1. To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
  2. To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
  3. To refine or master (a skill).
  4. To make more acute, intense, or effective.
verb
  1. To grumble.
  2. To pine, lament, or long.
noun
  1. The process by which something is honed.

honk

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The sound produced by a typical car horn.
  2. The cry of a goose.
  3. A bad smell.
verb
  1. To use a car horn.
  2. To make a loud, harsh sound like a car horn.
  3. To make the vocal sound of a goose.
  4. To vomit: regurgitate the contents of one's stomach.
  5. To have a bad smell.
  6. To squeeze playfully, usually a breast or nose.
interjection
  1. Imitation of car horn, used, for example, to clear a path for oneself.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (racial slur) A Caucasian person.
  2. A factory hand or general unskilled worker.

honking

verb
  1. To use a car horn.
  2. To make a loud, harsh sound like a car horn.
  3. To make the vocal sound of a goose.
  4. To vomit: regurgitate the contents of one's stomach.
  5. To have a bad smell.
  6. To squeeze playfully, usually a breast or nose.
adjective
  1. Emphatically or impressively big; really big.
  2. Used as an intensifier
adverb
  1. Very; tremendously.
noun
  1. A sound that honks.
adjective
  1. Having a bad smell.

hooch

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Alcoholic liquor, especially inferior or illicit whisky.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A thatched hut, CHU, or any simple dwelling.

hook

noun
  1. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
  2. A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
  3. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
  4. The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
  5. The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
  6. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
  7. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
  8. A snare; a trap.
  9. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
  10. Removal or expulsion from a group or activity
  11. A field sown two years in succession.
  12. (authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
  13. (authorship) A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
  14. A finesse.
  15. A jack (the playing card).
  16. A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
  17. A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
  18. A ship's anchor.
  19. Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
  20. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
  21. A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
  22. A háček.
  23. Senses relating to sports.
verb
  1. To attach a hook to.
  2. To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
  3. To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
  4. To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
  5. To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
  6. To steal.
  7. To connect (hook into, hook together).
  8. (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
  9. To play a hook shot.
  10. To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
  11. To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
  12. To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
  13. To engage in prostitution.
  14. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
  15. To finesse.
  16. To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
  17. To move or go with a sudden turn.

hooking

verb
  1. To attach a hook to.
  2. To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
  3. To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
  4. To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
  5. To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
  6. To steal.
  7. To connect (hook into, hook together).
  8. (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
  9. To play a hook shot.
  10. To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
  11. To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
  12. To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
  13. To engage in prostitution.
  14. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
  15. To finesse.
  16. To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
  17. To move or go with a sudden turn.
noun
  1. The act of catching or fastening something on a hook.
  2. (bandy, floorball) The penalized action of using one's stick to restrain an opponent.

icon

noun
  1. An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
  2. (especially Eastern Christianity) A type of religious painting portraying a saint or scene from Scripture, often done on wooden panels.
  3. (by extension) A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
  4. A small picture that represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen which when clicked performs some function.)
  5. A word, character, or sign whose form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons.

iconic

adjective
  1. Relating to, or having the characteristics of, an icon.
  2. Famously and distinctively representative of its type.
  3. Representing something; symbolic.

ionic

adjective
  1. Of, relating to, or containing ions

knock

noun
  1. Sudden fatigue as a result of glycogen depletion from not having taken in enough nutrition.
noun
  1. An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
  2. A sharp impact.
  3. Criticism.
  4. Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by self-ignition; also, the characteristic knocking sound associated with it.
  5. A batsman's innings.
verb
  1. To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
  2. To criticize verbally; to denigrate; to undervalue.
  3. To kick a ball towards another player; to pass.
  4. To impress forcibly or strongly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.
  5. To bump or impact.
  6. To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.

knocking

verb
  1. To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
  2. To criticize verbally; to denigrate; to undervalue.
  3. To kick a ball towards another player; to pass.
  4. To impress forcibly or strongly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.
  5. To bump or impact.
  6. To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
noun
  1. An act in which something is knocked on, or the sound thus produced

kook

noun
  1. An eccentric, strange or crazy person.
  2. (kiteboarding, wakeboarding) A boardsport participant who lacks style or skill; a newbie who acts as if they are better at the sport than they are.

nock

noun
  1. Either of the two grooves in a bow that hold the bowstring.
  2. The notch at the rear of an arrow that fits on the bowstring.
  3. The upper fore corner of a boom sail or trysail.
verb
  1. To fit an arrow against the bowstring of a bow or crossbow. (See also notch.)
  2. To cut a nock in (usually in an arrow's base or the tips of a bow).

nocking

verb
  1. To fit an arrow against the bowstring of a bow or crossbow. (See also notch.)
  2. To cut a nock in (usually in an arrow's base or the tips of a bow).

noggin

noun
  1. A small mug, cup or ladle.
  2. (obsolete outside dialectal) A small measure of spirits equivalent to a gill.
  3. The head.
  4. A signalling molecule involved in embryo development, producing large heads at high concentrations.
noun
  1. A horizontal beam used in the construction of a building, especially to strengthen upright posts.
  2. Rough brick masonry used to fill open spaces.

nook

noun
  1. A small corner formed by two walls; an alcove.
  2. A hidden or secluded spot; a secluded retreat.
  3. A recess, cove or hollow.
  4. An English unit of land area, originally 1/4 of a yardland but later 12 1/2 or 20 acres.
  5. A corner of a piece of land; an angled piece of land, especially one extending into other land.
verb
  1. To withdraw into a nook.
  2. To situate in a nook.

noon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
  2. Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
  3. The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
  4. The highest point; culmination.
verb
  1. To relax or sleep around midday

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The letter ن in the Arabic script.

oink

noun
  1. The sound made by a pig, or an imitation thereof.
verb
  1. Of a pig or in imitation thereof, to make its characteristic sound.
interjection
  1. Representing the sound made by a pig.
  2. Drawing attention to male chauvinism (from the term male chauvinist pig).

oinking

verb
  1. Of a pig or in imitation thereof, to make its characteristic sound.

ongoing

verb
  1. To be ongoing (occurring, happening); to last, proceed or continue.
noun
  1. Something that is going on; a happening.
adjective
  1. Continuing, permanent, lasting.
  2. Presently or currently happening; being in progress.

onion

noun
  1. A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
  2. The bulb of such a plant.
  3. The genus as a whole.
  4. A ball.
  5. A person from Bermuda or of Bermudian descent.