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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 364

Number of Answers: 61

Points Needed for Genius: 255

Genius requires between 30 and 52 words. You need at least an 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 78% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 67% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 364 was in the 99th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on August 16, 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 September 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 September 27, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 6.5.
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 214
  • loll 203
  • toot 197
  • naan 180
  • nana 180
  • lilt 146
  • till 146
  • tilt 146
  • tint 140
  • mama 139
  • mamma 139
  • nene 139
  • acacia 133
  • acai 133
  • onto 131
  • toon 131
  • onion 127
  • anal 122
  • anon 121
  • dodo 119
  • tact 118
  • olio 117
  • boob 115
  • booboo 115
  • baba 114
  • papa 114
  • poop 114
  • lull 111
  • lulu 111
  • call 109
  • calla 109
  • mitt 108
  • cocci 107
  • mono 107
  • moon 107
  • ratatat 107
  • tart 107
  • tartar 107
  • tutu 107
  • allay 106
  • ally 106
  • attar 106
  • tattoo 106
  • ammo 105
  • loon 105
  • momma 105
  • tatty 105
  • epee 101
  • peep 101
  • roar 100


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 107,543 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,809 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*:

  • agatizing
  • alant
  • anta
  • antiaging
  • antigang
  • anting
  • atigi
  • atlatl
  • attaint
  • attainting
  • gaiting
  • gallanting
  • gittin
  • gitting
  • glitzing
  • ignatia
  • initialling
  • intagli
  • inti
  • intitling
  • italianating
  • italianizing
  • lanital
  • lati
  • latilla
  • latina
  • latinizing
  • lattin
  • linting
  • litai
  • taggant
  • tain
  • tala
  • tallaging
  • tanga
  • tanging
  • tazza
  • tian
  • ting
  • tining
  • titania
  • titi
  • titian
  • tizz
  • tzitzit
  • zizit

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

agita

noun
  1. Dyspepsia
  2. Mental aggravation; annoyance

agitating

verb
  1. To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person).
  2. To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake.
  3. To set in motion; to actuate.
  4. To discuss or debate.
  5. To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to consider, to devise.

alit

No Definition Found.

anti

noun
  1. A person opposed to a concept or principle.
adjective
  1. Opposed to something.
  2. That has a torsion angle between 90° and 180°
preposition
  1. Alternative form of anti-

atilt

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

attain

verb
  1. To gain (an object or desired result).
  2. To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at (a place, time, state, etc.).
  3. To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.
  4. To get at the knowledge of.
  5. To reach in excellence or degree.
  6. To reach a person after being behind them.

attaining

verb
  1. To gain (an object or desired result).
  2. To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at (a place, time, state, etc.).
  3. To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.
  4. To get at the knowledge of.
  5. To reach in excellence or degree.
  6. To reach a person after being behind them.

gait

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.
  2. One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training.
verb
  1. To teach a specific gait to a horse.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A sheaf of corn.
  2. A charge for pasturage.

gallant

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Brave, valiant.
  2. Honorable.
  3. Grand, noble.
  4. Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A fashionable young man who is polite and attentive to women.
  2. One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
  3. Topgallant
verb
  1. To attend or wait on (a lady).
  2. To handle with grace or in a modish manner.
adjective
  1. Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.

gating

verb
  1. To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
  2. To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
  3. To open a closed ion channel.
  4. To furnish with a gate.
  5. To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage. See autogating.
noun
  1. An arrangement of gates.

giant

noun
  1. A mythical human of very great size.
  2. Specifically, any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
  3. A very tall and large person.
  4. A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
  5. A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
  6. An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
  7. A very large organisation.
  8. A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
  9. Jotun
adjective
  1. Very large.

gilt

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf.
  2. To adorn.
  3. To decorate with a golden surface appearance.
  4. To give a bright or pleasing aspect to.
  5. To make appear drunk.
noun
  1. Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding.
  2. Money.
  3. A security issued by the Bank of England (see gilt-edged)
  4. A gilded object, an object covered with gold.
adjective
  1. Golden coloured.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.

glint

noun
  1. A short flash of light.
verb
  1. To flash or gleam briefly.
  2. To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.
  3. To cause to flash or gleam; to reflect.
  4. To dry; to wither.
adjective
  1. (of a blade) Not sharp; dull.

glinting

verb
  1. To flash or gleam briefly.
  2. To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.
  3. To cause to flash or gleam; to reflect.
  4. To dry; to wither.
noun
  1. A glint.

glitz

noun
  1. Garish, brilliant showiness.

gnat

noun
  1. Any small insect of the order Diptera, specifically within the suborder Nematocera.

igniting

verb
  1. To set fire to (something), to light (something)
  2. To spark off (something), to trigger
  3. To commence burning.
  4. To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; often said of incombustible or infusible substances.

initial

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

initialing

verb
  1. To sign one's initial(s), as an abbreviated signature.
noun
  1. The act of adding ones initials to a document rather than signing

initializing

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

initiating

verb
  1. To begin; to start.
  2. To instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.
  3. To confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies.
  4. To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative.

lantana

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

ligating

verb
  1. To bind with a ligature or bandage.
  2. To connect text characters with a ligature.

lilt

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

lilting

verb
  1. To do something rhythmically, with animation and quickness, usually of music.
  2. To sing cheerfully, especially in Gaelic.
  3. To utter with spirit, animation, or gaiety; to sing with spirit and liveliness.
noun
  1. A type of lively singing without any musical accompaniment, where the tune itself is sung, often to nonsense syllables.
adjective
  1. Having a lilt; with energy, spirit and sprightliness; lively and cheerful.

lint

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

litigant

noun
  1. A party suing or being sued in a lawsuit, or otherwise calling upon the judicial process to determine the outcome of a suit.
adjective
  1. Disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit.

litigating

verb
  1. (construed with on) To go to law; to carry on a lawsuit.
  2. To contest in law.
  3. (transferred sense) To dispute; to fight over.

natal

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Of or relating to birth.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Of or relating to the buttocks.

natant

adjective
  1. Floating or swimming (in water)
  2. In a horizontal position, as if swimming

tagging

verb
  1. To label (something).
  2. (graffiti) To mark (something) with one’s tag.
  3. To remove dung tags from a sheep.
  4. To hit the ball hard.
  5. To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
  6. To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
  7. To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
  8. To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
  9. To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
  10. To fasten; to attach.
noun
  1. The act by which something is tagged.

taiga

noun
  1. A subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests situated south of the tundras and north of the steppes in the Northern Hemisphere.

tail

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

tailgating

verb
  1. To drive dangerously close behind another vehicle.
  2. To follow another person through access control on their access, rather than on one’s own credentials, especially when entering a door controlled by a card reader.
  3. (of a broker) To privately purchase or sell a security immediately after trading in the same security for a client.
  4. To have a tailgate party.
noun
  1. The act of driving dangerously close behind another vehicle.
  2. A tailgate party (social event held on and around the open tailgate of a vehicle)

tailing

verb
  1. To follow and observe surreptitiously.
  2. To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
  3. To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
  4. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
  5. To pull or draw by the tail.
noun
  1. The act of following someone.
  2. The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
  3. Sexual intercourse
  4. The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing; chaff.
  5. A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together.

taint

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food
  2. A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish
  3. Tincture; hue; colour
  4. Infection; corruption; deprivation
  5. A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
verb
  1. To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
  2. To spoil (food) by contamination.
  3. To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
  4. To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
  5. To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
  6. To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
  2. An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
verb
  1. To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
  2. To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
  3. To thrust ineffectually with a lance.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The perineum.

tainting

verb
  1. To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
  2. To spoil (food) by contamination.
  3. To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
  4. To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
  5. To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
  6. To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
verb
  1. To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
  2. To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
  3. To thrust ineffectually with a lance.

tali

noun
  1. The bone of the ankle.

tall

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

tallit

No Definition Found.

tang

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor.
  2. A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
  3. A sharp, specific flavor or tinge.
  4. A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.
  5. The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.
  6. The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
  7. The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
  8. A group of saltwater fish from the Acanthuridae family, especially the Zebrasoma genus.
  9. (games) A shuffleboard paddle.
  10. Tongue
  11. (by extension) Anything resembling a tongue in form or position such as the tongue of a buckle.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
verb
  1. To strike two metal objects together loudly in order to persuade a swarm of honeybees to land so it may be captured by the beekeeper.
  2. To make a ringing sound; to ring.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed)

Etymology 4

noun
  1. The vagina.
  2. Intercourse with a woman

tangling

verb
  1. To become mixed together or intertwined
  2. To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight
  3. To mix together or intertwine
  4. To catch and hold; to ensnare.
noun
  1. A tangled structure.

tannin

noun
  1. Tannic acid or any of its derivatives.

tanning

verb
  1. To change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
  2. To change an animal hide into leather by soaking it in tannic acid. To work as a tanner.
  3. To spank or beat.
noun
  1. The process of making leather, which does not easily decompose, from the skins of animals, which do.
  2. The acquisition of a tan, either by exposure to the sun, or artificially.
  3. A spanking.

tantalizing

verb
  1. To tease (someone) by offering something desirable but keeping it out of reach
  2. To bait (someone) by showing something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied
noun
  1. Teasing temptation
adjective
  1. Teasing; tempting, especially that which is beyond reach.

tatting

verb
  1. To make (something by) tatting.
verb
  1. To apply a tattoo.
noun
  1. A form of looped and knotted lace needlework made from a single thread.
  2. The art of making such lace.

tattling

verb
  1. To chatter; to gossip.
  2. Often said of children: to report incriminating information about another person, or a person's wrongdoing; to tell on somebody.
  3. To speak like a baby or young child; to babble, to prattle; to speak haltingly; to stutter.
noun
  1. The speech of one who tattles.

tiling

verb
  1. To cover with tiles.
  2. To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
  3. To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
verb
  1. To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.
noun
  1. A covering of tiles.
  2. The act of applying tiles.
  3. A tessellation; the covering of a plane with shapes, without overlaps or gaps.
  4. A technique for optimizing loops by partitioning the iteration space into smaller chunks or blocks that will more easily fit in a cache.

till

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

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

Etymology 4

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

Etymology 5

noun
  1. A vetch; a tare.

tilling

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The act of one who tills.

tilt

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

tilting

verb
  1. To slope or incline (something); to slant.
  2. (jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
  3. To be at an angle.
  4. To point or thrust a weapon at.
  5. To point or thrust (a weapon).
  6. To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
  7. To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).
  8. (of a machine) To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.
verb
  1. To cover with a tilt, or awning.
noun
  1. The motion of something that tilts; a tilt.
  2. The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.
  3. A charging with a lance, as in jousting.
adjective
  1. Having the property that it is the quotient of a projective module by a projective submodule, having an ext functor with itself of 0, and there being a right module as the kernel of a surjective morphism between finite direct sums of its direct summands.

tinging

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To add a small amount of colour; to tint; (by extension) to add a small amount of some other thing.
  2. To affect or alter slightly, particularly due to the actual or metaphorical influence of some element or thing.
  3. To change slightly in shade due to the addition of colour; (by extension) to change slightly in quality due to the addition of some other thing.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To make a high sharp sound like a small bell being struck.

tingling

verb
  1. To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
  2. To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
  3. To ring, to tinkle.
  4. To cause to ring, to tinkle.
  5. To make ringing sounds; to twang.
noun
  1. A tingling sensation; pins and needles.

tinning

verb
  1. To place into a tin in order to preserve.
  2. To cover with tin.
  3. To coat with solder in preparation for soldering.
noun
  1. A covering or lining of tin.

tint

noun
  1. A slight coloring.
  2. A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
  3. A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
  4. A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
verb
  1. To shade, to color.

tinting

verb
  1. To shade, to color.
noun
  1. The application of a tint or shade of color.

titan

noun
  1. Something or someone of very large stature, greatness, or godliness.

titillating

verb
  1. To stimulate or excite sensually
adjective
  1. Pleasantly and sensually exciting.
  2. Arousing.

titling

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To assign a title to; to entitle.
noun
  1. The act of giving something a title, or of impressing the title on the back of a book.
  2. A legal right to a property; holding a title.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The hedge sparrow, dunnock, titlene, Prunella modularis.
  2. The meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).
  3. (in customhouses) Stockfish.

ziti

noun
  1. A type of penne pasta in the form of long smooth hollow tubes.