Thursday, October 30, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 171

Number of Answers: 45

Points Needed for Genius: 120

Genius requires between 20 and 39 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 171 was in the 51st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on October 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 45 possible answers rank it in the 64th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on October 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 October 27, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 4.9.
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 219
  • loll 206
  • toot 200
  • naan 181
  • nana 181
  • lilt 147
  • till 147
  • tilt 147
  • tint 142
  • nene 141
  • mama 140
  • mamma 140
  • acacia 134
  • acai 134
  • onto 133
  • toon 133
  • onion 131
  • anal 123
  • anon 121
  • olio 120
  • dodo 119
  • tact 118
  • baba 116
  • boob 115
  • booboo 115
  • papa 114
  • poop 114
  • lull 113
  • lulu 113
  • call 110
  • calla 110
  • mitt 110
  • cocci 109
  • mono 109
  • moon 109
  • ratatat 108
  • tart 108
  • tartar 108
  • tutu 108
  • attar 107
  • loon 107
  • allay 106
  • ally 106
  • tattoo 106
  • tatty 106
  • ammo 105
  • momma 105
  • epee 102
  • peep 102
  • meme 101


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 108,790 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,849 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*:

  • alar
  • alarum
  • alular
  • armour
  • aurar
  • aurum
  • farfal
  • farl
  • faro
  • fluor
  • foram
  • formful
  • formol
  • fulmar
  • furfur
  • furfural
  • larum
  • laura
  • loral
  • lour
  • maar
  • malar
  • malaroma
  • mara
  • marl
  • marram
  • mora
  • morro
  • morula
  • morular
  • mura
  • murr
  • murra
  • ormolu
  • orra
  • raff
  • ramal
  • rolf
  • rumour

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

afar

adverb
  1. At, to, or from a great distance; far away.

afro

noun
  1. A hairstyle characterized by a tightly curled locks and a rounded shape.

alarm

noun
  1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
  2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
  3. A sudden attack; disturbance.
  4. Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.
  5. A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention.
  6. An instance of an alarm ringing, beeping or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.
verb
  1. To call to arms for defense
  2. To give (someone) notice of approaching danger
  3. To rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.
  4. To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
  5. To keep in excitement; to disturb.

amoral

adjective
  1. (of acts) Neither moral nor immoral.
  2. (of people) Not believing in or caring for morality and immorality.

amour

noun
  1. Love, affection.
  2. Courtship; flirtation.
  3. A love affair.
  4. A lover.

armful

noun
  1. The amount an arm or arms can hold.

armor

noun
  1. A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.
  2. A natural form of this kind of protection on an animal's body.
  3. Metal plate, protecting a ship, military vehicle, or aircraft.
  4. A tank, or other heavy mobile assault vehicle.
  5. A military formation consisting primarily of tanks or other armoured fighting vehicles, collectively.
  6. The naturally occurring surface of pebbles, rocks or boulders that line the bed of a waterway or beach and provide protection against erosion.
verb
  1. To equip something with armor or a protective coating or hardening.
  2. To provide something with an analogous form of protection.

aroma

noun
  1. A smell; especially a pleasant spicy or fragrant one.

arum

noun
  1. A flower or plant in the genus Arum

aura

noun
  1. Distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something.
  2. An invisible force surrounding a living creature.
  3. Perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache.
  4. Telltale sensation experienced by some people with epilepsy before a seizure.

aural

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to the ear.
  2. Of or pertaining to sound.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to an aura.

aurora

noun
  1. An atmospheric phenomenon created by charged particles from the sun striking the upper atmosphere, creating coloured lights in the sky. It is usually named australis or borealis based on whether it is in the Southern or Northern Hemisphere respectively.

auroral

No Definition Found.

farm

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.
  2. A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.
  3. (usually in combination) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures
  4. A group of coordinated servers.
  5. Food; provisions; a meal.
  6. A banquet; feast.
  7. A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax.
  8. A fixed yearly sum accepted from a person as a composition for taxes or other moneys which he is empowered to collect; also, a fixed charge imposed on a town, county, etc., in respect of a tax or taxes to be collected within its limits.
  9. The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.
  10. The body of farmers of public revenues.
  11. The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.
verb
  1. To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.
  2. To devote (land) to farming.
  3. To grow (a particular crop).
  4. To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; to farm out.
  5. To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
  6. To take at a certain rent or rate.
  7. To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To cleanse; clean out; put in order; empty; empty out

floor

noun
  1. The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
  2. Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
  3. The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
  4. A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
  5. The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
  6. A storey/story of a building.
  7. In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
  8. Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
  9. That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
  10. The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
  11. A horizontal, flat ore body.
  12. The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
  13. An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.
  14. A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
  15. A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.
  16. A dance floor.
  17. The area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition
verb
  1. To cover or furnish with a floor.
  2. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
  3. (driving) To accelerate rapidly.
  4. To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
  5. To amaze or greatly surprise.
  6. To finish or make an end of.
  7. To set a lower bound.

flora

noun
  1. Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
  2. A book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc.
  3. The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body

floral

noun
  1. A design involving flowers
  2. A perfume redolent of flowers
adjective
  1. Of, pertaining to, or connected with flowers.
  2. Portraying flowers, especially in a stylized way.

flour

noun
  1. Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
  2. The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid and certain bleaching agents.
  3. Powder of other material.
verb
  1. To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.
  2. To reduce to flour.
  3. To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.
noun
  1. A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.
  2. A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.
  3. A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.
  4. (usually with in) Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.
  5. (hypocoristic) The vulva, especially the labia majora.
  6. The best examples or representatives of a group.
  7. The best state of things; the prime.
  8. Flour.
  9. (in the plural) A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation.
  10. A figure of speech; an ornament of style.
  11. Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
  12. (in the plural) Menstrual discharges.
noun
  1. Something that flows, such as a river.

fora

noun
  1. A place for discussion.
  2. A gathering for the purpose of discussion.
  3. A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience.
  4. An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.
  5. A square or marketplace in a Roman town, used for public business and commerce.

form

noun
  1. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
  2. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
  3. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
  4. A specimen document to be copied or imitated.
  5. Level of performance.
  6. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
  7. The den or home of a hare.
  8. A window or dialogue box.
  9. An infraspecific rank.
  10. The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
  11. A quantic.
  12. (fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
verb
  1. To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
  2. To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
  3. To take shape.
  4. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
  5. To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
  6. To constitute, to compose, to make up.
  7. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
  8. To provide (a hare) with a form.
  9. To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.

formal

noun
  1. Formalin.
  2. An evening gown.
  3. An event with a formal dress code.
  4. A formal parameter.
adjective
  1. Being in accord with established forms.
  2. Official.
  3. Relating to the form or structure of something.
  4. Relating to formation.
  5. Ceremonial or traditional.
  6. Proper, according to strict etiquette; not casual.
  7. Organized; well-structured and planned.
  8. Relating to mere manipulation and construction of strings of symbols, without regard to their meaning.

formula

noun
  1. Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
  2. A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.
  3. A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result.
  4. A formulation; a prescription; a mixture or solution made in a prescribed manner; the identity and quantities of ingredients of such a mixture.
  5. A formal statement of doctrine, as in religion.
  6. A syntactic expression of a proposition, built up from quantifiers, logical connectives, variables, relation and operation symbols, and, depending on the type of logic, possibly other operators such as modal, temporal, deontic or epistemic ones.
noun
  1. A manufactured food simulating human breast milk, designed to be fed to babies and infants under 12 months of age.

forum

noun
  1. A place for discussion.
  2. A gathering for the purpose of discussion.
  3. A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience.
  4. An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.
  5. A square or marketplace in a Roman town, used for public business and commerce.

four

noun
  1. The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
  2. Anything measuring four units, as length.
  3. A person who is four years old.
  4. An event in which the batsmen run four times between the wickets or, more often, a batsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over a boundary, resulting in an award of 4 runs for the batting team. If the ball does not bounce before passing over the boundary, a six is awarded instead.
  5. A power forward.
  6. Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.
  7. A four-pennyworth of spirits.
numeral
  1. A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••)
  2. Describing a set or group with four elements.

from

preposition
  1. Used to indicate source or provenance.
  2. Originating at (a year, time, etc.)
  3. Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
  4. Indicating removal or separation.
  5. Indicating exclusion.
  6. Indicating differentiation.
  7. Produced with or out of (a substance or material).
  8. Used to indicate causation; because of, as a result of.

froufrou

noun
  1. A rustling sound, as of silk fabric.

furl

verb
  1. To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag)

furor

noun
  1. A general uproar or commotion
  2. Violent anger or frenzy
  3. A state of intense excitement

molar

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A back tooth having a broad surface used for grinding one's food.
adjective
  1. Of or relating to the molar teeth, or to grinding.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A unit of concentration equal to one mole per litre.
adjective
  1. Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one mole of solute per litre of solution.
  2. Of or relating to a complete body of matter as distinct from its molecular or atomic constituents.

moor

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
  2. A game preserve consisting of moorland.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To cast anchor or become fastened.
  2. To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like
  3. To secure or fix firmly.

moral

noun
  1. (of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson.
  2. (chiefly in the plural) Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.
  3. A morality play.
  4. A moral certainty.
  5. An exact counterpart.
verb
  1. To moralize.
adjective
  1. Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.
  2. Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.
  3. Capable of right and wrong action.
  4. Probable but not proved.
  5. Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will.

mural

noun
  1. A large painting, usually drawn on a wall.
verb
  1. To create a mural.
adjective
  1. Of or relating to a wall; on, or in, or against a wall.
  2. Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep.

murmur

noun
  1. Any low, indistinct sound, like that of running water.
  2. Soft indistinct speech.
  3. The sound made by any condition which produces noisy, or turbulent, flow of blood through the heart.
  4. A muttered complaint or protest; the expression of dissatisfaction in a low muttering voice; any expression of complaint or discontent
verb
  1. To grumble; to complain in a low, muttering voice, or express discontent at or against someone or something.
  2. To speak or make low, indistinguishable noise; to mumble, mutter.
  3. To say (something) indistinctly, to mutter.

oral

noun
  1. A spoken test or examination, particularly in a language class.
  2. A physical examination of the mouth.
  3. Oral sex.
adjective
  1. Relating to the mouth.
  2. Spoken rather than written.

roam

verb
  1. To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
  2. To use a network or service from different locations or devices.
  3. To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them.
  4. To range or wander over.

roar

noun
  1. A long, loud, deep shout, as of rage or laughter, made with the mouth wide open.
  2. The cry of the lion.
  3. The deep cry of the bull.
  4. A loud resounding noise.
  5. A show of strength or character.
verb
  1. To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
  2. To laugh in a particularly loud manner.
  3. Of animals (especially the lion), to make a loud deep noise.
  4. Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
  5. To proceed vigorously.
  6. To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
  7. To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
  8. To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.
  9. (North Midlands) to cry

roll

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
  2. A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
  3. Something which rolls.
  4. A swagger or rolling gait.
  5. A heavy, reverberatory sound.
  6. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
  7. The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.
  8. The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis.
  9. The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
  10. The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
  11. A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
  12. A training match for a fighting dog.
  13. (paddlesport) An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
  14. (paddlesport) The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized.
verb
  1. To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.
  2. To turn over and over.
  3. To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
  4. To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
  5. To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
  6. To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
  7. To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
  8. To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
  9. To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
  10. To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
  11. To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
  12. To leave or begin a journey.
  13. To compete, especially with vigor.
  14. To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
  15. To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
  16. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
  17. To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
  18. To throw dice.
  19. To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
  20. To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.
  21. To generate a random number.
  22. (of a vessel) To rotate on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare with pitch.
  23. (in folk songs) To travel by sailing.
  24. To beat up; to attack and cause physical damage to.
  25. To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
  26. To betray secrets.
  27. To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
  28. (of a camera) To (cause to) film.
  29. To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
  30. To have a rolling aspect.
  31. To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
  32. To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
  33. To move and cause an effect on someone
  34. To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
  35. To utter with an alveolar trill.
  36. To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
  37. To create a customized version of.
  38. To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. That which is rolled up.
  2. A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
  3. An official or public document; a register; a record
  4. A catalogue or list
  5. A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
  6. A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
  7. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
  8. Part; office; duty; rôle.
  9. A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
  10. (paddlesport) An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.

roof

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The external covering at the top of a building.
  2. The top external level of a building.
  3. The upper part of a cavity.
  4. The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
  5. (rockclimbing) An overhanging rock wall

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To cover or furnish with a roof.
  2. To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs.
  3. To put into prison, to bird.
  4. To shelter as if under a roof.

room

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Opportunity or scope (to do something).
  2. Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
  3. A particular portion of space.
  4. Sufficient space for or to do something.
  5. A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
  6. Place; stead.
  7. A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
  8. (with possessive pronoun) (One's) bedroom.
  9. (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
  10. (always in the singular, metonymy) The people in a room.
  11. An area for working in a coal mine.
  12. A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
  13. A IRC or chat room.
  14. Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
  15. Furniture sufficient to furnish a room.
verb
  1. To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.
  2. To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Wide; spacious; roomy.

Etymology 3

adverb
  1. Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.
  2. Off from the wind.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A deep blue dye.

roomful

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The amount that a room can hold, especially the number of people that can fit into a room.
  2. The people in a room, considered as a group.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Abounding with room or rooms; roomy.

ruff

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).
  2. Anything formed with plaits or flutings like a frill.
  3. Senses relating to animals.
  4. A collar on a shaft or other piece to prevent endwise motion.
  5. An exhibition of haughtiness or pride.
  6. Tumultuous or wanton conduct or procedure.
verb
  1. To shape (fabric, etc.) into a ruff; to adorn (a garment, etc.) with a ruff.
  2. Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to hit (the prey) without fixing or grabbing hold of it.
  3. To ruffle; to disorder.
  4. Of a bird: to ruffle its feathers.
  5. To boast, to brag.
  6. To speak in a loud and domineering manner; to bluster, to swagger.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Arripis georgianus, a fish found in cool waters off the southern coast of Australia; the Australian herring or tommy ruff.
  2. A bottom-dwelling carnivorous fish of the family Sparidae found in temperate and tropical waters; a porgy or sea bream.
noun
  1. Gymnocephalus cernua, a small Eurasian freshwater fish.
  2. Other species in the same genus.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. An instance of ruffing, or an opportunity to ruff, when unable to follow suit.
  2. A game similar to whist and its predecessor.
verb
  1. To play a trump card to a trick when unable to follow suit (that is, to play a card of the same suit as the previous or leading card).
  2. Especially in the form ruff out: to defeat (a card, etc.) by ruffing, thus establishing the master card in the suit led.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruffle.
verb
  1. To beat a ruff or ruffle, as on a drum.
  2. Of a drum, etc.: to have a ruff or ruffle beaten on it.
interjection
  1. The bark of a dog; arf, woof.

Etymology 5

adjective
  1. Not smooth; uneven.
  2. Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.
  3. Turbulent.
  4. Difficult; trying.
  5. Crude; unrefined
  6. Violent; not careful or subtle
  7. Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating.
  8. Not polished; uncut; said of a gem.
  9. Harsh-tasting.
  10. Somewhat ill; sick
  11. Unwell due to alcohol; hungover

rumor

noun
  1. A statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth.
  2. Information or misinformation of the kind contained in such claims.
verb
  1. (usually used in the passive voice) To tell a rumor about; to gossip.

rural

noun
  1. A person from the countryside; a rustic.
adjective
  1. Relating to the countryside or to agriculture.

marm

noun
  1. Madam; a polite term of address for a lady.

farro

noun
  1. Emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum).