Wednesday, December 24, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 244

Number of Answers: 45

Points Needed for Genius: 171

Genius requires between 23 and 37 words. You need at least a 7-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 244 was in the 80th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on December 22, 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 December 22, 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 December 23, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.8.
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 225
  • loll 209
  • toot 205
  • naan 186
  • nana 186
  • lilt 150
  • till 150
  • tilt 150
  • nene 145
  • tint 144
  • mama 141
  • mamma 141
  • onion 136
  • onto 136
  • toon 136
  • acacia 134
  • acai 134
  • anal 128
  • anon 127
  • olio 123
  • dodo 120
  • papa 119
  • tact 119
  • baba 118
  • boob 116
  • booboo 116
  • lull 115
  • lulu 115
  • poop 115
  • cocci 113
  • call 112
  • calla 112
  • mitt 112
  • mono 112
  • moon 112
  • ratatat 110
  • tart 110
  • tartar 110
  • tutu 110
  • attar 109
  • loon 109
  • tattoo 109
  • allay 108
  • ally 108
  • ammo 107
  • momma 107
  • tatty 106
  • roar 104
  • epee 103
  • meme 103


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 111,310 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,879 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*:

  • agapai
  • apiarian
  • gapping
  • gipping
  • inwrap
  • inwrapping
  • napa
  • nappa
  • nipa
  • paan
  • panga
  • panging
  • papain
  • pappi
  • para
  • parang
  • parawing
  • parging
  • parian
  • parr
  • parring
  • pian
  • piani
  • piggin
  • piing
  • pina
  • pinang
  • pinna
  • pipa
  • pipping
  • pirana
  • pirn
  • prana
  • prang
  • pranging
  • prawning
  • priapi
  • prigging
  • raping
  • rappini
  • riping
  • riprap
  • riprapping
  • wapping

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

apian

noun
  1. (very rare) A bee.
adjective
  1. Relating to bees.

aping

verb
  1. To behave like an ape.
  2. To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly.
noun
  1. Foolish imitation or mimicry.

gaping

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.
  2. To stare in wonder.
  3. To open wide; to display a gap.
  4. Of a cat: to open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.
adjective
  1. Wide open.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The act of one who gapes.
  2. Something gaping; something agape.

gawp

verb
  1. To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk.

gawping

verb
  1. To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk.
noun
  1. The action of the verb gawp.
adjective
  1. That gawps or gawp.

grappa

noun
  1. An Italian grape-based spirit of between 80 and 100 proof, made from the distillation of pomace.
  2. A variety or serving of grappa.

grip

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To take hold of, particularly with the hand.
  2. To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense.
  3. To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief.
  4. To trench; to drain.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
  2. A handle or other place to grip.
  3. A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.
  4. (film production) A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
  5. A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
  6. A lot of something.
  7. A long time.
  8. A small travelling-bag or gripsack.
  9. An apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.
  10. Assistance; help or encouragement.
  11. A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.
  12. As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
  13. A tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
  14. A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
noun
  1. Influenza, the flu.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. The griffin.

griping

verb
  1. To complain; to whine.
  2. To annoy or bother.
  3. To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
  4. To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.
  5. To suffer griping pains.
  6. To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).
  7. To seize or grasp.
noun
  1. Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; gripe.

gripping

verb
  1. To take hold of, particularly with the hand.
  2. To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense.
  3. To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief.
  4. To trench; to drain.
noun
  1. Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; gripe.
adjective
  1. Which catches someone's attention; exciting

napping

verb
  1. To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.
  2. To be off one's guard.
verb
  1. To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).
verb
  1. To grab; to nab.
verb
  1. To cover (something) with a sauce (usually in passive).
noun
  1. The act of taking a nap or short sleep.
  2. The act or process of raising a nap, as on cloth.

nipping

verb
  1. To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
  2. To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
  3. To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
  4. To annoy, as by nipping.
  5. To taunt.
  6. To squeeze or pinch.
  7. To steal; especially to cut a purse.
verb
  1. To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
noun
  1. The act or sensation of giving a nip.

pagan

noun
  1. A person not adhering to a main world religion; a follower of a pantheistic or nature-worshipping religion.
  2. (by extension) An uncivilized or unsocialized person.
  3. (by extension) An unruly, badly educated child.
adjective
  1. Relating to, characteristic of religions that differ from main world religions.
  2. (by extension) Savage, immoral, uncivilized, wild.

paging

verb
  1. To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
  2. (often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication.
  3. To furnish with folios.
verb
  1. To attend (someone) as a page.
  2. To call or summon (someone).
  3. To contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device.
  4. To call (somebody) using a public address system so as to find them.
noun
  1. The arrangement of pages in a book or other publication.
  2. A transfer of pages between main memory and an auxiliary store, such as hard disk drive.

pain

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
  2. The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
  3. (from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
  4. Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
  5. (chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
verb
  1. To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
  2. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
  3. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.

paining

verb
  1. To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
  2. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
  3. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

pair

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
  2. Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
  3. Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts)
  4. A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
  5. A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
  6. A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
  7. A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
  8. A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams
  9. A boat for two sweep rowers.
  10. A pair of breasts
  11. The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
  12. Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.
  13. A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
  14. (kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.
verb
  1. To group into one or more sets of two.
  2. To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
  3. To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
  4. To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To impair, to make worse.
  2. To become worse, to deteriorate.

pairing

verb
  1. To group into one or more sets of two.
  2. To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
  3. To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
  4. To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
verb
  1. To impair, to make worse.
  2. To become worse, to deteriorate.
noun
  1. The combination or union of two things.
  2. An agreement between two members of a legislative body holding opposite opinions to refrain from voting, so that both may absent themselves.

pang

noun
  1. (often in the plural) A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe.
  2. (often in the plural) A sudden sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of joy or sorrow.
verb
  1. To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to torture.

panini

noun
  1. A type of grilled sandwich made of a small loaf of bread, cut horizontally, filled with meat such as salami or ham, cheese or other food.

panning

verb
  1. To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
  2. To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to criticise severely.
  3. With "out" (to pan out), to turn out well; to be successful.
  4. (of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
  5. To criticize harshly a work (like a book, movie, etc.)
verb
  1. Of a camera, etc.: to turn horizontally.
  2. To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360 degrees from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
  3. (audio) To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
verb
  1. To join or fit together; to unite.
noun
  1. The act of one who pans, as for gold.
  2. Material that has been panned.
  3. (audio) The act by which a sound is panned.
  4. Thorough criticism.

papa

noun
  1. Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
  2. A pet name for one's grandfather.
  3. A parish priest in the Greek Orthodox Church.
  4. The letter P in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

papaw

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A tree, Carica papaya, of tropical America, belonging to the order Brassicales, and producing dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (less commonly) A father.
noun
  1. Grandfather.

paring

verb
  1. To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife
  2. (often with down or back) to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off
  3. To trim the hoof of a horse
noun
  1. A fragment or shaving that has been pared.
  2. The cutting off of the surface of grassland for tillage.

pawing

verb
  1. (of an animal) To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws.
  2. (of an animal) To gently push on something with a paw.
  3. (of an animal) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.
  4. (by extension) To touch someone in a sexual way.
  5. (by extension) To clumsily dig through something.
  6. To flatter.
noun
  1. The act of one who paws.

pawn

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess each side has eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only forward diagonally or en passant.
  2. Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
  2. An instance of pawning something.
  3. An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge.
  4. A pawnshop; pawnbroker.
verb
  1. To pledge; to stake or wager.
  2. To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A psychoactive preparation of betel leaf combined with areca nut and/or cured tobacco, chewed recreationally in Asia; such a preparation served wrapped in the leaf.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A gallery.

Etymology 5

verb
  1. (originally leet) To own, to defeat or dominate (someone or something, especially a game or someone playing a game).

pawning

verb
  1. To pledge; to stake or wager.
  2. To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop.
noun
  1. The act by which something is pawned.
verb
  1. (originally leet) To own, to defeat or dominate (someone or something, especially a game or someone playing a game).

pawpaw

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:
  2. The fruit of these trees.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Grandfather.

pigging

Etymology 1

verb
  1. (of swine) to give birth.
  2. To greedily consume (especially food).
  3. To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
  4. To clean (a pipeline) using a pig (the device).
noun
  1. The use of a pig (the device) to clean a pipeline.
adjective
  1. Damned (used as a mild intensive).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A small pail, can or ladle with the handle on the side; a lading-can. In the colonial era, some buckets were made like a small barrel, but with one stave left extra long. This stave would be carved into a handle so the bucket could be used as an oversized scoop for scattering grain, slopping the hogs, etc.

ping

noun
  1. A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
  2. (submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
  3. A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
  4. An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
  5. Latency.
  6. A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.
  7. (WMF jargon) A notification.
verb
  1. To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
  2. (submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
  3. To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
  4. (by extension) To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
  5. To flick.
  6. To bounce.
  7. To cause something to bounce.
  8. To call out audibly.
  9. To penalize.

pinging

verb
  1. To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
  2. (submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
  3. To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
  4. (by extension) To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
  5. To flick.
  6. To bounce.
  7. To cause something to bounce.
  8. To call out audibly.
  9. To penalize.
noun
  1. The sound of a ping.
  2. The act of sending a ping, as by a submarine or over a computer network.

pining

verb
  1. To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.
  2. To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
  3. To grieve or mourn for.
  4. To inflict pain upon; to torment.
noun
  1. The act of one who pines.

pinning

verb
  1. To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen.
verb
  1. (often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
  2. (usually in the passive) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
  3. To pin down (someone).
  4. To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
  5. To attach (an icon, application, etc.) to another item.
  6. To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
  7. To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
noun
  1. The action of the verb pin in any sense.
  2. A ceremony in which a pin badge is given.
  3. The establishment of the definite quantum state of a particle, or of the occupation number of a system of particles

piping

verb
  1. To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
  2. To shout loudly and at high pitch.
  3. To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
  4. Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
  5. To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
  6. To install or configure with pipes.
  7. To dab moisture away from.
  8. To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
  9. To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (pipe) at the command line.
  10. To create or decorate with piping (icing).
  11. To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
  12. (of a male) To have sexual intercourse with a female.
  13. To see.
noun
  1. The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
  2. The sound of musical pipes.
  3. An act of making music or noise with pipes.
  4. A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
  5. An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
  6. Icing extruded from a piping bag.
  7. A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
  8. Propagation by cuttings
adjective
  1. High-pitched.

pippin

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A seed

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any of several varieties of eating apple that have a yellow or green skin with patches of red
  2. Any of several roundish or oblate apple varieties
  3. An apple tree raised from a seed (not grafted)

prawn

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata.
  2. A crustacean sometimes confused with shrimp.
  3. A woman with a very toned body, but an unattractive face.
  4. A fool, an idiot.
verb
  1. To fish for prawns.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Pornography.
  2. (chiefly in the plural) A pornographic work.
  3. Material, usually visual, presenting something desirable in a sensational manner.
  4. Material that provides illicit gratification of an obsessive or unhealthy interest in something.

prig

noun
  1. A tinker.
  2. A petty thief or pickpocket.
  3. A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.
  4. A conceited dandy; a fop.
verb
  1. To filch or steal.
  2. To ride
  3. To copulate

rapini

noun
  1. A vegetable native to China, Brassica rapa subsp. rapa, with green spiky leaves and a bitter taste.

rapping

verb
  1. To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
  2. To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
  3. To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
  4. To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
  5. To talk casually; to engage in conversation.
verb
  1. To seize and carry off.
  2. To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture.
noun
  1. The sound of a rap or knock.
  2. Musical speech accompanied by a rhythm, most commonly as part of hip-hop music.
adjective
  1. Remarkably large; whopping.

riparian

noun
  1. A person or other entity that lives or owns property along the shore of a river.
adjective
  1. Of or relating to the bank of a river or stream.

ripping

verb
  1. To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.
  2. To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
  3. To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
  4. To move quickly and destructively.
  5. To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.
  6. To copy data from CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
  7. (narcotics) To take a "hit" of marijuana.
  8. To fart.
  9. To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on)
  10. To steal; to rip off.
  11. To move or act fast, to rush headlong.
  12. To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; usually with up.
  13. To surf extremely well.
noun
  1. The process of copying audio or video content from a CD, DVD, etc. to a hard disk.
  2. Wood that has been ripped (cut parallel to the grain).
  3. The process of ploughing a rabbit warren with deep furrows as a form of feral control.
  4. The use of diet and exercise to reduce body fat and emphasize muscle mass.
adjective
  1. That rips, or can be removed by ripping.
  2. Excellent.

warp

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally:
  2. A distortion:
  3. The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
  4. The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
  5. A line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for other purposes such as deploying a seine or creating drag.
  6. A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
  7. A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
  8. The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them.
  9. (obsolete outside dialectal) A throw or cast, as of fish (in which case it is used as a unit of measure: about four fish, though sometimes three or even two), oysters, etc.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally:
  2. (ropemaking) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred.
  3. To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
  4. To plot; to fabricate or weave (a plot or scheme).
  5. To change or fix (make fixed, for example by freezing).
  6. To move:
  7. (obsolete outside dialectal, of an animal) To bring forth (young) prematurely.
  8. To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or other water in upon it to deposit silt and alluvial matter.
  9. (very rare) To throw.

warping

verb
  1. To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally:
  2. (ropemaking) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred.
  3. To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
  4. To plot; to fabricate or weave (a plot or scheme).
  5. To change or fix (make fixed, for example by freezing).
  6. To move:
  7. (obsolete outside dialectal, of an animal) To bring forth (young) prematurely.
  8. To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or other water in upon it to deposit silt and alluvial matter.
  9. (very rare) To throw.
noun
  1. An action or motion that warps or twists.
  2. The deformation of the Earth's crust over a large area
  3. The art or occupation of preparing warp or webs for the weaver.
  4. The practice of flooding agricultural land with turbid river water to add sediment to the soil.

wiping

verb
  1. To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
  2. To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
  3. To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out.
  4. To erase.
  5. To make (a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe), by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing.
  6. To remove an expression from one's face.
  7. To deperm (a ship).
verb
  1. To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out.
noun
  1. The act by which something is wiped.
  2. Material wiped off something.
  3. A thrashing.

wrap

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
  2. To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.
  3. To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
  4. (video production) To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show, or movie.
  5. (lines, words, text, etc.) To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line
  6. To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
  7. To (cause to) reset to an original value after passing a maximum.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A garment that one wraps around the body to keep oneself warm.
  2. A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
  3. (entertainment) The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
  4. A wraparound mortgage.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A sharp blow with something hard.
  2. Blame for something.
  3. A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction.
  4. A casual talk.
  5. Rap music.
  6. A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
  7. An appraisal.
  8. A positive appraisal; a recommendation.
noun
  1. A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
noun
  1. Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
  2. A whit; a jot.

wrapping

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The material in which something is wrapped.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
  2. To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.
  3. To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
  4. (video production) To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show, or movie.
  5. (lines, words, text, etc.) To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line
  6. To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
  7. To (cause to) reset to an original value after passing a maximum.