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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 427

Number of Answers: 80

Points Needed for Genius: 299

Genius requires between 40 and 67 words. You need at least an 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 76% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, 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 427 was in the 100th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on May 16, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 80 possible answers rank it in the 100th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on June 8, 2019.
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 January 30, 2026.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 6.0.
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 228
  • loll 213
  • toot 208
  • naan 190
  • nana 190
  • lilt 151
  • till 151
  • tilt 151
  • nene 149
  • tint 145
  • mama 142
  • mamma 142
  • acacia 137
  • acai 137
  • onion 137
  • onto 136
  • toon 136
  • anal 130
  • anon 129
  • olio 124
  • dodo 122
  • papa 121
  • tact 121
  • baba 120
  • boob 118
  • booboo 118
  • lull 118
  • lulu 118
  • poop 118
  • cocci 114
  • call 113
  • calla 113
  • mitt 113
  • mono 112
  • moon 112
  • tutu 112
  • loon 111
  • ratatat 111
  • tart 111
  • tartar 111
  • tattoo 111
  • allay 110
  • ally 110
  • attar 110
  • tatty 109
  • ammo 107
  • momma 107
  • roar 105
  • epee 104
  • meme 104


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 113,089 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,906 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*:

  • abba
  • abigail
  • abolla
  • aboon
  • alba
  • albinal
  • alibiing
  • baal
  • baboo
  • babool
  • bagnio
  • balboa
  • ballon
  • bani
  • banian
  • baning
  • biali
  • bibb
  • bibbing
  • biggin
  • bigging
  • bignonia
  • bilbo
  • bilboa
  • bilging
  • billon
  • binal
  • bing
  • biog
  • blag
  • blagging
  • blain
  • blinging
  • bobo
  • bogan
  • boinging
  • bolling
  • bonging
  • boobing
  • boogalooing
  • gabba
  • gabion
  • gabling
  • gaboon
  • galabia
  • gangbang
  • gangbanging
  • gibbing
  • globin
  • globing
  • goalball
  • goban
  • gobang
  • gobbing
  • gobo
  • liblab
  • nibbing
  • nobbling
  • obia
  • obol
  • oboli

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

aboil

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albino

noun
  1. A person or animal congenitally lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); one born with albinism.
adjective
  1. Congenitally lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); born with albinism.

alibi

noun
  1. The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed
verb
  1. To provide an alibi for.
  2. To provide an excuse for.

baaing

verb
  1. To make the characteristic cry of a sheep.
noun
  1. The bleating of a sheep.

baba

noun
  1. A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.
  2. (esp. among people of East European ancestry) A grandmother.
  3. An old woman, especially a traditional old woman from an eastern European culture.
  4. (esp. among people of Indian ancestry) A father.
  5. (Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism) A holy man, a spiritual leader.
  6. A baby, child.
  7. In baby talk, often used for a variety of words beginning with b, such as bottle or blanket.

babbling

verb
  1. To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds
  2. To talk incoherently; to utter meaningless words.
  3. To talk too much; to chatter; to prattle.
  4. To make a continuous murmuring noise, like shallow water running over stones.
  5. To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat words or sounds in a childish way without understanding.
  6. To reveal; to give away (a secret).
noun
  1. A stage in child language acquisition, during which an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering sounds of language, but not yet producing any recognizable words
  2. Sounds produced by infant during the babbling period
  3. Idle senseless talk; prattle.
  4. A confused murmur, as of a stream.

baboon

noun
  1. An Old World monkey of the genus Papio, having dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks.
  2. A foolish or boorish person.

bagging

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To put into a bag.
  2. To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
  3. To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
  4. To furnish or load with a bag.
  5. (African American Vernacular) To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
  6. (African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
  7. To criticise sarcastically.
  8. To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
  9. To fit with a bag to collect urine.
  10. To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.
  11. To hang like an empty bag.
  12. To drop away from the correct course.
  13. To swell with arrogance.
  14. To become pregnant.
noun
  1. The act of putting anything into a bag.
  2. Cloth or other material for bags.
  3. Use of BVM to ventilate a patient.
  4. Peak bagging

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Bootstrap aggregating

bail

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
  2. Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
  3. The person providing such payment.
  4. A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
  5. A person who bails water out of a boat.
  6. Custody; keeping.
verb
  1. To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
  2. To release a person under such guarantee.
  3. To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
  4. To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
  5. To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
  6. To set free; to deliver; to release.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To exit quickly.
  2. To fail to meet a commitment.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).
  2. A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).
  3. A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
  4. A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
  5. A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
  6. One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
  7. (furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.
verb
  1. To secure the head of a cow during milking.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To confine.
  2. To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
  3. To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up. (Usually with up.)

bailing

verb
  1. To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
  2. To release a person under such guarantee.
  3. To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
  4. To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
  5. To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
  6. To set free; to deliver; to release.
verb
  1. To exit quickly.
  2. To fail to meet a commitment.
verb
  1. To secure the head of a cow during milking.
verb
  1. To confine.
  2. To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
  3. To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up. (Usually with up.)
noun
  1. The act by which something is bailed.

baling

verb
  1. To remove water from a boat with buckets etc.
noun
  1. A collection of material packaged into a bale.

ball

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
  2. A round or ellipsoidal object.
  3. (mildly, usually in the plural) A testicle.
  4. A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.
  5. A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
verb
  1. To form or wind into a ball.
  2. To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
  3. To have sexual intercourse with.
  4. To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
  5. (usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.
  6. To play basketball.
  7. To punish by affixing a ball and chain
interjection
  1. An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player. This is heard almost any time an opposition player is tackled, without regard to whether the rules about "prior opportunity" to dispose of the ball are fulfilled.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A formal dance.
  2. A very enjoyable time.

balling

verb
  1. To form or wind into a ball.
  2. To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
  3. To have sexual intercourse with.
  4. To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
  5. (usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.
  6. To play basketball.
  7. To punish by affixing a ball and chain

balloon

noun
  1. An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
  2. Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.
  3. Such an object designed to transport people through the air.
  4. A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
  5. A speech bubble.
  6. A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
  7. A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
  8. A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
  9. A bomb or shell.
  10. A game played with a large inflated ball.
  11. (engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
  12. A woman's breast.
  13. A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.
verb
  1. To increase or expand rapidly.
  2. To go up or voyage in a balloon.
  3. To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
  4. To inflate like a balloon.
  5. To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
noun
  1. An unusually large payment due at the end of the term of a loan agreement.

ballooning

verb
  1. To increase or expand rapidly.
  2. To go up or voyage in a balloon.
  3. To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
  4. To inflate like a balloon.
  5. To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
noun
  1. The act of something that swells or expands.
  2. The sport or hobby of flying in a balloon.
  3. The mechanical kiting used by spiders, mites, caterpillars, etc. to travel through the air.
adjective
  1. Growing rapidly as a balloon.
  2. Rising high in the air.

banal

adjective
  1. Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh.
  2. (history) Relating to a type of feudal jurisdiction or service.

banana

noun
  1. An elongated curved tropical fruit that grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
  2. The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, usually of the genus Musa but sometimes also including plants from Ensete, has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain.
  3. A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.
  4. (mildly) A person of Asian descent, especially a Chinese American, who has assimilated into Western culture or married a Caucasian (from the "yellow" outside and "white" inside). Compare coconut or Oreo.
  5. A banana equivalent dose.
  6. A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).
  7. The penis.
  8. A banana kick.
adjective
  1. Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.

bang

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A sudden percussive noise.
  2. A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
  3. An explosion.
  4. The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
  5. A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
  6. An act of sexual intercourse.
  7. An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
  8. An explosive product.
  9. An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug).
  10. (Boston area) An abrupt left turn.
  11. Strong smell (of)
  12. A thrill.
verb
  1. To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
  2. To hit hard.
  3. To engage in sexual intercourse.
  4. (with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
  5. To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
  6. To inject intravenously.
adverb
  1. Right, directly.
  2. Precisely.
  3. With a sudden impact.
interjection
  1. A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc.
noun
  1. Hair hanging over the forehead.
  2. A hairstyle including such hair, especially cut straight across the forehead.
noun
  1. Brucellosis, a bacterial disease.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Cannabis, especially as used in the Indian subcontinent.

banging

verb
  1. To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
  2. To hit hard.
  3. To engage in sexual intercourse.
  4. (with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
  5. To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
  6. To inject intravenously.
noun
  1. The action of the verb to bang.
adjective
  1. Excellent, brilliant, very exciting, top, great.
  2. Attractive; sexually appealing.
  3. Huge; great in size.

banning

verb
  1. To summon; to call out.
  2. To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
  3. To curse; to execrate.
  4. To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
  5. To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
noun
  1. The act by which something is banned; a prohibition.

baobab

noun
  1. A tree, Adansonia digitata (and similar species), native to tropical Africa, having a broad swollen trunk and edible gourd-like hanging fruits.

bilabial

noun
  1. A speech sound articulated with both lips.
adjective
  1. Articulated with both lips.

bill

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
  2. A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
  3. Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
  4. A pickaxe, or mattock.
  5. The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
verb
  1. To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
  2. A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
  3. Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
verb
  1. To peck
  2. To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
  2. A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
  3. A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
  4. A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.
  5. A piece of paper money; a banknote.
  6. A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
  7. A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
  8. A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
  9. A set of items presented together.
verb
  1. To advertise by a bill or public notice.
  2. To charge; to send a bill to.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. The bell, or boom, of the bittern.

billabong

noun
  1. A stagnant pool of water.
  2. A streambed that is only filled with water during the rainy season.
  3. A channel that dead-ends which extends from the main part of a river.
  4. An oxbow lake.

billing

verb
  1. To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
verb
  1. To peck
  2. To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness
verb
  1. To advertise by a bill or public notice.
  2. To charge; to send a bill to.
noun
  1. Amounts billed.
  2. Accounts receivable.
  3. The tracking of bills and amounts owed; the department within an institution or business that deals with the tracking of bills and amounts owed.
  4. The act or situation of including someone or something to those that make up a complete list.

billion

noun
  1. (modern British & Australian, short scale) a thousand million (logic: 1,000 × 1,000^2): 1 followed by nine zeros, 109; a milliard
  2. (British & Australian, long scale) A million million (logic: 1,000,000^2): a 1 followed by twelve zeros; 1012
  3. An unspecified very large number.

binging

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To go; walk; come; run
verb
  1. Making the sound of a bounce
  2. To bounce

bingo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" after crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid.
  2. A win in such a game.
  3. (Scrabble) A play where all seven of a player's letter tiles are played.
verb
  1. To play the game of bingo.
  2. To give the winning cry of "bingo!" in a game.
  3. To play all of one's seven tiles in one move in the game of Scrabble, earning a score bonus.
  4. To return to base.
adjective
  1. Just sufficient to return to base (or, alternatively, to divert to an alternative airfield). (also written Bingo or BINGO)
interjection
  1. Used by players of bingo to claim a win.
  2. Used when finding what one has been looking for or trying to recall, or on successful completion of a task.
  3. Used to declare "You've just made my point!" or "My point exactly!"

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Brandy.

binning

verb
  1. To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
  2. To throw away, reject, give up.
  3. To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
  4. To place into a bin for storage.
noun
  1. A data pre-processing technique in which original data values fall into a small interval ("bin") and are replaced by a value representative of that interval, often the central value. Wp
  2. The process of grouping reads or contigs and assigning them to operational taxonomic units. Wp
  3. The categorization of finished products based on their characteristics. Wp
  4. The process of combining charge from adjacent pixels in a CCD image sensor during readout.

blab

noun
  1. One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper.
  2. Gossip; prattle.
verb
  1. To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.

blabbing

verb
  1. To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
noun
  1. Gossip; the telling of tales.

blin

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Cessation; end.
verb
  1. To cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A blintz.

bling

noun
  1. Ostentatious display of richness or style.
noun
  1. Shiny jewelry that displays wealth, such as a diamond ring or a stylish gold necklace or bracelet.

blini

noun
  1. A small pancake, of Russian origin, made from buckwheat flour; traditionally served with melted butter, sour cream and caviar or smoked salmon.

blob

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
  2. In astronomy, a large cloud of gas. In particular, an extended Lyman-Alpha blob is a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.
  3. A bubble; a bleb.
  4. A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.
  5. The partially inflated air bag used in the sport of blobbing.
  6. A score of zero.
verb
  1. To drop in the form of a blob or blobs
  2. To drop a blob or blobs onto, cover with blobs.
  3. To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.
  4. To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Acronym of binary large object. (a data type that allows storage of binary data often of indeterminate length).

blobbing

verb
  1. To drop in the form of a blob or blobs
  2. To drop a blob or blobs onto, cover with blobs.
  3. To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.
  4. To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
noun
  1. An outdoor recreational activity in which a participant sitting on the end of a partially inflated air bag is launched into the water when another participant jumps onto the air bag from a platform on the opposite side.

blog

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A website that allows users to reflect, share opinions, and discuss various topics in the form of an online journal, sometimes letting readers comment on their posts. Most blogs are written in a slightly informal tone (personal journals, news, businesses, etc.)
  2. An individual post to a blog.
verb
  1. To contribute to a blog.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To blag, to steal something; to acquire something illegally.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (originally nonce word) A cocktail or punch served at science fiction conventions. Ingredients vary for different conventions.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To look sullen or sulky

blogging

verb
  1. To contribute to a blog.
verb
  1. To blag, to steal something; to acquire something illegally.
verb
  1. To look sullen or sulky
noun
  1. The design and editing of a blog; weblogging.

bobbin

noun
  1. A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
  2. In a sewing machine, the small spool that holds the lower thread.
  3. The little rounded piece of wood at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
  4. (haberdashery) A fine cord or narrow braid.

bobbing

verb
  1. To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium.
  2. To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
  3. To curtsy.
  4. To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
verb
  1. To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
  2. To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop
  3. To bobsleigh.
noun
  1. The motion of something that bobs.

bobbling

verb
  1. To bob up and down.
  2. To make a mistake in.
  3. To roll slowly.

bogging

verb
  1. (now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
  2. To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
  3. (now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland.
  4. To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
  5. (originally vulgar Britain) To defecate, to void one's bowels.
  6. (originally vulgar Britain) To cover or spray with excrement.
  7. To make a mess of something.
verb
  1. To provoke, to bug.
verb
  1. (usually with "off") To go away.
adjective
  1. Stinking; disgusting.

boggling

verb
  1. Either literally or figuratively to stop or hesitate as if suddenly seeing a bogle.
  2. To be bewildered, dumbfounded, or confused.
  3. To confuse or mystify; overwhelm.
  4. To embarrass with difficulties; to palter or equivocate; to bungle or botch.
  5. To dissemble; to play fast and loose (with someone or something).

boil

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.
  2. A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
  3. The collective noun for a group of hawks.
verb
  1. (of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
  2. To cook in boiling water.
  3. (of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
  4. To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
  5. (used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
  6. (used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
  7. To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
  8. To steep or soak in warm water.
  9. To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
  10. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.

boiling

verb
  1. (of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
  2. To cook in boiling water.
  3. (of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
  4. To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
  5. (used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
  6. (used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
  7. To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
  8. To steep or soak in warm water.
  9. To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
  10. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
noun
  1. The process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point.
  2. An animation style with constantly changing wavy outlines, giving a shimmering or wobbling appearance.
adjective
  1. That boils or boil.
  2. Of a thing: extremely hot or active.
  3. Of a person: feeling uncomfortably hot.
  4. Of the weather: very hot.
adverb
  1. (of adjectives associated with heat) Extremely

boing

noun
  1. The sound made by an elastic object (such as a spring) when bouncing; the sound of a bounce.
verb
  1. To make a boing sound or bouncing motion.

bola

noun
  1. A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of a cord.

boll

noun
  1. The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
  2. An old dry measure equal to six bushels.
verb
  1. To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

bolo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A long, heavy, single-edged machete.
  2. A type of punch; an uppercut.
verb
  1. To attack or despatch with a bolo knife.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A soldier not capable of the minimum standards of marksmanship.
verb
  1. To fail to meet the minimum standards of marksmanship.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A string or leather necktie secured with an ornamental slide.
verb
  1. To dress (somebody) in a bolo.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A request for law enforcement officers to be on the lookout for a suspect.

bologna

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A seasoned Italian sausage made from beef, pork or veal.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A type of sausage; bologna.

bonbon

noun
  1. A sweet, especially a small chocolate-covered candy.
  2. A small, spherical savory snack or canapé.
  3. A Christmas cracker.

bong

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The clang of a large bell.
  2. Doorbell chimes.
verb
  1. To pull a bell.
  2. To ring a doorbell.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances; especially marijuana or pot.
  2. An act of smoking one serving of drugs from a bong.
  3. A device for rapidly consuming beer, usually consisting of a funnel or reservoir of beer and a length of tubing.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A very wide piton.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. (thieves' cant) A purse.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. An Australian Aboriginal person.

bongo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands.
verb
  1. To play the bongo drums.
  2. Of the heart, etc.: to beat with an irregular rhythm.
  3. To hit something rhythmically with the hands.

boning

verb
  1. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
  2. To fertilize with bone.
  3. To put whalebone into.
  4. To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
  5. (usually of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
  6. (in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
  7. (usually with "up") To study.
  8. To polish boots to a shiny finish.
verb
  1. To apprehend, steal.
verb
  1. To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
noun
  1. The removal of bones from a carcass; filleting.
  2. The arrangement of bones in a corset.
  3. An act of sexual intercourse.
  4. Bone structure.
  5. The fertilization of a field with bone meal.
  6. The process or result of leveling using a boning rod.
  7. Placement of a curse by pointing with a bone, practiced by Australian aborigines; an act of pointing the bone.

bonobo

noun
  1. The pygmy chimpanzee, Pan paniscus, from Africa south of the Congo river.

boob

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Idiot, fool.
verb
  1. To behave stupidly; to act like a boob.
  2. To make a mistake
adjective
  1. Idiotic, foolish.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A breast, especially that of an adult or adolescent human female.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A prison; jail.

booboo

noun
  1. A mistake or error.
  2. (by or to young children) A minor injury, such as a cut or a bruise.
  3. (by or to young children) Feces.

boogaloo

noun
  1. A genre of music that blends rhythm and blues and soul music with Cuban-style rhythms, originating in the United States in the 1960s.
  2. A style of dance to this music, popular in the 1960s.
  3. A piece of music, or an instance of dancing, in or of this style.
  4. A type of freestyle, improvisational street dance incorporating soulful steps and robotic movements, originally danced to funk and disco, but later more commonly to hip-hop.
  5. A sequel or repetition of events, etc.
  6. A hypothetical second American Civil War, in which far-right or antigovernment activists rise up against the government.
  7. (possibly obsolete) A black person.
verb
  1. To dance in this style.

booing

verb
  1. To shout extended boos derisively.
  2. To shout extended boos at, as a form of derision.
noun
  1. A disapproving exclamation by a member of an audience.

boon

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A prayer; petition.
  2. That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.
  3. A good thing; a blessing or benefit; a thing to be thankful for.
  4. An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Good; prosperous.
  2. Kind; bountiful; benign.
  3. (Now only in boon companion) gay; merry; jovial; convivial.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.

gabbing

verb
  1. To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.
  2. To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects.
  3. To speak or tell falsely.

gabbling

verb
  1. To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
  2. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
noun
  1. Rapid, confused speech.

gibbon

noun
  1. A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which it uses to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.

gibing

verb
  1. Alternative spelling of gybe
  2. Alternative spelling of jibe
noun
  1. A gibe.

glib

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To make glib.
adjective
  1. Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.
  2. Smooth or slippery.
  3. Artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly worn in Ireland.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.

glob

noun
  1. A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
  2. A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression.
  3. A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.
verb
  1. To stick in globs or lumps.
  2. To carry out pattern matching using a glob.

global

noun
  1. A globally scoped identifier.
adjective
  1. Concerning all parts of the world.
  2. Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal:
  3. Spherical, ball-shaped.
  4. Of or relating to a globe or sphere.
adverb
  1. In the global manner; world-wide.

gobbling

verb
  1. To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up)
verb
  1. To make the sound of a turkey.
noun
  1. The act of eating greedily and noisily.
  2. The sound of a turkey.

goblin

noun
  1. One of various hostile supernatural creatures, now especially (fantasy literature) a malevolent and grotesque diminutive humanoid.

labia

noun
  1. The folds of tissue at the opening of the vulva, at either side of the vagina.
noun
  1. A liplike structure; especially one of the two pairs of folds of skin either side of the vulva.
  2. The lip of a labiate corolla.
  3. The lip against which pressured air is driven to produce sound in a recorder and in a pipe organ with flue pipes.

labial

noun
  1. A consonant articulated by the lips.
  2. An organ pipe having a lip that influences its sound.
  3. Any of the scales bordering the mouth opening of a reptile.
adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to the lips or labia.
  2. Articulated by the lips, as the consonants b, m and w.
  3. Of an incisor or canine, on the side facing the lips. See mesial.
  4. Furnished with lips.

lobbing

verb
  1. To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arch.
  2. To throw.
  3. To put, place
  4. To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
  5. To let fall heavily or lazily.
verb
  1. To cob (chip off unwanted pieces of stone).

lobo

noun
  1. A wolf.

nabbing

verb
  1. To seize, arrest or take into custody (a criminal or fugitive).
  2. To grab or snatch something.

nabob

noun
  1. An Indian ruler within the Mogul empire.
  2. (by extension) Someone of great wealth or importance.
  3. (by extension) A person with a grandiose style or manner.

nibbling

verb
  1. To eat with small, quick bites.
  2. To bite lightly.
  3. To consume gradually.
  4. To find fault; to cavil.
noun
  1. The act or sound of one who nibbles.
  2. A small adjustment or encroachment.

obliging

verb
  1. To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means.
  2. To do (someone) a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation).
  3. To be indebted to someone.
noun
  1. The imposition of an obligation.
adjective
  1. Happy and ready to do favours for others.

oblong

noun
  1. Something with an oblong shape.
  2. A rectangle having length greater than width or width greater than length.
adjective
  1. Longer than wide or wider than long; not square.
  2. Roughly rectangular or ellipsoidal

boba

noun
  1. Short for boba tea.
noun
  1. A small edible ball made primarily from tapioca starch; used in bubble tea.

noob

noun
  1. (often pejorative) A newb or newbie; refers to the idea that someone is new to a game, concept, or idea; implying a lack of experience. Also, in some areas the word noob can mean someone is obsessed with things.