Friday, July 26, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 202

Number of Answers: 47

Points Needed for Genius: 141

Genius requires between 19 and 42 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 84% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 63% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 202 was in the 68th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on July 23, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 47 possible answers rank it in the 71st percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on July 23, 2024.
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 July 25, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.3.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 176
  • loll 170
  • toot 159
  • naan 158
  • nana 158
  • lilt 128
  • till 128
  • tilt 128
  • tint 118
  • mama 112
  • mamma 112
  • nene 107
  • acacia 106
  • acai 106
  • anal 105
  • onto 103
  • toon 103
  • anon 101
  • boob 101
  • booboo 101
  • onion 100
  • lull 99
  • lulu 99
  • olio 99
  • papa 97
  • call 96
  • calla 96
  • poop 94
  • allay 93
  • ally 93
  • dodo 93
  • mitt 93
  • tatty 93
  • baba 92
  • ratatat 91
  • tact 91
  • tart 91
  • tartar 91
  • attar 90
  • nanny 90
  • cocci 89
  • mono 89
  • moon 89
  • radar 89
  • tutu 89
  • loon 88
  • array 87
  • epee 87
  • peep 87
  • tattoo 87


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 88,436 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,167 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*:

  • concoctor
  • connor
  • cornu
  • cornuto
  • croton
  • crudo
  • cruor
  • curn
  • curr
  • dorr
  • durn
  • duro
  • duroc
  • durr
  • nocturn
  • nonconcur
  • nondoctor
  • notturno
  • nurd
  • octoroon
  • odour
  • ordo
  • outroot
  • outtrot
  • outturn
  • roto
  • rudd
  • runround
  • torc
  • torot
  • torr
  • trou
  • turd
  • turnon
  • turnround
  • turr
  • unroot
  • unround
  • untorn
  • untrod

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

concord

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A state of agreement; harmony; union.
  2. Agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league
  3. (grammar) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person or case.
  4. An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an acknowledgment that the land in question belonged to the complainant. See fine.
  5. (probably influenced by chord) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A variety of sweet American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters; a Concord grape.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To agree; to act together

concur

verb
  1. To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to have a common opinion; to coincide; to correspond.
  2. To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help towards a common object or effect.
  3. To run together; to meet.
  4. To converge.

condor

noun
  1. Either of two New World vultures, Vultur gryphus of the Andes or Gymnogyps californianus, a nearly extinct vulture of the mountains of California.
  2. A gold coin of some South American countries bearing the figure of one of these vultures.
  3. An Argentinian short range ballistic missile.
  4. In golf, four under par (quadruple birdie, triple eagle, or double albatross)

conductor

noun
  1. One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.
  2. A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation is conducting.
  3. A person who takes tickets on public transportation and also helps passengers
  4. Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light or sound.
  5. An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed
  6. A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.
  7. A leader.

contort

verb
  1. To twist in a violent manner.
  2. To twist into or as if into a strained shape or expression.

contour

noun
  1. An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
  2. A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth.
  3. A speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
verb
  1. To form a more or less curved boundary or border upon.
  2. To mark with contour lines.
  3. To practise the makeup technique of contouring.

cord

noun
  1. A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
  2. A straight line between two points of a curve.
  3. A horizontal member of a truss.
  4. The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
  5. An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
  6. A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
  7. The string of a musical instrument.
  8. A cord.
  9. An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
noun
  1. A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fiber (rope, for example); (uncountable) such a length of twisted strands considered as a commodity.
  2. A small flexible electrical conductor composed of wires insulated separately or in bundles and assembled together usually with an outer cover; the electrical cord of a lamp, sweeper ((US) vacuum cleaner), or other appliance.
  3. A unit of measurement for firewood, equal to 128 cubic feet (4 × 4 × 8 feet), composed of logs and/or split logs four feet long and none over eight inches diameter. It is usually seen as a stack four feet high by eight feet long.
  4. Any influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord.
  5. Any structure having the appearance of a cord, especially a tendon or nerve.
verb
  1. To furnish with cords
  2. To tie or fasten with cords
  3. To flatten a book during binding
  4. To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.

cordon

noun
  1. A ribbon normally worn diagonally across the chest as a decoration or insignia of rank etc.
  2. A line of people or things placed around an area to enclose or protect it.
  3. The arc of fielders on the off side, behind the batsman - the slips and gully.
  4. A woody plant, such as a fruit tree, pruned and trained to grow as a single stem on a support.

corn

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The main cereal plant grown for its grain in a given region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, and wheat or barley in England and Wales.
  2. Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
  3. A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
  4. A small, hard particle.
verb
  1. To granulate; to form a substance into grains
  2. To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef
  3. To provide with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed
  4. To render intoxicated

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and re-freezing, often in mountain spring conditions.

court

noun
  1. An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
  2. (social) Royal society.
  3. Attention directed to a person in power; behaviour designed to gain favor; politeness of manner; civility towards someone
  4. The administration of law.
  5. A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, squash, badminton, volleyball and some other games
verb
  1. To seek to achieve or win.
  2. To risk (a consequence, usually negative).
  3. To try to win a commitment to marry from.
  4. To engage in behavior leading to mating.
  5. To attempt to attract.
  6. To attempt to gain alliance with.
  7. To engage in activities intended to win someone's affections.
  8. To engage in courtship behavior.
  9. To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.

croc

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A crocodile.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A plastic slip-on shoe.

croon

noun
  1. A soft or sentimental hum or song.
verb
  1. To hum or sing softly or in a sentimental manner.
  2. To say softly or gently
  3. To soothe by singing softly.
  4. To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain.

crouton

noun
  1. A small, often seasoned, piece of dry or fried bread.

crud

noun
  1. Dirt, filth or refuse.
  2. (by extension) Something of poor quality.
  3. A contemptible person.
  4. Mixed impurities, especially wear and corrosion products in nuclear reactor coolant.
  5. A heavy wet snow on which it is difficult to travel.
  6. Feces; excrement.
  7. Venereal disease, or (by extension) any disease.
  8. A fast-paced game, loosely based on billiards or pool, with many players participating at the same time.
interjection
  1. Non-vulgar interjection expressing annoyance, anxiety, etc.; sugar, damn.

curd

noun
  1. The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc.
  2. The coagulated part of any liquid.
  3. The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants.
verb
  1. To form curd; to curdle.
  2. To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle.

curt

verb
  1. To cut, cut short, shorten.
adjective
  1. Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
  2. Short or concise.

doctor

noun
  1. A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are D.O., DPM, M.D., DMD, DDS, in the US or MBBS in the UK.
  2. A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.
  3. A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
  4. A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
  5. A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
  6. Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
  7. A fish, the friar skate.
verb
  1. To act as a medical doctor to.
  2. To act as a medical doctor.
  3. To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
  4. To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.
  5. To genetically alter an extant species.
  6. To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.
  7. To take medicine.

donor

noun
  1. One who makes a donation.
  2. A group or molecule that donates either a radical, electrons or a moiety in a chemical reaction. Compare acceptor.

door

noun
  1. A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.
  2. Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
  3. (immigration) An entry point.
  4. A means of approach or access.
  5. A barrier.
  6. A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
verb
  1. To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.

dour

adjective
  1. Stern, harsh and forbidding.
  2. Unyielding and obstinate.
  3. Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy.

nonconductor

noun
  1. Any material that does not conduct electricity; a dielectric

occur

verb
  1. To happen or take place.
  2. To present or offer itself.
  3. To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest itself.
  4. To be present or found.

odor

noun
  1. Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive.
  2. A strong, pervasive quality.
  3. Esteem.
  4. Something which produces a scent; incense, a perfume.

orotund

adjective
  1. Characterized by fullness, clarity, strength, and smoothness of sound.
  2. Pompous; bombastic.

outdoor

verb
  1. (in some African communities) To publicly display a child after it has been named
adjective
  1. Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air.
  2. Pertaining to charity administered or received away from, or independently from, a workhouse or other institution.

outro

noun
  1. A portion of music at the end of a song; like an intro, but at the end instead of the beginning.
  2. The closing sequence at the end of a film, television program, video game etc.

outrun

noun
  1. (sheepdog trials) The sheepdog's initial run towards the sheep, done in a curving motion so as not to startle them.
verb
  1. To run faster than.
  2. To exceed or overextend.

rococo

noun
  1. A style of baroque architecture and decorative art, from 18th-century France, having elaborate ornamentation.
adjective
  1. Of or relating to the rococo style.
  2. Over-elaborate or complicated; opulent.
  3. Old-fashioned.

rondo

noun
  1. A musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.
  2. A small, disk-shaped piece of food, especially a single-serving dessert or small piece of candy.
  3. A dark-skinned grape, a hybrid of Vitis vinifera with Vitis amurensis and others.
  4. A game resembling keep-away, used to train soccer players: one group is tasked with completing a number of passes while the other group tries to take possession of the ball.
  5. A gambling game played with small balls on a table.

rood

noun
  1. A crucifix, cross, especially in a church.
  2. A measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre.
  3. A measure of five and a half yards in length.

root

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
  2. A root vegetable.
  3. The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
  4. The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
  5. The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
  6. The primary source; origin.
  7. Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
  8. A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often abbreviated to “root”).
  9. A zero (of an equation).
  10. The single node of a tree that has no parent.
  11. The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
  12. (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
  13. The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
  14. The lowest place, position, or part.
  15. In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
  16. The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
  17. A penis, especially the base of a penis.
verb
  1. To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
  2. To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings
  3. To be firmly fixed; to be established.
  4. To get root or priviledged access on a computer system or mobile phone, often through bypassing some security mechanism.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. An act of sexual intercourse.
  2. A sexual partner.
verb
  1. To turn up or dig with the snout.
  2. (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
  3. To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
  4. To root out; to abolish.
  5. To have sexual intercourse.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. (with "for" or "on") To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)

rotor

noun
  1. A rotating part of a mechanical device, for example in an electric motor, generator, alternator or pump.
  2. The wing of a helicopter or similar aircraft.
  3. A quantity having magnitude, direction and position.

rotund

adjective
  1. Having a round or spherical shape; circular; orbicular.
  2. Having a round body shape; portly or plump; podgy.
  3. (of a sound) Full and rich; orotund; sonorous; full-toned.

round

Etymology 1

adverb
  1. So as to form a circle or trace a circular path, or approximation thereof.
  2. So as to surround or be near.
  3. Nearly; approximately; about.
  4. From place to place.
  5. From one state or condition to an opposite or very different one; with a metaphorical change in direction; bringing about awareness or agreement.
  6. (with turn, spin etc.) So as to partially or completely rotate; so as to face in the opposite direction.
  7. Used with verbs to indicate repeated or continuous action, or in numerous locations or with numerous people.
  8. Used with certain verbs to suggest unproductive activity.
preposition
  1. Defining a circle or closed curve containing a thing.
  2. (of abstract things) Centred upon; surrounding.
  3. Following the perimeter of a specified area and returning to the starting point.
  4. Following a path which curves near an object, with the object on the inside of the curve.
  5. Near; in the vicinity of.
  6. At or to various places within.
noun
  1. A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
  2. A circular or repetitious route.
  3. A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
  4. A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
  5. A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
  6. A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
  7. One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
  8. A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
  9. A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
  10. One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
  11. A stage, level, set of events in a game
  12. (drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
  13. A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
  14. (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine.
  15. A rung, as of a ladder.
  16. A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
  17. A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
  18. A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
  19. A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
  20. A circular dance.
  21. Rotation, as in office; succession.
  22. A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
  23. An assembly; a group; a circle.
  24. A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
  25. A vessel filled, as for drinking.
  26. A round-top.
  27. A round of beef.
verb
  1. To shape something into a curve.
  2. To become shaped into a curve.
  3. (with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out.
  4. To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
  5. To turn past a boundary.
  6. To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
  7. To advance to home plate.
  8. To go round, pass, go past.
  9. To encircle; to encompass.
  10. To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
  11. To do ward rounds.
  12. To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
  13. To go or turn round; to wheel about.
adjective
  1. (physical) Shape.
  2. Complete, whole, not lacking.
  3. (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
  4. Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
  5. Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.
  6. Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
  7. Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
  8. Large in magnitude.
  9. (authorship, of a fictional character) Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
  10. Vaulted.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak secretly; take counsel.
  2. To address or speak to in a whisper, utter in a whisper.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A whisper; whispering.
  2. Discourse; song.

rout

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A noise, especially a loud one
  2. A disturbance; tumult.
  3. Snoring.
verb
  1. To make a noise; roar; bellow; snort.
  2. To snore, especially loudly.
  3. To belch.
  4. To howl as the wind; make a roaring noise.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A violent movement; a great or violent stir; a heavy blow; a stunning blow; a stroke.
verb
  1. To beat; strike; assail with blows.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A troop or group, especially of a traveling company or throng.
  2. A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.
  3. The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion, especially when retreating from a fight.
  4. The act of defeating and breaking up an army or another opponent.
  5. A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with the intent to do a thing which, if executed, would make them rioters, and actually making a motion toward the executing thereof.
  6. A fashionable assembly, or large evening party.
verb
  1. To defeat completely, forcing into disorderly retreat.
  2. To retreat from a confrontation in disorder.
  3. To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To search or root in the ground, like a pig.
  2. To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.
  3. To use a router in woodworking.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. The brent goose.

runout

noun
  1. Something that has been run out.
  2. A run out, a running out. The method of getting out in which a batsman, in making a run, has not reached the popping crease when a fielder breaks his wicket with the ball.
  3. A relatively flat portion at the end of a ski run to slow down, or to connect trails.
  4. Slowing down at the end of a ski run, skiing on a runout.
  5. The end portion of the groove of a phonographic record, after the recorded sound.
  6. A supposed auction employing shill bidders in order to convince legitimate buyers to purchase worthless articles.
  7. Deviation of the axis of rotation of a rotating object (especially a milling cutter or workpiece) relative to that object's centerline; the specific amount of deviation.

runt

noun
  1. The smallest animal of a litter.
  2. (by extension) The smallest child in the family.
  3. Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.
  4. An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
  5. A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
  6. A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
  7. A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.
  8. A bow.

torn

verb
  1. To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
  2. To injure as if by pulling apart.
  3. To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional.
  4. To make (an opening) with force or energy.
  5. (often with off or out) To remove by tearing.
  6. (of structures, with down) To demolish
  7. To become torn, especially accidentally.
  8. To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
  9. To smash or enter something with great force.

toro

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A traditional Japanese lantern.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Rapanea salicina, a species of shrub or small tree native to New Zealand.

tort

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An injury or wrong.
  2. A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages.
  3. (only in the plural torts) Tort law (the area of law dealing with such wrongful acts).

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Tart; sharp.

Etymology 3

adjective
  1. Stretched tight; taut.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A tortoise.

Etymology 5

noun
  1. A tortoiseshell (animal with coloured markings on fur).

tour

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
  2. A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.
  3. A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.
  4. A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
  5. A street and road race, frequently multiday.
  6. A set of competitions which make up a championship.
  7. A tour of duty.
  8. A closed trail.
  9. A going round; a circuit.
  10. A turn; a revolution.
verb
  1. To make a journey
  2. To make a circuit of a place

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A tower.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To toot a horn.

trod

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To step or walk (on or over something); to trample.
  2. To step or walk upon.
  3. To beat or press with the feet.
  4. To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
  5. To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
  6. To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
  7. (of a male bird) To copulate with.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To walk heavily or laboriously; plod; tread

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A track or pathway.

trot

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
  2. Equipment with legs.
  3. Type of equipment.
  4. A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
  5. The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
  6. An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see Variations of basketball#H-O-R-S-E).
  7. (among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
  8. (among students) horseplay; tomfoolery
noun
  1. Heroin (drug).
noun
  1. An ugly old woman, a hag.
  2. (chiefly of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
  3. A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
  4. A brisk journey or progression.
  5. A toddler.
  6. A young animal.
  7. A moderately rapid dance.
  8. A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
  9. (with "good" or "bad") A run of luck or fortune.
  10. (as 'the trots') Diarrhoea.
verb
  1. To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.
  2. (of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
  3. To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A supporter of Trotskyism.

trout

noun
  1. Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
  2. An objectionable elderly woman.
verb
  1. To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly.

turn

Etymology 1

verb
  1. (heading) to make a non-linear physical movement.
  2. (heading) To change condition or attitude.
  3. To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
  4. (usually with over) To complete.
  5. To make (money); turn a profit.
  6. Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
  7. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
  8. To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
  9. To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
  10. To translate.
  11. To magically or divinely attack undead.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A change of direction or orientation.
  2. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
  3. A walk to and fro.
  4. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
  5. A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
  6. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
  7. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
  8. The time required to complete a project.
  9. A fit or a period of giddiness.
  10. A change in temperament or circumstance.
  11. A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
  12. The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
  13. The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
  14. A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
  15. A single loop of a coil.
  16. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
  17. Character; personality; nature.
  18. An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
  19. (circus, especially physical comedy) A short skit, act, or routine.
  20. A type turned upside down to serve for another character that is not available.
  21. The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.

turnout

noun
  1. The act of coming forth.
  2. The number of people who attend or participate in an event (especially an election) or are present at a venue.
  3. A place to pull off a road.
  4. A place where moveable rails allow a train to switch tracks; a set of points.
  5. A quitting of employment for the purpose of forcing increase of wages; a strike.
  6. A striker.
  7. That which is prominently brought forward or exhibited; hence, an equipage.
  8. Net quantity of produce yielded.

tutor

noun
  1. One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction.
  2. A university officer responsible for students in a particular hall.
  3. One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.
  4. (trading card games) A card that allows you to search your deck for one or more other cards.
verb
  1. To instruct or teach, especially an individual or small group.
  2. To treat with authority or sternness.