Thursday, July 3, 2025

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• elite5

  elite

  noun — A special group or social class of people which have a superior intellectual, social or economic status as, the elite of society.

  adjective — Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician.

  noun — Someone who is among the best at a certain task.

  adjective — Representing the choicest or most select of a group.

  Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

• evil1

  evil

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  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• ileum5

  ileum

  noun — The last, and usually the longest, division of the small intestine; the part between the jejunum and large intestine.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• ilium5

  ilium

  noun — The upper and widest of the three bones that make up each side of the hipbone and pelvis.

  noun — The ileum, part of the small intestine.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• levee5

  levee

  noun — An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.

  verb — To keep within a channel by means of levees.

  noun — The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.

  verb — To attend the levee or levees of.

  noun — The steep bank of a river.

  noun — The border of an irrigated field.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• level5

  level

  noun — A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.

  verb — To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.

  adjective — The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.

  noun — A distance relative to a given reference elevation.

  noun — Degree or amount.

  noun — Achievement or qualification.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• lieu1

  lieu

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  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• lilt1

  lilt

  noun — A cheerful or melodious accent when speaking.

  noun — Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness.

  noun — A lively song or dance; a cheerful tune.

  verb — To do something rhythmically, with animation and quickness, usually of music.

  verb — To utter with spirit, animation, or gaiety; to sing with spirit and liveliness.

  verb — To sing cheerfully, especially in Gaelic.

  Appeared in 23 recorded puzzles.

• lime1

  lime

  noun — Any of several green citrus fruit, somewhat smaller and sharper-tasting than a lemon.

  adjective — Lime-green.

  adjective — Containing lime or lime juice.

  adjective — Having the aroma or flavor of lime.

  noun — A brilliant, sometimes yellowish, green colour associated with the fruits of a lime tree.

  noun — Any of the trees that bear limes, especially Key lime, Citrus aurantiifolia.

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• limit5

  limit

  noun — A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.

  verb — To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.

  noun — The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.

  noun — A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.

  noun — A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).

  noun — (as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• lite1

  lite

  noun — Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation (light) in the wavelength range of about 400 to 750 nanometers. Nearby shorter and longer wavelength ranges, although not visible, are commonly called ultraviolet and infrared light.

  adjective — Having light; bright; clear; not dark or obscure.

  noun — A stone that is not thrown hard enough.

  adjective — Having little or relatively little actual weight; not cumbrous or unwieldy.

  adjective — Light in composition, notably low in fat, calories etc. Most commonly used commercially.

  noun — A little, bit.

  Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

• little6

  little

  noun — A small amount.

  adjective — Small in size.

  adverb — Not much.

  pronoun — Not much; not a large amount.

  adjective — Insignificant, trivial.

  adjective — Very young.

  Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

• live1

  live

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  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• lull1

  lull

  noun — A period of rest or soothing.

  verb — To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm

  noun — A period of reduced activity; a respite

  noun — A period without waves or wind.

  noun — An extended pause between sets of waves.

  verb — To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate.

  Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.

• lulu1

  lulu

  noun — A remarkable person, object or idea.

  noun — A very attractive or alluring person.

  noun — A very bad mistake or error.

  noun — A fixed allowance paid to a legislator in lieu of reimbursement for actual expenses.

  Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.

• lute1

  lute

  noun — A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.

  noun — Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.

  verb — To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.

  noun — A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.

  noun — (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.

  verb — To fix or fasten something with lute.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• melee5

  melee

  noun — A noisy, confused or tumultuous fight, argument or scrap.

  noun — Any any confused, disorganised, disordered or chaotic situation.

  noun — A battle fought at close range; hand-to-hand combat; brawling.

  noun — Lively contention or debate, skirmish.

  verb — To physically hit in close quarters, as opposed to shooting, blowing up, or other ranged means of damage. Often refers to the usage of a hand-to-hand weapon.

  noun — A cavalry exercise in which two groups of riders try to cut paper plumes off the helmets of their opponents, the contest continuing until no member of one group retains his plume.

  Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

• melt1

  melt

  verb — To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.

  verb — To dissolve, disperse, vanish.

  verb — To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.

  verb — To be emotionally softened or touched.

  noun — The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.

  noun — Molten material, the product of melting.

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• mettle6

  mettle

  noun — A quality of endurance and courage.

  noun — Good temperament and character.

  noun — Metal; a metallic substance.

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• mile1

  mile

  noun — The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.

  noun — One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.

  noun — (travel) An airline mile in a frequent flier program.

  noun — Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values.

  noun — Any similarly large distance.

  noun — A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• milieu6

  milieu

  noun — Medium.

  noun — Social setting or environment.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• mill1

  mill

  noun — A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.

  verb — (followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.

  noun — A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.

  noun — An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc.

  noun — An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised

  noun — The building housing such a grinding apparatus.

  Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.

• millet6

  millet

  noun — Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.

  noun — A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• mule1

  mule

  noun — The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.

  verb — To smuggle (illegal drugs).

  noun — A shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel, but which covers the foot.

  noun — The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.

  noun — A hybrid plant.

  noun — A stubborn person.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• mull1

  mull

  noun — A thin, soft muslin.

  verb — (usually with over) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate.

  noun — A promontory.

  noun — Dirt; rubbish

  noun — Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.

  noun — A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• mullet6

  mullet

  noun — A fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes), especially the genus Mullus (the red mullets or goatfish).

  noun — A fool

  noun — A hairstyle where the hair is kept short on the top and sides and long at the back.

  noun — A star with straight edges and usually with five or six points.

  noun — A fish of the family Mugilidae (order Mugiliformes) (the grey mullets).

  noun — Any of several species of freshwater fish in the sucker family (especially in the genus Moxostoma, the redhorses)

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• multilevel17

  multilevel

  adjective — Having several levels or floors.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• tell1

  tell

  verb — To convey by speech; to say.

  verb — To narrate.

  verb — To instruct or inform.

  verb — To order; to direct, to say to someone.

  verb — To reveal.

  verb — To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.

  Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

• tile1

  tile

  noun — A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile etc.

  verb — To cover with tiles.

  verb — To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.

  noun — A rectangular graphic.

  noun — Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.

  noun — A stiff hat.

  Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

• till1

  till

  preposition — Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time).

  conjunction — Until, until the time that.

  noun — A cash register.

  noun — A removable box within a cash register containing the money.

  noun — The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift.

  verb — To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops.

  Appeared in 23 recorded puzzles.

• tilt1

  tilt

  verb — To slope or incline (something); to slant.

  verb — To be at an angle.

  noun — A slope or inclination.

  noun — The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.

  verb — To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).

  noun — The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.

  Appeared in 23 recorded puzzles.

• title5

  title

  noun — A prefix (honorific) or suffix (post-nominal) added to a person's name to signify either veneration, official position or a professional or academic qualification. See also

  verb — To assign a title to; to entitle.

  noun — Legal right to ownership of a property; a deed or other certificate proving this.

  noun — In canon law, that by which a beneficiary holds a benefice.

  noun — A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.

  noun — The name of a book, film, musical piece, painting, or other work of art.

  Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

• tittle6

  tittle

  noun — A small, insignificant amount (of something); a modicum or speck.

  verb — To chatter.

  noun — Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or if a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters i and j.

  Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

• tulle5

  tulle

  noun — A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for clothing, veils, etc.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• tumult6

  tumult

  noun — Confused, agitated noise as made by a crowd.

  verb — To make a tumult; to be in great commotion.

  noun — Violent commotion or agitation, often with confusion of sounds.

  noun — A riot or uprising.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• utile5

  utile

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  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• veil1

  veil

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  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• vellum6

  vellum

  noun — A type of parchment paper made from the skin of a lamb, baby goat, or calf.

  noun — A writing paper of very high quality.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• velum5

  velum

  noun — A thin membrane, resembling a veil, such as:

  noun — An accessory cloud resembling a veil extending over a large distance. Normally associated with cumulus and cumulonimbus.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• velvet6

  velvet

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  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• vile1

  vile

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  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.