Monday, August 11, 2025

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• daddy5

  daddy

  noun — (usually childish) Father.

  verb — To father; to sire.

  noun — A male lover.

  noun — An informal term of address for a man.

  noun — A male juvenile delinquent in a reformatory who dominates the other inmates through threats and violence.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• dahlia6

  dahlia

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• daily5

  daily

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  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• dally5

  dally

  verb — To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.

  noun — Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping.

  verb — To wind the lasso rope (ie throw-rope) around the saddle horn (the saddle horn is attached to the pommel of a western style saddle) after the roping of an animal

  verb — To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet

  verb — To delay unnecessarily; to while away.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• daylily7

  daylily

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  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• dial1

  dial

  noun — A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed).

  noun — A clock face.

  verb — To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial.

  verb — To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone.

  noun — A sundial.

  noun — A panel on a radio etc showing wavelengths or channels; a knob that is turned to change the wavelength etc.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• diddly6

  diddly

  noun — A small amount of no worth.

  interjection — A written representation of a trill sound.

  noun — (sometimes childish) penis

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• dildo5

  dildo

  noun — An artificial phallus (penis) for sexual use.

  noun — An idiot, a bore.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• dill1

  dill

  noun — Anethum graveolens (the type species of the genus Anethum), a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; also known as dillseed.

  verb — To cook or flavor with dill

  verb — To still; to assuage; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain.

  noun — A cucumber pickled with dill flavoring

  noun — A fool.

  Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.

• dilly5

  dilly

  adjective — Redolent of dill (the herb).

  noun — Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual.

  noun — A dilly bag.

  noun — A kind of stagecoach.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• dillydally10

  dillydally

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  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• dodo1

  dodo

  noun — A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.

  noun — A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt.

  noun — Fried plantain.

  Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

• doily5

  doily

  noun — A small ornamental piece of lace or linen or paper used to protect a surface from scratches by hard objects such as vases or bowls; or to decorate a plate of food.

  noun — An old kind of woollen material.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• doll1

  doll

  noun — A toy in the form of a human.

  noun — A term of endearment: darling, sweetheart.

  noun — (sometimes offensive) An attractive young woman

  noun — A dollar.

  noun — (now possibly offensive) A good-natured, cooperative or helpful girl.

  noun — The smallest or pet pig in a litter.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• dolly5

  dolly

  noun — A doll.

  verb — To hit a dolly.

  adjective — Pretty; attractive.

  noun — An offering of fruit or flowers.

  noun — A contrivance for stirring:

  noun — A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• doodad6

  doodad

  noun — A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall); especially an unspecified gadget, device, or part.

  Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

• dyad1

  dyad

  noun — A set of two elements treated as one; a pair.

  noun — Any set of two different pitch classes.

  noun — A pair of things standing in particular relation; dyadic relation.

  noun — An element, atom, or radical having a valence or combining power of two.

  noun — A secondary unit of organisation consisting of an aggregate of monads.

  noun — A tensor of order two and rank one.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• hold1

  hold

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• holiday14

  holiday

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• hood1

  hood

  noun — A covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.

  verb — To cover something with a hood.

  noun — Gangster, thug.

  noun — Neighborhood.

  adjective — Relating to inner-city everyday life, both positive and negative aspects; especially people’s attachment to and love for their neighborhoods.

  noun — Person wearing a hoodie.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• hoodoo6

  hoodoo

  noun — A practitioner of voodoo.

  verb — To jinx; to bring bad luck or misfortune to.

  noun — Supernatural bad luck, or something or someone believed to bring bad luck.

  noun — A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• hyoid5

  hyoid

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• idly1

  idly

  adverb — In an idle manner.

  adverb — Without specific purpose, intent or effort.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• idol1

  idol

  noun — A cultural icon, or especially popular person.

  noun — (originally Japan) Popular entertainer; usually young, captivating, attractive; and often female, with an image of being close to fans.

  noun — A graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power.

  noun — An eidolon or phantom; something misleading or elusive.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• idyl1

  idyl

  noun — Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus' short pastoral poems, the Idylls.

  noun — An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyll; a carefree or lighthearted experience.

  noun — A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• idyll5

  idyll

  noun — Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus' short pastoral poems, the Idylls.

  noun — An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyll; a carefree or lighthearted experience.

  noun — A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• lady1

  lady

  noun — An aristocratic title for a woman; the wife of a lord and/or a woman who holds the position in her own right; a title for a peeress, the wife of a peer or knight, and the daughters and daughters-in-law of certain peers.

  noun — The mistress of a household.

  noun — A high priestess.

  noun — A woman of breeding or higher class, a woman of authority.

  noun — The feminine of lord.

  noun — A title for someone married to a lord or gentleman.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• laid1

  laid

  verb — To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.

  verb — To produce and deposit an egg.

  verb — To have sex with.

  verb — To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.

  verb — To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).

  verb — To state; to allege.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• load1

  load

  noun — A burden; a weight to be carried.

  noun — (often in the plural) A large number or amount.

  noun — A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.

  verb — To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).

  verb — To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.

  noun — A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• oddly5

  oddly

  adverb — In a peculiar manner; strangely; unusually.

  adverb — In a manner measured by an odd number.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

holiday is a perfect pangram — all seven letters, each used exactly once.