Thursday, August 14, 2025

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• aria1

  aria

  noun — A musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata.

  Appeared in 22 recorded puzzles.

• arid1

  arid

  adjective — Very dry.

  adjective — Devoid of value.

  adjective — Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• atria5

  atria

  noun — A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings.

  noun — A square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.

  noun — A cavity, entrance, or passage.

  noun — Any enclosed sexine and nexine layers, widening toward the interior of the grain.

  Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.

• bait1

  bait

  noun — Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.

  noun — Anything which allures; something used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something

  verb — To attract with bait; to entice.

  verb — To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass.

  noun — Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.

  verb — To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line.

  Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

• bird1

  bird

  noun — A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, and laying eggs.

  verb — To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.

  noun — A prison sentence.

  verb — To bring into prison, to roof.

  noun — The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.

  noun — A man, fellow.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• birdbath15

  birdbath

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• birria6

  birria

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  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• birth5

  birth

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• braid5

  braid

  noun — A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench.

  verb — To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.

  adjective — Deceitful.

  noun — A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration.

  noun — A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together

  noun — A tubular sheath made of braided strands of metal placed around a central cable for shielding against electromagnetic interference.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• briar5

  briar

  noun — Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.

  noun — The white heath, Erica arborea, a thorny Mediterranean shrub.

  noun — Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.

  noun — A pipe for smoking, made from the roots of that shrub.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• dirt1

  dirt

  noun — Soil or earth.

  verb — To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty

  noun — A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.

  noun — Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person.

  noun — Meanness; sordidness.

  noun — In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• drib1

  drib

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  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• habit5

  habit

  noun — An action performed on a regular basis.

  noun — An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness.

  noun — An addiction.

  noun — A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns.

  noun — A piece of clothing worn uniformly for a specific activity.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• habitat7

  habitat

  noun — Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live.

  noun — A place or type of site where an organism or population naturally occurs.

  noun — A terrestrial or aquatic area distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• hair1

  hair

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  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• rabbi5

  rabbi

  noun — A Jewish scholar or teacher of halacha (Jewish law), capable of making halachic decisions.

  noun — A Jew who is or is qualified to be the leader of a Jewish congregation.

  noun — (police) A senior officer who acts as a mentor.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• rabbit6

  rabbit

  noun — A mammal of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail.

  verb — To hunt rabbits.

  verb — To talk incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble annoyingly.

  verb — Confound; damn; drat.

  noun — The meat from this animal.

  noun — The fur of a rabbit typically used to imitate another animal's fur.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• rabid5

  rabid

  noun — A human or animal infected with rabies.

  adjective — Affected with rabies.

  noun — Someone who is fanatical in opinion.

  adjective — Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia.

  adjective — Furious; raging; extremely violent.

  adjective — Very extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• radii5

  radii

  noun — A line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center.

  noun — The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.

  noun — The length of this line segment.

  noun — Anything resembling a radius, such as the spoke of a wheel, the movable arm of a sextant, or one of the radiating lines of a spider's web.

  noun — The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal.

  noun — One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the subcosta and the media; the vein running along the costal edge of the discal cell.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• raid1

  raid

  noun — An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering

  noun — A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.

  noun — A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.

  noun — An activity initiated at or towards the end of a live broadcast by the broadcaster that sends its viewers to a different broadcast, primarily intended to boost the viewership of the receiving broadcaster. This is frequently accompanied by a message in the form of a hashtag that is posted in the broadcast's chat by the viewers.

  verb — To lure from another; to entice away from.

  verb — To indulge oneself by taking from.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• raita5

  raita

  noun — A condiment used as a dip or sauce in the cuisine of southern Asia, made from seasoned yogurt.

  Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.

• ribbit6

  ribbit

  noun — The vocal sound made by a frog or toad.

  verb — To make the sound of a frog or toad.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• third5

  third

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• tiara5

  tiara

  noun — The papal crown.

  noun — An ornamental coronet.

  Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.

• tibia5

  tibia

  noun — The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone

  noun — The second segment from the end of an insect's leg, between the femur and tarsus.

  noun — The third segment from the end of an arachnid's leg, between the patella and metatarsus.

  noun — A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.

  Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

• tidbit6

  tidbit

  noun — A tasty morsel (of food).

  noun — A quarter of a byte (Half of a nybble; two bits).

  noun — A short mention of news or gossip.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• trait5

  trait

  noun — An identifying characteristic, habit or trend.

  noun — An uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface.

  Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.

• triad5

  triad

  noun — A grouping of three.

  noun — A word of three syllables.

  noun — A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.

  noun — On a CRT display, a group of three neighbouring phosphor dots, coloured green, red, and blue.

  noun — A chord consisting of a root tone, the tone two degrees higher, and the tone four degrees higher in a given scale.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.