Monday, September 8, 2025

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• alga1

  alga

  noun — Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic.

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• algal5

  algal

  noun — An alga.

  adjective — Pertaining to, or like, algae

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• alpha5

  alpha

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• alum1

  alum

  noun — An astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K2SO4·Al2(SO4)3·24H2O).

  verb — To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.

  noun — (shortening) A past attendee or graduate (of either gender) of a college, university or other educational institution.

  noun — Any similar double sulphate in which either or both of the potassium and aluminium is wholly or partly replaced by other univalent or tervalent cations.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• amalgam7

  amalgam

  noun — An alloy containing mercury.

  verb — To amalgamate.

  noun — A combination of different things.

  noun — One of the ingredients in an alloy.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• appall6

  appall

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  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• gaga1

  gaga

  adjective — Mentally senile.

  noun — A variant of dodgeball played inside a fenced area, usually a hexagon or octagon.

  adjective — Crazy.

  adjective — Infatuated.

  Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.

• gala1

  gala

  noun — Pomp, show, or festivity.

  adjective — Celebratory; festive.

  noun — A member of an androgynous class of priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna.

  noun — A showy and festive party.

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• gall1

  gall

  noun — Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.

  verb — To bother or trouble.

  noun — A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii.

  verb — To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.

  noun — The gall bladder.

  noun — Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• galumph14

  galumph

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• gamma5

  gamma

  noun — The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ).

  noun — A nonlinear operation used to encode and decode luminance or tristimulus values in video or still image systems.

  noun — The Gamma function, symbolized by Γ.

  noun — A constant approximately equal to 0.55721566, symbolized by γ (also known as the Euler–Mascheroni constant).

  noun — A non-SI unit of measure of magnetic flux density, equal to 1 nT.

  noun — (industries) slope of log-log plot of video input and luminance output.

  Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

• glam1

  glam

  noun — Glamour.

  verb — To make glamorous or more glamorous.

  adjective — Glamorous.

  noun — A style of rock music, glam rock, associated with an androgynous yet masculine look and a driving, pounding bluesy form of psychedelic rock; the fashion and culture associated with this genre.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• gulag5

  gulag

  noun — A prison camp.

  verb — To force into this prison or a similar system.

  noun — The system of all Soviet prison and/or labor camps in use during the Stalinist period.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• halal5

  halal

  verb — To make halal.

  adjective — Permissible, according to Muslim religious customs, to have or do.

  adverb — In a halal manner; in accordance with Muslim religious customs.

  adjective — (of food) Fit to eat according to Muslim religious customs.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• hall1

  hall

  noun — A corridor; a hallway.

  noun — A meeting room.

  noun — A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).

  noun — A building providing student accommodation at a university.

  noun — The principal room of a secular medieval building.

  noun — Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• haul1

  haul

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  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• hula1

  hula

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  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• lama1

  lama

  noun — A master of Tibetan Buddhism.

  noun — A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• lamp1

  lamp

  noun — A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.

  verb — To hit, clout, belt, wallop.

  noun — A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.

  noun — A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.

  verb — To hunt at night using a lamp; see lamping.

  verb — To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• laugh5

  laugh

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• llama5

  llama

  noun — A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• luau1

  luau

  noun — An elaborate Hawaiian feast featuring traditional foods and entertainment.

  Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

• magma5

  magma

  noun — The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.

  noun — A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation.

  noun — Any soft doughy mass.

  noun — The residuum after expressing the juice from fruits.

  Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

• mall1

  mall

  noun — A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.

  verb — To beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise

  noun — An enclosed shopping centre.

  noun — An alley where the game of pall mall was played.

  noun — A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade.

  noun — A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall.

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• mama1

  mama

  noun — (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

  Appeared in 26 recorded puzzles.

• mamma5

  mamma

  noun — The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae)

  noun — (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

  noun — An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera

  Appeared in 26 recorded puzzles.

• mammal6

  mammal

  noun — An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and feeding milk to its young.

  noun — A vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw.

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• maul1

  maul

  noun — A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.

  verb — To handle someone or something in a rough way.

  noun — A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more opponents, and one or more of the ball carrier's team mates bind onto the ball carrier.

  verb — To savage; to cause serious physical wounds (usually used of an animal).

  verb — To criticise harshly.

  verb — To beat with the heavy hammer called a maul.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• mullah6

  mullah

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• palapa6

  palapa

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  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• pall1

  pall

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  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• palm1

  palm

  noun — Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics.

  noun — The inner and somewhat concave part of the human hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers.

  verb — To hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand, e.g, for an act of sleight of hand or to steal something.

  noun — A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.

  noun — (by extension) Triumph; victory.

  noun — Any of 23 awards that can be earned after obtaining the Eagle Scout rank, but generally only before turning 18 years old.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• palp1

  palp

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  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• pampa5

  pampa

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  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• papa1

  papa

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  Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

• papal5

  papal

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  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• puma1

  puma

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• pupa1

  pupa

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  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• pupal5

  pupal

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  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

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