Friday, October 17, 2025

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• belie5

  belie

  verb — To contradict, to show (something) to be false.

  verb — To give a false representation of.

  verb — To conceal the contradictory or ironic presence of (something).

  verb — To show, evince, demonstrate: to show (something) to be present, particularly something deemed contradictory or ironic.

  verb — To tell lies about.

  verb — (of an army) To surround; beleaguer.

  Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

• bell1

  bell

  noun — A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.

  noun — The sounding of a bell as a signal.

  noun — A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.

  noun — A telephone call.

  noun — An instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar, used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.

  noun — Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• belle5

  belle

  noun — An attractive woman.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• bezel5

  bezel

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• bible5

  bible

  noun — An exemplar of the Bible.

  noun — A comprehensive manual that describes something. (e.g., handyman’s bible).

  noun — (at certain US universities) A compilation of problems and solutions from previous years of a given course, used by some students to cheat on tests or assignments.

  Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

• bile1

  bile

  noun — A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.

  noun — Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.

  Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

• bill1

  bill

  noun — A piece of paper money; a banknote.

  noun — A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.

  verb — To charge; to send a bill to.

  noun — A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

  noun — The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.

  noun — Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.

  Appeared in 22 recorded puzzles.

• blob1

  blob

  noun — A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.

  verb — To drop in the form of a blob or blobs

  noun — Acronym of binary large object. (a data type that allows storage of binary data often of indeterminate length).

  noun — In astronomy, a large cloud of gas. In particular, an extended Lyman-Alpha blob is a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.

  noun — A bubble; a bleb.

  noun — A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• bloom5

  bloom

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• bobble6

  bobble

  noun — Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie

  noun — A furry ball attached on top of a hat.

  noun — A pill (a ball formed on the surface of the fabric, as on laundered clothes).

  verb — To make a mistake in.

  verb — To bob up and down.

  noun — A wobbling motion.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• boil1

  boil

  noun — A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.

  noun — The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.

  verb — (of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.

  noun — A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.

  noun — The collective noun for a group of hawks.

  verb — To cook in boiling water.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• boll1

  boll

  noun — The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.

  verb — To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

  noun — An old dry measure equal to six bushels.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• bolo1

  bolo

  noun — A long, heavy, single-edged machete.

  verb — To attack or despatch with a bolo knife.

  noun — A soldier not capable of the minimum standards of marksmanship.

  verb — To fail to meet the minimum standards of marksmanship.

  noun — A string or leather necktie secured with an ornamental slide.

  verb — To dress (somebody) in a bolo.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• embezzle8

  embezzle

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• emblem6

  emblem

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• immobile8

  immobile

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• immobilize17

  immobilize

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• libel5

  libel

  noun — A written or pictorial false statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone's reputation.

  verb — To defame someone, especially in a manner that meets the legal definition of libel.

  noun — The act or crime of displaying such a statement publicly.

  noun — A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of their cause of action, and of the relief they seek.

  noun — Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.

  noun — A brief writing of any kind, especially a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.

  Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

• libelee7

  libelee

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  Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

• limb1

  limb

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• limbo5

  limbo

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  Appeared in 2 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 8 recorded puzzles.

• limo1

  limo

  noun — An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front.

  noun — An automobile with such a body.

  noun — A luxury sedan or saloon car, especially one with a lengthened wheelbase or driven by a chauffeur.

  noun — An automobile for transportation to or from an airport, including sedans, vans, and buses.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• lobe1

  lobe

  noun — Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.

  noun — A clear division of an organ that can be determined at the gross anatomy level, especially one of the parts of the brain, liver or lung.

  noun — A semicircular pattern left on the ice as the skater travels across it.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• lobo1

  lobo

  noun — A wolf.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• loll1

  loll

  verb — To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.

  verb — To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion.

  verb — To let (the tongue) hang from the mouth in this way.

  Appeared in 28 recorded puzzles.

• loom1

  loom

  noun — A utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general.

  noun — Loon (bird of order Gaviiformes)

  noun — A distorted appearance of something as seen indistinctly or from afar.

  verb — To appear indistinctly, eg. when seen on the horizon or through the murk.

  noun — A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.

  noun — The part of an oar which is between the grip or handle and the blade, the shaft.

  Appeared in 4 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 12 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 8 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 14 recorded puzzles.

• mobile6

  mobile

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• mobilize15

  mobilize

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• moil1

  moil

  noun — Hard work.

  verb — To toil, to work hard.

  noun — The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.

  noun — Confusion, turmoil.

  noun — A spot; a defilement.

  verb — To churn continually; to swirl.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• mole1

  mole

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  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• moll1

  moll

  noun — A female companion of a gangster, especially a former or current prostitute.

  adjective — Minor; in the minor mode

  noun — A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals.

  noun — Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female.

  noun — A girlfriend of a bikie.

  noun — A girlfriend of a surfie; blends with pejorative sense.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• oleo1

  oleo

  noun — Margarine

  noun — The various fats and oils that go into the making of margarine.

  Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.

• olio1

  olio

  noun — A medley or mixture; a hotchpotch.

  noun — A collection of various musical, theatrical or other artistic works; a miscellany.

  noun — A rich, thick, Spanish stew consisting of meat and vegetables.

  noun — (by extension) Vaudeville or similar miscellaneous musical or theatrical entertainment skits presented between the main acts of burlesque or minstrel shows.

  Appeared in 22 recorded puzzles.

• ollie5

  ollie

  noun — An aerial maneuver in which one catches air by leaping off the ground with the skateboard and into the air.

  verb — To perform an ollie.

  Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.