Monday, June 1, 2026

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• acacia6

  acacia

  noun — A shrub or tree of the tribe Acacieae.

  noun — (history) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.

  noun — The thickened or dried juice of several species in Acacieae, in particular Vachellia nilotica (syn. Acacia nilotica), the Egyptian acacia.

  noun — A false acacia; robinia tree, Robinia pseudoacacia.

  noun — Gum arabic; gum acacia.

  noun — Any of several related trees, such as the locust tree.

  Appeared in 25 recorded puzzles.

• acai1

  acai

  noun — The fruit of these trees, harvested for its juice.

  noun — Any of several South American palms, of the genus Euterpe, having a dark purple drupe.

  Appeared in 25 recorded puzzles.

• acetic6

  acetic

  adjective — Of, pertaining to, or producing vinegar

  adjective — Of or pertaining to acetic acid or its derivatives

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• ancient7

  ancient

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• anti1

  anti

  adjective — Opposed to something.

  noun — A person opposed to a concept or principle.

  preposition — Alternative form of anti-

  adjective — That has a torsion angle between 90° and 180°

  Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

• antic5

  antic

  noun — A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.

  verb — To perform antics, caper.

  adjective — Playful, funny, absurd

  adjective — Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome.

  noun — A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping

  noun — A caricature.

  Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

• ataxia6

  ataxia

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  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• attain6

  attain

  verb — To gain (an object or desired result).

  verb — To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at (a place, time, state, etc.).

  verb — To reach in excellence or degree.

  verb — To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.

  verb — To get at the knowledge of.

  verb — To reach a person after being behind them.

  Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

• attic5

  attic

  noun — The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.

  Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.

• cacti5

  cacti

  noun — Any member of the family Cactaceae, a family of flowering New World succulent plants suited to a hot, semi-desert climate.

  noun — Any succulent plant with a thick fleshy stem bearing spines but no leaves, such as euphorbs.

  Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.

• canine6

  canine

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  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• cantina7

  cantina

  noun — A drinking establishment, often specifically of the type found in Latin America.

  noun — Abbreviated form of cantina truck, cantina wagon or cantina trailer

  Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

• cite1

  cite

  verb — To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.

  noun — A citation

  verb — To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.

  verb — To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.

  Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

• entice6

  entice

  verb — To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• excite6

  excite

  verb — To stir the emotions of.

  verb — To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate.

  verb — To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level.

  verb — To energize (an electromagnet); to produce a magnetic field in.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• exit1

  exit

  noun — An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.

  verb — To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.

  noun — A way out.

  noun — The act of departing from life; death.

  verb — To depart from life; to die.

  verb — To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• extinct7

  extinct

  verb — To make extinct; to extinguish or annihilate.

  adjective — Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.)

  adjective — No longer used; obsolete, discontinued.

  adjective — (of a group of organisms, as a species) No longer in existence; having died out.

  adjective — No longer active.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• inane5

  inane

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  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• incant6

  incant

  verb — To state solemnly, to chant.

  verb — To recite an incantation.

  Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

• incite6

  incite

  verb — To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• inexact14

  inexact

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• initiate8

  initiate

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• innate6

  innate

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• innie5

  innie

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  Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.

• intact6

  intact

  adjective — Left complete or whole; not touched, defiled, sullied or otherwise damaged

  adjective — Of animals, not castrated: an intact bull.

  adjective — Uncircumcised; commonly used to describe a penis with a foreskin in intactivism.

  Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

• intent6

  intent

  noun — A purpose; something that is intended.

  adjective — Firmly fixed or concentrated on something.

  noun — The state of someone’s mind at the time of committing an offence.

  adjective — Engrossed.

  adjective — Unwavering from a course of action.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• niacin6

  niacin

  noun — A water-soluble vitamin, a component of vitamin B complex, found in meat, yeast, and dairy products; it is essential to metabolism.

  Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

• nice1

  nice

  noun — Niceness.

  adjective — Pleasant, satisfactory.

  adverb — Nicely.

  interjection — Used to signify a job well done.

  verb — To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority.

  adjective — Of a person: friendly, attractive.

  Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

• niece5

  niece

  noun — A daughter of one’s sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either the daughter of one's brother ("fraternal niece"), or of one's sister ("sororal niece").

  Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

• nine1

  nine

  noun — The digit or figure 9.

  numeral — A numerical value equal to 9; the number following eight and preceding ten.

  noun — A playing card with nine pips.

  noun — A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.

  noun — (usually in the plural) A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).

  noun — A baseball club, team, or lineup (composed of nine players).

  Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.

• nineteen8

  nineteen

  numeral — The cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens".

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• nite1

  nite

  noun — The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.

  noun — (Astronomy) The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.

  noun — (Legal) Often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.

  noun — An evening or night spent at a particular activity.

  noun — A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a place away from home, e.g. a hotel.

  noun — Nightfall.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• tacit5

  tacit

  adjective — Expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent.

  adjective — Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.

  Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.

• tactic6

  tactic

  noun — A maneuver, or action calculated to achieve some end.

  adjective — Tactical; of or relating to the art of military and naval tactics.

  noun — A maneuver used against an enemy.

  noun — A sequence of moves that limits the opponent's options and results in an immediate and tangible advantage, typically in the form of material.

  adjective — Describing a polymer whose repeat units are identical.

  Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.

• tactician9

  tactician

  noun — A person skilled in the planning and execution of tactics.

  Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

• taint5

  taint

  verb — To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.

  noun — A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish

  noun — A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food

  verb — To spoil (food) by contamination.

  noun — Infection; corruption; deprivation

  noun — A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.

  Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

• tannic6

  tannic

  adjective — Pertaining to, containing, or obtained from tannin.

  Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

• tannin6

  tannin

  noun — Tannic acid or any of its derivatives.

  Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

• taxi1

  taxi

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  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• tinct5

  tinct

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  Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

• tine1

  tine

  noun — A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb.

  adjective — Small, diminutive

  noun — Trouble; distress; teen.

  verb — To kindle; to set on fire.

  verb — To shut in, or enclose.

  noun — A small branch, especially on an antler or horn.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• tint1

  tint

  verb — To shade, to color.

  noun — A slight coloring.

  noun — A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)

  noun — A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.

  noun — A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.

  Appeared in 22 recorded puzzles.

• titan5

  titan

  noun — Something or someone of very large stature, greatness, or godliness.

  Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

• titanic7

  titanic

  adjective — Having great size, or great strength, force or power.

  adjective — Of or relating to titanium, especially tetravalent titanium

  Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

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