Friday, June 26, 2026

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• acclaim7

  acclaim

  verb — To shout; to call out.

  noun — An acclamation; a shout of applause.

  verb — To express great approval (for).

  verb — To salute or praise with great approval; to compliment; to applaud; to welcome enthusiastically.

  verb — To claim.

  verb — To declare by acclamations.

  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.

• amyl1

  amyl

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• calm1

  calm

  noun — (in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.

  verb — To make calm.

  adjective — (of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.

  noun — (in a place or situation) The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.

  noun — A period of time without wind.

  verb — To become calm.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• calmly6

  calmly

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• cami1

  cami

  noun — A camisole.

  Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

• claim5

  claim

  noun — A demand of ownership made for something.

  verb — To demand ownership of.

  noun — The thing claimed.

  noun — The right or ground of demanding.

  noun — A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided.

  noun — A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• clam1

  clam

  noun — A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example the soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria), the hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.

  verb — To dig for clams.

  noun — A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.

  verb — To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.

  noun — Clamminess; moisture

  verb — To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• clammy6

  clammy

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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 14 recorded puzzles.

• gamy1

  gamy

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• 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.

• imam1

  imam

  noun — (usually capitalized) A Shi'ite Muslim leader.

  noun — One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.

  Appeared in 24 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.

• lima1

  lima

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  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• 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.

• magi1

  magi

  noun — A magician, wizard or sorcerer.

  noun — (common usage) magician, and derogatorily sorcerer, trickster, conjurer, charlatan

  noun — (special usage) a Zoroastrian priest

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• magic5

  magic

  noun — The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order to have some benefit from them

  verb — To produce, transform (something), (as if) by magic.

  adjective — Having supernatural talents, properties or qualities attributed to magic.

  noun — A specific ritual or procedure associated with such magic; a spell.

  noun — The supernatural forces which are drawn on in such a ritual

  noun — Something producing successful and remarkable results, especially when not fully understood; an enchanting quality; exceptional skill.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• magical7

  magical

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• magically16

  magically

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• 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 14 recorded puzzles.

• mail1

  mail

  noun — A bag or wallet.

  verb — (ditransitive) To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail.

  noun — Armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together.

  verb — To arm with mail.

  noun — An old French coin worth half a denier.

  noun — A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• maim1

  maim

  noun — A serious wound

  verb — To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.

  Appeared in 24 recorded puzzles.

• malic5

  malic

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  Appeared in 4 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 28 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 28 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.

• mica1

  mica

  noun — Any of a group of hydrous aluminosilicate minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic.

  Appeared in 12 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 17 recorded puzzles.

• mimic5

  mimic

  noun — A person who practices mimicry, or mime.

  verb — To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.

  adjective — Pertaining to mimicry; imitative.

  noun — An imitation.

  verb — To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.

  adjective — Mock, pretended.

  Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

• myalgia7

  myalgia

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• myalgic14

  myalgic

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