Friday, July 31, 2026

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• ammo1

  ammo

  noun — Ammunition.

  verb — To load up on ammunition.

  Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

• atom1

  atom

  noun — The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons.

  noun — (history of science) A hypothetical particle posited by Greek philosophers as an ultimate and indivisible component of matter.

  noun — The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something.

  noun — In logical atomism, a fundamental fact that cannot be further broken down.

  noun — The smallest medieval unit of time, equal to fifteen ninety-fourths of a second.

  noun — A mote of dust in a sunbeam.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• imam1

  imam

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

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

  Appeared in 22 recorded puzzles.

• impala6

  impala

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• 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.

• lima1

  lima

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  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• limit5

  limit

  noun — A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.

  verb — To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.

  noun — The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.

  noun — A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.

  noun — A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).

  noun — (as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.

  Appeared in 9 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 6 recorded puzzles.

• limp1

  limp

  noun — An irregular, jerky or awkward gait.

  verb — To walk lamely, as if favouring one leg.

  noun — A scraper of board or sheet-iron shaped like half the head of a small cask, used for scraping the ore off the sieve in the operation of hand-jigging.

  verb — To be inadequate or unsatisfactory.

  adjective — Flaccid; flabby, like flesh.

  verb — To happen; befall; chance.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• lipoma6

  lipoma

  noun — A nonmalignant tumor comprising fat cells.

• 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.

• loam1

  loam

  noun — A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.

  verb — To cover, smear, or fill with loam.

  adjective — Made of loam; consisting of loam.

  noun — A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making moulds for large castings, often without a pattern.

  Appeared in 3 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 5 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.

• maillot7

  maillot

  noun — A one-piece swimsuit (for women)

  noun — A leotard or tights of stretchable jersey fabric, generally worn by dancers and gymnasts.

  Appeared in 2 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 22 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.

• malt1

  malt

  noun — Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.

  verb — To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain.

  noun — Malt liquor, especially malt whisky.

  noun — A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor.

  noun — Maltose-rich sugar derived from malted grain.

  verb — To become malt.

  Appeared in 5 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.

• militia7

  militia

  noun — An army of trained civilians, which may be an official reserve army, called upon in time of need, the entire able-bodied population of a state which may also be called upon, or a private force not under government control.

  noun — The police in the Soviet Union and some related or successor states (e.g. modern Belarus).

  Appeared in 4 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 16 recorded puzzles.

• mitt1

  mitt

  noun — An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt.

  noun — A mitten

  noun — (especially in plural) A hand.

  Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.

• moat1

  moat

  noun — A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.

  verb — To surround with a moat.

  noun — An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, either because of the nature of its products, services, franchise or other reason.

  noun — A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it.

  noun — A hill or mound.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• 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 6 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 5 recorded puzzles.

• molt1

  molt

  noun — The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc.

  verb — To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one.

  verb — To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.

  noun — The skin or feathers cast off during the process of moulting.

  verb — To shed in such a manner.

  verb — To dissolve, disperse, vanish.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• momma5

  momma

  noun — Mother

  noun — A voluptuous woman.

  noun — One's wife or girlfriend.

  Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

• moola5

  moola

  noun — Money, cash.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• moot1

  moot

  noun — A moot court.

  adjective — Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.

  noun — A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.

  verb — To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.

  noun — Vagina.

  noun — The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.

  Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

• motto5

  motto

  noun — A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement.

  noun — A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim.

  noun — A paper packet containing a sweetmeat, cracker, etc., together with a scrap of paper bearing a motto.

  Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

• omit1

  omit

  verb — To leave out or exclude.

  verb — To fail to perform.

  verb — To neglect or take no notice of.

  Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

• optima6

  optima

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• optimal14

  optimal

  noun — The best of its kind

  adjective — The best, most favourable or desirable, especially under some restriction.

  adjective — Describing a search algorithm that always returns the best result.

• 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.

• pampa5

  pampa

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  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• papilloma9

  papilloma

  noun — An epithelial tumour, usually benign, with the appearance of a papilla

• pimp1

  pimp

  noun — Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.

  verb — To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.

  adjective — Excellent, fashionable, stylish

  numeral — Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting

  noun — A man who can easily attract women.

  verb — To prostitute someone.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• pomp1

  pomp

  noun — Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.

  verb — To make a pompous display; to conduct.

  noun — A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• pompom6

  pompom

  noun — A decorative ball made of pieces of soft fabric bound at the centre, most notably used in cheerleading.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• taillamp8

  taillamp

  noun — A taillight.

• tamp1

  tamp

  verb — (blasting) To plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock.

  verb — To drive in or pack down by frequent gentle strokes

  verb — To reduce the intensity of.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• tatami6

  tatami

  noun — Straw matting, in a standard size, used as a floor covering in Japanese houses

  Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

• tomatillo9

  tomatillo

  noun — A plant of the nightshade family originating in Mexico, Physalis philadelphica, cultivated for its tomato-like green to green-purple fruit surrounded by a thin papery skin.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• tomato6

  tomato

  noun — A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.

  verb — To pelt with tomatoes

  noun — The savory fruit of this plant, red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture and cooking.

  noun — A shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.

  noun — A desirable-looking woman.

  noun — A stupid act or person.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• tomtit6

  tomtit

  noun — Petroica macrocephala, the miromiro or New Zealand tit, a bird of the Petroicidae (Australasian robin) family.

  Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

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