Saturday, August 8, 2026

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• emit1

  emit

  verb — To send out or give off

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• ileum5

  ileum

  noun — The last, and usually the longest, division of the small intestine; the part between the jejunum and large intestine.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• ilium5

  ilium

  noun — The upper and widest of the three bones that make up each side of the hipbone and pelvis.

  noun — The ileum, part of the small intestine.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• item1

  item

  noun — A distinct physical object.

  noun — A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account.

  noun — Two people who are having a relationship with each other.

  noun — A matter for discussion in an agenda.

  noun — (psychometrics) A question on a test, which may include its answers.

  noun — A short article in a newspaper.

  Appeared in 9 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 9 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 10 recorded puzzles.

• meet1

  meet

  verb — To make contact (with) while in proximity.

  verb — To make physical or perceptual contact.

  verb — To satisfy; to comply with.

  noun — A meeting.

  noun — A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet).

  verb — (Of groups) To come together.

  Appeared in 15 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 13 recorded puzzles.

• melt1

  melt

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

  verb — To dissolve, disperse, vanish.

  verb — To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.

  verb — To be emotionally softened or touched.

  noun — The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.

  noun — Molten material, the product of melting.

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• meme1

  meme

  noun — Something, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, including quizzes, basic pictures, video templates etc.

  noun — A myth circulating as truth; something ineffective presented as effective, or similar.

  noun — Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.

  verb — To turn into a meme; to use a meme, especially to achieve something in real life.

  verb — To create and use humorous memes.

  verb — To joke around.

  Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.

• mete1

  mete

  verb — (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).

  verb — To measure.

  adjective — Suitable; right; proper.

  noun — A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere.

  Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

• mettle6

  mettle

  noun — A quality of endurance and courage.

  noun — Good temperament and character.

  noun — Metal; a metallic substance.

  Appeared in 9 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 9 recorded puzzles.

• milieu6

  milieu

  noun — Medium.

  noun — Social setting or environment.

  Appeared in 2 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.

• millet6

  millet

  noun — Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.

  noun — A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• mime1

  mime

  noun — A form of acting without words; pantomime.

  noun — A pantomime actor.

  verb — To act without words.

  verb — To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound.

  verb — To mimic.

  noun — A person who mimics others in a comical manner.

  Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

• mite1

  mite

  noun — Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acarina (aka Acari).

  noun — (sometimes used adverbially) Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle

  noun — (often used affectionately) A small or naughty person, or one you take pity on; rascal

  noun — A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing.

  noun — A lepton, a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ.

  noun — A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.

  Appeared in 9 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 21 recorded puzzles.

• mule1

  mule

  noun — The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.

  verb — To smuggle (illegal drugs).

  noun — A shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel, but which covers the foot.

  noun — The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.

  noun — A hybrid plant.

  noun — A stubborn person.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• mull1

  mull

  noun — A thin, soft muslin.

  verb — (usually with over) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate.

  noun — A promontory.

  noun — Dirt; rubbish

  noun — Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.

  noun — A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• mullet6

  mullet

  noun — A fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes), especially the genus Mullus (the red mullets or goatfish).

  noun — A fool

  noun — A hairstyle where the hair is kept short on the top and sides and long at the back.

  noun — A star with straight edges and usually with five or six points.

  noun — A fish of the family Mugilidae (order Mugiliformes) (the grey mullets).

  noun — Any of several species of freshwater fish in the sucker family (especially in the genus Moxostoma, the redhorses)

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• multilevel17

  multilevel

  adjective — Having several levels or floors.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• mute1

  mute

  noun — A stopped consonant; a stop.

  verb — To silence, to make quiet.

  adjective — Not having the power of speech; dumb.

  noun — The faeces of a hawk or falcon.

  verb — Of a bird: to defecate.

  verb — To cast off; to moult.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• mutt1

  mutt

  noun — A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin.

  noun — A monastic or similar religious establishment in Hinduism and Jainism, usually more formal and hierarchical than an ashram.

  noun — (sometimes derogatory) A person of diverse ancestry.

  noun — An idiot, a stupid person.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• muumuu6

  muumuu

  noun — A long loose-fitting dress made of lightweight fabric printed with bright, stylized Hawaiian themes (such as flowers and palm branches).

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• teem1

  teem

  verb — To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.

  verb — To be stocked to overflowing.

  verb — To pour (especially with rain)

  Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

• time1

  time

  noun — The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.

  noun — A duration of time.

  noun — The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.

  noun — An instant of time.

  verb — To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.

  verb — To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• tumult6

  tumult

  noun — Confused, agitated noise as made by a crowd.

  verb — To make a tumult; to be in great commotion.

  noun — Violent commotion or agitation, often with confusion of sounds.

  noun — A riot or uprising.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• vellum6

  vellum

  noun — A type of parchment paper made from the skin of a lamb, baby goat, or calf.

  noun — A writing paper of very high quality.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• velum5

  velum

  noun — A thin membrane, resembling a veil, such as:

  noun — An accessory cloud resembling a veil extending over a large distance. Normally associated with cumulus and cumulonimbus.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.