Friday, August 14, 2026

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• adamant7

  adamant

  noun — An imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness.

  adjective — (said of people and their conviction) Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.

  noun — An embodiment of impregnable hardness.

  noun — A lodestone.

  adjective — (of an object) Very difficult to break, pierce, or cut.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• adman5

  adman

  noun — A person in the business of devising, writing, illustrating or selling advertisements.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• admin5

  admin

  noun — Administration, or administrative work.

  verb — To serve as an administrator for or of.

  noun — A systems administrator; one who maintains a computer system or network.

  noun — A user of a discussion forum, web site, etc. with privileges allowing them to control or restrict the activity of other uses.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• admit5

  admit

  verb — To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration

  verb — To allow (someone) to enter a profession or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise.

  verb — To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny

  verb — To be capable of; to permit. In this sense, "of" may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.

  verb — To give warrant or allowance, to grant opportunity or permission (+ of).

  verb — To allow to enter a hospital or similar facility for treatment.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• admitting16

  admitting

  verb — To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration

  noun — An act of admission; an allowing to enter.

  verb — To allow (someone) to enter a profession or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise.

  verb — To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny

  verb — To be capable of; to permit. In this sense, "of" may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.

  verb — To give warrant or allowance, to grant opportunity or permission (+ of).

• aiming6

  aiming

  verb — To point or direct a missile, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it

  noun — The act of one who aims.

  verb — To direct the intention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor;—followed by at, or by an infinitive

  verb — To direct or point (e.g. a weapon), at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object

  verb — To direct (something verbal) towards a certain person, thing, or group

  verb — To guess or conjecture.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• amid1

  amid

  preposition — In the middle of; in the center of; surrounded by.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• anima5

  anima

  noun — The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus.

  noun — (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) of a person that is in touch with the unconscious as opposed to the persona.

  noun — (Jungian psychology) The unconscious feminine aspect of a person.

  Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

• animating9

  animating

  verb — To impart motion or the appearance of motion to.

  verb — To give spirit or vigour to; to stimulate or enliven; to inspirit.

• damaging8

  damaging

  verb — To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.

  noun — An act of causing damage.

  adjective — Harmful; injurious; causing damage.

  verb — To undergo damage.

• damming7

  damming

  verb — To block the flow of water.

• dammit6

  dammit

  noun — The saying of the interjection, used as a general measure of anything.

  interjection — (mildly) Expressing anger, irritation, contempt, or disappointment.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• damn1

  damn

  noun — The use of "damn" as a curse.

  verb — To condemn to hell.

  adjective — Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.

  adverb — Very; extremely.

  interjection — Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt or suprise, etc. See also dammit.

  noun — A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• damning7

  damning

  verb — To condemn to hell.

  noun — A condemnation.

  adjective — Condemning.

  verb — To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.

  verb — To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.

  verb — To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal.

• dimming7

  dimming

  verb — To make something less bright.

  noun — The process of becoming dim.

  verb — To become darker.

  verb — To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct

  verb — To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• gamin5

  gamin

  noun — A homeless boy; a male street urchin; also (more generally), a cheeky, street-smart boy.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• gaming6

  gaming

  verb — To gamble.

  noun — The playing of a game or games, including but not limited to video games and games of chance.

  verb — To play card games, board games, or video games.

  verb — To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.

  verb — (of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.

  noun — Careful, strategic use of rules to achieve one's purposes, as one would use the rules of a game.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• 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 13 recorded puzzles.

• imaging7

  imaging

  verb — To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.

  noun — The technique or practice of creating images of otherwise invisible aspects of an object, especially of body parts.

  verb — To reflect, mirror.

  verb — To create an image of.

  verb — To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

  noun — The use of mental images to alter a person's perceptions or behaviors.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• imagining9

  imagining

  verb — To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.

  noun — Something imagined; a figment of the imagination.

  verb — To believe in something created by one's own mind.

  verb — To assume

  verb — To conjecture or guess

  verb — To use one's imagination

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• imam1

  imam

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

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

  Appeared in 23 recorded puzzles.

• imitating9

  imitating

  verb — To follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.

  noun — An instance of imitation.

• intimating10

  intimating

  verb — To suggest or disclose (something) discreetly.

  verb — To notify.

• intimidating19

  intimidating

  verb — To make timid or afraid; to cause to feel fear or nervousness; to deter, especially by threats of violence

  adjective — Threatening

• madam5

  madam

  noun — A polite form of address for a woman or lady.

  verb — To address as "madam".

  noun — The mistress of a household.

  noun — A conceited or quarrelsome girl.

  noun — A woman who runs a brothel, particularly one that specializes in finding prostitutes for rich and important clients.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• madman6

  madman

  noun — A male who is insane or mentally disturbed.

  Appeared in 2 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 7 recorded puzzles.

• 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 13 recorded puzzles.

• maid1

  maid

  noun — A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.

  noun — A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).

  noun — A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender.

  Appeared in 5 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 23 recorded puzzles.

• maiming7

  maiming

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

  noun — The act by which somebody is maimed.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• main1

  main

  verb — Short for mainline.

  adjective — Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.

  adverb — Exceedingly, extremely, greatly, mightily, very, very much.

  noun — That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.

  noun — A hand or match in a game of dice.

  noun — A basket for gathering grapes.

  Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

• maintain8

  maintain

  verb — To support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action.

  verb — To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).

  verb — To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert.

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• maintaining11

  maintaining

  verb — To support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action.

  noun — The act of doing maintenance.

  verb — To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).

  verb — To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert.

• mama1

  mama

  noun — (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

  Appeared in 27 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 27 recorded puzzles.

• managing8

  managing

  verb — To direct or be in charge of.

  noun — Management

  verb — To handle or control (a situation, job).

  verb — To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).

  verb — To succeed at an attempt.

  verb — To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• mandating16

  mandating

  verb — To authorize

  verb — To make mandatory

• manga5

  manga

  noun — A comic originating in Japan.

  noun — A covering for a crucifix.

  noun — An artistic style heavily used in, and associated with, Japanese comics, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of comics from other countries.

  noun — A comic in manga style, regardless of the country of origin.

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• mania5

  mania

  noun — Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.

  noun — Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.

  noun — The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.

  Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

• manna5

  manna

  noun — Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.

  noun — (by extension) Any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck.

  noun — The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.http//www.museum.vic.gov.au/forest/plants/gum.html

  Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.

• manning7

  manning

  verb — To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex).

  verb — To take up position in order to operate (something).

  verb — (possibly obsolete) To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare man up.)

  verb — To wait on, attend to or escort.

  verb — To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence of people.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• manta5

  manta

  noun — A kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern United States.

  noun — Any of several very large pelagic rays of the genus Manta, with winglike pectoral fins, a long tail, and two fins resembling horns that project from the head.

  Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

• mating6

  mating

  verb — To put the king of an opponent into checkmate.

  verb — To match, fit together without space between.

  verb — To confuse; to confound.

  noun — Pairing of organisms for copulation.

  adjective — Fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket.

  verb — (by extension) To place in a losing situation that has no escape.

• matting7

  matting

  verb — To cover, protect or decorate with mats.

  noun — Mats, a collection of ground coverings.

  verb — To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.

  noun — Coarse fabric, of the kind used to make mats.

  noun — A dull surface, often used for surrounding pictures.

• midi1

  midi

  noun — A native or inhabitant of Berlin.

  noun — A coat or skirt having such a hemline.

  adjective — Having a hemline at mid-calf length.

  noun — A doughnut with a sweet filling.

  noun — A newspaper format with pages normally measuring about 315 by 470 millimetres (12.4 in × 18.5 inches), slightly taller and wider than a tabloid but narrower and shorter than a broadsheet.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• miming6

  miming

  verb — To act without words.

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

  noun — A performance in mime.

  verb — To mimic.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• mind1

  mind

  noun — The ability for rational thought.

  verb — (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.

  noun — The ability to be aware of things.

  noun — The ability to remember things.

  noun — The ability to focus the thoughts.

  noun — Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• minding7

  minding

  noun — The act of taking heed of something.

  verb — (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.

  verb — To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.

  verb — (chiefly in the imperative) To make sure, to take care (that).

  verb — To be careful about.

  verb — Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• mini1

  mini

  adjective — Miniature, tiny, small.

  noun — A miniskirt.

  noun — A minicomputer.

  Appeared in 23 recorded puzzles.

• minim5

  minim

  noun — A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.

  noun — Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.

  noun — A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.

  noun — A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.

  noun — A little man or being; a dwarf.

  noun — A small fish; a minnow.

  Appeared in 23 recorded puzzles.

• minima6

  minima

  noun — The lowest limit.

  noun — The smallest amount.

  noun — A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).

  noun — A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.

  noun — The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.

  Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

• mining6

  mining

  noun — The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.

  verb — To remove (ore) from the ground.

  verb — To dig into, for ore or metal.

  noun — Creation of new units of cryptocurrency by validating transactions and demonstrating proof-of-work

  noun — The activity of placing explosives underground, rigged to explode

  verb — To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• mint1

  mint

  adjective — (with condition) Like new.

  noun — Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.

  noun — A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.

  noun — The flavouring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.

  noun — A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc.

  noun — A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.

  Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

• minting7

  minting

  verb — To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence.

  noun — The act by which money is minted.

  verb — To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.

  verb — (provincial) To try, attempt; take aim.

  verb — (provincial) To try, attempt, endeavor; to take aim at; to try to hit; to purpose.

  verb — To hint; suggest; insinuate.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• mitigating10

  mitigating

  verb — To reduce, lessen, or decrease; to make less severe or easier to bear.

  adjective — That serves to mitigate

  verb — To downplay.

• 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 22 recorded puzzles.

• naming6

  naming

  verb — (ditransitive) To give a name to.

  noun — The process of giving names to things.

  adjective — Giving a name to a person or thing.

  verb — To mention, specify.

  verb — To identify as relevant or important

  verb — To publicly implicate.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• taming6

  taming

  verb — To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.

  verb — To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.

  noun — The process by which a person, animal or thing is tamed.

  verb — To become tame or domesticated.

  verb — To make gentle or meek.

• tatami6

  tatami

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

  Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

• timid5

  timid

  adjective — Lacking in courage or confidence.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• timing6

  timing

  noun — The regulation of the pace of e.g. an athletic race, the speed of an engine, the delivery of a joke, or the occurrence of a series of events.

  noun — The time when something happens.

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

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

  verb — To pass time; to delay.

  verb — To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.