Monday, August 17, 2026

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• dodgy5

  dodgy

  adjective — Evasive and shifty

  adjective — Unsound and unreliable

  adjective — Dishonest

  adjective — Risky

  adjective — Deviant

  adjective — Uncomfortable and weird

• dodo1

  dodo

  noun — A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.

  noun — A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt.

  noun — Fried plantain.

  Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

• doggo5

  doggo

  noun — A dog.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• doggy5

  doggy

  noun — A dog, especially a small one.

  adjective — Suggestive of or in the manner of a dog.

  noun — Doggy style

  noun — (armed services) A junior temporarily assigned to do minor duties for a senior; a gofer.

  adjective — Fond of dogs.

• door1

  door

  noun — A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.

  verb — To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.

  noun — Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.

  noun — (immigration) An entry point.

  noun — A means of approach or access.

  noun — A barrier.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• dopy1

  dopy

  adjective — Stupid, silly.

• dory1

  dory

  noun — A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.

  noun — Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.

  adjective — Of a bright yellow or golden color.

  noun — A wooden pike or spear about three metres (ten feet) in length with a flat, leaf-shaped iron spearhead and a bronze butt-spike (called a sauroter), which was the main weapon of hoplites in Ancient Greece. It was usually not thrown but rather thrust at opponents with one hand.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• droid5

  droid

  noun — A robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• droop5

  droop

  noun — Something which is limp or sagging

  verb — To hang downward; to sag.

  noun — A condition or posture of drooping

  verb — To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.

  verb — To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.

  verb — To allow to droop or sink.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• droopy6

  droopy

  adjective — Tending to droop; sagging; wilting.

• drop1

  drop

  noun — A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape via surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.

  verb — To fall in droplets (of a liquid).

  noun — A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.

  noun — (now especially with "the") Alcoholic spirits in general.

  noun — That which resembles or hangs like a liquid globule: a hanging diamond ornament or earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, etc.

  noun — A thing which drops or hangs down:

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• good1

  good

  adjective — (of people)

  interjection — That is good; an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.

  adverb — Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.

  noun — The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.

  verb — To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.

  verb — To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• goody5

  goody

  noun — A good character in a story, often a hero.

  noun — A small amount of something good to eat.

  adjective — Mawkishly good; weakly benevolent or pious.

  noun — Any small, usually free, item.

  noun — Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.

  noun — Goodwife, a 17th-century puritan honorific.

• goop1

  goop

  noun — (usually uncountable) A thick, slimy substance; goo.

  noun — A silly, stupid, or boorish person.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• goopy5

  goopy

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• gorp1

  gorp

  noun — A loose mixture of dried fruit, nuts, frequently salt, and sometimes other ingredients; designed as an energy supplement for use while hiking, climbing, canoeing, etc.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• gory1

  gory

  adjective — Covered with blood, very bloody

  adjective — Unpleasant

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• grody5

  grody

  adjective — Nasty, dirty, disgusting, foul, revolting, yucky, grotesque.

• grog1

  grog

  noun — (original meaning) An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.

  noun — (by extension) Any alcoholic beverage.

  noun — A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage.

  noun — An alcoholic beverage made with hot water or tea, sugar and rum, sometimes also with lemon or lime juice and spices, particularly cinnamon.

  noun — A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• groggy6

  groggy

  adjective — Slowed or weakened, as by drink, sleepiness, etc.

  adjective — Of a horse: bearing wholly on its heels when trotting.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• gyro1

  gyro

  noun — A gyroscope

  noun — A style of Greek sandwich commonly filled with grilled meat, tomato, onions, and tzatziki sauce.

  noun — A gyrocompass

  noun — An autogyro

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• odor1

  odor

  noun — Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive.

  noun — A strong, pervasive quality.

  noun — Esteem.

  noun — Something which produces a scent; incense, a perfume.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• opioid6

  opioid

  noun — A substance that has effects similar to opium.

  noun — Any of the natural substances, such as an endorphin, released in the body in response to pain.

  noun — Any of a group of synthetic compounds that exhibit similarities to the opium alkaloids that occur in nature.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• orgy1

  orgy

  noun — Originally, secret rites or ceremonies, typically involving riotous and dissolute behaviour, including dancing, drunkenness and indiscriminate sexual activity, undertaken in honour of various pagan gods or goddesses (such as Attis, Bacchus, Ceres, Dionysus, Osiris, etc).

  noun — A gathering of people to engage in group sex.

  noun — Excessive indulgence in a specified activity.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• pogo1

  pogo

  noun — A dance associated with the 1970s punk rock movement in which participants jump up and down on the spot in the manner of someone riding a pogo stick.

  verb — To use a pogo stick.

  noun — A corndog on a stick.

  noun — The act of lifting the front wheel of the bicycle in the air and jumping up and down on the rear wheel while in a stationary position.

  verb — To dance the pogo.

  verb — To lift the front wheel of the bicycle in the air and jump up and down on the rear wheel while in a stationary position.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• poop1

  poop

  noun — Fecal matter, feces.

  verb — To make a short blast on a horn

  noun — A set of data or general information, written or spoken, usually concerning machinery or a process.

  verb — To tire, exhaust. Often used with out.

  noun — The stern of a ship.

  verb — To break seawater with the poop of a vessel, especially the poop deck.

  Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

• poor1

  poor

  noun — (with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.

  adjective — With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.

  adjective — Of low quality.

  adjective — Used to express pity.

  adjective — Deficient in a specified way.

  adjective — Inadequate, insufficient.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• poppy5

  poppy

  noun — Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially the common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant.

  adjective — Of a bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower (Papaver rhoeas).

  adjective — Having a popping or bursting sound.

  adjective — Popular.

  noun — One's father or grandfather, or a male authority figure having similar standing.

  noun — A bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• prior5

  prior

  noun — A high-ranking member of a monastery, usually lower in rank than an abbot.

  adjective — Advance; previous; coming before.

  adverb — Previously.

  noun — A chief magistrate in Italy.

  noun — (law enforcement) A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's record.

  noun — In Bayesian inference, a prior probability distribution, one based on information or belief before additional data is collected.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• priory6

  priory

  noun — A monastery or convent governed by a prior or prioress.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• prod1

  prod

  noun — A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.

  verb — To poke, to push, to touch.

  noun — A production.

  noun — A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.

  noun — A poke.

  noun — A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• prodigy14

  prodigy

  noun — An extraordinary thing seen as an omen; a portent.

  noun — An extraordinary occurrence or creature; an anomaly, especially a monster; a freak.

  noun — An amazing or marvellous thing; a wonder.

  noun — A wonderful example of something.

  noun — An extremely talented person, especially a child.

• prop1

  prop

  noun — An object placed against or under another, to support it; anything that supports.

  verb — (sometimes figurative) To support or shore up something.

  noun — An item placed on a stage or set to create a scene or scenario in which actors perform.

  noun — The propeller of an aircraft.

  verb — To manually start the engine of a propeller-driven aircraft with no electric starter by pulling vigorously on one of the propeller blades using the hands, so that the propeller can catch ignition.

  noun — A proposition, especially on an election-day ballot.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• pyro1

  pyro

  noun — A pyromaniac

  adjective — Pyromaniac, pyromaniacal

  noun — Pyrocellulose

  noun — Pyrotechnician

  noun — Pyrotechnics

  noun — Pyrogallic acid

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• rigor5

  rigor

  noun — Short for rigor mortis.

  noun — Severity or strictness.

  noun — Harshness, as of climate.

  noun — A trembling or shivering response.

  noun — Character of being unyielding or inflexible.

  noun — Shrewd questioning.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• rood1

  rood

  noun — A crucifix, cross, especially in a church.

  noun — A measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre.

  noun — A measure of five and a half yards in length.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• ropy1

  ropy

  adjective — Resembling rope in appearance or texture, used especially of muscles that are thick or hard to the touch.

  adjective — Capable of forming rope-like or thread-like structures.

  adjective — Of poor quality; in poor health.

  adjective — (of milk or another liquid) Slimy, as after the action of Enterobacter aerogenes in syrup.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• yogi1

  yogi

  noun — A devotee or adherent of yoga.

  verb — To turn (someone) into a yogi; to lead into practicing yoga.

  verb — (thru-hiker slang) To persuade someone to give you food or other favors without actually begging.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

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