Tuesday, August 18, 2026

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• abed1

  abed

  adverb — In bed, or on the bed; confined to bed.

  adverb — To childbed

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• baaed5

  baaed

  verb — To make the characteristic cry of a sheep.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• baba1

  baba

  noun — A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.

  noun — (esp. among people of East European ancestry) A grandmother.

  noun — An old woman, especially a traditional old woman from an eastern European culture.

  noun — (esp. among people of Indian ancestry) A father.

  noun — (Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism) A holy man, a spiritual leader.

  noun — A baby, child.

  Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.

• babe1

  babe

  noun — A baby or infant; a very young human or animal.

  noun — An attractive person, especially a young woman.

  noun — Darling (term of endearment).

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• bade1

  bade

  verb — To issue a command; to tell.

  verb — To invite; to summon.

  verb — To utter a greeting or salutation.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• badge5

  badge

  noun — A distinctive mark, token, sign, emblem or cognizance, worn on one's clothing, as an insignia of some rank, or of the membership of an organization.

  verb — To mark or distinguish with a badge.

  noun — A small nameplate, identifying the wearer, and often giving additional information.

  noun — A card, sometimes with a barcode or magnetic strip, granting access to a certain area.

  noun — Something characteristic; a mark; a token.

  noun — (thieves' cant) A brand on the hand of a thief, etc.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• badged6

  badged

  verb — To mark or distinguish with a badge.

  verb — To show a badge to.

  verb — To enter a restricted area by showing one's badge.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• baggage7

  baggage

  noun — (usually uncountable) Luggage; traveling equipment

  noun — Factors, especially psychological ones, which interfere with a person's ability to function effectively.

  noun — A woman.

  noun — An army's portable equipment; its baggage train.

• bagged6

  bagged

  verb — To put into a bag.

  adjective — Having been placed in a bag.

  verb — To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.

  verb — To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.

  verb — To furnish or load with a bag.

  verb — (African American Vernacular) To bring a woman one met on the street with one.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• banana6

  banana

  noun — An elongated curved tropical fruit that grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.

  adjective — Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.

  noun — The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, usually of the genus Musa but sometimes also including plants from Ensete, has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain.

  noun — A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.

  noun — (mildly) A person of Asian descent, especially a Chinese American, who has assimilated into Western culture or married a Caucasian (from the "yellow" outside and "white" inside). Compare coconut or Oreo.

  noun — A banana equivalent dose.

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• band1

  band

  noun — A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.

  verb — To fasten with a band.

  noun — A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble, usually for a professional recording artist.

  verb — To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.

  verb — To tie; to confine by any ligature.

  noun — A long strip of material, color, etc, that is different from the surrounding area.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• bandage7

  bandage

  noun — A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.

  verb — To apply a bandage to something.

  noun — A strip of cloth bound round the head and eyes as a blindfold.

  noun — (by extension) A provisional or makeshift solution that provides insufficient coverage or relief.

• bandaged8

  bandaged

  verb — To apply a bandage to something.

• bandana7

  bandana

  noun — A large kerchief, usually colourful and used either as headgear or as a handkerchief, neckerchief, bikini, or sweatband.

  noun — A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed a uniform red or dark colour, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• bandanna8

  bandanna

  noun — A large kerchief, usually colourful and used either as headgear or as a handkerchief, neckerchief, bikini, or sweatband.

  noun — A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed a uniform red or dark colour, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• banded6

  banded

  verb — To fasten with a band.

  verb — To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.

  adjective — Marked with bands of colour

  verb — To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).

  verb — To group (students) together by perceived ability; to stream.

  adjective — Divided into bands

• bane1

  bane

  noun — A cause of misery or death.

  verb — To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.

  noun — Bone

  noun — Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants.

  noun — A killer, murderer, slayer.

  noun — Destruction; death.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• bang1

  bang

  noun — A sudden percussive noise.

  verb — To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.

  adverb — Right, directly.

  interjection — A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc.

  noun — Hair hanging over the forehead.

  noun — Brucellosis, a bacterial disease.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• banged6

  banged

  verb — To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.

  adjective — Having the hair styled in bangs.

  verb — To hit hard.

  verb — To engage in sexual intercourse.

  verb — (with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.

  verb — To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).

• banned6

  banned

  verb — To summon; to call out.

  adjective — Forbidden; not allowed.

  verb — To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.

  verb — To curse; to execrate.

  verb — To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.

  verb — To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.

• bead1

  bead

  noun — Prayer, later especially with a rosary.

  verb — To form into a bead.

  noun — Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.

  noun — A small, round object.

  noun — (heading) A ridge, band, or molding.

  noun — Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• beaded6

  beaded

  verb — To form into a bead.

  adjective — Made from, or decorated with, beads.

  verb — To apply beads to.

  verb — To cause beads to form on (something).

  adjective — Having formed in beads or a bead-like shape.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• bean1

  bean

  noun — A reusable software component written in Java.

  noun — Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods.

  verb — To hit deliberately with a projectile, especially in the head.

  noun — The large edible seed of such a plant (for example, a broad bean, navy bean or garbanzo bean).

  noun — The edible seedpod of such a plant.

  noun — (by extension) The bean-like seed of certain other plants, such a a vanilla bean or (especially) a coffee bean.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• beanbag7

  beanbag

  noun — A piece of soft furniture consisting of a leather or vinyl covering stuffed with dry beans or other similar pellets.

  noun — A small cloth bag filled with dry beans, used as a toy or for exercising the hands.

  noun — A type of juggling ball usually made from leather or cloth stuffed with dry beans.

  noun — (usually in the plural) A testicle.

  noun — An idiot.

• beaned6

  beaned

  verb — To hit deliberately with a projectile, especially in the head.

• bedded6

  bedded

  verb — Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.

  verb — Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• bedhead7

  bedhead

  noun — The condition of having unkempt hair, generally as a result of having just woken up from sleep.

  noun — A vertical panel or board at the end of a bed where the pillow is placed.

  noun — The end of a bed where the pillow is placed, the head of the bed.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• been1

  been

  noun — A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• began5

  began

  verb — To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.

  verb — To be in the first stage of some situation

  verb — To come into existence.

• begged6

  begged

  verb — To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.

  verb — To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.

  verb — In the phrase beg the question: to assume.

  verb — In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).

  verb — To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• behead6

  behead

  verb — To remove the head of; to cut someone's head off.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• beheaded8

  beheaded

  verb — To remove the head of; to cut someone's head off.

  adjective — Having had one's head cut off.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• bend1

  bend

  noun — A curve.

  verb — To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.

  noun — Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.

  noun — (in the plural, underwater diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.

  noun — One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.

  noun — Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• dabbed6

  dabbed

  verb — To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing.

  verb — To apply a substance in this way.

  verb — To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.

  verb — To apply hash oil to a heated surface for the purpose of efficient combustion.

  verb — To perform the dab dance move, by moving both arms to one side of the body parallel with your head.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• ebbed5

  ebbed

  verb — To flow back or recede

  verb — To fall away or decline

  verb — To fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb

  verb — To cause to flow back.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• gabbed6

  gabbed

  verb — To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.

  verb — To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects.

  verb — To speak or tell falsely.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• handbag7

  handbag

  noun — (mainly Commonwealth) A small bag used by women (or sometimes by men) for carrying various small personal items.

  verb — Figuratively, to hit with a handbag; to attack verbally or subject to criticism (used of Margaret Thatcher).

  noun — An subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals.

• headband8

  headband

  noun — A strip of fabric worn around the head.

  noun — A hair-accessory, made of a flexible material and curved like a horseshoe, for holding one's hair back.

  noun — A strip of fabric attached to the top of the spine of a book; used as decoration and reinforcement.

  noun — A thin slip of iron on the tympan of a printing-press.

• headbang15

  headbang

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• headbanged17

  headbanged

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• henbane7

  henbane

  noun — A poisonous plant, Hyoscyamus niger, used sometimes as a drug that causes at least hallucinations, dilated pupils, restlessness, and flushed skin.

  noun — Any other plant of the genus Hyoscyamus.

• nabbed6

  nabbed

  verb — To seize, arrest or take into custody (a criminal or fugitive).

  verb — To grab or snatch something.