Wednesday, August 19, 2026

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• eleven6

  eleven

  noun — A cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc.

  numeral — The cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve. Represented as 11 in Arabic digits.

  noun — A football team of eleven players; the starting lineup.

  noun — Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, imitating someone who forgets to press the shift key while typing exclamation points.

  noun — A number off the charts of a hypothetical scale of one to ten.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• elver5

  elver

  noun — A young eel.

• envelop7

  envelop

  verb — To surround or enclose.

• envelope8

  envelope

  noun — A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.

  verb — To surround or enclose.

  noun — Something that envelops; a wrapping.

  noun — A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.

  noun — A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.

  noun — A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.

• even1

  even

  noun — (diminutive) An even number.

  verb — To make flat and level.

  adjective — Flat and level.

  adverb — Exactly, just, fully.

  noun — Evening.

  verb — To equal.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• evener6

  evener

  noun — One who, or that which, makes even.

  noun — In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast.

  noun — A raddle (instrument used by weavers).

• ever1

  ever

  adjective — Occurring at any time, occurring even but once during a timespan.

  adverb — Always, frequently, forever.

  adverb — Continuously, constantly, all the time (for the complete duration).

  adverb — At any time.

  adverb — In any way.

  adverb — As intensifier following an interrogative word.

• evolve6

  evolve

  verb — To change; transform.

  verb — Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.

  verb — To come into being; develop.

  verb — To cause something to change or transform.

  verb — To move in regular procession through a system.

  verb — To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• levee5

  levee

  noun — An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.

  verb — To keep within a channel by means of levees.

  noun — The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.

  verb — To attend the levee or levees of.

  noun — The steep bank of a river.

  noun — The border of an irrigated field.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• level5

  level

  noun — A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.

  verb — To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.

  adjective — The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.

  noun — A distance relative to a given reference elevation.

  noun — Degree or amount.

  noun — Achievement or qualification.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• leveler7

  leveler

  adjective — The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.

  noun — A person or thing that levels.

  adjective — At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.

  adjective — Unvaried in frequency.

  adjective — Unvaried in volume.

  adjective — Calm.

• lever5

  lever

  noun — (except in generalized senses below) A crowbar.

  verb — To move with a lever.

  adverb — Rather.

  noun — A levee.

  noun — A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.

  noun — A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button).

• love1

  love

  noun — Strong affection.

  verb — (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).

  noun — A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.

  noun — A thing, activity etc which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.

  verb — To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.

  verb — (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• lovelorn8

  lovelorn

  noun — A person who is lovelorn.

  adjective — Abandoned or forsaken by one's lover; having constant bad luck in romance; desperate for love.

  adjective — Unloved, bereft of love.

• lover5

  lover

  noun — One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend or spouse.

  noun — A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light.

  noun — A sexual partner, especially one with whom someone is having an affair.

  noun — A person who loves something.

  noun — (with "my") An informal term of address for any friend.

  noun — (chiefly in plural) A series of sloping overlapping slats or boards which admit air and light but exclude rain etc.

• nerve5

  nerve

  noun — A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics.

  verb — To give courage.

  noun — A neuron.

  noun — A vein in a leaf; a grain in wood

  noun — Courage, boldness.

  noun — Patience.

• never5

  never

  adverb — At no time; on no occasion; in no circumstance.

  adverb — Not at any other time; not on any other occasion; not previously.

  adverb — Negative particle (used to negate verbs in the simple past tense; also used absolutely).

• novel5

  novel

  adjective — Newly made, formed or evolved; having no precedent; of recent origin; new.

  noun — A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella.

  noun — A novelty; something new.

  noun — A new legal constitution in ancient Rome.

  adjective — Original, especially in an interesting way; new and striking; not of the typical or ordinary type.

  noun — A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• oven1

  oven

  noun — A chamber used for baking or heating.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• over1

  over

  noun — A set of six legal balls bowled.

  verb — To go over, or jump over.

  adjective — Discontinued; ended or concluded.

  adverb — Thoroughly; completely; from beginning to end.

  preposition — Physical positioning.

  interjection — In radio communications: end of sentence, ready to receive reply.

• peeve5

  peeve

  noun — An annoyance or grievance.

  verb — To annoy; vex.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• plover6

  plover

  noun — Any of various wading birds of the family Charadriidae.

• popover7

  popover

  noun — A light hollow muffin, resembling an individual Yorkshire pudding.

  noun — A pop-up element that is rendered over the current web page rather than opening a new tab or window.

  noun — A kind of versatile wraparound dress.

• prove5

  prove

  verb — To proofread.

  noun — The process of dough proofing.

  verb — To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.

  verb — To make resistant, especially to water.

  verb — To allow yeast-containing dough to rise.

  verb — To test the activeness of yeast.

• proven6

  proven

  verb — To proofread.

  verb — To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.

  adjective — Having been proved; having proved its value or truth.

  verb — To make resistant, especially to water.

  verb — To allow yeast-containing dough to rise.

  verb — To test the activeness of yeast.

• provolone16

  provolone

  noun — A semi-hard cheese made of whole milk from cows. It comes primarily from Southern Italy.

• reeve5

  reeve

  noun — Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities.

  verb — To pass (a rope) through a hole or opening, especially so as to fasten it.

  noun — A female of the species Philomachus pugnax, a highly gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; the male is a ruff.

  noun — The president of a township or municipal district council.

  noun — The holder of a proposed but unadopted commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force, equivalent to wing commander.

• reprove7

  reprove

  verb — To express disapproval.

  verb — To prove again.

  verb — To criticise, rebuke or reprimand (someone), usually in a gentle and kind tone.

  verb — To deny or reject (a feeling, behaviour, action etc.).

• revel5

  revel

  noun — An instance of merrymaking; a celebration.

  verb — To make merry; to have a happy, lively time.

  noun — The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb.

  verb — To draw back; to retract.

  noun — A kind of dance.

  noun — A wake for the dead.

• reveler7

  reveler

  noun — One who attends revels; a partygoer.

• revere6

  revere

  noun — A revers

  verb — To regard someone or something with great awe or devotion.

  verb — To honour in a form lesser than worship, e.g. a saint, or an idol

• revolve7

  revolve

  noun — The rotation of part of the scenery within a theatrical production.

  verb — (Physical movement.)

  noun — The rotating section itself.

  noun — A radical change; revolution.

  verb — (Mental activity.)

• revolver8

  revolver

  noun — A handgun with a revolving chamber enabling several shots to be fired without reloading.

  noun — (by extension) Any (personal) firearm with such a mechanism.

  noun — Synonym of revolving line of credit

  noun — Agent noun of revolve; something that revolves.

• rollover8

  rollover

  noun — The process of incrementing, especially back to an initial value.

  noun — A road traffic accident in which a vehicle overturns.

  noun — A graphic element that changes its appearance when the cursor moves over it.

  noun — A keyboard feature where each key is scanned independently, so that multiple simultaneous keypresses always register correctly.

  noun — The reinvestment of funds in a new issue of the same or similar investment.

  noun — A fee paid by a borrower in order to defer full repayment of a loan.

• rove1

  rove

  noun — A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.

  verb — To shoot with arrows (at).

  verb — To pass (a rope) through a hole or opening, especially so as to fasten it.

  verb — To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave.

  noun — A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a roving.

  noun — The act of wandering; a ramble.

• rover5

  rover

  noun — (usually in the plural) A randomly selected target.

  noun — A pirate.

  noun — One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad.

  noun — A vagabond, a tramp, an unsteady, restless person, one who by habit doesn't settle down or marry.

  noun — A vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies.

  noun — (Australian Rules football) A position that is one of three of a team's followers, who follow the ball around the ground. Formerly a position for short players, rovers in professional leagues are frequently over 183 cm (6').

• veep1

  veep

  noun — (US politics) The Vice President of the United States; the office of Vice President of the United States, especially during an election cycle where several are in the running for the nomination.

  noun — Any vice president (in a corporation, organization, etc.)

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• veer1

  veer

  verb — To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.

  noun — A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.

  verb — To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.

  verb — (of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).

  verb — (of the wind) To shift aft.

  verb — To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.

• veneer6

  veneer

  noun — A thin decorative covering of fine material (usually wood) applied to coarser wood or other material.

  verb — To apply veneer to.

  noun — An attractive appearance that covers or disguises true nature or feelings.

  verb — To disguise with apparent goodness.

• verve5

  verve

  noun — Excitement of imagination such as that which animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing

  noun — Artistic energy and enthusiasm

  noun — Vigour, vitality and liveliness

  noun — Rapture, enthusiasm

  noun — Spirit, energy

• vole1

  vole

  noun — Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae of the family Cricetidae which are not lemmings or muskrats.

  noun — A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks.

  verb — To win all the tricks by a vole.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.