Friday, August 21, 2026

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• dough5

  dough

  noun — A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.

  verb — To make into dough.

  noun — Money.

• dour1

  dour

  adjective — Stern, harsh and forbidding.

  adjective — Unyielding and obstinate.

  adjective — Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• drug1

  drug

  noun — A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.

  verb — To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.

  verb — To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.

  noun — A drudge.

  noun — A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.

  noun — Anything, such as a substance, emotion or action, to which one is addicted.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• dugong6

  dugong

  noun — A plant-eating aquatic marine mammal, of the genus Dugong, found in tropical regions.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• dung1

  dung

  noun — Manure; animal excrement.

  verb — To fertilize with dung.

  verb — To hit or strike.

  verb — To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.

  noun — A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.

  verb — (calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• dunno5

  dunno

  noun — An utterance of the word dunno.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• gourd5

  gourd

  noun — Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae).

  noun — A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in Lagenaria or Cucurbita.

  noun — The dried and hardened shell of such fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration.

  noun — Any of the climbing or trailing plants from the family Cucurbitaceae, which includes watermelon, pumpkins, and cucumbers.

  noun — Loaded dice.

  noun — Head.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• ground6

  ground

  noun — The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.

  verb — To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.

  verb — To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.

  adjective — Crushed, or reduced to small particles.

  noun — Terrain.

  noun — Soil, earth.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• groundhog16

  groundhog

  noun — A red-brown marmot, Marmota monax, native to North America.

  noun — The aardvark.

• guru1

  guru

  noun — A Hindu or Sikh spiritual teacher.

  noun — (sometimes humorous) An influential advisor or mentor.

  Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

• hound5

  hound

  noun — A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals.

  verb — To persistently harass.

  noun — (in the plural) Projections at the masthead, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top to rest on.

  noun — Any canine animal.

  noun — (by extension) Someone who seeks something.

  noun — (by extension) A male who constantly seeks the company of desirable women.

• hour1

  hour

  noun — A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.

  noun — A season, moment, or time.

  noun — The time.

  noun — (in the plural) Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.

  noun — (in the plural) The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.

  noun — A distance that can be traveled in one hour.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• hung1

  hung

  verb — To be or remain suspended.

  adjective — Suspended by hanging.

  verb — To float, as if suspended.

  verb — (of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.

  verb — To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.

  verb — To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges or the like.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• noun1

  noun

  noun — (grammar, narrow sense) A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.

  verb — To convert a word to a noun.

  noun — (grammar, now rare, broad sense) Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.

  Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

• nunhood7

  nunhood

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• rough5

  rough

  noun — The unmowed part of a golf course.

  verb — To create in an approximate form.

  adjective — Not smooth; uneven.

  adverb — In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.

  noun — A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.

  noun — A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• round5

  round

  adverb — So as to form a circle or trace a circular path, or approximation thereof.

  preposition — Defining a circle or closed curve containing a thing.

  noun — A circular or spherical object or part of an object.

  verb — To shape something into a curve.

  adjective — (physical) Shape.

  verb — To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak secretly; take counsel.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• rung1

  rung

  noun — A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.

  verb — Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.

  adjective — Of a pig: having a ring through the nose.

  noun — A crosspiece between legs of a chair.

  noun — A position in a hierarchy.

  noun — A floor timber in a ship.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• udon1

  udon

  noun — A Japanese wheat noodle

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• undo1

  undo

  noun — An operation that reverses a previous action.

  verb — To reverse the effects of an action.

  verb — To unfasten.

  verb — To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• unground8

  unground

  verb — To remove a connection to ground potential.

  adjective — Not having been ground; unpulverized.

  verb — To free from the punishment of being grounded (restricted to home).

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• unhood6

  unhood

  verb — To remove the hood from.

• unhung6

  unhung

  adjective — (of a person) Not (yet) executed by hanging; unhanged.

  adjective — (of a painting) Not selected for exhibition.

  adjective — (of game) Cooked without being hung to mature.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.