Monday, August 31, 2026

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• ably1

  ably

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  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• adorably15

  adorably

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• allay5

  allay

  noun — Alleviation; abatement; check.

  verb — To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.

  noun — An alloy.

  verb — To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.

  verb — To subside, abate, become peaceful.

  verb — To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.

  Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

• alloy5

  alloy

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  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• ally1

  ally

  noun — A person, group, or state (etc) which is associated with another for a common cause; one united to another by treaty or common purpose; a confederate.

  verb — To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy.

  noun — A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots or buildings.

  noun — A glass marble or taw.

  noun — A person, group, concept (etc) which is associated with another as a helper; a supporter; an auxiliary.

  noun — Anything akin to something else by structure, etc.

  Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

• badly5

  badly

  adjective — Ill, unwell.

  adverb — In a bad manner.

  adverb — Very much; to a great degree.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• bald1

  bald

  noun — A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.

  verb — To become bald.

  adjective — Having no hair, fur or feathers.

  adjective — (by extension) Denuded of any hair- or fur-like covering.

  adjective — Of tyres: whose surface is worn away.

  adjective — (of a statement or account) Unembellished.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• baldly6

  baldly

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• ball1

  ball

  noun — A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.

  noun — A round or ellipsoidal object.

  verb — To play basketball.

  noun — A very enjoyable time.

  verb — To form or wind into a ball.

  noun — A formal dance.

  Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.

• ballad6

  ballad

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  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• balladry8

  balladry

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• ballboy7

  ballboy

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• ballyard8

  ballyard

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• blab1

  blab

  verb — To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.

  noun — Gossip; prattle.

  noun — One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper.

  Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.

• blabby6

  blabby

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  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• blob1

  blob

  noun — A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.

  verb — To drop in the form of a blob or blobs

  noun — Acronym of binary large object. (a data type that allows storage of binary data often of indeterminate length).

  noun — In astronomy, a large cloud of gas. In particular, an extended Lyman-Alpha blob is a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.

  noun — A bubble; a bleb.

  noun — A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• blobby6

  blobby

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• blood5

  blood

  noun — A member of the Los Angeles gang The Bloods.

  noun — A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.

  verb — To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.

  noun — A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption (see blood relative, blood relation, by blood).

  noun — One of the four humours in the human body.

  noun — A blood test or blood sample.

• bloody6

  bloody

  verb — To draw blood from one's opponent in a fight.

  adjective — Covered in blood.

  adverb — (intensifier) Used to express anger, annoyance, shock, or for emphasis.

  noun — (casual) bloody mary

  verb — To demonstrably harm the cause of an opponent.

  adjective — Characterised by bloodshed.

• bola1

  bola

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  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• bold1

  bold

  noun — A dwelling; habitation; building.

  adjective — Courageous, daring.

  verb — To make (a font or some text) bold.

  adjective — Visually striking; conspicuous.

  adjective — (of typefaces) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.

  adjective — Presumptuous, forward or impudent.

• boldly6

  boldly

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• boll1

  boll

  noun — The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.

  verb — To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

  noun — An old dry measure equal to six bushels.

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• bollard7

  bollard

  noun — A strong vertical post of timber or iron, fixed to the ground and/or on the deck of a ship, to which the ship's mooring lines etc are secured.

  noun — A similar post preventing vehicle access to a pedestrian area, to delineate traffic lanes, or used for security purposes.

• bolo1

  bolo

  noun — A long, heavy, single-edged machete.

  verb — To attack or despatch with a bolo knife.

  noun — A soldier not capable of the minimum standards of marksmanship.

  verb — To fail to meet the minimum standards of marksmanship.

  noun — A string or leather necktie secured with an ornamental slide.

  verb — To dress (somebody) in a bolo.

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• broadly14

  broadly

  adverb — Widely and openly.

  adverb — In a wide manner; liberally; in a loose sense.

• dally5

  dally

  verb — To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.

  noun — Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping.

  verb — To wind the lasso rope (ie throw-rope) around the saddle horn (the saddle horn is attached to the pommel of a western style saddle) after the roping of an animal

  verb — To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet

  verb — To delay unnecessarily; to while away.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• doll1

  doll

  noun — A toy in the form of a human.

  noun — A term of endearment: darling, sweetheart.

  noun — (sometimes offensive) An attractive young woman

  noun — A dollar.

  noun — (now possibly offensive) A good-natured, cooperative or helpful girl.

  noun — The smallest or pet pig in a litter.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• dollar6

  dollar

  noun — Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.

  noun — (by extension) Money generally.

  noun — Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)

  noun — A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• dolly5

  dolly

  noun — A doll.

  verb — To hit a dolly.

  adjective — Pretty; attractive.

  noun — An offering of fruit or flowers.

  noun — A contrivance for stirring:

  noun — A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• dolor5

  dolor

  noun — Sorrow, grief, misery or anguish.

  noun — A unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• drably6

  drably

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• droll5

  droll

  noun — A funny person; a buffoon, a wag.

  verb — To jest, to joke.

  adjective — Oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• drolly6

  drolly

  adverb — In a droll, odd or humorous manner.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• drool5

  drool

  noun — Saliva trickling from the mouth.

  verb — To secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food.

  noun — Stupid talk.

  verb — To secrete any substance in a similar way.

  verb — To react to something with uncontrollable desire.

  verb — To talk nonsense; drivel.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• drooly6

  drooly

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• dryly5

  dryly

  adverb — In a dry manner.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• labor5

  labor

  noun — Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.

  verb — To toil, to work.

  noun — That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.

  noun — Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.

  noun — A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.

  noun — The act of a mother giving birth.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• lady1

  lady

  noun — An aristocratic title for a woman; the wife of a lord and/or a woman who holds the position in her own right; a title for a peeress, the wife of a peer or knight, and the daughters and daughters-in-law of certain peers.

  noun — The mistress of a household.

  noun — A high priestess.

  noun — A woman of breeding or higher class, a woman of authority.

  noun — The feminine of lord.

  noun — A title for someone married to a lord or gentleman.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• lard1

  lard

  noun — Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.

  verb — To garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing.

  verb — To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.

  noun — Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.

  verb — To smear with fat or lard.

  verb — To fatten; to enrich.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• load1

  load

  noun — A burden; a weight to be carried.

  noun — (often in the plural) A large number or amount.

  noun — A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.

  verb — To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).

  verb — To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.

  noun — A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• lobby5

  lobby

  noun — An entryway or reception area; vestibule; passageway; corridor.

  verb — To attempt to influence (a public official or decision-maker) in favor of a specific opinion or cause.

  noun — Scouse (from lobscouse)

  noun — That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly.

  noun — A class or group of people who try to influence public officials; collectively, lobbyists.

  noun — A virtual area where players can chat and find opponents for a game.

• loblolly8

  loblolly

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• lobo1

  lobo

  noun — A wolf.

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• loll1

  loll

  verb — To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.

  verb — To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion.

  verb — To let (the tongue) hang from the mouth in this way.

  Appeared in 30 recorded puzzles.

• lord1

  lord

  noun — The master of the servants of a household; the master of a feudal manor

  verb — Domineer or act like a lord.

  noun — One possessing similar mastery over others; any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler; in Scotland, a male member of the lowest rank of nobility (the equivalent rank in England is baron)

  noun — One possessing similar mastery in figurative senses (esp. as lord of ~)

  noun — The heavenly body considered to possess a dominant influence over an event, time, etc.

  noun — A hunchback.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• lordly6

  lordly

  adjective — Of or relating to a lord.

  adverb — In the manner of a lord. Showing command or nobility.

  adjective — Having the qualities of a lord; lordlike; noble

  adjective — Appropriate for, or suitable to, a lord; glorious.

  adjective — Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• lordy5

  lordy

  interjection — Expressing mild emotion, such as exasperation or frustration.

  interjection — Expressing strong emotion, such as amazement.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• lorry5

  lorry

  noun — A motor vehicle for transporting goods, and in some cases people; a truck.

  verb — To transport by, or as if by, lorry.

  noun — A barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations.

  noun — A small cart or wagon used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish.

  noun — A large, low, horse-drawn, four-wheeled wagon without sides; also, a similar wagon modified for use on railways.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• loyal5

  loyal

  adjective — Having or demonstrating undivided and constant support for someone or something.

  adjective — Firm in allegiance to a person or institution.

  adjective — Faithful to a person or cause.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• loyally7

  loyally

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  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• oddball7

  oddball

  noun — An eccentric or unusual person.

  adjective — Exotic, not mainstream.

  noun — A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger an event-related potential in the participant.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• oddly5

  oddly

  adverb — In a peculiar manner; strangely; unusually.

  adverb — In a manner measured by an odd number.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• oral1

  oral

  adjective — Spoken rather than written.

  adjective — Relating to the mouth.

  noun — Oral sex.

  noun — A spoken test or examination, particularly in a language class.

  noun — A physical examination of the mouth.

  Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

• orally6

  orally

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• rally5

  rally

  noun — A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause.

  verb — To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.

  noun — Good-humoured raillery.

  verb — To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.

  noun — A protest or demonstration for or against something, but often with speeches and often without marching, especially in North America.

  noun — A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• roll1

  roll

  noun — The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.

  verb — To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.

  noun — That which is rolled up.

  noun — A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.

  noun — Something which rolls.

  noun — A swagger or rolling gait.

  Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

• rollbar7

  rollbar

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  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• royal5

  royal

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• royally7

  royally

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

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