Wednesday, September 9, 2026

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• inurn5

  inurn

  verb — To place (the remains of a person who has died) in an urn or other container.

  verb — To hold or contain (the remains of a person who has died).

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• iron1

  iron

  noun — A common, inexpensive metal, silvery grey when untarnished, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel.

  verb — To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases.

  adjective — Made of the metal iron.

  noun — A metallic chemical element having atomic number 26 and symbol Fe.

  noun — Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron.

  noun — A tool or appliance made of metal, which is heated and then used to transfer heat to something else; most often a thick piece of metal fitted with a handle and having a flat, roughly triangular bottom, which is heated and used to press wrinkles from clothing, and now usually containing an electrical heating apparatus.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• noir1

  noir

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  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• nori1

  nori

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  Appeared in 8 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 5 recorded puzzles.

• porn1

  porn

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  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• porno5

  porno

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  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• pour1

  pour

  noun — The act of pouring.

  verb — To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it.

  noun — Something, or an amount, poured.

  noun — A downpour, or flood of precipitation.

  verb — To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape.

  verb — To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• prion5

  prion

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  Appeared in 2 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 3 recorded puzzles.

• pronoun7

  pronoun

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  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• 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 5 recorded puzzles.

• purl1

  purl

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• purloin14

  purloin

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• purr1

  purr

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  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• rill1

  rill

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  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• roil1

  roil

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  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 13 recorded puzzles.

• ruin1

  ruin

  noun — (sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.

  verb — To cause the fiscal ruin of.

  noun — The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.

  noun — Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.

  noun — A fall or tumble.

  noun — A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• unroll6

  unroll

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  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

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