Thursday, July 16, 2026

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• acid1

  acid

  noun — A sour substance.

  adjective — Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.

  noun — Any of several classes of compound having the following properties:

  noun — Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)

  adjective — Sour-tempered.

  adjective — Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• acidic6

  acidic

  adjective — Having a pH less than 7, or being sour, or having the strength to neutralize alkalis, or turning a litmus paper red.

  adjective — Containing a high percentage of silica; opposed to basic.

  adjective — Of or relating to acid; having the character of an acid.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• acidity7

  acidity

  noun — The quality or state of being acid

  noun — Sourness; tartness; sharpness to the taste

  noun — Excessive acid quality, as in gastric secretions.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• acidy5

  acidy

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  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• acrid5

  acrid

  adjective — Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste.

  adjective — Causing heat and irritation.

  adjective — Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• acridity15

  acridity

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• addict6

  addict

  noun — A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug

  verb — To deliver (someone or something) following a judicial decision.

  noun — An adherent or fan (of something)

  verb — To devote (oneself) to a given activity, occupation, thing etc.

  verb — To bind (a person or thing) to the service of something.

  verb — To devote or pledge (oneself) to a given person, cause etc.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• arcadia7

  arcadia

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• arid1

  arid

  adjective — Very dry.

  adjective — Devoid of value.

  adjective — Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• aridity7

  aridity

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• caddy5

  caddy

  noun — One hired to assist another in playing the game of golf.

  verb — To serve as a caddy, carrying golf clubs etc.

  noun — A small box, can, or chest to keep things in.

  noun — A movable tray or other mechanism for holding, securing, and transporting a removable component within a piece of machinery or equipment.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• card1

  card

  noun — A playing card.

  verb — To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.

  noun — Material with embedded short wire bristles.

  verb — To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.

  noun — One of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope and the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope. (See Wikipedia article on Catholic cardinals.)

  noun — (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• cardiac7

  cardiac

  noun — A person with heart disease.

  adjective — Pertaining to the heart.

  noun — Heart disease.

  noun — A medicine that excites action in the stomach.

  adjective — Pertaining to the cardia.

  adjective — Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• cicada6

  cicada

  noun — Any of several insects in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with small eyes wide apart on the head and transparent well-veined wings.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• daddy5

  daddy

  noun — (usually childish) Father.

  verb — To father; to sire.

  noun — A male lover.

  noun — An informal term of address for a man.

  noun — A male juvenile delinquent in a reformatory who dominates the other inmates through threats and violence.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• dairy5

  dairy

  noun — (also dairy products or dairy produce) Products produced from milk.

  noun — A place, often on a farm, where milk is processed and turned into products such as butter and cheese.

  adjective — Referring to products produced from milk.

  noun — A dairy farm.

  noun — A shop selling dairy products.

  noun — A corner store, superette or minimart.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• dart1

  dart

  noun — A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand, for example a short lance or javelin

  verb — To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.

  noun — Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.

  noun — (sometimes figurative) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.

  noun — A small object with a pointed tip at one end and feathers at the other, which is thrown at a target in the game of darts.

  noun — A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• data1

  data

  noun — (plural: data) A measurement of something on a scale understood by both the recorder (a person or device) and the reader (another person or device). The scale is arbitrarily defined, such as from 1 to 10 by ones, 1 to 100 by 0.1, or simply true or false, on or off, yes, no, or maybe, etc.

  noun — (plural: data) A fact known from direct observation.

  noun — (plural: data) A premise from which conclusions are drawn.

  noun — (plural: datums) A fixed reference point, or a coordinate system.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• diacritic9

  diacritic

  noun — A special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.

  adjective — Distinguishing

  adjective — Denoting a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or character.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• diary5

  diary

  noun — A daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer.

  verb — To keep a diary or journal.

  adjective — Lasting for one day.

  noun — A personal organizer or appointment diary.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• dicta5

  dicta

  noun — An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm.

  noun — A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.

  noun — The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.

  noun — An arbitrament or award.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• didact6

  didact

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  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• didactic8

  didactic

  noun — A treatise on teaching or education.

  adjective — Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.

  adjective — Excessively moralizing.

  adjective — Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• dirt1

  dirt

  noun — Soil or earth.

  verb — To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty

  noun — A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.

  noun — Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person.

  noun — Meanness; sordidness.

  noun — In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• dirty5

  dirty

  verb — To make (something) dirty.

  adjective — Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.

  adverb — In a dirty manner.

  verb — To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor.

  verb — To debase by distorting the real nature of (something).

  verb — To become soiled.

• ditty5

  ditty

  noun — A short verse or tune.

  verb — To sing; to warble a little tune.

  noun — A saying or utterance, especially one that is short and frequently repeated.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• drat1

  drat

  verb — To damn or curse.

  interjection — Expressing anger, annoyance or frustration.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• dray1

  dray

  noun — A low horse-drawn cart, often without sides, and used especially for heavy loads.

  noun — A squirrel’s nest, built of twigs in a tree.

  noun — A kind of sledge or sled.

  noun — A possum’s nest, built of twigs and leaves in a tree.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• dryad5

  dryad

  noun — In Greek myth, a female tree spirit.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• dyad1

  dyad

  noun — A set of two elements treated as one; a pair.

  noun — Any set of two different pitch classes.

  noun — A pair of things standing in particular relation; dyadic relation.

  noun — An element, atom, or radical having a valence or combining power of two.

  noun — A secondary unit of organisation consisting of an aggregate of monads.

  noun — A tensor of order two and rank one.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• radar5

  radar

  noun — A method of detecting distant objects and determining their position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysis of sent radio waves (usually microwaves) reflected from their surfaces

  verb — To scan with radar, or as if with radar.

  noun — A type of system using such method, differentiated by platform, configuration, frequency, power, and other technical attributes.

  noun — A superior ability to detect something.

  noun — An installation of such a system or of the transmitting and receiving apparatus.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• radii5

  radii

  noun — A line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center.

  noun — The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.

  noun — The length of this line segment.

  noun — Anything resembling a radius, such as the spoke of a wheel, the movable arm of a sextant, or one of the radiating lines of a spider's web.

  noun — The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal.

  noun — One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the subcosta and the media; the vein running along the costal edge of the discal cell.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• raid1

  raid

  noun — An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering

  noun — A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.

  noun — A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.

  noun — An activity initiated at or towards the end of a live broadcast by the broadcaster that sends its viewers to a different broadcast, primarily intended to boost the viewership of the receiving broadcaster. This is frequently accompanied by a message in the form of a hashtag that is posted in the broadcast's chat by the viewers.

  verb — To lure from another; to entice away from.

  verb — To indulge oneself by taking from.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• tardy5

  tardy

  noun — A piece of paper given to students who are late to class.

  verb — To make tardy.

  adjective — Late; overdue or delayed.

  noun — An instance of a student being marked as tardy by a teacher in his or her attendance sheet.

  adjective — Moving with a slow pace or motion; not swift.

  adjective — Ineffectual; slow-witted, slow to act, or dull.

• tidy1

  tidy

  noun — A tabletop container for pens and stationery.

  verb — To make tidy; to neaten.

  adjective — Arranged neatly and in order.

  interjection — Expression of positive agreement, usually in reply to a question.

  noun — A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, etc.

  noun — A child's pinafore.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• triad5

  triad

  noun — A grouping of three.

  noun — A word of three syllables.

  noun — A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.

  noun — On a CRT display, a group of three neighbouring phosphor dots, coloured green, red, and blue.

  noun — A chord consisting of a root tone, the tone two degrees higher, and the tone four degrees higher in a given scale.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• yard1

  yard

  noun — A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.

  verb — To confine to a yard.

  noun — A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).

  noun — 109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.

  noun — The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.

  noun — An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.