Saturday, July 25, 2026

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• amino5

  amino

  noun — The amine functional group.

  adjective — Relating to an amine.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• ammonia7

  ammonia

  noun — A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste.

  noun — A solution of this compound in water used domestically as a cleaning fluid.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• amnio5

  amnio

  noun — Amniocentesis

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• anima5

  anima

  noun — The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus.

  noun — (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) of a person that is in touch with the unconscious as opposed to the persona.

  noun — (Jungian psychology) The unconscious feminine aspect of a person.

  Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

• animation9

  animation

  noun — The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.

  noun — (in the sense of a cartoon) The technique of making inanimate objects or drawings appear to move in motion pictures or computer graphics; the object (film, computer game, etc.) so produced

  noun — The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness

  noun — The condition of being animate or alive.

  noun — Conversion from the inanimate to animate grammatical category

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• anion5

  anion

  noun — A negatively charged ion.

  Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

• annotation10

  annotation

  noun — A critical or explanatory commentary or analysis

  noun — A comment added to a text

  noun — The process of writing such comment or commentary

  noun — Metadata added to a document or program

  noun — Information relating to the genetic structure of sequences of bases

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• anoint6

  anoint

  verb — To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.

  verb — To apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration.

  verb — To choose or nominate somebody for a leading or otherwise important position, especially formally or officially, or as an intended successor.

  verb — To mark somebody as an official ruler, especially a king or queen, as a part of a religious ceremony.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• anti1

  anti

  adjective — Opposed to something.

  noun — A person opposed to a concept or principle.

  preposition — Alternative form of anti-

  adjective — That has a torsion angle between 90° and 180°

  Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

• atomization18

  atomization

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• attain6

  attain

  verb — To gain (an object or desired result).

  verb — To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at (a place, time, state, etc.).

  verb — To reach in excellence or degree.

  verb — To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.

  verb — To get at the knowledge of.

  verb — To reach a person after being behind them.

  Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

• imam1

  imam

  noun — (usually capitalized) A Shi'ite Muslim leader.

  noun — One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.

  Appeared in 21 recorded puzzles.

• imitation9

  imitation

  noun — The act of imitating.

  noun — (attributive) A copy or simulation; something that is not the real thing.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• initiation10

  initiation

  noun — The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced

  noun — The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced into any society; mode of entrance into an organized body; especially, the rite of admission into a secret society or order.

  noun — The first step of transcription or of transduction.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• intimation10

  intimation

  noun — The act of intimating.

  noun — The thing intimated.

  noun — Announcement; declaration.

  noun — A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• into1

  into

  preposition — To or towards the inside of.

  preposition — To or towards the region of.

  preposition — Against, especially with force or violence.

  preposition — Indicates transition into another form or substance.

  preposition — After the start of.

  preposition — Interested in or attracted to.

  Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

• intonation10

  intonation

  noun — The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.

  noun — The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.

  noun — Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.

  noun — Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest.

  noun — A thundering; thunder.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• ionization10

  ionization

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• iota1

  iota

  noun — The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet.

  noun — A jot; a very small, insignificant quantity.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• maim1

  maim

  noun — A serious wound

  verb — To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.

  Appeared in 21 recorded puzzles.

• main1

  main

  verb — Short for mainline.

  adjective — Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.

  adverb — Exceedingly, extremely, greatly, mightily, very, very much.

  noun — That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.

  noun — A hand or match in a game of dice.

  noun — A basket for gathering grapes.

  Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

• maintain8

  maintain

  verb — To support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action.

  verb — To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).

  verb — To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• mania5

  mania

  noun — Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.

  noun — Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.

  noun — The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.

  Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

• manzanita9

  manzanita

  noun — Any evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Arctostaphylos, especially Arctostaphylos manzanita, having smooth red or orange bark and stiff, twisting branches.

• mini1

  mini

  adjective — Miniature, tiny, small.

  noun — A miniskirt.

  noun — A minicomputer.

  Appeared in 21 recorded puzzles.

• minim5

  minim

  noun — A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.

  noun — Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.

  noun — A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.

  noun — A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.

  noun — A little man or being; a dwarf.

  noun — A small fish; a minnow.

  Appeared in 21 recorded puzzles.

• minima6

  minima

  noun — The lowest limit.

  noun — The smallest amount.

  noun — A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).

  noun — A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.

  noun — The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.

  Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

• minimization19

  minimization

  noun — The act of lowering something to its smallest value or extent.

  noun — The process of finding the minimum value of a function.

• minion6

  minion

  noun — The lowest limit.

  noun — A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being.

  adjective — Favoured, beloved; "pet".

  noun — The smallest amount.

  noun — A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).

  noun — A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.

  Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

• mint1

  mint

  adjective — (with condition) Like new.

  noun — Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.

  noun — A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.

  noun — The flavouring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.

  noun — A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc.

  noun — A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.

  Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

• mitt1

  mitt

  noun — An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt.

  noun — A mitten

  noun — (especially in plural) A hand.

  Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.

• monomania9

  monomania

  noun — Excessive interest or concentration on a singular object or subject.

  noun — A pathological obsession with one person, thing or idea.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• motion6

  motion

  noun — A state of progression from one place to another.

  verb — To gesture indicating a desired movement.

  noun — A change of position with respect to time.

  noun — A change from one place to another.

  noun — A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.

  noun — An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• nation6

  nation

  noun — A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.

  noun — Damnation.

  adverb — Extremely, very.

  noun — A sovereign state.

  noun — An association of students based on its members' birthplace or ethnicity.

  noun — A great number; a great deal.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• nomination10

  nomination

  noun — An act or instance of nominating.

  noun — A device or means by which a person or thing is nominated.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• notation8

  notation

  noun — The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.

  noun — A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities.

  noun — A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• notion6

  notion

  noun — Mental apprehension of whatever may be known, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.

  noun — A sentiment; an opinion.

  noun — Sense; mind.

  noun — An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack.

  noun — Any small article used in sewing and haberdashery, either for attachment to garments or as a tool, such as a button, zipper, or thimble.

  noun — Inclination; intention; disposition.

  Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

• omit1

  omit

  verb — To leave out or exclude.

  verb — To fail to perform.

  verb — To neglect or take no notice of.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• onion5

  onion

  noun — A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.

  noun — The bulb of such a plant.

  noun — The genus as a whole.

  noun — A ball.

  noun — A person from Bermuda or of Bermudian descent.

  Appeared in 31 recorded puzzles.

• taint5

  taint

  verb — To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.

  noun — A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish

  noun — A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food

  verb — To spoil (food) by contamination.

  noun — Infection; corruption; deprivation

  noun — A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.

  Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

• tannin6

  tannin

  noun — Tannic acid or any of its derivatives.

  Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

• tatami6

  tatami

  noun — Straw matting, in a standard size, used as a floor covering in Japanese houses

  Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

• tint1

  tint

  verb — To shade, to color.

  noun — A slight coloring.

  noun — A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)

  noun — A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.

  noun — A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.

  Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

• titan5

  titan

  noun — Something or someone of very large stature, greatness, or godliness.

  Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

• tomtit6

  tomtit

  noun — Petroica macrocephala, the miromiro or New Zealand tit, a bird of the Petroicidae (Australasian robin) family.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• zinnia6

  zinnia

  noun — Any of several brightly coloured flowering plants, of the genus Zinnia, native to tropical America; old maid

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• ziti1

  ziti

  noun — A type of penne pasta in the form of long smooth hollow tubes.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.