Thursday, August 6, 2026

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• abracadabra11

  abracadabra

  noun — A use of the mystical term ‘abracadabra’, supposed to work as part of a healing charm or a magical spell; any spell or incantation making use of the word.

  interjection — Used to indicate that a magic trick or other illusion has been performed.

  noun — Mumbo-jumbo; obscure language or technicalities; jargon.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• 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 8 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 8 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 3 recorded puzzles.

• 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 6 recorded puzzles.

• arcadia7

  arcadia

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  Appeared in 3 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 7 recorded puzzles.

• bard1

  bard

  noun — A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.

  noun — A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.)

  verb — To cover a horse in defensive armor.

  noun — (by extension) A poet.

  noun — Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.

  noun — A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• bird1

  bird

  noun — A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, and laying eggs.

  verb — To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.

  noun — A prison sentence.

  verb — To bring into prison, to roof.

  noun — The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.

  noun — A man, fellow.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• brad1

  brad

  noun — A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.

  verb — To attach using a brad.

  noun — (elementary school usage) A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet.

  verb — To upset the end of a rod inserted in a hole so as to prevent it from being pulled out, as when riveting.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• braid5

  braid

  noun — A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench.

  verb — To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.

  adjective — Deceitful.

  noun — A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration.

  noun — A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together

  noun — A tubular sheath made of braided strands of metal placed around a central cable for shielding against electromagnetic interference.

  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 4 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 3 recorded puzzles.

• catbird14

  catbird

  noun — Either of two species of American mockingbird relatives, the grey catbird, Dumetella carolinensis, and the black catbird, Melanoptila glabrirostris.

  noun — Any of four species of Australasian bowerbirds of the genera Ailuroedus and Scenopoeetes.

  noun — A babbler-like bird from eastern Africa, Parophasma galinieri.

• 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 8 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 5 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 10 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 3 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 6 recorded puzzles.

• didact6

  didact

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  Appeared in 6 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 6 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 4 recorded puzzles.

• drab1

  drab

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  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• drat1

  drat

  verb — To damn or curse.

  interjection — Expressing anger, annoyance or frustration.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• drib1

  drib

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  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• rabid5

  rabid

  noun — A human or animal infected with rabies.

  adjective — Affected with rabies.

  noun — Someone who is fanatical in opinion.

  adjective — Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia.

  adjective — Furious; raging; extremely violent.

  adjective — Very extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous.

  Appeared in 3 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 8 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 7 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 7 recorded puzzles.

• tabard6

  tabard

  noun — A silk banner attached to a bugle or trumpet.

  noun — A woman's or girl's sleeveless jerkin or loose overgarment.

  noun — A sleeveless garment made of coarse cloth formerly worn outdoors by the common people.

  noun — A cape or tunic worn by a knight, emblazoned with the coat of arms of his king or queen on the front.

  noun — A similar garment officially worn by a herald and emblazoned with his sovereign's coat of arms.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• tidbit6

  tidbit

  noun — A tasty morsel (of food).

  noun — A quarter of a byte (Half of a nybble; two bits).

  noun — A short mention of news or gossip.

  Appeared in 2 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 4 recorded puzzles.

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