Wednesday, July 15, 2026

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• billion7

  billion

  noun — (modern British & Australian, short scale) a thousand million (logic: 1,000 × 1,000^2): 1 followed by nine zeros, 109; a milliard

  noun — (British & Australian, long scale) A million million (logic: 1,000,000^2): a 1 followed by twelve zeros; 1012

  noun — An unspecified very large number.

  Appeared in 4 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 8 recorded puzzles.

• bobbin6

  bobbin

  noun — A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.

  noun — In a sewing machine, the small spool that holds the lower thread.

  noun — The little rounded piece of wood at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.

  noun — (haberdashery) A fine cord or narrow braid.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• bobble6

  bobble

  noun — Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie

  noun — A furry ball attached on top of a hat.

  noun — A pill (a ball formed on the surface of the fabric, as on laundered clothes).

  verb — To make a mistake in.

  verb — To bob up and down.

  noun — A wobbling motion.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• boffo5

  boffo

  noun — (chiefly in the world of entertainment) A great success; a hit.

  adjective — Outstanding; very good or successful.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• boil1

  boil

  noun — A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.

  noun — The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.

  verb — (of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.

  noun — A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.

  noun — The collective noun for a group of hawks.

  verb — To cook in boiling water.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• 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 8 recorded puzzles.

• 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 8 recorded puzzles.

• bonbon6

  bonbon

  noun — A sweet, especially a small chocolate-covered candy.

  noun — A small, spherical savory snack or canapé.

  noun — A Christmas cracker.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• bone1

  bone

  noun — A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

  verb — To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

  adjective — Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

  verb — To apprehend, steal.

  verb — To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

  noun — A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• bonobo6

  bonobo

  noun — The pygmy chimpanzee, Pan paniscus, from Africa south of the Congo river.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• boob1

  boob

  noun — Idiot, fool.

  verb — To behave stupidly; to act like a boob.

  adjective — Idiotic, foolish.

  noun — A breast, especially that of an adult or adolescent human female.

  noun — A prison; jail.

  verb — To make a mistake

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• booboo6

  booboo

  noun — A mistake or error.

  noun — (by or to young children) A minor injury, such as a cut or a bruise.

  noun — (by or to young children) Feces.

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• boon1

  boon

  noun — A prayer; petition.

  adjective — Good; prosperous.

  noun — The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.

  noun — That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.

  noun — A good thing; a blessing or benefit; a thing to be thankful for.

  noun — An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• ebon1

  ebon

  noun — (now poetic) Ebony; an ebony tree.

  adjective — Made of ebony.

  adjective — Black in colour.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• ennoble7

  ennoble

  verb — To bestow with nobility, honour or grace.

  verb — To perform on a fabric the industrial processes of dry-cleaning, printing and embossing, and sizing and finishing.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• felon5

  felon

  noun — A person who has committed a felony.

  adjective — Wicked; cruel

  noun — A bacterial infection at the end of a finger or toe.

  noun — A person who has been tried and convicted of a felony.

  noun — A wicked person.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• floe1

  floe

  noun — A low, flat mass of floating ice.

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• foible6

  foible

  noun — A quirk, idiosyncrasy, or mannerism; unusual habit or way (usage is typically plural), that is slightly strange or silly.

  adjective — Weak; feeble.

  noun — A weakness or failing of character.

  noun — Part of a sword between the middle and the point, weaker than the forte.

• foil1

  foil

  noun — A very thin sheet of metal.

  noun — Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.

  verb — To prevent (something) from being accomplished.

  noun — (authorship) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character and who usually acts as an opponent or antagonist.

  verb — To cover or wrap with foil.

  noun — A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• folio5

  folio

  noun — (books) A book made of sheets of paper each folded in half (two leaves or four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind, exceeding 30 cm in height.

  noun — A leaf of a book or manuscript

  noun — A page of a book, that is, one side of a leaf of a book.

  noun — A page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand pages.

  verb — To put a serial number on each folio or page of (a book); to page

  noun — A page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• fool1

  fool

  noun — A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.

  verb — To trick; to deceive

  verb — To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly

  noun — A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).

  noun — A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.

  noun — Buddy, dude, man.

  Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

• info1

  info

  noun — Information.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• leonine7

  leonine

  noun — A 13th-century coin minted in Europe and used in England as a debased form of the sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I.

  adjective — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion.

  noun — A kind of Latin verse, generally alternate hexameter and pentameter, rhyming at the middle and end.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• lion1

  lion

  noun — A big cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa, India and formerly much of Europe.

  adjective — Of the light brown color that resembles the fur of a lion.

  noun — (by extension) Any of various extant and extinct big cats, especially the mountain lion.

  noun — A Chinese foo dog.

  noun — An individual who shows strength and courage, attributes associated with the lion.

  noun — A famous person regarded with interest and curiosity.

  Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

• lobe1

  lobe

  noun — Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.

  noun — A clear division of an organ that can be determined at the gross anatomy level, especially one of the parts of the brain, liver or lung.

  noun — A semicircular pattern left on the ice as the skater travels across it.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• lobo1

  lobo

  noun — A wolf.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• loin1

  loin

  noun — The part of the body (of humans and quadrupeds) at each side of the backbone, between the ribs and hips

  noun — Any of several cuts of meat taken from this part of an animal

  Appeared in 14 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 28 recorded puzzles.

• lone1

  lone

  adjective — Solitary; having no companion.

  adjective — Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship.

  adjective — Sole; being the only one of a type.

  adjective — Situated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.

  adjective — Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.

  adjective — Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.

  Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.

• loon1

  loon

  noun — An idler, a lout.

  noun — Any of various birds, of the order Gaviiformes, of North America and Europe that dive for fish and have a short tail, webbed feet and a yodeling cry.

  noun — A boy, a lad.

  noun — A harlot; mistress.

  noun — A simpleton.

  noun — A crazy or deranged person.

  Appeared in 23 recorded puzzles.

• loonie6

  loonie

  noun — The Canadian dollar (both the coin and the monetary unit).

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• neon1

  neon

  noun — The chemical element (symbol Ne) with an atomic number of 10. The lightest of the noble gases, it is a colourless, odorless inert gas.

  adjective — (of a color) That resembles a neon light; extremely bright; fluorescent

  noun — A form or sample of the element.

  noun — Neon signs or lights, collectively.

  noun — A neon tetra fish.

  Appeared in 22 recorded puzzles.

• noble5

  noble

  noun — An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood.

  adjective — Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character.

  noun — A medieval gold coin of England in the 14th and 15th centuries, usually valued at 6s 8d.

  adjective — Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid.

  adjective — Of exalted rank; of or relating to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn.

  adjective — (of a polyhedron) Both isohedral and isogonal.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• noel1

  noel

  noun — Christmas

  noun — A kind of hymn, or canticle, of mediaeval origin, sung in honor of the birth of Christ; a Christmas carol.

  Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.

• nonbelief16

  nonbelief

  noun — Failure to believe; lack of religion

• none1

  none

  noun — A person without religious affiliation.

  adverb — To no extent, in no way.

  pronoun — Not any of a given number or group.

  noun — Those without any religious affiliation: atheists and others outside any organized religion.

  noun — A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.

  noun — The middle of the afternoon, normally between 2 and 4 pm.

  Appeared in 22 recorded puzzles.

• nonillion9

  nonillion

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  Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

• noob1

  noob

  noun — (often pejorative) A newb or newbie; refers to the idea that someone is new to a game, concept, or idea; implying a lack of experience. Also, in some areas the word noob can mean someone is obsessed with things.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• noon1

  noon

  noun — The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.

  verb — To relax or sleep around midday

  noun — The letter ن in the Arabic script.

  noun — Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.

  noun — The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.

  noun — The highest point; culmination.

  Appeared in 42 recorded puzzles.

• oboe1

  oboe

  noun — A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• offline7

  offline

  verb — To take (a system, etc.) offline; to demote from an active or online state.

  adjective — Of a system, currently not connected (generally electrically) to a larger network. For example, a power plant which is not connected to the grid, or a computer which is not connected to the Internet or to any other communications service.

  adverb — While offline; with an offline system.

  adjective — (by extension) Happening in the physical world (the real world) as opposed to on the internet.

  adverb — Outside the current meeting, in a more private setting.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• oleo1

  oleo

  noun — Margarine

  noun — The various fats and oils that go into the making of margarine.

  Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.

• olio1

  olio

  noun — A medley or mixture; a hotchpotch.

  noun — A collection of various musical, theatrical or other artistic works; a miscellany.

  noun — A rich, thick, Spanish stew consisting of meat and vegetables.

  noun — (by extension) Vaudeville or similar miscellaneous musical or theatrical entertainment skits presented between the main acts of burlesque or minstrel shows.

  Appeared in 22 recorded puzzles.

• ollie5

  ollie

  noun — An aerial maneuver in which one catches air by leaping off the ground with the skateboard and into the air.

  verb — To perform an ollie.

  Appeared in 12 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 29 recorded puzzles.

• online6

  online

  verb — To bring (a system, etc.) online; to promote to an active or running state.

  adjective — Of a system: connected (generally electrically) to a larger network.

  adverb — While online; while in a running or active state, or connected to the Internet.

  adjective — Available over, or delivered from, the Internet.

  adjective — Connected to the Internet.

  adjective — Available on a computer system, even if not networked.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.