Wednesday, August 5, 2026

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• affray6

  affray

  noun — The act of suddenly disturbing anyone; an assault or attack.

  verb — To startle from quiet; to alarm.

  noun — A tumultuous assault or quarrel.

  noun — The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others.

  noun — Terror.

  verb — To frighten; to scare; to frighten away.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• ahoy1

  ahoy

  noun — An utterance of this interjection.

  verb — To hail with a cry of "ahoy".

  interjection — Used to hail a ship, a boat or a person, or to attract attention.

  interjection — Warning of something approaching or impending.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• array5

  array

  noun — Clothing and ornamentation.

  verb — To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.

  noun — A collection laid out to be viewed in full.

  noun — An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.

  noun — Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.

  noun — A large collection.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• arroyo6

  arroyo

  noun — A dry creek or streambed, a gulch which temporarily or seasonally fills and flows (after sufficient rain).

  noun — Any watercourse; any rivulet (whether it flows year-round or only seasonally).

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• foray5

  foray

  noun — A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.

  verb — To scour (an area or place) for food, treasure, booty etc.

  noun — A brief excursion or attempt, especially outside one's accustomed sphere.

  verb — To pillage; to ravage.

• fray1

  fray

  verb — To (cause to) unravel; used particularly for the edge of something made of cloth, or the end of a rope.

  noun — A fight or argument

  verb — To cause exhaustion, wear out (a person's mental strength).

  verb — Frighten; alarm

  verb — To bear the expense of; to defray.

  verb — To rub.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• harry5

  harry

  verb — To plunder, pillage, assault.

  verb — To make repeated attacks on an enemy.

  verb — To strip, lay waste, ravage.

  verb — To harass, bother or distress with demands, threats, or criticism.

• hayfork14

  hayfork

  noun — A tool used for moving hay; a pitchfork.

• hoary5

  hoary

  adjective — White, whitish, or greyish-white.

  adjective — White or grey with age.

  adjective — Of a pale silvery grey.

  adjective — Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs; canescent.

  adjective — Remote in time past.

  adjective — Moldy; mossy; musty.

• hooky5

  hooky

  noun — Absence from school or work.

  adjective — Full of hooks.

  adjective — Shaped like a hook.

• hooray6

  hooray

  noun — A shout to signify victory.

  verb — To shout an expression of excitement.

  interjection — Used to express approval, joy or victory.

  noun — An expression of excitement.

• kayak5

  kayak

  noun — A type of small boat, covered over by a surface deck, powered by the occupant or occupants using a double-bladed paddle in a sitting position, from a hole in the surface deck

  verb — To use a kayak, to travel or race in a kayak.

  verb — To traverse (a body of water) by kayak.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• kooky5

  kooky

  adjective — Eccentric, strange, or foolish; crazy or insane; kookish.

  adjective — Behaving like a kook (a person with poor style or skill); kook-like.

• oaky1

  oaky

  No cached definition. Look it up on Wiktionary.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• okay1

  okay

  noun — Endorsement; approval.

  verb — To approve.

  adjective — All right, permitted.

  adverb — Satisfactorily, sufficiently well.

  interjection — Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.

  verb — To confirm by activating a button marked OK.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• yahoo5

  yahoo

  noun — A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth person; yokel; lout.

  verb — To give a cry of "yahoo".

  interjection — An exclamation of joy or enjoyment.

  noun — A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.

  verb — To search using the Yahoo! search engine.

  interjection — A battle cry.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• yoohoo6

  yoohoo

  No cached definition. Look it up on Wiktionary.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

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