Friday, July 17, 2026

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• album5

  album

  noun — A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.

  noun — A collection, especially of literary items

  noun — A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks

  noun — A jacket or cover for such a phonograph record.

  noun — A group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group.

  noun — In Ancient Rome, a white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded.

• albumen14

  albumen

  noun — The white part of an egg; being mostly the protein albumin and water.

• alum1

  alum

  noun — An astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K2SO4·Al2(SO4)3·24H2O).

  verb — To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.

  noun — (shortening) A past attendee or graduate (of either gender) of a college, university or other educational institution.

  noun — Any similar double sulphate in which either or both of the potassium and aluminium is wholly or partly replaced by other univalent or tervalent cations.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• alumna6

  alumna

  noun — A female pupil or student (especially of a university or college).

  noun — A female graduate.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• alumnae7

  alumnae

  noun — A female pupil or student (especially of a university or college).

  noun — A female graduate.

• annual6

  annual

  noun — An annual publication; a book, periodical, journal, report, comic book, yearbook, etc., which is published serially once a year, which may or may not be in addition to regular weekly or monthly publication.

  adjective — Happening once every year.

  noun — An annual plant; a plant with a life span of just one growing season; a plant which naturally germinates, flowers and dies in one year. Compare biennial, perennial.

  noun — A medical checkup taking place once a year.

  noun — A pantomime taking place once a year.

  adjective — Of, for, or relating to a whole year, often as a recurring cycle; determined or reckoned by the year; accumulating in the course of a year; performed, executed, or completed over the course of a year. See also circannual.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• annul5

  annul

  verb — To formally revoke the validity of.

  verb — To dissolve (a marital union) on the grounds that it is not valid.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• bauble6

  bauble

  noun — A cheap showy ornament piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.

  noun — A club or sceptre carried by a jester.

  noun — A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.

• beau1

  beau

  noun — A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop.

  noun — A male lover; a boyfriend.

  noun — A male escort.

  noun — A suitor of a lady.

• benumb6

  benumb

  verb — To make numb, as by cold or anesthetic.

  verb — To deaden, dull (the mind, faculties, etc.).

• blue1

  blue

  noun — The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this.

  adjective — Of the colour blue.

  adjective — Depressed, melancholic, sad.

  adjective — Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.

  noun — The sky, literally or figuratively.

  noun — The ocean; deep waters.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• bluebell8

  bluebell

  noun — Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• bubba5

  bubba

  noun — Brother; used as term of familiar address.

  noun — A working-class white male from the southern US, stereotyped as loutish.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• bubble6

  bubble

  noun — A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.

  verb — To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).

  noun — A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.

  noun — The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed.

  noun — (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.

  noun — A small spherical cavity in a solid material.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• bulb1

  bulb

  noun — Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.

  verb — To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.

  noun — A light bulb.

  noun — The bulb-shaped root portion of a plant such as a tulip, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.

  noun — A bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence.

  noun — The medulla oblongata.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• bull1

  bull

  noun — An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.

  adjective — Large and strong, like a bull.

  noun — The centre of a target, inside the inner and magpie.

  noun — The faeces of a bull.

  verb — To force oneself (in a particular direction).

  noun — A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• bumble6

  bumble

  noun — A confusion; a jumble.

  verb — To act in an inept, clumsy or inexpert manner; to make mistakes.

  noun — A bumble-bee.

  verb — To boom, as a bittern; to buzz, as a fly.

  noun — The bittern.

• bumblebee9

  bumblebee

  noun — Any of several species of large bee in the genus Bombus

• luau1

  luau

  noun — An elaborate Hawaiian feast featuring traditional foods and entertainment.

  Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

• lube1

  lube

  noun — Lubricant

  verb — To lubricate

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• lull1

  lull

  noun — A period of rest or soothing.

  verb — To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm

  noun — A period of reduced activity; a respite

  noun — A period without waves or wind.

  noun — An extended pause between sets of waves.

  verb — To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate.

  Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.

• lulu1

  lulu

  noun — A remarkable person, object or idea.

  noun — A very attractive or alluring person.

  noun — A very bad mistake or error.

  noun — A fixed allowance paid to a legislator in lieu of reimbursement for actual expenses.

  Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.

• lumen5

  lumen

  noun — In the International System of Units, the derived unit of luminous flux; the light that is emitted in a solid angle of one steradian from a source of one candela. Symbol: lm.

  noun — The cavity or channel within a tube or tubular organ.

  noun — The cavity bounded by a plant cell wall.

  noun — The bore of a tube such as a hollow needle or catheter.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• luna1

  luna

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  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• lune1

  lune

  noun — A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.

  noun — A concave figure formed by the intersection of the arcs of two circles on a plane, or on a sphere the intersection between two great semicircles.

  noun — (hawking) A leash for a hawk.

  noun — Anything crescent-shaped.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• lunula6

  lunula

  noun — Something shaped like a crescent or half-moon; especially the pale area at the base of the fingernail.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• lunulae7

  lunulae

  noun — Something shaped like a crescent or half-moon; especially the pale area at the base of the fingernail.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• manual6

  manual

  noun — A handbook.

  adjective — Performed with the hands (of an activity).

  noun — Mechanical transmission which shifts gears by the action of the driver's hand on the gearstick or gear lever, rather than automatically; a manual gearbox.

  noun — A booklet that instructs on the usage of a particular machine or product.

  noun — A drill in the use of weapons, etc.

  noun — An old office-book like the modern Roman Catholic ritual.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• maul1

  maul

  noun — A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.

  verb — To handle someone or something in a rough way.

  noun — A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more opponents, and one or more of the ball carrier's team mates bind onto the ball carrier.

  verb — To savage; to cause serious physical wounds (usually used of an animal).

  verb — To criticise harshly.

  verb — To beat with the heavy hammer called a maul.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• menu1

  menu

  noun — The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare.

  noun — A list of dishes offered in a restaurant.

  noun — A list from which the user may select an operation to be performed, often done with a keyboard, mouse, or controller under a graphical user interface

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• mule1

  mule

  noun — The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.

  verb — To smuggle (illegal drugs).

  noun — A shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel, but which covers the foot.

  noun — The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.

  noun — A hybrid plant.

  noun — A stubborn person.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• mull1

  mull

  noun — A thin, soft muslin.

  verb — (usually with over) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate.

  noun — A promontory.

  noun — Dirt; rubbish

  noun — Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.

  noun — A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• mumble6

  mumble

  noun — A quiet or unintelligible vocalization; a low tone of voice.

  verb — To speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate.

  verb — To chew something gently with closed lips.

• muumuu6

  muumuu

  noun — A long loose-fitting dress made of lightweight fabric printed with bright, stylized Hawaiian themes (such as flowers and palm branches).

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• nebula6

  nebula

  noun — A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes).

  noun — A white spot or slight opacity of the cornea.

  noun — A cloudy appearance in the urine

• nebulae7

  nebulae

  noun — A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes).

  noun — A white spot or slight opacity of the cornea.

  noun — A cloudy appearance in the urine

• nubble6

  nubble

  noun — A small knob or lump.

  verb — To beat or bruise with the fist.

• null1

  null

  noun — A non-existent or empty value or set of values.

  verb — To nullify; to annul.

  adjective — Having no validity; "null and void"

  noun — Zero quantity of expressions; nothing.

  noun — Something that has no force or meaning.

  noun — The ASCII or Unicode character (␀), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.

  Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

• numb1

  numb

  verb — To cause to become numb (physically or emotionally).

  adjective — Physically unable to feel, not having the power of sensation.

  verb — To cause (a feeling) to be less intense.

  verb — To cause (the mind, faculties, etc.) to be less acute.

  verb — To become numb (especially physically).

  adjective — Emotionally unable to feel or respond in a normal way.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• ulna1

  ulna

  noun — The bone of the forearm that extends from the elbow to the wrist on the side opposite to the thumb, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. Also, the corresponding bone in the forelimb of any vertebrate.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• ulnae5

  ulnae

  noun — The bone of the forearm that extends from the elbow to the wrist on the side opposite to the thumb, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. Also, the corresponding bone in the forelimb of any vertebrate.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• unable6

  unable

  adjective — Not able; lacking a certain ability.

  verb — To render unable; disable

• unban5

  unban

  verb — To lift a ban against.

• unman5

  unman

  verb — To castrate; to remove the manhood of.

  verb — To sap (a person) of the strength, whether physical or emotional, required to deal with a situation.

  verb — To deprive of men.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

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