Monday, December 8, 2025

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• abate5

  abate

  verb — To moderate; to lessen in force, intensity, to subside.

  verb — To decrease in intensity or force; to subside.

  verb — To reduce in amount, size, or value.

  verb — To decrease in size, value, or amount.

  verb — To humble; to lower in status; to bring someone down physically or mentally.

  verb — (obsolete outside law) To put an end to; to cause to cease.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• abet1

  abet

  verb — To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime.

  verb — To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action); to maintain.

  verb — To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.

  noun — An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid.

  verb — To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet.

  noun — Fraud or cunning.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• appetite8

  appetite

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• appetize8

  appetize

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• baba1

  baba

  noun — A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.

  noun — (esp. among people of East European ancestry) A grandmother.

  noun — An old woman, especially a traditional old woman from an eastern European culture.

  noun — (esp. among people of Indian ancestry) A father.

  noun — (Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism) A holy man, a spiritual leader.

  noun — A baby, child.

  Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

• babe1

  babe

  noun — A baby or infant; a very young human or animal.

  noun — An attractive person, especially a young woman.

  noun — Darling (term of endearment).

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• bait1

  bait

  noun — Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.

  noun — Anything which allures; something used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something

  verb — To attract with bait; to entice.

  verb — To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass.

  noun — Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.

  verb — To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line.

  Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

• baize5

  baize

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• baptize14

  baptize

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• bate1

  bate

  verb — To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.

  verb — To hit; strike

  verb — To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.

  verb — To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.

  verb — To move with pulsation or throbbing.

  verb — To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• beat1

  beat

  verb — To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.

  verb — To hit; strike

  verb — To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.

  noun — A pulsation or throb.

  noun — A rhythm.

  adjective — Exhausted

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• beta1

  beta

  noun — The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase.

  noun — The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not complete, has been released to potential users for testing.

  noun — Software in such a phase; a preliminary version.

  noun — Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices.

  noun — Used in marking scheme: α, β, γ or α+, α, α-, β etc.

  adjective — Preliminary; prerelease. Refers to an incomplete version of a product released for initial testing.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• papa1

  papa

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  Appeared in 18 recorded puzzles.

• pate1

  pate

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  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• peat1

  peat

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  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• pepita6

  pepita

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• piazza6

  piazza

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• pita1

  pita

  noun — A flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• pitapat7

  pitapat

  noun — A series of quick tapping sounds

  verb — To make a series of quick tapping sounds; to palpitate

  adverb — With a quick tapping sound

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• pizazz6

  pizazz

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• pizza5

  pizza

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• pizzazz7

  pizzazz

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• tapa1

  tapa

  noun — Any appetizer or snack served in the evening as part of tapas.

  noun — Seasoned slices of dried or cured meat in Filipino cuisine.

  noun — A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.

  Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

• tape1

  tape

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  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• teat1

  teat

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  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• tibia5

  tibia

  noun — The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone

  noun — The second segment from the end of an insect's leg, between the femur and tarsus.

  noun — The third segment from the end of an arachnid's leg, between the patella and metatarsus.

  noun — A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.

  Appeared in 12 recorded puzzles.

• tibiae6

  tibiae

  noun — The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone

  noun — The second segment from the end of an insect's leg, between the femur and tarsus.

  noun — The third segment from the end of an arachnid's leg, between the patella and metatarsus.

  noun — A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• zeta1

  zeta

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