Monday, September 21, 2026

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• anal1

  anal

  adjective — Of a person, compulsive and stubborn, obsessed with neatness and accuracy, supposedly from not having progressed beyond the anal stage.

  adjective — Of, related to, intended for or involving the anus.

  adjective — Of the stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is alleged to be concentrated on the anal region.

  noun — Anal sex.

  noun — Any of the anal scales of a reptile.

  adjective — (of a vein) Proximate to the thorax.

  Appeared in 23 recorded puzzles.

• anally6

  anally

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  Appeared in 13 recorded puzzles.

• annal5

  annal

  noun — The record of a single event or item.

  Appeared in 23 recorded puzzles.

• anneal6

  anneal

  noun — An act of annealing.

  verb — To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.

  verb — To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.

  verb — To burn colors onto a glass or other surface.

  verb — To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.

  verb — To strengthen or harden.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• baleen6

  baleen

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  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• banal5

  banal

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  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• banally7

  banally

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  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• banana6

  banana

  noun — An elongated curved tropical fruit that grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.

  adjective — Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.

  noun — The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, usually of the genus Musa but sometimes also including plants from Ensete, has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain.

  noun — A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.

  noun — (mildly) A person of Asian descent, especially a Chinese American, who has assimilated into Western culture or married a Caucasian (from the "yellow" outside and "white" inside). Compare coconut or Oreo.

  noun — A banana equivalent dose.

  Appeared in 11 recorded puzzles.

• bane1

  bane

  noun — A cause of misery or death.

  verb — To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.

  noun — Bone

  noun — Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants.

  noun — A killer, murderer, slayer.

  noun — Destruction; death.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• banyan6

  banyan

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• bean1

  bean

  noun — A reusable software component written in Java.

  noun — Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods.

  verb — To hit deliberately with a projectile, especially in the head.

  noun — The large edible seed of such a plant (for example, a broad bean, navy bean or garbanzo bean).

  noun — The edible seedpod of such a plant.

  noun — (by extension) The bean-like seed of certain other plants, such a a vanilla bean or (especially) a coffee bean.

  Appeared in 7 recorded puzzles.

• beanball8

  beanball

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  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• been1

  been

  noun — A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• elan1

  elan

  noun — Ardor or zeal inspired by passion or enthusiasm.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• enable6

  enable

  verb — To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.

  verb — To affirm; to make firm and strong.

  verb — To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.

  verb — To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.

  verb — To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior.

  verb — To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• enby1

  enby

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  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• jean1

  jean

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  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• jellybean16

  jellybean

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• jenny5

  jenny

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• lane1

  lane

  noun — (used in street names) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.

  noun — A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.

  noun — A narrow road, as in the country.

  noun — A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles.

  noun — A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.

  noun — A course designated for ships or aircrafts.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• lean1

  lean

  noun — (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.

  verb — To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.

  noun — Meat with no fat on it.

  verb — To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.

  adjective — (of a person or animal) Slim; not fleshy.

  verb — To conceal.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• leanly6

  leanly

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  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• naan1

  naan

  noun — A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.

  Appeared in 38 recorded puzzles.

• nana1

  nana

  noun — (term of endearment) one's grandmother

  noun — A banana

  noun — A fool

  noun — A nanny

  Appeared in 38 recorded puzzles.

• nanny5

  nanny

  noun — A child's nurse.

  verb — To serve as a nanny.

  noun — A grandmother.

  noun — A godmother.

  noun — A female goat.

  verb — To treat like a nanny's charges; to coddle.

  Appeared in 15 recorded puzzles.

• nene1

  nene

  noun — The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.

  Appeared in 27 recorded puzzles.