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Today’s pangram is EXPLETIVE.
EXPLETIVE is defined as profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger. It is also defined as a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line.
ELITE is defined as selected as the best. It is also defined as a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status.
EVIL is defined as morally objectionable behavior. It is also defined as having the nature of vice. It is also defined as having or exerting a malignant influence. It is also defined as the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice. It is also defined as morally bad or wrong. It is also defined as that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune.
EXILE is defined as the act of expelling a person from their native land. It is also defined as a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country. It is also defined as expel from a country. It is also defined as a person who is expelled from home or country by authority.
EXIT is defined as move out of or depart from. It is also defined as an opening that permits escape or release. It is also defined as pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life. It is also defined as euphemistic expressions for death. It is also defined as lose the lead. It is also defined as the act of going out.
LILT is defined as a jaunty rhythm in music. It is also defined as articulate in a very careful and rhythmic way.
LITE is defined as having relatively few calories.
LITTLE is defined as (informal) small and of little importance. It is also defined as lowercase. It is also defined as low in stature; not tall. It is also defined as (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a’) at least some. It is also defined as (of children and animals) young, immature. It is also defined as (of a voice) faint. It is also defined as limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent. It is also defined as a small amount or duration. It is also defined as small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context).
LIVE is defined as actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing. It is also defined as have life, be alive. It is also defined as capable of erupting. It is also defined as possessing life. It is also defined as elastic; rebounds readily. It is also defined as be an inhabitant of or reside in. It is also defined as support oneself. It is also defined as continue to live and avoid dying. It is also defined as charged or energized with electricity. It is also defined as have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations. It is also defined as abounding with life and energy. It is also defined as charged with an explosive. It is also defined as exerting force or containing energy. It is also defined as highly reverberant. It is also defined as in current use or ready for use. It is also defined as lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style. It is also defined as of current relevance. It is also defined as pursue a positive and satisfying existence.
The word PETIT has no known definition.
PETITE is defined as very small. It is also defined as a garment size for short or slender women.
PILE is defined as the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave. It is also defined as a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit). It is also defined as arrange in stacks. It is also defined as fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs). It is also defined as a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure. It is also defined as (often followed by `of’) a large number or amount or extent. It is also defined as a collection of objects laid on top of each other. It is also defined as press tightly together or cram. It is also defined as a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy. It is also defined as battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta. It is also defined as place or lay as if in a pile.
PILL is defined as a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception. It is also defined as a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet. It is also defined as a unpleasant or tiresome person. It is also defined as something that resembles a tablet of medicine in shape or size. It is also defined as something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured.
PIPE is defined as a hollow cylindrical shape. It is also defined as a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco. It is also defined as a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.. It is also defined as utter a shrill cry. It is also defined as the flues and stops on a pipe organ. It is also defined as a tubular wind instrument. It is also defined as play on a pipe. It is also defined as transport by pipeline. It is also defined as trim with piping.
PIPET is defined as measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube used to measure or transfer precise volumes of a liquid by drawing the liquid up into the tube.
PIPETTE is defined as measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube used to measure or transfer precise volumes of a liquid by drawing the liquid up into the tube.
PIPIT is defined as a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage.
PIXEL is defined as (computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot).
PIXIE is defined as creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas. It is also defined as (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
The word PLIE has no known definition.
TEXTILE is defined as artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers. It is also defined as of or relating to fabrics or fabric making.
TILE is defined as a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing. It is also defined as a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces. It is also defined as cover with tiles. It is also defined as game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc..
TILL is defined as a treasury for government funds. It is also defined as a strongbox for holding cash. It is also defined as unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together. It is also defined as work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation.
TILT is defined as a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances. It is also defined as move sideways or in an unsteady way. It is also defined as pitching dangerously to one side. It is also defined as heel over. It is also defined as a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement. It is also defined as the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical. It is also defined as to incline or bend from a vertical position. It is also defined as a slight but noticeable partiality. It is also defined as charge with a tilt.
TIPPET is defined as a woman’s fur shoulder cape with hanging ends; often consisting of the whole fur of a fox or marten.
TIPPLE is defined as drink moderately but regularly. It is also defined as a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg.
TITLE is defined as a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with. It is also defined as designate by an identifying term. It is also defined as a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it. It is also defined as the status of being a champion. It is also defined as an identifying appellation signifying status or function: e.g. `Mr.’ or `General’. It is also defined as an established or recognized right. It is also defined as an informal right to something. It is also defined as give a title to. It is also defined as a general or descriptive heading for a section of a written work. It is also defined as an appellation signifying nobility. It is also defined as the name of a work of art or literary composition etc.. It is also defined as (usually plural) written material introduced into a movie or TV show to give credits or represent dialogue or explain an action.
TITTLE is defined as a tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
VEIL is defined as make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing. It is also defined as a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl. It is also defined as the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth). It is also defined as a garment that covers the head and face. It is also defined as a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms. It is also defined as to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil.
VILE is defined as causing or able to cause nausea. It is also defined as morally reprehensible.
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