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Today’s pangram is THRILLING.
THRILLING is defined as causing a surge of emotion or excitement. It is also defined as causing quivering or shivering as by cold or fear or electric shock.
GILT is defined as a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold. It is also defined as having the deep slightly brownish color of gold.
The word GIRT has no known definition.
GIRTH is defined as stable gear consisting of a band around a horse’s belly that holds the saddle in place. It is also defined as tie a cinch around. It is also defined as the distance around a person’s body.
GLINT is defined as a momentary flash of light. It is also defined as throw a glance at; take a brief look at. It is also defined as be shiny, as if wet. It is also defined as a spatially localized brightness.
GLINTING is defined as having brief brilliant points or flashes of light.
GRIT is defined as a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone. It is also defined as fortitude and determination. It is also defined as clench together. It is also defined as cover with a grit.
The word GRITTING has no known definition.
HIGHLIGHT is defined as move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent. It is also defined as the most interesting or memorable part. It is also defined as an area of lightness in a picture. It is also defined as apply a highlighter to one’s cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent.
HIGHLIGHTING is defined as an area of lightness in a picture.
HILT is defined as the handle of a sword or dagger.
HINT is defined as a slight indication. It is also defined as a just detectable amount. It is also defined as drop a hint; intimate by a hint. It is also defined as a slight but appreciable amount. It is also defined as an indirect suggestion. It is also defined as an indication of potential opportunity.
The word HINTING has no known definition.
HITTING is defined as the act of contacting one thing with another.
The word IGNITING has no known definition.
LIGHT is defined as the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light. It is also defined as having abundant light or illumination. It is also defined as merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance. It is also defined as weak and likely to lose consciousness. It is also defined as marked by temperance in indulgence. It is also defined as having relatively few calories. It is also defined as a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination. It is also defined as fall to somebody by assignment or lot. It is also defined as (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation. It is also defined as (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress. It is also defined as cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat. It is also defined as with few burdens. It is also defined as start or maintain a fire in. It is also defined as a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul. It is also defined as moving easily and quickly; nimble. It is also defined as make lighter or brighter. It is also defined as the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures. It is also defined as a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires. It is also defined as to come to rest, settle. It is also defined as (of sleep) easily disturbed. It is also defined as casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior. It is also defined as (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims. It is also defined as alight from (a horse). It is also defined as silly or trivial. It is also defined as any device serving as a source of illumination. It is also defined as less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so. It is also defined as (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent. It is also defined as begin to smoke. It is also defined as an illuminated area. It is also defined as a particular perspective or aspect of a situation. It is also defined as a person regarded very fondly. It is also defined as a visual warning signal. It is also defined as characterized by or emitting light. It is also defined as demanding little effort; not burdensome. It is also defined as designed for ease of movement or to carry little weight. It is also defined as easily assimilated in the alimentary canal; not rich or heavily seasoned. It is also defined as having little importance. It is also defined as intended primarily as entertainment; not serious or profound. It is also defined as mental understanding as an enlightening experience. It is also defined as of comparatively little physical weight or density. It is also defined as of little intensity or power or force. It is also defined as of the military or industry; using (or being) relatively small or light arms or equipment. It is also defined as (physics, chemistry) not having atomic weight greater than average. It is also defined as psychologically light; especially free from sadness or troubles. It is also defined as public awareness. It is also defined as (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency. It is also defined as very thin and insubstantial. It is also defined as not great in degree or quantity or number.
LIGHTING is defined as having abundant light or illumination. It is also defined as the act of setting something on fire. It is also defined as apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film. It is also defined as the craft of providing artificial light.
LIGHTNING is defined as abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light. It is also defined as the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more.
LILT is defined as a jaunty rhythm in music. It is also defined as articulate in a very careful and rhythmic way.
LILTING is defined as characterized by a buoyant rhythm.
LINT is defined as cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side; used to dress wounds. It is also defined as fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers.
NIGHT is defined as the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside. It is also defined as Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx. It is also defined as a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom. It is also defined as a shortening of nightfall. It is also defined as darkness. It is also defined as the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit. It is also defined as the period spent sleeping. It is also defined as the time between sunset and midnight.
The word NIGHTLIGHT has no known definition.
NINTH is defined as coming next after the eighth and just before the tenth in position. It is also defined as one part in nine equal parts. It is also defined as position nine in a countable series of things.
RIGHT is defined as make right or correct. It is also defined as correct in opinion or judgment. It is also defined as intended for the right hand. It is also defined as the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher’s right. It is also defined as (informal) very; used informally as an intensifier. It is also defined as exactly. It is also defined as socially right or correct. It is also defined as (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree. It is also defined as anything in accord with principles of justice. It is also defined as in an accurate manner. It is also defined as those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged. It is also defined as in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure. It is also defined as precisely accurate. It is also defined as free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth. It is also defined as to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole’ is often used informally for `wholly’). It is also defined as make reparations or amends for. It is also defined as appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person’s character, needs. It is also defined as most suitable or right for a particular purpose. It is also defined as in the right manner; correctly; suitably. It is also defined as the hand that is on the right side of the body. It is also defined as in accordance with moral or social standards. It is also defined as an interjection expressing agreement. It is also defined as an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature. It is also defined as a turn toward the side of the body that is on the south when the person is facing east. It is also defined as being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the east when facing north. It is also defined as (frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing. It is also defined as having the axis perpendicular to the base. It is also defined as in conformance with justice or law or morality. It is also defined as in or into a satisfactory condition. It is also defined as location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east. It is also defined as of or belonging to the political or intellectual right. It is also defined as (of the side of cloth or clothing) facing or intended to face outward. It is also defined as put in or restore to an upright position. It is also defined as regain an upright or proper position. It is also defined as toward or on the right; also used figuratively.
The word RIGHTING has no known definition.
THIGH is defined as the upper joint of the leg of a fowl. It is also defined as the part of the leg between the hip and the knee.
THIN is defined as lacking excess flesh. It is also defined as not dense. It is also defined as take off weight. It is also defined as lacking substance or significance. It is also defined as without viscosity. It is also defined as lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture. It is also defined as very narrow. It is also defined as lacking spirit or sincere effort. It is also defined as lose thickness; become thin or thinner. It is also defined as make thin or thinner. It is also defined as of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section. It is also defined as (of sound) lacking resonance or volume. It is also defined as relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous.
THING is defined as a vaguely specified concern. It is also defined as an action. It is also defined as an artifact. It is also defined as an entity that is not named specifically. It is also defined as an event. It is also defined as any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence. It is also defined as a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion. It is also defined as a separate and self-contained entity. It is also defined as a special abstraction. It is also defined as a special objective. It is also defined as a special situation. It is also defined as a statement regarded as an object.
THINNING is defined as the act of diluting something.
THRILL is defined as feel sudden intense sensation or emotion. It is also defined as an almost pleasurable sensation of fright. It is also defined as the swift release of a store of affective force. It is also defined as fill with sublime emotion. It is also defined as tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement. It is also defined as cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input. It is also defined as something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation.
TIGHT is defined as very drunk. It is also defined as of textiles. It is also defined as (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity. It is also defined as demanding strict attention to rules and procedures. It is also defined as in an attentive manner. It is also defined as pressed tightly together. It is also defined as firmly or closely. It is also defined as pulled or drawn tight. It is also defined as exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent. It is also defined as (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched. It is also defined as affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow. It is also defined as closely constrained or constricted or constricting. It is also defined as of such close construction as to be impermeable. It is also defined as packed closely together. It is also defined as securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid. It is also defined as set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration.
TILING is defined as the application of tiles to cover a surface.
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.
TILLING is defined as cultivation of the land in order to raise crops.
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.
TILTH is defined as arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops. It is also defined as the state of aggregation of soil and its condition for supporting plant growth.
The word TILTING has no known definition.
The word TINGING has no known definition.
TINGLING is defined as a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings. It is also defined as exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements.
TINT is defined as a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color. It is also defined as a dye for coloring the hair. It is also defined as a just detectable amount. It is also defined as color lightly.
TINTING is defined as the act of adding a tinge of color.
TIRING is defined as producing exhaustion.
The word TITHING has no known definition.
The word TITLING has no known definition.
TRIG is defined as neat and smart in appearance. It is also defined as the mathematics of triangles and trigonometric functions.
TRILL is defined as a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it. It is also defined as sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below. It is also defined as pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme `r’. It is also defined as the articulation of a consonant (especially the consonant `r’) with a rapid flutter of the tongue against the palate or uvula.
TRILLING is defined as United States literary critic (1905-1975).
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