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Today’s pangrams are BLOCKABLE, COOKABLE, and LOCKABLE.
The word BLOCKABLE has no known definition.
The word COOKABLE has no known definition.
The word LOCKABLE has no known definition.
ABLE is defined as having a strong healthy body. It is also defined as have the skills and qualifications to do things well. It is also defined as having inherent physical or mental ability or capacity. It is also defined as (usually followed by `to’) having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
ALLELE is defined as (genetics) either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and that control the same character.
ALLOCABLE is defined as capable of being distributed.
ALOE is defined as succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in Africa.
BABBLE is defined as to talk foolishly. It is also defined as flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise. It is also defined as gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby. It is also defined as divulge confidential information or secrets. It is also defined as utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way.
BABE is defined as a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
BABEL is defined as (Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah’s descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another. It is also defined as a confusion of voices and other sounds.
BAKE is defined as be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun. It is also defined as heat by a natural force. It is also defined as cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven. It is also defined as prepare with dry heat in an oven.
BALE is defined as a city in northwestern Switzerland. It is also defined as a large bundle bound for storage or transport. It is also defined as make into a bale.
BEAK is defined as horny projecting mouth of a bird. It is also defined as informal terms for the nose. It is also defined as hit lightly with a picking motion. It is also defined as a beaklike, tapering tip on certain plant structures. It is also defined as beaklike mouth of animals other than birds (e.g., turtles).
BECK is defined as a beckoning gesture.
BELL is defined as the shape of a bell. It is also defined as the sound of a bell being struck. It is also defined as a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed. It is also defined as English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961). It is also defined as (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship’s bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o’clock, either a.m. or p.m.. It is also defined as a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905). It is also defined as a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument. It is also defined as United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922). It is also defined as a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck. It is also defined as attach a bell to. It is also defined as the flared opening of a tubular device.
BELLE is defined as a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals.
BLEAK is defined as providing no shelter or sustenance. It is also defined as offering little or no hope. It is also defined as unpleasantly cold and damp.
BLOKE is defined as a boy or man.
BOBBLE is defined as make a mess of, destroy or ruin. It is also defined as the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball.
BOCCE is defined as Italian bowling played on a long narrow dirt court.
BOOKABLE is defined as subject to being reserved or booked.
CABLE is defined as television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver. It is also defined as a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power. It is also defined as a nautical unit of depth. It is also defined as a television system that transmits over cables. It is also defined as send cables, wires, or telegrams. It is also defined as a telegram sent abroad. It is also defined as a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire. It is also defined as fasten with a cable.
CACKLE is defined as noisy talk. It is also defined as a loud laugh suggestive of a hen’s cackle. It is also defined as emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing. It is also defined as squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens. It is also defined as talk or utter in a cackling manner. It is also defined as the sound made by a hen after laying an egg.
CAKE is defined as small flat mass of chopped food. It is also defined as form a coat over. It is also defined as a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax). It is also defined as baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat.
CALLABLE is defined as subject to a demand for payment before due date.
The word CELEB has no known definition.
CELL is defined as a room where a prisoner is kept. It is also defined as small room in which a monk or nun lives. It is also defined as a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction. It is also defined as a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver. It is also defined as a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement. It is also defined as any small compartment. It is also defined as (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals.
CELLBLOCK is defined as a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells).
CELLO is defined as a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing.
COBBLE is defined as rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads. It is also defined as pave with cobblestones. It is also defined as repair or mend.
COCKLE is defined as stir up (water) so as to form ripples. It is also defined as to gather something into small wrinkles or folds. It is also defined as common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs. It is also defined as common edible European bivalve.
COKE is defined as street names for cocaine. It is also defined as Coca Cola is a trademarked cola. It is also defined as become coke. It is also defined as carbon fuel produced by distillation of coal.
KALE is defined as a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head. It is also defined as informal terms for money. It is also defined as coarse curly-leafed cabbage.
KEBAB is defined as cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
KEEL is defined as walk as if unable to control one’s movements. It is also defined as a projection or ridge that suggests a keel. It is also defined as one of the main longitudinal beams (or plates) of the hull of a vessel; can extend vertically into the water to provide lateral stability. It is also defined as the median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly.
LABEL is defined as trade name of a company that produces musical recordings. It is also defined as pronounce judgment on. It is also defined as attach a tag or label to. It is also defined as a brief description given for purposes of identification. It is also defined as an identifying or descriptive marker that is attached to an object. It is also defined as a radioactive isotope that is used in a compound in order to trace the mechanism of a chemical reaction. It is also defined as assign a label to; designate with a label. It is also defined as distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions. It is also defined as distinguish (as a compound or molecule) by introducing a labeled atom.
LACE is defined as add alcohol to (beverages). It is also defined as spin, wind, or twist together. It is also defined as draw through eyes or holes. It is also defined as make by braiding or interlacing. It is also defined as a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment). It is also defined as a delicate decorative fabric woven in an open web of symmetrical patterns. It is also defined as do lacework.
LAKE is defined as a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land. It is also defined as any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments. It is also defined as a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal.
LEAK is defined as unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information. It is also defined as the discharge of a fluid from some container. It is also defined as be leaked. It is also defined as a euphemism for urination. It is also defined as an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape. It is also defined as enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure. It is also defined as have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out. It is also defined as soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi. It is also defined as tell anonymously.
LEEK is defined as plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum. It is also defined as related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves.
LOBE is defined as (anatomy) a somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part. It is also defined as a rounded projection that is part of a larger structure. It is also defined as (botany) a part into which a leaf is divided. It is also defined as the enhanced response of an antenna in a given direction as indicated by a loop in its radiation pattern.
LOCALE is defined as the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting).
OBOE is defined as a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece.
OLEO is defined as a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
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