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AUTOMATICS

10 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 20 pts

AUTOMATICS is a valid 10-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 20 in Super Big Boggle.

AUTOMATICS root AUTOMATIC-s

adjective
  1. Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
    • The automatic clothes washer was a great labor-saving device.
  2. Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
    • The reaction was automatic: flight!
    • Absent-minded doodling is a form of automatic art.
  3. Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.
    • Spitting at another player means an automatic red card.
  4. Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
    • Fully automatic weapons cannot be legally owned by private citizens in the US, except in very special circumstances, as by private security companies.
  5. An autoloader; a semi-automatic or self-loading pistol, as opposed to a revolver or other manually actuated handgun, which fires one shot per pull of the trigger; distinct from machine guns.
    • The US Army adopted John Browning's M1911 pistol as its sidearm, chambered in .45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol).
  6. Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
  7. Having one or more finite-state automata.
noun
  1. A car with an automatic transmission; the transmission itself.
    • I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic.
  2. A semi-automatic pistol.
    • The G-men raiding the speakeasy were equipped with .45 automatics, while the local policemen were carrying revolvers and shotguns.