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BISHOPS

7 letters

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Classic 5 pts
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Super Big 5 pts

BISHOPS is a valid 7-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 5 in Classic, 5 in Big, and 5 in Super Big Boggle.

BISHOPS root BISHOP-s

Word family

BISHOP 3 BISHOPING-ing 11 BISHOPED-ed 11
noun
  1. An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
  2. nonstandardA similar official or chief priest in another religion.
  3. obsoleteThe holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.
  4. obsoleteAny watchman, inspector, or overlooker.
  5. A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
  6. The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
  7. Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
  8. dialectalA ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
  9. A flowering plant of the genus Bifora.
  10. A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
  11. USarchaicA bustle.
  12. UKarchaicdialectalA children's smock or pinafore.
verb
  1. To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
  2. broadlyobsoleteTo confirm (in its other senses).
  3. To make a bishop.
  4. rareTo provide with bishops.
  5. UKdialectalTo permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
  6. broadlyTo make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.
  7. UKcolloquialobsoleteTo murder by drowning.