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COLORS

6 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

COLORS is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.

COLORS root COLOR-s

noun
  1. uncountableThe spectral composition of visible light.
    • Humans and birds can perceive color.
  2. countableA particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
    • Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green.
    • What color are your bf's eyes?
    • We should paint the wall another color.
  3. uncountableHue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
    • The accident victim's face was white, drained of all color.
  4. countableuncountableThese hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television).
    • This film is broadcast in color. Most people dream in color, but some dream in black and white.
  5. countableuncountableAny of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.
  6. countableuncountableA paint.
    • The artist took out her colors and began work on a landscape.
  7. uncountableHuman skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
    • Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies.
  8. countableuncountableSkin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
  9. countableuncountableA flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
  10. countablefigurativelyuncountableRichness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
    • color commentator
    • color commentary
    • There is a great deal of colour in his writing.
    • a bit of local color
    • Could you give me some color with regards to which products made up the mix of revenue for this quarter?
  11. countableuncountableA standard or banner.
    • The loss of their colors destroyed the regiment's morale.
  12. countableuncountableThe flag of a nation or team.
    • The colors were raised over the new territory.
  13. countableuncountableGang insignia.
    • Both of the perpetrators were wearing colors.
  14. countableuncountableAn award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
    • He was awarded colors for his football.
  15. countableuncountableThe morning ceremony of raising the flag.
  16. countableuncountableA property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge.
  17. uncountableA third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
  18. countableuncountableThe relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
  19. countableuncountableAny of the colored balls excluding the reds.
  20. countableuncountableA front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
  21. countableuncountableAn appearance of right or authority; color of law.
    • Under color of law, he managed to bilk taxpayers of millions of dollars.
    • They held possession under color of title.
  22. countableuncountableGold, particles of gold found when prospecting.
  23. countableslanguncountableTo bleed, either through injury or blading. Usually prefaced with "get".
    • The local hero is getting color in tonight's spectacle.
  24. countableuncountableTimbre, often in relation to orchestration.
  25. countableuncountableThe quality of a particular vowel sound.
adjective
  1. USConveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
    • Color television and movies were considered a great improvement over black and white.
verb
  1. UStransitiveTo give something color.
    • We could color the walls red.
  2. UStransitiveTo cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking.
  3. USintransitiveTo apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
    • My kindergartener loves to color.
  4. USTo become red through increased blood flow.
    • Her face colored as she realized her mistake.
  5. USTo affect without completely changing.
    • That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book.
  6. USinformalTo attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
    • Color me confused.
    • They tried to colour the industrial unrest as a merely local matter.
  7. USTo assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.
    • Can this graph be 2-colored?
    • You can color any map with four colors.
  8. USusuallyTo affect the quality of a speech sound, especially a vowel.
    • Many languages have a "neutral", roughly central vowel like /a/ or /ə/ which can be colored to a back, rounded vowel like [o] by an adjacent labialized consonant, or to a front, unrounded vowel like [e] by an adjacent palatalized consonant.
    • The Proto-Indo-European laryngeal *h₂ often colors the neutral vowel *e with an a-like quality, while *h₃ results in a more o-like quality; *h₁ has no coloring effect.