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CONTRACT

8 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

CONTRACT is a valid 8-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 11 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

CONTRACTS-s 11 CONTRACTING-ing 11 CONTRACTED-ed 11

Might be on the same board

Other words sharing these letters — a good chance they hide on the same Boggle board.

CONTRACTION 11 CONTRACTIVE 11 CONTRACTABLE 11 CONTRACTEDLY 11 CONTRACTIBLE 11 CONTRACTIBLY 11 CONTRACTIONS 11 CONTRACTIONAL 11 CONTRACTIVELY 11 CONTRACTABILITY 11 CONTRACTIBILITY 11 CONTRACTIVENESS 11 CONTRACTIBILITIES 11
noun
  1. An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.
    • sign a contract
    • write up a contract
    • read a contract
    • countersign a contract
    • legally-binding contract
    • unwritten contract
    • Marriage is a contract.
  2. An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed.
  3. The document containing such an agreement.
  4. A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
  5. informalAn order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
    • The mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him.
  6. The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
adjective
  1. obsoleteContracted; affianced; betrothed.
  2. obsoleteNot abstract; concrete.
verb
  1. ambitransitiveTo draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
    • The snail’s body contracted into its shell.
    • to contract one’s sphere of action
  2. To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
    • The word “cannot” is often contracted into “can’t”.
  3. intransitiveTo make an agreement or contract; to covenant.
    • The company contracted with the council to build 200 new houses.
  4. transitiveTo enter into a contract with (someone or something).
    • We have just contracted new pest control services.
  5. archaictransitiveTo enter into (an agreement) with mutual obligations; to make (an arrangement).
  6. transitiveTo bring on; to incur; to acquire.
    • She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens.
    • to contract a debt
  7. transitiveTo gain or acquire (an illness).
  8. To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
  9. To betroth; to affiance.