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CONTRACTIONS

12 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 24 pts

CONTRACTIONS is a valid 12-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 24 in Super Big Boggle.

CONTRACTIONS root CONTRACTION-s

Word family

noun
  1. countableuncountableAn act of incurring debt; also (generally), an act of acquiring something (generally negative).
    • Our contraction of debt in this quarter has reduced our ability to attract investors.
  2. archaiccountableuncountableAn act of entering into a contract or agreement; specifically, a contract of marriage; a contracting; also (obsolete), a betrothal.
  3. countableuncountableThe process of contracting or becoming infected with a disease.
    • the contraction of malaria
  4. archaiccountableobsoleteuncountableAn abridgement or shortening of writing, etc.; an abstract, a summary; also (uncountable), brevity, conciseness.
  5. countableuncountableA stage of wound healing during which the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
  6. countableuncountableA shortening of a muscle during its use; specifically, a strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
  7. countableuncountableA period of economic decline or negative growth.
    • The country’s economic contraction was caused by high oil prices.
  8. countableuncountableA process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are reduced or lost, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
    • In the English words didn’t, that’s, and wanna, the endings -n’t, -’s, and -a arose by contraction.
  9. countableuncountableIn the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.
    • Don’t is a contraction of do not; and ’til is a contraction of until.
  10. countableuncountableSynonym of syncope (“the elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable”).
  11. countableuncountableThe preimage of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
  12. broadlycountableuncountableA shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
  13. countableobsoleterareuncountableAn act of collecting or gathering.