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DEACONING

9 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 18 pts

DEACONING is a valid 9-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 18 in Super Big Boggle.

DEACONING root DEACON-ing

Word family

DEACON 3 DEACONS-s 5 DEACONED-ed 11
noun
  1. A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6).
  2. broadlyA clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work.
  3. broadlyAn ordained clergyperson usually serving a year prior to being ordained presbyter, though in some cases they remain a permanent deacon.
  4. broadlyA lay leader of a congregation who assists the pastor.
  5. broadlyA separate office from that of minister, neither leading to the other; instead there is a permanent deaconate.
  6. broadlyA junior lodge officer.
  7. MormonismbroadlyThe lowest office in the Aaronic priesthood, generally held by 12 or 13 year old boys or recent converts.
  8. USA male calf of a dairy breed, so called because they are usually deaconed (see below).
  9. ScotlandThe chairman of an incorporated company.
verb
  1. transitiveTo ordain to the diaconate.
  2. For a choir leader to lead a hymn by speaking one or two lines at a time, which are then sung by the choir.
  3. USTo kill a calf shortly after birth.
  4. USslangTo place fresh fruit at the top of a barrel or other container, with spoiled or imperfect fruit hidden beneath.
  5. USslangTo make sly alterations to the boundaries of (land); to adulterate or doctor (an article to be sold), etc.