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DESCENDED

9 letters

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Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 18 pts

DESCENDED 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.

DESCENDED root DESCEND-ed

Word family

DESCEND 5 DESCENDS-s 11 DESCENDING-ing 11

Might be on the same board

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

DESCENDER 11 DESCENDANT 11 DESCENDENT 11 DESCENDERS 11 DESCENDABLE 11 DESCENDANTS 11 DESCENDENTS 11 DESCENDIBLE 11 DESCENDINGS 11
verb
  1. transitiveTo pass from a higher to a lower part of (something, such as a flight of stairs or a slope); to go down along or upon.
    • they descended the river in boats
    • to descend a ladder
    • The noble prince descended to one knee to ask for the princess’s hand in marriage.
  2. transitiveOf a flight of stairs, a road, etc.: to lead down (a hill, a slope, etc.).
    • They took the steep path that descends the hill down to the beach.
  3. archaictransitiveTo move (someone or something) from a higher to a lower place or position; to bring or send (someone or something) down.
  4. intransitiveTo physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.
  5. intransitiveOf a zodiac sign: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, of a planet: to move to a place where it has less astrological significance.
  6. intransitiveOf a celestial body: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, to move towards the south.
  7. intransitiveOf a body part: to move downwards, especially during development of the embryo; specifically, of the testes of a mammal: to move downwards from the abdominal cavity into the scrotum.
    • Cryptorchidism is the failure of one or both testes to descend into the scrotum.
  8. intransitiveobsoleteOf a liquid substance: to distil out from another substance and gather at the bottom of a container; also, to distil a substance to obtain another liquid substance in this manner.
  9. intransitiveTo slope or stretch downwards.
  10. historicalintransitiveTo alight from a carriage, a horse, etc.; also, to disembark from a vessel; to land.
  11. figurativelyintransitiveTo come or go down, or reduce, in intensity or some other quality.
  12. figurativelyintransitiveOf a physical thing (such as a cloud or storm) or a (generally negative) immaterial thing (such as darkness, gloom, or silence): to settle upon and start to affect a person or place.
  13. figurativelyintransitiveIn speech or writing: to proceed from one matter to another; especially, to pass from more general or important to specific or less important matters to be considered.
  14. figurativelyintransitiveChiefly followed by into or to: of a situation: to become worse; to decline, to deteriorate.
    • The meeting descended into chaos.
  15. figurativelyintransitiveChiefly followed by on or upon: to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
  16. figurativelyintransitiveChiefly followed by on or upon: to arrive suddenly or unexpectedly, especially in a manner that causes disruption or inconvenience.
    • My neighbour descended upon me just as I was walking out the door.
  17. figurativelyintransitiveTo come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state; to abase or lower oneself; to condescend or stoop to something.
    • He descended from his high estate.
  18. figurativelyintransitivepoeticChiefly in the form descend into (or within) oneself: to mentally enter a state of (deep) meditation or thought; to retire.
  19. figurativelyintransitiveOf a sequence or series: to proceed from higher to lower values.
  20. figurativelyintransitiveTo pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch.
  21. obsoleteraretransitiveTo trace (a lineage) from earlier to later generations.
  22. intransitiveOf a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child.
  23. intransitiveChiefly followed by from or (obsolete) of: to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source; to originate, to stem.
    • The beggar may descend from a prince.
  24. intransitiveOf property, a right, etc.: to pass down to a generation, a person, etc., by inheritance.
    • The crown descends to the heir of the previous monarch.
noun
  1. archaicSynonym of descent (“instance of descending; sloping incline or passage; way down; decline, etc.”).