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DRAGOONS

8 letters

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Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

DRAGOONS 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.

DRAGOONS root DRAGOON-s

Word family

DRAGOON 5 DRAGOONING-ing 11 DRAGOONED-ed 11
noun
  1. historicalSynonym of dragon (“a type of musket with a short, large-calibre barrel and a flared muzzle, metaphorically exhaling fire like a mythical dragon”).
  2. broadlyOriginally (historical), a soldier armed with a dragoon musket (noun sense 1.1) who fought both on foot and mounted on a horse; now, a cavalier or horse soldier from a regiment formerly armed with such muskets.
  3. broadlyA man with a fierce or unrefined manner, like a dragoon (noun sense 1.2).
  4. A variety of pigeon, originally a cross between a horseman and a tumbler.
verb
  1. FrenchhistoricaltransitiveTo subject (a Huguenot) to the dragonnades (“a policy instituted by Louis XIV of France in 1681 to intimidate Protestant Huguenots to convert to Roman Catholicism by billeting dragoons (noun sense 1.2) in their homes to abuse them and destroy or steal their possessions”).
  2. broadlytransitiveChiefly followed by into: to force (someone) into doing something through harassment and intimidation; to coerce.
  3. broadlyhistoricaltransitiveTo cause (someone) to be attacked by dragoons.