Boggledygook

Boggle Word Finder

DRAINS

6 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

DRAINS is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.

DRAINS root DRAIN-s

Word family

DRAIN 2 DRAINING-ing 11 DRAINED-ed 5
noun
  1. CanadaUSA conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
    • The drain in the kitchen sink is clogged.
    • bathtub drain; floor drain; shower drain; sink drain
    • drain hole
  2. UKAn access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.
  3. A natural or artificial watercourse which drains a tract of land.
  4. Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.
    • That rental property is a drain on our finances.
  5. vulgarAn act of urination.
  6. One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
  7. An outhole.
  8. UKdatedslangA drink.
verb
  1. intransitiveTo lose liquid.
    • The clogged sink drained slowly.
    • Knock knock. / Who’s there? / Dwayne. / Dwayne who? / Drain the bathtub, I’m drowning.
  2. intransitiveTo flow gradually.
    • The water of low ground drains off.
  3. ergativetransitiveTo cause liquid to flow out of.
    • Please drain the sink. It’s full of dirty water.
  4. ergativetransitiveTo convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.
    • They had to drain the swampy land before the parking lot could be built.
  5. transitiveTo deplete of energy or resources.
    • The stress of this job is really draining me.
  6. transitiveTo draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.
  7. obsoletetransitiveTo filter.
  8. intransitiveTo fall off the bottom of the playfield.
  9. archaicslangtransitiveTo drink.
  10. slangtransitiveTo make a shot.