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ENGINEER

8 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

ENGINEER 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.

Word family

ENGINEERS-s 11 ENGINEERING-ing 11 ENGINEERED-ed 11

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

ENGINE 3 ENGINED 5 ENGINER 5 ENGINES 5 ENGINERS 11 ENGINING 11 ENGINOUS 11 ENGINEERINGS 11
noun
  1. alsofigurativelyA soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works.
  2. alsofigurativelyobsoleteA soldier in charge of operating a weapon; an artilleryman, a gunner.
  3. broadlyA person professionally engaged in the technical design and construction of large-scale private and public works such as bridges, buildings, harbours, railways, roads, etc.; a civil engineer.
  4. broadlyOriginally, a person engaged in designing, constructing, or maintaining engines or machinery; now (more generally), a person qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering, or studying to do so.
  5. broadlyhistoricalA person who operates a steam engine; specifically (nautical), a person employed to operate the steam engine in the engine room of a ship.
  6. USbroadlyA person who drives or operates a fire engine (firefighting apparatus).
  7. USbroadlyA person who drives or operates a locomotive; a train driver.
  8. broadlyPreceded by a qualifying word: a person who uses abilities or knowledge to manipulate events or people.
    • a political engineer
  9. broadlyderogatoryoftenA person who formulates plots or schemes; a plotter, a schemer.
  10. An honorific title given to engineers before their name.
verb
  1. transitiveTo employ one's abilities and knowledge as an engineer to design, construct, and/or maintain (something, such as a machine or a structure), usually for industrial or public use.
  2. specificallytransitiveTo use genetic engineering to alter or construct (a DNA sequence), or to alter (an organism).
  3. transitiveTo plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle.
  4. intransitiveTo formulate plots or schemes; to plot, to scheme.
  5. intransitiverareTo work as an engineer.