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EXPANSIONS

10 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 20 pts

EXPANSIONS is a valid 10-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 20 in Super Big Boggle.

EXPANSIONS root EXPANSION-s

Word family

noun
  1. countableuncountableAn act, process, or instance of expanding.
    • The expansion of metals and plastics in response to heat is well understood.
  2. countableuncountableThe fractional change in unit length per unit length per unit temperature change.
    • Look up the expansion of 1018 steel at stick welding temps and figure out how far this thing's gonna bend once we weld it up.
  3. countableuncountableA new addition.
    • My new office is in the expansion behind the main building.
  4. countableuncountableA product to be used with a previous product.
    • This expansion requires the original game board.
  5. countableuncountableThat which is expanded; expanse; extended surface.
  6. countableuncountableThe operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.
  7. countableuncountableThe replacement of a short name (e.g., acronym, initialism, alphanumeric symbol, abbreviation) with the longer name that is synonymous with it, as when spelling out acronyms to ensure clarity for a general audience.
    • Expansion of acronyms is often helpful for nonexpert readers (anacronyms excluded).
  8. countableuncountableThe string of text thus substituted.
    • The acronym "FNDs" can mean either "functional neurologic disorders" or "focal neurologic deficits", so you'd better use the expansion instead of the acronym, for clarity in this context; readers of this paragraph may not have read, or remember, which definition you used 40 pages earlier.
  9. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of expansion pack.
  10. countableuncountableAn increase in the market value of an economy over time.
  11. countableuncountableStretching of geometric objects with flat sides.
  12. countableuncountableThe rewriting of an expression as a longer but equivalent sum of terms.