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FLARE

5 letters

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Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

FLARE is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

FLARES-s 3 FLARING 5 FLARED-d 3

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FLARINGLY 11
noun
  1. A sudden bright light.
  2. A source of brightly burning light or intense heat.
    • solar flare
  3. A type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light without an explosion, used to attract attention in an emergency, to illuminate an area, or as a decoy.
    • Flares were used to steer the traffic away from the accident.
    • The flares attracted the heat-seeking missiles.
  4. A flame produced by a burn-off of waste gas (flare gas) from a flare tower (or flare stack), typically at an oil refinery.
  5. figurativelyA sudden eruption or outbreak; a flare-up.
  6. A widening of an object with an otherwise roughly constant width.
    • During assembly of a flare tube fitting, a flare nut is used to secure the flared tubing’s tapered end to the also tapered fitting, producing a pressure-resistant, leak-tight seal.
    • That's a genuine early 70's flare on those pants.
  7. The increase in width of most ship hulls with increasing height above the waterline.
  8. Bell-bottom trousers.
  9. The transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
    • The captain executed the flare perfectly, and we lightly touched down.
  10. A low fly ball that is hit in the region between the infielders and the outfielders.
    • Jones hits a little flare to left that falls for a single.
  11. A route run by the running back, releasing toward the sideline and then slightly arcing upfield looking for a short pass.
  12. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of lens flare.
  13. An inflammation such as of tendons (tendonitis) or joints (osteoarthritis).
  14. A breakdance move of someone helicoptering his torso on alternating arms.
verb
  1. transitiveTo cause to burn; in particular, to burn off excess gas.
  2. transitiveTo cause inflammation; to inflame.
  3. ambitransitiveTo open outward in shape.
    • The cat flared its nostrils while sniffing at the air. (transitive)
    • The cat’s nostrils flared when it sniffed at the air. (intransitive)
    • The building flared from the third through the seventh floors to occupy the airspace over the entrance plaza. (intransitive)
    • The sides of a bowl flare. (intransitive)
  4. ambitransitiveTo (operate an aircraft to) transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
  5. intransitiveTo blaze brightly.
    • The blast furnace flared in the night.
  6. intransitiveTo shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
    • The candle flared in a sudden draught.
  7. figurativelyintransitiveTo shine out with gaudy colours; to be offensively bright or showy.
  8. figurativelyintransitiveTo suddenly happen or intensify.
  9. figurativelyintransitiveTo suddenly erupt in anger.
  10. intransitiveobsoleteTo be exposed to too much light.