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FLOATER

7 letters

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Classic 5 pts
Big 5 pts
Super Big 5 pts

FLOATER is a valid 7-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 5 in Classic, 5 in Big, and 5 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

FLOATERS-s 11
noun
  1. A person who physically floats in a gas or liquid.
  2. slangA corpse floating in a body of water.
  3. figurativelyA person who frequently changes where they live; a drifter, a vagrant.
  4. figurativelyA person who frequently changes employment.
  5. figurativelyAn employee of an organization who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away; also, a short-term employee; a temporary, a temp.
  6. figurativelyAn "extra" (male) guest at a party who is asked by the host to entertain the other (often female) guests.
  7. figurativelyslangA person who attaches themselves to a group of people, and who repeatedly shows up at group activities even though this is undesired by the group; a hanger-on.
  8. figurativelyA voter who shifts their allegiance from one political party to another, especially (US) one whose vote can be illegally purchased.
  9. USfigurativelyA person who votes illegally in various electoral districts or polling places, either under a false voter registration or under the name of a properly registered voter who has not yet voted.
  10. USfigurativelyA person, such as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, such as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed one (or an extra) representative of its own.
  11. figurativelyA player not affiliated with a team.
  12. A river mussel (genus Anodonta).
  13. A small suet dumpling put into soup.
  14. vulgarA piece of faeces which floats.
    • He left a floater in the toilet.
  15. A threadlike speck in the visual field which seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour of the eye.
  16. A ball that moves lightly through the air, as if floating; specifically (basketball), an early layup taken by a player moving towards the rim where, upon release, the ball floats in the air over the top of a defender before dropping softly into the hoop.
  17. AustraliaabbreviationellipsisEllipsis of pie floater (“a meat pie served floating in a bowl of thick green pea soup”).
  18. IndiaA waterproof sandal.
  19. datedfigurativelyslangA mistake or misstep; a faux pas.
  20. abbreviationclippingfigurativelyClipping of floating rate bond.
  21. figurativelyAn insurance policy covering movable property at more than one location or which may be in transit.
  22. figurativelyslangA book circulated between prisoners which is not part of the official prison library.
  23. figurativelyeye floater
  24. figurativelyA manoeuvre in which a surfer transitions above the unbroken face of a wave on to the lip, or on top of the breaking section of the wave.
  25. figurativelyA spinning delivery of the ball that travels in a high arched path.
  26. figurativelyA coin which does not spin when thrown in the air.
  27. USfigurativelyA criminal sentence which is suspended so long as the convicted person leaves an area.
  28. figurativelyA frame with space between the artwork and the frame itself.