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FLOURISH

8 letters

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

FLOURISH 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

FLOURISHES-es 11 FLOURISHING-ing 11 FLOURISHED-ed 11

Might be on the same board

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

FLOURISHER 11 FLOURISHERS 11 FLOURISHINGLY 11
verb
  1. intransitiveTo thrive or grow well.
    • The barley flourished in the warm weather.
  2. intransitiveTo prosper or fare well.
    • The town flourished with the coming of the railway.
    • The cooperation flourished as the customers rushed in the business.
  3. intransitiveTo be in a period of greatest influence.
    • His writing flourished before the war.
  4. transitiveTo develop; to make thrive; to expand.
  5. transitiveTo make bold, sweeping movements with.
    • They flourished the banner as they stormed the palace.
    • The squirrel flourished its fluffy tail about as an alarm signal after its narrow escape from the cat.
  6. intransitiveTo make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
  7. intransitiveTo use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
  8. intransitiveTo make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
  9. transitiveTo adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
  10. intransitiveTo execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
  11. intransitiveobsoleteTo boast; to vaunt; to brag.
  12. archaictransitiveTo brandish (a weapon).
  13. intransitiveTo be known to have been alive at a particular time or in a particular period, where one's birth and death dates are not known; to have been active during a specified period; floruit.
    • John Smith (flourished 1425-1432) was...
noun
  1. A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
    • With many flourishes of the captured banner, they marched down the avenue.
  2. An ornamentation.
    • His signature ended with a flourish.
  3. A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
    • The trumpets blew a flourish as they entered the church.
  4. A decorative embellishment on a building.