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HATCHES

7 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 5 pts
Big 5 pts
Super Big 5 pts

HATCHES 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.

HATCHES root HATCH-es

Word family

HATCH 2 HATCHING-ing 11 HATCHED-ed 5

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HATCHINGS 11
noun
  1. A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
    • Moving the wardrobe revealed a previously hidden hatch in the ground.
  2. A trapdoor.
  3. An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
    • The cook passed the dishes through the serving hatch.
  4. A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
  5. An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
  6. slangA gullet.
  7. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
  8. A floodgate; a sluice gate.
  9. ScotlandA bedstead.
  10. An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
  11. The act of hatching.
  12. figurativelyDevelopment; disclosure; discovery.
  13. A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
    • These pullets are from an April hatch.
  14. oftenThe phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
  15. informalA birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
    • hatch, match, and dispatch
verb
  1. transitiveTo close with a hatch or hatches.
  2. intransitiveTo emerge from an egg.
    • These three chicks hatched yesterday morning.
  3. intransitiveTo break open when a young animal emerges from it.
    • She was delighted when she heard the crackling sound of the eggs hatching.
  4. transitiveTo incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
    • I'm hatching this mysterious egg I found in the forest.
  5. transitiveTo devise (a plot or scheme).
    • World domination was only one of the evil schemes he had hatched over the years.
  6. transitiveTo shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (crosshatch).
  7. obsoletetransitiveTo cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.