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HOOD

4 letters

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Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

HOOD is a valid 4-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic, 1 in Big, and 1 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

HOODS-s 2 HOODING-ing 5 HOODED-ed 3
noun
  1. A head covering placed on falcons to inhibit their vision.
  2. A head and neck covering placed on horses to protect against insects and sunlight, to slow coat growth and for warmth.
  3. A distinctively colored fold of material, representing a university degree.
  4. An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
  5. UKA soft top of a convertible car or carriage.
  6. CanadaUSThe hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.
  7. broadlyespeciallyA cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something.
  8. A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.
  9. One of the endmost planks (or, one of the ends of the planks) in a ship’s bottom at bow or stern, that fits into the rabbet. (These, when fit into the rabbet, resemble a hood (covering).)
  10. An expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) and Indian cobra (Naja naja).
  11. colloquialThe osseous or cartilaginous marginal extension behind the back of many a dinosaur such as a ceratopsid and reptiles such as Chlamydosaurus kingii.
  12. In the human hand, over the extensor digitorum, an expansion of the extensor tendon over the metacarpophalangeal joint (the extensor hood syn. dorsal hood syn. lateral hood)
  13. colloquialThe prepuce; the foreskin or clitoral hood.
  14. slangGangster, thug.
  15. slangA neighborhood.
    • What’s goin’ down in the hood?
  16. slangAny poor suburb or neighbourhood.
  17. UKPerson wearing a hoodie.
verb
  1. transitiveTo cover (something) with a hood.
  2. transitiveTo extend out from (something), in the manner of a hood.
  3. intransitiveTo grow over the eyelid but not the eye itself.
adjective
  1. Relating to inner-city everyday life, both positive and negative aspects; especially people’s attachment to and love for their neighborhoods.