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KNUCKLING

9 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 18 pts

KNUCKLING is a valid 9-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 18 in Super Big Boggle.

KNUCKLING root KNUCKLE

Word family

KNUCKLE 5 KNUCKLES-s 11 KNUCKLED-d 11
noun
  1. Any of the joints between the bones of the fingers.
  2. broadlyA mechanical joint.
  3. The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.
  4. The kneejoint of a quadruped, especially of a calf; formerly, the kneejoint of a human being.
  5. A cut of meat of various kinds.
    • Beef knuckle is from the knee joint. Pork knuckle, or ham hock, is from the joint between the tibia/fibula and the metatarsals of the foot of a pig, where the foot was attached to the leg.
  6. obsoleteThe joint of a plant.
  7. A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom.
  8. A contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; a knuckle duster.
    • brass knuckles
  9. The rounded point where a flat changes to a slope on a piste.
verb
  1. transitiveTo apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles (noun sense 1).
    • He knuckled the sleep from his eyes.
    • She knuckled her eyes in disbelief.
  2. slangtransitiveTo strike or punch.
  3. intransitiveTo bend the fingers.
  4. intransitiveTo touch one's forehead as a mark of respect.
  5. figurativelyintransitiveTo yield.
  6. To land on the knuckle (noun sense 9) of a curve of a slope, after a jump off a ramp that precedes the slope.