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LANTERN

7 letters

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Classic 5 pts
Big 5 pts
Super Big 5 pts

LANTERN 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

LANTERNS-s 11 LANTHORN 11 LANTERNING-ing 11 LANTERNED-ed 11
noun
  1. A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.
  2. Especially, a metal casing with lens used to illuminate a stage (e.g. spotlight, floodlight).
  3. An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
  4. A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
  5. A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light.
    • the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral
  6. A lantern pinion or trundle wheel.
  7. A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc.; a lantern brass.
  8. A light formerly used as a signal by a railway guard or conductor at night.
  9. A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
  10. Aristotle's lantern
verb
  1. transitiveTo furnish with a lantern.
adjective
  1. Of a facial feature, large and squarish in shape as an old-fashioned lantern.