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LAP

3 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big too short
(min 4)
Super Big too short
(min 4)

LAP is a valid 3-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic Boggle, though it's too short for Big and Super Big (which need four-letter words).

Word family

LAPS-s 1 LAPPING-ping 5 LAPPED-ped 3

Might be on the same board

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

LAPFUL 3 LAPFULS 5 LAPPINGS 11
noun
  1. The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
  2. An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
  3. The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
  4. figurativelyA place of rearing and fostering.
  5. The upper legs of a seated person.
    • The boy was sitting on his mother's lap.
  6. archaiceuphemisticThe female pudenda.
  7. A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
  8. The act or process of lapping.
  9. That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
    • the lap of a board
  10. The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
    • The second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader.
  11. The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
  12. One circuit around a race track.
    • to run twenty laps
    • to drive the fastest lap in qualifying
    • to win by three laps
  13. The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
    • to swim two laps
  14. In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
  15. A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
  16. A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery or in toolmaking. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
  17. countableuncountableThe taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
  18. obsoleteslanguncountableLiquor; alcoholic drink.
  19. abbreviationclippingcolloquialClipping of laparoscopy.
  20. abbreviationclippingcolloquialClipping of laparotomy
verb
  1. transitiveTo enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
  2. transitiveTo rest or recline in someone's lap, or as in a lap.
  3. transitiveTo fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
    • to lap a piece of cloth
  4. transitiveto wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
    • to lap a bandage around a finger
  5. transitiveto envelop, enfold
    • lapped in luxury
  6. intransitiveto wind around
  7. transitiveTo place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
    • One laps roof tiles so that water can run off.
  8. transitiveTo polish (a surface, especially metal or gemstone) with very fine abrasive to achieve smoothness and small dimensional changes.
  9. intransitiveTo be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
    • The cloth laps back.
    • The boats lap; the edges lap.
  10. transitiveTo overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
  11. To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
  12. ambitransitiveTo take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
    • Don’t lap your soup like that! You look like a dog.
  13. intransitiveTo wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
adjective
  1. abbreviationclippingcolloquialClipping of laparoscopic.