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LEPROSIES

9 letters

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

LEPROSIES 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.

LEPROSIES root LEPROSY

Word family

noun
  1. uncountableusuallyAn infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, gradually producing nerve damage and patches of skin necrosis and historically handled by permanently quarantining its sufferers.
  2. datedproscribeduncountableusuallySimilar contagious skin diseases causing light patches of scaly skin, particularly psoriasis, syphilis, vitiligo, scabies, and (biblical) the various diseases considered "tzaraath" in the Old Testament.
  3. figurativelyuncountableusuallyAnything considered similarly permanent, harmful, and communicable, particularly when such a thing should be handled by avoidance or isolation of its victims.
    • Sin is a spiritual leprosy.
  4. abbreviationellipsisuncountableusuallyEllipsis of murine leprosy or feline leprosy (“diseases caused in rodents and cats by Mycobacterium lepraemurium”).
  5. obsoleteuncountableusuallySynonym of mange and glanders in horses.
  6. obsoleterareuncountableusuallySynonym of leprosarium: a place for the housing of lepers in isolation from the rest of society.