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MODERATED

9 letters

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

MODERATED 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.

MODERATED root MODERATE-d

Word family

MODERATE 11 MODERATES-s 11 MODERATING 11

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

MODER 2 MODERS 3 MODERATOR 11 MODERATELY 11 MODERATION 11 MODERATORS 11 MODERATIONS 11 MODERATENESS 11 MODERATENESSES 11
adjective
  1. Not excessive; acting in moderation
    • moderate language
    • a moderate Calvinist
    • travelling at a moderate speed
  2. more than mild, less than severe
  3. Mediocre
  4. Average priced; standard-deal
  5. Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.
    • a moderate winter
  6. USHaving an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.
noun
  1. One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.
    • While the moderates usually propose political compromise, it's often only achieved when the extremists allow them so
    • The moderates are the natural advocates of ecumenism against the fanatics of their churches.
  2. historicalOne of a party in Scottish Church history dominant in the 18th century, lax in doctrine and discipline, but intolerant of evangelicalism and popular rights. It caused the secessions of 1733 and 1761, and its final resultant was the Disruption of 1843.
verb
  1. transitiveTo reduce the excessiveness of (something).
    • to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.
  2. intransitiveTo become less excessive.
    • He used to be an extremist but moderated later in life.
  3. transitiveTo preside over (something) as a moderator.
    • to moderate a synod
  4. intransitiveTo act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise.
    • We need more users to volunteer to moderate the comment section of our forum.
  5. transitiveTo supply with a moderator (substance that decreases the speed of neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increases likelihood of fission).
    • a graphite-moderated reactor