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NESTS

5 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

NESTS is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

NESTS root NEST-s

Word family

NEST 1 NESTING-ing 5 NESTED-ed 3

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

NESTFUL 5 NESTFULS 11 NESTINGS 11
noun
  1. A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
  2. A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
  3. A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
  4. A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
  5. A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
    • a nest of thieves
    • That nightclub is a nest of strange people!
  6. A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
    • I am aspiring to leave the nest.
  7. A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
    • I was forced to change trumps when I found the ace, jack, and nine of diamonds in the nest.
  8. A fortified position for a weapon.
    • a machine gun nest
  9. A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
  10. A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
  11. An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
  12. A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
  13. A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
  14. USslangvulgarThe pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
verb
  1. intransitiveTo build or settle into a nest.
  2. intransitiveTo settle into a home.
    • We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!
  3. intransitiveTo successively neatly fit inside another.
    • I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother.
  4. transitiveTo place in, or as if in, a nest.
  5. transitiveTo place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
    • There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes.
  6. intransitiveTo hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").