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OBLIGATES

9 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 18 pts

OBLIGATES 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.

OBLIGATES root OBLIGATE-s

verb
  1. transitiveTo bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie.
  2. CanadaScotlandUStransitiveTo cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige.
  3. CanadaScotlandUStransitiveTo commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.
adjective
  1. Requiring a (specified) way of life, habitat, etc.
  2. Indispensable; essential; necessary; obligatory; mandatory; unavoidably invoked.
    • In addition to being the obligate food source for monarch caterpillars, milkweeds also provide abundant nectar for the adult butterflies.
    • In some languages such signaling is optional, whereas in others it is obligate.
  3. obsoleteBound by oath, law or duty.
noun
  1. An obligate organism.