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PATERNOSTER

11 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 22 pts

PATERNOSTER is a valid 11-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 22 in Super Big Boggle.

noun
  1. The Lord's Prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.
  2. A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building.
  3. A bead-like ornament in mouldings.
  4. A tackle rig with a heavy sinker at the end of the line, and one or more hooks on traces at right angles spaced above the sinker.
  5. archaicA string of beads used in counting prayers that are said.
  6. archaicEvery eleventh bead in a rosary, at which, while counting the beads, the Lord's Prayer is to be repeated.
  7. archaicA medieval artisan who crafted rosary beads or prayer nuts.
  8. archaicA patent medicine, so named because salesmen would pray the Lord's Prayer over it before selling it.
verb
  1. transitiveTo try to catch (fish, etc.) with a paternoster rig.