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PINCUSHION

10 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 20 pts

PINCUSHION is a valid 10-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 20 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

PINCUSHIONS-s 11
noun
  1. A device, originally like a small, stuffed cushion, designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it to store them safely; some modern pincushions hold the objects magnetically.
  2. A flowering plant in the genus Leucospermum.
  3. A flowering plant in the genus Scabiosa.
  4. A coral bead plant, coral moss, or English baby tears (Nertera granadensis), an ornamental plant.
  5. A dustymaiden, a flowering plant in the genus Chaenactis.
  6. A pincushion cactus, of the genera Escobaria or Mammillaria.
  7. A pincushionplant, a flowering plant in the genus Navarretia.
  8. colloquialfigurativelyA person who is pricked or stabbed multiple times with sharp objects; specifically, someone who receives regular hypodermic needle injections.
    • Insulin-dependent diabetics are human pincushions.
verb
  1. alsofigurativelytransitiveTo jab or stick repeatedly with one or more sharp objects, as with pins into a pincushion.
    • The target was pincushioned with arrows.
  2. intransitiveTo assume the shape of a pincushion; specifically, of the image on a computer display, television, etc., to exhibit pincushion distortion, where the sides curve inwards.