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PRINCIPLE

9 letters

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

PRINCIPLE 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.

Word family

PRINCIPLES-s 11 PRINCIPLING 11 PRINCIPLED-d 11
noun
  1. A fundamental assumption, fundamental law or guiding belief.
    • We need some sort of principles to reason from.
  2. A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.
    • The principle of least privilege holds that a process should only receive the permissions it needs.
  3. Moral rule or aspect.
    • I don't doubt your principles.
    • You are clearly a person of principle.
    • It's the principle of the thing; I won't do business with someone I can't trust.
  4. A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.
    • Bernoulli's principle
    • The Pauli Exclusion Principle prevents two fermions from occupying the same state.
    • The principle of the internal combustion engine
  5. A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.
    • Many believe that life is the result of some vital principle.
  6. A chemical compound within plant or animal tissue that is characteristic of it and more or less peculiar to it, such that it defines the character of that tissue from a human viewpoint (as for example nicotine in tobacco).
    • the active principle
  7. A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
  8. An original faculty or endowment.
  9. misspellingMisspelling of principal.
  10. obsoleteA beginning.
verb
  1. transitiveTo equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet or rule of conduct.