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PURCHASE

8 letters

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

PURCHASE is a valid 8-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 11 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

PURCHASES-s 11 PURCHASING 11 PURCHASED-d 11

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

PURCHASER 11 PURCHASERS 11 PURCHASABLE 11 PURCHASABILITY 11
noun
  1. countableuncountableThe acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
    • They offer a free hamburger with the purchase of a drink.
  2. countableuncountableThat which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
    • He was pleased with his latest purchase.
  3. countableuncountableThat which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
  4. countableobsoleteuncountableThe act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)
  5. countableuncountableA price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.
  6. alsofigurativelyuncountableAny mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.
    • It is hard to get purchase on a nail without a pry bar or hammer.
  7. countableuncountableThe apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and (in nautical terminology) the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.
  8. uncountableThe amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
  9. countabledateduncountableAcquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
verb
  1. To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
    • to purchase land, to purchase a house
  2. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
  3. To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
    • to purchase favor with flattery
  4. To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
  5. To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; to raise or move by mechanical means.
    • to purchase a cannon
  6. To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
  7. To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
    • Many aristocratic refugees' portable treasures purchased their safe passage and comfortable exile during the revolution.