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RETROGRADING

12 letters

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Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 24 pts

RETROGRADING is a valid 12-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 24 in Super Big Boggle.

RETROGRADING root RETROGRADE

Word family

RETROGRADE 11 RETROGRADES-s 11 RETROGRADED-d 11

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

RETROGRADELY 11 RETROGRADATION 11 RETROGRADATIONS 11
adjective
  1. Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
  2. Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
  3. Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
  4. Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
  5. Having a passage of music played backwards.
  6. Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
    • retrograde ideas, morals, etc.
  7. archaicInvolving a return to or a retracing of a previous course of travel.
  8. archaicCounterproductive to a desired outcome; contradictory, contrary.
  9. Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
  10. alsooftenpostpositionalOf a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
    • Mercury retrograde
  11. Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
  12. Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
  13. archaicOf verse: reading the same forwards or backwards; palindromic.
adverb
  1. In a reverse direction; backwards.
noun
  1. A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
  2. The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
  3. One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
  4. archaicOne who reneges on an agreement, or switches loyalties; a rebel, a renegade.
  5. The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
verb
  1. transitiveTo cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
  2. transitiveTo change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
  3. obsoletetransitiveTo cause (someone or something) to revert to an inferior or less developed state.
  4. intransitiveTo revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
  5. intransitiveOf a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
  6. intransitiveOf a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
  7. intransitiveTo retreat or withdraw from a position.
  8. intransitiveobsoleteTo move backwards; to recede.
  9. intransitiveobsoleteOf the telling of an incident, etc.: to move to an earlier time.