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ROLL

4 letters

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Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

ROLL is a valid 4-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic, 1 in Big, and 1 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

ROLLS-s 2 ROLLING-ing 5 ROLLED-ed 3

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ROLLINGS 11
verb
  1. ergativeTo revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on a horizontal axis; to impel forward with a revolving motion on a supporting surface.
    • To roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.
    • The child will roll on the floor.
  2. ergativeTo wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
    • To roll a sheet of paper; to roll clay or putty into a ball.
    • The cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.
  3. transitiveTo bind or involve by winding, as with a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
    • To roll up the vase in bubble wrap.
  4. ergativefigurativelysometimesTo drive, impel, or flow onward with a steady, wave-like motion.
    • This river will roll its waters to the ocean.
    • The years roll on.
  5. intransitiveTo pour or trickle.
    • Drops of sweat rolled down his face.
  6. ergativeTo utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
    • To roll forth someone's praises; to roll out sentences.
  7. ergativeTo press, level, spread, or form with a roller or rollers.
    • to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails.
    • The pastry rolls well.
  8. ergativeTo move upon rollers or wheels.
  9. intransitiveTo tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
  10. CanadaUScolloquialintransitiveTo leave or begin a journey; sometimes with out.
    • I want to get there early; let's roll.
  11. CanadaUScolloquialintransitiveTo compete, especially with vigor.
    • OK guys, we're only down by two points. Let's roll!
  12. CanadaUScolloquialintransitiveTo walk, especially leisurely or idly; to stroll.
    • Let's roll around town on foot and see the sights.
  13. transitiveTo beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
  14. To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
  15. ergativeTo turn over in one's mind, as of deep thoughts; to (cause to) be considered thoroughly.
  16. USintransitiveslangTo behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
    • I was going to kick his ass, but he wasn't worth getting all worked up over; I don't roll like that.
  17. intransitivetransitiveTo roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
    • If you roll doubles, you get an extra turn.
    • With two dice, you're more likely to roll seven than ten.
  18. intransitiveTo create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.
    • I'm gonna go and roll a new shaman tonight.
  19. intransitiveTo generate a random number.
  20. To perform an operation similar to a bit shift, but with the bit that "falls off the end" being wrapped around to the other end.
  21. intransitiveTo rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch, yaw.
  22. intransitiveTo travel by sailing.
  23. transitiveTo beat up; to assault.
  24. ergativeslangTo (cause to) betray secrets or testify for the prosecution.
    • The feds rolled him by giving him a free pass for most of what he'd done.
    • He rolled on those guys after being in jail two days.
  25. intransitiveslangTo be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
  26. ambitransitiveTo (cause to) film.
    • The cameras are rolling.
    • It's time to roll the cameras.
  27. transitiveTo slip past (a defender) with the ball.
  28. intransitiveTo have a rolling aspect.
    • the hills rolled on
  29. intransitiveTo make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
    • The thunder rolled and the lightning flashed.
  30. transitiveTo utter with an alveolar trill.
    • Many languages roll their r's.
  31. UStransitiveTo enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
    • The kids rolled the principal's house and yard.
  32. transitiveTo create a customized version of; often followed by one's own.
  33. transitiveTo engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
  34. intransitiveTo load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.
    • Containers will be rolled to another mother vessel.
  35. transitiveTo briskly arpeggiate (a chord), typically in an upward motion.
  36. intransitiveTo drum on the reverse of a game controller with one's fingers in rapid succession, pushing the controller face into the opposite hand such that a button is rapidly pressed and depressed.
noun
  1. The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
    • the roll of a ball
    • Look at the roll of the waves.
    • the roll of her eyes
  2. Something formed into a compact shape by being rolled up.
    • a roll of banknotes
  3. A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
  4. A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
  5. One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
    • to pass rails through the rolls
  6. A swagger or rolling gait.
  7. A heavy, reverberatory sound.
    • Hear the roll of cannon.
    • There was a roll of thunder and the rain began to pour down.
  8. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
  9. The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.
  10. The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
  11. The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
    • Calculate the roll of that aircraft.
  12. An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.
    • The pilots entertained the spectators at the airshow by doing multiple rolls.
  13. The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
    • Make your roll.
    • Whoever gets the highest roll moves first.
  14. A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
    • He is on a roll tonight.
  15. A training match for a fighting dog.
  16. USAn instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
    • That was a good roll.
  17. The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
    • She has a bombproof roll.
  18. Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.
  19. An operation similar to a bit shift, but with the bit that "falls off the end" being wrapped around to the other end.
  20. A 14-day deployment.
  21. That which is rolled up.
    • a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
  22. A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
  23. An official or public document; a register; a record.
  24. A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.
    • The roll of solicitors contains the names of all admitted solicitors of a jurisdiction.
    • Several people sued the state after finding out that they'd been removed from the voter rolls for having died, despite their not actually being dead.
  25. A food preparation comprising one or more ingredients wrapped in, e.g., flatbread, lettuce leaf, etc.
  26. A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
    • a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon
  27. A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
  28. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
  29. obsoleteA part; an office; a duty; a role.
  30. A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.