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SARDINING

9 letters

◐ IN SOME DICTIONARIES
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✗
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 18 pts

SARDINING is a valid 9-letter Boggle word. It's listed in TWL06 and SOWPODS but not ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 18 in Super Big Boggle.

SARDINING root SARDINE

Word family

SARDINE 5 SARDINES-s 11 SARDINED-d 11
noun
  1. Any one of several species of small herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil or in tins for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Sardina pilchardus, syn. Clupea pilchardus). The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the Atlantic herring and of the menhaden.
    • They feasted on premium sardines packed in olive oil, as did their hunting dogs, who insisted on joining the meal.
  2. figurativelySomeone packed or crammed into a small space.
    • They watched bemused as countless sardines disgorged from a railway car that was never designed to hold so many passengers.
  3. obsoleteCarnelian.
  4. Dark-brown sard.
verb
  1. intransitiveliterallyTo fish for sardines.
  2. broadlyfigurativelytransitiveto pack or cram together tightly.
adjective
  1. Characteristic of a sardius.