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SEQUESTERING

12 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 24 pts

SEQUESTERING 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.

SEQUESTERING root SEQUESTER-ing

Word family

SEQUESTER 11 SEQUESTERS-s 11 SEQUESTERED-ed 11
verb
  1. To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
    • The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.
  2. To separate in order to store.
    • The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO₂ emissions.
  3. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
  4. To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound.
  5. To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
  6. To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
  7. UStransitiveTo remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
    • The Budget Control Act of 2011 sequestered 1.2 trillion dollars over 10 years on January 2, 2013.
  8. To seize and hold enemy property.
  9. intransitiveTo withdraw; to retire.
  10. datedTo renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
noun
  1. sequestration; separation
  2. A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee
  3. A sequestrum.