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TAINTS

6 letters

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Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

TAINTS is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.

TAINTS root TAINT-s

Word family

TAINT 2 TAINTING-ing 11 TAINTED-ed 5
noun
  1. A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
  2. A tinge, trace or touch.
  3. A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
  4. obsoleteTincture; hue; colour.
  5. obsoleteInfection; corruption; deprivation.
  6. A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
  7. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
  8. An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
  9. USslangvulgarThe perineum.
verb
  1. transitiveTo contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
  2. transitiveTo spoil (food) by contamination.
  3. intransitiveTo be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
  4. intransitiveTo be affected with incipient putrefaction.
    • Meat soon taints in warm weather.
  5. transitiveTo mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
  6. AustraliatransitiveTo invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
  7. transitiveTo damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
  8. intransitiveTo thrust ineffectually with a lance.
contraction
  1. alternativecontractionAlternative spelling of 'taint.