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TEMPER

6 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

TEMPER 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.

Word family

TEMPERS-s 5 TEMPERING-ing 11 TEMPERED-ed 11

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

TEMPERER 11 TEMPERATE 11 TEMPERERS 11 TEMPERABLE 11 TEMPERANCE 11 TEMPERATED 11 TEMPERATES 11 TEMPERINGS 11 TEMPERANCES 11 TEMPERATELY 11 TEMPERATING 11 TEMPERATIVE 11 TEMPERABILITY 11 TEMPERALITIES 11 TEMPERATENESS 11 TEMPERABILITIES 11 TEMPERATENESSES 11
noun
  1. countableuncountableA general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
    • to have a good, bad, or calm temper
  2. countableuncountableState of mind; mood.
  3. countableuncountableA tendency to become angry.
    • Mind your hasty temper!
    • He has quite a temper when dealing with salespeople.
  4. countableuncountableAnger; a fit of anger.
    • an outburst of temper
    • When I heard about it I got myself into a terrible temper.
  5. countableuncountableCalmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
  6. countableobsoleteuncountableConstitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
  7. countableuncountableMiddle state or course; mean; medium.
  8. countableuncountableThe state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
    • the temper of mortar
  9. countableuncountableThe heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
  10. countableuncountableThe state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
    • the temper of iron or steel
  11. countablehistoricaluncountableMilk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
  12. countableuncountableA non-plastic material, such as sand, added to clay to prevent shrinkage and cracking during drying or firing; tempering.
verb
  1. To moderate or control.
    • Temper your language around children.
  2. To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
    • Tempering is a heat treatment technique applied to metals, alloys, and glass to achieve greater toughness by increasing the strength of materials and/or ductility. Tempering is performed by a controlled reheating of the work piece to a temperature below its lower eutectic critical temperature.
  3. To adjust the temperature of an ingredient (e.g. eggs or chocolate) gradually so that it remains smooth and pleasing.
  4. To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
  5. To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
  6. To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
  7. LatinismobsoleteTo govern; to manage.
  8. archaicTo combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
  9. archaicTo mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage.
    • Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch indifference, that mercy itself could not have dictated a milder system.
  10. obsoleteTo fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.