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TORCHES

7 letters

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Classic 5 pts
Big 5 pts
Super Big 5 pts

TORCHES is a valid 7-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 5 in Classic, 5 in Big, and 5 in Super Big Boggle.

TORCHES root TORCH-es

Word family

TORCH 2 TORCHING-ing 11 TORCHED-ed 5

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TORCHINGS 11
noun
  1. A stick of wood or plant fibres twisted together, with one end soaked in a flammable substance such as resin or tallow and set on fire, which is held in the hand, put into a wall bracket, or stuck into the ground, and used chiefly as a light source.
    • The mob of angry villagers carried torches and pitchforks to the vampire’s castle.
  2. broadlyA similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material; specifically, a pole with a lamp at one end.
  3. CommonwealthabbreviationbroadlyellipsisEllipsis of electric torch: synonym of flashlight (“a battery-powered hand-held light source”).
    • Ernst slipped and dropped his torch on the flagstones, shattering the bulb and plunging us into darkness.
  4. broadlyA flower which is red or red-orange in colour like a flame.
  5. broadlyA spike (“kind of inflorescence”) made up of spikelets.
  6. broadlyThe common mullein, great mullein, or torchwort (Verbascum thapsus).
  7. broadlyobsoleteA cactus with a very elongated body; a ceroid cactus; a torch cactus or torch-thistle.
  8. figurativelyA source of enlightenment or guidance.
  9. figurativelyIn carry, hand on, pass on, take up the torch: a precious cause, principle, tradition, etc., which needs to be protected and transmitted to others.
  10. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of torch drive (“a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”).
  11. CanadaUSabbreviationellipsisEllipsis of blowtorch (“a tool which projects a controlled stream of a highly flammable gas over a spark in order to produce a controlled flame”).
  12. USslangAn arsonist.
verb
  1. transitiveTo illuminate or provide (a place) with torches (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1).
  2. informaltransitiveTo intentionally destroy (something) by setting it on fire, especially when committing arson in furtherance of some other criminal act (e.g. insurance fraud or the destruction of evidence).
    • Some hoodlums had torched a derelict automobile, which emitted a ghastly pall of thick, black smoke that filled the street.
  3. figurativelytransitiveTo make damaging claims about (someone or something); to ruin the reputation of (someone or something); to disparage, to insult.
    • That influencer torched the company’s PR department.
  4. intransitiveOf a fire: to burn.
    • The flames torched up twenty feet in the air.
  5. intransitiveTo travel in a spacecraft propelled by a torch drive (“an engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”).
  6. UKdialectalfigurativelyintransitiveTo (appear to) flare up like a torch.
  7. USintransitiveTo catch fish or other aquatic animals by torchlight; to go torch-fishing.
  8. archaichistoricaltransitiveTo point (“fill up and bring to a smooth finish”) (inside joints of slates laid on laths) using lime hair mortar.