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TRAVERSE

8 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

TRAVERSE is a valid 8-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 11 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

TRAVERSES-s 11 TRAVERSING 11 TRAVERSED-d 11

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

TRAVERSAL 11 TRAVERSER 11 TRAVERSALS 11 TRAVERSERS 11 TRAVERSABLE 11 TRAVERSINGS 11
noun
  1. A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
  2. A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
  3. obsoleteA screen or partition.
  4. Something that thwarts or obstructs.
    • He will succeed, as long as there are no unlucky traverses not under his control.
  5. A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
  6. A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
  7. The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
  8. A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
  9. In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
  10. A traverse board.
verb
  1. transitiveTo travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.
    • He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side.
  2. transitiveTo visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
    • to traverse all nodes in a network
  3. To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
  4. To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
    • to traverse a cannon
  5. To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
  6. To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
    • the road traversed the face of the ridge as the right-of-way climbed the mountain
    • The last run, weary, I traversed the descents in no hurry to reach the lodge.
  7. To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
  8. To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
  9. To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
    • to traverse a board
  10. To deny formally.
  11. intransitiveTo use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
adverb
  1. athwart; across; crosswise
adjective
  1. Lying across; being in a direction across something else.
    • paths cut with traverse trenches