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WASHES

6 letters

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Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

WASHES 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.

WASHES root WASH-es

Word family

WASH 1 WASHING-ing 5 WASHED-ed 3 WASHEN-en 3

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WASHINGS 11
verb
  1. transitiveTo clean with water.
    • The car is so dirty, we need to wash it.
    • Dishwashers wash dishes way more efficiently than most humans.
    • This new washing powder rlly washes bedclothes superwhite.
  2. transitiveTo carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
    • Don't pour that in the drain; it will wash downstream.
    • Heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
    • The flood washed away houses.
    • The remaining flotsam was washed ashore.
  3. intransitiveTo be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
  4. intransitiveTo clean oneself with water.
    • I wash every morning after getting up.
  5. transitiveTo cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
    • Waves wash the shore.
  6. intransitiveTo move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
    • to hear the water washing
  7. figurativelyintransitiveTo be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
  8. intransitiveTo bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
    • Some calicoes do not wash.
  9. transitiveTo cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
  10. transitiveTo overlay with a thin coat of metal.
    • steel washed with silver
  11. transitiveTo pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
  12. To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
  13. transitiveTo cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
  14. To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
noun
  1. countableuncountableThe process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
    • I'm going to have a quick wash before coming to bed.
    • My jacket needs a wash.
  2. countableuncountableA liquid used for washing.
  3. countableuncountableA lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
    • mouth wash
    • hand wash
  4. countableuncountableThe quantity of clothes washed at a time.
    • There's a lot in that wash: maybe you should split it into two piles.
  5. countableuncountableA smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
  6. countableuncountableThe breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
    • I could hear the wash of the wave.
  7. countableuncountableThe bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
    • The ship left a big wash
    • Sail away from the wash to avoid rocking the boat.
  8. countableuncountableThe turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
  9. countableuncountableThe backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
  10. countableuncountableThe blade of an oar.
  11. countableuncountableGround washed away to the sea or a river.
  12. countableuncountableA piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
  13. countableuncountableA shallow body of water.
  14. countableuncountableIn arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream.
  15. countableidiomaticuncountableA situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
  16. countableslanguncountableA fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
  17. countableuncountableWaste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
  18. countableuncountableIn distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
  19. countableuncountableA mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
  20. countableuncountableA thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
  21. countableuncountableTen strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
  22. countableuncountableThe upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
    • a carriage wash in a stable
  23. countableuncountableA lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
  24. countableuncountableA lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
  25. countableuncountableA total failure; a washout.