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YAWING

6 letters

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Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

YAWING 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.

YAWING root YAW-ing

Word family

YAW 1 YAWS-s 1 YAWED-ed 2
noun
  1. countableuncountableThe rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or missile to deviate from the flight line or heading in its horizontal plane.
  2. countableuncountableThe angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile.
  3. countableuncountableA vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness.
  4. countableuncountableThe extent of yawing; the rotation angle about the vertical axis.
    • the yaw of an aircraft
  5. A single tumor in the disease called yaws.
verb
  1. intransitiveTo turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.
  2. intransitiveTo swerve off course to port or starboard.
  3. intransitiveTo steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course.
  4. intransitiveTo rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.