bile
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How bile fits the hive
Base Score
1
Before any pangram bonus
Unique Letters
4
B E I L
Two-Letter Start
BI
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Ending
LE
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- 4 letters
- 4 unique letters
- BI start
- LE ending
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- It uses 4 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include b, e, i, l plus any remaining hive letters.
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Pronunciation
Definitions
noun
A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
noun
Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
noun
Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
noun
A boil (kind of swelling).
verb
(of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
"Boil some water in a pan."
verb
To cook in boiling water.
"Boil the eggs for three minutes."
verb
(of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
"Pure water boils at 100 degrees Celsius."
verb
To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
verb
(used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
"It’s boiling outside!"
verb
(used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
"I’m boiling in here – could you open the window?"
verb
To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
"to boil sugar or salt"
verb
To steep or soak in warm water.
verb
To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
"the boiling waves of the sea"
verb
To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
"His blood boils with anger."
Related Words
Same Letters
- libelee
- belie
- bible
- libel
Synonyms
- gall
- plaw
- seethe
- well
- bebaking
- beseething
- bestewing
- bescorching
- besweltering
Antonyms
- condense
- befreezing