chill
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Base Score
5
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
4
C H I L
Two-Letter Start
CH
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Ending
LL
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- 5 letters
- 4 unique letters
- CH start
- LL ending
- repeated letters
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- chill is worth 5 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 4 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include c, h, i, l plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (L x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The LL ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the CH start.
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Pronunciation
noun
A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
"There was a chill in the air."
noun
A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
"Close the window or you'll catch a chill. I felt a chill when the wind picked up."
noun
An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
"Despite the heat, he felt a chill as he entered the crime scene. The actor's eerie portrayal sent chills through the audience. His menacing presence cast a chill over everyone."
noun
An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
noun
The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
noun
A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
noun
Calmness; equanimity.
noun
A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
verb
To lower the temperature of something; to cool
"Chill before serving."
verb
To become cold
"In the wind he chilled quickly."
verb
To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling
verb
To become hard by rapid cooling
verb
To relax, lie back
"Chill, man, we've got a whole week to do it; no sense in getting worked up."
verb
To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. Also chill out.
"Hey, we should chill this weekend."
verb
To smoke marijuana
"On Friday night do you wanna chill?"
verb
To discourage, depress
"Censorship chills public discourse."
adjective
Moderately cold or chilly.
"A chill wind was blowing down the street."
adjective
Unwelcoming; not cordial.
"Arriving late at the wedding, we were met with a chill reception."
adjective
Calm, relaxed, easygoing.
"Paint-your-own ceramics studios are a chill way to express yourself while learning more about your date's right brain."
adjective
"Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
"That new movie was chill, man."
adjective
Okay, not a problem.
""Sorry about that." "It's chill.""