leach
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How leach fits the hive
Base Score
5
Before any pangram bonus
Unique Letters
5
A C E H L
Two-Letter Start
LE
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
CH
Useful for cleanup scans
- 5 letters
- 5 unique letters
- LE start
- CH ending
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- leach is worth 5 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 5 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, c, e, h, l plus any remaining hive letters.
- The CH ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the LE start.
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Pronunciation
Definitions
noun
A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
noun
A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
noun
A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.
"1670 Hannah Woolley The Queen-like Closet, Or, Rich Cabinet https//en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen-Like_Closet "To make Leach and to colour it""
noun
An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
noun
A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.
noun
A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
noun
A physician.
noun
(Heathenry) A healer.
noun
The vertical edge of a square sail.
noun
The aft edge of a triangular sail.
verb
To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
"Heavy rainfall can leach out minerals important for plant growth from the soil."
verb
To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
Related Words
Same Letters
- chela
Synonyms
- bloodsucker
- parasite
- sponger
- vampire
- healer
- barber
- doctor
- physician