mole
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When mole helps
Base Score
1
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
4
E L M O
Two-Letter Start
MO
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
LE
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- 4 letters
- 4 unique letters
- MO start
- LE ending
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- mole is a four-letter word, so it is worth 1 point when accepted.
- It uses 4 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include e, l, m, o plus any remaining hive letters.
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Pronunciation
noun
A pigmented spot on the skin, a naevus, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy.
noun
Any of several small, burrowing insectivores of the family Talpidae.
noun
Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole rats.
noun
An internal spy, a person who involves himself or herself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within.
noun
A kind of self-propelled excavator used to form underground drains, or to clear underground pipelines
noun
A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through clay subsoil.
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A moll, a bitch, a slut.
noun
A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water.
noun
A haven or harbour, protected with such a breakwater.
noun
An Ancient Roman mausoleum.
noun
In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.) as there are atoms in 0.012 kg of carbon-12. Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number.
noun
A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum.
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One of several spicy sauces typical of the cuisine of Mexico and neighboring Central America, especially the sauce which contains chocolate and which is used in cooking main dishes, not desserts.
Related Words
Synonyms
- birthmark
- naevus
- nevus
- nvus
- mouldwarp
- moll
- grammolecule