listerize
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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- 18
- Words With Friends
- 19
- Letters
- 9
Definition of listerize
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(dated, transitive)To make antiseptic.
“[…] after Esmarch we hold back the bloody torrent which once gushed forth after the catling; and Listerizing with Lister's spray we bar all passage into gaping wounds of motes that people the sunbeam and breed havoc in the tract of the sanguineous life stream.”
“Another operation was urged as a necessity (for what I never heard), and after much cutting, scraping and Listerizing, it was pronounced to be cancer of the womb, and in February she died.”
“Still, all unknown, the message had gone forth from the miserable little garret at the Ecole Normale, and, though little understood, the whisper reached Pasteur that the English surgeons at Bazeilles were 'Listerizing' wounds with great success.”
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Etymology
From Lister + -ize.
Words you can make from listerize
172 playable · top: STERILIZE (18 pts)
Best play sterilize 18 points7-letter words
6 words6-letter words
19 words5-letter words
44 words- REZES 14 pts
- SEIZE 14 pts
- SIZER 14 pts
- TIZES 14 pts
- ZITIS 14 pts
- ELITE 5 pts
- ESTER 5 pts
- ISLET 5 pts
- ISTLE 5 pts
- LEERS 5 pts
- LEETS 5 pts
- LIERS 5 pts
- LITER 5 pts
- LITES 5 pts
- LITRE 5 pts
- REELS 5 pts
- REEST 5 pts
- RELET 5 pts
- RELIT 5 pts
- RESET 5 pts
- RESIT 5 pts
- RETIE 5 pts
- RIELS 5 pts
- RILES 5 pts
- RITES 5 pts
- SIREE 5 pts
- SLEET 5 pts
- SLIER 5 pts
- STEEL 5 pts
- STEER 5 pts
- STELE 5 pts
- STERE 5 pts
- STILE 5 pts
- TEELS 5 pts
- TELES 5 pts
- TERES 5 pts
- TERSE 5 pts
- TIERS 5 pts
- TILER 5 pts
- TILES 5 pts
- TIRES 5 pts
- TIRLS 5 pts
- TREES 5 pts
- TRIES 5 pts
4-letter words
55 words- RITZ 13 pts
- SIZE 13 pts
- ZEES 13 pts
- ZEST 13 pts
- ZITI 13 pts
- ZITS 13 pts
- EELS 4 pts
- ELSE 4 pts
- ERST 4 pts
- IRES 4 pts
- IRIS 4 pts
- ISLE 4 pts
- LEER 4 pts
- LEES 4 pts
- LEET 4 pts
- LEIS 4 pts
- LEST 4 pts
- LETS 4 pts
- LIER 4 pts
- LIES 4 pts
- LIRE 4 pts
- LIRI 4 pts
- LIST 4 pts
- LITE 4 pts
- LITS 4 pts
- REEL 4 pts
- REES 4 pts
- REIS 4 pts
- REST 4 pts
- RETE 4 pts
- RETS 4 pts
- RIEL 4 pts
- RILE 4 pts
- RISE 4 pts
- RITE 4 pts
- SEEL 4 pts
- SEER 4 pts
- SERE 4 pts
- SILT 4 pts
- SIRE 4 pts
- SITE 4 pts
- SLIT 4 pts
- STIR 4 pts
- TEEL 4 pts
- TEES 4 pts
- TELE 4 pts
- TELS 4 pts
- TIER 4 pts
- TIES 4 pts
- TILE 4 pts
- TILS 4 pts
- TIRE 4 pts
- TIRL 4 pts
- TREE 4 pts
- TRES 4 pts
3-letter words
36 words- REZ 12 pts
- SEZ 12 pts
- TIZ 12 pts
- ZEE 12 pts
- ZIT 12 pts
- EEL 3 pts
- ELS 3 pts
- ERE 3 pts
- ERS 3 pts
- EST 3 pts
- IRE 3 pts
- ITS 3 pts
- LEE 3 pts
- LEI 3 pts
- LET 3 pts
- LIE 3 pts
- LIS 3 pts
- LIT 3 pts
- REE 3 pts
- REI 3 pts
- RES 3 pts
- RET 3 pts
- SEE 3 pts
- SEI 3 pts
- SEL 3 pts
- SER 3 pts
- SET 3 pts
- SIR 3 pts
- SIT 3 pts
- SRI 3 pts
- TEE 3 pts
- TEL 3 pts
- TES 3 pts
- TIE 3 pts
- TIL 3 pts
- TIS 3 pts
2-letter words
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