toxophilite
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- Scrabble points
- 23
- Words With Friends
- 24
- Letters
- 11
Definition of toxophilite
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Pertaining to archery.
“What causes them to labour at pianoforte sonatas, and to learn four songs from a fashionable master at a guinea a lesson, and to play the harp if they have handsome arms and neat elbows, and to wear Lincoln Green toxophilite hats and feathers, but that they may bring down some "desirable" young man with those killing bows and arrows of theirs?”
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adj
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Pertaining to archery.
“What causes them to labour at pianoforte sonatas, and to learn four songs from a fashionable master at a guinea a lesson, and to play the harp if they have handsome arms and neat elbows, and to wear Lincoln Green toxophilite hats and feathers, but that they may bring down some "desirable" young man with those killing bows and arrows of theirs?”
noun
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Someone keen on or an expert at archery; a lover or practitioner of archery.
“Here the gardens of the place encroached with a somewhat wide sweep upon the paddock, and gave ample room for the doings of the toxophilites. Miss Thorne got together such daughters of Diana as could bend a bow, and marshalled them to the targets.”
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Etymology
From Toxophilus, the title of a 1545 book by Roger Ascham intended to mean ‘lover of the bow’, from Ancient Greek τόξον (tóxon, “bow”) + φίλος (phílos, “love”); equivalent to τόξον (tóxon) + -philite.
Words you can make from toxophilite
195 playable · top: PHLOX (17 pts)
Best play phlox 17 points9-letter words
1 word7-letter words
4 words6-letter words
16 words5-letter words
34 words- HELIX 15 pts
- OXLIP 14 pts
- PIXEL 14 pts
- PIXIE 14 pts
- EXTOL 12 pts
- IXTLE 12 pts
- PHOTO 10 pts
- TOPHE 10 pts
- TOPHI 10 pts
- HELIO 8 pts
- HELOT 8 pts
- HOTEL 8 pts
- LITHE 8 pts
- LITHO 8 pts
- THIOL 8 pts
- THOLE 8 pts
- TILTH 8 pts
- TITHE 8 pts
- TOOTH 8 pts
- PETIT 7 pts
- PETTI 7 pts
- PETTO 7 pts
- PILEI 7 pts
- PILOT 7 pts
- PITOT 7 pts
- POLIO 7 pts
- POTTO 7 pts
- TOPOI 7 pts
- LOOIE 5 pts
- LOTTE 5 pts
- LOTTO 5 pts
- TELOI 5 pts
- TITLE 5 pts
- TOILE 5 pts
4-letter words
61 words- EXPO 13 pts
- PLEX 13 pts
- EXIT 11 pts
- ILEX 11 pts
- TEXT 11 pts
- HELP 9 pts
- HOLP 9 pts
- HOOP 9 pts
- HOPE 9 pts
- PHEO 9 pts
- PHOT 9 pts
- PITH 9 pts
- POOH 9 pts
- TOPH 9 pts
- ELHI 7 pts
- HEIL 7 pts
- HELO 7 pts
- HILI 7 pts
- HILT 7 pts
- HOLE 7 pts
- HOLO 7 pts
- HOLT 7 pts
- HOOT 7 pts
- LOTH 7 pts
- TETH 7 pts
- THIO 7 pts
- LEPT 6 pts
- LIPE 6 pts
- LIPO 6 pts
- LOOP 6 pts
- LOPE 6 pts
- PELT 6 pts
- PILE 6 pts
- PILI 6 pts
- PLIE 6 pts
- PLOT 6 pts
- POET 6 pts
- POLE 6 pts
- POLO 6 pts
- POOL 6 pts
- TIPI 6 pts
- TOPE 6 pts
- TOPI 6 pts
- TOPO 6 pts
- LITE 4 pts
- LOOT 4 pts
- LOTI 4 pts
- LOTO 4 pts
- OLEO 4 pts
- OLIO 4 pts
- OTTO 4 pts
- TILE 4 pts
- TILT 4 pts
- TITI 4 pts
- TOIL 4 pts
- TOIT 4 pts
- TOLE 4 pts
- TOLT 4 pts
- TOOL 4 pts
- TOOT 4 pts
- TOTE 4 pts
3-letter words
56 words- HEX 13 pts
- PIX 12 pts
- POX 12 pts
- LEX 10 pts
- LOX 10 pts
- OXO 10 pts
- TIX 10 pts
- HEP 8 pts
- HIP 8 pts
- HOP 8 pts
- PEH 8 pts
- PHI 8 pts
- PHO 8 pts
- PHT 8 pts
- POH 8 pts
- ETH 6 pts
- HET 6 pts
- HIE 6 pts
- HIT 6 pts
- HOE 6 pts
- HOO 6 pts
- HOT 6 pts
- OHO 6 pts
- OOH 6 pts
- THE 6 pts
- THO 6 pts
- LIP 5 pts
- LOP 5 pts
- OPE 5 pts
- OPT 5 pts
- PET 5 pts
- PIE 5 pts
- PIT 5 pts
- POI 5 pts
- POL 5 pts
- POO 5 pts
- POT 5 pts
- TIP 5 pts
- TOP 5 pts
- LEI 3 pts
- LET 3 pts
- LIE 3 pts
- LIT 3 pts
- LOO 3 pts
- LOT 3 pts
- OIL 3 pts
- OLE 3 pts
- OOT 3 pts
- TEL 3 pts
- TET 3 pts
- TIE 3 pts
- TIL 3 pts
- TIT 3 pts
- TOE 3 pts
- TOO 3 pts
- TOT 3 pts
2-letter words
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