whalebone
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 17
- Words With Friends
- 19
- Letters
- 9
Definition of whalebone
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)The horny material from the fringed plates of the upper jaw of baleen whales that is used to filter plankton; once used as stays in corsets
““You have probably never seen anything like this before, Mr. Toler. It is baleen, or if you prefer it, whalebone, taken from the mouth of the bowhead whale. It is used by the whale to filter its food.””
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Etymology
From whale + bone.
Words you can make from whalebone
183 playable · top: HEWABLE (15 pts)
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1 word6-letter words
5 words5-letter words
24 words4-letter words
63 words- HEWN 10 pts
- HOWE 10 pts
- HOWL 10 pts
- HWAN 10 pts
- WHEE 10 pts
- WHEN 10 pts
- WHOA 10 pts
- BAWL 9 pts
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- BLAH 9 pts
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- BLEW 9 pts
- BLOW 9 pts
- BOWL 9 pts
- NEWB 9 pts
- ALOW 7 pts
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- HALE 7 pts
- HALO 7 pts
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- HEEL 7 pts
- HELO 7 pts
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- LAWN 7 pts
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- LOWN 7 pts
- WALE 7 pts
- WANE 7 pts
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- ABLE 6 pts
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- BLAE 6 pts
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- BOLE 6 pts
- BONE 6 pts
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- LOBE 6 pts
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- AEON 4 pts
- ALEE 4 pts
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- ELAN 4 pts
- ENOL 4 pts
- LANE 4 pts
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- LENO 4 pts
- LOAN 4 pts
- LONE 4 pts
- NOEL 4 pts
- OLEA 4 pts
3-letter words
62 words- HAW 9 pts
- HEW 9 pts
- HOW 9 pts
- WHA 9 pts
- WHO 9 pts
- BAH 8 pts
- BOW 8 pts
- HOB 8 pts
- WAB 8 pts
- WEB 8 pts
- AWE 6 pts
- AWL 6 pts
- AWN 6 pts
- EEW 6 pts
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- HAO 6 pts
- HEN 6 pts
- HOE 6 pts
- HON 6 pts
- LAH 6 pts
- LAW 6 pts
- LOW 6 pts
- NAH 6 pts
- NAW 6 pts
- NEW 6 pts
- NOH 6 pts
- NOW 6 pts
- OWE 6 pts
- OWL 6 pts
- OWN 6 pts
- WAE 6 pts
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- ALB 5 pts
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- BOA 5 pts
- LAB 5 pts
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- NAB 5 pts
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- OBA 5 pts
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- ALE 3 pts
- ANE 3 pts
- EEL 3 pts
- EON 3 pts
- LEA 3 pts
- LEE 3 pts
- NAE 3 pts
- NEE 3 pts
- OLE 3 pts
- ONE 3 pts
2-letter words
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