drencher

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
15
Letters
8

Definition of drencher

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. One who, or that which, drenches.
See all 2 definitions

noun

  1. One who, or that which, drenches.
  2. A fire prevention device, like a sprinkler but ejecting a denser curtain of water and sometimes mounted on the outside of a building to prevent the spread of fire from those nearby.
    “A second system of conventional dry sprinkler heads is interspersed with the drencher heads.”
    “The drencher supply should also be separate from the sprinkler supply.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English *drencher (found in the Surname Drencher), equivalent to drench + -er.

Hooks

1 extension · 1 back

A single letter you can add to drencher to make another valid word.

Find your best play with drencher

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes drencher, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.