parboil
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
Definition of parboil
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
- To boil food briefly so that it is partly cooked.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English parboyle, from Old French parbouillir (“to boil thoroughly”), from Medieval Latin perbulliō, from Latin per (“thoroughly”) + bulliō (“to boil”). Sense “to boil partially” (c.1440), rather than original “to boil thoroughly” is by corruption: associating the prefix with part (from Latin pars (“part”)) rather than per.
Words you can make from parboil
104 playable · top: BIPOLAR (11 pts)
Best play bipolar 11 points6-letter words
1 word5-letter words
12 words4-letter words
32 words- BLIP 8 pts
- PROB 8 pts
- ABRI 6 pts
- BAIL 6 pts
- BIRL 6 pts
- BIRO 6 pts
- BOAR 6 pts
- BOIL 6 pts
- BOLA 6 pts
- BORA 6 pts
- BRIO 6 pts
- LARP 6 pts
- LIPA 6 pts
- LIPO 6 pts
- OBIA 6 pts
- OPAL 6 pts
- PAIL 6 pts
- PAIR 6 pts
- PALI 6 pts
- PIAL 6 pts
- PRAO 6 pts
- PROA 6 pts
- RABI 6 pts
- ARIL 4 pts
- LAIR 4 pts
- LARI 4 pts
- LIAR 4 pts
- LIRA 4 pts
- ORAL 4 pts
- RAIL 4 pts
- RIAL 4 pts
- ROIL 4 pts
3-letter words
42 words- BAP 7 pts
- BOP 7 pts
- ALB 5 pts
- ALP 5 pts
- APO 5 pts
- ARB 5 pts
- BAL 5 pts
- BAR 5 pts
- BIO 5 pts
- BOA 5 pts
- BRA 5 pts
- BRO 5 pts
- LAB 5 pts
- LAP 5 pts
- LIB 5 pts
- LIP 5 pts
- LOB 5 pts
- LOP 5 pts
- OBA 5 pts
- OBI 5 pts
- OPA 5 pts
- ORB 5 pts
- PAL 5 pts
- PAR 5 pts
- PIA 5 pts
- POI 5 pts
- POL 5 pts
- PRO 5 pts
- RAP 5 pts
- RIB 5 pts
- RIP 5 pts
- ROB 5 pts
- AIL 3 pts
- AIR 3 pts
- ARO 3 pts
- LAR 3 pts
- LOR 3 pts
- OAR 3 pts
- OIL 3 pts
- ORA 3 pts
- RAI 3 pts
- RIA 3 pts
2-letter words
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