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Is anneal a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word anneal is a Scrabble US word. The word anneal is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is anneal a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word anneal is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

A1N1N1E1A1L1

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Yes. The word anneal is a Words With Friends word. The word anneal is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

ANNEAL,

5-letter words (2 found)

ALANE,ANNAL,

4-letter words (14 found)

ALAE,ALAN,ANAL,ANAN,ANNA,ELAN,LANA,LANE,LEAN,NAAN,NALA,NANA,NANE,NEAL,

3-letter words (10 found)

AAL,ALA,ALE,ANA,ANE,ANN,EAN,LEA,NAE,NAN,

2-letter words (10 found)

AA,AE,AL,AN,EA,EL,EN,LA,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 38 words from anneal according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of anneal

anneal

Etymology

From Middle English anelen, onelen, from Old English onǣlan (“to burn, ignite, set fire to, consume, heat, enlighten, incite, inflame, inspire, kindle”), from Proto-Germanic *ana (“on”) + Proto-Germanic *ailijaną (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“to burn”).

The word is related to Old English onāl (“that which is burnt, burning; incense”), Old English āl (“fire, burning”), Icelandic eldur (“fire”), Swedish eld (“fire, flame”), Danish ild (“fire”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /əˈniːl/
  • Rhymes: -iːl
  • Hyphenation: an‧neal

Verb

anneal (third-person singular simple present anneals, present participle annealing, simple past and past participle annealed)

  1. (metallurgy) To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
  2. To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.
  3. (archaic) To burn colors onto a glass or other surface.
  4. (genetics, transitive, intransitive) To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.
  5. (figurative, archaic or poetic) To strengthen or harden.

Alternative forms

  • aneal (metallurgy)

Synonyms

  • (harden): indurate, ruggedize, temper; see also Thesaurus:harden
  • (strengthen): See also Thesaurus:strengthen

Translations

Noun

anneal (plural anneals)

  1. (chemistry, metallurgy) An act of annealing.

Further reading

  • Annealing (metallurgy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Annealing (glass) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Leanna

Source: wiktionary.org