Boil in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Boil

You can make 15 words from 'boil' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 4 letters words from 'boil'
• 3 letters words from 'boil'
• 2 letters words from 'boil'

4 letters words from 'boil'

BOIL 6

LOBI 6

3 letters words from 'boil'

BIO 5	BOI 5
LIB 5	LOB 5
OBI 5	OIL 3

2 letters words from 'boil'

BI 4	BO 4
IO 2	LI 2
LO 2	OB 4
OI 2

Definitions and meaning of boil

boil

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɔɪl/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪl

Etymology 1

From Middle English bile, büle (“boil, tumor”), from Old English bȳl, bȳle (“boil, swelling”), from Proto-Germanic *būlijō, *būlō (“boil”). Akin to German Beule (“boil, hump”), Icelandic beyla (“swelling, hump”).

Noun

boil (plural boils)

1. A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.

Synonyms

Derived terms

• sand boil (pathology)

Translations

Further reading

• Boil on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English boylen, from Old French boillir (French: bouillir) from Latin bullīre, present active infinitive of bulliō (“I bubble, boil”), from bulla (“bubble”). Displaced native Middle English sethen (“to boil”) (from Old English sēoþan (“to boil, seethe”)), Middle English wellen (“to boil, bubble”) (from Old English wiellan (“to bubble, boil”)), Middle English wallen (“to well up, boil”) (from Old English weallan (“to well up, boil”)). More at seethe, well.

Noun

boil (plural boils)

1. The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.

   Add the noodles when the water comes to the boil.

2. A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
3. (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
4. (Scotland, archaic) A bubbling.
   • 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet

     He swam to the place where Mary disappeared but there was neither boil nor gurgle on the water, nor even a bell of departing breath, to mark the place where his beloved had sunk.

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Verb

boil (third-person singular simple present boils, present participle boiling, simple past and past participle boiled)

1. (transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To cook in boiling water.
3. (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.

4. (transitive, UK, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 20–21:

     I'll boil the kettle.

5. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.

6. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.

7. (transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
8. (obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
9. To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
10. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.

Synonyms

• (of a liquid): seethe, well, plaw (UK, dialectal, dated, uncommon); see also Thesaurus:cook
• (of the weather): be baking, be scorching, be sweltering
• (of a person): be seething, be baking, be stewing

Antonyms

• (of a liquid): condense
• (of the weather): be freezing
• (of a person): be freezing

Derived terms

Related terms

• ebullient

Translations

See also

• bake
• condense
• freeze
• fry
• grill
• poach
• steam

Further reading

• Boiling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• bilo, biol, biol., boli, lobi

Source: wiktionary.org

• to pass rapidly from liquid into vapour.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)