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Yes. The word germinal is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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8-letter words (3 found)

GERMINAL,MALIGNER,MALINGER,

7-letter words (26 found)

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6-letter words (64 found)

AGILER,AIRMEN,ALINER,ALMNER,ANGLER,ARLING,ARMING,EALING,EARING,ENGRAM,ENIGMA,ERLANG,GAINER,GAMIER,GAMINE,GENIAL,GERMAN,GERMIN,GIRNEL,GLAIRE,GRAILE,GRAINE,IMAGER,INGRAM,LAMING,LANGER,LARGEN,LARINE,LEGMAN,LEMING,LERING,LIMNER,LINAGE,LINEAR,LINGAM,LINGER,MAIGRE,MAILER,MAINER,MALGRE,MALIGN,MALINE,MANGEL,MANGER,MANGLE,MARGIN,MARINE,MARLIN,MENIAL,MERING,MERLIN,MILAGE,MINGER,MINGLE,MIRAGE,NAILER,RAGMEN,REAGIN,REGAIN,REGINA,REGNAL,REMAIL,REMAIN,RENAIL,

5-letter words (87 found)

AGILE,AGRIN,AIMER,ALGIN,ALIEN,ALIGN,ALINE,AMINE,ANGEL,ANGER,ANGLE,ANILE,ANIME,ARGIL,ARGLE,ARIEL,ARMIL,ELAIN,EMAIL,ENARM,ERING,GAMER,GAMIN,GARNI,GENAL,GIMEL,GLAIR,GLARE,GLEAM,GLEAN,GLIME,GNARL,GRAIL,GRAIN,GRAME,GREIN,GRIME,IMAGE,INARM,INERM,INGLE,LAGER,LAMER,LARGE,LEARN,LEMAN,LIANE,LIANG,LIGAN,LIGER,LIGNE,LIMAN,LIMEN,LINER,LINGA,MAERL,MAILE,MAIRE,MANGE,MARGE,MARLE,MERIL,MILER,MINAE,MINAR,MINER,MINGE,NAMER,NERAL,NIGER,RAILE,RAINE,RAMEN,RAMIE,RAMIN,RANGE,RANGI,REALM,REGAL,REGMA,REGNA,REIGN,REMAN,RENAL,RENGA,RENIG,RIMAE,

4-letter words (129 found)

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3-letter words (73 found)

AGE,AIL,AIM,AIN,AIR,ALE,AME,AMI,ANE,ANI,ARE,ARM,EAN,EAR,ELM,ENG,ERA,ERG,ERM,ERN,GAE,GAL,GAM,GAN,GAR,GEL,GEM,GEN,GER,GIE,GIN,ING,IRE,LAG,LAM,LAR,LEA,LEG,LEI,LIE,LIG,LIN,MAE,MAG,MAL,MAN,MAR,MEG,MEL,MEN,MIG,MIL,MIR,MNA,NAE,NAG,NAM,NEG,NIE,NIL,NIM,RAG,RAI,RAM,RAN,REG,REI,REM,REN,RIA,RIG,RIM,RIN,

2-letter words (22 found)

AE,AG,AI,AL,AM,AN,AR,EA,EL,EM,EN,ER,GI,IN,LA,LI,MA,ME,MI,NA,NE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 405 words from germinal according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of germinal

germinal

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdʒɜː(ɹ)mɪnəl/

Adjective

germinal (comparative more germinal, superlative most germinal)

  1. Relating to spring
  2. Pertaining, similar, or belonging to a germ.
  3. (botany) Relating to a plant ovary.
  4. (figuratively) Serving as a point of origin; formative.
  5. (figuratively) Highly influential; seminal.

Usage notes

In sense “highly influential”, primarily used as a consciously feminist alternative to male seminal (germ (“egg”) vs. semen).

Synonyms

  • (relating to spring): vernal
  • (relating to seed): seminal
  • (influential): seminal

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

  • “germinal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “germinal”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • maligner, malinger

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ʒər.miˈnal]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [d͡ʒeɾ.miˈnal]

Adjective

germinal m or f (masculine and feminine plural germinals)

  1. germinal

Noun

germinal m (plural germinals)

  1. (historical) Germinal (the month)

French

Etymology

From Latin germin- (“sprout, bud”) + -al.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒɛʁ.mi.nal/
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Homophones: germinale, germinales, germinals

Adjective

germinal (feminine germinale, masculine plural germinaux, feminine plural germinales)

  1. germinal

Noun

germinal m (plural germinals)

  1. (historical) Germinal (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)

See also

  • (French Republican Calendar months) mois du calendrier républicain; vendémiaire, brumaire, frimaire, nivôse, pluviôse, ventôse, germinal, floréal, prairial, messidor, thermidor, fructidor (Category: fr:Months)

Further reading

  • “germinal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • malingre

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French germinal.

Noun

germinal m (uncountable)

  1. Germinal

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xeɾmiˈnal/ [xeɾ.miˈnal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: ger‧mi‧nal

Adjective

germinal m or f (masculine and feminine plural germinales)

  1. germinal

Noun

germinal m (plural germinales)

  1. Germinal

Further reading

  • “germinal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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