broadbill

broadbill is a 9-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A wild duck (Aythya, / Fuligula, marila), which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; -- called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See Scaup duck. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 18 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A wild duck (Aythya, / Fuligula, marila), which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; -- called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See Scaup duck.
2. noun. The shoveler. See Shoveler.
3. noun. small birds of the Old World tropics having bright plumage and short wide bills
4. noun. freshwater duck of the northern hemisphere having a broad flat bill

   Synonyms: shoveler, shoveller

5. noun. diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill

   Synonyms: bluebill, scaup

6. noun. tropical American heron related to night herons

   Synonyms: boatbill

Synonyms

shoveler, shoveller, bluebill, scaup, boatbill

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in broadbill:

billboard, boardbill

Common word forms

broadbills

Words from these letters

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