calenture

calenture is a 9-letter English word with 2 senses as noun and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 15 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 11 · Words With Friends 15 · 2 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it.
2. intransitive verb. To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in calenture:

crenulate

Common word forms

calentured, calentures, calenturing

Words from these letters

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