Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
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.
- 2intransitive verb
To See as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in calenture:
Common word forms
Words from these letters
If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for CALENTURE lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.