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TRIGGER

“TRIGGER” is a valid word.

9 Scrabble points
11 Words with Friends
7 letters

Definition

noun

  1. lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun
  2. a device that activates or releases or causes something to happen
  3. an act that sets in motion some course of events

verb

  1. put in motion or move to act
  2. release or pull the trigger on

< 7-letter words: TRIGGER

30 words found

6-letter words 1

  • riggersomeone who rigs ships

5-letter words 3

  • tigera fierce or audacious person
  • trierone (as a judge) who examines and settles a case
  • rerig

4-letter words 7

  • tirehoop that covers a wheel
  • ritean established ceremony prescribed by a religion
  • grita hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone
  • tiera relative position or degree of value in a graded group
  • trigthe mathematics of triangles and trigonometric functions
  • grig
  • girtprepare oneself for a military confrontation

3-letter words 14

  • geta return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent
  • tieneckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
  • egganimal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds
  • giglong and light rowing boat; especially for racing
  • riggear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise
  • reg
  • errto make a mistake or be incorrect
  • gita person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
  • rei
  • gie
  • irea strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
  • erga cgs unit of work or energy; the work done by a force of one dyne acting over a distance of one centimeter
  • tegtwo-year-old sheep
  • retplace (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue

2-letter words 5

  • itthe branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information
  • era trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs with yttrium
  • rea rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys; is obtained as a by-product in refining molybdenum
  • et
  • tia light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite