Definitions for chilblain

chilblain chil·blain

Spelling: [chil-bleyn]
IPA: /ˈtʃɪl bleɪn/

Chilblain is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 192 anagrams from letters in chilblain (abchiilln).

Definitions for chilblain

noun

  1. an inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold and moisture.

Origin of chilblain

First recorded in 1540-50; chill + blain

Examples for chilblain

You don't hardly hear of chilblain feet now, but then most every child you saw had cracked heels.

Jimmy would be sure to tell her that the first signs of a chilblain were approaching.

"Break the camera," Burnett Minor murmured to the chilblain.

Many a chilblain I carried away from kneeling on those granite flags.

"Yes," said he, in that cool way he has, which can be as irritating as a chilblain.

I did look like that in his studio, though the chilblain was itching.

But Boreas Bluster, coming in just then, saw what was going on, and gave chilblain a whack that sent him spinning out of the room.

The beastly thing's alphabetical, and only gets to "chilblain."

Got a thorn in your shoe, or a stone-bruise, or a chilblain?

But I was not so to be finished off, though feeling in my knuckles now as if it were a blueness and a sense of chilblain.

Word Value for chilblain
Scrable

16

Words with friends

20

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