Definitions for chilblains

chilblains chil·blain

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

Chilblains is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 384 anagrams from letters in chilblains (abchiillns).

Definitions for chilblains

noun

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

Origin of chilblains

First recorded in 1540-50; chill + blain

Examples for chilblains

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Word Value for chilblains
Scrable

16

Words with friends

20

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