Definitions for Whales

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Spelling: [hweylz, weylz]
IPA: /ʰweɪlz, weɪlz/

Whales is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in Whales (aehlsw).

Definitions for Whales

noun

  1. Bay of, an inlet of the Ross Sea, in Antarctica: location of Little America.
  2. any of the larger marine mammals of the order Cetacea, especially as distinguished from the smaller dolphins and porpoises, having a fishlike body, forelimbs modified into flippers, and a head that is horizontally flattened.
  3. Informal. something big, great, or fine of its kind:
  4. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Cetus.

verb

  1. to hit, thrash, or beat soundly.

verb (used without object)

  1. to engage in whaling or whale fishing.

Origin of Whales

before 900; Middle English; Old English hwæl; cognate with German Wal- in Walfisch, Old Norse hvalr; perhaps akin to Latin squalus kind of fish

Examples for Whales

It is so with earthquakes, cases of hydrophobia, Whales stranded on the shore.

He did so, but he said that they were not Whales; they were porpoises.

I've been turnin' out another school of swordfish and Whales, too.

But which mammals are their closest relatives, and when did Whales enter the seas?

Thor caught two Whales and carried them to the giant's house, as he had promised.

And this in turn affects the fish, Whales, dolphins, turtles, dugongs and seabirds that live within the Reef.

Then we ran close to the neighborhood of a school of Whales, evidently feeding.

According to the activists, at least one of the Whales is female and goes by the name “Narnia.”

From Whales to ships to unlucky explorers, the Skeleton Coast has become the graveyard of many.

But the TARP did not just feed the Whales of the American banking system.

Word Value for Whales
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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