verbarium
UK/ˌvɜːˈbɛəɹi.əm/US/ˌvɝˈbɛɹi.əm/
verbarium noun: a word game in which the players are given a set of letters and must form as many words as possible from subsets of those letters.
Noun
verbarium (uncountable)
- A word game in which the players are given a set of letters and must form as many words as possible from subsets of those letters.
- We have played Verbarium with great pleasure, dividing the company into two sections or sides.1889, 'anonymous subscriber', “Indoor Games”, in The Christian Union, volume 40, page 311
- […] next she would play euchre twenty minutes; next it would be a game of verbarium, and so on all the day long—twenty minutes to each fleeting interest, with twenty minutes of billiards sandwiched between every two of them.c. 1908, Mark Twain, Dorothy Quick - Her April Fool's Anecdote
Origin of verbarium
From Latin verbum (“word”) + -arium.
Words that rhyme with verbarium
- columbarium
- tepidarium
- caldarium
- sacrarium
- -arium
- herbarium
- necessarium
- ocularium
- samarium
- vestiarium
- acarinarium
- allylsamarium
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- antiquarium
- aquaterrarium
- argentarium
- armamentarium
- ascidiarium
- avicularium
- balsamarium
- bullarium
- bunarium
- calendarium
- calidarium
- calvarium
- canarium
- chilarium
- cibarium
- cinerarium
- clavicularium
- cochlearium
- collectarium
- collunarium
- cometarium
- conarium
- demecarium
- dibarium
- disamarium
- disciplinarium
- dissepimentarium
- emissarium
- evangelarium
- formicarium
- frigidarium
- fusarium
- gerbilarium
- germarium
- glaciarium
- glirarium
- gnathochilarium
- herpetarium
- hexabarium
- imaginarium
- insectarium
- Intermarium
- intracalvarium
- itinerarium
- juvenarium
- lactarium
- lararium
- larvarium
Questions about verbarium
- What does verbarium mean?
- Verbarium means a word game in which the players are given a set of letters and must form as many words as possible from subsets of those letters.
- What part of speech is verbarium?
- Verbarium is a noun.
- How do you pronounce verbarium?
- Verbarium is pronounced /ˌvɜːˈbɛəɹi.əm/ (UK).
Words near verbarium in the dictionary
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