Quelling

Meaning

1. (verb) To subdue, to put down; to silence or force (someone) to submit.
2. (verb) To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish. “to quell grief”
3. (verb) To kill.
4. (verb) To be subdued or abated; to diminish.
5. (verb) To die.
6. (noun) The act by which something is quelled.
7. (adjective) Causing something to quell or be quelled

Letter breakdown

• Quelling contains 8 letters: 3 vowel(s) and 5 consonant(s).
• It uses 7 unique letters.
• Estimated syllable count: 2.
• Scrabble-style letter score: 18.

Words from these letters

• guile
• lunge
• quell
• quill
• quine
• gill
• glen
• glue
• gull
• lien
• lieu
• line
• lung
• null
• ell
• gel
• gen
• gin
• gnu
• gun
• ill
• leg
• lei
• lie
• lug
• neg
• nil

Connected words

Other 8-letter words

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• abacuses
• abalones
• abandons
• abashing
• abattoir
• abbesses
• abdicate
• abdomens
• abducted
• abductee
• abductor
• aberrant
• abetters
• abetting
• abettors
• abeyance
• abhorred

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Words starting with QUE

• queasier
• queasiest
• queasily
• queasiness
• queasy
• queen
• queened
• queening
• queenlier
• queenliest
• queenly
• queens
• queer
• queered
• queerer
• queerest
• queering
• queerly

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Words ending with ING

• abandoning
• abashing
• abasing
• abating
• abbreviating
• abdicating
• abducting
• abetting
• abhorring
• abiding
• abjuring
• abnegating
• abolishing
• abominating
• aborting
• abounding
• abrading
• abridging

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