Definition of ball

"ball" in the noun sense

1. ball

round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games

"the ball travelled 90 mph on his serve"

"the mayor threw out the first ball"

"the ball rolled into the corner pocket"

2. musket ball, ball

a solid projectile that is shot by a musket

"they had to carry a ramrod as well as powder and ball"

3. ball, globe, orb

an object with a spherical shape

"a ball of fire"

4. ball

the people assembled at a lavish formal dance

"the ball was already emptying out before the fire alarm sounded"

5. testis, testicle, orchis, ball, ballock, bollock, nut, egg

one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens

"she kicked him in the balls and got away"

6. ball

a spherical object used as a plaything

"he played with his rubber ball in the bathtub"

7. Ball, Lucille Ball

United States comedienne best known as the star of a popular television program (1911-1989)

8. ball, clod, glob, lump, clump, chunk

a compact mass

"a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder"

9. ball, formal

a lavish dance requiring formal attire

10. ball

a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass

"the ball at the base of the thumb"

"he stood on the balls of his feet"

11. baseball, baseball game, ball

a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players teams take turns at bat trying to score runs

"he played baseball in high school"

"there was a baseball game on every empty lot"

"there was a desire for National League ball in the area"

"play ball!"

12. ball

a pitch that is not in the strike zone

"he threw nine straight balls before the manager yanked him"

"ball" in the verb sense

1. ball

form into a ball by winding or rolling

"ball wool"

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Quotations for ball

The world is a masked ball. [ Mery ]

Clean hands want no wash ball. [ Proverb ]

Two to one is odds at foot-ball. [ Proverb ]

No compound of this earthly ball
Is like another all in all. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Against the flying ball no valor avails. [ Luther ]

You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball. [ H. W. Shaw ]

In various talk the instructive hours they past,
Who gave the ball, or paid the visit lasts
One speaks the glory of the British queen.
And one describes a charming Indian screen;
A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;
At every word a reputation dies. [ Pope ]

Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe. [ Byron ]

If the ball does not stick to the wall, yet it will leave some mark. [ Proverb ]

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

At a ball, men are the timid sex, and also the feebler sex; for they are always the first to be fatigued. [ A. Karr ]

Charity balls are a curse. The name is a subtle argument in favor of their existence, but if ever anything belied its name, it is a charity ball. [ Geo. F. Hall ]

The more weakness the more falsehood; strength goes straight; every cannon-ball that has in it hollows and holes goes crooked; weaklings must lie. [ Richter ]

The stroke that comes transmitted through a whole galaxy of elastic balls, is it less a stroke than if the last ball only had been struck and sent flying? [ Carlyle ]

Why was the sight to such a tender ball as the eye confined, so obvious and so easy to be quenched, and not, as feeling, through all parts diffused, that she might look at will through every pore? [ Milton ]

I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest high catch, and he never walked off the field. [ Yogi Berra ]

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand one cannon ball than a volley of bullets. [ Colton ]

Social dissipation, as witnessed in the ball-room, is the abettor of pride, the instigator of jealousv, it is the (sacrificial altar of health, it is the defiler of the soul, it is the avenue of lust and it is the curse of every tower in America. [ Talmage ]

If you're a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, Boy, these are good cigars! [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. You don't have to tell me, I said. I'm off the team, aren't I? Well, said Coach, you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times. It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

ball in Scrabble®

The word ball is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters ball:

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ball in Words With Friends™

The word ball is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters ball:

BALL
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Words within the letters of ball

2 letter words in ball (2 words)

3 letter words in ball (3 words)

4 letter words in ball (1 word)

ball + 1 blank (3 words)

Words containing the sequence ball

Words with ball in them (145 words)

Word Growth involving ball

Shorter words in ball

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Longer words containing ball

ballad balladmongered

ballad balladmongerer balladmongerers

ballad balladmongeries

ballad balladmongery

ballad ballads quasiballads

ballad quasiballad quasiballads

ballast ballasted unballasted

ballast ballasting unballasting

ballast ballasts unballasts

ballast reballast

ballast unballast unballasted

ballast unballast unballasting

ballast unballast unballasts

ballbearing ballbearings

ballcock ballcocks

balldress balldresses

balled blackballed

balled caballed

balled cabballed

balled cannonballed

balled curveballed

balled eyeballed

balled fireballed

balled handballed

balled kaballed

balled kabballed

balled lowballed

balled moonballed

balled mothballed

balled qaballed

balled qabballed

balled snowballed

balled verballed

ballerina ballerinas

ballet balletic

ballet ballets

ballfield ballfields

ballgame ballgames

ballgown ballgowns

balling blackballing

balling caballing

balling cabballing

balling cannonballing

balling curveballing

balling eyeballing

balling fireballing

balling footballing

balling kaballing

balling kabballing

balling lowballing lowballings

balling moonballing

balling mothballing

balling qaballing

balling qabballing

balling speedballing

balling verballing

ballistic aeroballistic aeroballistically

ballistic aeroballistic aeroballistics

ballistic antiballistic antiballistical antiballistically

ballistic ballistically aeroballistically

ballistic ballistically antiballistically

ballistic ballistician ballisticians

ballistic ballistics aeroballistics

ballistite ballistites

ballistocardiogram ballistocardiograms

ballistocardiograph ballistocardiographer ballistocardiographers

ballistocardiograph ballistocardiographic ballistocardiographical ballistocardiographically

ballistocardiograph ballistocardiographies

ballistocardiograph ballistocardiographs

ballistocardiograph ballistocardiography

ballistospore ballistospores

balloon ballooned

balloon ballooner ballooners

balloon balloonfish balloonfishes

balloon balloonflower balloonflowers

balloon balloonful balloonfuls

balloon ballooning

balloon balloonist balloonists

balloon balloonlike

balloon balloons balloonsful

ballot balloted reballoted

ballot balloting reballoting

ballot ballots reballots

ballot reballot reballoted

ballot reballot reballoting

ballot reballot reballots

ballpark ballparks

ballpen ballpens

ballplayer ballplayers

ballpoint ballpoints

ballroom ballrooms

balls ballstock ballstocks

balls baseballs

balls basketballs

balls beanballs

balls blackballs

balls broomballs

balls buckyballs

balls butterballs

balls cannonballs

balls cheeseballs

balls coalballs

balls crystalballs

balls cueballs

balls curveballs

balls dodgeballs

balls eightballs

balls eyeballs

balls fastballs

balls fireballs

balls flyballs

balls footballs

balls goofballs

balls greaseballs

balls gumballs

balls hairballs

balls handballs

balls hardballs

balls heelballs

balls highballs

balls horoballs

balls iceballs

balls kickballs

balls knuckleballs

balls lowballs

balls meatballs

balls moonballs

balls mothballs

balls oddballs

balls paddleballs

balls paintballs

balls pithballs

balls puffballs

balls punchballs

balls racketballs

balls racquetballs

balls rollerballs

balls rumballs

balls screwballs

balls scuzzballs

balls sleazeballs

balls slimeballs

balls snowballs

balls soccerballs

balls softballs

balls sourballs

balls speedballs

balls spitballs

balls thunderballs

balls trackballs

balls trackerballs

balls volleyballs

balls washballs

ballyhoo ballyhooed

ballyhoo ballyhooing

ballyhoo ballyhoos

baseball baseballs

basketball basketballer basketballers

basketball basketballs

beachball

beanball beanballs

blackball blackballed

blackball blackballing

blackball blackballs

broomball broomballer broomballers

broomball broomballs

buckyball buckyballs

butterball butterballs

cannonball cannonballed

cannonball cannonballing

cannonball cannonballs

cheeseball cheeseballs

coalball coalballs

cornball

crystalball crystalballs

cueball cueballs

curveball curveballed

curveball curveballing

curveball curveballs

cymballike

dirtball

dodgeball dodgeballs

eightball eightballs

extratubally

eyeball eyeballed

eyeball eyeballing

eyeball eyeballs

fastball fastballer fastballers

fastball fastballs

fireball fireballed

fireball fireballer fireballers

fireball fireballing

fireball fireballs

flyball flyballs

football footballer footballers

football footballing

football footballist footballists

football footballs

football nonfootball

fuzzball

gameball

globally

goofball goofballs

gumball gumballs

hairball hairballs

handball handballed

handball handballer handballers

handball handballs

hardball hardballs

heelball heelballs

highball highballs

horoball horoballs

hullaballoos

iceball iceballs

intratubally

kickball kickballs

knuckleball knuckleballer knuckleballers

knuckleball knuckleballs

longball

lowball lowballed

lowball lowballing lowballings

lowball lowballs

meatball meatballs

moonball moonballed

moonball moonballing

moonball moonballs

mothball mothballed

mothball mothballing

mothball mothballs

netball

oddball oddballs

paddleball paddleballs

paintball paintballs

pinball

pithball pithballs

puffball puffballs

punchball punchballs

racketball racketballs

racquetball racquetballs

rollerball rollerballs

rumball rumballs

screwball screwballs

scuzzball scuzzballs

sleazeball sleazeballs

snowball snowballed

snowball snowballs

softball softballer softballers

softball softballs

sourball sourballs

speedball speedballing

speedball speedballs

spitball spitballs

stickball

suballiance suballiances

suballuvial

tarball

tetherball

thunderball thunderballs

trackball trackballs

trackerball trackerballs

tribally

trilobally

unilobally

verbally nonverbally

volleyball volleyballs

washball washballs