billiard

Plural: billiards

Adjective

of or relating to billiards
- "a billiard ball"
- "a billiard cue"
- "a billiard table"

Noun

A shot in billiards where the cue ball strikes two object balls.
A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.
Pertaining to the game of billiards.
A dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflections from a boundary.

Num

10¹⁵, a thousand billion (long scale) or a million milliard.

Examples

a billiard table; a billiard ball
Her play was a BILLIARD, hitting two premium squares with one perfectly placed word.

Origin / Etymology

From French billard, originally referring to the wooden cue stick, diminutive of Old French bille (“log, tree trunk”), from Vulgar Latin *bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile (“large tree, tree trunk”)), from Proto-Celtic *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yos (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”).

Synonyms

1015

Scrabble Score: 11

billiard: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
billiard: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
billiard: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

billiard: valid Words With Friends Word