To mark the end of one windy month and the beginning of another,* this Scrabble post features playable wind-related words. If your rack contains the right letters, spelling these words will be a breeze.
- bayamo: a strong wind found in Cuba
- bhut: a warm, dry wind in India (also bhoot)
- bise: a cold, dry wind, found especially blowing from the northeast in Switzerland (also bize)
- blaw: to blow
- bleb: a blister (an extremely intense or severe wind)
- bora: a cold wind in lowland regions
- brr: used to indicate feeling cold (also brrr)
- bura: a violent Eurasian windstorm (also buran)
- chinook: a warm wind that flows off the east side of the Rockies; or a type of Pacific Northwest salmon named after the Chinook people)
- fon: a warm dry wind that blows down off some mountains (also fohn and foehn)
*March and April are usually the windiest months of the year.
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Wordplay Day! To up your game and increase your word power, review the tips and tools on the Scrabble website as well as this blog post of wind-related words and my other posts devoted to the game.
Jane Lucas 