word ladder (English, noun)
expansion: word ladder (plural word ladders)
Senses:
glosses: A kind of puzzle in which one word must be transformed into another specified word of the same length by changing one letter at a time, each step yielding a valid intermediate word, as in lead → load → goad → gold.
qualifier: crosswording
glosses: A type of cryptic crossword clue in which the each word in the clue defines a single term each varying by a single letter, and all the terms together form a word ladder between the first half of the solution and the second half.
Forms:
form: word ladders
tags: plural