acetabulum

acetabulum has 7 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• n.. A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc.
• n.. The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone.
• n.. The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.
• n.. A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.
• n.. The large posterior sucker of the leeches.
• n.. One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.
• n.. the cup-shaped hollow in the hipbone into which the head of the femur fits to form a ball-and-socket joint