arch

arch is a 4-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any part of a curved line. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Any part of a curved line.
2. noun. Usually a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed.
3. noun. A flat arch is a member constructed of stones cut into wedges or other shapes so as to support each other without rising in a curve.
4. noun. Any place covered by an arch; an archway; as, to pass into the arch of a bridge.
5. noun. Any curvature in the form of an arch; as, the arch of the aorta.
6. transitive verb. To cover with an arch or arches.
7. transitive verb. To form or bend into the shape of an arch.
8. intransitive verb. To form into an arch; to curve.
9. A prefix signifying chief, as in archbuilder, archfiend.
10. adjective. Chief; eminent; greatest; principal.
11. adjective. Cunning or sly; sportively mischievous; roguish; as, an arch look, word, lad.
12. noun. A chief.
13. adjective. A suffix meaning a ruler, as in monarch (a sole ruler).
14. noun. (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it
15. noun. a passageway under a curved masonry construction

    "they built a triumphal arch to memorialize their victory"

    Synonyms: archway

16. noun. a curved bony structure supporting or enclosing organs (especially the inner sides of the feet)
17. noun. a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening
18. verb. form an arch or curve

    "her back arches"

    "her hips curve nicely"

    Synonyms: arc, curve

19. adjective. naughtily or annoyingly playful

    "teasing and worrying with impish laughter"

    "a wicked prank"

    Synonyms: impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked

20. adjective. expert in skulduggery

    "an arch criminal"

21. adjective. (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension

    Synonyms: condescending, patronising, patronizing

Synonyms

archway, arc, curve, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked, condescending, patronising, patronizing

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in arch:

char, rach

Common word forms

arched, archer, arches, archly, archest, arching, archness

Words from these letters

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