barnacle

barnacle is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 16 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle.
2. noun. A bernicle goose.
3. noun. An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him.
4. sing. Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers.
5. noun. European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north
6. noun. marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces

   Synonyms: cirriped, cirripede

Synonyms

cirriped, cirripede

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in barnacle:

balancer

Common word forms

barnacled, barnacles, barnacling

Words from these letters

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