basin

basin is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses. Face value is 7 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.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.
2. noun. The quantity contained in a basin.
3. noun. A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.
4. noun. A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay.
5. noun. A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.
6. noun. The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake.
7. noun. An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.
8. noun. a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids

   "she mixed the dough in a large basin"

9. noun. a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face

   "he ran some water in the basin and splashed it on his face"

   Synonyms: lavatory, washbasin, washbowl, washstand

10. noun. the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet

    "flood control in the Missouri basin"

    Synonyms: watershed

11. noun. a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it

    "the basin of the Great Salt Lake"

12. noun. the quantity that a basin will hold

    "a basinful of water"

    Synonyms: basinful

Synonyms

lavatory, washbasin, washbowl, washstand, watershed, basinful

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in basin:

nabis, sabin

Common word forms

basins, basinal, basined, basinful

Words from these letters

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