bead

bead is a 4-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A prayer. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 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 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A prayer.
2. noun. A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.
3. noun. Any small globular body
4. noun. A bubble in spirits.
5. noun. A drop of sweat or other liquid.
6. noun. A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).
7. noun. A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments.
8. noun. A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc.
9. transitive verb. To ornament with beads or beading.
10. intransitive verb. To form beadlike bubbles.
11. noun. a small ball with a hole through the middle
12. noun. a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture

    Synonyms: astragal, beading, beadwork

13. noun. a shape that is spherical and small

    "he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops"

    "beads of sweat on his forehead"

    Synonyms: drop, pearl

14. verb. string together like beads
15. verb. decorate by sewing beads onto

    "bead the wedding gown"

16. verb. form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example

Synonyms

astragal, beading, beadwork, drop, pearl

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in bead:

abed, bade, beda

Common word forms

beads, beaded, beader, beading

Words from these letters

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