beard

beard is a 5-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults. Face value is 8 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 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
2. noun. The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.
3. noun. The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds
4. noun. The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
5. noun. The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle.
6. noun. The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster.
7. noun. In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
8. noun. Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.
9. noun. A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
10. noun. That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
11. noun. That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
12. noun. An imposition; a trick.
13. transitive verb. To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
14. transitive verb. To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance.
15. transitive verb. To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish.
16. noun. tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface

    Synonyms: byssus

17. noun. hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals
18. noun. the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face

    Synonyms: whiskers

19. noun. a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality)
20. noun. a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses
21. verb. go along the rim, like a beard around the chin

    "Houses bearded the top of the heights"

Synonyms

byssus, whiskers

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in beard:

ardeb, barde, bared, bread, debar

Common word forms

beards, bearded, bearder, bearding, beardless

Words from these letters

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