borer

borer is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One that bores; an instrument for boring. 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.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One that bores; an instrument for boring.
2. noun. A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo.
3. noun. Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances.
4. noun. One of the larvae of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple.
5. noun. The hagfish (Myxine).
6. noun. any of various insects or larvae or mollusks that bore into wood

   Synonyms: woodborer

7. noun. a drill for penetrating rock

Synonyms

woodborer

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in borer:

rerob, rober

Common word forms

borers

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