bubble

bubble is a 6-letter English word with 19 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 17 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.
2. noun. A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or aerated waters.
3. noun. A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.
4. noun. A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
5. noun. The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
6. noun. Anything that wants firmness or solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble.
7. noun. A person deceived by an empty project; a gull.
8. noun. To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.
9. noun. To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream.
10. noun. To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.
11. noun. a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
12. noun. an impracticable and illusory idea

    "he didn't want to burst the newcomer's bubble"

13. noun. a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control

    "his proposal was nothing but a house of cards"

    "a real estate bubble"

14. noun. a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
15. verb. expel gas from the stomach

    "In China it is polite to burp at the table"

    Synonyms: belch, burp, eruct

16. verb. form, produce, or emit bubbles

    "The soup was bubbling"

17. verb. cause to form bubbles

    "bubble gas through a liquid"

18. verb. rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles

    "bubble to the surface"

19. verb. flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise

    "babbling brooks"

    Synonyms: babble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple

Synonyms

belch, burp, eruct, babble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple

Common word forms

bubbled, bubbler, bubbles, bubbling, bubbleless, bubblement

Words from these letters

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