calico

calico is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 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 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.
2. noun. Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
3. adjective. Made of, or having the appearance of, calico; -- often applied to an animal, as a horse or cat, on whose body are large patches of a color strikingly different from its main color.
4. noun. coarse cloth with a bright print
5. adjective. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly

   "a jester dressed in motley"

   "the painted desert"

   Synonyms: motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured

6. adjective. made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned

   "calico dresses"

   "a calico cat"

Synonyms

motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in calico:

accoil

Common word forms

calicos, calicoed, calicoes

Words from these letters

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