camber

camber is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck). Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 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 15 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck).
2. noun. An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback.
3. transitive verb. To cut bend to an upward curve; to construct, as a deck, with an upward curve.
4. intransitive verb. To curve upward.
5. noun. the alignment of the wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the bottom than at the top
6. noun. a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force

   Synonyms: bank, cant

7. noun. a slight convexity (as of the surface of a road)
8. verb. curve upward in the middle

Synonyms

bank, cant

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in camber:

becram, crambe

Common word forms

cambers, cambered, cambering

Words from these letters

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