capillary

capillary is a 9-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 19 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.
2. adjective. Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action.
3. noun. A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute.
4. noun. A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smallest lymphatic and biliary vessels.
5. noun. a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action
6. noun. any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules
7. adjective. long and slender with a very small internal diameter

   "a capillary tube"

   Synonyms: hairlike

8. adjective. of or relating to hair

Synonyms

hairlike

Common word forms

capillaries, capillarily

Words from these letters

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