capital

capital is a 7-letter English word with 24 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to the head. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 24 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Of or pertaining to the head.
2. noun. Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment.
3. noun. First in importance; chief; principal.
4. noun. Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation; as, Washington and Paris are capital cities.
5. noun. Of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or song.
6. noun. The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column.
7. noun. The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis.
8. noun. Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See Capital stock, under Capital, a.
9. adjective. That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production.
10. adjective. Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence.
11. adjective. An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.
12. adjective. A chapter, or section, of a book.
13. adjective. See Capital letter, under Capital, a.
14. noun. the upper part of a column that supports the entablature

    Synonyms: cap, chapiter

15. noun. one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis

    "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"

    Synonyms: majuscule, uppercase

16. noun. a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories
17. noun. the federal government of the United States

    Synonyms: washington

18. noun. a seat of government
19. noun. a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product

    "the crime capital of Italy"

    "the drug capital of Columbia"

20. noun. wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
21. noun. assets available for use in the production of further assets
22. adjective. uppercase

    "capital A"

    "great A"

    Synonyms: great, majuscule

23. adjective. of primary importance

    "our capital concern was to avoid defeat"

24. adjective. first-rate

    "a capital fellow"

    "a capital idea"

Synonyms

cap, chapiter, majuscule, uppercase, washington, great

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in capital:

palatic

Common word forms

capitals, capitaled, capitally, capitaling, capitalise, capitalize, capitalness

Words from these letters

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