chamber

chamber is a 7-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 18 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 16 · Words With Friends 18 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.
2. noun. Apartments in a lodging house.
3. noun. A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber.
4. noun. A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce.
5. noun. A compartment or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as, the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the chamber of the eye.
6. noun. A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done out of court.
7. noun. A chamber pot.
8. noun. That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore; -- formerly, in guns, made smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp. in breech-loading guns.
9. noun. A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain the powder.
10. noun. A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on its breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades.
11. intransitive verb. To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
12. intransitive verb. To be lascivious.
13. transitive verb. To shut up, as in a chamber.
14. transitive verb. To furnish with a chamber; as, to chamber a gun.
15. noun. a room used primarily for sleeping

    Synonyms: bedchamber, bedroom

16. noun. a natural or artificial enclosed space
17. noun. a room where a judge transacts business
18. noun. an enclosed volume in the body

    "the chambers of his heart were healthy"

19. noun. a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly

    "the upper chamber is the senate"

20. verb. place in a chamber

Synonyms

bedchamber, bedroom

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in chamber:

becharm, brecham, chambre

Common word forms

chambers, chambered, chamberer, chambering

Words from these letters

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