clay

clay is a 4-letter English word with 9 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.
2. noun. Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.
3. transitive verb. To cover or manure with clay.
4. transitive verb. To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.
5. noun. the dead body of a human being

   "the cadaver was intended for dissection"

   "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"

   Synonyms: cadaver, corpse, remains, stiff

6. noun. United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852)
7. noun. United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978)
8. noun. a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired
9. noun. water soaked soil; soft wet earth

   Synonyms: mud

Synonyms

cadaver, corpse, remains, stiff, mud

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in clay:

acyl, lacy

Common word forms

clays, clayed, clayen, clayer, claying

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for CLAY lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.