clearance

clearance is a 9-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of clearing; as, to make a thorough clearance. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 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 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of clearing; as, to make a thorough clearance.
2. noun. A certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at the customhouse; permission to sail.
3. noun. Clear or net profit.
4. noun. The distance by which one object clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwheel tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages.
5. noun. permission to proceed

   "the plane was given clearance to land"

6. noun. the distance by which one thing clears another; the space between them
7. noun. vertical space available to allow easy passage under something

   Synonyms: headroom, headway

Synonyms

headroom, headway

Common word forms

clearances

Words from these letters

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