clinker

clinker is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 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 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.
2. noun. Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag.
3. noun. A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.
4. noun. A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch.
5. noun. a hard brick used as a paving stone
6. noun. a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire

   Synonyms: cinder

7. verb. turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning
8. verb. clear out the cinders and clinker from

   "we clinkered the fire frequently"

Synonyms

cinder

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in clinker:

crinkle

Common word forms

clinkers, clinkered, clinkerer, clinkering

Words from these letters

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