coal

coal is a 4-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 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 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.
2. noun. A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.
3. transitive verb. To burn to charcoal; to char.
4. transitive verb. To mark or delineate with charcoal.
5. transitive verb. To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.
6. intransitive verb. To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.
7. noun. a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering

   Synonyms: ember

8. noun. fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period
9. verb. take in coal

   "The big ship coaled"

10. verb. supply with coal
11. verb. burn to charcoal

    "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything"

    Synonyms: char

Synonyms

ember, char

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in coal:

alco, calo, cola, loca

Common word forms

coals, coaled, coaler, coaling, coalize, coalless

Words from these letters

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