Dictionary Entry
coil
coil is a 4-letter English word with 16 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing. 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 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.
- 2transitive verb
To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils.
- 3intransitive verb
To wind itself cylindrically or spirally; to form a coil; to wind; -- often with about or around.
- 4noun
A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound.
- 5noun
Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.
- 6noun
A series of connected pipes in rows or layers, as in a steam heating apparatus.
- 7noun
A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion.
- 8noun
a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
"a coil of rope"
- 9noun
reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit
- 10noun
tubing that is wound in a spiral
- 11noun
a contraceptive device placed inside a woman's womb
- 12noun
a transformer that supplies high voltage to spark plugs in a gasoline engine
- 13noun
a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- 14verb
wind around something in coils or loops
- 15verb
make without a potter's wheel
"This famous potter hand-builds all of her vessels"
- 16verb
to wind or move in a spiral course
"the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"
"black smoke coiling up into the sky"
Synonyms
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in coil:
Common word forms
Words from these letters
If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for COIL lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.