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compound

compound is a 8-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 20 · 21 senses

Definitions

  1. 1noun

    In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.

  2. 2transitive verb

    To form or make by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine.

  3. 3transitive verb

    To put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.

  4. 4transitive verb

    To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else.

  5. 5transitive verb

    To compose; to constitute.

  6. 6transitive verb

    To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise; to discharge from obligation upon terms different from those which were stipulated; as, to compound a debt.

  7. 7intransitive verb

    To effect a composition; to come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise; -- usually followed by with before the person participating, and for before the thing compounded or the consideration.

  8. 8transitive verb

    Composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts; produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or things; composite; as, a compound word.

  9. 9noun

    That which is compounded or formed by the union or mixture of elements ingredients, or parts; a combination of simples; a compound word; the result of composition.

  10. 10noun

    A union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by weight, so combined as to form a distinct substance; as, water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen.

  11. 11noun

    an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient)

  12. 12noun

    a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts

  13. 13noun

    (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight

  14. 14verb

    put or add together

    "combine resources"

    Synonyms

    combine
  15. 15verb

    make more intense, stronger, or more marked, "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"

    "The efforts were intensified"

    "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"

    Synonyms

    deepenheightenintensify
  16. 16verb

    combine so as to form a whole; mix

    "compound the ingredients"

    Synonyms

    combine
  17. 17verb

    create by mixing or combining

  18. 18verb

    calculate principal and interest

  19. 19adjective

    composed of more than one partcompound flower heads"

    "compound leaves are composed of several lobes;"

  20. 20adjective

    composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony

    "coral is a colonial organism"

    Synonyms

    colonial
  21. 21adjective

    consisting of two or more substances or ingredients or elements or parts

    "soap is a compound substance"

    "housetop is a compound word"

Synonyms

combinedeepenheightenintensifycolonial

Common word forms

compoundscompoundedcompoundercompoundingcompoundablecompoundness

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