covert

covert is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, adjective, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.
2. transitive verb. Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook.
3. transitive verb. Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband.
4. adjective. A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.
5. adjective. One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
6. noun. a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something

   "a screen of trees afforded privacy"

   "under cover of darkness"

   Synonyms: concealment, cover, screen

7. noun. a flock of coots
8. adjective. secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed

   "covert actions by the CIA"

   "covert funding for the rebels"

9. adjective. (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband

   "a woman covert"

Synonyms

concealment, cover, screen

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in covert:

corvet, vector

Common word forms

coverts, coverter, covertly, covertest, covertness

Words from these letters

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