crater

crater is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 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 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.
2. noun. The pit left by the explosion of a mine.
3. noun. A constellation of the southen hemisphere; -- called also the Cup.
4. noun. a bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb
5. noun. a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Hydra and Corvus
6. noun. a bowl-shaped geological formation at the top of a volcano

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in crater:

arrect, carter, recart, tracer

Common word forms

craters, crateral, cratered, cratering, craterous, craterless

Words from these letters

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