cream

cream is a 5-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained.
2. noun. The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface.
3. noun. A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.
4. noun. A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation.
5. noun. The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as, the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures.
6. transitive verb. To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
7. transitive verb. To take off the best or choicest part of.
8. transitive verb. To furnish with, or as with, cream.
9. intransitive verb. To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle.
10. noun. toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin

    Synonyms: emollient, ointment

11. noun. the part of milk containing the butterfat
12. noun. the best people or things in a group

    "the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War"

    Synonyms: pick

13. verb. add cream to one's coffee, for example
14. verb. remove from the surface

    "skim cream from the surface of milk"

    Synonyms: skim

15. verb. put on cream, as on one's face or body

    "She creams her face every night"

16. verb. beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight

    "We licked the other team on Sunday!"

    Synonyms: bat, clobber, drub, lick, thrash

17. verb. make creamy by beating

    "Cream the butter"

Synonyms

emollient, ointment, pick, skim, bat, clobber, drub, lick, thrash

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cream:

macer

Common word forms

creams, creamed, creamer, creaming, creamless

Words from these letters

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