creeper
creeper is a 7-letter English word with 12 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing. 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.
Definitions
- noun. One who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing.
- noun. A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia).
- noun. A small bird of the genus Certhia, allied to the wrens. The brown or common European creeper is C. familiaris, a variety of which (var. Americana) inhabits America; -- called also tree creeper and creeptree. The American black and white creeper is Mniotilta varia.
- noun. A kind of patten mounted on short pieces of iron instead of rings; also, a fixture with iron points worn on a shoe to prevent one from slipping.
- noun. A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often telegraph creepers.
- noun. A small, low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
- noun. An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dragging at the bottom of a well, or any other body of water, and bringing up what may lie there.
- noun. Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
- noun. Crockets. See Crocket.
- noun. any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet
- noun. a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
- noun. any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping
Synonyms
Common word forms
creepers, creepered, creeperless
Words from these letters
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