curl

curl is a 4-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair. Face value is 6 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.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 9 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. noun. To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
2. noun. To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
3. noun. To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
4. noun. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
5. noun. To shape (the brim) into a curve.
6. intransitive verb. To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground.
7. intransitive verb. To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.
8. intransitive verb. To play at the game called curling.
9. verb. A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
10. verb. An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
11. verb. A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
12. noun. a strand or cluster of hair

    Synonyms: lock, ringlet, whorl

13. noun. American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
14. noun. a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)

    Synonyms: coil, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, roll, scroll, whorl

15. verb. form a curl, curve, or kink

    "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling"

    Synonyms: curve, kink

16. verb. play the Scottish game of curling
17. verb. twist or roll into coils or ringlets

    "curl my hair, please"

    Synonyms: wave

18. verb. wind around something in coils or loops

    Synonyms: coil, loop

19. verb. shape one's body into a curl

    "She curled farther down under the covers"

    "She fell and drew in"

Synonyms

lock, ringlet, whorl, coil, curlicue, gyre, roll, scroll, curve, kink, wave, loop

Common word forms

curls, curled, curler, curling

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