cusp

cusp is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A triangular protection from the intrados of an arch, or from an inner curve of tracery. Face value is 8 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.

4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A triangular protection from the intrados of an arch, or from an inner curve of tracery.
2. noun. The beginning or first entrance of any house in the calculations of nativities, etc.
3. noun. The point or horn of the crescent moon or other crescent-shaped luminary.
4. noun. A multiple point of a curve at which two or more branches of the curve have a common tangent.
5. noun. A prominence or point, especially on the crown of a tooth.
6. noun. A sharp and rigid point.
7. transitive verb. To furnish with a cusp or cusps.
8. noun. point formed by two intersecting arcs (as from the intrados of a Gothic arch)
9. noun. small elevation on the grinding surface of a tooth
10. noun. a thin triangular flap of a heart valve

    Synonyms: leaflet

Synonyms

leaflet

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cusp:

cpus, cups, scup

Common word forms

cusps, cuspal, cusped, cusping

Words from these letters

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