dragon

dragon is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 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 10 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious.
2. noun. A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman.
3. noun. A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco.
4. noun. A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent.
5. noun. A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; -- so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.
6. noun. A small arboreal lizard of the genus Draco, of several species, found in the East Indies and Southern Asia. Five or six of the hind ribs, on each side, are prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard.
7. noun. A variety of carrier pigeon.
8. noun. A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms.
9. noun. any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body
10. noun. a faint constellation twisting around the north celestial pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus

    Synonyms: draco

11. noun. a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings

    Synonyms: firedrake

12. noun. a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman

    Synonyms: tartar

Synonyms

draco, firedrake, tartar

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in dragon:

gardon, grando

Common word forms

dragons, dragonize

Words from these letters

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