engineer

engineer is a 8-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n.
2. noun. One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.
3. noun. One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager.
4. transitive verb. To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road.
5. transitive verb. To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress.
6. noun. a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems

   Synonyms: technologist

7. noun. the operator of a railway locomotive
8. verb. plan and direct (a complex undertaking)

   "he masterminded the robbery"

   Synonyms: direct, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize

9. verb. design as an engineer

   "He engineered the water supply project"

Synonyms

technologist, direct, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize

Common word forms

engineers, engineered, engineering

Words from these letters

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