entail

entail is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: That which is entailed. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 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 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. noun. That which is entailed.
2. noun. An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
3. noun. The rule by which the descent is fixed.
4. noun. Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
5. noun. To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.
6. noun. To appoint hereditary possessor.
7. noun. To cut or carve in a ornamental way.
8. noun. the act of entailing property; the creation of a fee tail from a fee simple
9. noun. land received by fee tail
10. verb. limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs
11. verb. impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result

    "What does this move entail?"

    Synonyms: implicate

12. verb. have as a logical consequence

    "The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers"

    Synonyms: imply, mean

Synonyms

implicate, imply, mean

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in entail:

lentia, talien, tenail, tineal

Common word forms

entails, entailed, entailer, entailing, entailable, entailment

Words from these letters

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