escapement

escapement is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of escaping; escape. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 20 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of escaping; escape.
2. noun. Way of escape; vent.
3. noun. The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration; -- so called because it allows a tooth to escape from a pallet at each vibration.
4. noun. mechanical device that regulates movement

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in escapement:

espacement

Common word forms

escapements

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for ESCAPEMENT lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.