filament

filament is a 8-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 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 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.
2. noun. a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current
3. noun. a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)

   Synonyms: filum

4. noun. the stalk of a stamen
5. noun. a very slender natural or synthetic fiber

   Synonyms: fibril, strand

Synonyms

filum, fibril, strand

Common word forms

filaments, filamented, filamentous

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