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fillet

fillet is a 6-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A little band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 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 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 20 senses

Definitions

  1. 1noun

    A little band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head.

  2. 2noun

    A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied.

  3. 3noun

    A thin strip or ribbon; esp.: (a) A strip of metal from which coins are punched. (b) A strip of card clothing. (c) A thin projecting band or strip.

  4. 4noun

    A concave filling in of a reentrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner.

  5. 5noun

    A narrow flat member; especially, a flat molding separating other moldings; a reglet; also, the space between two flutings in a shaft. See Illust. of Base, and Column.

  6. 6noun

    An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.

  7. 7noun

    The thread of a screw.

  8. 8noun

    A border of broad or narrow lines of color or gilt.

  9. 9noun

    The raised molding about the muzzle of a gun.

  10. 10noun

    Any scantling smaller than a batten.

  11. 11noun

    A fascia; a band of fibers; applied esp. to certain bands of white matter in the brain.

  12. 12noun

    The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.

  13. 13transitive verb

    To bind, furnish, or adorn with a fillet.

  14. 14noun

    fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members

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  15. 15noun

    a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband

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  16. 16noun

    a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus

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  17. 17noun

    a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish

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  18. 18noun

    a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef

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  19. 19verb

    cut into filets

    "filet the fish"

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  20. 20verb

    decorate with a lace of geometric designs

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