filling

filling is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Fill. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 15 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. present participle. of Fill
2. noun. That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc.
3. noun. The woof in woven fabrics.
4. noun. Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.
5. noun. the act of filling something
6. noun. (dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth

   "when he yawned I could see the gold fillings in his teeth"

   "an informal British term for `filling' is `stopping'"

7. noun. the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving

   Synonyms: pick, weft, woof

8. noun. a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc.
9. noun. flow into something (as a container)
10. noun. any material that fills a space or container

    "there was not enough fill for the trench"

    Synonyms: fill

Synonyms

pick, weft, woof, fill

Common word forms

fill, fille, fillings, fillingly, fillingness

Words from these letters

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