firing

firing is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of disharging firearms. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 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 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of disharging firearms.
2. noun. The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working it.
3. noun. The application of fire, or of a cautery.
4. noun. The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln.
5. noun. Fuel; firewood or coal.
6. noun. the act of discharging a gun

   Synonyms: discharge

7. noun. the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

   Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, dismission, liberation, release, sack, sacking

8. noun. the act of setting something on fire

   Synonyms: ignition, inflammation, kindling, lighting

9. noun. the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy

   "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"

   "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"

   Synonyms: fire

Synonyms

discharge, dismissal, dismission, liberation, release, sack, sacking, ignition, inflammation, kindling, lighting, fire

Common word forms

fir, fire, firings

Words from these letters

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