gill
gill is a 4-letter English word with 16 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia.
- noun. The radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom.
- noun. The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
- noun. The flesh under or about the chin.
- noun. One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
- noun. A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.
- noun. A leech.
- noun. A woody glen; a narrow valley containing a stream.
- noun. A measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint.
- noun. A young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl.
- noun. The ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma); -- called also gill over the ground, and other like names.
- noun. Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy.
- noun. respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water
- noun. any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus
- noun. a United States liquid unit equal to 4 fluid ounces
- noun. a British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters
Synonyms
Common word forms
gills, gilled, giller, gilles, gilling
Words from these letters
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