glass

glass is a 5-letter English word with 24 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament. Face value is 6 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.

5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 24 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament.
2. transitive verb. Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.
3. transitive verb. Anything made of glass.
4. transitive verb. A looking-glass; a mirror.
5. transitive verb. A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand.
6. transitive verb. A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.
7. transitive verb. An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses.
8. transitive verb. A weatherglass; a barometer.
9. transitive verb. To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively.
10. transitive verb. To case in glass.
11. transitive verb. To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.
12. transitive verb. To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
13. noun. a small refracting telescope

    Synonyms: spyglass

14. noun. a container for holding liquids while drinking
15. noun. glassware collectively

    "She collected old glass"

16. noun. a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror
17. noun. an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant

    Synonyms: chalk, crank, deoxyephedrine, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methedrine, shabu, trash

18. noun. the quantity a glass will hold

    Synonyms: glassful

19. noun. a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure
20. verb. become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance

    "Her eyes glaze over when she is bored"

    Synonyms: glaze

21. verb. put in a glass container
22. verb. enclose with glass

    "glass in a porch"

23. verb. scan (game in the forest) with binoculars
24. verb. furnish with glass

    "glass the windows"

    Synonyms: glaze

Synonyms

spyglass, chalk, crank, deoxyephedrine, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methedrine, shabu, trash, glassful, glaze

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in glass:

slags

Common word forms

glassed, glassen, glasser, glasses, glassful, glassing, glassless

Words from these letters

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