grain

grain is a 5-letter English word with 40 senses as verb & noun, noun, adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See Groan. 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 · 40 senses

Definitions

1. verb & noun. See Groan.
2. noun. A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food.
3. noun. The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; -- used collectively.
4. noun. Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.; hence, any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of gunpowder, of pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc.
5. noun. The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See Gram.
6. noun. A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
7. noun. The composite particles of any substance; that arrangement of the particles of any body which determines its comparative roughness or hardness; texture; as, marble, sugar, sandstone, etc., of fine grain.
8. noun. The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc.
9. noun. The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material.
10. noun. The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
11. noun. The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.
12. noun. A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a., 4.
13. adjective. Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
14. adjective. A sort of spice, the grain of paradise.
15. transitive verb. To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.
16. transitive verb. To form (powder, sugar, etc.) into grains.
17. transitive verb. To take the hair off (skins); to soften and raise the grain of (leather, etc.).
18. noun. To yield fruit.
19. noun. To form grains, or to assume a granular ferm, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
20. noun. A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
21. noun. A tine, prong, or fork.
22. noun. One the branches of a valley or of a river.
23. noun. An iron first speak or harpoon, having four or more barbed points.
24. noun. A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
25. noun. A thin piece of metal, used in a mold to steady a core.
26. noun. the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)

    "breadfruit has the same texture as bread"

    "sand of a fine grain"

    Synonyms: texture

27. noun. the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric

    "saw the board across the grain"

28. noun. the smallest possible unit of anything

    "there was a grain of truth in what he said"

    "he does not have a grain of sense"

29. noun. foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

    Synonyms: cereal

30. noun. a relatively small granular particle of a substance

    "a grain of sand"

    "a grain of sugar"

31. noun. a cereal grass

    "wheat is a grain that is grown in Kansas"

32. noun. dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn

    Synonyms: caryopsis

33. noun. 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
34. noun. 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams
35. noun. a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
36. noun. the side of leather from which the hair has been removed
37. verb. become granular

    Synonyms: granulate

38. verb. form into grains

    Synonyms: granulate

39. verb. paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
40. verb. thoroughly work in

    "His hands were grained with dirt"

    Synonyms: ingrain

Synonyms

texture, cereal, caryopsis, granulate, ingrain

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in grain:

agrin, argin, garni, nigra

Common word forms

grains, grained, grainer, graining, grainless

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