hood

hood is a 4-letter English word with 31 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character, totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes it is written, chiefly in obsolete words, in the form -head. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 7 · 31 senses

Definitions

1. A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character, totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes it is written, chiefly in obsolete words, in the form -head.
2. noun. State; condition.
3. noun. A covering or garment for the head or the head and shoulders, often attached to the body garment
4. noun. A soft covering for the head, worn by women, which leaves only the face exposed.
5. noun. A part of a monk's outer garment, with which he covers his head; a cowl.
6. noun. A like appendage to a cloak or loose overcoat, that may be drawn up over the head at pleasure.
7. noun. An ornamental fold at the back of an academic gown or ecclesiastical vestment; as, a master's hood.
8. noun. A covering for a horse's head.
9. noun. A covering for a hawk's head and eyes. See Illust. of Falcon.
10. noun. Anything resembling a hood in form or use
11. noun. The top or head of a carriage.
12. noun. A chimney top, often contrived to secure a constant draught by turning with the wind.
13. noun. A projecting cover above a hearth, forming the upper part of the fireplace, and confining the smoke to the flue.
14. noun. The top of a pump.
15. noun. A covering for a mortar.
16. noun. The hood-shaped upper petal of some flowers, as of monkshood; -- called also helmet.
17. noun. A covering or porch for a companion hatch.
18. noun. The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern.
19. transitive verb. To cover with a hood; to furnish with a hood or hood-shaped appendage.
20. transitive verb. To cover; to hide; to blind.
21. noun. (zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal
22. noun. protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine

    "there are powerful engines under the hoods of new cars"

    "the mechanic removed the cowling in order to repair the plane's engine"

    Synonyms: bonnet, cowl, cowling

23. noun. a headdress that protects the head and face
24. noun. the folding roof of a carriage
25. noun. metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes
26. noun. (falconry) a leather covering for a hawk's head
27. noun. a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera
28. noun. (slang) a neighborhood
29. noun. a protective covering that is part of a plant

    Synonyms: cap

30. noun. an aggressive and violent young criminal

    Synonyms: goon, hoodlum, punk, thug, tough, toughie

31. verb. cover with a hood

    "The bandits were hooded"

Synonyms

bonnet, cowl, cowling, cap, goon, hoodlum, punk, thug, tough, toughie

Common word forms

hoods, hooded, hoodful, hooding, hoodless

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