inquest

inquest is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Inquiry; quest; search. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 18 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Inquiry; quest; search.
2. noun. Judicial inquiry; official examination, esp. before a jury; as, a coroner's inquest in case of a sudden death.
3. noun. A body of men assembled under authority of law to inquire into any matterm civil or criminal, particularly any case of violent or sudden death; a jury, particularly a coroner's jury. The grand jury is sometimes called the grand inquest. See under Grand.
4. noun. The finding of the jury upon such inquiry.
5. noun. an inquiry into the cause of an unexpected death

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in inquest:

quintes

Common word forms

inquests

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