jet

jet is a 3-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Same as 2d Get. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Same as 2d Get.
2. noun. A variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black color, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning jewelry, toys, buttons, etc. Formerly called also black amber.
3. noun. A shooting forth; a spouting; a spurt; a sudden rush or gush, as of water from a pipe, or of flame from an orifice; also, that which issues in a jet.
4. noun. Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
5. noun. The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
6. intransitive verb. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
7. intransitive verb. To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
8. intransitive verb. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
9. transitive verb. To spout; to emit in a stream or jet.
10. noun. an artificially produced flow of water

    Synonyms: fountain

11. noun. an airplane powered by one or more jet engines
12. noun. street names for ketamine

    Synonyms: green

13. noun. the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)

    Synonyms: spirt, spurt, squirt

14. noun. atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward
15. noun. a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation
16. verb. issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth

    "Water jetted forth"

    "flames were jetting out of the building"

    Synonyms: gush

17. verb. fly a jet plane
18. adjective. of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal

    Synonyms: pitchy, sooty

Synonyms

fountain, green, spirt, spurt, squirt, gush, pitchy, sooty

Common word forms

jets, jetes, jetted, jetter, jetting

Words from these letters

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