jettison

jettison is a 8-letter English word with 4 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck. Face value is 15 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.

8 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck.
2. noun. See Jetsam, 1.
3. verb. throw as from an airplane
4. verb. throw away, of something encumbering

Common word forms

jettisons, jettisoned, jettisoning, jettisonable

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for JETTISON lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.