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lance

lance is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 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 7 · Words With Friends 10 · 14 senses

Definitions

  1. 1noun

    A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.

  2. 2noun

    A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.

  3. 3noun

    A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.

  4. 4noun

    An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.

  5. 5noun

    One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.

  6. 6transitive verb

    To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.

  7. 7transitive verb

    To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.

  8. 8transitive verb

    To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch.

  9. 9noun

    a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions

    Synonyms

    lancet
  10. 10noun

    a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon

    Synonyms

    shaftspear
  11. 11noun

    an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish

    Synonyms

    fishgigfizgiggigspear
  12. 12verb

    open by piercing with a lancet

    "lance a boil"

  13. 13verb

    pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight

  14. 14verb

    move quickly, as if by cutting one's way

    "Planes lanced towards the shore"

Synonyms

lancetshaftspearfishgigfizgiggig

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lance:

anclecanelcleanlenca

Common word forms

lancedlancerlanceslancelylancing

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