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. noun. 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. noun. A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
3. noun. A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
4. noun. An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
5. noun. One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
6. transitive verb. To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
7. transitive verb. To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
8. transitive verb. To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch.
9. noun. a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions

   Synonyms: lancet

10. noun. a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon

    Synonyms: shaft, spear

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

    Synonyms: fishgig, fizgig, gig, spear

12. verb. open by piercing with a lancet

    "lance a boil"

13. verb. pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight
14. verb. move quickly, as if by cutting one's way

    "Planes lanced towards the shore"

Synonyms

lancet, shaft, spear, fishgig, fizgig, gig

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lance:

ancle, canel, clean, lenca

Common word forms

lanced, lancer, lances, lancely, lancing

Words from these letters

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