layer

layer is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who, or that which, lays. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 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 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One who, or that which, lays.
2. noun. That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion.
3. noun. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.
4. noun. An artificial oyster bed.
5. noun. thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
6. noun. a hen that lays eggs
7. noun. single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance

   "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach"

   Synonyms: bed

8. noun. an abstract place usually conceived as having depth

   "a good actor communicates on several levels"

   "a simile has at least two layers of meaning"

   Synonyms: level, stratum

9. noun. a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
10. verb. make or form a layer

    "layer the different colored sands"

Synonyms

bed, level, stratum

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in layer:

early, leary, relay

Common word forms

layers, layered, layering

Words from these letters

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