lee

lee is a 3-letter English word with 14 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To lie; to speak falsely. Face value is 3 in Scrabble and 4 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 3 · Words With Friends 4 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To lie; to speak falsely.
2. noun. That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural.
3. noun. A sheltered place; esp., a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter; protection; as, the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship.
4. noun. That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipboard, toward which the wind blows. See Lee, a.
5. adjective. Of or pertaining to the part or side opposite to that against which the wind blows; -- opposed to weather; as, the lee side or lee rail of a vessel.
6. noun. the side of something that is sheltered from the wind

   Synonyms: leeward

7. noun. American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870)
8. noun. soldier of the American Revolution (1756-1818)
9. noun. leader of the American Revolution who proposed the resolution calling for independence of the American Colonies (1732-1794)
10. noun. United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Yang Chen Ning in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1926)
11. noun. United States actor who was an expert in kung fu and starred in martial arts films (1941-1973)
12. noun. United States striptease artist who became famous on Broadway in the 1930s (1914-1970)
13. noun. United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957)
14. adjective. towards the side away from the wind

    Synonyms: downwind

Synonyms

leeward, downwind

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lee:

eel

Common word forms

leed, leer, lees, leeful

Words from these letters

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