Dictionary Entry
ling
ling is a 4-letter English word with 12 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duckling, gosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underling. Face value is 5 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.
4 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 8 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1
A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duckling, gosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underling.
- 2
An adverbial suffix; as, darkling, flatling.
- 3adjective
A large, marine, gadoid fish (Molva vulgaris) of Northern Europe and Greenland. It is valued as a food fish and is largely salted and dried. Called also drizzle.
- 4adjective
The burbot of Lake Ontario.
- 5adjective
An American hake of the genus Phycis.
- 6adjective
A New Zealand food fish of the genus Genypterus. The name is also locally applied to other fishes, as the cultus cod, the mutton fish, and the cobia.
- 7noun
Heather (Calluna vulgaris).
- 8noun
elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth
- 9noun
American hakes
- 10noun
elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried
- 11noun
common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
- 12noun
water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs
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