lip

lip is a 3-letter English word with 14 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 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 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself.
2. noun. An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel.
3. noun. The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
4. noun. One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
5. noun. The odd and peculiar petal in the Orchis family. See Orchidaceous.
6. noun. One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
7. transitive verb. To touch with the lips; to put the lips to; hence, to kiss.
8. transitive verb. To utter; to speak.
9. transitive verb. To clip; to trim.
10. noun. either the outer margin or the inner margin of the aperture of a gastropod's shell
11. noun. the top edge of a vessel or other container

    Synonyms: brim, rim

12. noun. either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking
13. noun. an impudent or insolent rejoinder

    "don't give me any of your sass"

    Synonyms: backtalk, mouth, sass, sassing

14. noun. (botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx

Synonyms

brim, rim, backtalk, mouth, sass, sassing

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lip:

ipl, pil, pli

Common word forms

lips, lipped, lipper, lipless, lipping

Words from these letters

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